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Issues with Safestrap - How to get phone booting properly?

So I just got this phone, and I've been trying to get it up to ICS. I've gone through and was able to complete the ICS update the first time completely, installed Safestrap, etc. Now this is where the issues came in. I did a backup, and then I started restoring some apps from titanium, from an old phone. This is where I started getting constant force closes. Tried fix permissions, went through again, same issue. So I wiped the phone, and went to restore with safestrap - it failed. Now on bootup, it refuses to even boot into safestrap anymore. All I can get is either a blank screen, or motorola recovery menu. By the fact that I can get into the motorola recovery menu, I presume it's not fully bricked, but I know there can be issues with installing on top of Safestrap.
Long story short, my question: In this condition, will flashing the same file I did during the ICS leak installation through Moto Recovery allow the phone to boot? Or will that cause a brick like downgrading from ICS does?

So, just to be sure, you installed one of the ICS leaks correct? Then you installed safestrap 2.0?
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Yes, that's exactly what I did. Was able to boot up into Safestrap (2.0) and restore through Safestrap, but after wiping /data I got errors with restoring a backup, and after rebooting to attempt it again, Safestrap splash screen no longer appears for me. It has the initial splash, and where the Safestrap splash should be, it just stays blank screen.

Not sure what would have caused this. I don't think you'll be able to flash the zip again since it looks for a .219 system build. Might be worth a shot though. You could also try booting into recovery and doing a factory reset. If neither of those work, try following the instructions for upgrading from one leak build to another.
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Tried Factory reset already, and attempted just flashing the update anyways - got an error saying build.prop file was invalid/missing?
Now I'm going through the tool steps to swap between ICS builds. At least I'll hopefully get something working.
Though I did do a step I forgot to mention, if that explains why it happened. After the Safestrap restore failed, I tried to do a partial restore of /system and /data. /system restored fine, when I went to do /data it said it was restoring /system in the log - could that have been an issue? A possible mistake in safestrap that overwrote the wrong folder? Or just an issue with the menu?

Doing the ICS switch got it working for me. Now to attempt round 2 and see if I can get into CM9, and Safestrap works right.
More research, root cause : Forgot to install busy box when doing the initial root.

Glad you got it working!
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Used safestrap, Unistalled and cant get stock recovery back, help?

pretty self explanatory. I used safestrap, unistalled it, when i try to get to the stock recovery i pick it from the fastboot menu using the up vol key and then the phone just boots like normal, never goes to the recovery. any ideas would be hugely appreciated.

zeer.row said:
pretty self explanatory. I used safestrap, unistalled it, when i try to get to the stock recovery i pick it from the fastboot menu using the up vol key and then the phone just boots like normal, never goes to the recovery. any ideas would be hugely appreciated.
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Are you still rooted? After rooting with any of jcase's methods (i don't know about the 4.4 one), rebooting to recovery just launches the rom without write protect. I'm not 100% sure, but I think you'd have to flash back to stock to recover stock recovery.
Why exactly do you want stock recovery back? Maybe we can work around it to get the results you want.
Also, you should post things like this in the Q&A forum.

JetOhmNet said:
Are you still rooted? After rooting with any of jcase's methods (i don't know about the 4.4 one), rebooting to recovery just launches the rom without write protect. I'm not 100% sure, but I think you'd have to flash back to stock to recover stock recovery.
Why exactly do you want stock recovery back? Maybe we can work around it to get the results you want.
Also, you should post things like this in the Q&A forum.
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well im worse off now. wiped my system. no rom. no recovery. think im royally screwed.

Yup, safestrap replaces your recovery, and since you nixed safestrap, your phone has nothing to fall back to. You're phone will be fine, I did the same thing when I unrooted and tried to install the 4.4 update. You just need to flash the stock recovery files in RSDLite. Will you loose your data? Sure (or you can save what you want on your computer), but your phone will be fine. Let me know if you get messed up trying to do this.

[Q] Semi-bricked my phone using SafeStrap :(

I've been modding androids, iphones, and windows phones for years now but I somehow ended up to finally brick a phone.
So I was running stock 4.3 rooted on my N900A and decided to install SafeStrap 3.71 in order to upgrade to Knoxraid. I followed this guide (kind of):
http://galaxynote3root.com/att-galaxy-note-3-roms/knoxraid-kitkat-rom-for-att-galaxy-note-3/
Everything went well and I got SafeStrap but I installed the rom to Rom Slot 1 instead of the Stock Rom slot., I rebooted into the regular download mode. Everything went okay with the install but after flashing the ODIN files I noticed that SafeStrap no longer booted to the recovery menu (of course). Knoxraid installed just fine but after booting into the rom I noticed that it would soft-reboot every 20-30 seconds. I couldn't get into Settings>General>Security. I couldn't load any apps because it rebooted too fast. It was basically useless. I booted into recovery mode to try and reload the rom there. Now I just get a black screen on bootup.
I think my saving grace might be that I took a backup of my phone using SafeStrap before I made any changes. However, how can I apply that backup without SafeStrap?
HELP!!

I've done this before and I'm wondering if I can do it again
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2559715

Okay I've made some progress. After restoring the original MJ5 ODIN files in the above link, SafeStrap came up after the reboot!!!!!! Now I'm doing a restore.in SafeStrap. I should be all set but I'll update in case anyone else has the same issue in the future.

It worked flawlessly after that. I followed the instructions to the letter and now everything is working perfectly!

Stuck in Safestrap disabled

I have Safestrap 3.7.2 and Lollipop rooted installed. I've googled and googled and can't find an answer to this. I booted into Safestrap to try to figure out how to delete an old NC1 backup I made. I hit the reboot/recovery button once. What a mistake. The phone booted into stock recovery. Now when the phone boots, I get a message saying Safestrap is disabled with the options of recovery or continue. Continue does nothing but gives me a blank screen. Recovery takes me into Safestrap, and I can't get the phone to boot back into Lollipop. If I hit reboot/system, I get the same Safestrap disabled screen. If I hit reboot/recovery, I end up in the stock recovery. It says to wait 10 seconds and it will boot, but all I get is a blank screen. I have Lollipop in the stock ROM slot with no other ROMs loaded. HELP!

Well the only thing I could figure to do was to ODIN back to NC2, use Towelroot to get root, install Busybox and Safestrap 3.75, install the OC1 rooted ROM, and reinstall everything via Titanium Backup. This time once I get the phone set up the way I want I will make sure to make a Safestrap backup. What a pain.

Unbelievable. After restoring everything via Titanium Backup, and then booting back into Safestrap to make a backup, I decided to wait and the only thing I did was to power the phone off. I'm getting the same Safestrap disabled message again. I'm not even sure how this is possible.

voigts said:
Unbelievable. After restoring everything via Titanium Backup, and then booting back into Safestrap to make a backup, I decided to wait and the only thing I did was to power the phone off. I'm getting the same Safestrap disabled message again. I'm not even sure how this is possible.
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Since you're on Lollipop did you flash the OC1 kernel before leaving Safestrap? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=59666958&postcount=2

Yes. What I have been finding after flashing/reflashing about 10 times today is that if I boot into Safestrap (v. 3.75) even once after flashing the rooted Lollipop Zip (OC1 that you linked to), Safestrap gets disabled. As long as I do not boot into Safestrap, the phone boots fine. Once Safestrap disables, I am dead in the water and can't get back into Lollipop at all. I then have to ODIN back to NC2, root with Towelroot, install Busybox, and then Safestrap to flash back to OC1.
I spent all day on and off messing with this. I'd really be in a fix without Titanium Backup.

voigts said:
Yes. What I have been finding after flashing/reflashing about 10 times today is that if I boot into Safestrap (v. 3.75) even once after flashing the rooted Lollipop Zip (OC1 that you linked to), Safestrap gets disabled. As long as I do not boot into Safestrap, the phone boots fine. Once Safestrap disables, I am dead in the water and can't get back into Lollipop at all. I then have to ODIN back to NC2, root with Towelroot, install Busybox, and then Safestrap to flash back to OC1.
I spent all day on and off messing with this. I'd really be in a fix without Titanium Backup.
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Only thing I can think of is something in your Titanium backup is messing things up. If you happen to flash all that again (not saying to do) but if you do, I would boot into Safestrap (once you install Lollipop) and flash the OC1 kernel to see if it boots ok. (Before you do the Titanium Backup).

Thank you for the replies. I failed to realize that I needed to extract the lollipop file and then flash the SM-N900A_OC1_Kernel_Safestrap_Installer.zip file contained within AFTER flashing the lollipop file. Yes, I get the stupid award for the day. Duh....
I extracted the file, copied to MicroSD card, and then booted into Safestrap and flashed it. Hopefully things will work correctly now. I feel pretty stupid.

I need help myself.. Every time I try to flash any type of zip I get stuck in safestrap disabled

How can I backup my rom.

I finally got my phone rooted on lollipop. I want to install the xposed framework but all the instructions say backup your rom. I rooted using Deodexed_ROM but when I do home button, volume, power. I don't see an option to backup my rom. I'm also confused does titanium backup only backup apps or can in do a full system rom backup that I can restore from in case of a looping boot when flashing.
thanks

Because the bootloader is locked on AT&T S5's you can't install a custom recovery therefore you can't do a complete ROM backup. If you use Titanium, you will backup all your settings and apps for future updates. If you bootloop you have to reinstall the ROM that works for your model. Then use Titanium to reinstall everything back to the way you had it. Paid version is best for this.

Sgt.CM said:
Because the bootloader is locked on AT&T S5's you can't install a custom recovery therefore you can't do a complete ROM backup. If you use Titanium, you will backup all your settings and apps for future updates. If you bootloop you have to reinstall the ROM that works for your model. Then use Titanium to reinstall everything back to the way you had it. Paid version is best for this.
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Technically, you can install safestrap for a custom recovery, but you'd also need to flash the NCE kernel to boot into safestrap. But, you'll likely softbrick trying to get back into the operating system, or you'll get constant app crashes. That's why I don't do system backups on lollipop. It was a headache getting the phone back to the way was.