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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] dandan2980:
I did.that too in stock recovery. I used mobile odin to go back.to stock using the one click unroot in development section after using triangle away. For some reason odin keeps freezing everytime I try to flash the stock firmware on my computer no matter which version I use. Becomes non responsive once I click start. Bit the CF root that has odin works but only for the root zip that comes in the zip to auto root weird. So I have no choice but to use Mobile Odin. I am completley stock and official.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] ricketkm:
So I unrooted my phone back to stock MF9 and manually installed update, ty QBKING77 video. I keep hearing about KNOX but for some reason I don't see it on my phone??? am I missing something?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] churchey360:
Go into download mode and you should see it.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] ricketkm:
how do I do that?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] JoeFCaputo113:
How the heck did you go back to stock MF9... none of the Odin tars are working for me (downloading wise).
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] ChefEAM:
OTA hit 6 hours away from DFW, in Midland this morning
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] brniel:
I finally got the update to take, but I lost root. I think I'll wait for a solution before I root and set the Knox flag.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] ricketkm:
I used this link: http://premium.caribe.net/~makpr/Odin%20Firmwares/MF9/
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] churchey360:
Power off your phone and hold volume down and power and when you see a screen pop up release the buttons. Then you hit volume up and you will be in download mode. Then just hold power to exit out.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] JoeFCaputo113:
That's one of the links I've tried, but for some reason it's downloading at a maximum of 20kb/s... pathetic... it's estimated to take 25 hrs lol....
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] churchey360:
http://www.rwilco12.com/downloads.php?dir=Files/Devices/Samsung Galaxy S4 (SPH-L720)/Stock ROMs/MF9
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] dandan2980:
How did you get it to take?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] ricketkm:
ok that's weird ??? who is using knox?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] JoeFCaputo113:
That's for rooted....and for the non-rooted one, which is want, so I can sideload the MAJ update, it stops at 55 MB and says it's done when the file is larger than 1 Gig lol. -__- :mad:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] churchey360:
Unrooted is in the full restore folder. And do you have room in your download folder to download it.. you might need to delete some stuff to have room

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What does reading mode do in the 4.3 update.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] brniel:
I reflashed a rooted stock mf9 tar with Odin. After that it worked.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] daniel4653:
Dude I just download the file in 9 mins, the full 1+ GB file.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] neudof:
Stock rooted 4.3 posted in dev section
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] lanewhit:
OK, so how do you reset the flag to zero? I'm rooted on 4.3 now...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] CNexus:
You mean Knox? As of now, there is no known method to reset the Knox counter.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] JoeFCaputo113:
It's finally working now -__-
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] lanewhit:
Was there a way to reset it for MF9?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] churchey360:
It wasn't in MF9. The new 4.3 update comes with a new bootloader that has Knox built in it.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] chicagoaan:
I usually flash my phone to stock mdc and update allthe way to mf9. Needless to say ive done this at least 40 times yet my knox counter reads 0x0 as of now on mfj....
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] churchey360:
OK so if someone was to buy a s4 next week or the week after is it gonna come with 4.3?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] garwynn:
Yes... sorry for the problems earlier, was switched to mirror in afternoon.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] garwynn:
Oh.. and I tried through Kies but they must not have uploaded MJA yet because current still shows MF9.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] lanewhit:
That's a good question... I plan to buy another one for myself in December. I've got my wife's on 4.3 now but it tripped the knox to 1. Oh, well.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] galaxys3man30:
[MENTION=4194834]garwynn[/MENTION] could point me in the right direction what cfroot are we using to root? I was going to pull the firmware files since im a ota device to try to get the firmware to be a flashable cnexus showed me what to do from this thread http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=46960990 if he is right by the commands is it possible to make it a flashable
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] ChefEAM:
They have definitely not uploaded MJA to Kies yet. When it reads a phone with the update, this is what you get:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] JoeFCaputo113:
I take that back.. this time it got to 200 MB and then said it was finished... FML !!! -__-

If anyone has the full MF9 stock (unrooted) tar could they PLEASE be kind enough to upload it for me -_- like the one seen here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2375523
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] churchey360:
Are you downloading it on a computer?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] lanewhit:
So, now that I tripped knox, if were to go back all the way to stock unrooted, would knox be reset or is it at 1 forever and I shall be damned and surely flogged if I tried to take my phone in for warranty....
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] JoeFCaputo113:
Yes, using Chrome.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] oscarthegrouch:
Imo kies is bass ackwards. A friend on tmo says kies is telling him mdl is the latest. He also said, because he works for a phone brand company (hardware) that the carriers decide when they want updates and what they want to be fixed or included in updates. He's mad that tmo s4 is two versions behind. I told him that metropcs probably doesn't do any updates (because they are so ghetto).

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Replied to wrong post. Was supposed to be the post about him checking kies.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] churchey360:
Can you download it on your phone and transfer it to your computer?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] CNexus:
Like I said above, as of now, there is no known way to reset the Knox counter from 0x1 to 0x0.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] galaxys3man30:
Uploading now buddy
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Highway 55:
anyone have any insight as to why TWRP 2.6.3.0 wont stick after flashing via odin? first I flashed it with the auto reboot option checked. Didn't work. Next I unchecked auto reboot and let it get all the way to PASS before unplugging. this time I tried to boot to recovery directly after leaving download mode. No dice. I flashed the next time the same way, all the way to PASS, however this time I rebooted before trying to boot into recovery. I still keep getting the stock recovery. Am I missing a step?

EDIT: I will admit this is my first try at TWRP. I have had the "If it aint broke dont fix it" attitude towards using standard CWM. might give Philz CWM a try...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] CNexus:
It's because of the install-recovery.sh file in system/etc. It restores the stock recovery, if you have a modified one, one each boot
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Highway 55:
So how do I install recovery then? Sorry, I feel like a dumbass. I have been doing this stuff for over 3 years at this point and Ive never had this much trouble flashing a recovery.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] gbarrett71:
4.3 update HELP PLEASE NO WIFI

I updated my S4 to 4.3 today and lost wifi functionality. I've tried everything and wifi cannot be activated.

I've tried everything I know.

Yes, it broke root when I updated.

Someone please help. Has anyone else experienced this?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] JoeFCaputo113:
Always coming in the clutch galaxy

S4

man ;)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] CNexus:
Delete that file in /etc and then flash your custom recovery again
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] galaxys3man30:
sucky part its going to be 4 hours before i can get it you buddy damn slow ass internet sorry buddy
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] JoeFCaputo113:
Your doing me the favor bro don't be sorry at all! Tmrw morning just PM me the DL link or post on here :)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] maxpower7:
I installed TWRP via Goo Manager and it's survived through multiple boots.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] aagiants:
Hmm read all 50 pages, and there is a lot of instructions/issues going on.

I am stock, rooted w/twrp. Can i just flash back to stock recovery and update through the stock recovery?

I'm under the impression that i will lose root that way unless i somehow lock root access through superuser?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] bondosho:
...and after I reflashed bone stock (somehow I didn't lose any of my apps or settings...weird), even though I was on bone stock, I redownloaded the zip, and flashed through stock recovery. 10-ish minutes later, I'm now on 4.3 :D
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] JoeFCaputo113:
Wait you were on stock MF9 but rooted and had the custom recovery and update went thru? I thought people had problems doing that... I'm on sac's ROM but with stock kernel and I have the stock recovery zip on my computer.. coulda just done that this whole time!? :eek:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Highway 55:
I got it to stick by doing the battery pull trick. I will still delete that file though. Now after flashing SuperSu 1.65 I am getting a message that the system is killing root. I tried deleting KNOX from TWRP, and relflashing SuperSU. root is still broken. I will probably just flash your stock rooted ROM at this point though just to make it easy. ;)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] garwynn:
If using wifi try a wired connection. I had a similar problem over wifi but wiref wad ok.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] joe.stay:
How do I prevent the OTA MJA files from making it onto my stock root gs4?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] chris-allen:
Can i use rom manager to install a recovery? And can i use the one it " finds " for me or is there a specific recovery i need to use?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] xchampx13:
I don't think the latest CWM from ROM Manager would give you a problem, I am not on MJA yet so I haven't tried it though. Waiting til eventually we can flash modem and everything instead of taking the OTA and going back to stock unrooted :P
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] gdwilliams11:
Hi gang, I'm a relative newb with a simple question. I am stock, rooted w/twrp. Can I just Odin the update and have it take without losing root? If not, do I need to instal stock recovery, Odin the update and then re-root?

Thanks for the help.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] aagiants:
I was in your shoes, and i flashed back to Stock recovery and tried to update via zip and i get this error

Assert apply_rename_check and then a whole bunch of file names and then a status 7....

Does anyone know what the error is?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] galaxys3man30:
Its cuz of knox your going to have to be unrooted to make it go through knox bootloader picks up ur rooted already and thus gives that error
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] aypanthony:
So, people who are Stock Rooted(w/ stock recovery) can't set SU to "Survival mode" and update to MJA to preserve root? I thought I read that this method works, doesn't bork WiFi and leaves knox at 0x0. Is this not true?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] 30footfall:
are we still doing the: "Atlanta, GA still no update!" thing or did i miss that?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Alpine-:
Can anyone confirm this? Im stock rooted but with TWRP recovery. Can I go back to stock recovery (whats the best way to do this?), use survival mode, then just accept the OTA? This way I dont have to reconfig anything.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] brniel:
I was stock rooted and was able to update, but I lost root even with survival mode.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] aagiants:
Dang... I know there was FZametti was succesful in keeping his root...

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=46947174&postcount=237
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] brniel:
Boot to download mode and the Knox counter should be on that screen.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] lanewhit:
+1
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] aagiants:
I tried this but got a flash error. i'm going to try to odin back to a nodata wipe version mf9 and try again... i really don't want to lose root and have to reconfigure everything.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] rdalrymple:
Error

Since i've updated to 4.3 im getting the strangest wifi type error. I cannot watch video from any website,youtube etc etc when connect to wifi it just hangs and screen flashes. But when im on 3g or 4g it works fine with wifi being off? Anyone experience this?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] brniel:
That's what I did, I installed a no data wipe rooted version of MF9, but I lost root on the upgrade even with survival mode set in Supersu.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Darnell0216:
Which version of SuperSU did you have installed? Did you have Pro?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] brniel:
1.65 and yes it was pro. It sounds like its worked for other people, I must be the unlucky one.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] lanewhit:
It didn't work for me either. I had to re root after odin of MJA. It did some weird things with SuperSU but it finally took. I just wished the knox flag would have stayed at 0x0. Oh well.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] ricketkm:
That's what I did.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] answaiksvoltage:
Partial brick

So I did the update last night and everything had worked until I restored from TiBackup. Decided it would be easier to wipe and start from scratch.. WRONG. The phone never booted back up. I have tried ODIN and the exe to flash back to MF9 (which we all now know doesn't work), went on the limb and tried mobile odin with MF9 (no go). The best I can do is flash a 4.2.2 rom, which will boot though has ZERO sound. I can flash any recovery through odin just can't get this thing back to normal. After putting on a 4.2.2 (Sacs and Freegs4) it will boot though lags the first 5 minutes and never allows use of the mic or earpiece.

I tried the 4.3 stock rom that was posted, no boot. Nother has worked right since I did the wipe through TWRP after the full update. I'm going to try an aosp 4.3 rom next to see how that goes. Any ideas what might cause this no sound issue? Perhaps the modem is screwed? My device info does still show it's on MJA no matter what rom I install...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] likearaptor:
Does anyone have a TWRP 2.6.3 backup of their MJA? I backed mine up with 2.5.0.2 but it seems that version doesn't work well with Android 4.3. I am running a MF9 rom with my MJA baseband, but I would love to get a system partition to restore :)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] omariscal1019:
I do i will upload up for you

Edit : will upload through drop box
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] answaiksvoltage:
I'd like to grab this as well if I may.. since I still cannot get my phone to boot with sound/calls...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] omariscal1019:
Yeah but im have factory reset my phone then back up or else it will have all my info
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] maxpower7:
I also had massive issues after restoring my apps with TB. I ended up booting back to stock recovery and doing a factory reset, which allowed me to start over with no lingering issues. I don't like not being able to use TB though, so I ended up installing TWRP 2.6.3.0 using Goo Manager and then flashing CM (the 10/31 nightly) with TWRP. So far, so good. I'm done with TW for a while after this update.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] crawrj:
Well I am completely screwed. I was working on a Deodexed rom last night. Flashed it and got put into a bootloop. Tried to restore MF9 like I did a couple of times earlier that day only this time it failed. It kept hanging. I tried a couple of more times to restore and nothing. So I tried CF Auto again and it failed also. And now I can't get into recovery because it comes up with the firmware failed. And I can't Odin anything back on it. So I am screwed. Thank you very much Samsung. So count me out of the fun for who knows how long. At least I was able to get the hotspot done before it blew up:)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] jj14:
OH NO!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] answaiksvoltage:
Guess I'm still fortunate that I can boot and text yet. Just zero sound/calls..
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] maxpower7:
Sorry to hear it, man. I have an upgrade coming up in a month, and I was seriously considering going with the Note 3 until I updated to MJA. It's left such a bad taste in my mouth that I think I may be done with Samsung phones for good. I'm on CM for now, but I'll most likely be going with the Nexus 5 if the rumors pan out.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Highway 55:
+1. As much as I love this device, the nexus experience is so much better. Unfortunately I am stuck here until about February of 2015...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] guitardoc64:
OH NO! is right! Damn sorry man. I was hoping to update this weekend, but seeing this, I'm staying on MF9 until someone pulls the fangs out of this one. If it can be done.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] blackte4:
Thank God I waited.... I guess I got a Galaxy Gear just to look at in the box for now
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Alpine-:
He died so others may hotspot. He died for you. Remember him...always. ;)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] daniel4653:
Is it possible for one of us to upload one of our backups for you and see if they will work for you ?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] garwynn:
He should be okay once MJA tar surfaces. But that could be a wait...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] aypanthony:
Ooooohhh no! Screw this update.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] crawrj:
No since I can't get into recovery that won't help. But thanks for the thought. As Garwynn said, I am probably out of luck until the MJA tar comes out. But since none of the other tars are working I have my doubts on that also.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] garwynn:
I actually feel comfortable saying that based on the fact the MJA stock tar probably has some stuff missing from a dump - and it's probably those additional items causing the issue.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] ram9200:
I got back into recovery with a jig and flashed twrp in odin. I had to install aosp, I'm pretty much screwed with touchwiz. Cmon usps I want my note 3 now!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] churchey360:
If we could find a way to disable KNOX wile rooting and flashing roms or kernels that would be so cool lol i would love to add a custom kernel to my s4 when someone makes one for the new 4.3 update.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] kiekan:
For those that haven't noticed, the MJA source code has been posted on http://opensource.samsung.com/
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] leaderbuilder:
One thing to try, I had a couple of similar experiences with an S3 and my S4 when I got it.

Take the battery out for at least over an half hour.

Try and get into download mode and

IF

you can try Odin'ing a recovery - like TWRP.

If, again big if, you get that, then you can then try flashing the stock mf9 kernel, the mf9 modem and then the stock ROM. [got zips and tars for them all if you need them]

Like I said I know it's a long shot but one night I killed my neices S3 phone a while back and then when MF9 first hit this worked for me on my S4 later.

Weirdest/hardest thing was waiting to put the battery back in and trying to get into download mode. That process of charging, taking the batter out. WAITING and then attemping a few times to hit the right buttons over and over took half the night.

Either way good luck man. You're a great asset to this community.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] answaiksvoltage:
So uh... my new problem.. still no sound no matter what rom I am on. 1x, 3g, lte all work.. all other functions work. Now check out my info.. keep in mind I did flash MJA last night..
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] DJMaj07:
Your baseband is MDC, your build is MF9, and you say you flashed MJA?? How did you manage this? Were you rooted when you flashed the MJA update?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] churchey360:
Are you completely stock, unrooted, and stock recovery?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] xchampx13:
Your issue is most likely you are on a mix of MDC and MF9, and flashed the MJA ROM I would guess? You should update everything to MJA
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] answaiksvoltage:
I had unrooted to stock and flashed the update zip from last night. Everything was on the new software/baseband though kept freezing up after i re-rooted and tibackup screwed up. I decided to wipe my phone and redownload each app though after the wipe my phone never booted back up in twrp.

Spent most of the night just getting a 4.2.2 rom to boot (sacs) though never got sound back. Tried several different modems/firmwares though odin/mobile odin.. I'm finally able to boot the phone (big step from last night's mess) but I can't change the stupid baseband now. The whole beautiful part is that I have the stupid Knox bootloader and I think that's what's screwed up it for good. I tried flashing an mf9 radio again and still stuck on mdc, it won't budge.

I've unlocked/flashed/tinkered several moto/htc devices over the years and never managed to get this screwed up.. stupid update.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Jellybeanteeker:
I'm in the same situation

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I can't even go back to mja anymore it's so stupid. -.- I was so happy 4.3 was coming. It wasn't even worth it.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] cj10488:
As far as I can tell the new update requires the new bootloader. I can update the entire system but it will not boot.

James
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] crawrj:
Yeah I tried that and everything else I could think of. The issue is that the system is in some kind of locked state. First problem is that you can't Odin a stock tar onto the phone. Second problem is that I have custom recovery installed but can't get to recovery. When I try to get into recovery it goes right to the firmware failed to install screen. So without the ability to get into recovery and without the option of being able to Odin anything on I am screwed. And I can't get adb either since I can't get into recovery. So I am just SOL until the MJA tar is released, if it ever is. Because I am not paying the deductible charge, or whatever it is called, to have it fixed. LG is looking better every minute. The only drawback is I am one of the few that actually like TW.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] churchey360:
So the new 4.3 update pretty much makes it so you cant even recover from a soft brick?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] crawrj:
To an extent. I think the more you recover to worse it gets. I recovered a couple of times while testing things out yesterday by restoring a nandroid. But then all of a sudden it locked me out completely. Something in Knox got pissed and said that's it I'm done. My Knox counter now says something knew also. Instead of 0x1 it is 0x and a hex digit if I remember right. Phone is off so I can't verify.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] leaderbuilder:
Damn. That blows. I too and one of those that actually like TW (well after I stip it down) too.

Here's to hoping that either sac23, CNexus, garwynn and/or skyyrocket can get something going in the full .tar direction.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] garwynn:
Anyone check Kies today?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] ChefEAM:
Still shows that the firmware is not supported for updating