Hey folks... so I've been using SafeStrap on a stock (locked) MJ9 device to run a couple different roms, but I decided to restore my original backup so that I could get the new KK update. Every time I try to do the update, it downloads, reboots, gets about halfway up the progress bar, and then it fails and reboots. Anybody have any ideas what might be causing this or what might fix it? Huge thanks!
Unroot your phone
You may also want to try to flash a stock 4.3 MJ9 rom.
Well, unrooting didn't work, but reflashing the stock MJ9 with Odin did! Thanks folks!
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From what ive read and understand, if you try to flash to 4.3 after already having upgraded to 4.4.2, you will brick your phone or it just wont work? Is this true or not, please help! IF you can flash to a previous OS, can anyone post a link on how to do it the right way or explain how to do this, preaze?
you should be able to flash the stock mj4 .tar thru ODIN once is flash you may get stock on boot screen, go into stock recovery and clear cache and reset data and reboot.
If this dont work you can flash KK .tar and be back at square one.
from what i understand you cant downgrade, it will brick it. But i wonder if you downgrade just the modem if it will have the same issue
no downgrade...........yet hopefully
If you try to flash the stock MJ4 ROM after upgrading to KK, your phone will do nothing but reboot over and over, going no farther than the Galaxy note 3 splash screen. You CAN downgrade just the modem without bricking the phone, but I will tell you that when I did, I lost Wi-Fi. I have had horrible signal strength and signal since moving to KK 4.4.2. Even worse, something I didn't find out until after going to KK, SMS blockers won't work. Apparently there is something with the default messaging app where a notification will get sent no matter what to the default messaging app. So you'll get two notifications. You'll get get one in the blocker program and one in the default messaging app. Way to go Google on not preparing devs better, fail. Anyway, here is a link to a thread where you can get the MJ4 and NAB modems as well as the engineering bootloader. The stock bootloader is there too, but I think merely for entertainment purposes lol Anywho, here's the link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=51165389 As I stated before, I lost Wi-Fi when I flashed MJ4. So just flash MJ4 first, then NAB, and you should see some........some improvement in signal strength.
I am a bit of a noob but I have rooted my sprint note 3 which came out successful. I have rooted my galaxy s3 before in the past and flashed many roms without any issues.
Once I rooted my note 3 I ran the stock rom for a week and then decided to kick it up a notch and flashed the bonsai rom, which worked fine until i discovered the camera didn't work. Before I flashed the bonsai rom, I did a backup of the stock rom via cwm. Once I figured out the camera didn't work with the bonsai rom, I reset and wiped the data for my phone and tried to restore the stock rom which i figured it was a boo boo because I got stuck in a bootloop so I reflashed the bonsai rom back on my phone until I got back home to my pc. At that point, I decided to unroot and return the phone back to stock. I used odin and followed unrooting instructions to a tee and I had an official stock firmware, but odin failed and I think I may have soft bricked my phone. In a panic, I downloaded a "rooted stock" rom and flashed that...after a few bootloops, I updated my cwm recovery and superuser app...and my phone has been working fine every since (whew). I really want to unroot, then re-root and just run the stock rom without flashing any more custom roms, however I am afraid of bricking it again.
I have the stock official firmware N900PVPUBMJ4_N900PSPTBMJ4_N900PVPUBMJ4_HOME.tar.md 5 which to my understanding is android 4.3. I do understand that 4.4 is out. I was wondering is it ok to flash the 4.3 using odin to return my phone back to stock?? I've been spooked ever since my soft brick encounter. Any info will be helpful. Btw, sorry for the long story. I figured I should give all the details. That would help me get to the bottom of it all
Thanks in Advance!
LadyDroid81 said:
I am a bit of a noob but I have rooted my sprint note 3 which came out successful. I have rooted my galaxy s3 before in the past and flashed many roms without any issues.
Once I rooted my note 3 I ran the stock rom for a week and then decided to kick it up a notch and flashed the bonsai rom, which worked fine until i discovered the camera didn't work. Before I flashed the bonsai rom, I did a backup of the stock rom via cwm. Once I figured out the camera didn't work with the bonsai rom, I reset and wiped the data for my phone and tried to restore the stock rom which i figured it was a boo boo because I got stuck in a bootloop so I reflashed the bonsai rom back on my phone until I got back home to my pc. At that point, I decided to unroot and return the phone back to stock. I used odin and followed unrooting instructions to a tee and I had an official stock firmware, but odin failed and I think I may have soft bricked my phone. In a panic, I downloaded a "rooted stock" rom and flashed that...after a few bootloops, I updated my cwm recovery and superuser app...and my phone has been working fine every since (whew). I really want to unroot, then re-root and just run the stock rom without flashing any more custom roms, however I am afraid of bricking it again.
I have the stock official firmware N900PVPUBMJ4_N900PSPTBMJ4_N900PVPUBMJ4_HOME.tar.md 5 which to my understanding is android 4.3. I do understand that 4.4 is out. I was wondering is it ok to flash the 4.3 using odin to return my phone back to stock?? I've been spooked ever since my soft brick encounter. Any info will be helpful. Btw, sorry for the long story. I figured I should give all the details. That would help me get to the bottom of it all
Thanks in Advance!
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Depends on what version you are running, but sounds like you are on mj4 still... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2657828 this one is mj4 (4.3), if you are on 4.4 you need to go to the Android development forum and use whatever version you are on, just look for rwilcos one click.
tonyevo52 said:
Depends on what version you are running, but sounds like you are on mj4 still... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2657828 this one is mj4 (4.3), if you are on 4.4 you need to go to the Android development forum and use whatever version you are on, just look for rwilcos one click.
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Yes...I am still on 4.3.
LadyDroid81 said:
Yes...I am still on 4.3.
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Follow the instructions from this thread and you will be fully unrooted http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2657828:good:
Hey everybody,
First time poster here. So I have an AT&T Galaxy S4 I337 that I have been running Cyanogenmod on for quite a while now. Well, after getting bored and wanting to revert to the original firmware, I went through the process of a factory reset to stock through Odin. Everything went smoothly, all that's left is to update to 4.4.2 Kitkat and to root my phone once again. I went into settings and began the OTA update thinking it would install 4.4.2. After about 20 minutes of updating and downloading, my phone finally finished rebooting, but when I checked to see what version of android I was running, it was still 4.2.2. Kies also says that I'm running the latest firmware. Why won't my phone or Kies pick up the new Kitkat update? Does it have something to do with the fact that I flashed a custom ROM before? I could really use some help!
Thanks!
ViridianFlea said:
Hey everybody,
First time poster here. So I have an AT&T Galaxy S4 I337 that I have been running Cyanogenmod on for quite a while now. Well, after getting bored and wanting to revert to the original firmware, I went through the process of a factory reset to stock through Odin. Everything went smoothly, all that's left is to update to 4.4.2 Kitkat and to root my phone once again. I went into settings and began the OTA update thinking it would install 4.4.2. After about 20 minutes of updating and downloading, my phone finally finished rebooting, but when I checked to see what version of android I was running, it was still 4.2.2. Kies also says that I'm running the latest firmware. Why won't my phone or Kies pick up the new Kitkat update? Does it have something to do with the fact that I flashed a custom ROM before? I could really use some help!
Thanks!
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You can't update directly from 4.2.2 to 4.4.2. You're missing out on a couple of updates in between. But, it doesn't look like you've read a head too much. You can't root 4.4.2 directly. The current method for rooting it involves downgrading back to 4.3, rooting, installing the Safestrap recovery, and using that to install a stock rooted rom. Since you are already on 4.2.2 and can use a custom recovery, it is recommended to install a stock or custom rom and the accompanying modem. Once you go past 4.3, there is no return due to the Knox bootloader deal.
I'm currently running a Verizon galaxy note 2 with jedi X20. I am rooted and have twrp 2.7 installed. Im currently trying to flash I605VRUEMJ9 So I can start installing 4.3 TW roms. however when I flash MJ9 in odin. everything runs fine until odin causes it to restart and it just puts me into recovery. every time so im guessing it never has a chance to finish. It still shows im running 4.1.2. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Timb0king said:
I'm currently running a Verizon galaxy note 2 with jedi X20. I am rooted and have twrp 2.7 installed. Im currently trying to flash I605VRUEMJ9 So I can start installing 4.3 TW roms. however when I flash MJ9 in odin. everything runs fine until odin causes it to restart and it just puts me into recovery. every time so im guessing it never has a chance to finish. It still shows im running 4.1.2. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
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If you're not flashing the pit file with it, try that to see if it will work.
Edit: ... You probably know this, but don't flash the entire 4.3 stock MJ9 ROM or you'll permanently lock your bootloader. Just Odin flash the MJ9 firmware only.
If it keeps failing, you might consider ODIN'ing back to 4.1.2 stock VRAMC3, then running Casual again, then updating your recovery. That would at least give you a clean slate to start with... You might also try a different version of one of the latest recoveries. Hope you got it working.
Good luck!
mattnmag said:
If you're not flashing the pit file with it, try that to see if it will work.
Edit: ... You probably know this, but don't flash the entire 4.3 stock MJ9 ROM or you'll permanently lock your bootloader. Just Odin flash the MJ9 firmware only.
If it keeps failing, you might consider ODIN'ing back to 4.1.2 stock VRAMC3, then running Casual again, then updating your recovery. That would at least give you a clean slate to start with... You might also try a different version of one of the latest recoveries. Hope you got it working.
Good luck!
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Just as an FYI I got it figured out. Turns put it was flashing mj9 and worked but i still had a 4.1.2 rom installed. all I did was use twrp to install meanbeans reborn and now my phone is running 4.3 mj9. Thanks for the help.
I tried to Update to the OC1 update because of problems with getting 4g. I was unsuccessful and soft bricked my phone. It took me a few hours but I was able to odin back to NK1 and get back into TWRP.
Now My base band is stuck in OC1 and causing Gmail to crash and all my apps to crash. Can someone help me figure out how to get my baseband back to NK1?
Reflash using the NK1 package again, this one has just the modem if you want...but better to flash stock again and start over.
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B4RU_ZH5QUASdHE1b2Q2NXpVX0U/edit?usp=docslist_api