Hey guys, long time lurker, couple time poster here. I'm going to try my best to explain what's going on. A while back I rooted and installed a custom ROM on my Verizon S4. It had some data issues so I dabbled with it for a while, managed to brick it once, finally got it up and running again. LTE was still an issue so I took it to Verizon and played dumb hoping to just get a new phone. They called tech support and managed to get it running as normal.
Fast forward to tonight. I decided to get adventurous again and re-root my phone. However after I installed TWRP via GooManager (also tried CWRM after I ran into trouble) I tried rebooting to recovery to flash a custom ROM and recovery appears to not exist. It instead boots straight into Download Mode. I tried installing TWRP via Odin, that Failed. Now with every reboot it goes straight to Download Mode. My only remedy to boot the phone is to attempt to boot into Download Mode then proceed to cancel. I have tried re-flashing CWRM and TWRP numerous times. Below is the text available on the Download Mode screen. Any ideas on how I can regain Recovery? Please let me know if there are any additional details I can provide.
Download Mode text
Could not do normal boot.
ODIN Mode
Product Name: SCH-I545
Current Binary: Samsung Official
System Status: Official
CSB-Config-LSB: 0x30
Write Protection: Enable
PUstudentNDfan said:
Hey guys, long time lurker, couple time poster here. I'm going to try my best to explain what's going on. A while back I rooted and installed a custom ROM on my Verizon S4. It had some data issues so I dabbled with it for a while, managed to brick it once, finally got it up and running again. LTE was still an issue so I took it to Verizon and played dumb hoping to just get a new phone. They called tech support and managed to get it running as normal.
Fast forward to tonight. I decided to get adventurous again and re-root my phone. However after I installed TWRP via GooManager (also tried CWRM after I ran into trouble) I tried rebooting to recovery to flash a custom ROM and recovery appears to not exist. It instead boots straight into Download Mode. I tried installing TWRP via Odin, that Failed. Now with every reboot it goes straight to Download Mode. My only remedy to boot the phone is to attempt to boot into Download Mode then proceed to cancel. I have tried re-flashing CWRM and TWRP numerous times. Below is the text available on the Download Mode screen. Any ideas on how I can regain Recovery? Please let me know if there are any additional details I can provide.
Download Mode text
Could not do normal boot.
ODIN Mode
Product Name: SCH-I545
Current Binary: Samsung Official
System Status: Official
CSB-Config-LSB: 0x30
Write Protection: Enable
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You're probably running release VRUAME7, which means that you can't successfully flash an updated recovery using ODIN.
Grab the stock no-wipe ME7 image and flash that using ODIN. That'll get you out of download mode.
The no-wipe images are at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2301259
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I got my new S4 yesterday, rooted, then froze some apps. Last night I figured why not delete those apps, now my phone won't boot.
And apparently the Verizon S4 is the only S4 to not have a firmware on Samsung's site for flashing with ODIN:
http://samsung-updates.com/device/?id=SCH-I545
Sadly I haven't installed a custom recovery yet, and the boot process doesn't get far enough for me to use adb to flash a custom recovery. I can access the standard android recovery and ODIN (bootloader?) mode though.
Does anybody have any ideas?
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Found this, hoping for the best:
http://www.sxtpdevelopers.com/showthread.php?t=237
So I'd been having some problems lately with my phone hanging on the Samsung screen on boot. Been running CM11 1/1/2014 nightly most recently. Decided to try using TWRP instead of CWM. That didn't seem to help my issue, so I tried installing CWM again. I used an app called Recovery Tools to download the touch version of CWM. After it said it installed, I tried to boot into recovery and got the error "Unauthorized software found. Please contact Verizon." (paraphrased a little).
Doing some research it looks like that error typically comes up when the bootloader is locked. Now, obviously I had my bootloader unlocked (well, Loki'd) because I was running CM11. Any help fixing this? I'm able to bypass the warning screen on boot if I hold down vol up + power like I'm going into download mode, but then hit vol down to cancel to boot up the phone. Once booted everything is ok, but any reboot just brings that up again. Using ROM manager to flash CWM recovery seems to work ok and it says its installed, but same issue. So does trying to flash TWRP from Goo.
If I were to run this tool that I used to root and loki before (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2301720) to install a recovery, would I be able to get everything going again? I think that somehow the recovery I installed wasn't Loki'd, although I picked the right one for my device.
Thank you in advance for any replies.
The fix I found was by pure dumb luck. I ended up trying to flash a recovery with Odin. Odin failed but reboot back into the os. I then used the twrp manager app from the playstore (mainly because goomanager wasn't downloading the recovery at the time) to flash the latest twrp recovery and all was good. Even though Odin failed at flashing the recovery I still think it helped somehow. I haven't thought much about why but I might have to now.
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You could probably try using ODIN to get back to stock MDK and then Re-Root and install a recovery after.
Edit: And then flash CM11 again.
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Will this one-click stock ROM work?
http://www.rwilco12.com/downloads.p... S4 (Verizon) (SCH-I545)/Stock ROMs/One-Click
or, which of the files on this page are what I would want? (about 1/3 of the way down for SCH-I545)
http://www.droidviews.com/how-to-install-latest-official-firmware-on-samsung-galaxy-s4-all-models/
I was actually able to reflash TWRP w/ their app from the Play Store. Still get a lot of boot hangs on the Samsung logo though. Seemed to happen less with CWM, but now I'm too scared to try to install a different recovery. I appreciate all your help guys.
I probably shouldn't have even attempted this without more info, apparently, but I wanted to give Cyanogenmod and lolipop a try, so I sort of blundered ahead and now Im soft bricked at the "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue." screen.
So, basically first I tried to update TWRP from 2.7 to 2.8.5 via TWRP updater on the play store. It rebooted and didn't take, so I went and proceeded with installing Cyanogenmod via 2.7 TWRP, wiped the pertinent caches and such, and the flash seemed to take, but when I rebooted, I couldn't get passed the Galaxy S4 screen and I had weird brief flickering when I rebooted to try to get it working again, which it never did.
At this point, I just figured I would flash the backup I made prior to trying to install Cyanogen, but that flash failed and I was stuck at Odin, with no option to boot into recovery.
Here is where I probably screwed things up even more, as I didnt realise there was a specific ROM I was supposed to flash from Odin, so I've tried and failed to flash a bunch of stock images I've found online, none of which appear to be the right one. Im stopping here and deferring to the forum for some help, hopefully. Apologies if this is a common thing, but my searchings haven't turned up anything I can use, and Im afraid to screw up my phone more.
The last image I tried to flash was this:
SCH-I545_VZW_1_20130613171315_24s13crny1_fac
Odin got to aboot.mdn and then failed, with this message
<ID:0/004> FAIL! (Auth)
<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 1)
the ODIN screen on my phone reads
PRODUCT NAME: SCH-I545
CURRENT BINARY: Samsung Official
SYSTEM STATUS: Official
KNOX KERNEL LOCK: 0x0
KNOX WARRANTY VOID: 0x0
CSB-CONFIG-LSB: 0x30
WRITE PROTECTION: Enable
EMAC BURST MODE: enabled
START [224,1440]
SW REV, CHECK FAIL : fused : 6(or possibly 8? it looks more like a 6 though), Binary : 3
Also, I wasn't aware I needed a PIT file, so at this point I pretty much need every relevant file and detailed instructions on what to do. Apologies for my noobishness, this is the first time in 5 years I've needed this much help flashing a ROM... =(
Thanks in advance!
Edit: The problem was indeed that I was trying to flash an older ROM onto my phone. For the stupid inclined, always check what baseband model your phone is before flashing a stock image. If you're locked out of the OS, you can find this on the sticker on the side of the box your phone came it, under the listing "s/w" version, the last three characters will tell you what baseband version your phone shipped with.
Beginning to see where I went wrong in Odin, as I've been trying to flash earlier android versions. Downloading an NC5 factory image now, Will report back.
Christ, Im an idiot.
mort_subite said:
I probably shouldn't have even attempted this without more info, apparently, but I wanted to give Cyanogenmod and lolipop a try, so I sort of blundered ahead and now Im soft bricked at the "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue." screen.
So, basically first I tried to update TWRP from 2.7 to 2.8.5 via TWRP updater on the play store. It rebooted and didn't take, so I went and proceeded with installing Cyanogenmod via 2.7 TWRP, wiped the pertinent caches and such, and the flash seemed to take, but when I rebooted, I couldn't get passed the Galaxy S4 screen and I had weird brief flickering when I rebooted to try to get it working again, which it never did.
At this point, I just figured I would flash the backup I made prior to trying to install Cyanogen, but that flash failed and I was stuck at Odin, with no option to boot into recovery.
Here is where I probably screwed things up even more, as I didnt realise there was a specific ROM I was supposed to flash from Odin, so I've tried and failed to flash a bunch of stock images I've found online, none of which appear to be the right one. Im stopping here and deferring to the forum for some help, hopefully. Apologies if this is a common thing, but my searchings haven't turned up anything I can use, and Im afraid to screw up my phone more.
The last image I tried to flash was this:
SCH-I545_VZW_1_20130613171315_24s13crny1_fac
Odin got to aboot.mdn and then failed, with this message
<ID:0/004> FAIL! (Auth)
<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 1)
the ODIN screen on my phone reads
PRODUCT NAME: SCH-I545
CURRENT BINARY: Samsung Official
SYSTEM STATUS: Official
KNOX KERNEL LOCK: 0x0
KNOX WARRANTY VOID: 0x0
CSB-CONFIG-LSB: 0x30
WRITE PROTECTION: Enable
EMAC BURST MODE: enabled
START [224,1440]
SW REV, CHECK FAIL : fused : 6(or possibly 8? it looks more like a 6 though), Binary : 3
Also, I wasn't aware I needed a PIT file, so at this point I pretty much need every relevant file and detailed instructions on what to do. Apologies for my noobishness, this is the first time in 5 years I've needed this much help flashing a ROM... =(
Thanks in advance!
Edit: The problem was indeed that I was trying to flash an older ROM onto my phone. For the stupid inclined, always check what baseband model your phone is before flashing a stock image. If you're locked out of the OS, you can find this on the sticker on the side of the box your phone came it, under the listing "s/w" version, the last three characters will tell you what baseband version your phone shipped with.
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My phone stuck in download mode because i install twrp from twrp manager apk. Now it cannot go to recovery or to OS, just download mode.. I have tried to odin some recovery & ROM but no luck..
octantcomp said:
My phone stuck in download mode because i install twrp from twrp manager apk. Now it cannot go to recovery or to OS, just download mode.. I have tried to odin some recovery & ROM but no luck..
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I had the same problem. I tried to update to 2.8.5.0 via TWRP's Play Store app and got a soft brick. Couldn't get to OS or into TWRP recovery. The phone was stuck at "Booting into recovery" blue text.
This is a common problem: http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s4-verizon/help/q-twrp-2-8-5-0-t3029191
You'll notice you can only download 2.8.4.0 on TWRP's official website: http://dl.twrp.me/jfltevzw/
I figured I lost the bootloader and the OS since I could only get into download mode. Worst case scenario, I could push the Verizon MDK image again, and push loki'd TWRP recovery back into bootloader with dd command in terminal.
I was in major 'screw it' mode. So I put the phone into download mode and fired up Odin. I tried to push the TWRP 2.8.4.0 tar for the jfltexx firmware via the "bootloader" field. I know the Odin mode isn't compatible with jfltevzw and it did say "failed" as expected, however on reboot I didn't get stuck at the "Booting into recovery" blue text. Everything was intact. Somehow, it fixed the bootloader/recovery on my device.
Once into the OS, I reflashed the jfltevzw img 2.8.4.0 using the "dd" mode in terminal. I didn't want to give it a chance to get stuck at the blue text again on reboot: http://twrp.me/devices/samsunggalaxys4verizon.html
Hope it helps someone!
Hi, I have a GS4 (SCH-I545) and I tried to get TWRP and then CyangenMod, so I rooted my phone, used ROM Manager to get TWRP, rebooted into recovery, only to get the stock recovery. So I tried Flashify, rebooted, but got the Verizon warning screen, so then I used the workaround to get back in to my phone. I then tried again but then I couldn't get bacl into a recovery mode, just odin mode with "Could not do normal boot" in the top left. So I did the workaround again, I then figured something was wrong with the bootloader, so I used Flashify to flash "a-boot.img" hoping it would work, now I can't get into recovery mode, can't get into Android, can't even charge my phone, the odin mode will always come on, I can go intpo normal odin mode though, but that's it, I can't do anything on my phone, only go into odin mode, so I guess I've bricked my phone. What should I do?
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Hi, I have a GS4 (SCH-I545) and I tried to get TWRP and then CyangenMod, so I rooted my phone, used ROM Manager to get TWRP, rebooted into recovery, only to get the stock recovery. So I tried Flashify, rebooted, but got the Verizon warning screen, so then I used the workaround to get back in to my phone. I then tried again but then I couldn't get bacl into a recovery mode, just odin mode with "Could not do normal boot" in the top left. So I did the workaround again, I then figured something was wrong with the bootloader, so I used Flashify to flash "a-boot.img" hoping it would work, now I can't get into recovery mode, can't get into Android, can't even charge my phone, the odin mode will always come on, I can go intpo normal odin mode though, but that's it, I can't do anything on my phone, only go into odin mode, so I guess I've bricked my phone. What should I do?
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Well, first of all, if your galaxy didn't have the MDK bootloader (first version of firmware, android 4.2.2) you are not able to get CM nor Recovery (CWM, TWRP...), because Verizon locked the bootloader in all the other versions. If you touched our "lovely" bootloader you could have messed up your device, but you can get into download mode so you should try downloading a stock rom equal or newer to the android version you used to have before you bricked your device (you cannot downgrade your phone), if that doesn't work you can try Samsung Smart Switch to repair it.
Okay ill try downloadig a stock rom, but I don't really know how to do it, got any links telling how?
Well, we can't point you to a stock ROM to odin with. You can't just simply Odin back to MDK. That has been blocked off by a physical qfuse, which will further mess up your device. Can you get into download mode and tell us what version do you have?
All download mode says is this: odin mode
Product name: SCH-I545
Current binary: Samsung Official
System status: custom
CSB-CONFIG-LSB: 0x30
Write protection: Enable
eMMC BURST MODE enabled
Nothing about the version
Id say the version I have was later than 4.2.2 considering I couldn't get a recovery working, the previous owner updated it some time in early 2014 maybe june so any version of KitKat later than that might work
Hello all,
Recently I bought the S8 Plus and I want to sell my S6 Edge, so I wanted to clean it first before actually selling it.
I rooted my phone before, I can't remember how or what software I used, I have a feeling it was Odin,
anyway, I cleaned up my phone by doing a factory reset from within Android's settings.
Since that moment, my phone is stuck in TWRP's Recovery mode.
I have multiple stock roms, but Odin is not able to make a connection with the phone, because I can't get into boot mode.
I've also read things about ADB Sideload, but that freezes up my phone.
Then I read about some command line to type in via the terminal, but that didn't work either.
Also trying to install stuck roms didn't do anything.
Does anyone have an idea how I can get my phone back into bootmode so I can load up Odin and put a stock rom on it?
Any help is greatly appreciated
Ghrane
Ghrane said:
Hello all,
Recently I bought the S8 Plus and I want to sell my S6 Edge, so I wanted to clean it first before actually selling it.
I rooted my phone before, I can't remember how or what software I used, I have a feeling it was Odin,
anyway, I cleaned up my phone by doing a factory reset from within Android's settings.
Since that moment, my phone is stuck in TWRP's Recovery mode.
I have multiple stock roms, but Odin is not able to make a connection with the phone, because I can't get into boot mode.
I've also read things about ADB Sideload, but that freezes up my phone.
Then I read about some command line to type in via the terminal, but that didn't work either.
Also trying to install stuck roms didn't do anything.
Does anyone have an idea how I can get my phone back into bootmode so I can load up Odin and put a stock rom on it?
Any help is greatly appreciated
Ghrane
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hi try flashing a custom ROM again with a kernel option carhd ROM has stock kernel in aroma .leave thanks with the developer.
hope this helps.regards.
I don't really understand that, got any clear information?
Ghrane
Ghrane said:
I don't really understand that, got any clear information?
Ghrane
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Boot to Download from TWRP Recovery (Reboot - select - Download)
Fire-up Odin, flash one of your multiple stock roms.
02xda2 said:
Boot to Download from TWRP Recovery (Reboot - select - Download)
Fire-up Odin, flash one of your multiple stock roms.
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That doesn't work either.
If I select Download, my phones freezes up.
Update:
I managed to update TWRP, making me able to go back to Download mode!
But, once I tried Odin to flash a stock rom, it failed.
Also, my KNOX Warrenty Void is set '1'.
Am I still able to install any roms or get this KNOX fixed?
Ghrane
If you have a PC, use samsung smart switch to re-initialize your device.
And you can not do anything for tripped knox.