Hi all,
So I did an Odin using the MJ7 No-wipe file and everything went good. I updated to MK2 via OTA and all went good. So I re-rooted using Saferoot and all went good. Then I installed Safestrap and things were fine. But then I went to flash HD RLS12, I used the Safestrap version and ran the setup. then installed the MK2 Moduels and then reboot... here is where problems started. I couldnt get pass the my phone to go past the Samsung Custom screen. So i thought, ok i'll just Odin back to stock like I did before. So I run Odin with MJ7 No-wipe file and it says Pass. The phone starts to boot up but I notice its showing the Samsung Custom Screen then the phone just shuts off. I pull the battery and power on and still the Samsung Custom Screen and the phone shuts off. and this is where im at...
I tried to Odin again, and again it says pass... But still the same problem...
any thoughts? Suggestions? HELP!
Thanks in advance....
Did you try the full wipe yet
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joshuabg said:
Did you try the full wipe yet
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Not yet, I'm going to try it when i get home. I'm going to do the Full Odin with Wipe. Hopefully this will fix it.
deeznuts808 said:
Hi all,
So I did an Odin using the MJ7 No-wipe file and everything went good. I updated to MK2 via OTA and all went good. So I re-rooted using Saferoot and all went good. Then I installed Safestrap and things were fine. But then I went to flash HD RLS12, I used the Safestrap version and ran the setup. then installed the MK2 Moduels and then reboot... here is where problems started. I couldnt get pass the my phone to go past the Samsung Custom screen. So i thought, ok i'll just Odin back to stock like I did before. So I run Odin with MJ7 No-wipe file and it says Pass. The phone starts to boot up but I notice its showing the Samsung Custom Screen then the phone just shuts off. I pull the battery and power on and still the Samsung Custom Screen and the phone shuts off. and this is where im at...
I tried to Odin again, and again it says pass... But still the same problem...
any thoughts? Suggestions? HELP!
Thanks in advance....
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Use Safestrap to boot the stock slot, then start over.
The most common cause of what you're seeing is that you flashed the NON-SAFESTRAP version of HD. I did that. Twice.
If you flashed HD over your stock ROM, you must recover by re-flashing a stock ROM. Then, do NOT flash over the stock.
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Hi all, I am in urgent need of some help...
I got my GS4 when it first came out back in May. It was the VRUAMDK build. I used ODIN and motochopper to get it rooted, eventually got CM going and have been using it ever since.
Today I was playing around flashing different nightlies of CM11. I went to restore from a backup, but it error'd out and said it couldn't restore /data. I rebooted anyway and it hung on the CM logo for about 10 minutes. I tried a wipe/restore again and the same thing happened. I should note that since updating to CWM 6.x.x.x from (I think?) 2.x.x.x I hadn't attempted a restore from backup, but I know that restore worked on CWM 2.
So anyway I went to this thread - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2301259
Followed the instructions, similar to when I first rooted my phone, and flashed the 99% factory image with Odin. It "worked" ie no errors but upon reboot my phone hangs on the Verizon logo. It gets through the Samsung boot logo but will just sit at the Verizon logo. Not frozen because the logo is shimmering.
At this point I have no idea what to do. Help?
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Hi all, I am in urgent need of some help...
I got my GS4 when it first came out back in May. It was the VRUAMDK build. I used ODIN and motochopper to get it rooted, eventually got CM going and have been using it ever since.
Today I was playing around flashing different nightlies of CM11. I went to restore from a backup, but it error'd out and said it couldn't restore /data. I rebooted anyway and it hung on the CM logo for about 10 minutes. I tried a wipe/restore again and the same thing happened. I should note that since updating to CWM 6.x.x.x from (I think?) 2.x.x.x I hadn't attempted a restore from backup, but I know that restore worked on CWM 2.
So anyway I went to this thread - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2301259
Followed the instructions, similar to when I first rooted my phone, and flashed the 99% factory image with Odin. It "worked" ie no errors but upon reboot my phone hangs on the Verizon logo. It gets through the Samsung boot logo but will just sit at the Verizon logo. Not frozen because the logo is shimmering.
At this point I have no idea what to do. Help?
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so i just got done using odin for my phone however i did not have mdk. im on mk2. i figured i really needed my phone like now so i just went and used the full wipe. if you really want everything back then i really dont know what else you could do because i myself didnt for my device.
if youre willing to do full wipe you can go ahead and do this : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2289325
Marshmellow92 said:
so i just got done using odin for my phone however i did not have mdk. im on mk2. i figured i really needed my phone like now so i just went and used the full wipe. if you really want everything back then i really dont know what else you could do because i myself didnt for my device.
if youre willing to do full wipe you can go ahead and do this : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2289325
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Yeah, I'm currently downloading that. Crossing my fingers that it works...
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Yeah, I'm currently downloading that. Will be crossing my fingers that it works...
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good luck!
also you can just re root and everything after its done.
Marshmellow92 said:
good luck!
also you can just re root and everything after its done.
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Yeah, I'm not too worried about having to go through all that.. I should be able to restore apps from my external SD, I would think...
Did you have the same problem? Completely soft bricked and needed a full wipe? I'm a bit worried that the 99% wipe didn't work.
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Yeah, I'm not too worried about having to go through all that.. I should be able to restore apps from my external SD, I would think...
Did you have the same problem? Completely soft bricked and needed a full wipe? I'm a bit worried that the 99% wipe didn't work.
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no i had SS and i installed a rom in default slot. (went full retard) and rom had way to many problems so i just did that.
Well, I flashed a full factory image and my phone still hangs on the Verizon screen.
Please, can somebody help?
Edit: Oh FFS it hung there for like a full minute or two before booting. FINALLY. I WIN
griffsterb said:
Well, I flashed a full factory image and my phone still hangs on the Verizon screen.
Please, can somebody help?
Edit: Oh FFS it hung there for like a full minute or two before booting. FINALLY. I WIN
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How did you re-root/recovery after the odin to MDK?
I have the MDK bootloader, but I've never had to odin back to stock.
Oishikatta said:
How did you re-root/recovery after the odin to MDK?
I have the MDK bootloader, but I've never had to odin back to stock.
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The same way as when I first got my phone. I Odin'd the pre-release MD2 kernel, used motochopper to grant root access and install SuperSU, Odin'd back to MDK, then downloaded GooManager to install TWRP.
*Odin back MDK kernel... Not full factory image. Just clarifying
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I have a s4 running nc5 with ss and eclipse ROM I went to flash giglies chaos ROM last night and did nothing out of the ordinary just looking for the most stock aosp look and it wouldn't boot after the fact so I booted into recovery and factory reset the phone and after that is stuck at the Samsung galaxy s4 splash screen. I've tried flashing the nc5 full wipe tar and even downgrading back tomk2 to just go from there but Odin gives !e an error after doing anything even selectung the file to flash. It is Odin 1.09 idk if that has anything to do with it but please help I need my phone up and running again :\
Do you have root still?
MaXaZoR said:
Do you have root still?
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No idea phone doesn't boot past "Samsung galaxy s4" splash screen
Can you get into download mode?
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I'd try using odin 3.09, it works for me
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Not sure how to resolve your problem but I'm pretty sure u can't use aosp roms with safestrap
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JTSDeveloper said:
I have a s4 running nc5 with ss and eclipse ROM I went to flash giglies chaos ROM last night and did nothing out of the ordinary just looking for the most stock aosp look and it wouldn't boot after the fact so I booted into recovery and factory reset the phone and after that is stuck at the Samsung galaxy s4 splash screen. I've tried flashing the nc5 full wipe tar and even downgrading back tomk2 to just go from there but Odin gives !e an error after doing anything even selectung the file to flash. It is Odin 1.09 idk if that has anything to do with it but please help I need my phone up and running again :\
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The thread on Chaos warns that some theme choices could cause a bootloop and to wipe reflash if that is the case, for future reference. I would do as someone else suggested and get the newest version of odin. There is no reason why the full wipe method found here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2735172 should not work. You could also try a different USB cable and a different port on your computer.
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I was rooted and on hyperdrive rls19 and everything was ok accept the dialer would not switch calls on call waiting. Rls20 came out so I figured I would give it a shot maybe it would fix the issue. It didn't... So I asked a question about it in the hyperdrive help section. It was suggested to install a dialer app for touch wiz. which seemed to install but did nothing. So last night I bit the bullet and did a full wipe install of Hyperdrive. Which didn't go well. Could not get back into android. Constant app crashing and issues. Out comes Odin with a pit file and 4.4.2 flash. Seems like it is back to stock.
Now for the issues. towelrooted and grabbed twrp manager to install recovery. It will not install recovery. Everytime I try to get into recovery even holding down up home and power it just goes to downloading. I am so at wits end!!! Please help!
jspector said:
I was rooted and on hyperdrive rls19 and everything was ok accept the dialer would not switch calls on call waiting. Rls20 came out so I figured I would give it a shot maybe it would fix the issue. It didn't... So I asked a question about it in the hyperdrive help section. It was suggested to install a dialer app for touch wiz. which seemed to install but did nothing. So last night I bit the bullet and did a full wipe install of Hyperdrive. Which didn't go well. Could not get back into android. Constant app crashing and issues. Out comes Odin with a pit file and 4.4.2 flash. Seems like it is back to stock.
Now for the issues. towelrooted and grabbed twrp manager to install recovery. It will not install recovery. Everytime I try to get into recovery even holding down up home and power it just goes to downloading. I am so at wits end!!! Please help!
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What build are you on? If it's anything after MDK, you can't install a custom recovery because of the locked bootloader. Your only option is Safestrap.
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What build are you on? If it's anything after MDK, you can't install a custom recovery because of the locked bootloader. Your only option is Safestrap.
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vfrufnc5 I believe!
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vfrufnc5 I believe!
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Then your only option is Safestrap. No custom recoveries.
How did you install RLS 19? Were you MDK before you used Odin?
riker147 said:
Then your only option is Safestrap. No custom recoveries.
How did you install RLS 19? Were you MDK before you used Odin?
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I used safestrap to install RLS19. The problem I was having is every time I went into recovery it would 1st go into the downloading screen. and I would have to power and down volume to get to reboot and goto safestrap. Did I maybe odin in the wrong version when I fixed it last night? I cannot get Bluetooth working today at all.
jspector said:
I used safestrap to install RLS19. The problem I was having is every time I went into recovery it would 1st go into the downloading screen. and I would have to power and down volume to get to reboot and goto safestrap. Did I maybe odin in the wrong version when I fixed it last night? I cannot get Bluetooth working today at all.
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How are you trying to get into recovery? Pretty sure the only way to do that with Safestrap is through the app itself.
As far as your Bluetooth issues, I have no idea. What file did you flash with Odin?
riker147 said:
How are you trying to get into recovery? Pretty sure the only way to do that with Safestrap is through the app itself.
As far as your Bluetooth issues, I have no idea. What file did you flash with Odin?
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Download: VRUFNC5 Full-Wipe SCH-I545_VZW_1_20140330160240_8il17ls9o2_fac.zip
MD5: 8a22dd4a47c2c5f890227fd952657d38
That is the file I flashed in odin with pit file. I am not sure what I was in before.
Okay so here is what happened.. I download a gpe rom for verizon galaxy s4 using these download links (link). I went to safestrap and did a factory reset. Then I flashed the rom. Then I flashed loki-doki. When I rebooted my phone got stuck in boot. It stayed there for like an hour. So I went back to safe strap and and did a factory reset and rebooted. It stayed on the gpe rom. So I went to safestrap again, did a factory reset and flashed hyperdrive rls 20 (I was on this before). After I was done with that it went to the hyperdrive boot animation. It stayed there for like an hour. So I downloaded the stock firmware for my phone (link). I went to odin and flashed it. It failed. Now my phone says problem during firmware upgrade or something like that. Tried again it failed. I don't know what to do. Can someone please help?
Thank you!
Matthew2D said:
Okay so here is what happened.. I download a gpe rom for verizon galaxy s4 using these download links (link). I went to safestrap and did a factory reset. Then I flashed the rom. Then I flashed loki-doki. When I rebooted my phone got stuck in boot. It stayed there for like an hour. So I went back to safe strap and and did a factory reset and rebooted. It stayed on the gpe rom. So I went to safestrap again, did a factory reset and flashed hyperdrive rls 20 (I was on this before). After I was done with that it went to the hyperdrive boot animation. It stayed there for like an hour. So I downloaded the stock firmware for my phone (link). I went to odin and flashed it. It failed. Now my phone says problem during firmware upgrade or something like that. Tried again it failed. I don't know what to do. Can someone please help?
Thank you!
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Try this file. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2735172. Use the full wipe.
For future references, you can't use loki-doki with safestrap. ONLY tw based roms.
Okay thanks! Letting that download. Will get back to you.
Raymondlikesroot said:
Try this file. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2735172. Use the full wipe.
For future references, you can't use loki-doki with safestrap. ONLY tw based roms.
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It failed instantly.
Can anyone help? I need to get my phone working.
Matthew2D said:
Can anyone help? I need to get my phone working.
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Sure you gave a good download? Did you check MD5? Are you using the cable that came with the phone? Try a different USB port?
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Sure you gave a good download? Did you check MD5? Are you using the cable that came with the phone? Try a different USB port?
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How do I check the MD5?. Im using the cable that came with the phone. I didn't try a different port. I'll do that.
Matthew2D said:
How do I check the MD5?. Im using the cable that came with the phone. I didn't try a different port. I'll do that.
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I use an MD5 checker. Did a Google search and found WinMD5. There are other options.
It worked. I tried another USB port. Thanks for all of ya'lls help
Hello all!
I recently flashed HyperDrive RLS 21 onto my s4, I originally had problems getting this to work on my phone. What I had to do was take my phone from it's NK1 kernel and flash it down to NC5 via Odin and then install HD and all modules. I then having trouble getting my stock ROM to run, I imagine this is due to the fact that it was now on NC5 and not it's natural NK1.
So what I did was flash it BACK to NK1 in order to retrieve my contacts. Upon rebooting and entering Safestrap then booting into my HD ROM slot, my phone got stuck on the Galaxy S4 boot logo. So I then tried wiping cache, this did nothing. So I then wiped data/factory reset in recovery mode then tried using Odin to put NK1 back on it. This has done nothing as I am still stuck on the boot logo.
I believe all I have to do is get back to Safestrap and factory wipe the HD ROM slot and reflash the stock ROM back to NC5.
Any help is appreciated!
Niotic said:
Hello all!
I recently flashed HyperDrive RLS 21 onto my s4, I originally had problems getting this to work on my phone. What I had to do was take my phone from it's NK1 kernel and flash it down to NC5 via Odin and then install HD and all modules. I then having trouble getting my stock ROM to run, I imagine this is due to the fact that it was now on NC5 and not it's natural NK1.
So what I did was flash it BACK to NK1 in order to retrieve my contacts. Upon rebooting and entering Safestrap then booting into my HD ROM slot, my phone got stuck on the Galaxy S4 boot logo. So I then tried wiping cache, this did nothing. So I then wiped data/factory reset in recovery mode then tried using Odin to put NK1 back on it. This has done nothing as I am still stuck on the boot logo.
I believe all I have to do is get back to Safestrap and factory wipe the HD ROM slot and reflash the stock ROM back to NC5.
Any help is appreciated!
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Odin(Full Wipe) to nc5, then safestrap and do RLS21(with HyperdriveUI). I am on pure nc5 and I do weekly installs... and nc5 full wipes. You have to put the ROM in the stock slot, not any other slot.
XxD34THxX said:
Odin(Full Wipe) to nc5, then safestrap and do RLS21(with HyperdriveUI). I am on pure nc5 and I do weekly installs... and nc5 full wipes. You have to put the ROM in the stock slot, not any other slot.
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What i ended up doing was using Kies to full wipe and upgrade to newest firmware (5.0.1). I believe I can just Odin down to NC5 now and do the entire rooting process over again then install HD into the stock slot.
Also, what do you mean when you say that you do weekly installs and full NC5 wipes?
Niotic said:
What i ended up doing was using Kies to full wipe and upgrade to newest firmware (5.0.1). I believe I can just Odin down to NC5 now and do the entire rooting process over again then install HD into the stock slot.
Also, what do you mean when you say that you do weekly installs and full NC5 wipes?
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You may have already discovered this but you can't downgrade back to kk once you take the official lollipop upgrade
rrrrrrredbelly said:
You may have already discovered this but you can't downgrade back to kk once you take the official lollipop upgrade
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I JUST now found this out! Well that sucks a lot. I didn't take the update via OTA but via Kies, I think I already know the answer here but does that change anything?
Niotic said:
I JUST now found this out! Well that sucks a lot. I didn't take the update via OTA but via Kies, I think I already know the answer here but does that change anything?
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You're right, you already know the answer
rrrrrrredbelly said:
You're right, you already know the answer
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Son of a gun, well I guess I will have to be patient
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Thanks anyways!
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Son of a gun, well I guess I will have to be patient
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Thanks anyways!
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Patient for a downgrade method? Most likely will never happen. A physical qFuse has been blown.