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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] chaddeek:
HELP!!! Secure Fail: Kernel

Just as a preface....I am not a pro at this, but I am definitely not even close to a noob and I always read up before I do anything to my device, as well as research everywhere possible to see if I can find a solution to my problem. This is actually my first post on here because until now, I have always been able to find a solution to my problem, thanks to you amazing people, and handle it on my own. I have never had a problem rooting, flashing roms, etc., until this recent fluke accident. However, I can say this with pretty good confidence, that my problem, as you will read, seems like an unique one.

I recently updated my rooted jflteatt SG4 to MF3, which was rooted as well (i know, stupid for updating to MF3...I totally regret it). I flashed a ROM that I thought had auto-loki, but it turned out not to and my phone rebooted before I had a chance to flash loki-doki. I have tried searching everywhere for a solution to my problem, but to no avail. Below is my current situation and status of my device....

After my phone rebooted after I flashed the ROM, the top left of my phone says in red lettering "SECURE FAIL: KERNEL" Then there is the yellow yield triangle and under that it states that the system software is not authorized by AT&T...turn off phone and go into a store. I tried performing all the steps listed in this forum and Odin worked perfectly, but it still boots up as stated above. So independently, I could normally fix this problem. However, my biggest problem is that when I try to reboot into recovery, it says "Could not do normal boot" in red and instead of having the recovery options in the top left, my screen looks almost identical when you boot into download; it even has the green android icon with Downloading underneath and, trust me, I am positive I booted into recovery....but the same thing continuously happens.

I have searched everywhere online, in all the forums here, etc. and I cannot find a solution. I know my biggest problem is not being able to boot into recovery. I have tried to fix this by downloading numerous files and trying to use Odin to hopefully fix it even though I know Odin doesn't really work with MF3. I even went to an AT&T store today to see if they could do something, but they had no idea what they were doing. The guy had to look up on his Ipad how to hard reset a Galaxy S4...pretty pathetic for someone who is suppose to help customers with problems. Anyways, to say the least, I have not been able to reboot into recovery or get past the yellow triangle. Does anyone know any solution to this? Maybe how to get the MF3 stock kernel back onto my phone without the use of rebooting into recovery?

Can someone, anyone, please help me, or point me in the right direction (if there is one)! My wife is furious with me

Thank you so much for even taking the time to read my post.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] scott14719:
You can not flash ANYcustom recovery or ROMs to MF3. It clearly states this several times in the MF3 root thread and in several other threads throughout the AT&T S4 forums. You said you researched everywhere?...how is it you didn't see the numerous warnings? And, how is it you tried to flash a ROM without custom recovery installed? Anyway, you are screwed for now because the method in the OP of this thread is the only known help for MF3 screw-ups that is available to date...and if it didn't work than you are SOL until Samsung releases the full firmware or it appears on Kies...and that may or may not ever happen.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] chaddeek:
inennoti produced

As I stated before, my biggest problem is not being able to reboot into recovery. I have a custom recovery/backup, but it is useless unless I can reboot into recovery, which I can't. Also, it is possible to flash on MF3, because I did it and that is what got me into this situation...I never in my life anticipated not being able to reboot into recovery.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] scott14719:
What method are you using to flash anything on to MF3? What custom recovery are / were you using and how did you put it on your MF3 baseband. I seriously think your biggest problem at this point is not "not being able to reboot into recovery". For your own good, please do some research and reading about what it is you think you know.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] ou812bkewl:
There are some users who have reported success in resolving the problem you seem to have using the steps outlined here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2404970 For some, it works to restore the original recovery. Others in that thread say that it did not resolve thier issues at all. My purely speculative conclusion would be that the pit file flashed in Odin must trigger some kind of restoration of the stock recovery or kernel upon reboot.

Edit: It is still unclear if the pit file is even fully "flashed" successfully. Use at your own risk, as usual.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] l33t_killa:
After getting stuck with the endless Odin Downloading screen (see pic 1), I was told to try doing VOL- / HOME / Power till prompted to either VOL+ or VOL- to cancel and exit to reboot. After rebooting, it started to go through the normal boot process till (see pic 2) and it would just hang on the sphere, and after a few minutes, start to get warm. So, I plugged in the stock USB cable to phone/laptop and get it to show the charging illustration with red LED light as it should with no problems there, it cools back down. Tried then to power up phone again, and it goes to the (see pic 2) screen again and hangs again.

Decided to try the OP's method, followed instructions to the "T", it was a success (see pic 3), at least I thought it was. It went through the auto reboot sequence and all was good till the (see pic 2) screen and same ol' again.

I'm at a lose atm, hoping for some input, just really like to get her back to booting normally again. It seems so close. Thanks for the help in advance.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] ou812bkewl:
I would try booting into recovery and performing a hard reset.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] l33t_killa:
Could you please refresh my memory on those procedure steps. My brain is scrambled with so many processes of doing this and doing that, don't want to fubar back, thanks.

When I do "PRESS AND HOLD VOLUME UP + Home Button + Power", (boot to recovery?) it takes me to the Odin Downloading screen as in my previous post (see pic 1), I can't do nothing after that.

I also did Vol - / Home / Power, get the warning prompt to press up or down to cancel, press down to reboot, go through reboot process, and hangs on the sphere (see pic 2) in previous post.

I also tried the .pit method you mentioned a few posts up, and got the same result as in my (see pic 2) post, still hangs on the ATT sphere, blue LED light lit.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] ou812bkewl:
Try power+home+vol down.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] l33t_killa:
Thanks, I did try that as I had mentioned in my previous post. ;)

"I also did Vol - / Home / Power, get the warning prompt to press up or down to cancel, press down to reboot, go through reboot process, and hangs on the sphere (see pic 2) in previous post"
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] ou812bkewl:
Sorry I didn't see that. What was the cause of your endless download mode issue? Is your system, kernel, and recovery completely MF3 stock?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] l33t_killa:
No biggy. Think trying to boot into recovery initially caused the loop. Unfortunately, this started after the OTA update, so I would expect everything is under MF3? My fault on doing the "New Root Method" http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2387577 right after OTA, I missed the fine print, and dove in SMH....
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] ou812bkewl:
Yeah I thought I'd never see "Official" status again, but I eventually got it official again, un-rooted, and I'm not even gonna root again unless I get my hands on the full image from Kies.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] l33t_killa:
Yeah, all I want is to get it back to booting normal too. Sucks that even Kies didn't even recognize my phone when it was stock, when I plugged it in to try and get the OTA update initially as doing the update from the phone keep failing. Good news, is the phone is still under the 14 day exchange period, so I might just take it to the ATT store and get another one and leave it be, still SMH.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] LTD36:
Worked excellently! Thank you so much, I really thought I was screwed!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] mdanish4:
need recovery for odin only for att s4

can any one just give me recovery.tar.... for odin pleasee....
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] scott14719:
Posting in multiple threads is considered trolling.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] mdanish4:
Lol bro I am just so pissed.. an I want this thing working perfect again now!!!!! Lol
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] scott14719:
Understandable, I posted a response in your other request thread.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] l33t_killa:
Well, I was able to exchange my soft brick for another phone, since it was still under the 14 day grace period, unfortunately it came with stock MF3 firmware, so a virgin she will stay, at least for the time being ;) Guess I can soak in some more info in the meantime till stable MF3 root/hacks/roms become available :silly: Thanks again for your help....
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] ou812bkewl:
Do NOT quote the entire OP for a question like this please.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] NOplaymaker:
Worked to get back to the boot loader, but mine still just have the custom unlock screen. Wont go further. Forces into stock recovery after a couple of loops. Any help??
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] daveybear:
Thanks
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] TChachra:
THANK YOU!

I bricked my phone trying to downgrade firmware so that it would accept an imei unlock code. The code naturally did not work and thus I...like a noob...decided to odin downgrade. I was left with a boot loop and a soft bricked phone...your post saved my phone.

AWESOME...thank you much.

:good::good:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] sincity:
No effect on my phone... still stuck at the boot screen logo...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] circasurvives:
I'm stuck in the same position. I got my AT&T screen back, but it won't load the OS. Frustrating as all get out.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] sg405:
Thank you so much!

Thank you so much! You have saved my marriage.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] mrthink:
72985

I installed AMF3 as soon as it came out, followed by a ClockworkMod "flash", which as we all now know didn't "take". So I get a forced double-boot: 1st boot freezes as the network is connecting, followed by an automatic re-boot which works. My question: will this fix for KIES issue fix my double-boot issue by any chance? Or am I fishing in the wrong pond?

Samsung S4 SGH-I337 (AT&T) rooted

Sony Xperia Tab Z virgin

Samsung Tab 10.1 rooted and running AOKP Build 6
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] ou812bkewl:
Sorry, but this is not the fix for you. This is only for correcting mismatched primary and secondary boot-loaders. Only for phones that cannot boot into anything except download mode or the "phone-->triangle -->pc" screen.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] NMonster69:
Fix my phone! yay!

This saved my bootie! Thanks! I rooted on FM3 which was a success. Then I installed goo manager to install twrp which I have since learned is the wrong thing to do. I thought I was screwed for the foreseeable future. Thank god this was a spare phone as I use my Note2 still.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] elliotfsl:
oh my god you're the greatest. had a rooted at&t s4 and flashed TWRP while running MF3 and I've been stuck in the triangle screen for eternity. spent the last 8 or so hours trying to unbrick my phone until i finally found this. worked like a charm
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] ddubz:
Thank you for this

I did not read around and soft bricked my phone via goo and twrp on mf3 and this got my phone back up and working thank you so much
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] jrin578:
Thank you

I put a wrong thing on goomanager and got stuck in odin mode, but your thing saved me thank you so much.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Odischeese:
Flashable stock ROM

Is there a way to Flash the stock ROM on MF3?

Or maybe a bypass for Odin to be able to flash roms on MF3?

My phones' stock recovery mode seems corrupted and every time i try to boot into it, it just tells me "could not normal boot"

I can't get past my boot logo screen, i can only enter download mode.

Help please...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] ou812bkewl:
If you boot up every time to the "PC-->Triangle-->Phone" emergency download mode screen, and have a stock MF3 system and kernel, then following the instructions in the OP will help you. By your description, it seems that yours might be a different problem, however. You might try posting your question in the Q/A section. Good luck!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] seanpaul1407:
i did that and it was successfully done on Odin, but when i tried to upgrade of initialize the frame on Kies still giving me the same message "

model sgh-i337 is not supported" please help!!!!!!!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] ou812bkewl:
The process in the OP has nothing to do with changing the behavior of Kies. This is to fix your boot loaders in the case that you upgraded to MF3, then failed at the beginning when trying to downgrade via Kies. It is impossible to downgrade or re-initialize via Kies or Odin once you've upgraded to MF3.

If your phone boots, you don't need this.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] RO3:
Hi guys, so I am guessing by reading this entire thread that there still is no way to flash customs at this point in time? I just got the SGH I337 yesterday, I love it but would love to have custom roms again. Is there any information abound on progress in the direction of an exploit? My phone is fine, is it worth rooting with no way to flash back to stock?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] ou812bkewl:
As of the time of this posting, no. At least, not for the most current firmware version (MK2 or MJ9). Those with MF3 can use safestrap, but it has limitations on what can be flashed. Those with MDL firmware or older can use Loki exploits to circumvent boot-loader security and flash anything they want.

Once a stock firmware is flashed thru Odin or Kies, downgrade is not possible. Only those with MDL or MF3 can flash back to stock and only to the stock version of the firmware they currently have boot-loaders from, as I understand it.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] KevinThaKid:
i took this phone to a phone repair place they had it over a week and they couldnt do **** to it, as soon as i brought it back no later then 10 min i fixed it bc of u THANK U
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] ou812bkewl:
Glad I could help!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] jtodaro:
I am still failing on aboot.mbn. What would cause this and is there a work around? If I boot the phone up normally, I get only the words Samsung, with an unlock symbol and the word Custom under it. It sits there for about 10 seconds (tops) then shuts itself off. Attempting to boot via vol-down, other two keys, then vol-down produces nothing.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] ou812bkewl:
What is the version of the boot-loaders you are running? MF3? MK2? Do you still get a charging battery animation when it is powered off and on the charger?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] jtodaro:
I wish I knew what ver of boot loader it was. Can't see the tiny output when in download screen and it's not my phone. Charging battery I see, not sure what animation it is supposed to have, but I think the circle that's supposed to be swirling in the center is there (or maybe not, it was pretty dead when the friend gave it to me to try and resolve).

I'm no stranger to having to recover devices of this type, so dunno.

Am currently walking through this howto, to see if I can resolve.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=47586777&postcount=135&nocache=1&z=9825830711051822

You think that's the best approach? As aboot fails on all mf3 stuff that I've tried.

---------- Post added at 11:27 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:21 PM ----------

And... that failed. LOL.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] ou812bkewl:
Sounds like the nearest Best Buy Samsung Experience service center with access to SMART tools is their last hope for recovery. Good luck!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] jtodaro:
Also thinking so. I do see the battery charging animation now. How to I boot phone and put it into recovery? I've tried a few diff ways I've read and none of them seem to like me. LOL
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] ou812bkewl:
Recovery Mode might not be accessible if boot-loader files have become mismatched. If Download Mode (Odin Mode) can be reached, then a service center most likely will be able to recover it. Your friend might want to just say it froze during an OTA or something. I would play dumb about ROM/root stuff.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] jtodaro:
Thanks man. Will tell him that's what he should do. Ya, I'm thinking recovery isn't accessing right, as I've tried everything. Gonna at least be nice and charge it up for him overnight I guess. Thanks, am out.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] ou812bkewl:
One last thing. During charging, check the phone every 5-10 minutes for heat. Sometimes, boot-loader issues can cause the battery to overheat when attempting to recharge it. When I fried the boot-loaders on my old Samsung Captivate, trying to charge it caused it to get hot enough to swell. The safest option would be to recharge his battery in an external charger or a functional GS4. Good luck! :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] boinker:
Is it possible for the an XDA/PPC/whatever to run an emulator of sorts that exposes Bluetooth keyboard or mouse services? E.g., so I could pair an XDA as a generic BT keyboard and mouse to a computer.

Whilst there are 'remote control' apps available, they require something installed on the PC side of things, which is not what I want. If it was simply available as another Bluetooth keyboard and mouse, anything that can connect to a BT keyboard/mouse can support it - without requiring drivers. PCs, Macs, other handhelds, etc.
[General Questions and Answers] Derfledermous:
Hi all, n00b here asking a question. As this is my first post, I can't post this in the Dev forum, so, I'm posting it here.

I followed the instructions and flashed the Eaglesblood Jelly Bean 4.1 ROM last night. Everything seemed fine until I tried to connect to wifi. Every time I attempted to connect to my network, the phone would reboot. I was never able to connect, so, I went back to CM7.

Any idea why this might be happening or a fix for it? Thanks.
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GeFeBe:
Hello,

I read in the Dev Threads about zram and I want to know, howto enable zram and specifiying its settings. I am on the latest Quarx CM10.1 and latest Blechdose Kernel.

Thanks

GeFeBe
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thekguy:
Edit cmdline file located in system/boot menu/2ndboot

Append the text "zram" with a space from the last word of the file like the pic attached
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yellowbal:
Go into Settings > Performance > Memory management > zRam

If you do not see Performance as an option, click on About Phone > Build number 7 times
[General Questions and Answers] stablio:
I bought a Galaxy S4 GT-i9500 from China and want to know how to change the build from Chinese to UK, so that it removes all the chinese preinstalled apps and adds all the UK apps, can anyone help please?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] odysseus84:
As we all know, set the Network connection to "2G only" safes a lot of battery. When we set to 2G/3G, the device decides eitch network is actually the best choise.

But what is if I set the cinnection at 3G only. Does it safes batter in compering to 2G/3G-Mode?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shree15:
if you choose 2G then it will save battery but will you crappy internet speed. and if you use 3G only then it will give you high speed internet but less battery life.. so to balance out both.you should keep your mobile in 2G mode when you dont need high speed internet..and when you need internet you can switch it to 3G. i use that trick :)

so yes..its better to switch manually rather keeping 2g/3g automatic mode
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] darixtorento:
hey my i9500 has very liw benchmark and hit only 19000 on antutu benchmark

im using phonix rom v4 plus presus v5 kernel

no overclocking has been perfomed and settings are set to their default

according to my screenshot from benchmark results, my cpu float point is lower than regular and I dont know why

plus ram memory hits very low score while I have only 0.9gb ram under use out of my 1.8gb
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hotheabilly:
This is my benchmark using Omega v8 and latest perseus v5. All is well. Maybe your phone is too hot and cpu starting to throttling.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] darixtorento:
So can you please help me what should I do something has been destroyed and not fixable in my device,
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HassanM:
Can u plz tell me how measure or monitor if the CPU is throttling??? How can it be avoided???

Btw, I have Omega 9 with Perseus 5...

Thanks
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hotheabilly:
you can use setcpu to monitor (set the min and max clock same as the one in stweaks) if you set e.g. 1700mhz at some point (if cpu start throttling) the clock will stuck at 1400mhz, or 1200mhz depending how hot is your phone, It simply can't avoided as far as I know, if you want to make a benchmark, cool down your phone first :)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] darixtorento:
As I already said, I had never ovrrclocked my device and never changed any settings.. cpu is set on 16000mhz as default. So I dont know what u want why using another applications
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] darixtorento:
Help???
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] darixtorento:
What is the problem can some1 help me plzz
[One (M7) Themes and Apps] Raymond Ebertt:
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