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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] fubaracing7374:
But I can't get into Recovery because I get the unsupported AT&T error.

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Is odin only on windows or on mac too?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] jd1639:
Odin is Windows based. You could try heimdall which is cross platform but I've never used it.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] fubaracing7374:
So I've read the help on Heimdall. What partition name would I be flashing loki-doki.zip too?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] AxAtAx:
You must get into recovery and flash your carrier kernel. You are not telling us if you can or can't get into recovery.

If your are getting this message: unsupported AT&T error

You can get into recovery, that is a kernel issue, PERIOD.

Pull the battery, wait 5min, replace the battery,

HOLD VOL UP + POWER, in 5 sec it will vibrate, release JUST THE POWER BUTTON, UNTIL YOU SEE ANYTHING on the screen.

It will go into recovery, unless it is NOT INSTALLED.

Then flash the kernel, it will boot properly.

Do you have a current backup?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] fubaracing7374:
I can't get into recovery. I installed GEv1.2 and then installed loki-doki.zip and when I installed ROM Manager, that's when it's all been screwed up.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] AxAtAx:
Ok, I am going to ask a stupid question here, you what devce do have? Model?

also you quoted this in the post above..You said here it work for you to get into recovery.

>>>>Originally Posted by doug0365

>>>>This worked for me!! Thanks!!

Worked for me as well. Thanks.

I am confused now!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] fubaracing7374:
Galaxy S4 SGH-I337
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] AxAtAx:
Sorry was typing fast, ok Us ver.

You said you flashed a google rom, and you just booted it, and it came up Unauthorized error...correct?

GEv1.2 and then installed loki-doki.zip,

Why loki-doki.zip?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] fubaracing7374:
Yeah, I flashed the Google Edition ROM, then the loki-doki.zip patch and then when it booted I installed ROM Manager and that's when I started to get the error message.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] AxAtAx:
U have a link to this patch?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] fubaracing7374:
The post (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2341376) said thats the way to do it so thats what I did.

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http://tau.shadowchild.nl/files/loki-doki.zip
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] jd1639:
I'm guessing installing rom manager is what hosed you up. Did it try to install or update anything at that point?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] fubaracing7374:
Yeah it asked to install an update and I'm sure thats what screwed it up. And now when I install Titanium Backup, I get an error message that states I don't have root access anymore.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] AxAtAx:
Can someone explain why this is? It is a ATT ROM

HOW TO INSTALL:

* Download the ROM (NO NEED FOR GAPPS)

* Reboot to Recovery

* Wipe data/factory reset

* Flash the ROM

* U.S. MODELS - Flash Loki Patch - http://tau.shadowchild.nl/files/loki-doki.zip (CANADIAN USERS DO NOT INSTALL)

* Reboot your Galaxy S4

* Enjoy

JD, help me out, why the step in bold? I didn't do that step.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] jd1639:
Yep. Only use rom manager to install the recovery and then never use it again.

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I'll let axman give his opinion but I think you're going to have to odin the stock Rom.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] fubaracing7374:
Yeah, definetely a lesson learned but now with this Google Edition ROM I can't seem to get my root back. I have used the motochopper method to get root at first and it keeps failing.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] AxAtAx:
I agree your recovery is messed up. Odin back to stock then go through the steps of rooting and such again, sorry.

This could have been avoided though.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] jd1639:
Now I'm a little confused, you can boot up but don't have root. But you can't boot into recovery?

Acxman, I haven't flashed that rom.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] fubaracing7374:
I was using Heindall because I have a MAC. Can I go back to stock using it?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] AxAtAx:
Sorry, our messages are overlapping, funny.

yes, to the mac thing, I do not know where to find it, I do not use a mac.

what the hell is going on, wrong person quote here...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] jd1639:
K

I'm going to throw something else out. If you can boot and you have rom manager installed why don't you let it reinstall the recovery.

Edit, I guess if you don't have root this isn't going to work
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] AxAtAx:
JD, all I was asking you was, even if you didn't flash that rom, with your experience in flashing roms, that step of the loki patch is it necessary, all he needed to do was flash a att kernel, he would booted, thats all.

Just asking an opinion.

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I don't think he can boot to the OS to do that. sounds as if he has NO recovery loaded.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] jd1639:
I think if he flashed the kernel he'd be ok. But I think rom manager flashed something for him and didn't flash the kernel before it booted. I don't know why he would have lost recovery though.

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It is supposed to work similar to odin, but I've never used it. If you have it installed what does the interface look like, what is it asking you to do? In Odin it would be looking to flash a .tar file
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] :
Read some of this did get a little confusing--:)

So, these thoughts may not apply--but won't hurt stating them

Wasn't aware Heimdall worked for S4--this link seems to say it does. Maybe OP could look at it and see if he did anything thru Heimdall that may have messed up recovery--don't even know if that is possible to do

Does seem however Rom Manager may have done it

This is for TMO, but Heimdall should work the same for either carrier

http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Install_CM_for_jfltetmo

Although further reading sounds like that is not a Heimdall that works without compiling it

Also, if he just needs root and has recovery but can't get to recovery can OP adb twrp .img

Hope these posts don't further confuse things
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] fubaracing7374:
Yeah I downloaded and unzipped a stock firmware file and I got a .tar.md5 file. Heimdall doesn't allow me to select it though. Have to work today but will mess around with it when I get home.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] jd1639:
Your best option would be to find a pc and use Odin. Second best would be to set up a window vm on the mac. I've done a little searching and haven't found anyone who has used hiemdall. Good luck to you.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] fubaracing7374:
Got it working on my PC and now I'm back to stock. Thanks for everything guys.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] Nerowoof:
After much fiddling i finally got it to boot into recovery. (below was the problem i was having)

You guys are most helpful!!! My problem was not flashing Loki Doki again.

Thanks again for providing all your knowledge for noobs like me!

Hello all,

I have read this thread as I am having the same problem. I tried to restore an old backup I had of Clean1.5 when i rebooted i got the system software not authorized.

I have tried to reboot into recover which i know i had as i have used it many times to flash and i get the rebooting into recovery message but then the same error screen.

I have tried to get into download mode and it fails.

I have Odin on my system but the pc doesn't recognize the phone to use it as i can't get into download mode. Have held both volume buttons and power but no download mode comes up.

I have the S4 l337.

So, did i screw myself over here? Any input or suggestions would be appreciated.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] jd1639:
To help us out, what are you trying to do or why are you trying to Odin? What rom or firmware are you currently on? Do you have a custom recovery?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] Nerowoof:
Whole Scenario:

I had tried a couple of custom ROMS on the ATT l337 Galaxy S4. After flashing a 4.3 version I went to the Google Play store and looked at "my devices" and noticed that my phone wasn't there but it did show a S4 i9505 but i couldn't push anything down to it.

I figured it was due to doing a dirty flash (yes, bad move but wasn't thinking)

I wanted to reflash because i really like the CleanROM better. Rather than choosing a back up i had, i went to my initial download and totally forgot i had to run Loki Doki after the install and then was greeted with the "software not compatible error."

That error wouldn't clear at all, finally read that someone said to do a battery pull, leave it out for 5 minutes and then reboot into recovery. (my apologies as someone deserves credit for this!)

Rebooted into recovery, ran loki doki and all was fixed. (as someone else mentioned in this thread, my problem was getting recovery to boot up)

Please let me know if you want more info! This forum has been so helpful to me its the least i can do in return.

Sorry, i didn't answer the initial question.

CleanRom 1.5

TWRP Custom recovery

Im sorry about not knowing firmware, is that the baseband? which is MF3

Was trying to Odin back to a stock recovery, have one on the external sd as a just in case but couldn't get to it therefore was trying to Odin a stock .tar
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] jd1639:
So the issue is your device shows as an i9505 and you want to download apps for the i337?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] Nerowoof:
OUCH, you make it sound petty (which it probably was as i could always just use the store on my phone) :silly:

but yes, i did a restore before and my phone showed up once again.

I was not thinking when i flashed the original ROM without flashing Loki doki after, my backups all had it flashed already.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] jd1639:
Not petty, just trying to understand the issue. To fix that takes a medium level of technical ability. You're going to want to edit the build.prop. To do that download a build prop editor from the play store. Open it and navigate to ro.product.model and change i9505 to i337. You might have to change that in other areas but I don't think so. Make a nandroid backup first on case you mess something up so you can restore to where you started. If it all works then do another backup with the new changes.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] avaldez31890:
I actually get that too. Except my situation is a bit worse in that I don't have an rom to boot from. Either way, how can I reinstall the stock rom? Definitely let me know if you get any updates on that.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] Nerowoof:
this is very good to learn! Thank you!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] jd1639:
You're welcome. Learning is what we're all here for, or at least most of us:)

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Do you know what firmware you're currently on?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] avaldez31890:
I forget the exact one, but if I understand what you are asking, it is the sgh-i337 (ended in MDL i believe).
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] jd1639:
If you're on mdl then you can Odin back to stock if you're up for it. You'll end up with the phone like New out of the box so if you have anything you can't lose back everything up.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] eMTy1989:
Wont go into recovery or download.

My att galaxy s4 SGH-I1337 will not even go into recovery (TWRP) and it wont even go into download (pressing the power, volume down, home button).

Originally when I reboot my phone it would go straight to TWRP for some odd reason which has never done that before. Now when it does that it goes to the Yellow exclamation mark that says "System software not authorized by AT&T has been found on your phone."

Using the button methods to go into download mode, it goes straight to trying to load TWRP and straight back to the yellow exclamation.

I then turned my phone off and plugged it in via usb and my laptop, it doesn't bother to turn on or show anything. All it does is vibrates once every 5-10 seconds. My phone wont even show up as plugged in. Tried kies and odin and yet still nothing shows up.

I even tried plugging it up to my laptop while it is in the yellow exclamation screen.

Please Help this noob :(
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] sasha_neo:
just my experience

i337 att MF3 locked bootloader , flashed by I9505XXUBMF8-PRE-ROOTED-DEODEXED-SuperSlim-CWM.zip, modem MDL and wifi doesn't work, i desided to flash modem MF3 with odin mobile, unlucky (used MobileODIN_FlashKernel_I9505-v5.0 ). After rebooting I got

System software not authorized by ATT has been found on your phone

. Phone had dowload mode but I can't flash anything, Tried to flash mf3-sys-boot.tar.md5 http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2378946, but got error. Then I used file #4 kernel from same link converted to .tar with Caboomi's_Recovery_img2tar_odin_maker, flashed with odin and my phone again works )

Sorry for my English
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] Dhs92:
Thank you so much! I am a noob to Android, since I just switched from apple, and this saved my phone! :D
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] Ramidon:
How did you convert the img file to a .tar file? I have both files downloaded and not sure what to do from now.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] ashleyquinn:
I just got my screen "repaired" by Contact Wireless, and when i rebooted my phone it wouldn't turn on, then gave me that same message. i cant even get on my phone to install anything to remove this. does anyone have any advice? it wont get past the screen that says samsung galazy mega, i can't do a factory reset or anything. :[
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] Chaos70:
I know how

Turn your device off and reboot back to download mode. and hit volume down which is to cancel the download and reboot. I had the same issue and fixed it
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] YoucefDz:
system software not authorized by at&t has been found on your phone

try This youtube.com/watch?v=tUbciGy7kHc
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] livystewy:
I had the same issue and It was a result of trying to flash a recovery which I haven't been able to do in no form or fashion. Has anyone been able to root NI1 firmware and successfully flash a recovery. Any help would be greatly appreciated
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] jd1639:
See this

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=55338138
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] theralphretort:
I can't post in the dev forum because of my newness, but I just wanted to give a huge thanks to all those guys over there especially shabbypenguin, crawrj, and Mudavo (and the threads themselves). I always wanted to root my phone, but never even tried outside a few lame half-attempts. It's thanks to this forum that non-devs like me are able to enjoy the full power and customizability (that is a word, I looked it up lol) of their devices. So again, thank you.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] shabbypenguin:
you forgot garwynn, the guy who started work on cm10.1/aokp/cwm/PA for yall :). he also helped me get a sgs4, so by extension everything you thanked me for, he is to thank as well :P

and thank you :)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] theralphretort:
Well, I must add garwynn to the thank fest as well haha!. For real though, I appreciate it, guys.
[Optimus One, P500, V Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] androiddownloader:
How to change icons of applications i download? lg p500 running cm10.1 4.1.2 jelly bean unofficial

because i want to change some icons of applications i download because the app icons are really clunky and dont go with jelly bean and i want eyecandy (good looking phone) thank you
[Optimus One, P500, V Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kfire21:
you need a custom launcher found on the play store like nova/apex/adw launcher and download an icon pack from google play and apply it
[Optimus One, P500, V Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] androiddownloader:
can you give an example of list of launchers? i only know apex but it makes my menu icons squished how do i fix that?
[Optimus One, P500, V Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] androiddownloader:
1)can you give an example of list of launchers?

2)i only know apex but it makes my menu icons squished how do i fix that?
[Optimus One, P500, V Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kfire21:
nova by far is the best in my opinion

as you can set the type of icons through its launcher settings
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] ksuthrill:
I did some flashing of different ROMS this weekend. I was running the Avatar ROM and then went to MIUI v4. I did a full wipe but had an error. I went ahead and flashed the last version of MIUI v4 (MIUItest6). So I am showing the avatar rom kernel with MIUI v4 and I am getting LTE?

Does that make any sense?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] DatDude123:
v4 has LTE, v5 doesn't.

D
[One (M7) Themes and Apps] حازم:
Hi guys when i unlockd the screen the background with app little flashing is this problem?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] chrisc93:
I used this rom on my Samsung infuse and it would be awesome if a dev could port it to the s4!

If you look on the original thread in the infuse forums you can see step by step instructions on how to port it.

I tries to do it, but don't know how to do step 6.

It turns out I was able to do it on my own!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] mattdm:
That rom is AOSP-based. So why don't you just try one of the other AOSP-based roms around here, such as AOKP or SlimBean?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] chrisc93:
I am currently running Task's AOKP and it is really nice (i found it better than Slim on the s4), but BeanStalk has more features.

I was just wondering if it would be possible to get BeanStalk ported.

Thanks for the reply!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] jetlitheone:
It's not really easy whatsoever to port a Rom that is for a different device especially if the resolution is different for the other Phone.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] chrisc93:
I am unfamiliar with porting, so it is good to know it's not an easy task.

Thanks for your answer! :)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] mg2195:
That's where source comes in handy...it eliminates a lot of those issues, really all we need is xxhdpi (we should be able to cherrypick that from cm when needed) to be added into aosp and then source porting should be a breeze for the most part - if you know how to build from source that is...actually building a custom aosp rom like scotts, that's a different story

Zip porting is where resolution and all that stuff makes it hard/not possible

Just look at cm...its available on nearly every device...why? Because its got its source up. Basically all you need to do is add in all the correct hardware source, kernel sources, device sources and proprietary files and your good...not saying its easy, as you do need to figure out what you need to add in, as well as edit a few files...but its definitely not really hard (although some of those errors you run into do make you want to throw your computer out a window)

-I guess it is a little hard, but for the most part its pretty much the same for any source port...trial and error your way through errors until it builds

Anyways, I'm sure someone will get around to it...I was gonna try and compile pure aosp...but my dev environment needs to be updated before I can start compiling again (been months since I compiled anything)

If it can be ported to the galaxy s3, than it can be ported to the galaxy s4 (I'm not saying the two are similar, but both are completely different from the Samsung infuse)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] chrisc93:
Wow this was some great info! :svetius:

I've never built from source, but I'm going to give it a try with TMO's cm 10 for the s4. Just to get a grip on dev'ing.

Thanks. :)

EDIT: Actually, it looks like cyanogenmod has the galaxy s4 AT&T github repo up to date. I may just try to build using that source.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] mg2195:
Please keep in mind, in order to build from source you must have linux...actually I think Mac works too...but windows won't

Follow the link in my signature, its full of a bunch of tutorials, somewhere close to the top should be a thread called compile jb from ubuntu or something like that...follow that thread to get you started and get you build environment set up

-it is very confusing at first especially if your new to linux, bit once you get going it gets easier

Anyways, good luck!!! The great thing about porting from source is it gets your feet wet, gets you used to the basics with source...and eventually you can get experimental and start creating your own source roms...also, it is kinda addicting lol, for a while I was compiling non stop...I went from a flashaholic to a compileaholic lol...now, I'm neither due to my busy schedule :( but summer is just around the corner for me so that should change :D
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] chrisc93:
Thanks! I'm looking forward to the challenge! Who knows, maybe I'll become a compileaholic too :laugh::laugh:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] Mike:
There is a build for the gs2 skyrocket here

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2249072

Not sure if that helps at all...

Sent from my AT&T Galaxy S4 Running AOKP 4.2.2
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] chrisc93:
Just wanted to check in and let you all know that I successfully built cm10 for the galaxy s4! Used the source from the official branch. It's a pretty neat feeling knowing that I built the rom from source (and it's really neat seeing my name in the build date ) :victory:

I'm going to be contacting scott to see if he can help me build his rom. I already synced his repo on my computer, so I'm hoping the rest won't be too hard. :fingers-crossed:

Thanks [MENTION=4370145]mg2195[/MENTION] for the help! :highfive:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] chrisc93:
I did it!

I am running the latest version of BeanStalk on my s4!!!!

I will make a new thread in the dev section as soon as I get permission. This rom is awesome!

:victory:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] chrisc93:
Felt like this deserved some attention :P
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] ogxku5h:
As johnny drama would say.... VICTORYYYYYY!!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] toxicpaulution:
I'm am on my infuse ATM and am running Beanstalk. My S4 is on the fedex truck on the route to my house and I'm super excited and pumped to see this may be coming to the S4 if it does I may just keep my phone ;)
[LG Optimus 3D] Karim Kahale:
Follow this guide http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2246001

If you need any help, you can post there.
[LG Optimus 3D] BuSyMaN:
Thanks a lot. It worked.