Hi there
I'm hoping someone can help me out with a few questions as it's been a while since I've played around with a samsung device. I have a rooted s4 mini (i9195) (I rooted it a long while ago), on Android 4.4.2. I want to do a clean flash. Do I need to do an odin flash of anything before flashing to Resurrection Remix? (As this rom is Android 7, and last I remember, when upgrading android versions there's a few extra steps?)
Speaking of Odin, will the standard Samsung USB drivers be fine for using odin?
Also I noted it said in the install instructions for Resurrection Remix to flash TWRP from this thread but it says in that thread please do not use Nougat roms with TWRP at the moment? Surely I shouldn't be flashing that TWRP if it literally says dont flash it to use with Nougat roms?
Thanks
Hi there. I made exactly your same steps time ago (from stock KitKat 4.4.2 to CM13), so it's simple: you just have to prepare 1) TWRP; 2) The ROM you'd like to flash. 3) Odin for flashing TWRP. Old Samsung drivers are more than good, this is all you'll need.
1 - go here and download the 3.1.1-0 TWRP for LTE (don't worry, it works flawlessly even if said that it doesn't on Nougat, this because OP should be updated by the developer but it'll be done when he'll have some free time, i used it for everything and i ensure its efficient).
2 - extract from the zip file the twrp.img file, then flash the twrp.img by Odin; open Odin, click on recovery on low-left corner and browse to the img file, then flash it.
3 - reboot to TWRP, do a stock rom backup and backup even all your data that you'd like to keep, TWRP backups keeps everything except the various documents, MP3s, images, ecc. and if someone should go wrong while flashing a custom rom, let's have a way to restore the actual situation. Then to have a clean flash, be sure to wipe data by TWRP menu (the 3 selected partitions are enough, don't wipe nothing else).
4 - to install a custom rom, now that you're ready to start, follow instructions that you'll find in rom's thread in OP
Happy flashing!
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Hi all,
I am new here and I am having trouble with my Galaxy 3 SGH-I747 from at&t
I rooted the phone using KingoRoot and everything was fine.
I used the phone for about a week and decided to update from kitkat 4.4.2 to lolipop 5.0.
I have a micromax phone that is rooted and I didnt have any trouble updating it while it was rooted, so i figured it wouldnt be a problem but when I updated the s3 it said update failed at 94% and started rebooting and got stuck in an update loop.
I searched and searched and tried finding recovery options using odin but I cant find a 4.4.2 stock firmware, and cant find much information on recovering my device.
I am unable to boot in to recovery. I cant find a link for the SGH-I747 to philz recovery, the links all seem to be dead.
I can boot in to download mode.
I want to install a custom recovery via ODIN but i cant find one for my phone.
After I install the custom recovery, how will i know which stock OS my phone is currently at
I appreciate any advice you can give me, thanks.
Use TWRP for custom recovery. CWM and Philz haven't been updated in quite a while. You can get odin flashable tars from here.
Flashing TWRP should get you to working recovery, and you can find the rom zips you need to get back up and running in the development section here.
Unrooted stock will overwrite TWRP with stock recovery upon boot. Depending on how far your phone is getting into the booting process that might happen if you let odin auto-reboot. Your best bet is to uncheck auto-reboot in odin, so it won't restart on you automatically. Upon success remove the USB cable and pull battery. Replace battery and boot straight to recovery by holding home+vol up+power until you see tiny blue text in the upper left corner then releasing.
Thankyou! i was able to install the recovery by TWRP.
I just need to figure out what firmware to install and where I can get it... I was on kitkat, I tried to update to lollipop but it didnt work. My phone is bricked so I dont know how i would see the firmware version on it.
I really just want any kind of stable firmware that is rooted. Any ideas where I could find one? I'm trying to sift through the forums
Lots of ROMs are available here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3-att/development
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Lots of ROMs are available here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3-att/development
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I appreciate all the help - It seemed really hard because I was finding roms and flashing with ODIN but it always failed TWRP is giving me results. I flashed slimkat and got my phone working again! the only problem is my sound is a bit junky, idk why.
I plan on trying out Octos - M, because I heard marshmallow OS has a lot better battery life among other things
If i upgrade to a custom marshmallow OS, is there any coming back to a former custom OS like 4.4.2? or is it a permanent upgrade?
Do you guys recommend any custom OS? I need something stable, that uses the resources efficiently.
Before flashing additional ROMs, make sure the phone is running the latest bootloader and modem.
To verify the installed bootloader and modem, install the Samsung Phone Info app from the Play store.
With a custom ROM, you can flash from one to another, usually without any issues as long as you perform a complete wipe (system, data, cache) before flashing a new ROM. If you are upgrading an existing custom ROM with a newer custom ROM (e.g. CM12.1 2016-01-01 nightly to CM12.1 2016-01-02 nightly), you can just flash the updated ROM over the existing ROM.
Hi people.
I'm in the process of flashing my friend's Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini LTE.
Here's some details:
TWRP version: 2.6.3.0 (The one some dude here made himself)
ROM: cm-13.0-20160418-SNAPSHOT-ZNH0EAO2NJ-serranoltexx
SuperSU installed
Rooted using CM AUTO ROOT
Used Odin 3.09 to install TWRP
Everything is working fine but i'm having an issue flashing GAPPS.
9195 has a Krait 300 - which is an ARM processor so i downloaded the ARM 6.0 Micro package from OpenGapps.
Wiped all partitions, queued up the ROM and GAPPS in TWRP and flashed.
The process goes by fast and smooth, but the phone doesn't boot up after that.
The first time it took 25 or so minutes to boot up and ALL the GAPPS crashed after that.
What should i do?
I tried the following alternatives as well:
Bliss-v6.3-serranoltexx-UNOFFICIAL-20160521-1003
Slim_mini_gapps.BETA.6.0.build.0.x-20160516-2250
benzo-gapps-M-20151011-signed-chroma-r3
@Helhound0
That's an old recovery. I would update it with TWRP 3.0.2-1 from HERE, reboot to recovery, and then wipe /system, /data, /cache, and dalvik/art cache, then flash rom and gapps and reboot.
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@Helhound0
That's an old recovery. I would update it with TWRP 3.0.2-1 from HERE, reboot to recovery, and then wipe /system, /data, /cache, and dalvik/art cache, then flash rom and gapps and reboot.
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This worked!
I thought the old TWRP version was the only version compatible with the SGS4Mini.
I'm a Newb sure, but fairly sure this isn't my fault....
Hello, I have spent the past 2 days working on this flash you've stated as well and I can't understand for the life of me what I am doing wrong. You mentioned that TWRP may not have supported the mini but it seems that it does - odin just isn't installing it right? I am hoping people on here have already hashed this out on both ODIN and TWRP for this device and after spending 24 hours figuring this out i'm wondering if it's just some stupid thing i'm doing wrong. I've put the full stuff below which you may largely be able to ignore but what i need to figure out is how to install TWRP 3.0 or higher on my device, and how to keep ODIN from crashing. Can you help?
1. where I started and my goal:
My homestay mother in New Zealand who works for the tech firm Datacom provided me with a Galaxy S4 mini (GT-I9195 spark edition) that she had left over because she got a new phone for her work. I had a galaxy note 2 running default controls due to its setup on KNOXED up verizon, so i thought this was a good opportunity to switch to cyanogen since i've used the service before (someone else went through all this trouble for me and I am eternally grateful). So I am trying to install Cyanogen mod 13 with GAPPS package nano on to it.
2. The file repretoires and guides I used:
TWRP 2.8.1 (originally) and it's accompanied manager
Trying to upgrade to TWRP 3.0.2.0 or 3.1.0
GAPPS arm 6.0 mini/nano/pico (I've tried all three)
Odin 3.12.3 with requisite drivers (shows blue on status bar)
Default Bootloader for Android devices
CMD ADB systems with requisite drivers
CyanogenMod 13 (cm-13.0-20160820-ZNH5YAO0J7) (currently installed and working san-GAPPs)
3. What I've done Start to current:
starting with the phone locked, unrooted, and factory resets not working (company KNOX settings)
Installed Kingroot, superSU, RootChecker, TWRP manager and official ap, P-uninstall = Obtained Root
Attained root on the phone, deleted all KNOX and KGNT protection. = obtained unlocked sim/recovery loader
Installed TWRP 2.8.6 (any more recent installs failed as I will explain below in problems) Attempted to flash it = read success
Failed to boot into TWRP recovery - provided default recovery instead.
downloaded and installed ODIN. Used default boot loader and attempted to install TWRP directly through ODIN = Works
placed CM13 zip file and GAPPS 6.0 - ARMS Nano on SD card.
Created recovery on SD card
Wiped cash, devalk cache, and internal storage = clean partition
Installed BOTH CM13 and GAPPs 6.0 as zip files using TWRP 2.8.6 = worked
rebooted system into new OS
OS got stuck in boot cycle due to GAPPs package. after some googling i found out that Gapps requires TWRP 3.02 or higher (but i couldn't get those to download onto my phone at all. [here enlies the ROOT of my problem - you're allowed to kill me now]
Returned to TWRP and installed JUST CM13 on the device = works great! just no GAPPs! and no ability to download apps
Used Odin, TWRP manager, the official TWRP app, and CMD ADB sideloader to attempt to install all 3.0 and higher TWRP files = all of them failed
now I cannot access a bootloader at all, but can access my OS just fine. It refuses to accept any TWRP bootloaders but without them i cannot install GAPPS
4. Where I am Currently & Problems I'm running in to:
Right now CM13 is on and stable for my device. My Recovery loader is refusing to come up AT ALL. Attempting to install both .img and .tar files of TWRP read as succeeding in the apps but don't come up.
ODIN can't load anything on the device. Either it keeps freezing and crashing any time I touch it or when it does go through the device still can't bring up TWRP. Even when flashing 2.8.6 which originally worked as a recovery file it fails as well. I can't get back to TWRP working at all.
ADB sideloading just results in <waiting for device>. I am clearly using "fastboot" instead of ADB during the point in which i am flashing the recovery file on to it.
5. What I need Help with:
I need to know why TWRP is freezing any time i attempt to install it regardless of version and how to get it properly installed
if someone could point me to a reason odin freezes regardless of what options I tick on or off, file I upload, or whatever i'd love to know
I see 2 ways out of my predicament and i'm not sure which one I should spend more time on: 1) get TWRP 2.8.6 to work again and then find an older GAPP partition to load on to it. or 2) Get TWRP 3.0 or greater to work on it, and then use current GAPP packages. which would be best?
Hi guys I wanna ask you if someone tried to downgrade from android 10 to 9, I really didn't like the gestures and other things in new android.
Right now in don't even have TWRP installed.
It's possible to just download the official rom and flash it with the normal procedure :
I mean :
Local upgrade and upgrade with the file?
I'm really retired about flashing customs roms, that's why I even don't have TWRP installed.
As far as I'm aware your only options are:
1. Use the unbrick tool for the 9.0 software (wipes everything) https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-5t/how-to/op5t-collection-unbrick-tools-t3898890
2.find a rollback firmware on oneplus site (will wipe everything but can do through local upgrade option) https://androidfilehost.com/?fid=6006931924117903378
3. Flash twrp (rather easy through fastboot) wipe system,data,cache but not vendor then install the desired oos software. (Will retain all the files on ur internal like downloads, images, folders etc and once the software has installed it replaces twrp back with stock recovery)
Twrp
https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-5t/development/recovery-twrp-3-2-1-0-oreo-8-0-8-1-t3729673
ROM
https://www.oneplus.com/uk/support/softwareupgrade/details?code=PM1574156155944
Personally the 3rd is the easiest and only choice for keeping files.
But if you don't mind losing everything then the second is the same as how you updated to the beta from what I can gather. if you want everything to be 100% like day one then the unbrick tool will flash everything including firmware, radios and so on but has to be installed on a Windows computer and then plugged in to phone
Have you had any luck downgrading? I am also not liking 10.
If you have twrp back up you can revert back without losing data.
Instal via adb twrp recovery again, copy oos 9.0.11 to root then dirty flash it , flash magisk if you dont want to lose twrp, then restore only data from backup. Remove pin before start anything.
AFAIK, you can't downgrade with stock OOS recovery
I'm now on 9.0.11 from OB3
Backup your data/apps, remove your fingerprint or PIN, flash TWRP, then install 9.0.11
Hello, the names Braadliiah,
I am having excessive difficulty figuring out how to flash any Rom that is beyond Kitkat, even though they, supposedly are "designed" for an "SM-T217s". As I had success flashing Cyanogen mod[cm-12.1-20160706-UNOFFICIAL-lt02ltespr], which is not even for my model of tablet, which is bizarre due to the fact that other ROM's of the same model do not successfully flash. The most recent custom Rom I had attempted to install with no avail, was the Ressurection Remix[[ROM][8.1.0]ResurrectionRemix v6.2.1[Official]]. This ROM was linked into google, under "SM-T217s" compatibility, but for the model "It02ltespr".
The way that I flash these ROM's are through TWRP, namely, version "2.7.0.0". The TWRP dialogue within the flash window, usually says something like, "failed to zip" and "Zip error". The reason I have not done the flashing via ADB & Fastboot is because I have not done this successfully yet, and truth be told, I am not sure it is even possible given the TWRP can't do it? Also, I do not use Odin, because this will remove TWRP, and there is no guaranty that the ROM will work, and then, I will have to re-install Stock Firmware and TWRP. I lack any desire doing double the work, as I have already done a bit of that through trial and error recently.
So is there any method, via TWRP, ADB, or ODIN, which will in fact work? Should I install another version of say, Cyanogenmod, to be able to install this ROM? I am looking for experienced, tech savvy people, as I am a curious noob, who wants a ressurected tablet that can do all modern conveniences via wifi, and be my study tab. Furthermore, I would like, say, Magisk Manager to Install Modules, but can not do so, without a newer Kernel, that is Lolipop and forward. And again, Lolipop and forward do not seem to Install.
I shall be ever greatful for anybody's help. Thank you. :angel:
Update:
Today I experimented with ODIN some more. I had a small victory, because I happened to take the TWRP v.3.1 flash Image, and converted him into a TAR file, and luckily ODIN managed to successfully install this update. However, when it came to TWRP v.3.2, there became an error installing. TWRP still failed to instal zip files from the below ROMs. Furthermore, ODIN seemed to flash the boot images of Custom ROMs well, when converted to TAR files. Yet, when I booted the ROM, this device remained on the Boot screen.
My process by which I installed these ROMs, went like so:
First, extract zip, then convert to TAR via 7zip
Open ODIN, flash TAR in PDA, Boot down android
Boot to Download Mode again, in PDA flash TWRP v3.1 TAR, Boot down android
Boot to Custom recovery, and install proper Gapps
Boot on, and Stuck.
I did this three times, while starting off with a full wipe, to rule some things out. When I tried to fix context, it said Error1
The Roms I attempted to flash were, Cyanogenmod 12, which worked entirely; Cyanogenmod 13 which was stuck on Boot screen, tried twice; Lineage OS 15, which I tried three times, and was stuck on Boot screen.
Do I need to apply more than one file? for instance, CSC, Phone, and PDA? Because I was only flashing boot Image as a TAR file in PDA.
I recently updated to 10 on my exynos S9. I followed instructions here:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s9/help/root-s9plus-exynos-android10-t4065343/page3
After flashing BL_G960FXXSBETH2_CL18847185_QB33723393_REV01_user_low_ship.tar.md5 and the subsequent files I downloaded via samfirm.
It runs fine, but after flashing TWRP and the accompanying files, it goes into a reboot loop and I can't get any custom ROMs to work now. I'm flashing TWRP from ODIN as well. Have I missed a step?
Also, I noticed that TWRP ALWAYS asks if I want to use readonly, no matter what I do.