Hey guys. Don't know if anyone else had this issue but I tried to flash miui Rom on my s4 from the port hosted on these forums. I am 99% sure I did everything correct but when I booted up I had no service. Tried a few fixes but none worked, tried flashing another Rom that was previously working and still had no service, and I even restored my original stock backup and have no service. I feel it may have been wiping my preloader because this is something I never had to do before. Is there any fix to this or should I restore to stock and unroot to take back?
Thanks ahead of time.
Sounds like you're asking in the wrong place. This is the forum for the GS4 Active.
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How would I restore my Captivate completely back to stock - as if I were to just purchase it and pull it out of the box?
The situation is I uninstalled some apps with titanium backup and it wouldn't let me reinstall them or restore them. My swype lags and freezes the phone, it was actually doing that before I played with the AT&T apps - but now I need to get it back to stock so I can take it in for a replacement. Or, if taking it back to stock would fix swype then things would be fine.
How do I get all the original applications back on the device and get things back to normal so the people at AT&T do not notice it was played with and try and blame the swype issue on me?
I appreciate it!
You can restore the /system directory to stock.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=730887
That is the best we can do until the stock rom comes out.
I had a situation in which i was stuck in FC situation loop...nonstop. Made it to settings and factory reset in between FC's and fixed my problem. Had previously booted into recovery to reset and i believe this to be the source of corruption.
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ODIN from Designgears is the way to go....
My program AIO Captivate tools has the restore to stock option in it. Here's the link.
EDIT: Holy Craptivate! This is an ancient thread.
rockosifraldi said:
ODIN from Designgears is the way to go....
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@rockosifraidi, Why do you keep resurrecting ancient threads? This is your third one...This is just as annoying as someone posting a question in the dev forum....
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Hey,
I have a nexus, but my mate has the note. He is having all sorts of problems with it when it comes to flashing ROMs. I was hoping u smart people here might be able to help
What the problem is, is that only about one in 10 ROMs will install. He flashes the usual way... wipe everything, etc but either gets in a boot loop, or just Samsung comes up on the screen, it disappears and then comes back and this repeats. He has to then pull the battery. Another weird thing is that a ROM that may not have worked a few weeks ago, he tries it again and for some weird reason it works. So far he has never been able to flash an ICS ROM.
Any ideas? I've suggested to him to start completely afresh and use fast boot, etc again, but I'm no expert myself. I've never had any dramas myself with the nexus so this has me completely stumped....
Thanks
Dean
Swiped on my Gnex
Edit: sorry guys, he used Odin, not fast boot.
Maybe he dont follow the instructions correctly
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meminiau said:
Hey,
I have a nexus, but my mate has the note. He is having all sorts of problems with it when it comes to flashing ROMs. I was hoping u smart people here might be able to help
What the problem is, is that only about one in 10 ROMs will install. He flashes the usual way... wipe everything, etc but either gets in a boot loop, or just Samsung comes up on the screen, it disappears and then comes back and this repeats. He has to then pull the battery. Another weird thing is that a ROM that may not have worked a few weeks ago, he tries it again and for some weird reason it works. So far he has never been able to flash an ICS ROM.
Any ideas? I've suggested to him to start completely afresh and use fast boot, etc again, but I'm no expert myself. I've never had any dramas myself with the nexus so this has me completely stumped....
Thanks
Dean
Swiped on my Gnex
Edit: sorry guys, he used Odin, not fast boot.
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What method is he using to flash? If using pc Odin does the flash get stuck at factoryfs. Img?
Was he on ics stock and did he perform any factory resets on it?
If answers are yes, it's likely he's got traces of damage on his emmc chip, but we need to know where the flash is failing to understand further.
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No and no.
His phone came with GB. He downloads the ROMs using his computer then transfers the zip to then flash using CWM recovery.
He has tried lots of different ROMs. He tried to install a new ROM the other day but before doing so he deleted a few ROMs he still had on the SD card. He flashed the new ROM and it didn't work. He freaked coz he didn't do a backup first, but he tried installed the ROMs that were still on the SD card and found them all but one to work, and the one that worked was a ROM that he had tried before but didn't work then, but this time it did work...
What is happening? Is there something he can do?
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meminiau said:
No and no.
His phone came with GB. He downloads the ROMs using his computer then transfers the zip to then flash using CWM recovery.
He has tried lots of different ROMs. He tried to install a new ROM the other day but before doing so he deleted a few ROMs he still had on the SD card. He flashed the new ROM and it didn't work. He freaked coz he didn't do a backup first, but he tried installed the ROMs that were still on the SD card and found them all but one to work, and the one that worked was a ROM that he had tried before but didn't work then, but this time it did work...
What is happening? Is there something he can do?
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Try flashing rom with pc odin instead of cwm.
Check out Dr ketan sticky thread in rom development for directions on how to use pc odin. It's simple.
Let us know how you progress.
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meminiau said:
Hey,
I have a nexus, but my mate has the note. He is having all sorts of problems with it when it comes to flashing ROMs. I was hoping u smart people here might be able to help
What the problem is, is that only about one in 10 ROMs will install. He flashes the usual way... wipe everything, etc but either gets in a boot loop, or just Samsung comes up on the screen, it disappears and then comes back and this repeats. He has to then pull the battery. Another weird thing is that a ROM that may not have worked a few weeks ago, he tries it again and for some weird reason it works. So far he has never been able to flash an ICS ROM.
Any ideas? I've suggested to him to start completely afresh and use fast boot, etc again, but I'm no expert myself. I've never had any dramas myself with the nexus so this has me completely stumped....
Thanks
Dean
Swiped on my Gnex
Edit: sorry guys, he used Odin, not fast boot.
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No problem at all.
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What?????
Swiped on my Gnex
Sounds very odd - only though is he's not following instructions correctly..
Hi folks, got a RAZRi, girlfriend has got one too. I rooted mine okay but her's didn't work out so well, just got stuck at the Unlocked bootloader Disclaimer screen. Couldn't find any stock GB JB roms on here so installed Omar's ROM but the SMS issue is a problem for her (loves it otherwise). However, has just occurred to me that if I did a CWM backup of mine and then restored that to hers, it should work.....or not.....?
Did a search on this and it looks as though in theory it works on other phones (Samsung GS2) but I wasn't sure if the RAZRi was the same or if it had some kind of Motorola evil-ness that ties it to the IMEI number or similar.
Any thoguhts much appreciated.
As far as I understand, transferring backups is how people flashed ROMs on the RAZRi before people started including installers in their ROMs.
Just make a backup of her current ROM. Install (restore) the one you want. And if it doesn't work, just restore her original backup. Nothing lost
Edit: I had the same problem with SMS. The fix was to flash the Motorola stock SMS app. Don't have quick reply, but at least it works. Hope that helps. If I can find you a link, I'll edit this post again.
Edit2: https://www.dropbox.com/s/4axsly6dqmsmv6g/MMSapk_by_shaftenberg.zip
Just flash that in cwm. Replaces the cm10 SMS app with Motorola stock. SMS, MMS both work and no double notifications.
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Thanks for the reply, I had seen and tried that solution but I didn't realise that you had to flash it in CWM- I'd been trying to install the apk extracted from the zip....doh! What a doofus Cheers for your help, sorted now.
Happy to help
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Totally out of the ordinary question but was just wondering. I have flashed many Roms on this phone and every time I do a clean install of a ROM I go through the setup and then get to the screen that says "restore from backup". But it is not recent, it only shows me a backup I did before I modded the phone and installed a customer recovery and ROM and its from 2 months ago. Anyway to fix this that anyone would know? I'd appreciate it
try disabling the back up option then reenable it. i always flash dirty, and dont lose any data or apps :angel:
Yeah when I dirty flash of course things just stay but if I go from ROM to ROM or do a clean install of a ROM it doesn't give me a backup option aside from 40-50 days ago... Any ideas anyone?
Has there been anyone who read this and could help?
There's already a thread on this buried somewhere, but no there's no known fix. My best guess is that it doesn't work on non stock roms.
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I recently purchased a Samsung Note 4 (SM N910T) for from a guy on craigslist after saving up money to buy it, but it keeps turning off out of no where . the phone was having problems before I rooted it, after I rooted it, and after I odin'd the earliest version of kit kat of the phone.. The turning off occurs at any time, during boot, during flashing TWRP, during normal usage of phone, anytime. I recently purchased a brand new OEM Samsung Note 4 Battery and but still has problems. I'm currently on stock DOK2 and still having trouble. Does anybody know what I can do to fix this? I can't contact the original seller anymore
Is it rebooting on its own or shutting off completely?
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Starts rebooting on its own
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Is it rebooting on its own or shutting off completely?
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Reboots on its own
You have messed with kernel now flash stock kk and keep trouble away from you
junejo46726 said:
You have messed with kernel now flash stock kk and keep trouble away from you
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If he's on dok2, likely stuck there and cannot go back to kk. For the op, I think you found why they were selling it..... I would recommend somewhere like swappa.Com over Craigslist.
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Go into TWRP and wipe everything including internal sd. Then boot into download mode and flash the DOK2 firmware in ODIN. it could be the software related. If that doesn't fix it, then it might be hardware. You may have to take the phone apart and see if it's got a lose wire or a fried MB. Water damage can also cause this behavior.
So I have kept my device stock except for SuperSU and Busybox, no kernel flash, or rom flash yet, my question is, has Samsung fixed the issue with deleting NV data when flashing between roms? What I want to do, is flash TWRP and backup my current setup, then I want to unroot it, and back it up so that I can switch back and forth between rooted and stock, because I found out that screen mirroring breaks sometimes when you run the stock rom rooted and I want to know before hand if I need to backup my NV data with QPST before flashing back and forth between these two modes. I know I can do it in the terminal, but i've seen issues on my SGS3 with this being restored in a ROM that was not the one you backed up from, I.e. it seemed almost like the backup in the terminal assigned a unique identifier to the backup so when you flashed a ROM and needed to restore it would say the backup was corrupted, of course while I don't see any reason why the NV data would get destroyed during the process of what I'm trying to do, I just want to be fully prepared, because I'm pretty sure the .QCN generator I have for the SGS3 isn't going to write a new .QCN (NV data file) that is going to work on the note 4 seeing as how there were two or three updates to the .QCN version number for the SGS3.
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