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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] cris_epic:
Hey guys where can I download the.tar file for odin I downloaded and extracted the one in OP but it's recovery.img for me and i can't open that with odin

Sorry for the noob question

thekidd

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I think it has something to do with the permissions what can I do?

thekidd
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] MoHoGalore:
The tar is the second download link in the op. There is no reason to extract it. Use that in odin...

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] cris_epic:
lol ok idk if im dumb or what put i opened the zip in pda but i cant find the start button!!! lol how do i make it flashh?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] Grommish:
You flash the .tar itself. Don't extract it.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] MoHoGalore:
... zip is for cwm.. tar is for odin...

(I'm waiting for betty white to make a cameo about now. Or Ashton Kutcher...):p

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] cris_epic:
lol i know i was able to open the .tar file in the PDA section in odin and my phone is connected and ready in download mode i just cant find the Start button lol

hey i just flashed twrp 2.5.0.0 tho through goomanager can i flash slim bean through there instead?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] MoHoGalore:
Yes, should be just fine. And what version of pc odin were you using that you couldn't find the start button?:screwy:

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] cris_epic:
Lol the one in the OP, im going to use the 3.14 next time tho, luckily I was able to flash twrp and I made my backups and flashed my Rom:) happy camper lol

Thanks for the help!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] MoHoGalore:
You mean the start button as shown in the picture? You don't see that? (It's 3.04 taken from the op..)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] cris_epic:
Nope I didn't see that, maybe its my computer because I'm using a mini windows 7 asus, good to know where to look though thanks!

thekidd.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] mjs2011:
Just a heads up that while installing SlimRom and then installing gapps using an Aroma Installer, I was unable to use the on screen navigation in Aroma and then it froze up during installation and I had to hard reboot. When rebooting, it appeared that the installation was successful but I just wanted to give you a heads up on the Aroma issues.

Thanks!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] reverepats:
Hey Shabby.....Question, does CWM always backup "recovery" by default? ive always used TWRP and havent used CWM since the OG EVO days. Just wondering thats all. Thanks bud
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] shabbypenguin:
yes it does. i should prolly look into removing that though (no sense in "restoring" the recovery you are in, or an older version)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] Analyzer52:
This is not working for me maybe because of the OTA update but I have flashed it to the phone twice and when I try to boot into recovery mode it just boots to normal recovery mode not clockwork mod not sure what the problem is. I was rooted before the update need this to work so I can flash the zip kernel to get root back.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] shabbypenguin:
the issue is that stock has a script that runs at boot and removes custom recovery, what you can do is try and beat it.

flash the recovery in odin/heimdall

when it goes to reboot make sure you are holding the keys to get into recovery and when you see teh blue text let go.

if you dont get to recovery before the phone boots uyp it will overwrite it again :/
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] reverepats:
yeah i agree. Its not a huge deal at the moment, but just had to ask...Ty!!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] Analyzer52:
Oh that is so ridiculous wow they really make this difficult wish I never did this update I will give this a go. Thanks for confirming I'm not losing my mind tonight.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] shabbypenguin:
yea, the only thing i can tell ya that might make ya feel better is OUDHS recovery will detect it and remove it (as well as check for proper root permissions, next update will check if you are rooted and ask if you wish to be :) )
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] Analyzer52:
Finally got it working now to get rid of the nag screen. Thanks a lot for your help.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] lightiv:
Help

While I was able to install the ODIN tar - OUDHS CWM-based Recovery 1.0.3.3 with out a problem everything else fails when I tray to flash. In recovery I get a failure reading signature error when flashing SuperSu or Stock-MDL-Stable-spr-TW.zip.

Nevermind - I figured it out after a 1.5 hours of trying. I read the above and finally understood that the system was deleting your recovery. I flashed your recovery and on reboot went into it and did the flashes without a problem. I am now rooted.

Can you update the OP to alert folks to this dirty little trick that Samsung/Sprint is pulling on us?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] shabbypenguin:
ill update teh OP, but this script is nothing new, google introduced it back when 2.3 came out. since then a LOT of phones have had it
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] shabbypenguin:
k until i get a chance to talk with some of the cwm people i cnat do much for the oudhs recovery, im trying to fix twrp right now. a long time ago the photon q needed some extra files for twrp to work in touch mode need to locate them on teh sgs4 so if someone could do a system pull for me that would be awesome. all i need is system/vendor please

as for garwynns cwm please be sure to post in his thread about his cwm so he knows :D thanks
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] crawrj:
PM'd you the vendor files.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] shabbypenguin:
thanks, just looked didnt see teh files or anything close to them to what id need, so im gunna scan through the init files looking for teh touchscreen binaries.

also for anyone that wants to be rid of it:

its a service provided by sprint/logmein that they can remote to your device and assist you should you have problems, some people prefer things like this to be removed, so just fyi :)

(that was in one of the init scripts)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] Gam3r 4 Life:
Shabby, Nice to see you over here with the S4. I used a lot of your stuff in the Android Forums for the Metro S3. Ive now got the Sprint S4, and rooted. So today I decided to look for TWRP for it and lo and behold your here working on it. I flashed the one from the first post and got the slanties, so Im waiting for your next build. Awesome to have you here on this device too.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] shabbypenguin:
haha good to see you here too man, this is only temporary though. once stock odin packages, cwm, twrp are figured out i plan on leaving yall be.

I just love the rush of helping a new samsung device and learning all about teh new stuff on it :D
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] Gam3r 4 Life:
Either way its nice to have you even temporarily. Im no dev, but since going from the 720p S3, to the 1080p S4 I have noticed a few apps that didnt size stuff correctly. So I dont know if that has anything to do with it. Ive contacted Amazon about their latest App store build after noticing the update messed up the interface, and everything was way too large. They are looking into it.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] Gam3r 4 Life:
Also Shabby if you need me to send you something from my S4 to help with TWRP just let me know. Im sure its hard to build blind like that.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] shabbypenguin:
got a new OUDHS/CWM compiling hopefully the last tip i got will fix graphics :D

www.shabbypenguin.com/OUDstuff/Samsung/Sprint/jfltespr/Recovery/OUDHS-CWM-Test-4.tar
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] lafester:
Just tried and the issue is still there. Thanks for all your help though!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] crawrj:
Not a recovery guy so forgive me if this is nonsense, but have you looked at the CWM/TWRP builds for the HTC One? I know it is HTC but it has the same resolution as ours. Maybe something there could help?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] emwno:
Actually no, this thing is device specific and is no longer related to resolution.

EDIT: [MENTION=2614663]shabbypenguin[/MENTION] try compiling a CWM recovery (not a based one i.e OUDHS), just for the sake of testing.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] shabbypenguin:
garwynn has his thread that is just a regular cwm and suffers the same issue, i was not expecting such a difference between the i9505 and us variants TBH. dees_troy is helping me try to figure out why twrp isnt registering touch, but i need a pull of /tmp/recovery.log from someone.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] agat63:
dispite all the similaraties this phone is different from git9505.

Used their source to compile the kernel.

Kernel is booting fine but no WiFi not data no phone.

So that would be problems with modules I guess.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] garwynn:
And you combined jf common with jf_spr?

Maybe there are a few hidden changes that we haven't seen yet.

In either case sent a request to OSRC for source.

Also, before diving into the kernel I'm trying to do a few things with CM/CWM.

Should be able to set a few overlay items at least before I need to mess with the kernel.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] agat63:
You can take a look at my git.

I tried few thing and I worked with Talustus from Dream kernel the better part of sunday on the kernel.

He is deving for git9505 right now.

And yes I did use variand defconfig jf_spr for build.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] shabbypenguin:
so can anyone pull /tmp/recovery.log on both twrp and cwm for me?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] emwno:
Build a new version of TWRP after adding this as a flag if not done already. This is what I'm doing to fix twrp touch input issues on the N51XX. It'll log the touch events.

TWRP_EVENT_LOGGING := true
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] garwynn:
I'm going to try another build soon for CWM - had to exclude some of you guys' changes to jflte-common as it wanted to keep looking for the kernel source and insert graphics source. Also going to try and start working on overlays to get the recovery image closer to stock. Just not sure how much will end up in common versus carrier.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] shabbypenguin:
www.shabbypenguin.com/OUDstuff/Samsung/Sprint/jfltespr/Recovery/TWRP-Debug-Test-5.tar

here is the debug one, someone flash this touch around and get /tmp/recovery.log
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] lafester:
If you don't have a log yet I will try this now.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] jspsuperman:
Is there a way to permanently enable rainbow mode. I think its fun to look at haha
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] shabbypenguin:
im working on that as well :P
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] majid25:
Does this work on the latest OTA MDL? I was never rooted before, motochopper doesnt work for me was wondering if the instructions in the first post work with the newest update
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] ChadH42:
You cannot install any custom recovery without root.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] shabbypenguin:
while booted^

using odin bypasses that and you can install whatever youd like :)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] ChadH42:
so can I go back to stock MDC, take the OTA to MDL then ODIN your root kernel and recovery? would that give me root after I re-boot?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] shabbypenguin:
so long as you make sure to flash superuser as well :)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] Tahde:
Perfect. Not new to Odin at all, but I've not flashed more than one file or any files back to back via Odin. Is it just a matter of waiting for device to boot back after flashing your kernel doing each flash one at a time? I'm just use to flashing one file, and I'm done (previously) lol.

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] ChadH42:
Do you have a .tar version of your kernel?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] shabbypenguin:
atm the kernel is flashable in cwm

not atm im working on fixing things up in recovery (i broke something :( ) then gunna work on trying to remove that nag from within the kernel. maybe then i can focus on exfat :/
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] mysticjp:
wow i just got my s4 today and this is a really nice recovery/root post , thank you!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] ChadH42:
Shabby: did you know that If you turn off auto reboot on the ODIN screen and unplug USB and pull the battery, whatever you flashed sticks!!!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] shabbypenguin:
what do you mean?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] guitardoc64:
I think he means that once you flash the recovery and don't reboot with odin and battery pull it will stick. Similar to the root for the SGS3. I rooted a friends SGS3 and had to battery pull instead of reboot in odin then flash from recovery before the first boot.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] ChadH42:
Correct!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] todivefor:
Is there a source compiled kernel available?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] shabbypenguin:
yes, i have a stock one, agat has his and faux's
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] Fuzzy Wuzzy:
Arg, I'm getting "Failed to find currently installed su binary." when I open up the SU application. And Root Checker is taking SO long to figure out if it's rooted or not...any help? Does this have to do with it not being "fully rooted" aka the "setuid kernal" thing in the first post? So not used to flashing with Samsung - HTC has ruined :(

Also, yes I'm on MDL, which I updated to this morning.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] Shoulon:
hey shabby got a bug report. when u first boot the recover after selecting "reboot device" you cant go back, back and forward commands both only allow to move forward. (includes back button on device and swipe gesture) it can also be considered a feature but you should perhaps give instructions on the "rom might flash stock recovery" and "root might be lost" parts for future users coming.

thanks for the awesome recovery.

Also idk if u know yet but u don't need to hold the home button when entering download mode and recovery. (or unplug after ODIN, just be sure to press power+ vol up still once u feel the phone vibrate indicating booting is initiated)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] reverepats:
Did u ret booting back I to recovery and flashing the SU zip?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] shabbypenguin:
im not sure i understand, what do you mean i should give instructions? on what exactly?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] Fuzzy Wuzzy:
Am I supposed to do it all in one shot? As in flash the recovery then SuperSU WITHOUT rebooting? Because what I've been doing is flashing recovering, wiping Dalvik Cache, then rebooting into system. Then I turn it off, go into recovery, then flash SuperSU.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] crawrj:
Do it all at once. Saves time.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] Fuzzy Wuzzy:
Nope, I even ran Odin again, reinstalled recovery and installed the SuperSU zip at the same time, yet it still gives the same error :(
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] crawrj:
I just noticed you are on MDL. If you have the stock MDL kernel that is the reason. It can't be rooted. You need to flash Shabby's MDL kernel then root.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] Shoulon:
When u first flash the recovery. ONLY if your coming from the stock recovery...

For me it didnt install a script when the oudhs recovery first booted. I had to choose "reboot device" THEN it asked two options regarding "ROM might flash stock recovery would u like to fix that?" And "root might of been lost would u like to regain it?" before it rebooted.

Again this is if ur coming from stock. (It might also be from being on 100% stock mdl.)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] jspsuperman:
What kernel control app do you guys use/recommend, I was using kernel tuner then trickster then faux
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] shabbypenguin:
yes only if it detects certain files/events. if it finds /system/etc/install-recovery.sh it will remove it for ya (so you dont lose recovery) and checks permissions on root (next version will feature auto root if needed). all the recoveries have these features built in :)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] Rasmux:
Is this currently the only way to re gain back root after ota update? Thanks.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] jspsuperman:
Anybody please :confused:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] shabbypenguin:
i dont use any, and you would have better luck in a Q&A thread or perhaps in a kernel thread. not the recovery one :)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] jspsuperman:
I only asked here since you guys built th rom and kernel I am using. No harm meant :o
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] shabbypenguin:
the kernel i made is purely stock and doesnt have an app that really interacts with it. the rom i made is news to me :P
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] jspsuperman:
Crawrj made th rom my bad haha now when do I get rainbow mode all th time :p
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] BrandoKC:
Shabby,

Many thanks man! You saved my bacon after my dumb ass took the MDL update. I donated towards your S2 and have always been impressed with your work.

Thanks again,

Brandon
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] wwjoshdew:
You do NOT need to hold home down. I promise you that.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] Muledeer:
But you got have to be

very quick

to release the buttons as soon as you see the blue recovery boot words -- hold too long and it will jump past recovery into normal boot.

Mule
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] wwjoshdew:
Yup, been there, done that! Lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPi-pr5jtmI&hd=1&t=2m3s
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] roninep:
Hey guys, just spent easily an hour trying to figure this out, and guess Ill just ask.

I recovered and rooted back when the phone came out. I used Odin, and I remember a PIT file. I also remember ticking the partition box.

I never saved the thread, so not sure which one. Either way, I remember having OUDHS initially.

I changed over to TWRP soon after, and have had it for a few weeks.

I wanted to change back to OUDHS, as the touch issue started getting to me. Last night I started Odin up again, D/l the Odin tar file in this OP, unticked autoreboot, and used the TAR in the PDA section. I installed the drivers, and had the blue COM box light up. I did not tick the partition box. When I clicked the start button it gave me a PIT error message (I forgot exactly what it said) and stopped. I didnt go any further and rebooted back to normal.

What did I do wrong ? Do I have to do something different going from TWRP to OUDHS ?

Just a thought - should I have used the flashable recovery file instead and just flashed it?

Thanks in advance.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] ACoolGuy:
Had explained this in another thread but ill give it a go here. To get into recovery you only need to be holding volume up. Holding power will cause issues you describe. Just unplug the cord and be holding volume up before the powet on vibration hits and you will get into recovery with no problem.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] reverepats:
Well i csn tell ya that I used the flashable after a couple of days of using TWRP. Been using OUDHS without any issues. Prolly better off using the flashable at this point. For me, it's much easier
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] Bkadleck:
Just to make sure. I'm currently on MDL. If I follow the instructions in the op I can get root correct? Thanks
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] guitardoc64:
Yes it should work.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] kirschdog1:
Can you label your backups with this recovery? Using CMW now and it gives a random date and title for your rom backups. Want to label them myself and don't like twrp cause of sensitivity issues.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] reverepats:
Sure can. Just be careful what symbols you use. I use dashes to space my words for my BU names.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] kirschdog1:
OK so next question how do you label your backups ? I couldn't find that option in recovery
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] shabbypenguin:
just like CWM if you rename your backups on your phone it will mess up the md5 hash and make them not restore.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] kirschdog1:
Backup labeling questions

Ok I understand that Shabby but I don't know how to relabel them while in your recovery. What selection do I use?

I have to be in recovery to rename them correct? I had CWM prior and I didn't know there was a selection to label your backups?

Anyone have semi detailed instructions on how to label backups from within recovery.

Sorry that I am confused. I heard you say that you can't rename them afterwards from your file manager so how do i do this?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] shabbypenguin:
you cant relabel them at all. cwm uses rom manager to do this, twrp has its own way of doing it.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] kirschdog1:
Thanks Shabby!!

Thanks Shabby installed Rom Manager app and relabeld my backups!!

Appreciate your paitence with me as I have always used TWRP to relabel my backups!

:laugh: Thanks again!!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] shabbypenguin:
rom manager works with my recovery?!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] texasredrider:
No, I just tried, thinking new update or something. Unless he mistakenly got it to work. I'm curious now......
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] reverepats:
Italians relabel be backups and haven't had any issues at all. Maybe cause I store them on my SDcard? For example, Stpck-MDL-GS4..... Always works. I use root explorer and all mine restore just fine :D:D:thumbup::thumbup:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] cheddaface:
Hey sahbby every time i try to backup to my external sd it say boot img failed and when i try save it to my phones sd it says erro while making a backup img of system but everything els works fine
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] shabbypenguin:
youd have to be more specific, are you running out of space? what format are you using (tar or dedupe)? can you get /cache/recovery.log?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] cheddaface:
yea looks like i am running out of space and i dont know what causing it. I have no idea format im using and i do not know how to get a log
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] shabbypenguin:
on internal storage or external?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] cheddaface:
Got it to work had to use another sd card
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] galland1:
Hey, "What it did"? , to make the purty colors. I had to start from scratch and want them back. Thanks
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] DroidModder:
So is this a Stock TW Kernel? because on GitHub it said it was in the CM10.1 Branch..