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So I was messing with the system permissions in Es file exolorer, when I accidently set everyrhing to 666. As soon as I hit back I knew I was done for. I started getting foce closes on everything. I reset the phone hoping I could factory reset and be ok; but it keeps looping back to recovery when I turn it on. Im not home/in front a computer right now....but it seems my only hope is odin with the root files. I havent been able to find a stock rom for this phone. Att sucks for locking the bootloader. I will be donating to the bounty when I get in the house.
Anyone have any suggestions or know where a stock rom is oosted?
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So I was messing with the system permissions in Es file exolorer, when I accidently set everyrhing to 666. As soon as I hit back I knew I was done for. I started getting foce closes on everything. I reset the phone hoping I could factory reset and be ok; but it keeps looping back to recovery when I turn it on. Im not home/in front a computer right now....but it seems my only hope is odin with the root files. I havent been able to find a stock rom for this phone. Att sucks for locking the bootloader. I will be donating to the bounty when I get in the house.
Anyone have any suggestions or know where a stock rom is oosted?
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go to root de la vega site, and download the root. there is an odin image there to restore you to stock. you are ok.
thanks
Thanks a lot. Finally home will try right now
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Ok so the root de la vega seems to have been taken down since there is a new method. And I cant find the firmware for our phones,
What will happen if I try to load a tmobile firmware to the phone?
At this point I think I have a brick and might try it.
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Ok so the root de la vega seems to have been taken down since there is a new method. And I cant find the firmware for our phones,
What will happen if I try to load a tmobile firmware to the phone?
At this point I think I have a brick and might try it.
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I sent you a PM. Check it quickly!
kraz
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I sent you a PM. Check it quickly!
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Thanks for the help guys. Im up and running again.
First? No.
I bricked my phone well over 10 times already since the day got it. (Damn you framework-res.apk and androidpolicy.jar )
It's all part of the fun! Glad to hear you're back up and running.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N900A using Tapatalk
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Well, I've done it too, but mine brick is probably worse. I updated with OTA update, then attempted to root so I tried flashing the Odin inside the Vega package, just to find out the OTA patched the "holes", now I'm stuck at the "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies & try again"
So I tried the One Click from the Vega package, but it doesn't do it, it fails with write protect error.
Kies don't have emergency recovery either, and won't even recognize the device.
I'm thinking I have to wait for the actual updated one click comes out to fix it.
Please be warned, DON'T try it
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Well, I've done it too, but mine brick is probably worse. I updated with OTA update, then attempted to root so I tried flashing the Odin inside the Vega package, just to find out the OTA patched the "holes", now I'm stuck at the "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies & try again"
So I tried the One Click from the Vega package, but it doesn't do it, it fails with write protect error.
Kies don't have emergency recovery either, and won't even recognize the device.
I'm thinking I have to wait for the actual updated one click comes out to fix it.
Please be warned, DON'T try it
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There are quite a few of us in that situation. There are a number of people working on it. Hopefully something will come up soon. I wish AT&T would actually release official firmware for our phone through Kies. Would make the recovery process so much faster than having to wait for people to rip MJ5 and re-package it.
i get a black screen....Help
i went ahead and rooted with kingo and deleted some stuff in the system/app folder and now after reboot i get com.google.process.gapps, dropbox, setup wizard and chaton [ unfortunately process has stop ] and it goes into a reboot loop, i can stop the reboot loop when i reroot with kingo but then all i get is a black screen with no apps, launcher, no access to any applications other than the systems settings. Pls help...
fuuhhhh!!!
Me too - figured I'd wait a week before rooting, didn't even bothering to check xda, my bible on such matters, and her I am thinking I know better.
... neeeds me phooooooneeee!!!!!!!!
So, I've tried literally every video, or walkthrough I could find via youtube or this site and I am still stuck in a boot loop right now at the unlock custom screen.
I've tried using odin to go back to stock completely, i've tried the battery removal / wipe data etc option, I don't know what else to do here.
If anyone could help, I'd really appreciate it. At this point I'm pretty desperate.
Which firmware version are you on? What were you doing when it bricked (flashing a ROM, rooting, etc)? Am I correct in assuming you're rooted because of the custom padlock icon?
Have you tried giving it a few minutes to boot up before pulling the battery? I thought my phone was bricked once, but all it needed was ~5 minutes to get going. Give it a good 10 minutes or so to boot up. If that doesn't work, report back with the information I requested and we'll go from there.
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Which firmware version are you on? What were you doing when it bricked (flashing a ROM, rooting, etc)? Am I correct in assuming you're rooted because of the custom splash screen?
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MJ5 ... flashing FireNote Rom
Problem I was having is I was using KnoxRaid Rom, well that rom is dead / thread locked so I figured I would try FireNote. When I rebooted to flash FireNote, I noticed Safestrap wasn't there anymore. I tried re-installing Safestrap a few times with no luck. After a factory wipe / reset, Safestrap magically re-appeared and was available for me to use. I figured what the hell, I'll flash FireNote. When I did, I noticed it was more or less a hodge-podge of the two Rom's and not a clean install. When I did the wipe again to re-install FireNote, I'm now stuck at the spash screen and have been since early this morning.
And yea, I've given it quite some time ... 10+ minutes, even an hour. Nothing.
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And yea, I've given it quite some time ... 10+ minutes, even an hour. Nothing.
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try mj5 restore, if that fails just call AT&T and they will send you a new one free in the mail (takes about a week though)
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try mj5 restore, if that fails just call AT&T and they will send you a new one free in the mail (takes about a week though)
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I tried MJ5 restore. Maybe there's a different method I can try that you can point me to directly?
Were you on the Jellybean or KitKat version of Knoxraid? If you were on the KitKat version then the problem sounds like you tried to flash a JB ROM on top of a KK ROM without reverting back to JB first. Have you tried the MJ5 restore yet? I believe the thread is in the general section. I'll grab the link for you in a minute.
Edit- here's the link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2559715
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I tried MJ5 restore. Maybe there's a different method I can try that you can point me to directly?
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really? are you sure you followed all steps? what happened when you finished? worked for my brick
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Were you on the Jellybean or KitKat version of Knoxraid? If you were on the KitKat version then the problem sounds like you tried to flash a JB ROM on top of a KK ROM without reverting back to JB first. Have you tried the MJ5 restore yet? I believe the thread is in the general section. I'll grab the link for you in a minute.
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I think you're right. I was on the KK version and FireNote is on JB.
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I think you're right. I was on the KK version and FireNote is on JB.
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bad idea :/
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really? are you sure you followed all steps? what happened when you finished? worked for my brick
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Yea, definitely followed all the steps ... haven't moved from my computer chair for the last 6hrs lol. Only thing it did when I was finished is to go back to the splash screen and sit there.
Looks like Beast beat me to mentioning the MJ5 restore Check out the link I posted. Make sure you follow all of the steps EXACTLY how they're posted and you should be able to get going again.
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Yea, definitely followed all the steps ... haven't moved from my computer chair for the last 6hrs lol. Only thing it did when I was finished is to go back to the splash screen and sit there.
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as a last resort, you can call at&t i guess :/
try flashing MJ5 images from sammobile.com in odin
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Looks like Beast beat me to mentioning the MJ5 restore Check out the link I posted. Make sure you follow all of the steps EXACTLY how they're posted and you should be able to get going again.
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I found that thread, followed it EXACTLY and still am having the same outcome =/
Maybe some of the files are corrupt. Try uninstalling Heimdall, the Microsoft plugins, delete everything you downloaded (Odin, the .tar files, etc), and redownload them and try again. On top of that, I would delete all of your USB drives and have Windows reinstall them or download them from Samsung's website. That way you will start nice and fresh and hopefully get out of this mess.
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Maybe some of the files are corrupt. Try uninstalling Heimdall, the Microsoft plugins, delete everything you downloaded (Odin, the .tar files, etc), and redownload them and try again. On top of that, I would delete all of your USB drives and have Windows reinstall them or download them from Samsung's website. That way you will start nice and fresh and hopefully get out of this mess.
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Ok, I'll try that next... Thanks bro, i'll check back in after and let you know.
No problem. Let me know how it goes.
Oh, one more thing: have you tried different USB ports on your PC and/or different USB cables? In the past I've found that it's a must to use the USB cable that came with the phone for anything other than charging.
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No problem. Let me know how it goes.
Oh, one more thing: have you tried different USB ports on your PC and/or different USB cables? In the past I've found that it's a must to use the USB cable that came with the phone for anything other than charging.
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Yea, I've used different ports and only used the cable that came with it from the start.
Good. I'm betting it's a bad file or something didn't install properly that's causing your problem. I've used the MJ5 restore several times to get off of KitKat versions of Knoxraid with no problems, so I don't see why it shouldn't work for you.
Here's a tip: when you place the CSC file and the 28whatever file on your external SD card, rename them to "flash first" and "flash second" or something like that to avoid mixing them up. Renaming them won't hurt anything.
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Yea, I've used different ports and only used the cable that came with it from the start.
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try restoring with N900AUCECMLG_OneClickBin.exe ...i think it should work. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2619941
Hi all,
I searched the forums and I'm not finding any information pertaining to my situation (or I'm getting bogged down and skipping over things that would pertain to my situation). I do apologize, but I've been searching for a few hours now and I can't figure this out.
I just rooted my phone this evening. I was following the directions on the cyanogenmod website and things got confusing when it started talking about Clockworkmod and TWRP. Installed clockwork and rebooted into recovery and couldn't figure out how to flash. So I started looking at youtube vids and I saw people using TWRP. So I downloaded it from the play store and that's when things took a turn for the worse.
I opened up the app, I went to Install TWRP, picked my g2vzw and started Install Recovery. The app started downloading the open recovery file and then I got a popup saying "WARNING Ensure the partition listed below is the correct one for your device...etc. and at the bottom it had "/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/recovery". I didn't know how to verify and I figured it was right (my idiot mistake), so I hit yes.
After I did that, I looked at clockwork again and saw an option to Install ROM from SD Card. When I hit that, I saw all the directories on my phone, so I figured I could dump the cyanogenmod zip file onto my phone via Android File Transfer and go back into Clockwork and flash the file.
So when I did that the phone rebooted and I got the white text at the top of my screen with Secure Booting Error and then the phone shuts off and I have to press and hold the power button a good while until the phone boots back up.
So is happening as a result of what I did using TWRP? Is there anything I can do to fix this? I would really like to experience different ROMs. I hope all is not lost.
Like I said, I'm using a Mac and I haven't used Terminal in a while. The only reason I was able to root was because the root folder I downloaded had an executable for Terminal that did everything for me.
Thanks in advance for your help!
i did the same i attempted to use ez unlock to unlock bootloader and just twrp manager to flash twrp. after trying to reboot i get no text no logo just a black screen and when holding the buttons it vibrates with an occasional red light can turn on and off just a black screen though shows in pc as bulk drive....on windows.....please help i only had the thing for a couple hrs.
Have either of you tried returning to stock using the kdz or tot method? It might save you...
I'm taking about this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2448960
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Me personally, if it's not on xda, I don't use it (concerning root/recovery). Using ioroot25 for root and freedom tool for recovery (or autorec)...
njstein said:
Have either of you tried returning to stock using the kdz or tot method? It might save you...
I'm taking about this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2448960
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Me personally, if it's not on xda, I don't use it (concerning root/recovery). Using ioroot25 for root and freedom tool for recovery (or autorec)...
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Thanks! I tried the KDZ method last night and it didn't work. I'm performing the TOT method as I type (waiting for the ROM to finish downloading). I'll let you know what happens.
shaka411 said:
Thanks! I tried the KDZ method last night and it didn't work. I'm performing the TOT method as I type (waiting for the ROM to finish downloading). I'll let you know what happens.
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I could never get kdz to work either, aggravates me but the tot method did! Hopefully it works out for you...
njstein said:
I could never get kdz to work either, aggravates me but the tot method did! Hopefully it works out for you...
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So I was using VMware and it stalled out during step 3 of the thread you linked. So frustrationg, I've been at this all day to end up getting no where. Now I have to get bootcamp installed and retry this whole thing. So much time to do something so little. Ugh.
shaka411 said:
So I was using VMware and it stalled out during step 3 of the thread you linked. So frustrationg, I've been at this all day to end up getting no where. Now I have to get bootcamp installed and retry this whole thing. So much time to do something so little. Ugh.
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VMware?
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VMware?
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Yes, it's a virtual machine that allows me to use Windows on my Mac's desktop without having to partition my hard drive and use Boot Camp.
shaka411 said:
Yes, it's a virtual machine that allows me to use Windows on my Mac's desktop without having to partition my hard drive and use Boot Camp.
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Ahhh, yes. Interesting. I'm assuming it'll work. Why not? But if you keep getting that same problem, try a Windows desktop.
njstein said:
Ahhh, yes. Interesting. I'm assuming it'll work. Why not? But if you keep getting that same problem, try a Windows desktop.
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It worked!!! You are the man!!! Now that I have the phone back to normal and Windows up and running, I would very much like to root and install cyanogenmod the Right way, especially the boot loader part, having to do with the loki master (that I didn't do the first time around), would happen to know a good thread that will help me?
Again, thank you so much. I was nervous that I wouldn't be able to fix this. The TOT method was awesome.
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It worked!!! You are the man!!! Now that I have the phone back to normal and Windows up and running, I would very much like to root and install cyanogenmod the Right way, especially the boot loader part, having to do with the loki master (that I didn't do the first time around), would happen to know a good thread that will help me?
Again, thank you so much. I was nervous that I wouldn't be able to fix this. The TOT method was awesome.
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Ya, bro, this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=51826092
The OP has a link for ioroot25 (which is the best way to root) and the freedom tool installs twrp. The steps are fairly straightforward but if you have questions, let me know! These are both for kitkat (so if you haven't, update) and you don't even have to worry about the bootloader. Updating to kk also erases some steps if you go the cm route. Also, do not use the "official" cm. It uses 4.2.2 base (crappy builds). Use JackpotCalvin's CM11, from what I've read it's top-notch.
Make sure you have ALL drivers for the phone installed before you start (including the adb drivers and debugging).
Glad you got it fixed, like I said, don't hesitate to ask if you have any doubts (easier to solve of you haven't done anything)!
As far as drivers, since I had to install them so that I could go back to stock, I should be good right?
ioroot25 is great, because it comes with "ioroot.tool" which is one click root for Macs.
njstein said:
Ya, bro, this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=51826092
The OP has a link for ioroot25 (which is the best way to root) and the freedom tool installs twrp. The steps are fairly straightforward but if you have questions, let me know! These are both for kitkat (so if you haven't, update) and you don't even have to worry about the bootloader. Updating to kk also erases some steps if you go the cm route. Also, do not use the "official" cm. It uses 4.2.2 base (crappy builds). Use JackpotCalvin's CM11, from what I've read it's top-notch.
Make sure you have ALL drivers for the phone installed before you start (including the adb drivers and debugging).
Glad you got it fixed, like I said, don't hesitate to ask if you have any doubts (easier to solve of you haven't done anything)!
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I guess I am already confused by the post. I know how to do the root. I can just run ioroot25, but then do I do the Recovery steps? And which link am I clicking the "One Click custom recovery TWRP for 12b ota. If your on 11a, do OTA first. Must have root also." or the "Then flash this in recovery if you wants TWRP 2.7: Thanks MindRocket"?
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I guess I am already confused by the post. I know how to do the root. I can just run ioroot25, but then do I do the Recovery steps? And which link am I clicking the "One Click custom recovery TWRP for 12b ota. If your on 11a, do OTA first. Must have root also." or the "Then flash this in recovery if you wants TWRP 2.7: Thanks MindRocket"?
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So I ran ioroot25 on Windows. Do I skip the "Recovery Section" and go straight to the "KITKAT 24A OTA FREEDOM" section? Sorry, I just want to be Really sure of what I'm doing this time, last time I went into this on my own thinking I knew what I was doing and we all know how that ended up.
Thanks!
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So I ran ioroot25 on Windows. Do I skip the "Recovery Section" and go straight to the "KITKAT 24A OTA FREEDOM" section? Sorry, I just want to be Really sure of what I'm doing this time, last time I went into this on my own thinking I knew what I was doing and we all know how that ended up.
Thanks!
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Root it with ioroot25, find the proper Autorec for vs980, install the app on your phone and run it to install recovery.
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I guess I am already confused by the post. I know how to do the root. I can just run ioroot25, but then do I do the Recovery steps? And which link am I clicking the "One Click custom recovery TWRP for 12b ota. If your on 11a, do OTA first. Must have root also." or the "Then flash this in recovery if you wants TWRP 2.7: Thanks MindRocket"?
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So I ran ioroot25 on Windows. Do I skip the "Recovery Section" and go straight to the "KITKAT 24A OTA FREEDOM" section? Sorry, I just want to be Really sure of what I'm doing this time, last time I went into this on my own thinking I knew what I was doing and we all know how that ended up.
Thanks!
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Correct! Go to 24a ota freedom section. I've used it multiple times and never had an issue. It has the bat extension like ioroot25, just click and follow directions.
Autorec is another option (as mentioned) but I know nothing about it. As always, your choice!
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Correct! Go to 24a ota freedom section. I've used it multiple times and never had an issue. It has the bat extension like ioroot25, just click and follow directions.
Autorec is another option (as mentioned) but I know nothing about it. As always, your choice!
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So I hope I did this right. I started up the KitKat Freedom and pressed enter. And this what the command line said:
* server not running *
* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *
* daemon started successfully *
Then my phone was automatically disconnected and then reconnected. Is that it? I figured the process would be longer.
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So I hope I did this right. I started up the KitKat Freedom and pressed enter. And this what the command line said:
* server not running *
* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *
* daemon started successfully *
Then my phone was automatically disconnected and then reconnected. Is that it? I figured the process would be longer.
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Nevermind, it worked! I don't know what happened, maybe my USB Cable was loose or I didn't wait long enough, but I ran the program and waited and everything worked. I booted into recovery and Teamwin popped up (man we're really making progress!). So now I gotta get cyanogenmod. Should I just do a search for JackpotCalvin's, and once I find it how do I flash it?
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Nevermind, it worked! I don't know what happened, maybe my USB Cable was loose or I didn't wait long enough, but I ran the program and waited and everything worked. I booted into recovery and Teamwin popped up (man we're really making progress!). So now I gotta get cyanogenmod. Should I just do a search for JackpotCalvin's, and once I find it how do I flash it?
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So I did some searching and I found this post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2702958
Step 5 makes me nervous (seems like we've come so far, I hate to screw up now), and he saying this is off of Jelly Bean. I thought CM11 was based off of KitKat.
Once again, never mind I already did step 5 by doing KitKat Freedom. Looks like all I really have to do is download Jackpot's build, transfer it to my phone and install using TWRP.
Just backed up everything. I'll let you know how it works out!
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So I did some searching and I found this post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2702958
Step 5 makes me nervous (seems like we've come so far, I hate to screw up now), and he saying this is off of Jelly Bean. I thought CM11 was based off of KitKat.
Once again, never mind I already did step 5 by doing KitKat Freedom. Looks like all I really have to do is download Jackpot's build, transfer it to my phone and install using TWRP.
Just backed up everything. I'll let you know how it works out!
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My friend. Everything worked perfectly. I have Jackpot's build running and I got the Google Apps installed and running. Thank you so much for your help. That was quite an experience, I'm glad I had you leading every step of the way.
Okay so to start I followed this Tutorial http://forum.xda-developers.com/att-galaxy-s5/general/how-to-root-g900aucu2aoa1-4-4-4-2-3-2015-t3021120 all the way through and my phone was rooted and I was happy. One day I tried to install TWRP since this is what I used on my Galaxy s3 before this phone. It got stuck on on a boot loop. I eventually tried flashing every stock ROM which did not fix the problem because ODIN would fail when trying to flash. Eventually I tried flashing the "G900A_ND3_Stock_Kernel" supplied in the tutorial. My phone magically booted up and all my APPS and stuff was the same as I left it and it was still rooted. I decided not to mess with it anymore. This happened about a month ago.
Today, my phone had a notification saying that there was an update and I tapped remind me later. Eventually, I installed Titanium Back up to force closed the AT&T Software Update app the phone came with. Then. it automatically updated and eventually got stuck into the boot loop again. No problem, I fixed this before. What I noticed from the first time was that I had a screen that said "Secure Fail: Recovery. System software not authorized by AT&T has been found on your phone. Please turn off your phone and go to the nearest AT&T store for help" Once I flashed the stock kernel from the tutorial I never checked to see if the recover menu was there.
So right now I have my phone working and its rooted. I installed the "Phone Info" app and it says Bootloader Version:G900AUCU2ANG3. Eventually, my phone will try to update itself again and it will fail causing it to boot loop. I am not sure on what to do. Is there a way for me to have my recovery menu back? I just want to have the option in the future to revert everything back to normal in case I sell it or feel like having the newest OS. Also it would be cool to have a recovery menu on my phone again.
I know this was long but I needed to solve this problem before it gets out of hand in the future. Also I am pretty sure others have followed the tutorial and might have had the idea to update the OS or something else and had a problem similar to mine.
Thank You Very Much.
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Okay so to start I followed this Tutorial http://forum.xda-developers.com/att-galaxy-s5/general/how-to-root-g900aucu2aoa1-4-4-4-2-3-2015-t3021120 all the way through and my phone was rooted and I was happy. One day I tried to install TWRP since this is what I used on my Galaxy s3 before this phone. It got stuck on on a boot loop. I eventually tried flashing every stock ROM which did not fix the problem because ODIN would fail when trying to flash. Eventually I tried flashing the "G900A_ND3_Stock_Kernel" supplied in the tutorial. My phone magically booted up and all my APPS and stuff was the same as I left it and it was still rooted. I decided not to mess with it anymore. This happened about a month ago.
Today, my phone had a notification saying that there was an update and I tapped remind me later. Eventually, I installed Titanium Back up to force closed the AT&T Software Update app the phone came with. Then. it automatically updated and eventually got stuck into the boot loop again. No problem, I fixed this before. What I noticed from the first time was that I had a screen that said "Secure Fail: Recovery. System software not authorized by AT&T has been found on your phone. Please turn off your phone and go to the nearest AT&T store for help" Once I flashed the stock kernel from the tutorial I never checked to see if the recover menu was there.
So right now I have my phone working and its rooted. I installed the "Phone Info" app and it says Bootloader Version:G900AUCU2ANG3. Eventually, my phone will try to update itself again and it will fail causing it to boot loop. I am not sure on what to do. Is there a way for me to have my recovery menu back? I just want to have the option in the future to revert everything back to normal in case I sell it or feel like having the newest OS. Also it would be cool to have a recovery menu on my phone again.
I know this was long but I needed to solve this problem before it gets out of hand in the future. Also I am pretty sure others have followed the tutorial and might have had the idea to update the OS or something else and had a problem similar to mine.
Thank You Very Much.
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So you're still rooted?
And if so using titanium backup just freeze the ATT update app I forget what it's called exactly but you'll know it when you see it and that'll stop your device from trying to automatically trying to update
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So you're still rooted?
And if so using titanium backup just freeze the ATT update app I forget what it's called exactly but you'll know it when you see it and that'll stop your device from trying to automatically trying to update
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Yeah I'm still rooted and I found out about the freeze app option but do you know about the problem where I don't even have a recovery menu?
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Yeah I'm still rooted and I found out about the freeze app option but do you know about the problem where I don't even have a recovery menu?
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You need to download the safe strap recovery menu. That is for rooted phones with locked bootloaders.
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You need to download the safe strap recovery menu. That is for rooted phones with locked bootloaders.
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Thank You very much I was able to install the Safe strap Recovery and am now backing it up. Hopefully my last question Is there a way to update in the future for example if I wanted to have the OTA firmwares from AT&T without root in case I were to sell the phone?
Thank you guys for the answers.
xtremegamer13 said:
Thank You very much I was able to install the Safe strap Recovery and am now backing it up. Hopefully my last question Is there a way to update in the future for example if I wanted to have the OTA firmwares from AT&T without root in case I were to sell the phone?
Thank you guys for the answers.
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Odin back to stock
OPOfreak said:
Odin back to stock
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I've tried this in the past when my phone was stuck in bootloop, But it always failed since I have a different baseband or boatloader. Would you know which stock ROM I have to use because I tried many and had no luck in the past?
xtremegamer13 said:
I've tried this in the past when my phone was stuck in bootloop, But it always failed since I have a different baseband or boatloader. Would you know which stock ROM I have to use because I tried many and had no luck in the past?
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Read here links are still working
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2868776
OPOfreak said:
Read here links are still working
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2868776
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Wait, the thread is for Galaxy s5 Active. Will the G870AUCU1ANE4_Full_Odin.tar file work on my Galaxy s5 AT&T? Just making sure.
xtremegamer13 said:
Wait, the thread is for Galaxy s5 Active. Will the G870AUCU1ANE4_Full_Odin.tar file work on my Galaxy s5 AT&T? Just making sure.
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No my bad
Here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2862299
Even after a year on Android, I'm quite the novice, so please bear with me. So, I rooted my Moto X '14 using CF Autoroot because it was so easy. But, I had no idea how to unroot. So I googled some stuff and I attempted to flash back to total stock rooted rom and recovery. Foolishly, I picked the option to not wipe. So, when it rebooted, it went to the boot screen and crashed.
After trying everything, I realized I had no choice and did an external reset. So, hello 2014 because I'm back on KitKat but still was rooted. After looking around, I realized I can 'unroot' by pressing the option on SuperSU. But, I think all I did was revoke root access because on the bootloader, it still says modified.
I tried to go back to lolipop, but every time I take the OTA, the install crashes, but my phone works fine. So, what I wanna know is how I can go back to stock. Is it easy as flashing as flashing a 5.0 factory image? Or is there more I have to do?
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Ownage516 said:
Even after a year on Android, I'm quite the novice, so please bear with me. So, I rooted my Moto X '14 using CF Autoroot because it was so easy. But, I had no idea how to unroot. So I googled some stuff and I attempted to flash back to total stock rooted rom and recovery. Foolishly, I picked the option to not wipe. So, when it rebooted, it went to the boot screen and crashed.
After trying everything, I realized I had no choice and did an external reset. So, hello 2014 because I'm back on KitKat but still was rooted. After looking around, I realized I can 'unroot' by pressing the option on SuperSU. But, I think all I did was revoke root access because on the bootloader, it still says modified.
I tried to go back to lolipop, but every time I take the OTA, the install crashes, but my phone works fine. So, what I wanna know is how I can go back to stock. Is it easy as flashing as flashing a 5.0 factory image? Or is there more I have to do?
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Just flash system and the root will be gone. Also, if you have other mods like TWRP or different modem the OTA won't install, so in order to get the latest update just flash all the files
Good luck
juliospinoza said:
Just flash system and the root will be gone. Also, if you have other mods like TWRP or different modem the OTA won't install, so in order to get the latest update just flash all the files
Good luck
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Man, this would've been so helpful a month ago, lol.
Ownage516 said:
Man, this would've been so helpful a month ago, lol.
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Sorry. Usually I just browse the last 10 questions. And in this post I saw "bump" bit I didn't check that wasn't you who did it LOL.
juliospinoza said:
Sorry. Usually I just browse the last 10 questions. And in this post I saw "bump" bit I didn't check that wasn't you who did it LOL.
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Haha, it's all good. I just didn't know how that other dude dug this up.