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Removed Carrier IQ / CIQ, phone won't boot

You've probably heard about the Carrier IQ fuster cluck by now and, if you're like me, are up in arms and want it gone if you have it on your phone. I would suggest that you don't use the removal tool yet...
I am rooted using the "stock" method here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1342728 and just downloaded the tool from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=17612559&postcount=110 to check for CIQ on my phone (it was there) and purchased the license to remove it, which I also did. I then rebooted the phone as instructed but can't get past the SGS2 splash screen.
Can someone please help me... if I have to flash a new rom, fine - I can accept that. I should have been thinking before I did anything but I had only rooted up to this point and didn't have any Nandroid backups or anything and that's my fault. However, I used the internal phone storage or SD as my primary file location and need to access it to grab my files. Is there any way to do this if my phone isn't booting up?

I read another thread (can't seem to find it now I was on my mobile device), where another person did the same exact thing as you and had to ODIN to stock and start from scratch. The phone isn't bricked, but it's not going to boot now.
I'm disappointed because according to Caulkin's ROM CIQ is removed, but I used the tool you are speaking about as well and it states that CIQ still exists. I was going to pay the .99 and have it removed since that tool supposedly works for Samsung devices, but after reading that other thread and now yours - I'll pass.
I'd recommend re-ODIN'ing your phone, not from experience with the issue but just from what I read from the other thread - you aren't going to have much of another option.
EDIT: Here's the link to the thread with your exact questions pretty much and the answers you can expect - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1360988

Ugh. Thanks for the reply... this is so annoying. If I go that route, it's going to wipe all of my internal SD memory, too? I've already lost access to the items on my external card because I had that encrypted... but I used my internal for primary storage and have a LOT of items on there of great importance...
Starting from scratch I can deal with - losing all my files I can't.

What package are you on? It works on EG30, but not on EK02. Framework is different.
Worked find on my EG30. Waiting for it to be updated to the EK02 package. Should be around soon.

Not trying to nitpick, but you should always have at least two backups of your internal and external memory. That's at least what I do, usually I backup all my files once a week and do a NANDroid once a week. Saves the headaches from ever happening.
You could try three-fingering to see if you can get into recovery and see what you can do from there, but I don't think you are really going to be able to do much. This method has been tried and proven to soft-brick your phone.
I was going to attempt this method this morning and then did a simple search on XDA and found it had soft-bricked that guys phone I linked you too. That's all it would have taken...
Good luck.

I have some backups, as well as Titanium Media Sync running and Google+ uploading photos, but there are always gaps. Unfortunately I haven't done a 'hard' full drag and drop back up for a couple of weeks, and you can generate a lot of data in that time.
To tell you the truth I'm a little unsure about how or what it takes to have the ability to do a Nandroid backup. I've done plenty of them in the past but what I mean is that since I just did the stock root method I don't know if I needed to install CWM or something like that to get the ability to do a Nandroid. I just haven't had the time to research that fully so I hadn't done one yet.
For what it's worth, the ****storm about the CIQ thing just really exploded in the last 24 hours or less so I didn't think there was anything to look up about the removal tool. I guess I was so distracted about the BS that is Carrier IQ and just wanted it gone, so I ran the tool without thinking there was a database of information on it already. It was my bad.

In the automated rooting thread, you could choose Option C and select a kernel+CWM to install EG30+CWM and EG31+CWM are provided.

update: Fixed. Whew. Thanks for the suggestions, especially, sfhub. Did as you said over in the other thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1342728&page=26 ... will post followups there but basically flashed the stock rom in odin and phone booted back up like nothing ever happened. Well, the only difference really was the media scanner took a considerable time longer than usual on that first clean boot. Thank you so much, again, and see you over in the other thread w/ a few more questions...

dbaybay said:
I read another thread (can't seem to find it now I was on my mobile device), where another person did the same exact thing as you and had to ODIN to stock and start from scratch. The phone isn't bricked, but it's not going to boot now.
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Unfortunately, that was probably me. I freaked out too but just Odin the stock tar and all is well.....other than now being on E31 and now can't get any ek02 goodness.
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Lost IMEI, service, etc, issues - working on a fix. Need some input

So, over the past, well I don't know how long... ever since I started using my galaxy s III back in July, I have seen these threads pop up, and more so recently (to be quite honest this is a disheartening thing to see, and can easily be prevented, but we'll get into that) that say "hAlp ma service is teh failll I kant haz no moAr IMEI!!!" -__-
What is lacking in most of these threads, situations, occurrences, whatever you wanna call them - user error, lack of responsibility on this forum of the developers around here (myself included) to instruct people from step 1... BACK UP YOUR EFS PARTITION! There are many ways to do this, terminal emulator, the andromizer app, some handy tool I have seen floating around here where you connect your device to your computer, open it up, so on so forth. Everybody should be doing this. Everyone. But that is hardly the issue, nor the point of this thread - (pointing fingers).
Last night after seeing ANOTHER one of these threads where somebody had lost service to their device, costing them a good amount of $$$ now, it dawned on me that maybe, just maybe, the issue isn't that the partition is actually being corrupted, but maybe there is a problem occurring where the device doesn't actually read it - some type of failure or registry during booting. All of these instances have had one thing in common - the IMEI mysteriously disappearing and no service issue happen after boot up. And not necessarily after doing any 1 particular thing... granted yes, flashing a ROM, but that should have nothing to do with your IMEI not registering on a network unless said ROM has some kind of issue/bug whatever where it is simply not displaying such information in the status bar (unlikely, but who knows at this point, right?)....
Again, back to last night... I was curious to see if I could duplicate this issue that a user reported where they had flashed a kernel and their IMEI had disappeared. So, I picked some random kernel from asylum that carried the same 7500 device ID that my currently running kernel has of his (running asylumcore)...
Downloaded it, flashed it through cwm, booted up, BOOM! No IMEI. No service. Interesting. Didn't restore my backup of the efs partition which I had made a month ago, for obvious reasons stated - wanted to see if the partition was indeed corrupted, or if there was simply some kind of disk read error.
So I booted back into cwm, flashed back to my other kernel, booted up, and wouldn't you know it, IMEI and service was restored. So what does this mean... this means that the IMEI isn't, hasn't, never was, "lost" per say - there is simply an issue causing it not to be read properly.
So to troubleshoot this issue properly, I need people to pipe in who have "lost" (not really lost) their IMEI's. This is what I need to know:
what version of recovery were you using?
what ROM and kernel were you running right before this happened? Need the revision, android build (jelly bean, AOSP, whatever), everything, details please.
what did you flash or do to the device right before it was gone?
were you able to fix it? - a backup, reboot, reverted back to previous firmware? what?
This will help quite a bit. So far I have been able to duplicate a "lost" IMEI on my own device 4 times in a row, and been able to get it back without any kind of back up. I need some more information from some of you, however, to say 100% what is causing the issue.
Also, since we are already here. I will simply say that developers around here need to take more responsibility in their little "disclaimers"... seriously. If we all know that this is an issue, then we should be instructing people in our ROM threads to take measures to prevent this kind of thing from happening. Especially since at the moment it appears to be random, and especially since there are plenty of methods to be prepared for it. Just sayin.
Something as simple as this:
"Warning, certain users have an anomalous issue of losing their cell signal and having their IMEI not registering. It is highly recommended that if you intend on flashing ANYTHING to your device, that you read threads regarding this issue and furthermore that you make a backup of your EFS partition on your device to prevent permanent cell signal failure - in the event this anomaly happens to you, you will not be without a working device and out $600. Developers are looking into this issue and working on a fix, but as of yet, there is not definite fix. MAKE A BACKUP!"
Then how about a link to that thread for the andromizer app that is not stickied, not looked at ever? Not too hard to do. And would have been nice for those who were suddenly caught off guard by their device turning into a paperweight. Here is the link:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1972757
I am working on a write up right now to fix IMEI issues.

Sticky this. Excellent work and ingenuity. Im subscribing to this thread.
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From what I've gathered by reading here, lost IMEI issues due to kernel or ROM flashing can indeed be resolved by flashing back to whatever was working in the first place.
In the case of modem cross-flashing however, things aren't as cut and dry. I pulled an NV items backup (with NV_reader_writer) from my phone prior to restoring it to service with a backup from a working phone, and NV item 550 was returned as inactive, along with a bunch of others that shouldn't have been.

Very interesting write up here. I did actually had this happend to me on my GS3, that I purchased new from T-Mobile back in November. The first night I had it, my flashaholic itch kicked in. Before I knew it I was in the process of rooting the GS3....but all hell broke loose once I rooted. The Root kit at the time had a earlier version of CWM and it caused me to lose the IMEI# when flashing a CM10 rom.
So I did the whole process of reinjecting the IMEI# bla bla bla, I was able to retrieve data and IMEI. No issues what so ever after that. I even just in case did the whole QPST tool of backing up the IMEI# for just in case purposes.
Well a week ago, I was planning a installing a theme over the current Wicked Rom on my GS3. So I did the steps going into recovery, Wipe the caches and went to install the theme when I realized that out of my stupidness I never downloaded the theme. So I just did a simple reboot from TWRP 2.3.3.2 I believe if not it was 2.3.3.1. And once the my phone booted back to my home screen I had zero data.
So at that point I was utterly confused in what had happened. All I did was wipe the caches, I had no clue that the caches have ties with the EFS partion. Still till this day I have no Idea what happened.
I want to try other roms but I just so scared for this to happen to me again. What should I do to stop from having this happening to me again?
Thanks
So I knew the first thing to do is another reboot just to see if something might of hiccuped during the booting up process. But once it booted up again and back to the home screen still no data. Not even Edge, Had the Cancel symbol over my bars on the status bar. So I knew to check the IMEI# under phone status and sure enough it was not there just displayed Zero.
I knew I had a back up of the IMEI# so I tried to just reinject it, Since I knew it was basically a painless process. After doing so, Still no data, even though the IMEI# is showing CORRECTLY under phone status it still would not kick in even Edge. Eventually Edge would connect but it would be like Dial Up speeds.
So I Odin'd back to a Root66 stock rom and checked the status of the data and still no go. Everything is still showing under phone status at this point, so no loss of the IMEI# but no data at all.
So I Odin'd back to the T-Mobile Stock Firmware and same results and just for kicks I tried to reinject it once again and still nothing.
Ended up conducting the triangle away process, got it back to Samsung Official everything and even the Modified Status was set back to Normal status. Everything was back to stock at this point, Kernel, Modem, Rom, Bootloader, just everything was stock as if I just bought it. Still no data.
Conclusion I did a warranty exchange, got the new GS3 fully working ofcourse, gave it to the wife and bought me the N2.
Now I am terrified to do anything to this phone. I'm currently running MyRom Rev V2 and have a nandroid of the Stock firmware.

Sounds like the issue may have something to do with recoveries

same here !
My galaxy note 2 . I root the phone and put room T889_N7105ZHALJ4 it work fine for awhile but It have robot voice when calling .
and I try to boot another rom PhoeniX.ROM.v4.0.by.tamirda-signed this is big problem .
This rom make phone unable to connect network . after that I try to flash back old rom . It same thing . Make phone able to connect network .
My phone is now dead . only connect wifi . Try to call customer service . And now they have to send me another phone .

No idea after what 4 years of hacking android phones not once had that happened. Now I feel like a complete amateur because of that.
I'm literally terrified to do any thing else with my phone and I'm not at all that satisfied with the choice of rom I've selected either but it'll do till there is an answer for all the random issues people having with this generation of "Galaxy" series phones.
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Im having the same issues with no service. I have a t889 and a original sim card which was cut to microsim form. I had no trouble getting service. I rooted successfully and still had service. At this point I performed nandroid backup and efs backup and attempted to flash jedi x. As soon as I did this I lost service...it has bars but no voice calls and no 4g. My IMEI still shows however. I ve tried everything from stock factory restore through ODIN to restoring efs, flashing stock radios/kernels restoring nandroid still cant get service, defintely need some step by step advice on how to get back my service. I feel like I followed all the appropriate steps to flash the room.
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amullins said:
Im having the same issues with no service. I have a t889 and a original sim card which was cut to microsim form. I had no trouble getting service. I rooted successfully and still had service. At this point I performed nandroid backup and efs backup and attempted to flash jedi x. As soon as I did this I lost service...it has bars but no voice calls and no 4g. My IMEI still shows however. I ve tried everything from stock factory restore through ODIN to restoring efs, flashing stock radios/kernels restoring nandroid still cant get service, defintely need some step by step advice on how to get back my service. I feel like I followed all the appropriate steps to flash the room.
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Same problem I had I had imie showing but I keep having instability connection. So what I did is claim insurance and got my new note 2. I belive it must ben defect of the phone because I have no issue with my new phone running jedx9
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I paid full price for my phone so.. no insurance, and even if I could what if I experience the same problem with another Note 2? Then I just lost more money and time. I followed all steps correctly for T889, I feel like this should be reversable if I have nandroid backup and EFS backup. Hopefully developers can help us out with this to figure why this issue is occuring in some Note 2's and not in others.

Yes please trt figure out how to fix this issue yes I also notice people are hav8ng lost service or instability data due to this problem with flashing. I encounter this problem I and lucky fof me tmobile sent me a new phone due to claim it was defective.
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I can't believe all these pple are saying help me help me.
The OP has been kind enough to risk his note 2 and lose imei intentionally to try to find the cause and a fix.
He clearly says, to do this I need everyone's help who's lost imei (I need as much detail as possible. Rom, kernal, modem, version of jelly bean, version of twrp. Flash anything before lose? Mods,tweaks, themes, scripts if so what?)
That's all OP is asking for and not one person has been specific
And I don't think OP has replied to anyone. Who knows probably gave up trying to find a fix.

Haven't given up. Just don't have enough data to conclude what the issue is. All I know for certain is that when it is "lost" it isn't really lost, just not registering the info or reading it.
But yeah, not a whole lot of input.

Hey guys just fyi to let you know what I found with this issue. Just giving my input.
Well it looks like my imei is populating but my note 2 no longer gets service. Im probably going to warranty it so I can get service again I spent all of my weekend trying to fix. I think this issue may be related to something within the modem or radio being flash incorrectly and somehow corrupting the efs files. I searched forums about efs corruption and I think maybe it has something to do with a nv_data file missing? Not sure if that applies for sgn2 but I couldnt find or maybe I dont know WHERE to find it in root explorer. Maybe if we compare a working sgn2's efs file with a NON WORKING sgn2's efs file maybe that would help? I followed the steps in the t889 root guide step by step... and then as soon as I flashed Jedi X9 through cwm recovery BAAM...service was gone.
I tried reflashing, I tried reflashing stock modem\kernel and reverting back to stock via odin but no go.I did notice it was able to connect to tmobile for one to two sec because it would actually sync the time and date after turning on for the first time. But never again after that. My Imei and bars are showing ..but when I make a call it says "not registered on network" and no 4g either. I think this may be because the rom had included a different radio not sure which one defintely wasnt the canada ver. Flashing this rom somehow made my phone stop receiving service...Does restoring efs backup a guaranteed fix the lost imei/ service issues? Can flashing using earlier version of odin cause an issue? I used 1.84. Everything passed successfully however. Just throwing ideas to help. I definitely want to try to avoid the issue when get my note 2 back from repair.
Before I had this issue I had the latest stock firmware from tmobile the 889VALL4 modem and kernel 4.1.1 jellybean. No problem rooting the phone and still had service after root with chainfire method.

My guess is the phone doesnt have true root towards the efs/modem/nv levels with the current custom recoveries available... its like twrp and cwm arent messing with those files but when flashing certain roms those files are being mishandled.... therefore creating the restore ineptitude
Ultimately I have only used well known roms and kernals that others have tested without hitches (for all my android devices) like CM or Jedi... those "third party" roms arent trustworthy in my mind as to some devs "open source" often translates into "cut and paste" which can be problematic to say the least
With the GNII, i have used CWM (not sure on build but I can find out) and TWRP (only 2.3.3.2 never 2.3.2 or whatever was before)... and like I said "well tested roms/kernals" so cf_auto_root, then Teshxx lk8 stock, then Teshxx ll4 stock, then Jedi 9 with saber_7+, then Jedi Master 9 with Saber 10.2, and finally switched to the Perseus kernal 3.0.36 alpha 32...
Never any issues with connectivity, imei, anything...
Hope this helps and more importantly you find what is lacking and get the info to CWM and TWRP for updating (id say let the rom devs know too but by bettering the Custom recoveries, roms like all other devices, wont affect those files
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I will add no roms were ever flashed through CWM... only had it because I was use to it and new to TWRP... my Bro in law made the suggestion and it looks like its the best advise he could have given me to this point... that and my overall patience to not jump the flash gun... again I cant stress this enough, only use well tested roms/kernals/etc... I know CWM came by surprise as we all have grown to love it but its not perfect and even other recoveries were there before (RA, etc) and it wont be the last (TWRP)
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i got mine working
here is what i had... i lost my note and got a replacement.. then i found my note in my girls car.. no service i insert my sim no service my imei was blacklisted. so i googled ways to change my imei. no dice the terminal emulator way didnt work. i said i got a paper weight and i can **** with it so i did.. got in the service mode *#197328640# and toyed with everything in there.. lost all the network setting and signal and in the
umts /debugmode /common/ rebuild nv it said it will delete my efs part. so i did haha lost my imei bootloader serial number and everything that makes my note a phone. a few days later i was at it again but this time i was going to fix it hoorah! so read and read bout efs part and googled some more and more.. and found this..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1801997
what i did was backed up my new notes efs/ nv files and used them in my other note.. now i have 2 notes with same serial number and imei i gave one to my wife and both are working like new.. but having 2 phones on same family plan with same ime/sderial numberi just wont cut it. so i decided to change the imei and foud this....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1804123
the old imei is bad and wont work so i need a different one.. lucky i had a old samsung behold2 laying around the house .. turned it *#06# a new imei!! yay now i dont have a clone phone but more of Frankenstein monster.. cool huh when i log in to my tmo account it says samsung behold on the other line,,

^lol ....

maktucali said:
here is what i had... i lost my note and got a replacement.. then i found my note in my girls car.. no service i insert my sim no service my imei was blacklisted. so i googled ways to change my imei. no dice the terminal emulator way didnt work. i said i got a paper weight and i can **** with it so i did.. got in the service mode *#197328640# and toyed with everything in there.. lost all the network setting and signal and in the
umts /debugmode /common/ rebuild nv it said it will delete my efs part. so i did haha lost my imei bootloader serial number and everything that makes my note a phone. a few days later i was at it again but this time i was going to fix it hoorah! so read and read bout efs part and googled some more and more.. and found this..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1801997
what i did was backed up my new notes efs/ nv files and used them in my other note.. now i have 2 notes with same serial number and imei i gave one to my wife and both are working like new.. but having 2 phones on same family plan with same ime/sderial numberi just wont cut it. so i decided to change the imei and foud this....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1804123
the old imei is bad and wont work so i need a different one.. lucky i had a old samsung behold2 laying around the house .. turned it *#06# a new imei!! yay now i dont have a clone phone but more of Frankenstein monster.. cool huh when i log in to my tmo account it says samsung behold on the other line,,
Ok so what effects does the frankenstein have? Everthing works fine?? You should send the devs a copy of your beast for autopsy!
Anything you have to do differently trying to do this for the GNII?
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I "lost" IMEI lastnight, Just got the phone rooted with Exynosabuse. Then i Flashed CF-Auto root with mobile odin. Then I flashed Note2Core 7105 with Mobile odin.
When i woke up in the morning I noticed no signal, Baseband is unknown and so is IMIE. And I didn't back up EFS. :crying:
I booted into recovery and wiped still the same. I also re flashed the kernel.
Downloading stock rom hoping that will work :fingers-crossed: This is a N7105T ( I know this is a T-mobile thread)

Follow this guy he fix his lost imei and baseband I dunno it might work
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2145967
Nailed it!!!!!!!!! My 4g is back again
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[Q] I am willing to be a test subject for I747 with IMEI, S/N issues

I recently lost my IMEI and didn't have a backup. Stupid move on my part. Now I know I need to do a backup before flashing ROMs. Anyways, I just got off the phone with AT&T and I will have a replacement here in 2-3 days. As I'm sure most of you know I'll have 10 days to send my old one back. Before I return it to stock and send it back I am willing to help in the research of this problem and a potential solution. I have done a lot of searching on this forum and I haven't found a solid solution. If anyone has some theories they would like to try you have a few days to let me know and I'll see if I can be of help.
Here is the history of the phone as best I can remember:
-Bought brand new December 7, 2012
-Updated to Jelly Bean 4.1.1 through Kies. No noticeable problems
-Rooted with Odin v3.04 Team Epic Root from Recovery with CWM v5.0.4 and Super User I kept the stock ROM for awhile before flashing anything else (Made a Nandroid of this ROM) No noticeable problems.
-Flashed Drew Garen's Serenity 1.2 No noticeable problems
-Flashed Pure Motive's Galaxy Mod Rls 14.1 No noticeable problems
-Flashed Pure Motive's Galaxy Mod Rls15 (This is where the problems began) Did a full wipe (data, cache, dalvik) like I always did. Rebooted after flash and noticed that my service sucked and my data wouldn't connect. I checked the APN's and they were wrong. Changed the APN's and the data would connect but I still had poor service. The phone wouldn't even make a call. It took me a little while to figure out that the IMEI was missing. It just read 0. After some searching I found a method of injecting the IMEI: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1804117 I used this method and put the original IMEI back in. Of course that didn't fix my data or poor service issues.
-Then I tried Peoplearmy's method: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1801997 Actually I only did the make a backup part with QPST. I couldn't use the QCN Generator app because I only had Windows XP and the app requires Windows 7.
-I flashed my Nandroid backup. No help.
-Flashed Stock Jelly Bean I747UCDLK3. No help.
-Rooted the phone again, using the same method as above.
-At this point I became desperate (stupid) and tried a method for the GT-i9300: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=30773406 This definitely didn't work and now I lost my serial number.
-Last night: Finally got access to a Windows 7 computer. Tried The SGS3 QCN Generator app. This time it worked and made a QCN. I injected it into the phone. No help. The QCN data I used was from after I lost IMEI and had manually put it in. I'm not sure if this is part of the problem of why it didn't work or not. The way I understood things it was supposed to repair the other parts of the QCN data. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.
-I actually made an EFS backup on Galaxy Mod Rls14.1 using the Aroma installer. From what I've read this wouldn't necessarily help anyways because it doesn't contain all of the data needed to do a complete backup which is kind of beside the point because it's in tar format not in zip and it's a tiny file. 58 Bytes.
-I have installed Root Explorer and looked in the EFS folder and it doesn't contain any nv_data files.
I have already installed Triangle Away and cleared my flash counter.
So, if anybody who actually knows what they're doing (cause I obviously don't) would like to help, especially if my situation can be used to fix/prevent this from happening, and wants to use me and my I747 as a Guinea Pig let me know.
-Right as I was getting ready to post this I scrolled through settings>about device>status, and my correct Serial Number was back. What the ....? The only thing I've done to the phone is toggle airplane mode a few times, turn it off and on a few times, used wifi to get online, pulled the battery, booted up in CWM recovery. I haven't flashed anything to the phone. This is odd. Any help or feedback would be greatly appreciated.

Huh? There's a perfectly good solution and a fix. Not sure why itnwouldnt work for you. It works for everyone else.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1801997

I tried that. Exactly step by step. I still don't have reliable data. It either doesn't connect or stays on Edge. Also the service sucks. Everyone else around me will have 3-4 bars and I'll have 1.

Opie Knievel said:
I tried that. Exactly step by step. I still don't have reliable data. It either doesn't connect or stays on Edge. Also the service sucks. Everyone else around me will have 3-4 bars and I'll have 1.
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Changing your modem can fix that.

I was thinking of that but I read on here somewhere that someone had tried it without results. I am willing to try it though. Which modem would you recommend? I already have i747UCLG1 modem on my memory card, ready to flash.

Opie Knievel said:
I was thinking of that but I read on here somewhere that someone had tried it without results. I am willing to try it though. Which modem would you recommend? I already have i747UCLG1 modem on my memory card, ready to flash.
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I can't really recommend a modem as they act completely different with your area/phone.
The only suggestion I can make is to use one from your carrier (AT&T). But it doesn't mean another one won't work better.

OK. I'll give that a shot and post the results in a few minutes.

Yeah I've used the IMEI injection tool to full effect. I have full data back. Using any other method to try to fix it would be just plain stupid. There is nothing else to test.

BAM1789 said:
Yeah I've used the IMEI injection tool to full effect. I have full data back. Using any other method to try to fix it would be just plain stupid. There is nothing else to test.
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Did you get all the missing files back in your EFS folder?
Maybe I messed up somewhere. I don't have my full data or service back yet. I'm trying a few different modems to see what that does. It really doesn't matter if I get this fixed or not. I've already got a replacement on the way. I was just hoping that it could help somebody else out and I kinda like fixing things. The 2 modems I've tried so far aren't having any better results. I've got a couple more to try.
Would it be worth a try to redo the entire QPST, QCN Generator process?

I received my new Galaxy S3 today. That was Fast!! Lol Anyways, my research proved to be right. There's more going on than meets the eye when you loose and restore your IMEI. The original phone lost signal and would hardly ever connect to HSPA, only UMTS. The replacement phone automatically connected to HSPA as soon as I had it setup. I read on here somewhere that a lot of people were having the same problem when they re-injected their IMEI. I used the SGS3 QCN GEnerator app and still couldn't get good data connection. Actually I hardly had any connection at all. It would hardly pic up incoming calls and texts were sometimes an hour or more behind coming in. Flashing different modems didn't help either.
I'm going to do the proper backups this time before doing any flashing and if I have any more problems of this nature I'll have a good backup to fall back on.

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Hello T Mobile Galaxy S4 users! I've taken this thread idea from Marlybru, one of the most helpful Recognized Contributors on XDA, who got the idea from Undercover, just to give proper credit where it is due.
The HTC Sensation has had an ongoing Noob Help thread for more than a year now and it's been an invaluable resource to people of all skills levels looking for answers to questions that might get flamed if asked anywhere else.
There are a lot of people joining XDA on daily basis, and there are a lot of repetitive questions being asked which fill up Development Threads and the main Q&A Forum. Post those questions here!.
First things first. I strongly advise you to read this thread before posting ANYTHING ANYWHERE on XDA.
Second The SEARCH button is your best friend. It will go to war with you. It will tuck you in at night. It lives to serve you! Use it! Almost any question you can think up has already been answered on XDA. Before posting in threads see if the Search Button will fine the answer for you. If you can't find the answer or if you don't understand the answer, then come here and the community will do all it can to help you figure it out.
Third. Re-read the Second thing. This cannot be stressed enough.
Fourth. Don't just come here to ask questions. Come back to help others! In a fairly short time many of you who come to this thread to ask super noobie questions will start to get pretty proficient at Android modding. Please keep coming back to this thread to help the next wave of rookies that are coming after you. Remember, you needed your hand held once, pay it forward by holding someone else's hand.
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Odin, ROM's, rooting help etc...... you will either get an answer or will get pointed in the right direction.
Please, be aware of the model of your phone when asking questions.
This thread and this entire forum deals with the T Mobile Variant of the Samsung Galaxy S4 model SSGH - M919.
Other Samsung Galaxy S4 Variants
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Verizon
Sprint SPH-L720
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No abuse towards noobs or silly questions is tolerated here!
There is no such thing as a dumb question in this thread. If you need to ask how to take the back cover off your phone or how to wipe cache, feel free to ask it here. All questions are welcome.
If you engage in noob bashing here because someone asked a simple question I will search your post history and find the posts you made when you first signed up here about which button turns your phone on and post them here for everyone to laugh at. (By the way, go take a look at my rookie posts. There are some doozies.)
Everyone was new here once,so Noobs New users, please take the time to familiarize yourselves with how things work in the forum by reading this helpful guide. I linked this above, but it's such a great guide on how to be a great XDA Community Member that it's worth linking it twice.
As development continues and we start seeing patterns of repeat questions I'll link answers to the most common questions here in the first couple posts of the thread. So keep an eye out for those updates over the next several months.

Some of the most common questions....
What is the difference between the S4 Development Forum and the S4 Original Development Forum?
The regular development forum is for ROMs based on Samsung's Touchwiz version of Android
The original development forum is for AOSP or other based non Touchwiz ROMs, recoveries, and such
What is Odin?
Odin is a program that lets you flash things to a Samsung mobile device from a PC. It's an invaluable part of modding Samsung devices.
Here is a guide by k0nana about how to use Odin. You can find download links for the software there as well as a few other things.
If you need a little more detail on how to use Odin this is a more detailed write up by Intratech explaining how to use it. (Note, do not download and try to install anything from this thread. That is a thread with GS3 files. If you try to put those on your GS4 you will not be happy. This thread is for information on Odin ONLY!)
How do I root my Galaxy S4?
CF-Auto Root by Chainfire
What ROMs are there for the T Mobile GS4?
Here's a big list of them with links all organized in one place. Thanks to MT3G.
What recoveries are available for the T Mobile SGS4?
ClockworkMod
TWRP
PhilZTouch
OUDHS
What are all these installed apps on the stock ROM that I don't know anything about?
That could be bloatware. Stuff T Mobile and Samsung put on there for a variety of reasons. See this list by Xologist explaining what all those APK's are.
How come my 16GB phone says I have only 5GB available even though I just flashed a fresh ROM?
First off, you never had 16GB free. That's the total memory on the device. That includes the space for the ROM, recovery, bootloader, system files, data, and then what's left over is your user partition which is abou 11GB for you to put photos and music on.
But if you make a nandroid backup using Clockwork Mod Recovery it saves the backup in a hidden directory that uses up a lot of space. (About 1 GB for an AOSP backup and 2 or 3GB for a TouchWiz backup). You can use the CWM Recovery App to find and upload the backup to your computer over Wifi for safe storage. Or you can just delete he backup if you no longer need it.
I bought a phone off Craigslist and the IMEI is bad!
You learned a valuable lesson. Don't buy phones off Craigslist. And don't try to change your IMEI. It is illegal to do so. And don't ask XDA how to change it because we can't discuss that here.
However, if you haven't bought you used phone yet and you are worried about it having a bad IMEI, have the seller meet you at a T Mobile store and get the sales rep to verify its a clean phone with no outstanding payment due and that the IMEI won't be blocked in the future. Just be sure that YOU pick the store to meet at. Don't let the seller pick the store in case he has a T Mobile rep working with him.
THESE POSTS / ARTICLES SHOULD BE CONSIDERED REQUIRED READING FOR ALL NEW ANDROID USERS!!!
http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile...plained-boot-system-recovery-data-cache-misc/This is a great write up of how Android is organized under the hood. This is invaluable knowledge to help you get better not just at modding your phone, but for really understanding wha you're doing.
This post by The TechnoCrat explains what most of the common words and phrases you will hear around XDA mean. Things like 'Kernel' and 'Clock Speed' and 'Governors'. If you don't know what terms like that mean, do yourself a favor and read this post. It is like the Rosetta Stone to understanding 95% of threads on XDA.
Another great post by Technocrat that explains the difference between the various available governors.

And also reserved so I can add lots of FAQ stuff here later.
Bookmark the post now, so you can say you did it before it was cool.

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Hello!
I've had this problem for a while, and haven't been able to fix it because of school, but now that I have time, I wanted to fix it
I tried too root my s4, and I got it to work, and everything works fine, except the storage seems to be broken.
It says that there is only 400 MB of available space, but it has a total space of about 10 GB, most of which is still unused, and I can't install anymore apps or stuff, because it complains about not being enough space, even though it has at least 400 MB left
Any help would be appreciated

Peopie said:
Hello!
I've had this problem for a while, and haven't been able to fix it because of school, but now that I have time, I wanted to fix it
I tried too root my s4, and I got it to work, and everything works fine, except the storage seems to be broken.
It says that there is only 400 MB of available space, but it has a total space of about 10 GB, most of which is still unused, and I can't install anymore apps or stuff, because it complains about not being enough space, even though it has at least 400 MB left
Any help would be appreciated
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Have you by chance made more than 1 backup using ClockworkMod?
I don't know that this is your answer issue, but I've seen something very similar on the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 series of tablets.
What was happening was that ClockworkMod recovery was backing up everything on internal storage including user data that was on teh SD Card parition of internal storage. So the backups were like 4GB intead of 1GB. This was happening because CWM was originally written for phones that had like 1GB or less of internal storage and it was made to back up everything on internal storage, not just on the system and data paritions.
Then the problem compounded itself on later backups because CWM stores it's backups in the internal memory partition. So for the second backup it would backup the entire contents of the internal memory again so the backup would be another 4GB, and this time it would also include the last backup, which was like 4GB alone. So the total backup size was 8GB instead of the 1GB it was supposed to be.
And the best part was the the backups were being hidden on the internal partition like CWM likes to do now so they were taking up a ton of space but weren't showing up as used space on the internal storage graphs.
That problem got fixed by the ClockworkMod team for the Galaxy Tab 2 series of tablets so I assume they addressed it on the recovery for all devices. But maybe you are still seeing a similar issue on your GS4.
You should be able to check if this is the problem by going to the ClockworkMod app and looking at your backups. Try deleting one of them (copy it to a PC or to the EXT SD Card if you don't want to lose it) and then see if your available internal memory goes way up afterwards.
If the problem isn't CWM (Or if you're not using CWM), I'd bet it's still something similar, where you have very large files that aren't being reported to the graph in settings. Try copying the entire contents of the SD Card to either an external SD card or to a PC just so you dont' lose anything. Then boot to recovery and format the data partition, which is the internal SD card. See if you have 10GB again, and then copy all your files back. (Look at them on the PC first and make sure there isn't a 6GB file in there somewhere)

Skipjacks said:
Have you by chance made more than 1 backup using ClockworkMod?
I don't know that this is your answer issue, but I've seen something very similar on the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 series of tablets.
What was happening was that ClockworkMod recovery was backing up everything on internal storage including user data that was on teh SD Card parition of internal storage. So the backups were like 4GB intead of 1GB. This was happening because CWM was originally written for phones that had like 1GB or less of internal storage and it was made to back up everything on internal storage, not just on the system and data paritions.
Then the problem compounded itself on later backups because CWM stores it's backups in the internal memory partition. So for the second backup it would backup the entire contents of the internal memory again so the backup would be another 4GB, and this time it would also include the last backup, which was like 4GB alone. So the total backup size was 8GB instead of the 1GB it was supposed to be.
And the best part was the the backups were being hidden on the internal partition like CWM likes to do now so they were taking up a ton of space but weren't showing up as used space on the internal storage graphs.
That problem got fixed by the ClockworkMod team for the Galaxy Tab 2 series of tablets so I assume they addressed it on the recovery for all devices. But maybe you are still seeing a similar issue on your GS4.
You should be able to check if this is the problem by going to the ClockworkMod app and looking at your backups. Try deleting one of them (copy it to a PC or to the EXT SD Card if you don't want to lose it) and then see if your available internal memory goes way up afterwards.
If the problem isn't CWM (Or if you're not using CWM), I'd bet it's still something similar, where you have very large files that aren't being reported to the graph in settings. Try copying the entire contents of the SD Card to either an external SD card or to a PC just so you dont' lose anything. Then format the internal SD card using the formating option from the system settings menu. See if you have 10GB again, and then copy all your files back. (Look at them on the PC first and make sure there isn't a 6GB file in there somewhere)
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I had a feeling that some back-ups were taking up the space.
I have OUDHS as my recovery, and I noticed that it was only able to keep track of one, or I was only able to restore from the most recent back up. I guess I should switch to another recovery. I had TWRP on it for a bit, but it was too sensitive, and extremely difficult to scroll down the lists of menus without accidentally opening something. I wonder if that has been fixed in some of the later revisions of it though
There is a ClockworkMod app?
I assume you mean the internal storage is the internal SD card, and not the removable Micro SD card; I didn't know that that part could be reformatted.
Would ticking re-partition on odin do something similar?
Thank you for your help by the way!

Yes there is am clockwork mod app that let's you control and organize the recovery settings and to keep your backups organized. It is available on the play store.
Yes Im talking about the internal storage. Android 4.2 calls that the SD card and the removable storage the EXT SD or SD 1. You have files hiding on the internal storage. I've never used OUDHS so I'm not sure how it stores its backups.
As for formatting the internal storage I wouldn't mess with repartitioning in Odin unless you really know what you are doing. Just boot to recovery and wipe data. Sorry I said something different before...I was thinking about the external SD card for a second. (Back up the data to the external SD card or a PC first, obviously). If you want to be really thorough do a factory reset. You will have to redo all your settings doing that though. But either way should clear the internal SD card.
Sent from your phone. You should be careful where you leave that thing.

Hello I was wondering if there was anyway to disable the phone from playing the ring tone and notification tones through the speaker while wearing headphones. Do I need a custom rom for this? Thanks.

Hi, can someone confirm for me that I'm following the correct steps? I haven't found anything clear on exactly how to go about the process of returning my device to 100% stock after searching and viewing many threads. I have the general idea, and just want clarification on one part.
I ODIN flashed the official MDL image.
I rooted my device using CF-auto-root.
I used Triangle Away to change all my bootloader information to official and change my information to official.
I then wiped my data/cache in stock recovery.
I once again ODIN flashed the official MDL image to remove traces of root that were added by CF-auto-root, such as the SuperSU app and binary.
I think it's all back to stock. Everything in download mode shows as official. My system status says official in the about menu within the ROM. The one thing I can't see on this device is the flash counter without rerooting with CF-auto-root again, so I want to confirm that ODIN flashing M919UVUAMDL_M919TMBAMDL_M919UVUAMDL_HOME.tar.md5 did not increment my flash counter. I wouldn't think it would seeing as it's a official tar, but I figured it'd be best to ask the people who know for certain before taking it in for replacement.

crawler9 said:
Hi, can someone confirm for me that I'm following the correct steps? I haven't found anything clear on exactly how to go about the process of returning my device to 100% stock after searching and viewing many threads. I have the general idea, and just want clarification on one part.
I ODIN flashed the official MDL image.
I rooted my device using CF-auto-root.
I used Triangle Away to change all my bootloader information to official and change my information to official.
I then wiped my data/cache in stock recovery.
I once again ODIN flashed the official MDL image to remove traces of root that were added by CF-auto-root, such as the SuperSU app and binary.
I think it's all back to stock. Everything in download mode shows as official. My system status says official in the about menu within the ROM. The one thing I can't see on this device is the flash counter without rerooting with CF-auto-root again, so I want to confirm that ODIN flashing M919UVUAMDL_M919TMBAMDL_M919UVUAMDL_HOME.tar.md5 did not increment my flash counter. I wouldn't think it would seeing as it's a official tar, but I figured it'd be best to ask the people who know for certain before taking it in for replacement.
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Are you taking it back to t mobile for warranty replacement? If so you should be good. The guy at the t mobile store isn't going to check your flash counter, which should be 0 anyway based on the steps you took. If you boot into download mode you should be able to see if the flash count is zero. I think if its zero it won't show anything. If its more than 0 you will see the flash count.
Sent from your phone. You should be careful where you leave that thing.

etherealglimpse said:
Hello I was wondering if there was anyway to disable the phone from playing the ring tone and notification tones through the speaker while wearing headphones. Do I need a custom rom for this? Thanks.
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Are you using the headphones with the mic that let you talk on the phone phone over headphones? Or are you using straight headphones that are for listening to audio only?
I think, but am not sure, that this makes a difference.
If someone else can give a better answer I welcome it.
Sent from your phone. You should be careful where you leave that thing.

Skipjacks said:
Are you taking it back to t mobile for warranty replacement? If so you should be good. The guy at the t mobile store isn't going to check your flash counter, which should be 0 anyway based on the steps you took. If you boot into download mode you should be able to see if the flash count is zero. I think if its zero it won't show anything. If its more than 0 you will see the flash count.
Sent from your phone. You should be careful where you leave that thing.
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Skipjacks said:
Are you taking it back to t mobile for warranty replacement?
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I am. It's been heating up so much while it's been charging that it stops charging and pops up a message saying the battery temperature is too high.
Skipjacks said:
If you boot into download mode you should be able to see if the flash count is zero. I think if its zero it won't show anything. If its more than 0 you will see the flash count.
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Are you sure about this? I don't think I've ever seen a flash count on this phone and have read that it is completely hidden on this phone, and that you never see it. I didn't see anything in download mode before using Triangle Away either, but Triangle Away showed a flash count around 15 before resetting it, so obviously it had been incremented.
Skipjacks said:
which should be 0 anyway based on the steps you took.
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That's what I really wanted to know. In other words, using ODIN to flash an official tar should not increment the counter at all... Thanks!
Skipjacks said:
Sent from your phone. You should be careful where you leave that thing.
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Very clever. I like your signature.

crawler9 said:
I am. It's been heating up so much while it's been charging that it stops charging and pops up a message saying the battery temperature is too high.
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For this purpose I think you are fine. The guy at t mobile isn't going to check the flash counter.
Are you sure about this? I don't think I've ever seen a flash count on this phone and have read that it is completely hidden on this phone, and that you never see it. I didn't see anything in download mode before using Triangle Away either, but Triangle Away showed a flash count around 15 before resetting it, so obviously it had been incremented.
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I am not 100% sure, no. What I described has been the standard on Samsung devices for a while, but they might have changed it. But if you really want to check you could reroot it and use triangle away to check the flash counter again. If you had set it to 0 it should only be 1 when you get it rooted again. Then you can do the original steps to take it back to 0.
That's what I really wanted to know. In other words, using ODIN to flash an official tar should not increment the counter at all... Thanks!
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I'm not completely certain of this either. But again I am more than completely certain that t mobile will take the return and will never realize that its been flashed. I am assuming you are taking it to a t mobile store.
Also read this thread...other people talking about doing exactly what you are.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=42639795
Sent from your phone. You should be careful where you leave that thing.

Skipjacks said:
Are you using the headphones with the mic that let you talk on the phone phone over headphones? Or are you using straight headphones that are for listening to audio only?
I think, but am not sure, that this makes a difference.
If someone else can give a better answer I welcome it.
Sent from your phone. You should be careful where you leave that thing.
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I think there's no way to change it. I've tried both. The volumes in the headphones reduces and I hear the ringtone through the earphones and through the phone speaker at the same time. Maybe it's a feature but I don't' like it lol.
Also, I think the sounds sucks on sgs4 compared to sgs3. Anyone experiencing this? It just doesn't sound too clear through headphones and I'm using pretty decent headphones. ath-m50, r7, senn 595
Update: I think the source files I was using was crap oops. I tried a good 320 and now it sounds just about the same lol.

Installing Heimdall on OSX 10.7.5
Greetings, seriously dumb question: I'm trying to install Heimdall on my Mac. In the readme file it says to install simply run "heimdall suite.pkg," but I can't find it anywhere in my download. What am I missing here?
Thanks!!

My city just got LTE yesterday and I seemed to have lost my tethering abilities. I'm on DarthStalker and the unlimited data plan. I was able to tether before with no issues... Does LTE have anything to do with not being able to tether now?

rizoh66 said:
My city just got LTE yesterday and I seemed to have lost my tethering abilities. I'm on DarthStalker and the unlimited data plan. I was able to tether before with no issues... Does LTE have anything to do with not being able to tether now?
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This sounds like a question for t mobile customer service. But...don't talk to the basic call center. Try to get tech support on the line as they will actually know what LTE is.
If LTE is the problem, can you keep the phone connected at non LTE speed and fix it? Or does that still not work?
Sent from your phone. You should be careful where you leave that thing.

tarqeq said:
Greetings, seriously dumb question: I'm trying to install Heimdall on my Mac. In the readme file it says to install simply run "heimdall suite.pkg," but I can't find it anywhere in my download. What am I missing here?
Thanks!!
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Sorry I have never used a Mac in my life and have no idea how to help you. You might try asking this in the help thread for the AT&T variant, the i9505. There are more users in that forum and your question is obviously not variant specific.
Sent from your phone. You should be careful where you leave that thing.

Skipjacks said:
This sounds like a question for t mobile customer service. But...don't talk to the basic call center. Try to get tech support on the line as they will actually know what LTE is.
If LTE is the problem, can you keep the phone connected at non LTE speed and fix it? Or does that still not work?
Sent from your phone. You should be careful where you leave that thing.
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Can't call tmob support, I have the unlimited data plan and am using the tethering hack built into DarthStalker's rom.
Yes, if I switch it to hspa+ 4G then I can tether. But I was hoping to take advantage of the LTE speeds.

[Q] Crashing apps and loss of service?!

Hey guys, long time browser, first time poster, but not a reason for celebration, alas.I come to you guys out of frustration after hours of being unable to solve my issue cruising the interwebs, and the thread title kinda says it all.
To start from the beginning, I recently delved into the rooted world by means of towelroot (kitkat 4.4.2), installed xposed framework, got the modules XBlast and XPrivacy, and you might have guessed, fiddled around with each. Everything was fine and dandy until I was having issues receiving/making calls through an app (LINE, if you know it), and so I attempted to figure out what the issue was, very much assuming XPrivacy to be the culprit. Couldn't get it to work, which is when I decided to restore my backup I made using Clockwork. Should have been nice and smooth sailing, but...
Upon having it "restored" I booted on into it, which is when I got smacked in the face; as soon as I'm booted, most, if not all, my apps are reporting that they have stopped working by a bombardment of error messages in endless succession, making just browsing the home screens almost impossible. Also with this barrage came the lack of cell service, a nice white n' slashed out circle in what should be my bars of signal. I tried again to restore my phone from my backup. Same issue, but I did notice during the recovery it made mention of something like "secure_android" missing? This sent me on my hours of head banging, turning up *possible* resolutions, which didn't work. I've tried flashing the stock bootloader, gapps, and nothing. Now, my data and apps are all still there and I can get into recovery without issue, it's just the pain of not being able to actually using any of it.
I have debugging switched on on my phone, but do not have some sort of adb app installed on it, nor could I access any market place to try. I'm not so sure I would be able to install anything on my phone given my current circumstances, anyway.
Please, if any of you out there have some idea as to what is going on, I'm all eyes (as ears on a forum don't work so well)! If there are any details I may have omitted and so on, just let me know and I'll supply it--
Thank you all so much in advance for any possible steps that may resolve this issue!

Fingerless said:
Hey guys, long time browser, first time poster, but not a reason for celebration, alas.I come to you guys out of frustration after hours of being unable to solve my issue cruising the interwebs, and the thread title kinda says it all.
To start from the beginning, I recently delved into the rooted world by means of towelroot (kitkat 4.4.2), installed xposed framework, got the modules XBlast and XPrivacy, and you might have guessed, fiddled around with each. Everything was fine and dandy until I was having issues receiving/making calls through an app (LINE, if you know it), and so I attempted to figure out what the issue was, very much assuming XPrivacy to be the culprit. Couldn't get it to work, which is when I decided to restore my backup I made using Clockwork. Should have been nice and smooth sailing, but...
Upon having it "restored" I booted on into it, which is when I got smacked in the face; as soon as I'm booted, most, if not all, my apps are reporting that they have stopped working by a bombardment of error messages in endless succession, making just browsing the home screens almost impossible. Also with this barrage came the lack of cell service, a nice white n' slashed out circle in what should be my bars of signal. I tried again to restore my phone from my backup. Same issue, but I did notice during the recovery it made mention of something like "secure_android" missing? This sent me on my hours of head banging, turning up *possible* resolutions, which didn't work. I've tried flashing the stock bootloader, gapps, and nothing. Now, my data and apps are all still there and I can get into recovery without issue, it's just the pain of not being able to actually using any of it.
I have debugging switched on on my phone, but do not have some sort of adb app installed on it, nor could I access any market place to try. I'm not so sure I would be able to install anything on my phone given my current circumstances, anyway.
Please, if any of you out there have some idea as to what is going on, I'm all eyes (as ears on a forum don't work so well)! If there are any details I may have omitted and so on, just let me know and I'll supply it--
Thank you all so much in advance for any possible steps that may resolve this issue!
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Sounds like your backup was a downgrade (old version).
I would suggest doing a factory reset, test it. If that doesn't do it, use Odin to flash stock firmware (which can be found in the general section stickies).

BWolf56 said:
Sounds like your backup was a downgrade (old version).
I would suggest doing a factory reset, test it. If that doesn't do it, use Odin to flash stock firmware (which can be found in the general section stickies).
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Thanks for responding! I did try a wipe data/factory reset via CWM, then restored from there. Didn't work. I'm not sure if there is a particular order in how it should be done such as "factory reset, reboot phone into recovery, restore" or if I should be able to get away with "factory reset, restore", the latter being what I did. I also got a hold of a bootloader file and modem base band for build I747UCUFNE4, if those would be useful in any way.
If it's of any help, I somehow got the Unofficial Omni ROM 4.4.4 to work without any issue, but not quite happy enough with the overall interface of it, yet slowly adapting having installed a touchwiz launcher just to hold me over.
I've tried locating the backup CWM created on my phone so that I could store it on my computer and generate another backup as from what I read, the unpaid version only allows you one at a time, but had no luck digging through my directories. I'm currently investigating this online nandroid backup thing to see if there's anything to it.
I've also come across some file labeled "I747UCUFNE4_Stock_Rooted_Deodex" which is a zip, but I'm reading ODIN uses tar as it's compression of choice? Does this mean I should flash this file via recovery, or? Also, the file size is a whopping 920MB or so... that normal? (Edit: this is where I found the file http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2788357 which says to flash in recovery)
Thanks again for your response! I was really thinking my problem would just be glanced over.

Fingerless said:
Thanks for responding! I did try a wipe data/factory reset via CWM, then restored from there. Didn't work. I'm not sure if there is a particular order in how it should be done such as "factory reset, reboot phone into recovery, restore" or if I should be able to get away with "factory reset, restore", the latter being what I did. I also got a hold of a bootloader file and modem base band for build I747UCUFNE4, if those would be useful in any way.
If it's of any help, I somehow got the Unofficial Omni ROM 4.4.4 to work without any issue, but not quite happy enough with the overall interface of it, yet slowly adapting having installed a touchwiz launcher just to hold me over.
I've tried locating the backup CWM created on my phone so that I could store it on my computer and generate another backup as from what I read, the unpaid version only allows you one at a time, but had no luck digging through my directories. I'm currently investigating this online nandroid backup thing to see if there's anything to it.
I've also come across some file labeled "I747UCUFNE4_Stock_Rooted_Deodex" which is a zip, but I'm reading ODIN uses tar as it's compression of choice? Does this mean I should flash this file via recovery, or? Also, the file size is a whopping 920MB or so... that normal? (Edit: this is where I found the file http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2788357 which says to flash in recovery)
Thanks again for your response! I was really thinking my problem would just be glanced over.
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I meant factory reset without restoring.
But now that you're back up and running, there's no need for it (unless you flash another ROM). You could flash NE4 if you wanna get back on the official ROM but there are also tw custom ROM which you can look into (you're currently using an aosp one).
As for the 920mb, yeah.. That's Sammy at its best, bloating their ROMs.

BWolf56 said:
I meant factory reset without restoring.
But now that you're back up and running, there's no need for it (unless you flash another ROM). You could flash NE4 if you wanna get back on the official ROM but there are also tw custom ROM which you can look into (you're currently using an aosp one).
As for the 920mb, yeah.. That's Sammy at its best, bloating their ROMs.
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You think it would be safe to do a factory reset and try to restore just the data from my recovery? Or is it possible that the data is somehow the issue with everything going wonky?
I'm very new to the ROM thing, Omni was easy to get up and running, but actually playing with a ROM was more of a last ditch effort to see if the problem would be resolved that way and give any sort of indication as to what the issue was (still haven't the sllightest). It's currently not rooted (at least according to my root checker) and the towelroot method doesn't seem to work on it. I kinda need to be rooted if I wanted to make a nandroid, I really want to make a back up of what I currently have set in case I screw the pooch trying to get things back to "normal", yet I'm afraid of overwriting my only recovery and losing whatever data is embedded, though I'm not too deeply saddened by the thought of not having chat histories and whatnot, it would just be nice to have. Perhaps you have thoughts, or anyone else out there, on the matter? I know my first step would be to at least root my current ROM, then back up, I found this as a means to root Omni (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2672160), but how do I determine whether I'm using an ARM based or x86 based device?
Good to know the file size for the stock ROM is considered normal. I didn't even consider carrier/Samsung bloat to have such a huge impact.
Thanks, yet again!