Back to stock...thanks for the link below. The no-wipe version did not work for me. However, My Samsung Boot Screen still says custom.
I've been running Beans rom all day without issue. I've never updated to ME7. Tonight, I enabled autocorrect in my stock keyboard and read I needed to reboot for it to take effect. Upon reboot, it hangs at the Samsung Screen and Custom at the bottom. I downloaded the no-wipe odin as I can't find a full stock odin tar anywhere, and I've attempted to install it twice but after installation, it reboots, a little green android comes on the screen, and then it goes back to the Samsung Custom screen. I can't access recovery at all. Thoughts?
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I've been running Beans rom all day without issue. I've never updated to ME7. Tonight, I enabled autocorrect in my stock keyboard and read I needed to reboot for it to take effect. Upon reboot, it hangs at the Samsung Screen and Custom at the bottom. I downloaded the no-wipe odin as I can't find a full stock odin tar anywhere, and I've attempted to install it twice but after installation, it reboots, a little green android comes on the screen, and then it goes back to the Samsung Custom screen. I can't access recovery at all. Thoughts?
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Any chance someone has a link to a recovery .tar?
Theres a "full stock odin tar" in the dev section. I believe there is also a recovery tar at the link provided in the same thread.
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Just looked there and searched. No luck. Do you have a link to it?
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Just looked there and searched. No luck. Do you have a link to it?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=41680619
It says mkd in the title but its a typo. Its the mdk file.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=41680619
It says mkd in the title but its a typo. Its the mdk file.
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Thanks. Flashing now. I hope it works. For the life of me I can't figure out what happened. I edited features.xml to change disableautocorrect from true to false. I rebooted, and got stuck at Samsung Custom. I couldn't access recovery. Volume Up + Power did nothing. I got 'Loading Recovery" in blue at the top, but it just flashed and went away. I was running TWRP. Any thoughts on what might have happened?
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Thanks. Flashing now. I hope it works. For the life of me I can't figure out what happened. I edited features.xml to change disableautocorrect from true to false. I rebooted, and got stuck at Samsung Custom. I couldn't access recovery. Volume Up + Power did nothing. I got 'Loading Recovery" in blue at the top, but it just flashed and went away. I was running TWRP. Any thoughts on what might have happened?
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This one did the trick, however, it still says Samsung Custom. How do we get rid of that?
If youre unrooted I would boot into stock recovery and factory data reset then reboot a couple of times to see if it registers that its a stock phone. Triangle away supposedly gets rid of it, never used it so I cant confirm. TA needs root tho. The custom boot screen has never bothered me so I havent done much research on it. I have seen a few threads posted about it tho so I know theres an answer somewhere on the forums.
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Thanks. Flashing now. I hope it works. For the life of me I can't figure out what happened. I edited features.xml to change disableautocorrect from true to false. I rebooted, and got stuck at Samsung Custom. I couldn't access recovery. Volume Up + Power did nothing. I got 'Loading Recovery" in blue at the top, but it just flashed and went away. I was running TWRP. Any thoughts on what might have happened?
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here is a video that might help.
Back to stock no custom screen. Thank you. I'm going to try CWM recovery and see if my stability issues go away.
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I ODIN'd my T959 last night and everything went fine. But now during boot I get the GT-I9000 splash screen... although the phone is listed in the About section as a T959. Worse, I no longer have the green or red recovery, it's blue (even after rooting). I can no longer get to recovery using the 3-button method, I had to root the phone and install ROM Manager in order to get to blue recovery.
I tried using AIO Vibrant Toolbox and still I'm having the same issue.
Any suggestion as to how I can fix this?
Next time you odin back stock, use http://www.multiupload.com/HRYJKFLKFQ instead of the original JFD file. You can probably use this now to get the Vibrant splash back anyway. Just odin like you normally would. And you're supposed to reinstall packages again...Odin resets your recovery.
Since you flashed the GB bootloader, the combos change.
vol up + power=download mode
vol down + power=recovery
read the op next time
Agreed. Reinstall packages in recovery. Sometimes reflash recovery with ROM manager and try again then in recovery choose reboot in recovery. Good luck!
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Thanks to both of you for the response. Trying now.
laylovj said:
read the op next time
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BTW... I read the OP, I assure you. Perhaps I didn't understand it, and that's obvious. But I read the OP. Whenever I flash a ROM I read the entire thread beforehand. I'm still very much a danger to myself and my phone.
laylovj - that did the trick. The splash is back and more importantly, I have data again. I installed SH 3.8 Revolution and it's running great.
Thanks again.
Hey everyone. I flashed the CWM touch recovery today, and now I'm getting that damn Verizon unauthorized software message.
I downloaded the stock .pit file and the stock VRALJB image from here
After that succeeds through odin, I still get the verizon issue. What am I missing?
falkon114 said:
Hey everyone. I flashed the CWM touch recovery today, and now I'm getting that damn Verizon unauthorized software message.
I downloaded the stock .pit file and the stock VRALJB image from here
After that succeeds through odin, I still get the verizon issue. What am I missing?
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I've gotten around that, but now the phone stays at the Samsung Note 2 splash screen, and I am unable to boot into recovery, though I can boot into Download...
You obviously took the update. Use the alternate restore found in droidstyle's thread
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hopesrequiem said:
You obviously took the update. Use the alternate restore found in droidstyle's thread
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I had done no such thing. Never prompted nor initiated an install so it was stock from the first stock root that was out there.
Anyway, we're all good now, running Jedi X11.
Thanks though.
Mods can close. Was just a matter of flashing the right stock roms in the right order.
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I had done no such thing. Never prompted nor initiated an install so it was stock from the first stock root that was out there.
Anyway, we're all good now, running Jedi X11.
Thanks though.
Mods can close. Was just a matter of flashing the right stock roms in the right order.
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Glad you got it figured out bud
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falkon114 said:
I had done no such thing. Never prompted nor initiated an install so it was stock from the first stock root that was out there.
Anyway, we're all good now, running Jedi X11.
Thanks though.
Mods can close. Was just a matter of flashing the right stock roms in the right order.
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good deal...fwiw next time follow the stickies in this forum and you will save yourself a bunch of headaches :good:
Yeah. I was panicking and there wasa lot of info out there,didn't know where to start. This website is awesome though,much respect to the people who figure this stuff out.
I have build ME7 (rooted) and I thought I'd see what happens if I installed a recovery using ROM Toolbox. What happened is that I now cannot boot my phone. I get a large green Andy with "Downloading" and "Do not turn off target!!" below it and the screen is stuck there. I tried a battery pull, but still I'm stuck there. These lines appear at the top left of the screen:
Could not do normal boot.
ODIN MODE
Product Name: SCH-I535
Current binary: Samsung official
System Status: Custom
CSB_CONFIG_LSB: 0x30
Write Protection: Enable
Can anyone please get me booting my phone again? Thanks so much. I tried rebooting into recovery (vol up + home + power), but the phone still does into Downloading mode.
UPDATE - Figured it out. Pressed vol down + power, waited a minute, released power button. Warning screen came up asking me to press vol up to continue into download mode or vol down to cancel. I pressed vol down and voila, I was able to boot my phone. Phew !
I have the same problem.
On boot, I get a screen that says:
Samsung
Unlock
Then it goes to that stupid Downloading Do Not Turn Off Target screen!
How the hell do I get TWRP to load? I can get back into the stock ROM by canceling the update, but I would really like to be able to install Eclipse on this phone!
Thanks guys!
From off - Power, vol up, and I think home button. Once it vibrates once, let go of power. Once it says booting recovery, let go of the other buttons.
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jova33 said:
From off - Power, vol up, and I think home button. Once it vibrates once, let go of power. Once it says booting recovery, let go of the other buttons.
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That just takes me to the same screens as described above.
This is a brand new phone. Just bought it today. Could they have changed something?
I rooted with SuperSU and installed TWRP with GooManager.
If your on the me7 ota you cant load a custom recovery. Me7 patched the exploit that facilitated the use of a custom recovery. If your on mdk still I would try reinstalling it.
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hexitnow said:
If your on the me7 ota you cant load a custom recovery. Me7 patched the exploit that faciliated the use of a custom recovery. If your on mdk still I would try reinstalling it.
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I am on ME7. I tried flashing back to MD2 and MDK and not having any luck. Is this completely impossible and I have just wasted 4 hours of my life? lol
Pretty much sorry to say. Once on it you cant flash back to mdk.
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Can you Odin back to stock ME7?
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jova33 said:
Can you Odin back to stock ME7?
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Nope. For now you are stuck on the ME7 you have (assuming you got ME7 from the OTA or it was installed when you bought the phone from VZW) which does not (cannot) have a custom recovery nor an unlocked bootloader. All that is possible as of this writing is to be able to root ME7. I have not seen anything documented where the root exploit in ME7 can be undone.
UPDATE - Apparently I was wrong. You can go back to stock ME7. From another thread:
Plug your phone into a Mac or PC, install the VZW utility, select repair device. It will download and flash the official firmware and change your status to official and your splash screen back to the normal samsung logo, not the open lock with custom. It will be ME7 and bone stock. Have done it and rerooted myself. Hope it helps.
And I also found this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2301259
And this: http://droidviews.com/2013/how-to-unroot-samsung-galaxy-s4-gt-i9500-and-reclaim-warranty/
thornev said:
Nope. For now you are stuck on the ME7 you have (assuming you got ME7 from the OTA or it was installed when you bought the phone from VZW) which does not (cannot) have a custom recovery nor an unlocked bootloader. All that is possible as of this writing is to be able to root ME7. I have not seen anything documented where the root exploit in ME7 can be undone.
UPDATE - Apparently I was wrong. You can go back to stock ME7. From another thread:
Plug your phone into a Mac or PC, install the VZW utility, select repair device. It will download and flash the official firmware and change your status to official and your splash screen back to the normal samsung logo, not the open lock with custom. It will be ME7 and bone stock. Have done it and rerooted myself. Hope it helps.
And I also found this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2301259
And this: http://droidviews.com/2013/how-to-unroot-samsung-galaxy-s4-gt-i9500-and-reclaim-warranty/
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What Verizon utility are you referring to. I had all these issues. Got it back but I just want to go back to stock till all this is resolved. Thanks
jbeezybaby said:
What Verizon utility are you referring to. I had all these issues. Got it back but I just want to go back to stock till all this is resolved. Thanks
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Sorry, I don't know. I was quoting someone else's post (post 132): http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=44132772
thornev said:
Sorry, I don't know. I was quoting someone else's post (post 132): http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=44132772
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Ok, Thanks
I just rooted a Verizon GS4 (VRUAME7) using this method. Everything went fine. I verified root with Root Checker, rebooted the phone, checked again.
Then I followed this method to install TWRP. When I rebooted the device as instructed, it got stuck on a splashscreen that has and Android logo and says "Downloading...Do not turn off target!!" :'(
The upper left in red says "Could not do normal boot. ODIN MODE"
I tried a battery pull, vol dwn + power, vol up + power and vol down + up + power.
How do I get back to normal boot or into TWRP recovery? I have a ROM I'd like to install, and as of now...it won't get past that splash screen.
What do I do?
Thanks!
First off youre in the wrong section. Questions go in the Q and A section. Second your on the me7 ota and you cant install a custom recovery/roms on the me7 ota. To get your phone booting again you will have to flash the stock recovery (not sure if someone has posted a stock recovery flashable via odin as I havent looked)or flash me7 again.
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First off youre in the wrong section. Questions go in the Q and A section. Second your on the me7 ota and you cant install a custom recovery/roms on the me7 ota. Not yet at least. I havent ran into this problem myself so I dont know an exact fix. To get your phone booting again you will have to flash the stock recovery (not sure if someone has posted a stock recovery flashable via odin as I havent looked)or flash me7 again (which will work without a doubt).
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Where was there a note about ROMS not working on ME7. I didn't see that anywhere.
Regardless, how do I fix it?
dreamliner330 said:
Where was there a note about ROMS not working on ME7. I didn't see that anywhere.
Regardless, how do I fix it?
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In the thread about the me7 update.
Also in the 500 or so threads where people freaked out when they couldn't ROM anymore after they took the update.
Or in the bounty thread.
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^I didn't update.
dreamliner330 said:
^I didn't update.
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if your on me7 then you updated..
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Check this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2301259
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elliwigy said:
if your on me7 then you updated..
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I didn't. Perhaps it automatically did it or it was updated when I got it, as I don't recall manually doing it.
Regardless. What do I do now?
I already posted how to fix it ............ if you dont know how to restore your phone via odin then you have a small amount of reading to do and then your phone will be back up and running in no time :thumbup:
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dreamliner330 said:
I didn't. Perhaps it automatically did it or it was updated when I got it, as I don't recall manually doing it.
Regardless. What do I do now?
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There are reports of it doing it over night.
To fix the phone find the full me7 Odin package and Odin it back to stock. Id link you but I have had no reason to have links for me7 packages yet.
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dreamliner330 said:
Regardless. What do I do now?
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I had this same problem trying to install TWRP. What I did to fix it was to boot into download mode (volume down + home +power) and then I got prompted for did I really want to do that, I responded no and the phone booted up.
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thornev said:
I had this same problem trying to install TWRP. What I did to fix it was to boot into download mode (volume down + home +power) and then I got prompted for did I really want to do that, I responded no and the phone booted up.
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Thank you. :victory:
This worked perfectly.
Hopefully it'll won't fall back into that. Can't wait until I can ROM this sucker. Laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaag.
Since you have the update, boot the phone up in Odin mode and plug in your USB cable.
If you installed the desktop software you will have a Verizon folder in your start menu.
In that folder there should be an app "Verizon Software Upgrade Utility"
Run that and it should tell you you are up to date.
There is a repair utility within that app, run that and it should fix your problem.
It takes a while because it downloads the rom and then flashes it.
No guarantees, but I believe that will get you back to stock unrooted.
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Sounds like he just got into download mode and didn't recognize it, and his rom, recovery, and everything was untouched.
To the OP, you're probably good if your phone has booted normally, works fine, and you're still rooted. You can't flash any roms or mods, but you can still apply some mods by simply pushing them to your /system partition, setting permissions, and rebooting. Either follow the instructions for which directory to put the file/files in, or you can open up a flashable zip and use the same path as the directories in the zip.
You should even be able to push a modded framework-res.apk and SystemUI.apk and rename the old ones, once people start building ME7 roms, though I can't guarantee it'll work. All you can do is try, and now you know how to get into Download mode to use Odin if it doesn't work.
As far as plain lag goes, just freeze alot of the bloat, there's around 50 apks (in MDK, anyway) that aren't doing anyone any good. Then grab a cpu app like Trickster Mod and see what, if any, parameters the stock kernel enables you to change. If you can set the Interactive cpu governor, Deadline scheduler, Performance gpu governor, and increase the read-ahead size, you should see a significant improvement.
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im trying to boot in to recovery on my s4 <sch-i545> to flash cyanogenmod the method i use is vol up & home & power. im able to boot back in the stock rom by turning it back off and plugging it back in to the pc then holding down volume down. when i try it again it pops up with the same thing: system software not authorized by verizon...
what do i need to do to boot in to recovery to install the cm 10.2 rom?
ps im fallowing the steps layed ot for me on the cyanogenmod wiki /Install_CM_for_jfltevzw sorry i cant post the link because im new -ish to the forums
You are probably on the ME7 build. No custom recovery is available for ME7
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JaeKay said:
You are probably on the ME7 build. No custom recovery is available for ME7
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so you can root the phone but you cant rom it?
jlgevo said:
so you can root the phone but you cant rom it?
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Correct
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jlgevo said:
so you can root the phone but you cant rom it?
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I suggest taking a look at the safestrap thread in the general section. Hashcode is working on a method for me7 romming. Its a wip at the moment. Also take a look at xposed framework and the wanam module on the play store. Youll atleast be able to do some general customization. I use it and its pretty damn awesome.
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hexitnow said:
I suggest taking a look at the safestrap thread in the general section. Hashcode is working on a method for me7 romming. Its a wip at the moment. Also take a look at xposed framework and the wanam module on the play store. Youll atleast be able to do some general customization. I use it and its pretty damn awesome.
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yeah i did that last week and had alot of fun with that; i was hoping to try out cyanogenmod this weekend
ive sense screwed up my phone ( i was going to take a picture of the boot screen but my tablet which ive never used to take a picture with before wont connect to the camera )
my phone now says:
firmware update encountered
an issue. please select
recovery mode in Kies and try again.
Of course it wants my serial number which i cant get because the phone wont boot, not to mention that its verizon and they dont put ther serial number on the back of the phone.... so i guess ill have to call verizon; Foook me!
jlgevo said:
yeah i did that last week and had alot of fun with that; i was hoping to try out cyanogenmod this weekend
ive sense screwed up my phone ( i was going to take a picture of the boot screen but my tablet which ive never used to take a picture with before wont connect to the camera )
my phone now says:
firmware update encountered
an issue. please select
recovery mode in Kies and try again.
Of course it wants my serial number which i cant get because the phone wont boot, not to mention that its verizon and they dont put ther serial number on the back of the phone.... so i guess ill have to call verizon; Foook me!
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Try THIS out. This should get you back up and running.
haza12d said:
Try THIS out. This should get you back up and running.
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ill give it a shot. i called verizon and they couldn't get me out of the screen either even after consulting samsung. im not saying i expected much but they couldn't even pull up my serial number in their system......
well it didn't work, so i made this photo....
life...
Don't mean to jack the thread, but I've got a related question.
While rooting my friends phone I attempted to flash a recovery... But the phone is on ME7 so it obviously didn't work. Now there's no working recovery. With that, can't do a factory reset because it boots to the Odin screen on reboot.
Any way to reflash the stock recovery?
Picolini said:
Don't mean to jack the thread, but I've got a related question.
While rooting my friends phone I attempted to flash a recovery... But the phone is on ME7 so it obviously didn't work. Now there's no working recovery. With that, can't do a factory reset because it boots to the Odin screen on reboot.
Any way to reflash the stock recovery?
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There was some stock recocery images posted here on the forums but I dont have links. If you cant find them you coulf always reflash the stock me7 image via odin. If you have apps and their data you dont want removed there is also no wipe stock images as well. Both are posted in the dev section.
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Picolini said:
Don't mean to jack the thread, but I've got a related question.
While rooting my friends phone I attempted to flash a recovery... But the phone is on ME7 so it obviously didn't work. Now there's no working recovery. With that, can't do a factory reset because it boots to the Odin screen on reboot.
Any way to reflash the stock recovery?
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try this out
haza12d said:
Try THIS out. This should get you back up and running.
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