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I notice I cannot flash certain roms with twrp
Has anyone else noticed this?
I haven't tried cwm for this device is it better than twrp as of this writing?
Most noticeable I cannot flash mini or cm10
Maybe bad downloads to tablet?
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I've only ever used CWM, never had an issue.
humdrum2009 said:
I notice I cannot flash certain roms with twrp
Has anyone else noticed this?
I haven't tried cwm for this device is it better than twrp as of this writing?
Most noticeable I cannot flash mini or cm10
Maybe bad downloads to tablet?
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i enjoy twrp much more than cwm. anyways, anything thats flashable in twrp, is flashable in cwm. and vice versa. it could be bad downloads. it could also be that your recovery is outdated and needs to be updated.
humdrum2009 said:
I notice I cannot flash certain roms with twrp
Has anyone else noticed this?
I haven't tried cwm for this device is it better than twrp as of this writing?
Most noticeable I cannot flash mini or cm10
Maybe bad downloads to tablet?
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You need to use TWRP 2.3.3.0 when installing CM 10,1 nightlies. Android 4,2 brought folder structure changes.
I just changed to TWRP yesterday and find it much more enjoyable than CWM.
I use twrp and have never had any problems with it, its so much better than cwm
Bad downloads to tablet were the culprit.
Side loaded from pc no problems'
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This has been done MANY times before.
I recently purchased the Galaxy S4 and I make 1080p video tutorials on how to unlock, root, install custom recovery, roms, and etc.
Here are some videos that I know will help a lot of people out. I put a LOT of time and effort into making the best videos possible. If you have any suggestions for videos to make, please let me know! I'll be doing videos on roms and other development stuff found in the threads.
ALL of my Galaxy S4 Videos can be found HERE,
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL16F7F948A9277141
The EASIEST WAY to Root the Galaxy S4! (STILL WORKS WITH MF9!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONzxfyTnWIY
How To Root the Galaxy S4 (OLD)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoHSesWTP5U
How To Install and Update Custom Recovery
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiYSH64NpU8
How To Install CyanogenMod 10.1 on the Galaxy S4!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwEAi_Y7UrY
How To Manually Update the Sprint Galaxy S4 to MF9!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMNV2H-2GvA
Sprint Galaxy S4: Official MF9 OTA Update First Look and Review
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-h4avjwX3o
How To Update the Sprint Galaxy S4 Firmware to MF9!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90oDtNOsygM
(That's for if you're running CM10.1 and want the latest baseband and firmware bits.
How To Install ForceROM on the Galaxy S4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPi-pr5jtmI
How To Unroot and Flash the Galaxy S4 to Stock Android 4.2.2 MDC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD5CHlrPQJQ
How To Update your Galaxy S4 to MDL with Root
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yw77X_rCtqY
As far as I'm aware, this is the only thread in the Galaxy S4 forums with "How To" videos all in one place.
There will be MANY more Galaxy S4 videos to come. I'm going to do my full review of ForceROM once I've had time to play with it and can do an honest review. I will be doing a video on how to flash it stock this week or next week. Plus many more rom videos, tips/tricks, and etc.
Mine... Because all of the kids are doing it these days.
Many more videos will be added soon!
Dude you rock
I love the 90s. Good times.
This should be a sticky as well as the other video.
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you can install ota's with custom recovery btw
its messing with anything on system that causes installs to fail
I'm assuming these methods are for MDC and not MDL correct?
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shabbypenguin said:
you can install ota's with custom recovery btw
its messing with anything on system that causes installs to fail
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I've always had it fail with custom recovery. And I don't usually uninstall system apps. I'll note that in the video though! Thanks.
wwjoshdew said:
I've always had it fail with custom recovery. And I don't usually uninstall system apps. I'll note that in the video though! Thanks.
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in the old days ota's used to wipe everything and reinstall the rom, thus removing root. since gingerbread all they use is patch files, thankfully too. could you imagine a 1.5GB "ota"? it checks the hash of all the files its going to be updating, if it needs to update modem and you have a diff modem then it will fail, if you removed an apk it needs it will fail etc.
its why cwm/oudhs will detect if teh su binary has been altered with permissions and /system/etc/install-recovery.sh as they tend to be teh results of otas
Thanks boy.!
Awsome i was waiting for this.! thanks dev.! great :highfive:
shabbypenguin said:
in the old days ota's used to wipe everything and reinstall the rom, thus removing root. since gingerbread all they use is patch files,...
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Am I understanding this correctly? So if we've rooted and installed a custom recovery but everything else is stock we can accept an OTA without breaking root?
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Just_s said:
Am I understanding this correctly? So if we've rooted and installed a custom recovery but everything else is stock we can accept an OTA without breaking root?
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normally id say yes, as teh custom recovery will detect root has been altered and restore it. with this new setuid stuff it is no longer the case :/
shabbypenguin said:
normally id say yes, as teh custom recovery will detect root has been altered and restore it. with this new setuid stuff it is no longer the case :/
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This freaking update is nagging me and won't go away. I was talking with @Unknownforce, and now I don't want to install it...
I flashed the Slim Rom and the annoying update went bye bye.
This is really great thread Josh. What do you recommend for a rom. I need wifi teather
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shabbypenguin said:
you can install ota's with custom recovery btw
its messing with anything on system that causes installs to fail
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Everytime I tried to flash the ota it failed at the flashing point. I'm thinking it was due to the kernal being changed in my root process. I used OUDHS recovery method. ... Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong which I might be.
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Really, you have done a great job. I have seen all of your videos, but I did not find anything, which is needed to change. Superb !!.. It helps many people who have a galaxy S4. Thanks a lot for sharing such a helpful thing.
ironromulas said:
Everytime I tried to flash the ota it failed at the flashing point. I'm thinking it was due to the kernal being changed in my root process. I used OUDHS recovery method. ... Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong which I might be.
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If you didn't remove the stock bloat then you'd need to throw the stock recovery back on.
Have already seen the ota fail with twrp and oudhs.
(That's if you really want the ota to work)
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kkrunner7777 said:
This is really great thread Josh. What do you recommend for a rom. I need wifi teather
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ForceROM has the working hotspot mod. I used it just yesterday. Plus it's debloated and pretty awesome!
ironromulas said:
Everytime I tried to flash the ota it failed at the flashing point. I'm thinking it was due to the kernal being changed in my root process. I used OUDHS recovery method. ... Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong which I might be.
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as i explained earlier, the only way a ota will pass while you use custom recovery to flash it, is normally if you have custom recovery and root and thats all. alter system in any way and you risk the ota not going. replacing the kernel is guaranteed way to make them fail, almost every ota ever has included a new kernel update.
Tahde said:
I'm assuming these methods are for MDC and not MDL correct?
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Forgive my ignorance but what is mdc and mdl?
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Can we flash the att 4.4 s4 roms on our phone that say their safestrap compatible? If not where would b the roms for us att users who r rooted and still on 4.2.2? I see only international version Compatible but non that say att....
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bigfdaddy2 said:
Can we flash the att 4.4 s4 roms on our phone that say their safestrap compatible? If not where would b the roms for us att users who r rooted and still on 4.2.2? I see only international version Compatible but non that say att....
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A little searching will go a long way.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2491762
I did read that post multiple times actually.. I've tried a few with no success that it lists as works.... Also u still didn't answer my question and neither does that post....
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bigfdaddy2 said:
I did read that post multiple times actually.. I've tried a few with no success that it lists as works.... Also u still didn't answer my question and neither does that post....
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You're right, I didn't fully answer your question there are a bunch of SafeStrap threads out there and a few of them have the answers you're looking for, but not the one I linked to.
Since we have a locked bootloader we cannot flash things that aren't signed by Samsung. SafeStrap gets around this by redirecting everything to a different data partition. Unfortunately it can only do this after the kernel loads, and since there's no way to flash a different kernel you're stuck with the stock kernel on your phone. This is important.
You can only flash ROMs that work with the stock kernel on your phone. So since you are on MF3, you can only use ROMs that are based on 4.2.2 TouchWiz. If you're on MI2 then you can flash 4.3 TouchWiz-based ROMs. So you are very limited as to what you can flash.
As for not being able to get ROMs to work, you need to make sure you have enough free space when creating a ROM slot, 4-5 GB should be plenty. You cannot share apps or data between different ROM slots so be careful with your space. You should be able to get the GPE ROM to work, I'm using it right now. So completely delete your ROM slot 1 and recreate it. Then follow the steps exactly as they are written in the thread I linked to and make sure you flash the proper module files for your phone.
If you have any other questions, let me know.
Ty for being more in depth in ya answer and that... I have tried the gpe room three times and it never boots it goes to Android stock recovery..
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bigfdaddy2 said:
Ty for being more in depth in ya answer and that... I have tried the gpe room three times and it never boots it goes to Android stock recovery..
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Three questions:
What stock firmware are you on?
What version of SafeStrap are you using?
What modules are you flashing afterwards?
If you could link to everything, including the ROM it would be helpful.
I'm on mf3, safe strap 3.71,gpe 4.2.2 listed in thread with roms that are working with safestrap... Mf3 master patch as listed in thread that supposed to contain all the files in one
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The thread I used to get the patches n rom from.... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2491762
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bigfdaddy2 said:
I'm on mf3, safe strap 3.71,gpe 4.2.2 listed in thread with roms that are working with safestrap... Mf3 master patch as listed in thread that supposed to contain all the files in one
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I think SS 3.71 is for 4.3, you need SafeStrap 3.65, for 4.2.2
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bigfdaddy2 said:
I'm on mf3, safe strap 3.71,gpe 4.2.2 listed in thread with roms that are working with safestrap... Mf3 master patch as listed in thread that supposed to contain all the files in one
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You need to be using SafeStrap 3.65 if you're on MF3. 3.71 is for 4.3 stock ROMs (MI2). One you do that everything should work just fine.
U were correct 3.65 safe strap worked ...currently using the Google play edition as my main os and must say it brought this phone to life ...its much snappier and responsive then it was stock rooted....
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bigfdaddy2 said:
U were correct 3.65 safe strap worked ...currently using the Google play edition as my main os and must say it brought this phone to life ...its much snappier and responsive then it was stock rooted....
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Make sure you disable the AT&T updater on your stock ROM just in case they try to push an update and lock your phone down.
Well using the gpe I don't have speaker phone...I can hear them but my mic won't work ...know I flip it back to earpiece my mic works ...what up with that ??? Anyone else with that issues ???
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bigfdaddy2 said:
Well using the gpe I don't have speaker phone...I can hear them but my mic won't work ...know I flip it back to earpiece my mic works ...what up with that ??? Anyone else with that issues ???
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There are two known issues with GPE, read the thread they've been talked about in depth. Also that thread is probably where this question belongs.
As you've reported this is one of the known bugs, there is no fix. The other is that you cannot see your phone's storage from a computer when connected via usb. Again there is no fix.
Please post all ROM-related questions in their respective threads.
I'm stock rooted 12b and I can't seem to find where there are instructions on how to get on a custom recovery. Please look me to it! Preferably cwm, but I'll take twrp as well. Thanks a bunch and I'm very sorry. I did search and I fear I just missed it.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2554053
VS980/12B Firmware/TWRP 2.6.3.3
Decepticaons said:
I'm stock rooted 12b and I can't seem to find where there are instructions on how to get on a custom recovery. Please look me to it! Preferably cwm, but I'll take twrp as well. Thanks a bunch and I'm very sorry. I did search and I fear I just missed it.
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very easily done just get freegee "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=edu.shell.freegee_free" this will unlock bootloader, and install either cwm or twrp. from there you can update either with their own apps "goo manager for twrp and rom manager for cwm"
Find the twrp.img and flash via adb. 2.6.3.3 or 2.7.0.0
on the move..
Ended up using Flahify. Found it in another thread. Thanks everyone for your help though. Mods feel free to lock this.
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Hello Guys,
Is there a Rooted Flashable Zip for T-810 MM? I searched the forums but couldnt find it. I see the ODIN stock versions but not a rooted flashable one.
Not that I've seen. It really isn't necessary, since all you need to do is grab one of the MM images, flash via Odin, then flash the most recent SuperSu.
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disturbd1 said:
Not that I've seen. It really isn't necessary, since all you need to do is grab one of the MM images, flash via Odin, then flash the most recent SuperSu.
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What one do you grab and from where? i thought i read the 5g wast working totally with other images?