I recently bought a new GS4 SCH-i545
Well i got it friday from Verizon, and had it rooted by Saturday. By Sunday I wanted my iphone back, so i wanted to reclaim warranty. Used Odin3 and the stock firmware for my device, and hit start and it failed. My phone is stuck at the Update with Kies, and I can get it into download mode. Thing is I've tried a a bunch of stock firmwares for my phone model and none of them work (Also I tried ODin 3 185 3.07 and 3.09). I'm at a stand still and any help will be greatly appreciated. Feel free to ask for anymore information that I may have left out.
I rooted with Safe Root,
video I followed is on youtube titled:
Galaxy S4 Build MK2 and MJ7 root instructions
Thanks
Drevangough said:
I recently bought a new GS4 SCH-i545
Well i got it friday from Verizon, and had it rooted by Saturday. By Sunday I wanted my iphone back, so i wanted to reclaim warranty. Used Odin3 and the stock firmware for my device, and hit start and it failed. My phone is stuck at the Update with Kies, and I can get it into download mode. Thing is I've tried a a bunch of stock firmwares for my phone model and none of them work (Also I tried ODin 3 185 3.07 and 3.09). I'm at a stand still and any help will be greatly appreciated. Feel free to ask for anymore information that I may have left out.
I rooted with Safe Root,
video I followed is on youtube titled:
Galaxy S4 Build MK2 and MJ7 root instructions
Thanks
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You try going into stock recovery and clearing cache and factory data reset?
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Hi,
I recently J Tagged my galaxy S4 Verizon and it came back to me with these specs:
ME7 stock Rooted Rom
Android 4.2.2
Base band
I545VRUAME7
Safe Strap 3.64 TWPR v 2.6.3.1
Hyperdrive ROM ver 10
I tried to use ODIN to re-flash to stock ROM VRUAMDK_Nowipe_tar_md5. So that I may be able to update to the new Hyperdriver ROM and it didn't turn out as planned.
HERE IS WHAT I DID:
I just turned off the phone.
Installed Samsung drivers on PC
Down loaded the TAR file loaded it in to ODIN and hit PDA and let it do its thing.
I've tried this several times and every times it ends in a FAIL.
I can put the phone into download mode but that it nothing past that.
Some times I get the message to connect it to KIES as it need missing files. I did that too and KIES takes forever to search for the S4 and cannot find it.
The drivers are installed the PC recognizes the phone. But KIES does not.
The guy who J tagged it said that he froze the system apk SDM 1.0 to stop OTA.
Does any one know how to help me get out of this predicament? I would really appreciate the help and guidance.
Thanks in advance!
radiskull1973 said:
Hi,
I recently J Tagged my galaxy S4 Verizon and it came back to me with these specs:
ME7 stock Rooted Rom
Android 4.2.2
Base band
I545VRUAME7
Safe Strap 3.64 TWPR v 2.6.3.1
Hyperdrive ROM ver 10
I tried to use ODIN to re-flash to stock ROM VRUAMDK_Nowipe_tar_md5. So that I may be able to update to the new Hyperdriver ROM and it didn't turn out as planned.
HERE IS WHAT I DID:
I just turned off the phone.
Installed Samsung drivers on PC
Down loaded the TAR file loaded it in to ODIN and hit PDA and let it do its thing.
I've tried this several times and every times it ends in a FAIL.
I can put the phone into download mode but that it nothing past that.
Some times I get the message to connect it to KIES as it need missing files. I did that too and KIES takes forever to search for the S4 and cannot find it.
The drivers are installed the PC recognizes the phone. But KIES does not.
The guy who J tagged it said that he froze the system apk SDM 1.0 to stop OTA.
Does any one know how to help me get out of this predicament? I would really appreciate the help and guidance.
Thanks in advance!
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You can't revert to older firmware. It's been posted over and over. If you were on ME7 then you have to get a ME7 Tar file and use Odin to flash that. After that, if you want Hyperdrive RLS 12, you would have to update to MJ7 (or MK2), then install Safestrap 3.70.
You have a lot of reading to do. I suggest you take your time and do your research.
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ME7 TAR
riker147 said:
You can't revert to older firmware. It's been posted over and over. If you were on ME7 then you have to get a ME7 Tar file and use Odin to flash that. After that, if you want Hyperdrive RLS 12, you would have to update to MJ7 (or MK2), then install Safestrap 3.70.
You have a lot of reading to do. I suggest you take your time and do your research.
Sent from my NCC 1701 Using Tapatalk 4
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Hey thanks for the reply, you're right I should have done some more reading. I managed to start the phone but it's running real sluggish. I've done several searches for a ME7 TAR file to use with ODIN but I can't fine any thing. You happen to know of a link that could help me out. Appreciate it.
Sorry for the bother!
radiskull1973 said:
Hey thanks for the reply, you're right I should have done some more reading. I managed to start the phone but it's running real sluggish. I've done several searches for a ME7 TAR file to use with ODIN but I can't fine any thing. You happen to know of a link that could help me out. Appreciate it.
Sorry for the bother!
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Quick search found this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2301259. Take your time and read everything before you jump in. Good luck.
Should I OTA now??
riker147 said:
Quick search found this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2301259. Take your time and read everything before you jump in. Good luck.
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Thanks so much for the help and the links they really saved the day. I managed to follow instruction closely and installed stock ME7 through ODIN and rooted the phone.
Should I go ahead and do a OTA update or will lock me down and keep me from installing custom ROM?
radiskull1973 said:
Thanks so much for the help and the links they really saved the day. I managed to follow instruction closely and installed stock ME7 through ODIN and rooted the phone.
Should I go ahead and do a OTA update or will lock me down and keep me from installing custom ROM?
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You can currently root any of the I545 versions, so updating is not prohibited. You'll need to decide if it's worthwhile.
None of the versions later than MDK will allow you to install a custom recovery. Also, Custom ROMs are limited and installed using Safestrap, only Touchwiz compatible. No AOSP or CM.
What exactly does j-tag do on an S4?
J Tag
Schoat333 said:
What exactly does j-tag do on an S4?
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I just going to repeat things like a parrot because I'm new to all of this. I flashed the wrong ROM, meaning ROM meant for another model other than my phone which is a SCH-I545. That ruins the EMMC chip that has all the booting up information. At this point the phone is HARD BRICKED. In J TAG they use a certain device after disassembling the phone and re install necessary software to bring it back to life and save the phone, so you don't have to throw it away. Man folks of Ebay offer this service for around $30 not a bad deal. Made my phone run pretty good as new.
I need some help here, I've been out of the game since ICS came out for the Droid X, the S3 is my first Samsung phone so I'm new to Odin/Kies whatever. Anyway I tried to root my S3 (Sprint version running on Ting, Android 4.3) through Odin and I soft bricked it, it went to the Kies recovery screen but neither Kies nor Kies3 recognize it. I decided to just reflash stock Sprint 4.3 via Odin, after some initial trouble finding a .tar I finally found one here on XDA that was prerooted, this one didn't work, gave an error, so I went looking for a true Sprint 4.3 .tar. I found this one: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2565972 It failed the md5 check and the thread mentioned it was corrupted, so I tried downloading the fixed version another user had uploaded to mediafire, after 3 tries and gettting an "unknown network error" 3/4 way through I gave up.
So I've been without a phone for 2 weeks now, and I'm up against a wall. I have no idea where to go from here. Could someone give me a link to a confirmed working 4.3 .tar with instructions on how to proceed?
FrontierProject said:
I need some help here, I've been out of the game since ICS came out for the Droid X, the S3 is my first Samsung phone so I'm new to Odin/Kies whatever. Anyway I tried to root my S3 (Sprint version running on Ting, Android 4.3) through Odin and I soft bricked it, it went to the Kies recovery screen but neither Kies nor Kies3 recognize it. I decided to just reflash stock Sprint 4.3 via Odin, after some initial trouble finding a .tar I finally found one here on XDA that was prerooted, this one didn't work, gave an error, so I went looking for a true Sprint 4.3 .tar. I found this one: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2565972 It failed the md5 check and the thread mentioned it was corrupted, so I tried downloading the fixed version another user had uploaded to mediafire, after 3 tries and gettting an "unknown network error" 3/4 way through I gave up.
So I've been without a phone for 2 weeks now, and I'm up against a wall. I have no idea where to go from here. Could someone give me a link to a confirmed working 4.3 .tar with instructions on how to proceed?
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Try downloading the ROM from here - http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/
Using Odin, install it. These are official firmwares, not rooted, completely stock.
FrontierProject said:
I need some help here, I've been out of the game since ICS came out for the Droid X, the S3 is my first Samsung phone so I'm new to Odin/Kies whatever. Anyway I tried to root my S3 (Sprint version running on Ting, Android 4.3) through Odin and I soft bricked it, it went to the Kies recovery screen but neither Kies nor Kies3 recognize it. I decided to just reflash stock Sprint 4.3 via Odin, after some initial trouble finding a .tar I finally found one here on XDA that was prerooted, this one didn't work, gave an error, so I went looking for a true Sprint 4.3 .tar. I found this one: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2565972 It failed the md5 check and the thread mentioned it was corrupted, so I tried downloading the fixed version another user had uploaded to mediafire, after 3 tries and gettting an "unknown network error" 3/4 way through I gave up.
So I've been without a phone for 2 weeks now, and I'm up against a wall. I have no idea where to go from here. Could someone give me a link to a confirmed working 4.3 .tar with instructions on how to proceed?
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I think this is the firmware your looking for. Scroll to the bottom of the page! http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/1/?model=SPH-L710&pcode=0#firmware
FrontierProject said:
I need some help here, I've been out of the game since ICS came out for the Droid X, the S3 is my first Samsung phone so I'm new to Odin/Kies whatever. Anyway I tried to root my S3 (Sprint version running on Ting, Android 4.3) through Odin and I soft bricked it, it went to the Kies recovery screen but neither Kies nor Kies3 recognize it. I decided to just reflash stock Sprint 4.3 via Odin, after some initial trouble finding a .tar I finally found one here on XDA that was prerooted, this one didn't work, gave an error, so I went looking for a true Sprint 4.3 .tar. I found this one: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2565972 It failed the md5 check and the thread mentioned it was corrupted, so I tried downloading the fixed version another user had uploaded to mediafire, after 3 tries and gettting an "unknown network error" 3/4 way through I gave up.
So I've been without a phone for 2 weeks now, and I'm up against a wall. I have no idea where to go from here. Could someone give me a link to a confirmed working 4.3 .tar with instructions on how to proceed?
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This is not a sprint forum .
See sticky top of the page .
Ok I desperately need some help here. I first got my Note 2 February of last year and quickly rooted it and loaded up Scott's Clean Rom (whichever version was available at the time). I kept going through the updates for Clean Rom and had no issues and was still running Clean Rom until a few weeks ago. Since he was no longer making updates to it I decided just to return to stock since I didn't need root capabilities anymore. I went through the steps in this post, [GUIDE][VZW Edition]How to Root/Rom/Return to Stock the VZW Galaxy Note II! to flash the Official VRAMC3 4.1.2 update to return to stock and had no issues. Everything worked perfectly for several days. Then a friend of mine let me borrow his Note 3 out since I was thinking about buying one. While I had the Note 3, he accepted the latest factory update on my Note 2. Now I'm soft bricked, hopefully not hard bricked.
When I boot up the phone it just sits on the Galaxy Note 2 logo. I can't get into recovery but I can still get into Odin mode. I first tried using Odin to flash the pit file to repartition the phone, and even though I knew it probably wouldn't work I then tried loading the Official VRAMC3 4.1.2 update again. Of course it failed. I've tried multiple times since then to load the Official 4.3 updates, even the newest one that just came out a few days ago. No matter what I have tried I still cannot get the phone to load past the Galaxy Note 2 logo or get into recovery. Also when I go into Odin Mode here is exactly what it reads.
PRODUCT NAME: SCH-1605
CUSTOM BINARY DOWNLOAD: No
CURRENT BINARY: Samsung Official
SYSTEM STATUS: Official
KNOX WARRANTY VOID: 0
AP SWREV: A2
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I can't buy the Note 3 like I want to until I'm able to fix and sell this phone, so I'm currently stuck using my old HTC Thunderbolt that barely runs at this point. Thanks in advance!!
xashaffer said:
Ok I desperately need some help here. I first got my Note 2 February of last year and quickly rooted it and loaded up Scott's Clean Rom (whichever version was available at the time). I kept going through the updates for Clean Rom and had no issues and was still running Clean Rom until a few weeks ago. Since he was no longer making updates to it I decided just to return to stock since I didn't need root capabilities anymore. I went through the steps in this post, [GUIDE][VZW Edition]How to Root/Rom/Return to Stock the VZW Galaxy Note II! to flash the Official VRAMC3 4.1.2 update to return to stock and had no issues. Everything worked perfectly for several days. Then a friend of mine let me borrow his Note 3 out since I was thinking about buying one. While I had the Note 3, he accepted the latest factory update on my Note 2. Now I'm soft bricked, hopefully not hard bricked.
When I boot up the phone it just sits on the Galaxy Note 2 logo. I can't get into recovery but I can still get into Odin mode. I first tried using Odin to flash the pit file to repartition the phone, and even though I knew it probably wouldn't work I then tried loading the Official VRAMC3 4.1.2 update again. Of course it failed. I've tried multiple times since then to load the Official 4.3 updates, even the newest one that just came out a few days ago. No matter what I have tried I still cannot get the phone to load past the Galaxy Note 2 logo or get into recovery. Also when I go into Odin Mode here is exactly what it reads.
PRODUCT NAME: SCH-1605
CUSTOM BINARY DOWNLOAD: No
CURRENT BINARY: Samsung Official
SYSTEM STATUS: Official
KNOX WARRANTY VOID: 0
AP SWREV: A2
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I can't buy the Note 3 like I want to until I'm able to fix and sell this phone, so I'm currently stuck using my old HTC Thunderbolt that barely runs at this point. Thanks in advance!!
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Did you try to go into Odin and flash this:
VRUEMJ9 4.3- http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23269279319197589(ONLY USE THIS IF YOU TOOK THE 4.3 OTA!! There currently is no bootloader unlock method for 4.3 which means you can no longer flash custom roms, recoveries, or kernels!!!)
with the pit inlcuded.. If not do so.. Then report back.. If you can not get past "Note 2" screen then see, now, if you can get into recovery.. Press UP+HOME+POWER.. and then proceed to do a Factory Reset.
lacoursiere18 said:
Did you try to go into Odin and flash this:
VRUEMJ9 4.3- USE THIS IF YOU TOOK THE 4.3 OTA!! There currently is no bootloader unlock method for 4.3 which means you can no longer flash custom roms, recoveries, or kernels!!!)
with the pit inlcuded.. If not do so.. Then report back.. If you can not get past "Note 2" screen then see, now, if you can get into recovery.. Press UP+HOME+POWER.. and then proceed to do a Factory Reset.
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That was the first thing that I tried and I still could not get pass the logo or get into Recovery. I will try it again though shortly and let you know what happens.
Just tried it. According to Odin everything Passes, but it still won't go past the logo screen and still won't go into recovery. Any other ideas?
It's been 3 days since I had my phone soft bricked. Here's what happened. I had rooted 4.1.2 and my sister accepted OTA when 4.3 (MJ9) came out so I lost my root access. Everything was working fine and I wasn't doing much on my phone so I didn't bother to root it back. 4.3 (VRUAND3) OTA failed on my phone when it came out and I didn't care about it because it was still on 4.3. When 4.4 came out, I decided to do OTA update and everything went fine except when it rebooted. It will pass the samsung logo but when it got to Verizon logo, it was just stuck there. So I searched this forum and tried everything that I found about unbricking the soft bricked phone. All stock roms will fail at sboot.bin except for root66_VZW_stock_system.tar (I did try with and without .pit and I only checked autoreboot F. Reset time) but when I do that then I will get the system software not authorized by Verizon Wireless has been found error (with yellow triangle). Here's the list of stock roms I tried and odin versions.
ROM: root66_VZW_stock_system.tar, I605VZWEMJ9, I605VRALJB, I605VZWAND3 (all with and without .pit)
Odin: 1.85, 3.07, 3.09
The only good thing is that I still have my odin mode and the number of binary didn't change. And I didn't get the knox.....
I really need you guys' expertise... any suggestion will help at this moment... Sorry for the lengthy post I really tried to be specific on what I tried so far.... I'm currently downloading VRAND7 (4.4) and I'm out of the option after I try this one with odin.... Thank you.
gomtingeee said:
It's been 3 days since I had my phone soft bricked. Here's what happened. I had rooted 4.1.2 and my sister accepted OTA when 4.3 (MJ9) came out so I lost my root access. Everything was working fine and I wasn't doing much on my phone so I didn't bother to root it back. 4.3 (VRUAND3) OTA failed on my phone when it came out and I didn't care about it because it was still on 4.3. When 4.4 came out, I decided to do OTA update and everything went fine except when it rebooted. It will pass the samsung logo but when it got to Verizon logo, it was just stuck there. So I searched this forum and tried everything that I found about unbricking the soft bricked phone. All stock roms will fail at sboot.bin except for root66_VZW_stock_system.tar (I did try with and without .pit and I only checked autoreboot F. Reset time) but when I do that then I will get the system software not authorized by Verizon Wireless has been found error (with yellow triangle). Here's the list of stock roms I tried and odin versions.
ROM: root66_VZW_stock_system.tar, I605VZWEMJ9, I605VRALJB, I605VZWAND3 (all with and without .pit)
Odin: 1.85, 3.07, 3.09
The only good thing is that I still have my odin mode and the number of binary didn't change. And I didn't get the knox.....
I really need you guys' expertise... any suggestion will help at this moment... Sorry for the lengthy post I really tried to be specific on what I tried so far.... I'm currently downloading VRAMC3 (4.4) and I'm out of the option after I try this one with odin.... Thank you.
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The reason they all fail at sboot is bc you are attempting to downgrade to fix it..that's not possible.. so here is what you need to do.
Go to Sammobile.com
Go to Firmwares (top of page)
Scroll down to Search
Type "SCH-I605"
Select & download ND7 4.4.2
Flash via Odin w/ pit
It should pass and you will be good to go
Sent from my SCH-I605 using XDA Free mobile app
lacoursiere18 said:
The reason they all fail at sboot is bc you are attempting to downgrade to fix it..that's not possible.. so here is what you need to do.
Go to Sammobile.com
Go to Firmwares (top of page)
Scroll down to Search
Type "SCH-I605"
Select & download ND7 4.4.2
Flash via Odin w/ pit
It should pass and you will be good to go
Sent from my SCH-I605 using XDA Free mobile app
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I saw this post on the development forum [ROM][I605VRUFND7][4.4.2]OFFICIAL STOCK ROOTED ODEX/DEODEX[6/19/2014]
so that rom won't work on mine? just asking out of a curiosity...
gomtingeee said:
I saw this post on the development forum [ROM][I605VRUFND7][4.4.2]OFFICIAL STOCK ROOTED ODEX/DEODEX[6/19/2014]
so that rom won't work on mine? just asking out of a curiosity...
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Nope. You taking the 4.3 and 4.4.2 OTA locked your bootloader.. so therfore no flashing custom roms like that one and I don't believe there is even a root method yet..
Oh okay thank you for your info. I flashed it to 4.4 and it`s working. I`ll wait for the developer`s to come up with the rooting method for 4.4 thank you guys for everything
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So I was on lineage 7.1 when I decided to update TWRP for some reason . Anyway after that my phone only booted to download mode and Unauthorized software warning thingi.
So I thought hmm well I can fix this by going back all the way to VRUAMDK. So I flash VRUAMDK-No-Wipe with odin 3.07 but now get a boot loop at the verizon logo.
Followed this guide:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2301259
My question is, does anyone have the fully stock VRUAMDK firmware? I cant find an active link anywhere. OR Should I just try flashing some available stock firmware and lose my unlocked bootloader?
Really any advice would be welcome.
Thanks!
Edit- after exhaustive searching I have found https://www.rwilco12.com/Files/Devices/Samsung Galaxy S4 (Verizon) (SCH-I545)/Stock ROMs/ with a stock rom that worked. I hope that link helps anyone out there looking for a working mdk rom.