So i have to give a little history here. A while ago i put CM on a buddies phone, he didnt care for it, and we put it back to stock and i think we just left it rooted (this was months ago, so im not completely sure) anyways hes been doing OTA no problem, and the other night i guess he did the new one from ATT. i think this is 4.4.2, from doing tons of research it looks like his Knox got tripped, no big deal he just wants the phone to work.
As of now it boots up to the ATT logo and the globe freezes and thats it.
I was able to install TWRP, and then reinstall CWM (through Odin) thinking that might help. I've tried to flash i think 4.3 JB stock on there and then i get the "Auth Failed" line at the end.... i've tried factory resets, and attempted to update from his sd card but the files zip files are not being recognized...
in case its not obvious, ATT, Galaxy s3
Any ideas???
petersami said:
So i have to give a little history here. A while ago i put CM on a buddies phone, he didnt care for it, and we put it back to stock and i think we just left it rooted (this was months ago, so im not completely sure) anyways hes been doing OTA no problem, and the other night i guess he did the new one from ATT. i think this is 4.4.2, from doing tons of research it looks like his Knox got tripped, no big deal he just wants the phone to work.
As of now it boots up to the ATT logo and the globe freezes and thats it.
I was able to install TWRP, and then reinstall CWM (through Odin) thinking that might help. I've tried to flash i think 4.3 JB stock on there and then i get the "Auth Failed" line at the end.... i've tried factory resets, and attempted to update from his sd card but the files zip files are not being recognized...
in case its not obvious, ATT, Galaxy s3
Any ideas???
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You can try to flash a NE4 ROM on it through TWRP or CWM. If that doesn't work, try to flash NE4 with Odin.
Have you tried a factory reset?
crazymonkey05 said:
Have you tried a factory reset?
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ya tried everything, tried flashing through odin... absolutely nothing. i think guess my buddy has done the 4.3 updates for a while, and the latest bricked his phone... i guess we may have left it rooted, im not entirely sure. but he went and got an s5. i feel bad since i originally rooted it. but he's been doing updates without taking any time to research if he was causing any problems.
My current concern is my s3 was rooted as well and was thinking of going back to a stock rom and bootloader, but im worried if i update to 4.3 if that will cause a brick.... anyone know??
Have you tried the 4.3 firmware? Enewman17 has it in a thread in the development section I think.
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Ok, so I am not to sure exactley what I did. I accidental hit unroot in CWM. I have a recent titanium backup, but i suppose that will do me no good. I lost superuser permission to operate Titanium anyway. Also CMW as the app is useless to me now. I can boot into it using the volume down, home power option, but i can not get to anything there to restore it.
Do i need to re-root, or what direction should I be going in? All I am looking for is someone to point me in the proper direction, I feel horrible asking this here, as I normally know what I am doing.
Thanks for your help.
I am back to stock. Not rooted or anything, so there is one problem solved. I would like to OTA update, but it is saying i am up to date, and i am pretty sure 4.1.2 is not up to date. Oh well, im half way there.... i think...
sully42 said:
I am back to stock. Not rooted or anything, so there is one problem solved. I would like to OTA update, but it is saying i am up to date, and i am pretty sure 4.1.2 is not up to date. Oh well, im half way there.... i think...
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You have options, OTA to 4.3 (just advance time/date 24 hours or whatever time it says to check again) You will have a locked bootloader and Knox *****ing at you if you install root.
Or you can flash this through ODIN or CWM, You get root and 4.3
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2589891
dicksteele said:
You have options, OTA to 4.3 (just advance time/date 24 hours or whatever time it says to check again) You will have a locked bootloader and Knox *****ing at you if you install root.
Or you can flash this through ODIN or CWM, You get root and 4.3
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2589891
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Thanks! I got it to OTA to 4.3,I did not think about changing the clock, I ended up booting to CWM and factory resetting, then rebooted and it poped up with in 30 seconds that there was a software update.
I think I will flash that threw oden later. I was mostly freaking out because my phone was stuck between rooted, and not rooted. All sorts of apps where tweeking out on me. 4.3 is nice, but way to much junk installed by ATT.
cell carriers are the worst kind of people.
sully42 said:
Thanks! I got it to OTA to 4.3,I did not think about changing the clock, I ended up booting to CWM and factory resetting, then rebooted and it poped up with in 30 seconds that there was a software update.
I think I will flash that threw oden later. I was mostly freaking out because my phone was stuck between rooted, and not rooted. All sorts of apps where tweeking out on me. 4.3 is nice, but way to much junk installed by ATT.
cell carriers are the worst kind of people.
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No worries. This just came out yesterday.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2659569
A little of the crap removed. I'm running it, pretty smooth.
So, after months of tinkering and toying around with my TMO GN2... I have ran into nothing but problems with the ROM's I have installed... Tweaked, CM11, Liquid, Slim... doesn't matter - something doesn't work the way I want. At any rate, I upgrade in 2 months to a new phone and would like this thing just to go back to bone stock. Unroot, factory image, everything. Since I am on a 4.4.4 ROM, how would I do this? I know it involves a factory image and ODIN, but when I tried it locked the phone up twice. Lucky me, I had a backup ready to go...
Thanks.
svavrek said:
So, after months of tinkering and toying around with my TMO GN2... I have ran into nothing but problems with the ROM's I have installed... Tweaked, CM11, Liquid, Slim... doesn't matter - something doesn't work the way I want. At any rate, I upgrade in 2 months to a new phone and would like this thing just to go back to bone stock. Unroot, factory image, everything. Since I am on a 4.4.4 ROM, how would I do this? I know it involves a factory image and ODIN, but when I tried it locked the phone up twice. Lucky me, I had a backup ready to go...
Thanks.
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Try visiting this link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1955423 thread is by simplelife
svavrek said:
So, after months of tinkering and toying around with my TMO GN2... I have ran into nothing but problems with the ROM's I have installed... Tweaked, CM11, Liquid, Slim... doesn't matter - something doesn't work the way I want. At any rate, I upgrade in 2 months to a new phone and would like this thing just to go back to bone stock. Unroot, factory image, everything. Since I am on a 4.4.4 ROM, how would I do this? I know it involves a factory image and ODIN, but when I tried it locked the phone up twice. Lucky me, I had a backup ready to go...
Thanks.
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Factory reset. Odin the current TW tar file from sammobile. Boot phone and make sure it runs. Fuggeddaboutit.
So I rooted my s3 t999 so I could get cyaneginemod. I used the flashing rom way, and it didn't work,(i used twerp recovery) it kept saying failed, and then I went to the easier way of installing the rom with, the new cyaneinge mod app, (I'm still rooted). Then after waiting for it too finish my phone rebooted, but cyaneinge was not on it, instead it came with a page that said root missing I clicked on yes fix the missing root, n well nothing happens I was back on touchwiz, superuser was their but Samsung Knox kept it from doing anything but I used supersu to disable it. I thought that knox was keeping the cyaneinge mod app from working, so I decided to downgrade to 4.1 when knox didn't exist, bless that time, but I couldn't since odin kept failing at flashing a stock rom, I did this soo msoon times I went through every firm ware n back to 4.3, it kept failing, im pretty sure its boot locked, but the root is also limited, every time I reboot n go to recovery n leave it asked me if it should fix the missing root, but yes or no, it wont change, n every time I reboot it says optimizing apps 0 of 48, it takes at least 5 min to go through. N after going through every forum, YouTube video, asking friends, I still can't find a solution, n im stuck on a screwd up root version of 4.3 plz help
You cannot flash an older firmware once you are on 4.3. What was the error message you got when flashing the rom?
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You cannot flash an older firmware once you are on 4.3. What was the error message you got when flashing the rom?
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i don't remember but I used twrp n as I Was flashing through rom it said failed, same thing when I flashed 4.3 stock firmware on odin later
If you have Kies that will give you problems with Odin. And make sure you have latest twrp
Reflash your current firmware with Odin. Then flash recovery, then the rom. No need to root first.
If the rom flash fails, you need to post the exact error it gives, and attach the recovery.log or theres little we can do to help.
We could start throwing out guesses, but there could be dozens of things potentiality causing your problem.
Like I'm sure this topic hasn't come up before, but I've searched for hours and I'm probably just making things worse. I also just accidentally deleted this post halfway through. It's too late and I'm too tired and I have no working phone.
Bought an SGH-I747 on E-Bay. Got a Straight Talk SIM card kit, activated it, so far so good.
Rooted it with CF-Auto-Root. Worked pretty well, took a lot of reboots, upgraded the SU from the Play Store and it got rid of Knox. So far so good. Got everything all set up the way I like it. Happy.
It was running 4.4.2. I'm assuming it was the release prior to the November 12th OTA release, but I can't say for sure.
Phone downloaded and installed an upgrade automatically. Now, it won't boot. I get the SAMSUNG logo, then the Samsung Galaxy S III logo then nothing.
I retried the CF-Auto-Root, no change.
I booted into recovery (volume up, home and power on), did factory reset, no change.
Started looking around for a way to return it to stock. Found an upgrade43.zip file somewhere (I'm sorry I can't find where I got that now). Put it on the sdcard card and tried installing it with the recovery and it fails part way through.
At this point, I think I probably need to completely overwrite everything with something stock. I just don't know how to do that. I see posts on such subjects but they all have warnings that make me think I'm going to totally brick the phone, so I'm hoping someone can point me the right way. I'm not all that Android savvy, as you can tell.
Help.
Since your phone was running 4.4.2, do not attempt to flash any ROMs using that attempt to downgrade your bootloader to anything prior to 4.4.2.
Try this to get your phone up and running:
download the latest CM11 for the d2lte and save it to an external SD card: https://download.cyanogenmod.org/?device=d2lte
dowload the latest tar.md5 version of Philz Touch for the d2lte from here: https://goo.im/devs/philz_touch/CWM_Advanced_Edition/d2lte/
boot phone in download mode, open Odin 3.07, do not check anything except f.reset.time, flash Philz via PDA box, remove USB cable when you see the word Reset appear in the status window, remove battery, replace battery, boot into recovery, format system, Dalvik, data, and cache, flash cm11, and reboot.
Thank you for your reply. There are a few things in there I don't quite understand, but I think I can figure it out.
I was going to attempt this...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2658486
In fact, I did attempt it with TWRP last night after I posted here and new I still wasn't going to sleep. I kept getting an error about a bad ZIP file.
Is that stock restore a bad idea?
Do not attempt to flash an older bootloader. The mjb bootloader is from 4.3 and attempting to flash it could hard brick your phone.
I suggest doing what I suggested so you can confirm the bootloader and modem installed on your phone.
OK. Thanks. Probably a good thing I couldn't get it to work then.
Thank you so much. I have a working phone again. Now I just have to get it all set back up the way I like it.
I have to say, and it's probably words straight from the devils mouth, that I kind of wish I could have restored the Samsung stock software. It's just what I'm used to. But I will take what I can get.
A few questions. I like having root. But root is what got me in trouble in the first place. Is this going to be rooted now, or will I have to do that or am I better off just leaving it alone.
Second, I'm probably going to have questions since this is so different than what I'm used to (like I already can't find the Play store). Where is the best place to ask?
If you want root, one of the easiest ways to get it is to flash supersu from your custom recovery. Most ROMs are pre-rooted.
Many custom ROMs do not include Gapps. Just download and install the Gapps version for your ROM.
If you like the TW look, flash a TW-based ROM. Check out the development threads for different ROMs.
here is a thread for Q's that has some pretty good/friendly helpers on it if you need.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2257421
"all i can really do , is stay out of my own way and let the will of heaven be done"
How to save in to external SD card
How do you save the file into the external SD card? I am having the same brick issue with my GS3.
To save a file to an external SD card, just put the card into a card reader and save the ROM to the SD card.
A few days ago, my samsung started to act funny. I tried to send texts, but my phone just kept saying that it was sending the texts and hours later it would tell me that it failed to send the text. I thought it was weird, but I left it alone. Then, my phone no longer let me download any apps, every time I would try to download an app it would just stay loading without actually making any progress. Finally, I got sick of it so I tried to factory reset my phone. Only now, I can't get past the T-mobile splash screen. I bought this phone off ebay about 10 months ago and when I tried to update it, I was informed that the device was modified even though it was running stock firmware (no sd card at the time). Can someone please tell me how to fix my phone? I don't exactly have the funds to get a new one.
Try re-flashing a stock ROM from sammobile.com. Just make sure that the ROM you flash is not older than the ROM currently on the phone.
If you are unsure about the ROM on your phone and there is no warranty left, you could flash a custom recovery and custom ROM too.
I agree with audit13 that you should flash the stock firmware. It's the only way to reliably troubleshoot problems such as this.
I'm assuming it's a T999 or variant. If so rather than go to sammobile.com, you can find all firmware in my thread stickied in the development section and linked in my sig. (Much Faster download and you don't have to register on another site)
As warned above, just do not flash any older firmware (if your already on 4.3) than what is on the device. Only the same or newer.
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