I have an AT&T Samsung Galaxy S4 SGH-I337 rooted. I tried to flash a custom recovery with Rom Manager, Rom installer, Safestrap and Odin in that order. All my attempts failed because the boot loader is locked and now the stock recovery its gone. My question is: If I flash a stock ROM like out of the box (NB1 OTA) in ODIN that return my phone back to original settings and with the stock recovery too? Thanks in advance!!!
Yes, your only Odin right now is to flash the full Odin tar file
See the second post
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=50667360
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Thanks for the info. Then after I flash a full Odin tar file the stock recovery it's back? ?
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leo_skatan said:
Thanks for the info. Then after I flash a full Odin tar file the stock recovery it's back? ?
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Yes, it'll put the stock recovery back on
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Thank you very much for your time and your answers. Hope you have an excellent day. ☺
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leo_skatan said:
Thank you very much for your time and your answers. Hope you have an excellent day. ☺
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You're welcome
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If possible to flash a full stock rom with Odin making a downgrade to Jelly Bean and then unlock the bootloader to install Clockworkmod???
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If possible to flash a full stock rom with Odin making a downgrade to Jelly Bean and then unlock the bootloader to install Clockworkmod???
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No you can't go backwards with bootloaders. I assume since you weren't able to do custom recovery you're on a newer firmware nc1? If so you can root with towel root then only use safestrap as a means for recovery. But you'll only be able to install touchwiz based roms.
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Thanks a lot for the info. Have a nice day. ☺
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Okay so I'm currently rooted on stock rom. I just want to know if there's any way that I can start flashing ROMs by using any recovery. At the moment I just keep seeing there's no recovery available for mf3 baseband.. I really want to take advantage of this phone with mods.. Please help
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luch4galaxy said:
Okay so I'm currently rooted on stock rom. I just want to know if there's any way that I can start flashing ROMs by using any recovery. At the moment I just keep seeing there's no recovery available for mf3 baseband.. I really want to take advantage of this phone with mods.. Please help
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Then you missed safestrap... search.
I heard they were problems with this
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Hello I did a search and can't get a straight answer. I have the att gs4 4.2.2 rooted and I'm wondering what version of safestrap I need. I see mixed answers like 3.65, 3.71, 3.72 and I'm not quite sure which is it. Help will be much appreciated!
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You need to search and read. It depends which version of 4.4.2 you're on http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=49562527
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You need to search and read. It depends which version of 4.4.2 you're on http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=49562527
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Likewise... 4.2.2 not 4.4.2
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Austie1337 said:
Hello I did a search and can't get a straight answer. I have the att gs4 4.2.2 rooted and I'm wondering what version of safestrap I need. I see mixed answers like 3.65, 3.71, 3.72 and I'm not quite sure which is it. Help will be much appreciated!
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Check in settings/ more/ about device towards the end what build you have. If you are on 4.2.2 you dont need safestrap any recovery can do. If you are on 4.4.2 its a different story you have a whole different process before you get safestrap. Safestrap use is for locked bootloaders that came after builds NB1 and NC1.
Since you are already rooted there is no use for safestrap. If you are looking to flash custom roms check the ones are compatible with your present build.
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netomel said:
Check in settings/ more/ about device towards the end what build you have. If you are on 4.2.2 you dont need safestrap any recovery can do. If you are on 4.4.2 its a different story you have a whole different process before you get safestrap. Safestrap use is for locked bootloaders that came after builds NB1 and NC1.
Since you are already rooted there is no use for safestrap. If you are looking to flash custom roms check the ones are compatible with your present build.
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Thank you but I installed another recovery a while back and it deleted my stock recovery. I posted on here asking what I need to do and they told me safestrap. I'll keep looking around.
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Austie1337 said:
Thank you but I installed another recovery a while back and it deleted my stock recovery. I posted on here asking what I need to do and they told me safestrap. I'll keep looking around.
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If you're on mdb/mdl firmware all you need to do is put on a custom recovery to flash roms. This should help http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=42320391
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jd1639 said:
If you're on mdb/mdl firmware all you need to do is put on a custom recovery to flash roms. This should help http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=42320391
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Thank you for your answer but I have MF3. Will this still work?
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Austie1337 said:
Thank you for your answer but I have MF3. Will this still work?
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See the second post in the link. You will need safestrap if you're on mf3. But you might want to consider updating your firmware to mk2 then see the first link I gave you. That way you'll be able to flash 4.4.2 roms
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See the second post in the link. You will need safestrap if you're on mf3. But you might want to consider updating your firmware to mk2 then see the first link I gave you. That way you'll be able to flash 4.4.2 roms
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Thank you very much for your help!
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I'm on NB1(4.4.2) stock rooted. I want to flash Cyanogenmod 11 hut don't wanna risk bricking my phone so I wanna be sure. I was gonna flash it using safestrap recovery v3.72 on ROM slot 1. Now I don't know if I flashed CM if I would have to flash a kernal with it. Thanks.
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I'm on NB1(4.4.2) stock rooted. I want to flash Cyanogenmod 11 hut don't wanna risk bricking my phone so I wanna be sure. I was gonna flash it using safestrap recovery v3.72 on ROM slot 1. Now I don't know if I flashed CM if I would have to flash a kernal with it. Thanks.
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NO,NO! Only touch wiz based roms
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Ok
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So the last 2 times I have updated ota I have gone into a bootloop. I tried complete wipe then flashing kk modem then pa and pa gapps to only be stuck in another boot loop! At this point I'd just like to be able to get a 4.4 rom. How do I do it without bootlooping? Thanks!
Here's my software info!
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Anyone?
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hdjx20 said:
So the last 2 times I have updated ota I have gone into a bootloop. I tried complete wipe then flashing kk modem then pa and pa gapps to only be stuck in another boot loop! At this point I'd just like to be able to get a 4.4 rom. How do I do it without bootlooping? Thanks!
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Do u have custom recovery at moment? Cos of u flash ota with cust rec it will go into bootloop
I do. I have twrp. How can I upgrade to 4.4 or flash a 4.4 rom?
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hdjx20 said:
I do. I have twrp. How can I upgrade to 4.4 or flash a 4.4 rom?
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Download a 4.4 ROM from here, copy it to your phone, then flash it in recovery.
I do that and I get boot loops no matter what I try. Eiither that or it will only boot to recovery
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hdjx20 said:
I do. I have twrp. How can I upgrade to 4.4 or flash a 4.4 rom?
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Do u have any nandroid backups? Either on a usb drive or on your phone?
Yes!
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@hdjx20 You need the KK modem as well. Wipe, then flash modem before or after rom/gapps.
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I have not rooted my S5 yet and I updated to firmware NI2 and now I want to root it. How do I do this without tripping Knox?
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Use Towelroot method.
Will that work even though the kernel is from September?
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Will that work even though the kernel is from September?
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No
Could I just flash an old kernel, root, then flash back to the NI2 kernel?
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Guitarhero921 said:
Could I just flash an old kernel, root, then flash back to the NI2 kernel?
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Read here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2843044 or http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2835315
Sorry, I'm new to Odin, but can I just flash the boot.img or do I have to convert it to a .tar.md5? And also, will converting it give it a different signature meaning it will trip Knox?
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