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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] jbrookley:
Hello everyone,

So, I've been looking into the status of unlocking the bootloader for MF3 updates (I downloaded it and read too late that they locked the bootloader in the update, sneaky bastards) and it appears this issue still hasn't been fixed. From what I understand, Dan Rosenberg waited until the Verizon update was released before he revealed the Loki exploit but, from what I've read, this exploit does not work on the MF3 update.

My question is now what is it that stops this from working with the MF3 version? Wasn't that the initial point of the release was to solve this particular issue?

I'm trying to understand some of the specifics as I've read a number of articles and links (both in XDA as well as others) and I'm still a bit confused as to where we're at with this. From what I can see, it doesn't appear there is any workaround in sight if the Loki exploit doesn't fix it. Am I more than likely stuck with a locked bootloader for the life of this phone?

Realistically, I am still able to get root access, so it's really not the end of the world but I'd definitely like to be able to flash custom roms if I wanted to. It sounds like I can indirectly do that via Safestrap (does it basically just protect all the crucial stuff that can break the fuse on the device and allow you just use TW based roms, just not custom kernals, is that correct?). But as of now, I believe that's my only option, if I understand correctly.

I realize a number of these issues have been addressed probably a number of times but, due to the amount of details and updates that seem to be changing, I just want to make sure I have a good understanding of everything so I know what my options are. If anyone wants to address this, I'd appreciate it but if these have all been answered a million times in one form or another, I understand that as well.

Thanks for your help!

(I put my questions in bold just to draw attention to them so anyone reading it doesn't have to search through my message to find them to address them, I'm not trying to come off like I'm yelling).
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] NighthawkXL:
When Samsung released the MF3 update they used a two-prong attack to close the Loki exploit... those being

1. Closing the exploit in the code itself.

2. Blowing a qFuse on the board to prevent us from flashing any firmware lower then MF3.

I don't really want to get into the technical aspects of how this happened... I'll let someone else answer it if they wish.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] DeadlySin9:
Nighthawk gave the short answer for the first two. Also, it's possible the update mentioned may have been the MDB>MDL update or verizon equivalent.

Technically even MDL people are stuck with a locked bootloader, but they have an exploit. People are working on an exploit for MF3+, but I can't say how likely it is one will be found.

Safestrap lets you do anything a normal recovery can except flash kernels. This is why you can only flash TW ROMs, as the AOSP and TW kernels are not compatible. Kernels would trip the bootloader checks. However, to add a bit to this and the last answer, something called kexec is in progress of being implemented into Safestrap. The exploit found allows loading unsigned modules, which in turn allows loading a kexec module, which would then load a kernel over the stock kernel while in the boot process. So if this works, it would be the next best thing to a bootloader exploit in that it would give us the same result, though I don't know if kernels will require tweaks to load in kexec.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] jbrookley:
Thanks for taking the time to explain that!

A somewhat related question, if my S4 ever gets an OTA update for 4.3, should I deny the update in case they create more obstructions for updates or should I take it since that's the only way my phone will get 4.3 at this point?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] hovax615@hotmail.com:
I believe the kexec exploit is being worked on for mk2? But I'm not too sure you will have to review the threads.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] DeadlySin9:
It is MK2 exclusive since the MK2 root method gives access to kernel memory and allows it. However, once on MK2 you should definitely not take any and I'm not sure whether the security policy updates are safe or not.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crewol:
Today my phone ran down to 0% and it shut down. When I got home I plugged the charger in at around 5pm. Now almost 7 hours later it is still not fully charged. This has never happened before.

Do you know what could be causing it to take so long?

It is plugged in to the wall.

Thanks.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pete4k:
either the phone is not charging at full rate or is discharging very fast. I would try to charge with phone being off, monitor battery discharge during day especially in IDLE and take it from there. You can also download program that shows charging rate.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] Agarest:
This may or may not be related to anybody having the same issues but I'd like to report on a fix for this. This may or may not apply to you so YMMV, but this defenitely stopped my phone from rebooting randomly.

The thing that fixed my phone from auto rebooting by itself randomly is to go into your Play Store option and set Auto Update Apps to 'Update over Wifi only'. I had set it to never update. I can't get into why it happens since I don't know where to check logs but this does work for me. (Menu>Settings>Auto-update apps)

My story: Yesterday my phone reboots by itself every few minutes without even touching it for no reason at all. Phone had about 75% juice. I remember doing the unlock and had no problem with it for the whole day. I was at jury duty, boored and I was messing with options to restrict background data and changed the Play Store update options to Never Auto Update Apps since I switched to Tmobile and I don't have an unlimited data anymore. Afterwards the phone started rebooting by itself at various times during the day. I didn't notice until later on the night where it rebooted itself every few minutes. So I tried out various fixes which didn't work and set Airplane mode stopped the rebooting but wasnt a fix. After awhile I tried to retrace all the stuff I did on my phone during the day and strangely setting the option back to Auto Update Apps to Wifi Only fixed it. After doing that the phone stopped rebooting by itself and I was able to use it all day today.

So basically, see if setting the auto update to wifi only if you had it off will fix this.

Also I realize there are many different fixes other users have reported like the Power Cycling, Airplane mode or Clearing Dalvik and Cache(Which didn't work for me), or even reflashing/reset to factory (I avoided this). None of those worked for me. If those didn't work for you, try this as another option.

Mods: Please move this to Sprint Samsung S4 section. I have no idea why I'm in this section. I'm sure this applies to every S4 though.
[Galaxy S 4 Active Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gambit_Villa:
I am using an AT&T GS4A i537 running safestrap 3.65 and when i download the ota i will get to about 25% and then restart any ideas on what to do i figured I would need to remove safestrap but I have no idea how the guide on the safestrap development forum makes no sense to me I was curious if anyone had any ideas what I can do

Cheers!
[Galaxy S 4 Active Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Devo7v:
Enter the SafeStrap recovery and delete your created ROM slot.

Restart and load your stock ROM.

Open the SafeStrap app and select uninstall recovery.

Problem solved.

I still don't think you'll be able to install the update but it's worth a shot.
[Galaxy S 4 Active Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gambit_Villa:
Thanks for the info...Will try that when i get off work and update if it was successful or not

Update...... no dice it didn't work
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MAK8448:
Hi All,

Device = GT-N7100

Been flashing my note 2 with several roms for ages now. However today decided I might try abit of STOCK 4.3. So went to Sammobile and downloaded UK BTU.

Flashed the file fine using ODIN 3.9

Started setting everything up and noticed the phone went to sleep and wouldn't wake up, so decided to clear cache and full data reset using the stock recovery.

Anyway started setting up wifi again etc. Left the phone and it went to sleep again and wouldn't wake up.

Then decided I will download the UK Vodafone from sammobile and see if that is any better.

So rebooted the phone into odin mode. plugged in my usb cable, noticed there was no bleeps from the pc. started odin 3.9. Nothing. No device listed.

Any way to cut a long story short, I cant side load when the phone is running I cant ADB to the phone and the only thing listed in "device manager" on my WIN 8 machine is "Android SMS" as a driver which says it is not working. I have uninstalled Samsung USB drivers gone through all the processes listed on the net.

I cannot get the phone to communicate with the PC at all. So changed computer and it automatically installed Android SMS... on the new machine.

So at the moment im stuck with GLITCHY stock firmware and cannot root / cant side load via USB or anything... HELP!!

Also I cannot enable bluetooth, so I cant send a file like that.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MAK8448:
Ok problem solved by sheer chance. When i let the phone boot normally I was getting 7 CDC drivers.

Looked these up and found this thread. Cured the problem.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1247547&page=3
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MAK8448:
Things have gone from BAD to WORSE

Well this morning downloaded a different STOCK UK N7100 ROM. Flashed this. Everything seemed to work correctly except it has got stuck in boot loop.

Now my main issue is it has locked me out again I need for the phone to boot so I can use the dialler to *#7284# to select USB and not MODEM.

When I boot into CWM it shows that SDCARD cannot be mounted and same with DATA.

When I am CWM or DOWNLOAD mode the laptop or PC does not recognise the device. Any ideads??? JTAG??:crying:
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LVMickey:
I recently purchased a Nexus 7 from craigslist. Unfortunately I don't believe the seller was fully truthful (surprise). When I got home I tried to connect it to my home Wi-Fi and for some reason it keeps saying there is an authentication problem. It won't let me do anything other then select a language and connect to Wi-Fi. He said it had 4.4 on it, and lucky for me, I bought the tablet to experiment with rooting, flashing, etc. Does anyone have suggestions on where to start with this thing?

*Edited the version which I was told was on it.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 2kst:
Have you tried a reboot? Several have posted a reboot resolved their problem with this.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] khaytsus:
I'd just nuke it and start fresh. https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LVMickey:
Well I got it to connect to my friends Wi-Fi but I'm still going to have some fun with it.

This is a great list but which model would I use?
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GedBlake:
Hi, LVMickey...

https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images

These are Factory Stock Images for Nexus devices... sort of like installable versions of Windows... but for Android instead:).

-----------------------------

** If you have the WiFi only Nexus 7, you need the 'Nakasi' version.

** If you have the WiFi & 3G (Mobile) Nexus 7, you need the 'Nakasig' version.

** KOT49H is the latest build version (KitKat 4.4.2).

-----------------------------

Make sure your Nexus 7 is definitely the first generation model (2012)... because the second generation model (2013) requires the Razor and Razorg factory images.

Download the correct one to your PC... and then follow the instructions given here...

[GUIDE] Flashing a Factory Image with fastboot / return to stock

.

Hope this clarifies a few things... and good luck.

Rgrds,

Ged.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PassingThruLife:
out of curiosity,how much did you pay for it.

just wondering because i was playing around with the newer Nexux 7 at walmart and i got tempted to jump ship to the newer version. If i do,i will sell it on craigslist.

seems like they are going for between 90-110 bucks.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] absinthesummer:
You can get at least $100-120 from a pawn shop, then if you change your mind, you have time to get it back. Just a thought. That's what I did- I pawned my N7, got a new tablet, then went back later and got my N7 back. Now I have both lol, which wasn't the plan, but I love them both so much for different things! Anyway, point is you'd get what you want money-wise without having to commit to the sale (just in case).
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adriannharris:
Hi all looking for some help, nothing is being mentioned when I search Google.

Chrome browser auto updated today and since then it crashes before it even opens, is this just me?

Thanks in advance.

Xperia rooted 4.3 journalist release, dual recovery, locked bootloader.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adriannharris:
Still can't use Chrome nobody else having issues?

Any suggestions, should I uninstall and r re install?
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] worf_1977:
Try to clear dalvik and cache partition info recovery. Repairing permissions could also help
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gordo79:
I had this issue the other night, I uninstalled chrome updates,cleared data and wiped cache and dalvik from recovery. Seemed to sort it.
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 General] mikeadams1985:
Basically i want to change my IMEI on my XDA 2s

i bought the xda 2s about 8 months ago, but it developed a fault.

So i called o2 and they said send it back in and we will exchange it.

I ended up getting an xda 2i instead as they didnt have the 2s in stock.

But my xda2s never made it to o2 it got "lost" in the post some how and ended up being returned to me.

So now i have my xda2i and my old xda2s

According to o2 its classed as stolen.

but its not as i paid for it.

so does anybody know of how to do this? or could point me in some sort of direction
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 General] fluffcat1:
Against the law in the UK, £10k fine, 3 years in prison so I'd be careful where / how you ask, as IP addresses can be traced....

If they replaced it, it no longer belongs to you, regardless of what they replaced it for. AFAIK it is impossible to do anyway in all but early wallaby models.

Richard
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 General] mikeadams1985:
fair enough.

thanks for the reply thi :)

will have to just ring o2 and tell em ive got it then.
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 General] fluffcat1:
In this situation, I find that telling them you need it un-barring while you get info off there works best. The monkey answering the phone doesn't know it will boot without a valid sim in place, just tell them you need it on the o2 network long enough to backup your files.....;-)

Richard
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 General] starik:
if u live in relatively big city, visit the Chinatown district.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] martinjo24:
Hi, have i747m with stock 4.3 rom yake on sammobile, i have purchase unlock code and working for 2-3 week, now suddently, i have signal but no data and when i go to network my phone says insert sim card, i try 3 different sim card and samething, i try sim card on other phone and the sim work so,

what happen
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] piercov:
same happened to me :(
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] martinjo24:
dont know what can i do, i cant use my phone now, its stock firmware,
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Repulsa:
Or just flash the right non-hlos/wifi fix and that should fix your problem ...if you have a newbootloader just flash any latest non-hlos, but if you are still in oldbootloader feel free to flash a BMH1 non-hlos/wifi fix.. have a nice day.

Sent feom Hell ?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] m_beek:
haven't really understood Step c1 Please [MENTION=5014294]racoonlab[/MENTION]
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] m_beek:
I cant find The pit File
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] racoonlab:
Hi m_beek,

Have you tried the 4th tab of heimdall, utilities?

a. detect

b. save as

c. download

If you do not detect it, use the Zadig drivers first.

You can also try to have a look at http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=999097
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] m_beek:
What about getting "ERROR: Claiming interface failed!" after Clicking Start ?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] racoonlab:
Do you have the Kies software installed? If yes, uninstall it and see also the last few lines of my post, to remove potential dependencies.

EDIT

Restart your machine too after the uninstall

R
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] m_beek:
Since I'm on W8 , I have never Installed Kies :o
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] racoonlab:
i. did you manage to get the pit?

ii when did you get that message, when flashing?

R
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] m_beek:
I couldn't get my Pit from _Utilities_ because of that, So I Googled "GT I9505 Pit" and download a Pit file, The After Managing Pit and Start flashing That What it's sayed

"This software is provided free of charge. Copying and redistribution is

encouraged.

If you appreciate this software and you would like to support future

development please consider donating:

http://www.glassechidna.com.au/donate/

Initialising connection...

Detecting device...

Claiming interface...

ERROR: Claiming interface failed!"
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] racoonlab:
Have you tried the Zadig drivers? To me it helped to:

- start the program

- see the list of the usb in used

- while the program was showing me the list, I unplugged the cable from one usb and attached to another one.

- run the program.

R
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] m_beek:
Ps. Odin Works, Can I Flash it with Odin ?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] racoonlab:
probably with the latest yes.

http://www.xda-developers.com/android/mobile-odin-updated-to-version-4-new-features-and-devices/
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] m_beek:
Finally works

Ps. Its normal to get "Invalid Percent of Drawing progress Bar1"
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] agua2o:
Currently I have this one instaled I9505VJUHOK1. It was working fine with the stock ROM from SamMobile (http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/download/61139/I9505VJUHOK1_I9505ZTOHOK1_ZTO/).

There is no sound at all on calls when using CM13.

What would you recommend?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] BakeThatCupcake:
Hello people, here's my situation

I installed a bad Custom Bootloader ROM on my phone from my SD card that bricked my phone and put it in a boot loop.

I had CMW as my recovery and I factory reseted. Still stuck in Boot loop.

So I tried to recover my phone using A SGH-T999 Stock ROM with Odin.

Here's what I see:

Get pit for mapping

NAND Write Start

Boot.img

Complete(Write) Operation failed.

Now when i rebooted it now says that a firmware error occurred.

I wasn't even in a boot loop anymore. The Firmware error happens instead of that. Then i couldn't' go to recovery mode anymore. I Found Root66 for SGH-T999 and tried to flash it.

It failed when it was like 99% done but it restored my phone somewhat…..(I was back at boot loop again but I was able to access recovery mode again, except that it was STOCK RECOVERY now.

Kies doesn't see my phone it just says connecting. Today I left it 7:30AM to 4:15 PM. And it STILL said connecting.

Nothing Will Flash. I all i see is.

Get pit for mapping

Complete(Write) Operation Failed.

That's literally what happens. I don't see no NAND Write Start or anything. It happens every time for pretty much anything.

When I access Recovery, It is Stock recovery and not CMW anymore. So I can't flash anything off of my SD Card. Probably because the ROMS are not signed.

Here is some info from my phone in download mode

ODIN MODE

PRODUCT NAME: SGH T-999

CUSTOM BINARY DOWNLOAD: YES (3 Counts)

CURRENT BINARY: Custom

SYSTEM STATUS:Custom

QUALCOMM SECUREBOOT: ENABLE

Warranty Bit:1

BOOTLOADER AP SWAEV:1

What do I do?

Do I have a $500 Paper Weight? Or is there hope?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] serio22:
What root66 are you trying to flash? 4.3 or below?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] BakeThatCupcake:
Below. It basically went to 99% and failed in ODIN.

It did get rid of the firmware error but my phone was back in the bootloop. At least I was able to get recovery mode back.. Except that it's stock recovery.

As of right now,

Here's what I have

1. The phone is in a boot loop.

2. Download mode is accessible

3. Stock Recovery Mode is accessible

4. Every time I try to flash something onto the phone using odin, it says this before it fails:

Get pit for mapping(I have to wait for like 10 Minutes straight)

Complete(Write) Operation Failed

What do I from here to fix this. All I want is to get the phone running again. I don't care if it's back to stock or rooted.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] serio22:
Download and flash the 4.3 root66.. It won't flash anything lower because i think you have the 4.3 bootloader
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] BakeThatCupcake:
Ill try it right now and let you know.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] BakeThatCupcake:
Here's what i got

<ID:0/003> Added!!
<OSM> Enter CS for MD5..
<OSM> Check MD5.. Do not unplug the cable..
<OSM> Please wait..
<OSM> root66_TMO_T999UVUEMJC.tar.md5 is valid.
<OSM> Checking MD5 finished Sucessfully..
<OSM> Leave CS..
<ID:0/003> Odin v.3 engine (ID:3)..
<ID:0/003> File analysis..
<ID:0/003> SetupConnection..
<ID:0/003> Initialzation..
<ID:0/003> Get PIT for mapping..
<ID:0/003> Complete(Write) operation failed.
<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 1)

Any other idea you can share?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] serio22:
Flash a recovery and then flash a ROM.. Probably not the best solution but worth a shot
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] BakeThatCupcake:
Got to go to school, Link?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] zaksween:
hey guys, so iv browsed and browsed and i still cant find an answer...every time i try to flash a new rom to my verizon note 2 using twrp i get an error and then it just goes back to the rom im currently on which is jedix..is there ANY way that i can flash a rom to my phone from my computer i want to get something like cm11 please help!!!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] jcollier:
What version of TWRP are you on? Sounds like you need to update to the latest version.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] zaksween:
well i tried updating it a while back and it was no help...do you know of a way i can just flash a new rom to my phone without going through twrp?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] jcollier:
You could switch to CWM or Philz touch recovery.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] zaksween:
and how might one go about doing that? :) thanks so much for the help your giveing
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] jcollier:
You can download the zip file here -> http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2552655

Then reboot into recovery. Then flash the zip like you would any other. When you reboot to recovery, you will have a new recovery.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] zaksween:
alright thank you and ill let you know how that turns out!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] zaksween:
wait do i flash it through odin....the .tar.md5? or how?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] jcollier:
See my above instructions. It is a zip file that you flash in recovery so there is no Odin involved.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] zaksween:
ya when i flash it just says it couldn't complete...:(