yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] fearthemarchx:
very similar problem and its driving me crazy!!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Jellybeanteeker:
I got a question. 0.0 how can we use knox. Like it's there in application manager but it's not in my drawer 0.-'
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] tasked28m:
i flashed the stock mf9 kernel and now it booted but without screen working. When it leaves samssung logo it boots i can hear the samsung sound the led indicator is bleeping but i have no display working. Weird stuff
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] cris_epic:
i can confirmm sound fixing after following op and then flashing mja kernel then mja modem
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] chico1983:
Wi Fi not working

Hi wi Fi not working after update I'm rooted and have twrp intalled. I cannot flash the radios with stock recovery or twrp. Can any pointers are welcome. Please don't tell me to search I been working on this since 2 yesterday. Thanks
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] KelevrA_8:
If everyone wants I can make a tar with the modem and kernel included... and it seems if you flash them in odin with phone instead of pda that works better. Let me know.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] chico1983:
Not trying to be lazy but can you please do that for us it will be greatly appreciate
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] KelevrA_8:
Yeah give me a few not at my computer right now.

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Try this out. Flash from Odin using Phone.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/9s3v7yxsbjzsyj1/MJA-Modem_Kernel.tar.md5
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] cris_epic:
Yeah if you flash the kernel and modem after the op's restore you get everything fixed including sound.. I even restored my negalite rom and im having 0 issues atm, just stay away from flashing older firmware and everyone should be good :D
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] likearaptor:
I'll upload this file to rapidshare and androidfilehost if thats ok, just in case your dropbox account pauses downloads.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] KelevrA_8:
Yeah cool go ahead man happy to help out.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] likearaptor:
I've got KelevrA_8's file posted on the first post in case his dropbox link stops working. Let us know if this helps fix the boot loops.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Mindripper72:
When I flash the modem/kernel tar file, no sound and dialer freezes up can't make or answer calls. Had to Odin back to me to get it to work

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Back to mf9
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] fearthemarchx:
can someone share a working link to download stockMJA.tar.mdf file pleeeeease!!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] ROMANTiC KiD:
Theres none yet.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] skyyrocket:
Someone with everything working pull a full system dump for me please... Just pm me if anything
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] omariscal1019:
Sac23 had me pulled one the other day i have it with dropbox if u need it... everything works
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] fearthemarchx:
for what its worth..ive been stuck in bootloop. tried flashing OctOS with philz didnt work..just had success when flashing with twrp. so i have a phone again! so if youre falling on OctOs as a last resort and not successfull. flash with TWRP@!!!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] fearthemarchx:
Redownloaded system and boot from OP..restored while on OctOs..running MJA like better thanks [MENTION=1059720]likearaptor[/MENTION] for the help!!

:thumbup:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] corwin2k:
Ditto. How did you fix?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] jfcooley:
Just a thanks.

Thank you.

I hosed my install doing something I knew I shouldn't last night. I didn't get bootloops but got constant force closes. This thread got me back on track. Thanks for posting the files, and the steps. Thanks to all that provided mirrors as well. You guys (and gals if any) are a credit to the community.

Thanks again.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] macb1997:
I keep getting an MD5 mismatch. Maybe it was a bad download?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] likearaptor:
Yes, I would try a different mirror and try again.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] jameztownbarber:
Sucks....did mja update rooted with cf auto root alwayz make backup of stock rom...and restored my backup of sacs and wanted to go back to stock 4.3 and it wont let me get stuck at s4 logo screen and keros boot looping

**Team VeNuM**
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] likearaptor:
Try doing the system and boot restore from the first post.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] ndfan77:
Thanks!

THANK YOU for this! Saved my bacon!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] corwin2k:
making some progress

wifi and sound back up after re-flashing the philz files, but now my baseband is unkown and i have to cell service, which was working before... grrr anyone have an EFS backup they want to share?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] maxpower7:
Ok, so here's my situation... I fully updated to MJA, rooted, and hated the fact that I can't use Titanium to restore all my apps without borking up the phone. So I flashed to CM and am happy with my current setup.

The problem is that I'm planning to sell my S4 and switch to the Nexus 5. I want to get the phone back to stock MJA in order to sell it, but CNexus' stock rooted rom won't flash in either TWRP or CWM. Since I'm running an AOSP rom and have the Knox bootloader on my phone, will I be able to use the method in this thread to restore back to stock MJA?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] leaderbuilder:
This solution and the tips in the thread should get you back to stock 4.3 but so far you cannot get back to TW 4.2
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] maxpower7:
Thanks. I'll give it a shot then. I'm not concerned with going back to 4.2. I just want to get from AOSP 4.3 back to stock TW 4.3.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] neudof:
Ok,

I went from stock rooted mf9 to mja successfully with no issues.

I then ran auto root with no problems.

I downloaded twrp and flashed with mobile Odin and I cannot boot to recovery.

I downloaded phil touch and flashed with mobile odin and cannot boot to recovery..

Where do I go from here?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] likearaptor:
I would not use mobile odin. I would use odin on the pc
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] likearaptor:
Or I would use this app

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.mkrtchyan.recoverytools

It has always flashed the recovery without issues on mf9. I should work with mja unless knox gets in the way. That is what I am thinking is happening with mobile odin
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] cmonsterf50:
Completely random thought on the no audio issues. My wife's S4 stopped randomly the other day. No notifications, game sounds ... nothing. Tried everything ... wiped the phone ... everything ... this is on MF9 btw ... I turned on the speaker during a phone call to check if it even worked. Sure enough it did. Checked the sounds, started working too. Nandroid back ... everything's kosher. Long story quick fix. Im not on this build to test ... just an idea.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] leaderbuilder:
Nuber one says,

It's talking about

PC Odin

(and use this file - philz_touch_5.18.2-jfltespr.tar.md5)

Doing that should start you off right.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] neudof:
I finally got the recovery to Stick using the app. THANKS!

Now boots funny too

I hold PWR, VOL UP and RESET until i see the blue, red and yellow text and let go, now instead of going right to recovery, it reboots, shows the text again and then goes to recovery..

Everyone elses do the same?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] likearaptor:
The blue text is telling you it is going into recovery, the yellow and red and telling you the recovery isn't the stock one and can be ignored.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] jejb:
Mine did that a couple of times while I was trying to get MJA up and stable, but has not done it for a while now when going into recovery.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] jameztownbarber:
So weird can not get my 4.3 back to boot to save my life. I odin back to cmplete mf9 stock in rooted flashed update via stock recovery rooted with cf auto root everything was good made backup of 4.3 and restored my sacs backup and ran fine well wanted to go back to 4.3 and it wont boot....any suggestions...thanks for this thread

**Team VeNuM**
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] tasked28m:
Wait , you were in 4.3 and went back to mf9 ? I thought that was a no no with knox.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] likearaptor:
I agree, doing odin with mf9 is not a good idea. I think crawrj did this and was able to fix it, you might want to message him or look through this thread's history to see how he solved it. He had to do something first and then restored the boot/system partitions and got it working.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] tasked28m:
I used odin to flash back to mf9 and got screwd for 2 days until i solved it by following instruction in OP , BUT I DIDNT FLASH MODEM AND RADIO THROUGH ODIN. I used the twrp recovery method for that. After i restored boot , i restored system files then restored modem then radio using twrp method and after that used cf auto root to get stock recovery back and then i used adb sideload to update the system through the update.zip that got pulled out from a users phone two weeks ago. After that i did a wipe data/factory reset and everything got back to stock and booted normally.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] maxpower7:
This was a lifesaver and worked perfectly. THANK YOU!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] jameztownbarber:
I just restored a backup of sacs rom I kept the mja modem but when I try to restore my 4.3 backup it bootloops

**Team VeNuM**
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Skidiver:
what about if I don't have TWRP? I have CWM touch...Thanks in advance
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] leaderbuilder:
Dude really?

ALL your questions are answered in posts 1 and 2.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Skidiver:
Sorry Bro...I was searching on Google and it sent me to that link...my bad for not reading...Thanks a lot!!!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] cris_epic:
wait so were you able to get rid of the Knox with doing this method? were you able to go back to mf9 using this method?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] leaderbuilder:
So far once you've taken the 4.3 firmware and tripped the Knox bootloader you

cannot

go back to TW 4.2x period.

Still hoping for that to come about but it may be awhile.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Skidiver:
waooooo....thank you so much for this...awesome!!!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] jameztownbarber:
Im on 4.2 rom now and I took the update
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] leaderbuilder:
Please explain how you did that and if it's all working?!

I have not seen anyone get an MF9 TW ROM to work after taking the OTA update. I would love to know how, if I updated to 4.3 TW I could get back to my 4.2 TW ROM.

I'm sure the other devs, contributors and folks like me would LOVE to know.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] cris_epic:
He probably flashed a 4.2 rom, I can confirm I took the mja 4.3 update and was able to flash negalite tw rom and its 4.2. And its working fine
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] leaderbuilder:
Flash or restore?

Because if this is the case then I would think that there would be people jumping for joy. Me included.

And does it work completely - sound, calls texts, wifi and 3G and LTE??

Because if I could be able to restore my nandroid to go back to my completely working stock rooted (though tweaked) TW ROM It'd be a great day.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] cris_epic:
Flash because odin isnt letting anyone restore because of the boot.bin issue, from what ive been able to do is use this op to get back to stock rooted mja and then flash any rom over it, it should work fine at least with me it is
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] leaderbuilder:
So you can't restore correct?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] cris_epic:
Not with Odin you can't, only through recovery using what the op states,
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] leaderbuilder:
Forgive my not understanding.

the OP give instructions of restoring MJA Stock Boot and System in TWRP format for Phil'z Recovery using the file 110c8480/2013-10-31.21.01.21_JSS15J.L720VPUEMJA provided by omariscal1019 to get MJA to boot and work.

So have you been able, now that you have MJA firmware installed,

to boot back to recovery

and restore a nandoid from 4.2x and have it work?

That's what I'm getting at.

I know cnexus, crawj, unknownforce, garwyyn and other could not get back to a stock 4.2 TW ROMs. Or even restore 4.2x
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] cris_epic:
Yes I have been able to restore a backup of a 4.2 negalite tw rom using twrp, but I had flashed that rom over the stock mja stock rooted rom then I made a backup and thats what I have, when im restoring all I restore is boot,system and data
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] likearaptor:
I only flashed OctOS which is a 4.3.1 rom.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] jameztownbarber:
Yes u can take the 4.3 update and restore a 4.2 backup....but since I've done that and restored my 4.2 backup I cant restore my 4.3 stock rom backup I made it just bootloops
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] cruise350:
Exactly, if you go back to a 4.2 tw rom, you won't be able to go back to 4.3 without using the steps in this thread or something similar until we get the full MJA tar. Or a flashable MJA or 4.3 rom in recovery. The problem we have is the MJA OTA is an update, so when you try to apply that over again, the update script sees the MJA bootloader and stops the update. Once we have a full MJA tar file this won't be a problem. The new bootloader seems to cause a problem restoring a backup of 4.3 with a custom recovery.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] neudof:
I was stock rooted on TWRP and started having issues

I restored my nandroid and am now in a boot loop but can boot to recovery and download mode

I am attempting to follow the OP, but am confused which of the 4 files to download and move to the TWRP/BACKUPS/110c8480/2013-10-31.21.01.21_JSS15J.L720VPUEMJA folder

System-Boot

Modem-Radio

Kernel

Modem-Kernel

Please forgive me if this has been answered already, I am freaking out a bit right now :)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] likearaptor:
You want to use the system-boot file to fix boot loops :) Sorry about the confusion
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] rubbem06:
inadvertently enters recovery .. and did factory format and format cache partition .. and then I did format system format data and format fails preload and now the image of samsung galaxy s4
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] likearaptor:
Did you try to restore the boot and system partitions from the first post?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] rubbem06:
hello I accidentally format data and format system ...

and now it goes from SAMSUNG GALAXY S4 logo that I can do?

just stays there and does not start ...

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please help me..
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] neudof:
If I made a nan droid in TWRP after installing MJA can I restore it using philz recovery and the method in the OP?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Nevell:
TBT I don't see anything different in this update. It doesn't feel updated either. One problem I'm having is my gmail is stuck on sending. I can not send any emails.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] neudof:
Whooo Hoo back up and running!

Only thing I would add to the OP is:

1 - unzip the system/boot zip and move the folder to the folder inside the TWRP folder

2 - flash philz from the PDA slot in desktop Odin

Thank you so pop much!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] reverepats:
NVMD.....im an idiot lol
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] neudof:
I flashed the 4.3 stock rooted test rim and then followed the OP to get back up and running :D
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] reverepats:
Thanks for the quick reply man, but im all set...Restoring backups with CWM messes up the data...i just had to format the data, but im all good now. Phew...i was so nervous lol. I dont know why i **** with my phone before work
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Jellybeanteeker:
Anyway I can fix this? I tried cf root and installing the busybox and su zip but no go :/
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] cruise350:
Run CF Autoroot again, if after it boots the supersu app is not in the app drawer than download it from the play store. Open it and if it asks to install the binaries, have it do it the normal way. If you get the same message you had before, re run cf autoroot and download again until it finally works. It took me several times doing this before root finally stuck.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Jellybeanteeker:
Thanks soo much! :D I'll try this after school.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] rubbem06:
you are wonderful!!!!!!!!:):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] prc292:
How about getting stock recovery back? Anyway to do this yet on mja?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] macb1997:
I flashed the stock kernel and still don't have sound. What should I do? I'm on cnexus' stock rom with the Knox bootloader.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] neudof:
I would like to do this as well :)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] crios42:
I'm having some troubles with this.

FYI - My phone is "mostly working" after installing 4.3, Wifi and sound are not working. I would like to try this restore to see if this will get everything up and running. It was suggested in this thread here. I did try flashing the kernel and modem but that didn't seem to work so I'll try to full restore (I already tried factory reset and that didn't work so now I don't have anything to lose (except bricking my phone...)).

I've followed the instructions. I can flash Phil'z just fine and can boot into it (it doesn't stick after a reboot and I need to flash it again to get back into it. From what I've read elsewhere this is expected?). When I click on custom restore Phil'z can't find the files. I get a message that says TWRP/BACKUPS/110c8480/ is empty even thought the files are there (in the 110c8480/2013-10-31.21.01.21_JSS15J.L720VPUEMJA folder). I created the TWRP... folders in root. Are these directories found someplace else? Basically, I can't do steps 12 and 13 which say, "Select 110c8480/2013-10-31.21.01.21_JSS15J.L720VPUEMJA" and "Select boot.emmc.win."

Any ideas of what I'm doing wrong?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] prc292:
When i did this the files didnt show up in the 110c8480 folder either. So I took the system files folder( the one named with the date) and moved it to a backup folder that was already created previously on my phone with twrp. Then they showed up in philz. Hope this makes sense. Can't think of any other way to explain it.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] stevecast2024:
Disregard my last post... Wrong thread.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] likearaptor:
Sorry for the confusion, I'll update the post.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Jellybeanteeker:
Ok so I need help .-. So.... idk if I can keep the lock screen in live wallpaper while having my home screen to a different wallpaper? 0.-' is that even possible?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] likearaptor:
I think this can only be done if you put a different ROM on your phone. Normally in android you can, but it looks like Samsung removed that feature
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] mderuelle:
sound fix

so I am on mf9 firmware with sacs custom 4.3 rom and I have philz recovery and I want to try the mja firmware but when I try to flash in recover I get a failed message I checked my md5s with all the downloads and I have tried all of them except the odin flashable but is there any special trick that I am missing and I want to flash the modem/radio in recovery before I flash the stock kernel with odin correct sorry for asking something that's probably been asked a thousand times but I read a bunch of different threads and still cant find my problem being answered TIA.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] edgardch:
Help

Hello,

I followed all the steps from posts 1 and 2. My phone seemed like it took the restore but still it gets stuck at the yellow Sprint logo.

Any ideas?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] likearaptor:
Did you do a factory reset? It sounds like it didn't get done
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] omariscal1019:
If its the first boot u wait like a couple of minutes meanwhile it builds cache again ill take like 3 to 5 minutes. Then screen will dim and the backlights will go on then off then it will start
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] jameztownbarber:
Still cant get 4.3 to boot...on mja too I took the update and made a backup of stock 4.3 and then restored a nandroid of sacs v8 and now I cant go back to 4.3 without bootlooping

★☆TEAM VeNuM☆★
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] edgardch:
OK, I am trying again.

Now, I notice that it gives me: "E: skipping restore of selinux context"

Is this message normal?
[Nexus 7 Original Development] EvanA:
I know this isn't the warm Paranoid Android shaped Halloween treat you wanted but, i'm sure an extra Kitkat couldn't hurt.

Right now this is stock AOSP. PA features will be added soon.

KNOWN ISSUES:

Autorotate

Camera

IMPORTANT:

You MUST use TWRP Recovery 2.6.3 or later!!

GAPPS

ROM
[Nexus 7 Original Development] sgt. meow:
What about root? Has an exploit been discovered yet?
[Nexus 7 Original Development] CheesyNutz:
error flashing ... updater binary error
[Nexus 7 Original Development] prince2486:
Mine failed to install... Says there is an error executing the updater binary in zip
[Nexus 7 Original Development] nelsdzyre:
it seems to me PA will kick you off your download after a few second downloading. Leave it be. Its not ready.
[Nexus 7 Original Development] travisjustin:
Ya I've successfully downloaded the file three times but every time the md5 isn't matching up. So getting the update binary error the others reported.

Very thankful for the work the pa team is already putting into this, you guys are awesome.
[Nexus 7 Original Development] hoosbude:
Downloaded this several times, each time the MD5 is F137E6251F941B291851624433FB389F

doesn't flash properly, thank god for backups!
[Nexus 7 Original Development] ronedogg:
I used su 1.5 and root is working
[Nexus 7 Original Development] poondog:
means the rom flashed? Which recovery are you using?
[Nexus 7 Original Development] ronedogg:
Multirom 16a

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Testing gapps now
[Nexus 7 Original Development] EvanA:
Sorry about the issues, new upload + gapps coming soon.
[Nexus 7 Original Development] poondog:
Are the official tag, binaries, manifest etc out yet? I saw aaron's flo build was using 4.3 stuff in it. Cheers
[Nexus 7 Original Development] EvanA:
New upload is up. Ignore the md5 on the server, the correct one is f137e6251f941b291851624433fb389f.

Use TWRP to flash. I know for a fact CWM has issues.

GAPPS UP

Everything except the 4.4 binaries is out. Only N5 4.4 binaries exist right now.
[Nexus 7 Original Development] poondog:
ah okay, so still using 4.3 binaries I am guessing?
[Nexus 7 Original Development] EvanA:
Yep
[Nexus 7 Original Development] travisjustin:
Still getting the error executing updater binary using twrp 2.5.0.
[Nexus 7 Original Development] EvanA:
Use 2.6.x
[Nexus 7 Original Development] ronedogg:
Rotation broken. Fixed with ultimate rotation control app side loaded . titanium works so I'm restoring and testing apps as I go. So far seems pretty snappy!
[Nexus 7 Original Development] travisjustin:
Probably should of thought of that myself. Thanks for the help man.
[Nexus 7 Original Development] hoosbude:
after unsuccessful flashes, i updated my TWRP and it flashed fine
[Nexus 7 Original Development] Gothic4:
I have the same bootloop while using it as secondary. I get it working when i flashed faux kernel over the 4.4