hello, I need help understanding how to uninstall twrp custom recovery and going back to stock custom recovery. i want to unroot and factory restore so I can update my s4. I really never took a lot of advantage of root with roms and stuff. I guess I really don't need it. but I don't want to brick my phone. exactly what do I do?
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ahura999 said:
hello, I need help understanding how to uninstall twrp custom recovery and going back to stock custom recovery. i want to unroot and factory restore so I can update my s4. I really never took a lot of advantage of root with roms and stuff. I guess I really don't need it. but I don't want to brick my phone. exactly what do I do?
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Just odin and install stock rom
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polish_pat said:
Just odin and install stock rom
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Yes, use Odin. I assume you have an i337 and you don't have mf3 installed. Get the mdl stock firmware from sammobile.com. You'll have to register but its free. You'll download a zip file. Use 7-zip to extract the .tar.md5 file. Use that file in Odin, PDA. Only have auto-reboot and f.reset checked in Odin. That will install the stock firmware and recovery on your phone.
Edit, a word of caution. As of now, there is no way to reverse your decision of wanting the mf3 update. Once you update you will not be able to put a custom Rom or recovery on your phone. There is limited benefit, my opinion no benefit, to the up grade. Yes you can put apps on your ad card, but only the apps and not the data do you don't save much space. It also take about a gig of additional space just for the update.
so it will be as if you just took it out of the box brand new, right? I don't want any files from twrp or anything to stay on the phone. I accidentally factory restored one time when rooted.... then after starting up the "new" device, the setup worked until one step which didn't allow me to surpass it... i used Odin and followed a youtube vídeo to unroot. also, will it restore my SD card...? if I take out the SD, will it be readable after I put it back in after the startup of the "new" device? thanks. and lastly, does it matter if ive freezes any apps via titanium backup? I've freezed the att updater so the update wouldn't remove root. thanks for your help guys. (yes I'm using the att i337 model.)
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so it will be as if you just took it out of the box brand new, right? I don't want any files from twrp or anything to stay on the phone. I accidentally factory restored one time when rooted.... then after starting up the "new" device, the setup worked until one step which didn't allow me to surpass it... i used Odin and followed a youtube vídeo to unroot. also, will it restore my SD card...? if I take out the SD, will it be readable after I put it back in after the startup of the "new" device? thanks. and lastly, does it matter if ive freezes any apps via titanium backup? I've freezed the att updater so the update wouldn't remove root. thanks for your help guys. (yes I'm using the att i337 model.)
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It will not factory reset your phone, it will simply reinstall stock firmware, stock recovery and rom. You'll have to factory reset once youre done to wipe everything
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so it will be as if you just took it out of the box brand new, right? I don't want any files from twrp or anything to stay on the phone. I accidentally factory restored one time when rooted.... then after starting up the "new" device, the setup worked until one step which didn't allow me to surpass it... i used Odin and followed a youtube vídeo to unroot. also, will it restore my SD card...? if I take out the SD, will it be readable after I put it back in after the startup of the "new" device? thanks. and lastly, does it matter if ive freezes any apps via titanium backup? I've freezed the att updater so the update wouldn't remove root. thanks for your help guys. (yes I'm using the att i337 model.)
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Odin will over write any of your frozen files you froze to avoid the upgrade. Factory reset will also delete your apps. Any pics, music, etc will not be deleted.
And yes to your sd card, it should still be readable. Odin shouldn't touch the external card.
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Odin will over write any of your frozen files you froze to avoid the upgrade. Factory reset will also delete your apps. Any pics, music, etc will not be deleted.
And yes to your sd card, it should still be readable. Odin shouldn't touch the external card.
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and to unroot? another question, once I factory restore, and it starts up brand new, can I root, delete all bloatware, and unroot to use phone e normally? and isn't there a thing you're supposed to do to clear how many times you've rooted or not? I remember doing something with a tutorial I used that reset the count.
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ahura999 said:
and isn't there a thing you're supposed to do to clear how many times you've rooted or not? I remember doing something with a tutorial I used that reset the count.
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I believe you're referring to Triangle Away?
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I believe you're referring to Triangle Away?
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yes thank you
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Yes, use Odin. I assume you have an i337 and you don't have mf3 installed. Get the mdl stock firmware from sammobile.com. You'll have to register but its free. You'll download a zip file. Use 7-zip to extract the .tar.md5 file. Use that file in Odin, PDA. Only have auto-reboot and f.reset checked in Odin. That will install the stock firmware and recovery on your phone.
Edit, a word of caution. As of now, there is no way to reverse your decision of wanting the mf3 update. Once you update you will not be able to put a custom Rom or recovery on your phone. There is limited benefit, my opinion no benefit, to the up grade. Yes you can put apps on your ad card, but only the apps and not the data do you don't save much space. It also take about a gig of additional space just for the update.
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Correct file?
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ahura999 said:
Correct file?
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If you're trying to Odin back to stock, the .tar.md5 file is correct.
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If you're trying to Odin back to stock, the .tar.md5 file is correct.
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this will delete twrp files right? I have a folder named twrp with a backup... should i delete it? and is there any chance of bricking my phone by flashing stock rom?
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ahura999 said:
this will delete twrp files right? I have a folder named twrp with a backup... should i delete it? and is there any chance of bricking my phone by flashing stock rom?
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It will delete twrp and put the stock recovery on. There is always a chance of a brick when you flash. If you do flash it it'll probably take 10 to 20 minutes so let it do it's thing. Don't panic and unplug anything. Time goes by real show while you're waiting. I just flashed Odin today on my device and it seemed to take forever.
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It will delete twrp and put the stock recovery on. There is always a chance of a brick when you flash. If you do flash it it'll probably take 10 to 20 minutes so let it do it's thing. Don't panic and unplug anything. Time goes by real show while you're waiting. I just flashed Odin today on my device and it seemed to take forever.
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is there an easier way to unroot my device and go back to stock everything... i DO want all data deleted off of my phone. it doesn't matter to me... all I need are my photos. I don't care about apps or data
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ahura999 said:
is there an easier way to unroot my device and go back to stock everything... i DO want all data deleted off of my phone. it doesn't matter to me... all I need are my photos. I don't care about apps or data
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This is the only way to put the stock firmware and recovery on and return it to stock. Your pictures should still be there, but I'd back them up to some where else.
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This is the only way to put the stock firmware and recovery on and return it to stock. Your pictures should still be there, but I'd back them up to some where else.
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so anything to specifically do... step by step instructions? do I put the phone on download mode or something? I'm sorry. I'm watching tutorials and trying to put piece by piece together
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anybody? please help. I know I'm being a pest and impatient but I just want my phone fixed.
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ahura999 said:
anybody? please help. I know I'm being a pest and impatient but I just want my phone fixed.
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Here's a guide it's not specifically for the i337 but hopefully helps http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=26056924
ahura999 said:
anybody? please help. I know I'm being a pest and impatient but I just want my phone fixed.
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Here's a guide it's not specifically for the i337 but hopefully helps http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=26056924
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understand that you will likely have to boot into stock recovery and factory reset after the odin flash in order to boot past the samsung splash screen.
I would like to thank everyone from the bottom of my heart. I'm back on stock everything, unrooted. I want to remove bloatware first though. If I root, and delete all the bliarware I dont want through tibu, and later unroot, will the ota for i337 bring back the bloatware? Once again thanks everybody
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Hey guys, if anyone can help me with this, please reply.
I am on an At&t Galaxy S4 MF3 1337 and just recently installed Rom Manager, then flashed CWM recovery. It was successful, but when I reboot to the recovery screen, I do not have any options to "backup and restore" my stock rom, which I'd like to preserve in case anything goes wrong. I would like to flash Cyanogenmod, but will not attempt it without having a backup saved. I cannot for the life of me figure out how to get it to show up. If it helps, I rooted my phone through the simplest way, with a one click root. My only options are things like:
1. reboot system
2. apply update from ADB
3. apply update from external storage
4. wipe date/factory reset
5. wipe cache partition
6. apply update from cache.
Please help me out here guys, I have googled this problem endlessly, and a few have the same problem, but they aren't making the solutions on how or if they fixed it clear enough for me to understand. Yes, I am a noob, if that wasn't obviously already! If there is any other information I can provide you to help me, please let me know. Thanks in advance!
I'm not an expert but I don't think you can do that if you are on MF3. You have to use Safe Strap and then your limited on what you can flash. I would suggest more reading before you brick it.
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ozziedog said:
I'm not an expert but I don't think you can do that if you are on MF3. You have to use Safe Strap and then your limited on what you can flash. I would suggest more reading before you brick it.
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****, I was afraid of that. Thanks. Do you have any tips or anything on how I might unflash back to stock recovery and remove CWM recovery safely?
Its cause its still your stock recovery.please from this point on read/research all to do with your model and base(MF3)
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SHHHPIDERMAN said:
****, I was afraid of that. Thanks. Do you have any tips or anything on how I might unflash back to stock recovery and remove CWM recovery safely?
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Sorry man don't know what to tell you other than you may want to read up all you can on MF3, I did little reading on it with my original S4 and haven't done anymore since I got a MDL replacement. I keep my focus on MDL. Good luck.
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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
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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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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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graydiggy said:
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.
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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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.....
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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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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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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?
Imnice777 said:
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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jd1639 said:
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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jd1639 said:
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?
Imnice777 said:
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.
Imnice777 said:
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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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...
Basically what the title says.
I just want to preface this by saying I'm a beginner and I have no idea what I'm doing.
I tried to use safestrap and it did delete all my data but I accidently deleted my backup and my ROM I wanted to install.
Safestrap doesn't seem to want to work anymore. It gives me the screen saying that so and so is disabled and it will boot in 10 seconds, but I can't interact with this screen.
What can I do? Safestrap just doesn't work so I can't flash a ROM from SDcard, and the only thing that seems to work is Fastboot, and that's locked, so what are my options?
boobaboobler said:
Basically what the title says.
I just want to preface this by saying I'm a beginner and I have no idea what I'm doing.
I tried to use safestrap and it did delete all my data but I accidently deleted my backup and my ROM I wanted to install.
Safestrap doesn't seem to want to work anymore. It gives me the screen saying that so and so is disabled and it will boot in 10 seconds, but I can't interact with this screen.
What can I do? Safestrap just doesn't work so I can't flash a ROM from SDcard, and the only thing that seems to work is Fastboot, and that's locked, so what are my options?
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You can use RSD to flash the firmware from here http://sbf.droid-developers.org/ , you can use House of Moto http://www.droidrzr.com/index.php/topic/28162-house-of-moto-23/ , or you can update to stock KK (keep in mind you'll lose root on KK) http://www.droidrzr.com/index.php/topic/45495-how-to-xt907-upgrade-to-kitkat-ota/
Sorry but what file am I supposed to be using to flash? The entire folder?
Again, I don't know much about this, I'm just a beginner. I probably should have heeded people's warnings about possibly bricking your phone.
boobaboobler said:
Sorry but what file am I supposed to be using to flash? The entire folder?
Again, I don't know much about this, I'm just a beginner. I probably should have heeded people's warnings about possibly bricking your phone.
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The house of moto tutorial tells you exactly what to do with the files and folders and where to put them
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poppers162 said:
The house of moto tutorial tells you exactly what to do with the files and folders and where to put them
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For some reason my phone didn't want to let anything flash ICS to it so I flashed KitKat instead and everything went OK.
boobaboobler said:
For some reason my phone didn't want to let anything flash ICS to it so I flashed KitKat instead and everything went OK.
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Alright, good to hear that it worked.
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boobaboobler said:
For some reason my phone didn't want to let anything flash ICS to it so I flashed KitKat instead and everything went OK.
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Yeah, you can't downgrade if your bootloader is locked, but it is good to hear you got it working.