[Q] i think i bricked my phone - AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin

ok so i did something very stupid i think im not very experienced with this flashing thing but i manged to root my galaxy s4 i337 n followed the OUDHS-Recovery-jflteatt-1.0.3.4.zip for clock work method to unlock the bootloader on nandroid manger i think.. it says it was succuessful after that i did some dumb sh!d n tried to flash the cwm touch on rashr for at&t n now my device is saying "system software not authorized by at&t has been found on your phone" so im guessing its hard bricked or soft bricked because it just keeps going to this screen when i try to turn my phone on can someone tell me which one it is and how to fix it if i can...n point me to a forum that will give me easy step by step on how to do this then a forum on how to flash correctly..plz and thank will be given :fingers-crossed:

iamgodly said:
ok so i did something very stupid i think im not very experienced with this flashing thing but i manged to root my galaxy s4 i337 n followed the OUDHS-Recovery-jflteatt-1.0.3.4.zip for clock work method to unlock the bootloader on nandroid manger i think.. it says it was succuessful after that i did some dumb sh!d n tried to flash the cwm touch on rashr for at&t n now my device is saying "system software not authorized by at&t has been found on your phone" so im guessing its hard bricked or soft bricked because it just keeps going to this screen when i try to turn my phone on can someone tell me which one it is and how to fix it if i can...n point me to a forum that will give me easy step by step on how to do this then a forum on how to flash correctly..plz and thank will be given :fingers-crossed:
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What was the current system you had NB1 Or NC1? I have reflashed my phone plenty of times and if the screen is turning on it's only soft bricked
By the way, you cannot unlock your bootloader! You must use safestrap 3.72 for 4.4.2 for a recovery
I guess it don't matter. Check out this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2616221
If you need more help just ask and I will try to help walk you through the process

iamgodly said:
ok so i did something very stupid i think im not very experienced with this flashing thing but i manged to root my galaxy s4 i337 n followed the OUDHS-Recovery-jflteatt-1.0.3.4.zip for clock work method to unlock the bootloader on nandroid manger i think.. it says it was succuessful after that i did some dumb sh!d n tried to flash the cwm touch on rashr for at&t n now my device is saying "system software not authorized by at&t has been found on your phone" so im guessing its hard bricked or soft bricked because it just keeps going to this screen when i try to turn my phone on can someone tell me which one it is and how to fix it if i can...n point me to a forum that will give me easy step by step on how to do this then a forum on how to flash correctly..plz and thank will be given :fingers-crossed:
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Sounds like you need to flash Odin then start over with the root and rom process. Start here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=55338138
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dsfletch said:
What was the current system you had NB1 Or NC1? I have reflashed my phone plenty of times and if the screen is turning on it's only soft bricked
By the way, you cannot unlock your bootloader! You must use safestrap 3.72 for 4.4.2 for a recovery
I guess it don't matter. Check out this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2616221
If you need more help just ask and I will try to help walk you through the process
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im actually running on mdl 4.2.2

jd1639 said:
Sounds like you need to flash Odin then start over with the root and rom process. Start here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=55338138
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thank you for pointing me to this post . i was actually able to get out of that black screen by holding the power button n volume button :laugh::good::highfive:

if you are mdl and rooted with a good recovery, you got that message after flashing cwm or any other recovery/rom/kernel that is not loki'd.
research loki-doki. it is an exploit we on mdl need to flash after flashing a non loki'd "file". it bypasses sammy's security check.
most TW roms here in att forum are already loki'd
a lot of like TWRP 2.5.0.2 recovery. i have flashable zip if interested--if you do flash it don't fomat data where you have to select "Yes" and if get a warning root was lost, tap on "Do Not Fix". a couple bugs in it that have been fixed in newer versions, but other than that I have no issues flashing any roms--
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[Q] Help!!! System software not authorized by ATT has been found on your phone

Please help!
I have ATT SGH - i337.
While I was on original ATT ROM I rooted the phone and with GooManager got TWRP running after I flashed it with this ROM (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2283194).
My phone was NOT auti-lokied, just rooted with motochopper method.
Now I got this error message:
"System software not authorized by ATT has been found on your phone" on the bottom and on the top with little red letters I got:
SECURE FAIL: KERNEL.
The most I can do with my phone now is go to ODIN mode (both odins 1.83 and 3.07 detects it)
As per my understanding I was trying to flash my non lokied phone with non ATT kernel inside that ROM. I tried to use Kies, but my phone is not being detected by it.
Please help!!!
Use Odin
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2261573
Download both that Odin.version as well.as the firmware package
Unzip the package
Check that file under the pda section
Flash
Wait
Enjoy
Then...read, read, and read again before flashing any roms...make sure you know what your doing, and how to get out of situations like this
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mg2195 Thanks lot!!!
I'm going to try this now and will post the outcome.
mg2195 is right; ODIN to stock, make sure you flash UCUAMDL (should be one MD5 file) and NOT UCUAMDB as you will have problems with UCUAMDB!
stask1 said:
Please help!
I have ATT SGH - i337.
While I was on original ATT ROM I rooted the phone and with GooManager got TWRP running after I flashed it with this ROM (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2283194).
My phone was NOT auti-lokied, just rooted with motochopper method.
Now I got this error message:
"System software not authorized by ATT has been found on your phone" on the bottom and on the top with little red letters I got:
SECURE FAIL: KERNEL.
The most I can do with my phone now is go to ODIN mode (both odins 1.83 and 3.07 detects it)
As per my understanding I was trying to flash my non lokied phone with non ATT kernel inside that ROM. I tried to use Kies, but my phone is not being detected by it.
Please help!!!
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Just so you understand, your phone can't be auto lokied. You can install a recovery that will auto loki the roms/kernels that you flash. Or flash roms /kernels that have been lokied but the developer.
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Got it!
Thanks a lot for friendly advise!
It worked and I'm back to stock ROM now.
auto lokied.
dxwilliams40 said:
Just so you understand, your phone can't be auto lokied. You can install a recovery that will auto loki the roms/kernels that you flash. Or flash roms /kernels that have been lokied but the developer.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I337 using xda premium
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I know this might not be the right place to ask this question but what is auto lokied. or just lokied?
thanks for taking the time to answer the question. Don't want to brick my new S4.
sw1173 said:
I know this might not be the right place to ask this question but what is auto lokied. or just lokied?
thanks for taking the time to answer the question. Don't want to brick my new S4.
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Lokied = The ROM has Loki applied to it by the developer
Auto-Loki = The Recovery applies Loki to the ROM
King Ding-a-ling said:
Lokied = The ROM has Loki applied to it by the developer
Auto-Loki = The Recovery applies Loki to the ROM
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But what does the term mean?
Thanks
sw1173 said:
But what does the term mean?
Thanks
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Loki is the locked bootloader workaround
King Ding-a-ling said:
Loki is the locked bootloader workaround
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Thanks...I'm looking at a rom for my Note and its "not-lokied" Hope I don't brick the mother, really like both my devices.:
sw1173 said:
But what does the term mean?
Thanks
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Read
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=41751943
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King Ding-a-ling said:
Loki is the locked bootloader workaround
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I prefer using a loki kernel. Eaiser.
TheAxman said:
I prefer using a loki kernel. Eaiser.
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I've been working on an experimental flashing method lately... I just stare really hard at the phone and visualize the ROM... Sometimes it boots, other times I get a Status 0... I'll get it down one of these days...
You mean the jedi rom trick. These are not the roms your looking for.
I have the same problem
(System software not authorized by ATT has been found on your phone" on the bottom and on the top with little red letters I got:
SECURE FAIL: KERNEL) Yellow triangle.
but I cant get Odin to work for me. I followed the instructions from before downloaded odin and the tar file but I can't get my phone passed the triangle and warning.
Before the error I flashed shostock rom everything worked great I went to update the jeeboo kernel today but accidently flashed the philz_touch_5.07.5-jfltexx that I had on my ext sd card. Now it wont boot up.
Is there anything I can do?
Mr Strange said:
I have the same problem
(System software not authorized by ATT has been found on your phone" on the bottom and on the top with little red letters I got:
SECURE FAIL: KERNEL) Yellow triangle.
but I cant get Odin to work for me. I followed the instructions from before downloaded odin and the tar file but I can't get my phone passed the triangle and warning.
Before the error I flashed shostock rom everything worked great I went to update the jeeboo kernel today but accidently flashed the philz_touch_5.07.5-jfltexx that I had on my ext sd card. Now it wont boot up.
Is there anything I can do?
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get into recovery, and yes, it will go into recovery. And:
FLASH YOUR CARRIERS KERNEL!!!
This has been seen and talked about in numerous threads.
The Ax says Good luck and good day!
TheAxman said:
get into recovery, and yes, it will go into recovery. And:
FLASH YOUR CARRIERS KERNEL!!!
This has been seen and talked about in numerous threads.
The Ax says Good luck and good day!
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I got it to work now. I kept trying to boot into recovery by volume up, home and power but recovery was screwed up on my phone. I finally tried to hold volume down, home and power and got it to boot up after pressing volume up. Then I ran Rom Manager and reinstalled CWM Recovery. All good now I can breath again. Thanks for your help!
Mr Strange said:
I got it to work now. I kept trying to boot into recovery by volume up, home and power but recovery was screwed up on my phone. I finally tried to hold volume down, home and power and got it to boot up after pressing volume up. Then I ran Rom Manager and reinstalled CWM Recovery. All good now I can breath again. Thanks for your help!
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Great, just remember the solution, because chances are you will see the message again. Good luck sir.
Lol that same thing happened to me. The button combo for twrp I mean. I was so scared I bricked. Then finally I ran across a few of these helpful forums and realized home and volume up are the way to go. Goo manager had me spoiled learning the recov mode on s4.
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Help! Buddy soft bricked his phone. What file is needed?

Greetings. My buddy tried to root his phone last night, and did so, but failed to unlock the boot loader. Today he tried to flash TWRP and now is stock on the downloading screen pre boot.
I have found the instructions for flashing the stock rom via odin, but need to verify what version of the software i need to get for his phone. Unfourtunately I cant get into ABOUT on his phone but via the sticker his model is SGH-I337. His wife purchased her s4 the exact same time together with him. I had her check build info and it was JDQ39.I337UCUAM53.
Can someone point me to a place to get the correct rom to flash via Odin to fix his device? Once I have it back up for him I will worry about getting it completely unlocked, if possible.
As always, thank you in advance for any help provided.
Pretty sure the build number you posted ends in mf3. There is no odin flashable firmware. Your best bet is to take it to best buy which had a Samsung experience. They can flash the firmware there. But you'll have to all real nicely. You can get the phone to boot by canceling the download mode, vol down, when it boots to that.
Edit you ready need to read a lot more before you do anything with his phone. There is no unlocked boot loader and you can't flash roms like you may be used to with an unlocked boot loader.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2360859
This helped me.
cnmsales said:
Greetings. My buddy tried to root his phone last night, and did so, but failed to unlock the boot loader. Today he tried to flash TWRP and now is stock on the downloading screen pre boot.
I have found the instructions for flashing the stock rom via odin, but need to verify what version of the software i need to get for his phone. Unfourtunately I cant get into ABOUT on his phone but via the sticker his model is SGH-I337. His wife purchased her s4 the exact same time together with him. I had her check build info and it was JDQ39.I337UCUAM53.
Can someone point me to a place to get the correct rom to flash via Odin to fix his device? Once I have it back up for him I will worry about getting it completely unlocked, if possible.
As always, thank you in advance for any help provided.
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Are you sure the firmware version is JDQ39.I337UCUAM53, or is it JDQ39.I337UCUAMF3.
Not possible to unlock the MF3 bootloader yet so if you flashed TWRP you likely need to go to Best Buy to get the phone fixed.
rayburne said:
Are you sure the firmware version is JDQ39.I337UCUAM53, or is it JDQ39.I337UCUAMF3.
Not possible to unlock the MF3 bootloader yet so if you flashed TWRP you likely need to go to Best Buy to get the phone fixed.
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From what im reading shouldn't we be able to flash the stock rom again via Odin?
cnmsales said:
From what im reading shouldn't we be able to flash the stock rom again via Odin?
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There is no odin flashable firmware available. I should add for a device on mf3. You can't flash an earlier version either
jd1639 said:
Pretty sure the build number you posted ends in mf3. There is no odin flashable firmware. Your best bet is to take it to best buy which had a Samsung experience. They can flash the firmware there. But you'll have to all real nicely. You can get the phone to boot by canceling the download mode, vol down, when it boots to that.
Edit you ready need to read a lot more before you do anything with his phone. There is no unlocked boot loader and you can't flash roms like you may be used to with an unlocked boot loader.
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Thanks for the info.
As I said, my buddy did this, im just trying to fix it.
FYI. I did the VLM down and we are not booted into the phone, thanks for that!!!!
Phone is MF3. So is TWRP installed? Is the recovery good now? Is there anything else I need to do?
cnmsales said:
Thanks for the info.
As I said, my buddy did this, im just trying to fix it.
FYI. I did the VLM down and we are not booted into the phone, thanks for that!!!!
Phone is MF3. So is TWRP installed? Is the recovery good now? Is there anything else I need to do?
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Twrp is not installed. Trying to install it is what borked the recovery. You can't install a custom recovery on mf3 firmware.
cnmsales said:
Thanks for the info.
As I said, my buddy did this, im just trying to fix it.
FYI. I did the VLM down and we are not booted into the phone, thanks for that!!!!
Phone is MF3. So is TWRP installed? Is the recovery good now? Is there anything else I need to do?
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The boot loader is locked so you can't install or boot to a secondary recovery on MF3.
jd1639 said:
Twrp is not installed. Trying to install it is what borked the recovery. You can't install a custom recovery on mf3 firmware.
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Right, but wanted to make sure the boot loader on it isnt messed up now.
Thanks for the quick response!
Were you able to get it to a samsung experience shop?
It would be better to get your "buddy" to do a little reading instead of asking questions on his behalf. Is there a reason you are asking these questions and your buddy isn't responding himself? Well, you can tell your buddy it would be good to read the "pinned" threads in the General and Q & A sections. There is a lot of information and links in those threads that will help your buddy to learn about the phone and what he is doing to it before it becomes a brick. Good luck to your buddy.

[Q] Soft Brink! Please Help i337m

Hi, everyone I'm at a lost my S4 has been down for over a month now.
I've tried all the steps in the s4 bricked forums with no luck. I can't do the Kies recovery because it asks for a recovery code I don't have. (I bought the phone 2nd hand)
At this point I'm not even sure which stock rom I need to set the phone back to stock. I believe its a I337MVLUAMG1. I'm trying to run the phone on Aio.
When flashing from odin I usually get a failure. Seems like the Canadian S4 is prone to soft bricking searching the forums.
Currently I have Philz Advanced recovery installed. I'm stuck at Samsung Galaxy S4 logo
with
Kernel is not seandroid enforcing
Set Warranty bit: kernel
Any help of suggestions are gratefully appreciated.
Hey dude. No expert here, but it sounds like u have the new bootloader i.e. Knox. If ur going to do an odin flash to restore it, it's going to have to be at least MK6 firmware (I'm guessing this is the firmware u were on as NC1 just dropped and u said u'd been bricked for a month). Knox won't let u downgrade so if u've been flashing a 4.2 firmware then that's prolly why ur stuck at the boot screen. Good luck chief.
Oh, also, if u can boot into recovery, doing a factory reset and wiping /system couldn't hurt.
blankingblank said:
Hey dude. No expert here, but it sounds like u have the new bootloader i.e. Knox. If ur going to do an odin flash to restore it, it's going to have to be at least MK6 firmware (I'm guessing this is the firmware u were on as NC1 just dropped and u said u'd been bricked for a month). Knox won't let u downgrade so if u've been flashing a 4.2 firmware then that's prolly why ur stuck at the boot screen. Good luck chief.
Oh, also, if u can boot into recovery, doing a factory reset and wiping /system couldn't hurt.
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Alright thank you thats a step in the right direction. I downloaded: I337MVLUFNC1_880525_REV06_user_low_ship_MULTI and tried flashing it. I'm getting odin failures. I can successful flash a recovery or modem. But flashing an entire ROM from odin fails every time. I'm not sure what stock ROMs will work with my phone. Its a Canadian i337m last time I was able to boot I was on MG1 i believe. I don't know if it matters. But I bricked my phone trying to undo the tmobile AWS work around (I swtiched to Aio).
crayak said:
Alright thank you thats a step in the right direction. I downloaded: I337MVLUFNC1_880525_REV06_user_low_ship_MULTI and tried flashing it. I'm getting odin failures. I can successful flash a recovery or modem. But flashing an entire ROM from odin fails every time. I'm not sure what stock ROMs will work with my phone. Its a Canadian i337m last time I was able to boot I was on MG1 i believe. I don't know if it matters. But I bricked my phone trying to undo the tmobile AWS work around (I swtiched to Aio).
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U said u had the Knox msg come up when booting right? That means ur bootloader is 4.3 or higher regardless of what baseband ur on (modem). U can find a carrier specific version of the latest firmware at samsung-updates. Extract the tar.md5 and flash under AP in Odin 3.09 after unticking auto reboot and force reboot. If that fails u can try formatting all ur device partitions in recovery. Doubt that last part would help the odin flash stick but it's worth a shot. I use philz and u can format everything from /boot to /firmware_mdm. Like I said, dunno if that'll help but u could try it. Also, using kies on ur PC, u should make sure u have the latest drivers installed. Hope some of that helps
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U said u had the Knox msg come up when booting right? That means ur bootloader is 4.3 or higher regardless of what baseband ur on (modem). U can find a carrier specific version of the latest firmware at samsung-updates. Extract the tar.md5 and flash under AP in Odin 3.09 after unticking auto reboot and force reboot. If that fails u can try formatting all ur device partitions in recovery. Doubt that last part would help the odin flash stick but it's worth a shot. I use philz and u can format everything from /boot to /firmware_mdm. Like I said, dunno if that'll help but u could try it. Also, using kies on ur PC, u should make sure u have the latest drivers installed. Hope some of that helps
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Holly Vag thank you! I can now fully boot the phone. I installed Philz recovery and installed Vision X G4. WiFi is not working, and I haven't put my sim card in to see if it'll work with At&t/Aio yet.
Okay next step this is a Canadian Rogers i337m I think. Not sure how to confirm it. But assuming it is. What do I need to do to get wifi running. I see forums saying to install certain kernel and modems for the Canadian version. I'm not sure how to proceed considering I'm trying to use the phone on Aio/At&t, and suggestions?
Thank you, thank you. This is the farthest I've gotten I've been using a SGH-I437Z=Crapola.
crayak said:
Holly Vag thank you! I can now fully boot the phone. I installed Philz recovery and installed Vision X G4. WiFi is not working, and I haven't put my sim card in to see if it'll work with At&t/Aio yet.
Okay next step this is a Canadian Rogers i337m I think. Not sure how to confirm it. But assuming it is. What do I need to do to get wifi running. I see forums saying to install certain kernel and modems for the Canadian version. I'm not sure how to proceed considering I'm trying to use the phone on Aio/At&t, and suggestions?
Thank you, thank you. This is the farthest I've gotten I've been using a SGH-I437Z=Crapola.
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Lol not sure anything I said helped. I think u must've wiped /firmware or /firmware_MDM right? I only meant to do that if u were going to flash a stock fw as it would replace those parts automatically. I think u lost ur non.hlos.bin file... Flashing a stock fw will bring it back. U can wipe everything again from philz if u want and try an Odin flash again using my instructions from the last post. Also, u want to flash a stock fw that uses the same base as the rom ur planning to flash, i.e. if u restore using a stock KitKat ROM (NC1), then ur gonna wanna make sure u flash a KitKat rom afterwards as the Knox BL won't let u downgrade.
As for which carrier fw to choose, the hardware is the same in all the Canadian variants, so any will work, although I think u were on a bell fw originally cuz of the MG1 suffix.
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Lol not sure anything I said helped. I think u must've wiped /firmware or /firmware_MDM right? I only meant to do that if u were going to flash a stock fw as it would replace those parts automatically. I think u lost ur non.hlos.bin file... Flashing a stock fw will bring it back. U can wipe everything again from philz if u want and try an Odin flash again using my instructions from the last post. Also, u want to flash a stock fw that uses the same base as the rom ur planning to flash, i.e. if u restore using a stock KitKat ROM (NC1), then ur gonna wanna make sure u flash a KitKat rom afterwards as the Knox BL won't let u downgrade.
As for which carrier fw to choose, the hardware is the same in all the Canadian variants, so any will work, although I think u were on a bell fw originally cuz of the MG1 suffix.
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You helped me quite a bit. Thank you. I reflashed Philz recovery with odin, then installed Vision X. I'm not sure what MDM or non.hlos.bin fiels are for. I don't want to use Odin with this phone. Searching the forums seems like this phone and odin don't get along when flashing a full ROM. I'd prefer to do all flashing using recovery. Now I just need to find the right stock zip.
crayak said:
You helped me quite a bit. Thank you. I reflashed Philz recovery with odin, then installed Vision X. I'm not sure what MDM or non.hlos.bin fiels are for. I don't want to use Odin with this phone. Searching the forums seems like this phone and odin don't get along when flashing a full ROM. I'd prefer to do all flashing using recovery. Now I just need to find the right stock zip.
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No problem. Ya I guess the recovery zips could work just as well as the Odin tar.md5's would. I've just never used a recovery to flash a stock rom before.
Fwiw I have the same phone as u and have used Odin plenty, with positive results, although I've heard that peoples experiences with it vary a great deal. Having the right USB drivers installed on ur PC is key tho if u do use it.
Rom or Firmware?
crayak said:
Hi, everyone I'm at a lost my S4 has been down for over a month now.
I've tried all the steps in the s4 bricked forums with no luck. I can't do the Kies recovery because it asks for a recovery code I don't have. (I bought the phone 2nd hand)
At this point I'm not even sure which stock rom I need to set the phone back to stock. I believe its a I337MVLUAMG1. I'm trying to run the phone on Aio.
When flashing from odin I usually get a failure. Seems like the Canadian S4 is prone to soft bricking searching the forums.
Currently I have Philz Advanced recovery installed. I'm stuck at Samsung Galaxy S4 logo
with
Kernel is not seandroid enforcing
Set Warranty bit: kernel
Any help of suggestions are gratefully appreciated.
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that have tried to install rom or firmware?
Pika71 said:
that have tried to install rom or firmware?
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I have it booting into Maple Leaf now. Still trying to figure out if my performance issues are kernel, modem, or maybe its just KitKat?
My next phone is going to be a developer edition.
oh...
crayak said:
I have it booting into Maple Leaf now. Still trying to figure out if my performance issues are kernel, modem, or maybe its just KitKat?
My next phone is going to be a developer edition.
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is the kit kat is very little battery

[Q] No Recovery Mode

I have an i337 NC1 build Galaxy S4 (AT&T). I'm totally new to custom roming, but I wanted to give it a shot for fun. I tried using towelroot along with SuperSu, and TWRP Manager to flash TWRP onto my phone because it supposedly worked on NC1. Apparently I did something wrong because I no longer have a recovery mode. It just gives the downloading/target screen when I try to access it. Am I screwed or is there some possible way for me to fix this? Thanks!
Nebni said:
I have an i337 NC1 build Galaxy S4 (AT&T). I'm totally new to custom roming, but I wanted to give it a shot for fun. I tried using towelroot along with SuperSu, and TWRP Manager to flash TWRP onto my phone because it supposedly worked on NC1. Apparently I did something wrong because I no longer have a recovery mode. It just gives the downloading/target screen when I try to access it. Am I screwed or is there some possible way for me to fix this? Thanks!
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im also now suffering with this problem, rom just stopped working and ive been trying for 3 days to get it back ......
cant get into recovery but can get into download mode.............stock rom doesnt work even with a pit flash.....
ive even tried that qhusb repair thing.
if anyone knows how to get a recovery back it would be great??
Tried using ODIN to flash a recovery (TWRP for example) through download mode?
Example, google up: odin twrp recovery I9505
Also, using volume up or down to enter recovery mode?
Nebni said:
I have an i337 NC1 build Galaxy S4 (AT&T). I'm totally new to custom roming, but I wanted to give it a shot for fun. I tried using towelroot along with SuperSu, and TWRP Manager to flash TWRP onto my phone because it supposedly worked on NC1. Apparently I did something wrong because I no longer have a recovery mode. It just gives the downloading/target screen when I try to access it. Am I screwed or is there some possible way for me to fix this? Thanks!
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You can't just install a recovery just like that because at&t has a locked bootloader. You will probably need something like safestrap.
Go to the proper forum for help.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s4-att/help
Gavin01 said:
im also now suffering with this problem, rom just stopped working and ive been trying for 3 days to get it back ......
cant get into recovery but can get into download mode.............stock rom doesnt work even with a pit flash.....
ive even tried that qhusb repair thing.
if anyone knows how to get a recovery back it would be great??
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That's a completely different problem. Sounds more like a hardware failure. But you should make your own thread with way more information if you want people to take a closer look.
Lennyz1988 said:
You can't just install a recovery just like that because at&t has a locked bootloader. You will probably need something like safestrap.
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Ah, right. Forgot about AT&T not exactly being so customize friendly, unlike the non-AT&T phones. Scratch what I said in my above post. AT&T phones have more restrictions (security) when it comes to flashing, etc. Use the link above and make sure you find a proper thread that will help you out.

[Q] S4 AT&T Brick?

Hello, im new to this with android, well was trying to install this custom rom
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2537495
and followed this guide since safestrap dont support 5.0.1 (I downloaded and installed the 3 files in the guide)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=59980632&postcount=16811
Well i got everything right with odin and now it started booting, but it keeps stuck in Samsung Custom logo, nothing happens, i cant use the TWRP recovery menu but i can use the android one (the one that uses volume keys to move menu) i need help, i have to install something with odin to recover? or what im confused, if this is the wrong section move it to where it belong, thanks
I found this file AT&T GALAXY S4 SGH-I337 OFICIAL JELLY BEAN 4.3 (FIRMWARE VRUEMK2)
Is it safe to use? even if after i put OC3 kernel?, i got a bootloop.
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Odin the nb1 tar file. See this, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2674223 Also see this, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2616221
The rootable one or the non rootable? also i got a message now, i cant get to recovery menu or download, it redirect me to something like this
Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in kies & try again.
Darklius said:
The rootable one or the non rootable? also i got a message now, i cant get to recovery menu or download, it redirect me to something like this
Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in kies & try again.
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Use the rootable one in your case. See the other link I gave you also. You can't flash Twrp on your device. You'll need to use safestrap
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Thanks a lot for this, it worked, what should i use for root now? i think im leaving the stock rom or i need to install another rom for rooting?

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