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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Appok:
I cannot do the OTA update as it says mine is modified (rooted)

l337m with Fido
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Aou:
In theory, using the "Odin to Stock" method, it is possible to return phones back to the stock MDB (or MDL) firmware and then wipe data. This would unroot and ultimately make the phone think that it had never been rooted.

Whether there are any detectable traces remaining that Samsung could find ... still not known. I haven't heard of anything. From the sounds of it, many people have returned their phones after using Odin to return to stock. On this device, and its predecessors.

Regardless, I don't think I can speak too much more on the subject without getting into the subject of warranty fraud :P

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Probably a good thing! :) I am rooted with my /system modified, but I have a sure-fire way of keeping the device thinking it's "official".

Also, an update regarding the modem & sound:

Flashing only the I337UCUAMF3 modem.bin will update the baseband and not cause you to lose sound.

Flashing the I337UCUAMF3 NON-HLOS.bin will break sound.

Can anyone provide insight on what the NON-HLOS.bin is for? I'm in a non-LTE area, FYI.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] scott14719:
OK, so nothing unexpected, unfortunately. Thanks for everyone tearing the OTA apart to help confirm things. It's no surprise AMDB and AMDL have been labeled as unofficial from Samsung (via ODIN), so more than likely Kies will be useless for them as well (only if you took the OTA).

So, until a new or existing ROOT method can be found, there is no going back (again, as suspected for some time now). Unless a Dev adds this to the cooking pot...don't touch this.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] shoman94:
When you flashed the modem only it worked fine? Did you lose wifi?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Aou:
Hey, would you look at that! ....

yes, I lost WiFi. >_<

..dangit. lol
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Slade8525:
well it is called UCUAMF3, as in 'mom fornicator', as in 'thou art screwed thoroughly, from the womb and beyond, fair hackers'.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Duffmantp:
I bit the bullet and upgraded. I wasnt rooted anyway. I want to see if the new baseband will improve battery and signal on stock.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] HiTideBlastoise:
Thanks, I'll be quiet now
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] jose1962:
I lost tethering with update....I was using es file explorer to tether now I get the dial 611 pop up
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Aou:
Okay, another update on the modem/baseband:

If you have an MDB NON-HLOS.bin and an MF3 modem.bin, Wi-Fi will break.

If you have an MF3 NON-HLOS.bin and an MF3 modem.bin, sound will break.

If you have an MDL NON-HLOS.bin and an MF3 modem.bin, .... Nothing seems broken. Sound and Wi-Fi are working.

Any suggestions on anything else I should check to see if broken? (again, I have no LTE available here, sorry!) And I still can't seem to find much info about this partition and what it's for.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] linuxthinker:
If you're a commandline warrior, su to root and run the following:

pm disable com.wssyncmldm
pm disable com.LocalFota
pm disable com.sec.android.fwupgrade
rm -f /cache/fota/2400258.cfg

The first 3 lines disable the AT&T updater, Firmware Over the Air, and the FWUpgrade apps. The last line deletes the upgrade in progress, if it exists.

If successful, you should see lines that look like:

Package com.wssyncmldm new state: disabled
Package com.LocalFota new state: disabled
Package com.sec.android.fwupgrade new state: disabled

Also, if you go to About device -> Software update, nothing should happen.

If anyone needs a copy of the firmware upgrade image, I have a complete copy of it.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] scott14719:
I think they had the same situation with the Active in one of the S4 Active threads. You might want to check there to see what the work around was. I have a feeling this OTA has a lot in common with the core Active files.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Radukk:
Firmware initialization through Kies? Since MF3 hasn't uploaded to Kies channel so probably able to roll back to MDL I think..
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] scott14719:
Yea, until they update it. But I am willing to bet that Kies will not even do an emergency firmware repair until it is updated if the OTA has already been taken.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] deepen915:
just got the update.. and the new features are great! the Transparent Status bar looks nice.. and overall lots of changes to settings icons, and faster performance. The SD Card apps thing is nice and I am gonna try it soon.. Not Rooted, so don't care about the bootloader, etc.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Aou:
Sweet deal - thanks for posting the command line version. I wasn't aware it was so easily possible to freeze/disable apps without something like Titanium Backup! (obviously still requires root for these three).

As for the full patch, I posted a link to it a little while back. Page 3 or 4 in this thread somewhere.

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That seems like a really bad situation to put themselves in, but not unheard of. Regardless, to those who are now stuck on MF3, it might be worth a shot to try!

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For those following along, I've got a treat: MODEMS!

To install:

Download the .zip file. Here's the link.

Make a nandroid backup for safekeeping. Just in case you have to use Odin to get your modems back or something. Better safe than sorry!

Unzip contents to device's sdcard.

Fire up your ADB shell.

Type the following very carefully. DO NOT GET THE BLOCK NUMBER WRONG or you could easily brick your device. Badly.

su
dd if=/sdcard/modem-MF3.bin of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p2
reboot

Start testing it out!

NOTE: The included NON-HLOS.bin is intended for mmcblk0p

1

. Don't flash it yet, unless you're being experimental. Here's why:

Let us all know what your findings are. Particularly LTE. If you have better/worse coverage or speeds, that would be handy info also!

EDIT: Uploaded file to Dev-Host and updated link here.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] DanMc85:
Can you send me both the new bin files in a zip?

Edit: just saw you posted it as I was writing this
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] ricky71153:
update

Okay since I am not rooted I went ahead and did the update. I had to move forward the days date on my phone one day to get it. Afterwards lag was still there so did a factory reset and the lag is gone. It now runs the way it should have when I bought it. Thanks AT&T and Samsung for making things right.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] DanMc85:
Same results here with the NON-HLOS.bin... I tried it with the European based kernel I am running on my phone as well vs the at&t one.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] rcklss1:
I'm running omega v7 with MDL baseband.. I want to give the new modem a shot but where do I check to make sure I'm on MDL non-hlos?

Sent from my Omega AT&T S4
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] HiTideBlastoise:
I just went ahead and updated. I can wait and would not like to void my warranty, I'll root in the future and be a guinea pig.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] scarmon25:
Settings>about phone>baseband

I337 CM10.1
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] rcklss1:
Thought so just wanted to double check.. Thanks

Sent from my Omega AT&T S4
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] zarbon:
For those of you in the same boat as me, downloaded the update but did not install and don't want to install and also not rooted. I used motochopper to root, did not reboot when motochopper prompted me to and used adb shell to disable the update and delete the downloaded update. adb is in the zip with motochopper.

Using motochopper:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2252248

adb shell
pm disable com.wssyncmldm
pm disable com.LocalFota
pm disable com.sec.android.fwupgrade
rm -f /cache/fota/2400258.cfg

Thanks to Aou and linuxthinker!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Radukk:
Confirmed. You CAN downgrade to MDL through Kies Firmware initialization for now, until they upload MF3 to Kies channel.

Nope.. It goes blackhole :/

July 11th 4.3 will be released so I don't want to miss flashing chance GE ROMs
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Gandalf:
so let me get this straight. and make this a little clearer for others.

To flash this radio for AT&T USERS:

Download file

adb shell in terminal on computer

$ su
$ dd if=/sdcard/modem-MF3.bin of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p2
$ reboot

Don't even bother with this NON-HLOS (since my baseband says I337UCUAMDL, nothing about HLOS) garbage since it breaks things, right?

That's it?

So if my

Model Number: SAMSUNG-SGH-I337

BaseBand: I337UCUAMDL

This is SAFE to flash ?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] mowrer98:
Same thing here. Did you find anything out?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] scott14719:
This is interesting that this works for now. I wonder if Kies can be redirected to another server (non Samsung) to get the firmware file that it installs for Emergency restores? If so, it might be a viable option to use to get back to AMDL even after Kies' servers are upgraded to the new baseband at Samsung.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] nakedninja42:
So... Decided to be guinea pig... Flashed the MF3 from the previous page from Aou with the dd instructions...

My average speed in my back yard...

LTE works

WiFi works

Sound with incoming/outgoing calls

Sound with GrooveIP calls

Sound with video Hangout

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I only flashed the modem BTW....
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] TwistedMexi:
If I run motochopper and don't reboot, will I be able to root long enough to delete/disable this service without permanently rooting? I want to stay "official" for now but I don't want this update hitting.

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If you know the address it's reaching out to, it's theoretically possible to redirect it to the file locally.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Gandalf:
the NON-HLOS version, and you ARE on AT&T network correct?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Maltytasker:
I've been downloading the update for nearly two hours now. 802.11ac wifi on 30 mbs cable. Servers must be jammed. Sheesh.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] scott14719:
Well, unless there is some sort of encrypted handshake. And then, it might be possible to remove it. At worst, perhaps kies can be broken down into its individual functions of downloading firmware, and installing firmware. The only part needed would be the install part and the AMDL firmware could be force fed to it. Of course, it would be easier to simply redirect it to the AMDL file. It's just a theory anyway.

With Kies being property of Samsung it might not be a good idea to modify it (officially anyway).
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Solange82200:
So what do we get by flashing these radios? It gives us better reception or something? Thank youx
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] nakedninja42:
I only flashed just the modem mf3.bin. I still have MDL NON-HLOS from my last ODIN flash.

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I am on AT&T
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] scott14719:
It might be better, it might be worse, it might be the same, it depends on you situation. It's actually possible to both be better and worse...faster LTE connection speeds, but less LTE connectivity area.

Like I said, it all depends on where you are and what your situation is. Trying them each is the only way for you to know.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Duffmantp:
Also if you update it seems the service mode code *#27663368378# does not work.

Also the *#9090# menu back, menu back, menu back, menu key input 1, now just reboots your phone.

So it seems they locked down service mode. I used to play around in that, maybe there are some new codes.

I have been trying it and im locked out.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Tinag379:
I just updated. I'm on Att and it took about 20 minutes. I noticed though my storage is a little different.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] fix-this!:
I think ill wait for a flashable loki modem zip before i upgrade the radio. Im not into the command line stuff.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] linuxthinker:
I'm not sure if this will work, unless the exploit restarts adb as root. I've created an untested modified version of the motochopper zip which removes the reboot and replaces it with these lines. You can use this zip exactly the same as the original motochopper. Peer review is appreciated.

Windows version:

echo [*] Exploit complete. Disabling update components
adb shell su -c pm disable com.wssyncmldm
adb shell su -c pm disable com.LocalFota
adb shell su -c pm disable com.sec.android.fwupgrade
adb shell su -f /cache/fota/2400258.cfg

echo [*] Update components disabled. You'll need to reboot on your own.
adb kill-server
pause

*NIX version:

echo "[*] Exploit complete. Disabling update components"
$adb shell su -c pm disable com.wssyncmldm
$adb shell su -c pm disable com.LocalFota
$adb shell su -c pm disable com.sec.android.fwupgrade
$adb shell su -f /cache/fota/2400258.cfg

echo "[*] Update components disabled. You'll need to reboot on your own."
$adb kill-server
read -n 1
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] nakedninja42:
If your not comfortable, then wait. It took me couple minutes to do it all using Terminal Emulator. ;)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Gandalf:
very simple and straightforward, as long as you know which file you're supposed to flash.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] CPA Poke:
Here's a flashable zip of the MF3 modem ONLY. The zip should work, but I can't attest to the anything that may happen to your device as a result of the new modem.

http://www.mediafire.com/?67m2wlhukg7c8vj

Gonna assume everyone has the common sense to read through this thread BEFORE flashing, as this kind of stuff can mess up your phone pretty bad if done wrong.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Solange82200:
Thanks, does this mean all we.have to do is flash this zip with Twrp or clockworkmod, and not have to deal with terminal.commands? Thx
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] TwistedMexi:
Will this apply root after I reboot, or will it only root it long enough to delete and disable the update? I don't want to root but I don't want this update going through either.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] AxAtAx:
Whats everyone's conclusion here? Flash the OTA update or don't flash the update, I am sure the noobs are eyeing this.

I do not do updates so, I am asking because no one has come right out and said DON'T.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Peaster111:
Delete
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] AxAtAx:
Does this break the sound that they have spoke of?

And does anyone really see a difference?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] linuxthinker:
This will root your device and disable the updater. You will still have root after you reboot.

I've never tried un-rooting my phone, so I'm not sure what's involved. For all I know, it's just "rm -f /system/xbin/su; pm uninstall (superuser package here)". Shrug.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Peaster111:
Yes sir
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] :
If you have right file as mentioned, just copy/paste the command line. Less chance of typing error--:)

Man with this OTA and scrosler back this Forum has exploded today. I thought I was going to take a break from this coming over from my One S. But, can't keep up with all the posts--LOVE IT--:)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] scott14719:
If you mean the OTA...

Take if you don't care about ROOTING or Flashing customs and you want your phone to be up to date.

DON'T take it if you want to ROOT and flash different ROMs (at least not yet)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] AxAtAx:
Then why don't everyone just wait until a dev creates a flash-able MF3 update?

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My bad, OTA update, thanks for the clear up...edited sir.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Gandalf:
Specify: This post is about the MF-3 MODEM , not the entire update

I am on:

Carrier: AT&T (I live in Philadelphia, LTE is working fine)

Model: I337

Working on following ROMs:

CleanROM 1.1

I am testing CyanogenMod 07/09 Nightly right now

i just used the terminal commands and flashed the MF-3.bin to mmcblk0p2. very simple. just make sure you follow Aou's intructions EXACTLY or flash CPA Poke's zip in recovery
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] pixelsquish:
used Titanium Backup to freeze AT&T software updater. so far no notifications about an update. nice.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] AxAtAx:
Cool, is this from just flashing the modem or the OTA, sorry, I did not specify.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] CPA Poke:
Yep. Just flash it. I can confirm that the zip works, I now have MF3 baseband.

Sounds like there isn't anything new in this update other than the Loki patch and the updated modem. The rest of it seems like we just finally got the MEA+ update that the Int'l models got awhile ago. So if you want just the good and not the bad, just flash the modem I posted above :)

Nope. Everything fully functional, WiFi, mobile data, sound, etc.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Gandalf:
yea im talking about just the modem here
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 ROM Development] Eldon:
When trying to flash my QTek using MTTY, I am getting the "Not allow operation!" message once I type the 'l c:\myrom.bin' command. Basically, whenever I type the l (load) command, this error message shows up.

I am using QTek Himalaya with WM2003 first edition. I tried quite a number of methods, but still blocked by this message. Please help!!
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 ROM Development] Eldon:
I heard that I might need to unlock my bootloader, is this possible?

I am having ver 1.02 bootloader on my Qtek.
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 ROM Development] Gilheng:
I want to know too. Can anyone help!!
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 ROM Development] Piorun:
Please help :-)
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 ROM Development] buzz_lightyear:
Hi there...

How to solve the "NOT ALLOW UPDATE"... :o)

First you have to create your "own" SD backup and save it's header as a file somewhere...

Then, grab another's device SD backup and replace it's header with your own, from the saved file...

The header is everything from the offset 0x0 up to red line - offset 0x17F.

After it's replaced, insert your SD card into your device and reboot to bootloader mode. Wait few seconds till the device shows: "Press Power to Flash"

...so press it...

Once done flashing, it will say something about chacksum error... just forget it... and reboot + hardreset..

that's it...

buzz
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 ROM Development] Piorun:
I did full SD backup

d2s 80000000 02000000

d2s 60000000 00300000 sd a

d2s 70000000 01080000 sd a

What parts should be in "another's device SD backup " ? (and where can I find it :-) )
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 ROM Development] Gilheng:
Hi

Does anyone know how to unlock the bootloader inorder to run commands like 'l c:\myrom.bin using the MTTY program.

Thanks
[HTC One X+] usafandersons:
ok so here's where I'm at in this, 5 hrs in and a Gf in tears cause the last 4 were full of freak outs and her sitting over my shoulder. I replaced the LCD screen on her one x+ but I keep running into an issue. When the navigation light ribbon cable is connected it causes the LCD to stop working but when I disconnect it the LCD starts working again but the nav lights stop, and so does sound from the rear speaker and the vibrator thingy. Any ideas what I'm over looking cause I know it has to be something easy that I just couldn't think of under the pressure and all. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
[HTC One X+] usafandersons:
update

In case anybody was wondering I used the following video and followed it step by step but am still running into this issue.

*can't post the link but look up injuredgadget HTC one x*

When I can get the LCD to work I can't get the phone to reboot without up plugging the battery (doesn't matter how long I hold down the power button. Is there anyways to get it to hard reset and pick up all the hardware again from scratch? like kinda make it learn what's plugged in? I have to be missing something
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] efalgae:
Hello, first to say I'm from Spain and I don't speak English very good, but I'll try to do my best.

I have a GT-I9100 with CyanogenMod 10.1 (Android 4.2.2), baseband I9100XXLS8 (when I instaled 4.1.2) and Orange Spain.

My problem is when I am using mobile data, full signal, my phone often doesn't connect to the internet. I talked with a friend and he told me that I have to research how to change my baseband to the best for my android version and mobile operator. Can you help me? Tell me how to do it? Wich baseband version to use and where to find it?

If you don't understand something or you need me to tell you some other data, just ask and I'll try to do it my best.

Thanks,

Efalgae.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theunderling:
Just search for veyka,and google what can go wrong with flashing anything.

Read about nand/efs backups/odin pc setup/cwm and mobile odin.

Or you can just do what most of the impatient/lazy clowns on here do and flash a modem and pray nothing goes wrong.

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maybe your an iphone expert

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[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MistahBungle:
Now then, you could sit here & hope someone who uses your carrier reads your thread & suggests a modem to test, and that may or may not happen. You could spend ages doing Google/XDA searches trying to find a modem that works with your carrier, or you could do the following (And I assume you mean mobile data sometimes works, sometimes doesn't ?) which could solve your problem sooner rather than later:-

Go to Samfirmware, find the stock roms released by your carrier. Start with the most recent one. Work out which modem is bundled with that stock rom (It lists Product Code/PDA/CSC/MODEM for each firmware when you click the link), do an XDA or Google search for that modem, flash it with CWM & test it. If that doesn't improve your connectivity, try the modem bundled with the stock rom released before the most recent one, test. And so on until you find one that works. Hopefully the modem bundled with your carrier's most recently released stock rom works for you tho; you'd expect they'd test it to ensure it works for most people most of the time & in most places with their network.

Whatever you do, don't flash any RIL's unless you've tried every single modem (including those bundled with stock roms released by other carriers & even in other countries; there are dozens), only flash a RIL as a last resort.

If mobile data never works, check the APN settings in settings/wireless & networks/mobile networks/access point names Vs the APN settings on your carrier's website (Actually, double check these anyway even if you end up testing modems as above).
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] efalgae:
Thanks to all.

Because I have no patience, I decided to flash last official firmware released by Orange Spain, found in SamMobile.

I flashed it, flashed CWM again, and CM 10.1 again.

Seems to work perfectly.

Anyway, thanks again to yor answers :)

And...yes, my mobile data was workin sometimes and sometimes not. :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gastonw:
Y olé!

Sent from the little guy
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] efalgae:
Haha yeah and let's eat some <<tortilla de papas>>
[Android General] Fatelord:
What are your reasons for rooting your HTC one ?

what does rooting offer to better the experience .. ?

Personally I used to root simply to off the ads, but it hit me that I barely have any since I usually get the adfree paid versions.

I really want to root but have no incentive to, convince me :P .
[Android General] godutch:
Still for the ads, I accidentally clicked many of them in the browser. Greenify is a good reason too.