Hey guys Im trying to get my rooted and ROM'ed ME7 Galaxy S4 back to barebone stock as Im trying to sell the phone.
What things have I done to my phone?
Ive rooted my ME7 S4 and then loaed Safestrap recovery and installed a custom rom on slot 1
Now in the process of trying to get my phone back to stock I did a wipe from safestrap on the stock rom slot which reset the stock rom I then booted from the stock rom n downloaded safestrap and was able to uninstal safestrap so now my phone boot up to a fresh clean s4 without any safestrap recovery splash screen
however my problem is in order to sell my phone I have to be able to do a reset from the settings then accounts tab and backup and reset button
however when I do this the phone reboots and has the Could not do normal boot error odin mode
I assume since I removed the safestrap recovery there is no recovery software at all now?
Can anyone tell me how I can get stock recovery back onto my phone and heres the kicker if at all possible to do so without the use of a PC as I currently dont have access to one but if thats the only way still pkease let me know how I can get stock recovery back
Also im not really concern with unrooting the phone as long as I can get back into the stock recovery. Also if anyone is wondering yes I can install safestrap again and it will boot up like how I had my rooted n rom setup
I just need to get my stock recovery back so I can do factory data resets using the stock recovery n not the wipe method from safestrap recovery
thanks for any help
Hamann5 said:
Hey guys Im trying to get my rooted and ROM'ed ME7 Galaxy S4 back to barebone stock as Im trying to sell the phone.
What things have I done to my phone?
Ive rooted my ME7 S4 and then loaed Safestrap recovery and installed a custom rom on slot 1
Now in the process of trying to get my phone back to stock I did a wipe from safestrap on the stock rom slot which reset the stock rom I then booted from the stock rom n downloaded safestrap and was able to uninstal safestrap so now my phone boot up to a fresh clean s4 without any safestrap recovery splash screen
however my problem is in order to sell my phone I have to be able to do a reset from the settings then accounts tab and backup and reset button
however when I do this the phone reboots and has the Could not do normal boot error odin mode
I assume since I removed the safestrap recovery there is no recovery software at all now?
Can anyone tell me how I can get stock recovery back onto my phone and heres the kicker if at all possible to do so without the use of a PC as I currently dont have access to one but if thats the only way still pkease let me know how I can get stock recovery back
Also im not really concern with unrooting the phone as long as I can get back into the stock recovery. Also if anyone is wondering yes I can install safestrap again and it will boot up like how I had my rooted n rom setup
I just need to get my stock recovery back so I can do factory data resets using the stock recovery n not the wipe method from safestrap recovery
thanks for any help
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If you're going to sell it, plug it in to your PC and run the Verizon Recovery Assistant. It'll wipe and reinstall for you.
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I was attempting to flash a custom recovery before I caught wind that the vruame7 was a hard cookie to crumble and killed my recovery, is there anyway to get a recovery back on the phone so it can at least be updated?
leaddore said:
I was attempting to flash a custom recovery before I caught wind that the vruame7 was a hard cookie to crumble and killed my recovery, is there anyway to get a recovery back on the phone so it can at least be updated?
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The ME7 bootloader won't let you flash a custom recovery - the stock recovery is still installed.
However, the attempt to flash the custom recovery set a flag that forces the device to boot into downloader mode.
The way to get out of this is to flash a stock ROM on top. I'd try the no-wipe ME7 ROM, then if that fails, the full-wipe.
(I'd suggest the Verizon recovery assistant for that.) Just be aware of the fact that the full wipe will cause you to lose everything on your phone.
k1mu said:
The ME7 bootloader won't let you flash a custom recovery - the stock recovery is still installed.
However, the attempt to flash the custom recovery set a flag that forces the device to boot into downloader mode.
The way to get out of this is to flash a stock ROM on top. I'd try the no-wipe ME7 ROM, then if that fails, the full-wipe.
(I'd suggest the Verizon recovery assistant for that.) Just be aware of the fact that the full wipe will cause you to lose everything on your phone.
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Thanks for the advice, downloading the required things now. Hopefully I will get everything back to normal.
I did the exact same thing as you Leaddore.. you will be just fine following the above directions.
So, I need to get back to pure stock, un-everything, however, I have a problem standing in my way:
I have SafeStrap installed (3.62 if I recall correctly), but I had to recover a bad install and now I can't even boot into SafeStrap anymore but the still boots into the Cyanogenmod ROM I installed. I have ME7 installed on my stock partition. Is there anyway I can force the phone to boot into SafeStrap, or boot into my stock partition, or update through Loki?
Edit: So I installed SafeStrap 3.65 and discovered that I recovered my Cyanogenmod install onto my stock ROM partition. Not sure if this is bad or not... :/
Edit 2: Okay... I found my old SD card with my original ME7 backup on it, so I'm back to that. Now I need to uninstall a bad Clockworkmod install because it's preventing me from updating.
spendle said:
So, I need to get back to pure stock, un-everything, however, I have a problem standing in my way:
I have SafeStrap installed (3.62 if I recall correctly), but I had to recover a bad install and now I can't even boot into SafeStrap anymore but the still boots into the Cyanogenmod ROM I installed. I have ME7 installed on my stock partition. Is there anyway I can force the phone to boot into SafeStrap, or boot into my stock partition, or update through Loki?
Edit: So I installed SafeStrap 3.65 and discovered that I recovered my Cyanogenmod install onto my stock ROM partition. Not sure if this is bad or not... :/
Edit 2: Okay... I found my old SD card with my original ME7 backup on it, so I'm back to that. Now I need to uninstall a bad Clockworkmod install because it's preventing me from updating.
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odin you stock full wipe firmware
why did you install cyanogen mod with safestrap? you cannot do that lol.
but anyways. Yes use odin and use stock firmware tar to recover fully to stock.
I'm using a MK2 Verizon Galaxy S4, which is rooted, with Eclipse ROM installed via Safestrap on the stock rom slot. Back when I first rooted my phone I made the stupid mistake of trying to install a custom recovery, which apparently borked my stock recovery. Thankfully with Safestrap I was still able to boot my phone and install Eclipse, which I've enjoyed using. Now I would like to Odin back to stock so that I might try using KitKat roms, but I'm worried that a full-wipe Odin might not replace my borked recovery, and would therefore completely brick my phone. Will Odin restore the stock recovery and reset everything to stock, or should I stay with what I have?
Halcyon522 said:
I'm using a MK2 Verizon Galaxy S4, which is rooted, with Eclipse ROM installed via Safestrap on the stock rom slot. Back when I first rooted my phone I made the stupid mistake of trying to install a custom recovery, which apparently borked my stock recovery. Thankfully with Safestrap I was still able to boot my phone and install Eclipse, which I've enjoyed using. Now I would like to Odin back to stock so that I might try using KitKat roms, but I'm worried that a full-wipe Odin might not replace my borked recovery, and would therefore completely brick my phone. Will Odin restore the stock recovery and reset everything to stock, or should I stay with what I have?
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Odin will restore everything to stock, no worries. In fact, if you have a borked recovery, Odin is exactly what you should use to replace it.
Brilliant! Thanks for the swift and helpful reply.
Well here's the story..... So I want to install a custom ROM via SS, the install goes without issue. (I'm running stock NK1 Rooted at the time) I go to install a ROM , and It fails, so I go to reboot the device, and Its back into a bootloop. No big deal, iv'e delt with this before... .I attempt to flash it back to stock NC5 to root it and start over, the flash succeeds, but when I try to boot it i just get the "Samsung Galaxy S4" logo and it sits there doing nothing, and I cant boot into recovery for some reason, just goes back to ODIN mode. Is there anything that can be done?
Alex_Tisler said:
Well here's the story..... So I want to install a custom ROM via SS, the install goes without issue. (I'm running stock NK1 Rooted at the time) I go to install a ROM , and It fails, so I go to reboot the device, and Its back into a bootloop. No big deal, iv'e delt with this before... .I attempt to flash it back to stock NC5 to root it and start over, the flash succeeds, but when I try to boot it i just get the "Samsung Galaxy S4" logo and it sits there doing nothing, and I cant boot into recovery for some reason, just goes back to ODIN mode. Is there anything that can be done?
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Try a reflash via Odin. It may help. Which image are you flashing?
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Selling my galaxy S4 which is running cm12.1 rom and the guy who bought it wants me to keep it on cm and keep the bootloader on the mdk build.
for some reason i thought it would be a good idea to go into the phone, go to backup and recovery area and do a factory reset. the phone rebooted, and now its just looping at the TWRP screen. it just flashes it every few seconds, doesn't seem to be rebooting the phone, just recovery. if i pull the battery and throw it back in, phone will try and boot back into recovery and I have the same issue.
is there a way to reflash TWRP via odin? or even clockwork mod? just need something to get into recovery with or how else can i fix this? I really want to avoid doing an odin flash back to stock MDK, then rerooting and then reflashing a cm12.1 rom.