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Non-public froyo build updating issues

My phone is running build FRF33B (googling this build number returned no results at all). It was a non public build. I got the phone from Adobe as part of a (kongregate) promotion to get flash developers to edit some games so they could run on froyo, and hence I really don't know what was done to the phone before I got it (there's an unlocked symbol when it boots, and even though it's a t-mobile nexus I'm using it on AT&T's network).
FRF33B is nice and usable (but full of minor bugs which get irritating after a while), and I'd really like to update to the latest stable build, but it's not receiving any of the OTA updates, and trying to install any manually gives me a package signing verification failure.
Does anyone here know how I can update the phone? Do I need to downgrade it somehow? Do I need to root it? Any help would be appreciated.

Downgrade to erd79 would be my best suggestion and it will update to frf91 I hope that helps and if u need a update zip let me know and I can email it to u
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Or just unlock your phone, put a custom recovery, and install whatever ROM you want. Look at the sticky in the development section for details.

Option 3: Search around for the FRF91 Universal update.zip, copy it to your SD card, and flash it via stock recovery.

rohandhruva said:
Or just unlock your phone, put a custom recovery, and install whatever ROM you want. Look at the sticky in the development section for details.
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ok I've done this, and flashed the universal FRF91, now the phone is stuck on the animated X, is this normal? Do I just have to wait or did I do something wrong?
edit: it looks like it just rebooted itself.... still not getting past the animated x part though
edit: wiped the phone and tried again, now it works... got to set up everything on the phone again though and download my apps again... oh well. thanks for the help

[Q] sgt bootloader patching

good day. may i ask if sgt bootloader patching is supported in version P1000DXKM1? that is the current version of my tab and i want to install a custom rom. thanks

appletech said:
good day. may i ask if sgt bootloader patching is supported in version P1000DXKM1? that is the current version of my tab and i want to install a custom rom. thanks
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Get the patcher app and it will detect automatically

Hello
On this thread > http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=888071
The developer say DO NOT USE THIS ON THE GINGERBREAD RELEASES ! THE SAMSUNG GINGERBREAD RELEASES DO HAVE SIGNED BOOTLOADERS, BUT THEY ARE NOT LOCKED. In other words, you can still flash custom kernels and such, and the bootloader patch will only break things, not fix them.
Yes, in red.
Unfortunately I've do it (wasn't specified on the tutorial where I have found the application, anyway).
No big problem, Tablet still booting, but the tab boot whit some coloured wire on screen, like it gonna crash and something bad gonna happen, it look like it's broken. But after that, finally, Android is loaded, and everything seem ok.
But well, when I have load the application on my device and run it the 1st time, it seem it have do a backup of original bootloader.
So, any way to replace patched bootloader whit original? Or, tell me if there's no need because I will flash my tab whit Stock FW and after that Kratos ROM (and maybe it will reflash the bootloader to original). Exactly what will be flashed is:
Rom Stock V5 (001001-GB-stock-safe_v5
002001-Overcome_Kernel_v3.3.1.tar
ROM Overcome 3.1.0 KRATOS Wipe edition
In this order, all with Odin I think.
Oh and yes, download mode is ok, but recovery one isn't (I mean, at least I can't see it if it's work or not when I boot in this mode, because of the weird coloured lines).

Ok, I've re-flashed whit stock gingerbread ROM (like my tab was a Froyo one or else), bootloader erased whit the original signed one, everything is fine

[Q] I can't root S5830 GB 2.3.6

Hi, I have many problems at a time lol. First of all, I bought this phone 'cause it was so cheap and it works fine for my mom. The problem is, I think I was scammed because the phone allows emergency calls only. I tested with many chips but they don't work, so I guess I'll have to find a solution for that (imei unlocking with z3x maybe?). Also, I don't know if the phone is branded. I think it's not, because it starts with other chips, but the bootscreen is still from the original company (don't know how to change it).
Okay, now that you know the conditions of the phone, I wanna ask if the phone being imei blocked affects on wether I can root it or not, cause I tried many many root files on CWM 5, but nothing happens. Some of them say that the process was completed, but I type "su" in the terminal and it says "not found". Also, I downloaded root checkers and they say the phone's not rooted. The roots I remember are universal_gb_root_v25, v23b, upd_1 and Root_Cooper. I am desperate, please help.
Also, I updated the firmware with Kies (can't remember old firmware), so now I have GB 2.3.6. I don't know if Kies might have screwed it up. I've also noticed that most people have a baseband ending in something like KT8, but mine is different... I remember I had to change the baseband on my Xperia X8 to unlock bootloader, but I know nothing about Samsung phones. Anyway, phone details are:
GT-S5830L
baseband S5830LUBLP1
kernel 2.6.35.7-1190892 [email protected] #1
compile number GINBGERBREAD.UBLP1
android 2.3.6
Thank you very much! I am posting cause I searched but found nothing u_u.
ps: sorry for my bad english.

Try this method,
[Guide] Know your Device: Galaxy Ace GT-S5830
:angel:

xwalero said:
Hi, I have many problems at a time lol. First of all, I bought this phone 'cause it was so cheap and it works fine for my mom. The problem is, I think I was scammed because the phone allows emergency calls only. I tested with many chips but they don't work, so I guess I'll have to find a solution for that (imei unlocking with z3x maybe?). Also, I don't know if the phone is branded. I think it's not, because it starts with other chips, but the bootscreen is still from the original company (don't know how to change it).
Okay, now that you know the conditions of the phone, I wanna ask if the phone being imei blocked affects on wether I can root it or not, cause I tried many many root files on CWM 5, but nothing happens. Some of them say that the process was completed, but I type "su" in the terminal and it says "not found". Also, I downloaded root checkers and they say the phone's not rooted. The roots I remember are universal_gb_root_v25, v23b, upd_1 and Root_Cooper. I am desperate, please help.
Also, I updated the firmware with Kies (can't remember old firmware), so now I have GB 2.3.6. I don't know if Kies might have screwed it up. I've also noticed that most people have a baseband ending in something like KT8, but mine is different... I remember I had to change the baseband on my Xperia X8 to unlock bootloader, but I know nothing about Samsung phones. Anyway, phone details are:
GT-S5830L
baseband S5830LUBLP1
kernel 2.6.35.7-1190892 [email protected] #1
compile number GINBGERBREAD.UBLP1
android 2.3.6
Thank you very much! I am posting cause I searched but found nothing u_u.
ps: sorry for my bad english.
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Only if the above post didn't work, use the files from the below guide. They are posted by the people using S5830L. Here is the link,
Rooting Galaxy Ace GT-S5830L
Hope I Helped

xwalero said:
Hi, I have many problems at a time lol. First of all, I bought this phone 'cause it was so cheap and it works fine for my mom. The problem is, I think I was scammed because the phone allows emergency calls only. I tested with many chips but they don't work, so I guess I'll have to find a solution for that (imei unlocking with z3x maybe?). Also, I don't know if the phone is branded. I think it's not, because it starts with other chips, but the bootscreen is still from the original company (don't know how to change it).
Okay, now that you know the conditions of the phone, I wanna ask if the phone being imei blocked affects on wether I can root it or not, cause I tried many many root files on CWM 5, but nothing happens. Some of them say that the process was completed, but I type "su" in the terminal and it says "not found". Also, I downloaded root checkers and they say the phone's not rooted. The roots I remember are universal_gb_root_v25, v23b, upd_1 and Root_Cooper. I am desperate, please help.
Also, I updated the firmware with Kies (can't remember old firmware), so now I have GB 2.3.6. I don't know if Kies might have screwed it up. I've also noticed that most people have a baseband ending in something like KT8, but mine is different... I remember I had to change the baseband on my Xperia X8 to unlock bootloader, but I know nothing about Samsung phones. Anyway, phone details are:
GT-S5830L
baseband S5830LUBLP1
kernel 2.6.35.7-1190892 [email protected] #1
compile number GINBGERBREAD.UBLP1
android 2.3.6
Thank you very much! I am posting cause I searched but found nothing u_u.
ps: sorry for my bad english.
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Mybe you haven't enough internal memory space to push su files
Try this
Firmwares and help rooting (3th Post)

Okay I'll try these solutions, thank you all very much!
btw, I don't think it's a space issue 'cause I have like 55mb left

xwalero said:
Okay I'll try these solutions, thank you all very much!
btw, I don't think it's a space issue 'cause I have like 55mb left
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55mb internal space (data) is not the same as 55mb system space (rom space)

Oh god, I can't believe it still doesn't work D:
I think it would be good if I started from scratch. I mean, flash a stock firmware or something, like a factory reset. I installed CWM, how can I uninstall it?
What is the best way to do that?
thanks

xwalero said:
Oh god, I can't believe it still doesn't work D:
I think it would be good if I started from scratch. I mean, flash a stock firmware or something, like a factory reset.
What is the best way to do that?
thanks
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Install CWM 5 from Recovery Mode. Go to CWM> Wipe data/ factory reset, Wipe cache partitions, Mounts & Storage> Format /system, Advanced> Wipe Dalvik cache, Wipe Battery Stats. Now re-flash the stock rom using odin through Download Mode. You can then try installing root and CWM. Hopefully it works well this time.
CWM 5.0.2.6 fix for Samsung Galaxy Ace S5830
Hope I Helped

Nothing seems to work u_u. I flashed the stock rom, installed cwm fix, flashed Root_Cooper.zip and nothing happened. Then I flashed the no-junk-apps and also tried with AceGingerRoot, upd_1, universal_gb_root_v25, and Root, but nothing happens. Root and upd_1 give me an error like Status 7, installation aborted (some guy in one of the links Viper sent me had the same error). I type in he terminal "su", and it says access denied.
I don't know what else to do :c

xwalero said:
Nothing seems to work u_u. I flashed the stock rom, installed cwm fix, flashed Root_Cooper.zip and nothing happened. Then I flashed the no-junk-apps and also tried with AceGingerRoot, upd_1, universal_gb_root_v25, and Root, but nothing happens. Root and upd_1 give me an error like Status 7, installation aborted (some guy in one of the links Viper sent me had the same error). I type in he terminal "su", and it says access denied.
I don't know what else to do :c
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No, that's not what I meant. Before you flash a fresh copy of stock rom, make sure to do a complete wipe. You cannot do that with the stock recovery mode and hence you install CWM. Just follow my instructions in the above post. Once you have wiped of all data, then flash the stock rom back. Always remember Root first then install CWM. If you do it the other way, you will end up getting status 7 error. Do post the result.

mahithm said:
No, that's not what I meant. Before you flash a fresh copy of stock rom, make sure to do a complete wipe. You cannot do that with the stock recovery mode and hence you install CWM. Just follow my instructions in the above post. Once you have wiped of all data, then flash the stock rom back. Always remember Root first then install CWM. If you do it the other way, you will end up getting status 7 error. Do post the result.
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Oooh okay, i did everything but rooted after cwm. Ill try that!

It worked! thank you all! (even though it rebooted once, but it hasn't happend again)
Now, what JellyBean ROM would you recommend? I just want a "fast" one. (I know there's no such thing as "best rom" or something, I'm just asking for advice)
Some ROMs say that I have to install CWM 6 or above, should I do that? or just stick with this fixed version?

xwalero said:
It worked! thank you all! (even though it rebooted once, but it hasn't happend again)
Now, what JellyBean ROM would you recommend? I just want a "fast" one. (I know there's no such thing as "best rom" or something, I'm just asking for advice)
Some ROMs say that I have to install CWM 6 or above, should I do that? or just stick with this fixed version?
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All CM 10 (JellyBean) roms works quite well with CWM 5, so I suggest you stick with it unless you want to go for CM 11 (KitKat) roms. CWM 6 is mainly meant for CM 11 based roms but there is one CM 11 rom (KitKat for All) that works fine with CWM 5. I haven't tried all CM 10 roms, so I can't help you in that part. But I can provide you the list of all custom roms for Ace. You can try it yourself and be the judge Here is the link,
Know your Device:Galaxy Ace GT-S5830 ~Root~Odin~CWM~ROM LIST
Hope I Helped

Unrooting for warranty.

Hi All,
Before I ask my question, I just wanted to clear up that I've searched the forums (both on the s3 i9300 and i9305 sub forums,) and there's so much info that I got a little more confused and lost my confidence, which is why I'm asking here before I start the procedure.
I've just realized that my power button is starting to wear causing a 'bootloop' when I press it 7 times out of 10, and I have the opportunity to get it fixed under warranty.
Now, I've been running custom software since June 2013 and my phone is an Australian Telstra i9305T, and I have made a backup on the ROM pre-rooted when I installed CWM (although I'm not sure that it may work, as the bootloop have corrupted my SD card, there's a few backups that didn't have the same MD5 and can't be run.)
I wanted to make sure that the steps I unroot and reset counter to 0 for warranty would be:
1) Go to CWM
2) Wipe the cache/memory.(factory reset.)
3) Install the rom I backed up in May 2013
4) Triangle Away to set counter to 0.
5) Use the Unified Android tookit's unroot function.
Does that sound right? Or have I missed any steps.
FYI I had the phone inspected at the Samsung Experience store but the lady had threw a tantrum as she noticed I was running custom software, and pretty much refused to talk to me, (she wasn't even a tech, but I guess got upset on tampering principle,) so I want to make sure when it goes back to the techs it's ok to get fixed.
Any help I can get here would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance folks.

grungypoo said:
Hi All,
Before I ask my question, I just wanted to clear up that I've searched the forums (both on the s3 i9300 and i9305 sub forums,) and there's so much info that I got a little more confused and lost my confidence, which is why I'm asking here before I start the procedure.
I've just realized that my power button is starting to wear causing a 'bootloop' when I press it 7 times out of 10, and I have the opportunity to get it fixed under warranty.
Now, I've been running custom software since June 2013 and my phone is an Australian Telstra i9305T, and I have made a backup on the ROM pre-rooted when I installed CWM (although I'm not sure that it may work, as the bootloop have corrupted my SD card, there's a few backups that didn't have the same MD5 and can't be run.)
I wanted to make sure that the steps I unroot and reset counter to 0 for warranty would be:
1) Go to CWM
2) Wipe the cache/memory.(factory reset.)
3) Install the rom I backed up in May 2013
4) Triangle Away to set counter to 0.
5) Use the Unified Android tookit's unroot function.
Does that sound right? Or have I missed any steps.
FYI I had the phone inspected at the Samsung Experience store but the lady had threw a tantrum as she noticed I was running custom software, and pretty much refused to talk to me, (she wasn't even a tech, but I guess got upset on tampering principle,) so I want to make sure when it goes back to the techs it's ok to get fixed.
Any help I can get here would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance folks.
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the steps are quite in good order. you dont have the new bootloader with knox i guess.. cause that would be a problem if the knox counter is triggered you cant set it back to 0, there is still no way found to restore knox counter for devices with new bootloader. everyone who has void knox warranty status can forget about sending device to samsung for repair for any reason!
if you havent flashed recently a new 4.3 firmware from sammobile or samsung-updates.com, you probably have the old bootloader which is good.
if you were not rooted when you made the backup in may 2013, then you will automatically be unrooted when restoring backup otherwise you would need to unroot after the backup restore. the backup will restore it to its state exactly how it was in may 2013. after the restore of backup go in odin downloadmode and check what info does it give in the left upper corner about system and binary status, should be both showing official and for the flash counter use triangle away indeed but keep in mind that it does not always restore to 0, sometimes it restores to 1 and thats no good.

MaHo_66 said:
the steps are quite in good order. you dont have the new bootloader with knox i guess.. cause that would be a problem if the knox counter is triggered you cant set it back to 0, there is still no way found to restore knox counter for devices with new bootloader. everyone who has void knox warranty status can forget about sending device to samsung for repair for any reason!
if you havent flashed recently a new 4.3 firmware from sammobile or samsung-updates.com, you probably have the old bootloader which is good.
if you were not rooted when you made the backup in may 2013, then you will automatically be unrooted when restoring backup otherwise you would need to unroot after the backup restore. the backup will restore it to its state exactly how it was in may 2013. after the restore of backup go in odin downloadmode and check what info does it give in the left upper corner about system and binary status, should be both showing official and for the flash counter use triangle away indeed but keep in mind that it does not always restore to 0, sometimes it restores to 1 and thats no good.
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Yeah.. I think I rooted the phone before the knox bootloader came out for my phone, although I can't remember as it was a year ago.
So I guess at this stage the steps I'd take here would be:
1) Triangle away to reset counter to 0
2) Go into CWM clear the memory, and put in the unrooted image.
I've now got another question on the steps:
1) Currently using Triangle away, the counter only stays at 1, and every time I boots it shows the red '!' on the top left corner. That's not knox is it? And if it isn't, when I flash the unrooted image, will it get rid of it?
2) How do to revert to the regular stock recovery, as I've installed CWM. Or will the unrooted image handle that... if I recall the steps to rooting is installing custom recovery (CWM in my case) then taking the image with CWM then rooting then installing custom software.....
Again thanks for you help, I hope you can see where I get confused, I love this forums it's got so much help but sometimes it's hard to work out what to filter to make things go smoother.

grungypoo said:
Yeah.. I think I rooted the phone before the knox bootloader came out for my phone, although I can't remember as it was a year ago.
So I guess at this stage the steps I'd take here would be:
1) Triangle away to reset counter to 0
2) Go into CWM clear the memory, and put in the unrooted image.
I've now got another question on the steps:
1) Currently using Triangle away, the counter only stays at 1, and every time I boots it shows the red '!' on the top left corner. That's not knox is it? And if it isn't, when I flash the unrooted image, will it get rid of it?
2) How do to revert to the regular stock recovery, as I've installed CWM. Or will the unrooted image handle that... if I recall the steps to rooting is installing custom recovery (CWM in my case) then taking the image with CWM then rooting then installing custom software.....
Again thanks for you help, I hope you can see where I get confused, I love this forums it's got so much help but sometimes it's hard to work out what to filter to make things go smoother.
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1. i dont know about the ''red !'' but it seems like you have done something wrong, it shouldnt show something like that..
the backup img might solve it, but dont now for sure
2. to revert back to stock recovery you could do this: flash official firmware with odin OR find a flashable stock recovery .img or .tar md5 file to flash in recovery. easiest way is to flash official firmware, that will restore everything to ''out of the box state'' and for the counter using triangle away (only thing is it restore's it to 1 instead of 0 )
if you ask me how i would make this whole thing ready and steady for sending to samsung, i would do this:
assuming here that i have old bootloader without knox, the steps would be for me in this order:
- put every personal stuff in internal or external sd to my pc temporary
- reset flash counter with triangle away
- go in cwm recovery and wipe everything, i mean really EVERYTHING. after that put phone off and go in downloadmode
- download the official firmware that my phone came with (for me that was android 4.1.2 no KNOX!) when first bought, and flash that with odin. now i have installed official firmware with stock recovery and device status is official and counter reset to 0 or 1
everything restored back to normal except the counter that stays on 1 unfortunately ready to send for repair, but i doubt they will accept it
i do understand your confusion about what to do, as in many threads people telling their own way of handling and taking steps to get things done and that can be very confusing as there are many things one could do. when trying to help people, i always try to provide the most common solutions and most easy one, but no matter how i tell and explain if you are someone who does not know much about android development kind of things, you will have always difficulties. the key for understanding is lots of READING and RESEARCH followed finally by executing what you have learned with proper tools. im just a member for couple of months now but i have followed these forums for many years and im glad i did..

MaHo_66 said:
1. i dont know about the ''red !'' but it seems like you have done something wrong, it shouldnt show something like that..
the backup img might solve it, but dont now for sure
2. to revert back to stock recovery you could do this: flash official firmware with odin OR find a flashable stock recovery .img or .tar md5 file to flash in recovery. easiest way is to flash official firmware, that will restore everything to ''out of the box state'' and for the counter using triangle away (only thing is it restore's it to 1 instead of 0 )
if you ask me how i would make this whole thing ready and steady for sending to samsung, i would do this:
assuming here that i have old bootloader without knox, the steps would be for me in this order:
- put every personal stuff in internal or external sd to my pc temporary
- reset flash counter with triangle away
- go in cwm recovery and wipe everything, i mean really EVERYTHING. after that put phone off and go in downloadmode
- download the official firmware that my phone came with (for me that was android 4.1.2 no KNOX!) when first bought, and flash that with odin. now i have installed official firmware with stock recovery and device status is official and counter reset to 0 or 1
everything restored back to normal except the counter that stays on 1 unfortunately ready to send for repair, but i doubt they will accept it
i do understand your confusion about what to do, as in many threads people telling their own way of handling and taking steps to get things done and that can be very confusing as there are many things one could do. when trying to help people, i always try to provide the most common solutions and most easy one, but no matter how i tell and explain if you are someone who does not know much about android development kind of things, you will have always difficulties. the key for understanding is lots of READING and RESEARCH followed finally by executing what you have learned with proper tools. im just a member for couple of months now but i have followed these forums for many years and im glad i did..
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Okay, so now what you're telling me, which is contrary to what I've been reading previous to this is that there is no way to get the phone back to stock for warranty repair as they won't accept it due to the counter being at 1.
(Would this be knox?)
Thanks for your answers tho', I really appreciate them usually my posts get ignored, prolly filed under the "another noob" section.
The thing is I'm not that much of a noob, I just have a hard time trying to put all the info together so I can take the most optimal and risk adverse solution. As for reading and research, xda is a great forum but I can keep reading 8 hours a day for 3 months and keep going because as you said everyone has their own way of doing things and explaining things.
Maybe it's not worth for me to send my phone under warranty if they're going to reject it anywaysy... *sigh*

Despite not being able to help a lot, I would just like to chime in that I have the little red exclamation mark aswell, and I have never installed the Oficcial 4.3 with Knox. So at least its not related to that.
I do have a custom Recovery and I am running a Rooted stock image.
The exclamation mark has not caused me any issues though..
found this as well: http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3/help/red-line-exclamation-mark-left-wupper-t2011728/page2

timmtn said:
Despite not being able to help a lot, I would just like to chime in that I have the little red exclamation mark aswell, and I have never installed the Oficcial 4.3 with Knox. So at least its not related to that.
I do have a custom Recovery and I am running a Rooted stock image.
The exclamation mark has not caused me any issues though..
found this as well: http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3/help/red-line-exclamation-mark-left-wupper-t2011728/page2
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Well it definitely does help, so thanks.
Can I ask if you've sent your phone in for warranty repairs?
I think it has to do with having custom recovery.

grungypoo said:
Well it definitely does help, so thanks.
Can I ask if you've sent your phone in for warranty repairs?
I think it has to do with having custom recovery.
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Unfortunately not (for you, fortunately for me).. My first i9305 actually had a defective power button which died the day after I got it. I had rooted it already, but was able to roll the original image back on the phone before handing it in. The store swapped it right away for a new one though, so it never turned into a repair case.

[Q] What a hell did I just buy ?

Oh boy I really hope I am just too tired to look and info I've got so far is incorrect. My i337 Got stolen today and I managed to get Galaxy S 4 Active from ATT i537. I looked up only 1 thing before I did because only system I can use is CM11, I mean stock Samsung makes me uneasy if I am on it for more then 15 seconds. Sounds, UI, just feel and look, totally garbage. So now I see that bootloader is locked AND there is no solution to unlock it. Only then we can install some kind of Dual boot thing ? I really hope this is not true. Can I just get rid of everything Samsung and stock and get CM11 ? I don't want to waste space with stock as "not used" system.
Please let me know because like I said I had really bad day with two thugs stealing my phone, spend money on new one and now this. I just rooted it and was thinking like always I get Rom Manager and from there I install recovery ..... but phone is not listed .... I am freaking out a bit right about now. Please let me know if possible on where to start getting custom recovery cause ODIN + tar recovery files gave me magic error or something like that just now.
Thank you guys !
UPDATE: Couldn't sleep.
So I have my new phone rooted with "towel", I install Safestrap and backed up my current ROM (I am on NE3) I see now reason why this dual system needed and stuff. I mean too bad Samsung locking bootloaders and oh well. I have only 2 questions. 1 can I just install latest build from https://download.cyanogenmod.org/?device=jactivelte in to rom SLOT-1 and use it or no. And how much space I can allow for my current ROM and CM I mean I am not planning to have anything on stock so I don't need space at same time I cant make it that when I do want to go on stock I'd have a problem with running it because of not enough space.
Thank you guys once again. I mean If you know few lines ..that's all I am asking. Cause I do see some pros and cons but .. I need straight up answer. Thanks !

Your frustration is understand. Swearing or bad language is not excused in this forum for any reason. Moderate at least title or be prepared to get warning and/or thread locked down.

russiandivxclub said:
Oh boy I really hope I am just too tired to look and info I've got so far is incorrect. My i337 Got stolen today and I managed to get Galaxy S 4 Active from ATT i537. I looked up only 1 thing before I did because only system I can use is CM11, I mean stock Samsung makes me uneasy if I am on it for more then 15 seconds. Sounds, UI, just feel and look, totally garbage. So now I see that bootloader is locked AND there is no solution to unlock it. Only then we can install some kind of Dual boot thing ? I really hope this is not true. Can I just get rid of everything Samsung and stock and get CM11 ? I don't want to waste space with stock as "not used" system.
Please let me know because like I said I had really bad day with two thugs stealing my phone, spend money on new one and now this. I just rooted it and was thinking like always I get Rom Manager and from there I install recovery ..... but phone is not listed .... I am freaking out a bit right about now. Please let me know if possible on where to start getting custom recovery cause ODIN + tar recovery files gave me magic error or something like that just now.
Thank you guys !
UPDATE: Couldn't sleep.
So I have my new phone rooted with "towel", I install Safestrap and backed up my current ROM (I am on NE3) I see now reason why this dual system needed and stuff. I mean too bad Samsung locking bootloaders and oh well. I have only 2 questions. 1 can I just install latest build from https://download.cyanogenmod.org/?device=jactivelte in to rom SLOT-1 and use it or no. And how much space I can allow for my current ROM and CM I mean I am not planning to have anything on stock so I don't need space at same time I cant make it that when I do want to go on stock I'd have a problem with running it because of not enough space.
Thank you guys once again. I mean If you know few lines ..that's all I am asking. Cause I do see some pros and cons but .. I need straight up answer. Thanks !
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You cannot install CM. Since you have a locked bootloader, it is not possible to install any custom kernels, so ROMs that require a custom kernel (CM, AOSP, or any ROM based off those) will not work. Using SafeStrap you can flash TouchWiz-based ROMs since they can use you stock kernel.
Look in the AT&T S4 forums for ROMs that say they are compatible with SafeStrap, you should be able to use most of those. Since they are meant fir a different phone you'll have to flash the MasterPatch afterwards. A lot of people seen to like the Hyperdrive ROM.

O-T said:
Your frustration is understand. Swearing or bad language is not excused in this forum for any reason. Moderate at least title or be prepared to get warning and/or thread locked down.
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My bad you're 100% correct I see how to edit op but not tutle.

Devo7v said:
You cannot install CM. Since you have a locked bootloader, it is not possible to install any custom kernels, so ROMs that require a custom kernel (CM, AOSP, or any ROM based off those) will not work. Using SafeStrap you can flash TouchWiz-based ROMs since they can use you stock kernel.
Look in the AT&T S4 forums for ROMs that say they are compatible with SafeStrap, you should be able to use most of those. Since they are meant fir a different phone you'll have to flash the MasterPatch afterwards. A lot of people seen to like the Hyperdrive ROM.
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Got it. Thanks. I remember back in a day I've been using "theme" that allowed me to have Google stock feel u guess I need to look in this but for now I guess I'll just remove what I can and will suffer until Nexus 6 is in stock and I can afford it. Love that phone. Also I see 5.0 will be out for active next year so it's not that bad. Meanwhile should I do Ota update to latest stock firmware ?

russiandivxclub said:
Got it. Thanks. I remember back in a day I've been using "theme" that allowed me to have Google stock feel u guess I need to look in this but for now I guess I'll just remove what I can and will suffer until Nexus 6 is in stock and I can afford it. Love that phone. Also I see 5.0 will be out for active next year so it's not that bad. Meanwhile should I do Ota update to latest stock firmware ?
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If you want, you can still root the latest firmware so you have nothing to lose.