Hey Everyone,
My girlfriends Galaxy S5 on Stock 4.4.2 is wiping itself every couple days. She says it just shuts off, then boots back up like its out of the box. One of the times it threw the "UID's inconsistent Error"
I have done a Factory Reset from within the OS the other day but it just wiped itself again tonight. Any ideas? Im past the 14 return period and AT&T wants to send me a "Like New" Device. This phone is only 32 days old!
Im wondering if a full format + Reinstall would help? Havent been around sammy's for a while, if someone could chime in on whats the next best step i would appreciate it.
After searching around and Trying to use odin with it failing, i think i want to try flashing the Stock NG3 firmware? I think its failing because i can only find the NCE firmware which is a downgrade and not allowed. I can bring it to best buy and have them flash it but working 14 hours a day i just dont have the time if i can do it myself with odin.
You'll probably want to start here if you want to use Odin
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2862299
"You stay classy San Diego"
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OK, after following the well worn mantra of "If it ain't broke, fix it until it is", I have found myself in an odd position.
My phone only lasted in stock format for around 45 minutes when I bought it about 8 months ago. It was rooted and flashed straight away and has been working well ever since. However, last night I decided to fiddle about with a few things and found myself in a bit of a pickle where I was S-On with the **security warning** error at boot. After a few heart stopping moments and 5 minutes of reading I was able to resolve this and revert my phone back to stock running 2.3.3 and Sense 2.1. To be honest, this had been where I'd been planning to get to but not quite by the route I took but hey-ho, I got there in the end.
Anyway, I know I can simply re-root my phone etc and flash a new rom etc but I wanted to play with the phone in stock format for a while so I could get some comparisons against what I was familiar with in custom roms.
After the usual boot up and adding in gmail account details etc, everything was up and running. I launched Market and expected things to start happening but other than getting a handful of updates to stock items nothing else happened - more specifically, Market did not update to Google Play. No matter how many times I went in and out it stayed as the very old Market.
I then tried to get any OTA updates (of which I know for a fact there is at least one) but my phone reports that it is up to date and no updates are available.
So, while I know I can go back to custom roms I still want to have a play with a truly stock phone - but not quite such an old one. Does anybody have any suggestions about how I can kickstart my phone to get it to the state it 'should' be in with the latest version of GB and Play?
mr nick said:
OK, after following the well worn mantra of "If it ain't broke, fix it until it is", I have found myself in an odd position.
My phone only lasted in stock format for around 45 minutes when I bought it about 8 months ago. It was rooted and flashed straight away and has been working well ever since. However, last night I decided to fiddle about with a few things and found myself in a bit of a pickle where I was S-On with the **security warning** error at boot. After a few heart stopping moments and 5 minutes of reading I was able to resolve this and revert my phone back to stock running 2.3.3 and Sense 2.1. To be honest, this had been where I'd been planning to get to but not quite by the route I took but hey-ho, I got there in the end.
Anyway, I know I can simply re-root my phone etc and flash a new rom etc but I wanted to play with the phone in stock format for a while so I could get some comparisons against what I was familiar with in custom roms.
After the usual boot up and adding in gmail account details etc, everything was up and running. I launched Market and expected things to start happening but other than getting a handful of updates to stock items nothing else happened - more specifically, Market did not update to Google Play. No matter how many times I went in and out it stayed as the very old Market.
I then tried to get any OTA updates (of which I know for a fact there is at least one) but my phone reports that it is up to date and no updates are available.
So, while I know I can go back to custom roms I still want to have a play with a truly stock phone - but not quite such an old one. Does anybody have any suggestions about how I can kickstart my phone to get it to the state it 'should' be in with the latest version of GB and Play?
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Here is the latest WWE GB 2.3.5/Sense 3.0 RUU
http://bit.ly/HlnQ0J
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Here is the latest WWE GB 2.3.5/Sense 3.0 RUU
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OK, I'm downloading this now and will give it a whirl. I'd still like to try and figure out why my phone won't update from its current state. It is a Virgin AU phone and I used their RUU to flash it so it is essentially back to the state I got it out of the box.
Ok so, me messing up and not thinking that Samsung devices would be so difficult to root compared to others, I tried downgrading my Note 3 from 4.4.2 to 4.3 in Odin. I used 3.09. Something had happened where I thought everything was fine but now it only boots up to the screen that says "Samsung Galaxy Note 3" and nothing more before Vibrating 2 times and starting over. I can go into download mode and if I try recovery it says recovery but when I let go of the button need to do so nothing happens but a boot back to the first screen. What did I do or need to do to get back to stock 4.4.2? I have tried everything but maybe not the right combo of things. Please I know that a answer may be in a thread from way back when but this is asap. I need it for tomorrow and have been working on it and researching it for 12 hours now before posting. Thanks in advance/.
Not to kick your head while you're drowning but a little more searching before rooting that 4.4.2 att note 3 could've saved you going to best buy to reflash the official firmware. It is unrootable at the moment. Also check out a thread by carl1961. It would get you booting again but it wouldnt be the official firmware.
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Hey guys,
Basically today I was getting tired of the android 5.0 install I had running on my S5 so I figured I would reinstall 4.4.2 via Odin - a process which I had done a few times previously. I didn't really think about the fact that I was going from one version of the OS to another, and whether this would create an issue, but it has. My phone now loads up the samsung logo, but doesn't finish the animation and then freezes. A few seconds later, the screen will go black and the LED on the top of the phone will just glow blue. The phone will sit like this forever, and never boot. I have tried re-installing the AP in Odin a few times, all of which show pass in Odin, but to no avail. I have also wiped all data and the cache within the recovery. I don't know where to go from here. Any suggestions?
Thanks
Philpro said:
Hey guys,
Basically today I was getting tired of the android 5.0 install I had running on my S5 so I figured I would reinstall 4.4.2 via Odin - a process which I had done a few times previously. I didn't really think about the fact that I was going from one version of the OS to another, and whether this would create an issue, but it has. My phone now loads up the samsung logo, but doesn't finish the animation and then freezes. A few seconds later, the screen will go black and the LED on the top of the phone will just glow blue. The phone will sit like this forever, and never boot. I have tried re-installing the AP in Odin a few times, all of which show pass in Odin, but to no avail. I have also wiped all data and the cache within the recovery. I don't know where to go from here. Any suggestions?
Thanks
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I think you need to find the lollipop kernel. But I'm not 100 percent sure.
try opening kies with your phone connected and look for a menu option to the effect of restore/repair device
sent from my galaxy a5 (SM-G900AZ) on Cricket
I'm not sure if this helps you or not, but I did the same thing, trying to downgrade. I did not take the OTA update when I went from KitKat to Lollipop, instead I flashed one of the Lollipop ROMs, so be wary of that. If you took the OTA update, I don't know if this will work for you.
Anyways, I spent the better half of a day trying different kernels and stock ROMs using the factory recovery etc and nothing was working, each time I would either end up frozen at the Samsung screen or the initial splash screen when you power the phone on. I found this thread here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/att...w-to-update-to-g900aoca-5-0-keeproot-t3076803
Under "notes", step 4 I downloaded the file G900A_Downgrade_to_NCE.tar and flashed through Odin. This is the file that got me out of this hole, so maybe it will work for you as well. After flashing, it rebooted and went past the Samsung screen to the initial first time setup screen. Looks like this put me back at stock UNrooted 4.4.2.
Good luck, hope this helps someone else out.
Wait, are you saying that you updated your phone using the stock recovery? Were you rooted? @mangomango
Its_Tim said:
Wait, are you saying that you updated your phone using the stock recovery? Were you rooted? @mangomango
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I flashed through Odin, but yes I was rooted when I went from KK to LP.
I purchased an AT&T sm-g900a that was supposed to come with 4.4.2 according to info on site and sticker on the box indicated it originally had 4.4.2 on it too. I have no way of knowing if someone flashed it with the whole 5.0 file or just updated it. It was sold to me as a new and unlocked phone, and I got a good deal. The phone looks new with an AT&T screen cover attached, packaging, etc. and contents were still in sealed packaging. Will this work? https://www.androidpit.com/how-to-downgrade-galaxy-s5-from-lollipop-to-kitkat ? Is this the same file as the downgrade one referred to? Sammobile only has the 4.4.2 file. There is a significant cost difference in this model and the t-mobile version. Otherwise, I would just return it. I do not like the newer software at all.
I had the same thing happen today with my g870a. I tried 5.0, and 4.4.2 kernels, 4.4.2 firmware (which I knew wasn't corrupt) in Odin but nothing worked. The whole reason was to go redo my Alliance Rom and use FF beside Safestrap (the LP kernal would get rid of the SS). What I ended up doing was going into stock recovery and went to where it says "install update from ext SD". Then I went into my FF backup and found twrp.zip and selected it. It's did some things, said some stuff failed, then booted up enough to get me to FF to get it straight. One problem...my g870a thinks it's a 900, wtf?
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First off Hello guys lol long time no speak
OK, so heres the issue, I flash and mess with my phone CONSTANTLY, sometimes to the point where I have to re flash the rom, so far that hasn't been an issue.
now heres my dilemma, I've never been able to create a FF backup, not on 4.4 OR 5.0 Flashfire just hates my phone and reboots before its done making one.
now I messed up my 5.0 install and had to Odin back to 4.4, now usually I can go through the steps to get back up to lollipop but for what ever reason, when I set it all up with Nh3 and root and all that FF will go through the motions, get to "Flashing system", and then geuss what
REBOOTS in the middle of it, ive been fighting for 2 days now. y 4.4 is stable so I have that but it simply wont let me bac to lollipop
ive tried:
- multiple versions of Flashfire
- and both versions of 0C6 Deoxed and not.
does anyone know of another way?
could one of you wizards maybe create a ODIN package for the deodexed one? that just eliminates all the hastle?
let me know please I miss my lollipop DX
Going back to stock from my rooted PopRocksV14. Haven't flashed ROMs in a while, so super rusty. Input welcome. TIA!
Questions:
1 Any faster mirror for N910TUVU2EQI2 than https://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/galaxy-note4/SM-N910T/TMB/?
2 How is the latest stock FW? Any reason not to upgrade? I'm just looking to get a stable phone and decent battery life, don't care about bloat
3 I'm looking to overwrite any Kernel and partition changes that PopRocks might have made, so is flashing back to stock rom going to do this?
Steps:
1 Make sure Samsung drivers installed
2 Download Odin 3.13 - https://odindownload.com/download/#.WyvXuCAnbAQ
3 Download EQI2 rom
4 Factory reset N910T
5 Run Odin as Admin
6 Start N910T in Download mode
7 Connect phone to PC via USB cable
8 Check Odin that COM is connected
9 Click PDA and select EQI2 tar file
10 Make sure Auto Reboot and F.Reset Time are checked, all other options disabled
11 Click start and wait for update to complete and phone to reboot
12 Factory reset N910T
I went ahead and tried it after the Sammobile download completed and it worked!
sfsilicon said:
I went ahead and tried it after the Sammobile download completed and it worked!
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@sfsilicon - hope you're still monitoring this old thread. I'm trying to revive my old Note 4 I found in a junk drawer - for my 6yo boy. It had some custom rom on it, and I've now attempted with Odin to restore the image EQ12 you had listed - it appears to be the most recent.
Oden gets about 99% done then fails and now the phone is stuck in some sort of emergency mode. I can get into download, but not recovery. I assume I hosed it - maybe the bootloader was the wrong kind from the prior custom rom (and I didn't take note of what it was since I was just wiping it out).
Bummer.
Sorry to hear about your problems. It has been a while since I reflashed back to stock. Did it on two note 4s. From your description only thing I can think of would be that you flashed from a rom that was from an earlier Android version to the latest and it is missing some files or partitions that would normally be part of that type of transition. E.g. if you had done all the updates via OTA vs gone from your custom rom to the latest stock TMO release.
So try to figure out what Android revision your custom rom was before this latest flash. Then check the posts about moving from that revision to the next latest one and see if there is anything special in between. You can then look for the stock TMO rom that matches your custom ROM then flash back to that. Once you have a ROM working, even an older you can flash the next updates till you reach the final/latest TMO version or just OTA it.
One other thing to check is if your custom ROM did any changes to the kernel files or other stuff. Then check with the old custom ROM how to reverse them. Not sure if flashing a stock TMO rom undos all this. Its been a while but would think so but its still a step to check.
Hope this helps and good luck! I'm actually using my N4 currently. I use it to hold a foreign SIM when I am travelling. Sort of a glorified hotspot. Gave my 2nd one to my mom where the large screen helps with reading text. Its still a nice phone.
Thanks for getting back with me. I was under the impression that regardless of what custom rom may have been on the phone, Odin was a way to wipe the slate clean and put it back to day-1 state. I have no idea what OS was on there, but I do recall a warning about the bootloader being modified and it may be impossible to roll back. That's going off of memory (which has a very low confidence level).
Now I can't even get it to power up at all. I think I'm going to bail and just get a cheap Chinese android phablet - don't need cell service. It's getting to the point that my time and patience is worth more than what I'm spending to rehab this thing. Sucks too... When I first got the N4, I was pretty proficient at swapping roms... But since I've not played with them in years, I've all but forgotten the basics.
Thanks for the suggestions, tho...
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