Okay, so I have the VZW S4 (obviously) and I'm running VRUDMI1, rooted with Root De La Vega.
I downloaded ROMmanager and Tried to install CWM Recovery, it didn't work.
Then I downloaded GooManager and tried to install TWRP, also didn't work.
Is there another way to install custom recovery or am I to assume this is because the Bootloader has not been unlocked for this firmware?
If this bootloader has been unlocked could I be please be pointed in the right direction?\
Basically, my goal is to install a custom ROM and as far as I know, I need a custom recovery image and in order to do that I need to unlock my bootloader. Am I correct in these assumptions?
Kodaxx said:
Okay, so I have the VZW S4 (obviously) and I'm running VRUDMI1, rooted with Root De La Vega.
I downloaded ROMmanager and Tried to install CWM Recovery, it didn't work.
Then I downloaded GooManager and tried to install TWRP, also didn't work.
Is there another way to install custom recovery or am I to assume this is because the Bootloader has not been unlocked for this firmware?
If this bootloader has been unlocked could I be please be pointed in the right direction?\
Basically, my goal is to install a custom ROM and as far as I know, I need a custom recovery image and in order to do that I need to unlock my bootloader. Am I correct in these assumptions?
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At this time your only option is Safestrap by Hashcode.
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wtherrell said:
At this time your only option is Safestrap by Hashcode.
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And that is a method of "dual-booting" or something right? So essentially, I could boot into a custom ROM but I couldn't overwrite the existing one, forever wasting the space that the original ROM takes up?
Kodaxx said:
And that is a method of "dual-booting" or something right? So essentially, I could boot into a custom ROM but I couldn't overwrite the existing one, forever wasting the space that the original ROM takes up?
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Some have installed a custom ROM into the stock slot. Do a little research and see if that's something you would want to do.
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riker147 said:
Some have installed a custom ROM into the stock slot. Do a little research and see if that's something you would want to do.
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I think I am going to try it, seeing as it is my only option until the bootloader is unlocked for my kernel. Thank you guys so much.
Kodaxx said:
I think I am going to try it, seeing as it is my only option until the bootloader is unlocked for my kernel. Thank you guys so much.
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As long as you understand that you can't flash anything but a Touchwiz ROM. You can't do that if your phone has firmware later than MDK.
No CM. No AOSP. And no, you can't downgrade to MDK firmware.
k1mu said:
As long as you understand that you can't flash anything but a Touchwiz ROM. You can't do that if your phone has firmware later than MDK.
No CM. No AOSP. And no, you can't downgrade to MDK firmware.
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Way to kill my hopes and dreams haha. I hate TouchWiz...
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I was rooted with stock 4.0.3 and unrooted so I could do the OTA update. Now, unrooted, TWRP is interruping the OTA update on the install. How can I remove TWRP?
Thanks!
You aren't fully unrooted.
Also, I would highly suggest just flashing the updated ROM. You should never unroot in order to take an ota and then reroot
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Rxpert said:
You aren't fully unrooted.
Also, I would highly suggest just flashing the updated ROM. You should never unroot in order to take an ota and then reroot
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I've read mixed opinions on this. Many Dev's have said just to unroot using the TWRP, then install the OTA, which is what I tried, and now TWRP opens up in the install process. As far as still being rooted, I cannot do anything that requires root, so I assume I am unrooted.
I prefer to OTA update. I've had too many issues with updated rooted ROM's in the past, so I would rather not flash a ROM.
I dont think removing twrp will do anything for you. You need the stock recovery to flash an OTA. You would need to RUU to stock after relocking your BL and then take the OTA if thats what you wanna do. Unless there is a stock recovery floating around to flash in twrp. In the past for every phone I have every tried you need the stock recovery to flash the OTA update.
aschlect said:
I've read mixed opinions on this. Many Dev's have said just to unroot using the TWRP, then install the OTA, which is what I tried, and now TWRP opens up in the install process. As far as still being rooted, I cannot do anything that requires root, so I assume I am unrooted.
I prefer to OTA update. I've had too many issues with updated rooted ROM's in the past, so I would rather not flash a ROM.
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Bad idea. What Roms are you using? There are fully stock rooted Roms available that the only difference is they are rooted. That is the only coding or programming difference. You are spending a lot of time dong something that doesn't need to be done. You can get everything you need from a stock odexed rooted ROM. Plus you having to wipe the slate clean on your phone each time there is an ota.
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aschlect said:
I was rooted with stock 4.0.3 and unrooted so I could do the OTA update. Now, unrooted, TWRP is interruping the OTA update on the install. How can I remove TWRP?
Thanks!
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Nobody is answering your question because they don't want you to unroot...smh
Just flash the stock recovery. Make sure that first you're on an odexed ROM, then flash the stock recovery, then search for the OTA update and install it.
ms79723 said:
Nobody is answering your question because they don't want you to unroot...smh
Just flash the stock recovery. Make sure that first you're on an odexed ROM, then flash the stock recovery, then search for the OTA update and install it.
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Know anywhere I can find the stock recovery? I'll have to go back and re-root the phone as well, since I am unrooted at this point.
aschlect said:
Know anywhere I can find the stock recovery? I'll have to go back and re-root the phone as well, since I am unrooted at this point.
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If I were you I would just ruu it.
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What recovery do we need to use to flash roms? Do we need to use the recovery that has auto loki? I just want to flash the debloated rom for now.
Thanks
Use the twrp downloaded from the goo.im app. Works great, just have to be rooted and your good to go
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halloween240 said:
Use the twrp downloaded from the goo.im app. Works great, just have to be rooted and your good to go
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Thank you! So I dont need loki tool? Or is already built in? When is loki used?
mps623 said:
Thank you! So I dont need loki tool? Or is already built in? When is loki used?
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Loki is a tool for the rom and custom recovery developers. As a consumer of roms you just need to make sure the rom you use has mentioned it has loki applied (and have a loki patched recovery such as TWRP). So yes, built in to what you would use.
I know one recovery was also modified to auto-loki flashed roms? Haven't tried that yet (and all roms are already loki'd right now I believe). May become more common later?
Neuspadrin said:
Loki is a tool for the rom and custom recovery developers. As a consumer of roms you just need to make sure the rom you use has mentioned it has loki applied (and have a loki patched recovery such as TWRP). So yes, built in to what you would use.
I know one recovery was also modified to auto-loki flashed roms? Haven't tried that yet (and all roms are already loki'd right now I believe). May become more common later?
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Loki is the only way to boot up a ROM at this point till a bootloader unlock happens (If it happens). But its great, lots of development already. Even AOSP roms are running pretty stable already, very encouraging.
I'm coming from the S3 world. I've tried searching, but I'm a little confused. To install custom ROM/kernel for the S3 I had to unlock the phone & bootloader, then root & install custom recovery. What are the steps for the S4? It sounds like the bootloader can't be unlocked, but you can still install custom ROMs? Thank you!
Wi1son said:
I'm coming from the S3 world. I've tried searching, but I'm a little confused. To install custom ROM/kernel for the S3 I had to unlock the phone & bootloader, then root & install custom recovery. What are the steps for the S4? It sounds like the bootloader can't be unlocked, but you can still install custom ROMs? Thank you!
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If you have MKE you can flash custom recoveries and ROM's. If you have ME7 search out the Safe Strap posts and flash a compatible ROM, I find Hyperdrive rocks.
Tool Belt said:
If you have MKE you can flash custom recoveries and ROM's. If you have ME7 search out the Safe Strap posts and flash a compatible ROM, I find Hyperdrive rocks.
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Thanks man! For either version, I will have to unlock & root first, right?
--EDIT-- So, do I have this right...I can only install a custom AOSP ROM if I have MDK firmware, which can be unlocked. Can't unlock and install one if on ME7?
Hello My nephew used this method to root his VZW GS4 . He is on stock rom ,now he is getting errors updating Super User binaries and also fails on recovery install. can some please help thank you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiqJbpa9fEM
xan3x said:
Hello My nephew used this method to root his VZW GS4 . He is on stock rom ,now he is getting errors updating Super User binaries and also fails on recovery install. can some please help thank you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiqJbpa9fEM
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Go into settings, click on about phone and tell me what baseband is he on.
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You need to research how to root your specific build. They're not all done the same way. As far as a custom recovery, your ONLY option is Safestrap. I suggest you do a lot of reading before you run into bigger problems.
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Since he's on nk1, he can still downgrade back to nc5. Go to this thread and get the full wipe nc5:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2735172
Hightower24 said:
Since he's on nk1, he can still downgrade back to nc5. Go to this thread and get the full wipe nc5:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2735172
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OK. My baseband says NC5 now, according to plan. Is towelroot my only option? Is safestrap my only recovery option? I thought that if you try to flash a recovery to try a rom when you are rooted with towelroot that it will brick the phone.
xan3x said:
OK. My baseband says NC5 now, according to plan. Is towelroot my only option? Is safestrap my only recovery option? I thought that if you try to flash a recovery to try a rom when you are rooted with towelroot that it will brick the phone.
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I don't know if Towelroot is your only option for root, but it's what I used and it worked fine. As far as recovery, like I said above, Safestrap is your ONLY option.
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xan3x said:
OK. My baseband says NC5 now, according to plan. Is towelroot my only option? Is safestrap my only recovery option? I thought that if you try to flash a recovery to try a rom when you are rooted with towelroot that it will brick the phone.
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We can only use towelroot and safestrap. There are a few good roms in the development section that we can flash. Hyperdrive, echoerom, and Eclipse are solid. There are a few others as well that are closer to stock or are hybrids (aosp feel with TW base). Check out that section and flash only the ones that say are compatible with SS. I'm running echoerom v39.1. Be sure to read all the instructions since some of these roms may have other files that need to be flashed with it. Happy flashing!
Hi all, I have tried several times to install a custom recovery on my i545 but have bricked it each time. I've got so confused with boot versions, LOKI etc etc that I don't know what to do now.
I've included a screen shot of my About page. Can you please point me in the right direction as to what steps to take to install a custom recovery please?
donaldjboyer said:
Hi all, I have tried several times to install a custom recovery on my i545 but have bricked it each time. I've got so confused with boot versions, LOKI etc etc that I don't know what to do now.
I've included a screen shot of my About page. Can you please point me in the right direction as to what steps to take to install a custom recovery please?
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From what i see, you cannot flash a custom recovery as you are not on a MDK bootloader. You are running NC5 which is to say "forget about running a custom recovery or a custom ROM outside of Safestrap."
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From what i see, you cannot flash a custom recovery as you are not on a MDK bootloader. You are running NC5 which is to say "forget about running a custom recovery or a custom ROM outside of Safestrap."
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OK,thanks, so how do I downgrade to MDK?
donaldjboyer said:
OK,thanks, so how do I downgrade to MDK?
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You can downgrade to mk2 or new, but still bootloader is locked, use safestrap 3.72 to flash safestrap compatible rom.
donaldjboyer said:
OK,thanks, so how do I downgrade to MDK?
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You can't downgrade to MDK.
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donaldjboyer said:
Hi all, I have tried several times to install a custom recovery on my i545 but have bricked it each time. I've got so confused with boot versions, LOKI etc etc that I don't know what to do now.
I've included a screen shot of my About page. Can you please point me in the right direction as to what steps to take to install a custom recovery please?
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If you haven't done so anyway, you will need to root using towelroot. You'll also need to get SElinux changer from the play store and set to permissive. Then install safestrap 3.72 and flash roms from the dev section that say are compatible with SS. That is what we're limited to.