yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] bigfdaddy2:
Here is what i did to get it to finally upgrade from mj6-mj9..

Udate made big improvements in speed and feels more refined/polished 2 me your mileage may vary...

1st: Made the mf3_partial tar.md5 file as directed by op

2nd: Using odin 3.0.9 i flashed the said mf3 partial tar.md5

3rd: Once flashed and phone booted into recovery on its own...It didits thing thing and it rebooted again

to black screen with blue led indicator on....THATS NORMAL !

4th: POWERED BACK OFF AND REBOOTED TO RECOVERY

5th and final:Applied the new mj9 update file from external sd card ...

Ty op for directions ...

Currently uploading both files required to google drive... percent done 33%,54%,69%,75%,86%,97%,100%... Bed time know 4:38am currently been up since 6:00am yesterday... bye bye and post results if worked for u ty

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B1DGsUzId7AHTjlIbklXeTYyS2c&usp=sharing
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] gtj0:
Glad everyone's making progress. I discovered a few things myself after re-trying about 20 times. A little later in the day I'll update the first post with comments, corrections and links you guys have posted.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] warbrain1986:
Worked like a charm.

This method worked for me on the first try. I had tried the Heimdall mode about 5 times and kept getting some error 7 when pushing the mj9 zip via ADB. Thanks for Odin files!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] E3SYLER:
as promised here is the torrent file for the mf3 partial

http://kickass.to/mf3-partial-tar-md5-t8183585.html#main

give a few min as i just uploaded it and its a large file.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] squarebobspongepants:
This worked perfect! Thank you so much!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] bigfdaddy2:
Yw glad it's working for others ... it only took me 6 hours and wanting to go drop the phone off a bridge to finally figure out what n how to get it done easy and quickly... and for some even the newbie can follow and have success....

---------- Post added at 12:26 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:24 PM ----------

I did my post on Odin method and the files if u wanna edit the Odin way ...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] E3SYLER:
Yeah the Odin method worked great for me. I did not have a single problem but instead of sideloading the update using adb i put it on my SD card and installed it from there as I had to go and pick up my ps4 while waiting in line it finished the update so thanks a lot for this bro.

I uploaded a torrent file for the mf3 file which should make Downloading it a lot faster
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] dahlem:
This worked using the odin then flashing from external, thanks for all the instructions couldn't have done it without them!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] hovax615@hotmail.com:
Not to be off topic or anything can you play online against people on ps3 also?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] E3SYLER:
Yes and it's free for a lot of games like cod, battlefield.

No playstation membership required for the ps3 to play online.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Nvious1:
Not sure if this happened to anyone else but I pulled down the cfg package and installed it via stock recovery from the sdcard option and it ended up wiping data on the update. So it seems that when you sideload at least via the external storage option it doesn't try to do the normal update process. In the end, I did go from MF3 to MJ9 successfully but ended up with a pissed off wife. Fun times ahead!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] gtj0:
I've updated the first post with new links and instructions.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] silrosriv:
raideI00

Did it work for you? I tried just renaming the cnf file to zip and flash it and got E: signature failed. Please let me know as mine also does a failed update from ota.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] collinjames:
Same here! Loaded from SD card and deleted everything from my girlfriend's phone. I backed up with TiBi but forgot to move my backups to the SD card. She was NOT happy. But from now on she'll know to always have a backup.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] sjc915:
Signature Verification Failed

I get "Signature Verification Failed" when I try to do the ADB sideload. What should I do? I am using OSX if it matters. Thank you
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] wilberatilioa:
Just updated following bigfdaddy2 instructions. Thanks guys.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] E3SYLER:
try this. take the zip file and put it on your sd card and reboot into recovery and install from external sd card and choose that zip file that you put on there.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] jaredcg:
just tried the odin method and i get there is no PIT partition and it failed and now all my phone will do is restart and say firmware upgrade encountered an issue. and its in odin mode? i thank i might of certain deathed it lol
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] sjc915:
Thanks for the quick response. I tried that after it did not work through terminal, and it also gave me the same error. I am able to flash back to the MJ6 firmware, but the issue im having with it is that on MJ6 my mobile data is not working, I have checked all settings and they are set to have it on, but no data at all, only wifi.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] hovax615@hotmail.com:
It seems like at&t is always SOL. Verizon and sprint had their files posted on the Samsung site the day after but us on at&t is bending over and getting screwed every single time. How hard is it to post an update when other carriers, same phone has it posted already?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] silrosriv:
Changing the conf file to zip and flashing from external on mf3 did not work. It succeeded in formating me And I can't get the update to say there is an ota for me, even after changing the date. :-\
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] alfmetal:
Flashing with Odin.

Thanks again to bigfdaddy2, you can download an Odin file here...

https://drive.google.com/folderview?...2c&usp=sharing

Put your phone in Download mode and flash the file in the PDA section of Odin.

theres two files in it

which one do i flash?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] bigfdaddy2:
The mf3 file ...put mj9 file on external SD card
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] alfmetal:
yep, from mf3 to mj9

the other way is from a gs4 with mj6

but if u are on mf3 , side load the mj9 update just do the usual full wipe

---------- Post added at 02:42 AM ---------- Previous post was at 02:40 AM ----------

thanks a lot
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] raidel00:
Sorry for the late response. But yes it worked perfectly for me. I change the name from .cfg to .zip and then sideloaded it from my windows machine. I did not use the SD card method, and mine updated my phone WITHOUT wiping data.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] pandasa123:
does this work with a locked bootloader, no root?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] raidel00:
What I did was change the file type of the file for example it's blah.cfg I changed the .cfg to .zip and then I put the phone in recovery mode. When you get to recovery mode it gives you different options and you choose the one that says ADB sideload. You then run the command that was put in the first post (I also put the .zip file in the same folder as the folder that the adb is located in) and then I ran the sideload and it worked. I had to google how to run adb and where to get it. You can get adb from developer.google.com download the SDK (which will be in a zip). Extract the SDK and then run the sdkmanager.exe, after that choose the android SDK tools and platform tools. ADB will be in platform tools. Then you open up a command line window and you navigate to the folder that was created when you unzipped the SDK. Once you get there, you then navigate to the platform-tools folder (which is created when you run sdkmanager and install the androidsdk platform-tools). Once you get to platform tools use the command dir to see if adb.exe is there (which it should) then run adb devices (have your phone connected) and it should show a device connected. After that put your phone in recovery and then do the adb sideload and it will be waiting for you to run the command on the command line. Then on the computer you run the adb sideload blah.zip (it's posted on the first post also) and then.....wait :D everything should work
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] E3SYLER:
I had the same issue when I first flashed mj6 what you can do is make sure that you have an apn set if you don't then you'll have to set one that's what I had to do it should look like this.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] alfmetal:
this is what did:

Leave the mf3_partial.tar.md5 file on your computer

Copy the update-mj6-mj9.zip. To your sdcard

In Odin 3.07 , click on PDA ,

Now select the file. mf3_partial.tar.md5, click OPEN

Wait around 2 minutes

Click on start

Wait around 5 minutes

Your phone is going to restart

wait around 3 minutes until you see a black screen and no lights flashing,

Check Odin window on the left corner under message

Its gonna say something like : successful 1/0. Fail 0/0

restart phone in recovery mode,

Now don't use sideload, since the update is a zip file instead choose:

Wipe update from external storage

Look for the file you saved earlier ( mf3_partial.tar.md5 )

Click on it

Now wait around 10 to 15 minutes

Your phone will restart by itself

Wait 5 minutes

That's it

You should see the welcome screen.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] silrosriv:
Ugh

Ok, I still can't figure it out. I've tried just renaming the conf file and sideloading and I get an e: signature failed. I tried unziping the conf file and merging with the mf3 tar and then got *cannot read 'update.zip' from trying to sideload that one.

I know I'm a newb with gs4, but I'm starting to think I'm never getting my mj9 update! :(
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] squarebobspongepants:
For those that are having problems with the update, can't they just take it to a Best Buy that has the Samsung Experience station and have them flash it there?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] foopy:
Have you tried re-downloading the update file? That signature failed message may indicate you have s bad file.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] silrosriv:
Raidel00

That's exactly what I did. I've had sdk on my w8 pc for a long time. I did change the conf file successfully. Placed it in the folder that my adb command prompt is in. I put my s4 in recovery mode and successfully sideloaded the zip. But every time I run it I get the e:signature fail then update aborted. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. I'm not taking anything out of the conf file after download. Mf3 is the biggest pain in the as* I've ever had. Maybe u can upload your zip and try it (even though I don't think there's a difference between yours and mine).

---------- Post added at 12:25 AM ---------- Previous post was at 12:24 AM ----------

No. I called them earlier today. Mine doesn't even have it yet. :-/
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] love is me:
Hi,

Thank you for the method.

I went all over the posts on this thread and have not found any MF3 users that succeed in flashing MJ9 or at last did read it.

Now I am already on MF3 rooted. What do I need to exactly do? Do I just put the update-mf3-mj9.zip into my sd card, then go to recovery (which is safetrap 3.65) and then select ADB and flash the update-mf3-mj9.zip? Because it is the only recovery I currently have as I am rooted. Or do I have to unroot first then follow the instruction?

I am kind of lost and want to do it right.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] krazyates:
I also would like an answer to this question, if anyone can help.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] CAG-man:
I was MF3 rooted until a few hours ago. It appeared my problem for failed upgrades was a modified features.xml file in the /system/csc folder. And thankfully I had a backup in the same folder.

If you are rooted and want to find what your hang up may be just open the logs in /cache/recovery.

Once I resolved my failures I was able to push the update in recovery.

The instructions below cover users from the novice level.

Place the downloaded MJ9 file on your sd card and rename it to something easy like update.zip.

Reboot your phone and hold the power up button to until the phone is booted into recovery. Press the vole down button until you are highlighting install from external card. Press power key. Repeat the same until you select the file. Once you press power one the file it goes I to autopilot.

THIS WILL WIPE YOUR PHONE. MAKE SURE EVERYTHING IS BACKED UP.

I also cannot be responsible if it bricks your phone. This is what worked for me. Good luck
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] pandasa123:
Can I do it having no recovery nor root?

I'm an HTC guy, but my friend is having trouble with his s4 and I got confused, I decided to ask around
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] love is me:
successful upgrading to 4.3 MJ9 from 4.2.2 MF3.

Ok, I was able to push the MJ9, though I had to first flash the Stock MF3 through Odin (which removed the root) then was able to push the MJ9 through ADB (SD card would work too).

Before doing so, I was always getting Error during ADB (Also via SD Card) while verifying current system (Error Status 7)

---------- Post added at 04:52 AM ---------- Previous post was at 04:51 AM ----------

The steps you have to take depends on if you are on MF3 or other build!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] pandasa123:
Ok that was plain stupid not saying which build. Mf3
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] love is me:
If you are on MF3, just download the MJ9 file. Then you have 2 options, either to use ADB or Save the file to your SD card. Go to recovery and push the file through it.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] pandasa123:
Wait, I can do stuff from the s4 stock recovery screen? :mindblown:

We can't do that on hboot.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] love is me:
Yes...

Just to get an idea, Power off your phone. then hold the power button+ Volume up unti you see the Samsung screen, then release the power button. Screen will go off then you will get to the recovery.

This is the recovery screen. Here where everything is going to take place
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] bigfdaddy2:
This thread for mj6-mj9 please keep on topic ...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] silrosriv:
Ok I'll try this today and see how it goes.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] gtj0:
You cannot touch the zip file. Even unzipping and re-zipping will invalidate the signature. You can test the file with 'unzip -t' but that's all.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] krazyates:
Thanks for your help. My first problem is apparently, I don't have a recovery. If I try to boot into the stock one, it takes me to Download Mode and says failed at the top.

I'm going to flash the md5 and go back to stock and try to push the update from there.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] vishnugs:
Update

Hi, the instructions in the first page worked like charm. I used Heimdall on OSX and adb to side load.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] raidel00:
I created a thread for the MF3 stock users to update to MJ9 ---> http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2529759 hopefully that helps with this thread staying on topic :D
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] CAG-man:
If you are trying to repeat what I did then yes there is a recovery present. All android phones have a stock recovery system. Pressing the volume up while booting on the S4 will get a person into the recovery.

---------- Post added at 02:50 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:45 PM ----------

Every phone has a recovery. To get there on the S4 press and hold just the volume up button when restarting until recovery displays. If the phone is turned off press and hold volume up and the power buttons. You can let go of the power button when the display turns on.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] hovax615@hotmail.com:
I'm trying to download the mf3 tar files. it was going good the first time I tried it from the Google drive site but got to 32% and stopped. Is there any other way to download that file besides the mega site because mega never works for me.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] alfmetal:
i did one little mistake on this instructions i hope you noticed

the part where i wrote WIPE update from external storage doesnt exist, it says APPLY update from external storage.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] fabioplata:
Helpme

Please helpme.... I do all the steps and update my S4 to 4.3, I made a mistake and with odin install de MF3 and now the phone is brick, fail in the update try with keys...

What can I do? :(:(
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] gtj0:
Can you post the exact error message you get?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] fabioplata:
Hello, not have a recovery mode only download mode, when star the Phone say frimware error update encountered an issuse, please selec recovery mode on kies y try again, kies dont reconoce the phone, conecting but never reconoce the phone

need help
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] gtj0:
I think your recovery got corrupted. Here's an Odin file for the MJ6 recovery. Try flashing it and see if you can get back into recovery...

recovery-mj6.tar.md5

Edit: If you were on MF3 and were trying to upgrade, here's the MF3 recovery...

recovery-mf3.tar.md5
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] E3SYLER:
Try the torrent file I uploaded. The link is in this thread.

if it says 0 seeds and 0 leechers dont be alarmed it will still download for you.

i will be seeding this all weekend
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] fabioplata:
Keep with the problem
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] hovax615@hotmail.com:
This has been a really straightforward step by step guide. Thanks gtj0 and all that have provided files and other solutions. I was getting the signature verification failing. But I deleted the mj6-mj9.zip file and redownloaded it than ran it again through adb and it worked fine got mj9 running now. Thanks for everyone's help.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] cwhittl:
I agree wholeheartedly thanks to you I am now on the official build and can sale this albatross if I want to.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] hovax615@hotmail.com:
Just wanted to show everyone this.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] E3SYLER:
What method did you use?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] fabioplata:
53 93568699

How do you do this...?? :good:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] hovax615@hotmail.com:
I used VRoot than I used this guide right here to take off the Chinese superuser.

http://www.w0lfdroid.com/2013/11/How-to-Remove-Replace-VRoot-Chinese-superuser-with-SuperSU.html?m=1

You don't have to do it and can wait for another root method but its the easiest guide ever and it removes VRoot binaries and puts supersu in.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] love is me:
Having the same issue. MF3 recovery did not work. MJ6 worked and gave me recovery access but cannot push MJ9, gives an error message in the file sw_configuration.xml while trying it through ADB or SD Card.

Ironically, what I have now is very weird. When I start the phone, it boots in, shows AT&T logo, then the blue indicator keeps blinking while the screen is blank. Now is the funny part, the screen is BLANK and BLACK all the time. However, when I try to touch the screen, I hear the touching sounds. The phone is indeed working but the screen is always off. I am able to connect to Kies and brows the phone and SD Card. Again, Screen is black with everything else functioning.

So, my technique to see what is going on was to capture the screen and browse to the screencaptures folder on my PC to see if in fact it is working. As showing on the attachments, the phone is working even though the screen is blank.

I managed (Took me along time) to get into the 'About Device' and what I found is that, Android Version is 4.2.2 but the baseband version is MJ9 (as showing on the attachment) "When the phone did not work, I tried to use Kies to recover the firmware, which I think what it caused the phone to go back to 4.2.2"

So now I have access to Recovery and Download modes, but I am not able to push MJ9 through ADB or SD Card.

Any solution to the blank screen? or to the sw_configuration.xml ?

Thanks in advance.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] fabioplata:
I have a Hope, thanks gtj0
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] love is me:
Please share the file when it works for you.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] gtj0:
I understand much better now what's going on now and will have some new odin files in about an hour.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] love is me:
Thank you gtj0. I appreciate your efforts.

A side note, this is the first time I buy a carrier phone. I always paid a little more to get an international, unlocked version for the sake to have the freedom of doing what I want with my phone. However, this time, and after reading around about the AT&T S4 and seeing people are able to flash any ROM, I decided to buy it as I got it new for a very decent price. I just regret not buying the I9505 instead! I guess I got to live with it as a punishment of buying an AT&T phone.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] gtj0:
OK, If you're stuck with an incomplete flash, here are some steps you can try to get to MJ9...

These instructions assume you started with MJ6.

First, make sure you can boot into recovery. If not, download and apply the MJ6 recovery.

recovery-mj6.tar.md5

It should apply without error. If not, report the failure.

Download and extract the following files...

mf3-emergency-part-1.tar.md5.7z

mf3-emergency-part-2.tar.md5.7z

If you don't already have it, download the mf3-mj9 update file...

update-mf3-mj9.zip

Start Odin, connect your phone and boot into Download mode.

Flash mf3-emergency-part-1.tar.md5 which contains modem.bin, NON-HLOS.bin and system.img.ext4.

The flash of system.img.ext4 WILL FAIL at the end. That's OK.

Reboot the phone back into Download mode and restart Odin.

Flash mf3-emergency-part-2.tar.md5 which contains cache.img.ext4.

The flash WILL FAIL at the end. That's OK.

The phone should now reboot to recovery by itself and apply a small update. If it fails, stop and report.

The phone should now reboot to a black screen with the pulsing notification LED.

Reboot into recovery mode and flash update-mf3-mj9.zip. I recommend sideloading instead of flashing from sdcard because the sdcard method reboots the phone whether the update was successful or not and you lose the error messages.

Reboot the phone and let it initialize.

You should now have MJ9.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] love is me:
Thanks.

Will download, follow the steps and report as soon as I am done.

I really appreciate your efforts.

---------- Post added at 09:38 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:20 AM ----------

gtj0 ,

Meanwhile, can you please explain to me the reason of the blank screen while the phone is functioning?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] gtj0:
It must be the inconsistent state of the phone. MJ6 kernel running with an MF3 filesystem.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] love is me:
Ok,

I went all the way to step 6 were I flashed part 2, and it failed as you mentioned. however, after I rebooted the phone, it did not go to recovery, instead it shows Firmware upgrade encountered an issue...

So what is next? should I flash again the MJ6 recovery??
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] gtj0:
Yep, that means the recovery is messed up. Flash the MJ6 recovery then repeat the entire process.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] love is me:
Ok, but to let you know, I was able to access the recovery before following the steps. I believe flashing part 1 & 2 is what missed up the recovery, which if I am right, will happen again after I flash MJ6 recovery then flash part1 and 2. But I will give it a try and come back.

Just to clarify, as I have mentioned on my main point, the curren rom version on my phone is 4.2.2 and the baseband is MJ9 not MJ6. Just want to eliminate any confusion.

BRB after following the steps.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] gtj0:
The real question is what version of the bootloader do you have. That's what controls this whole mess.