yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] random45:
danzelcool flashed it and has already reported back that it worked just fine for him, so I'm really not sure what went wrong when you tried to flash it.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] amieldl143:
I flashed it. Had dome issues at first.factory reset and all is good.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] vat829:
I cannot root. I ran CF Auto Root through Odin went fine. Booted up and went into SU stated ""there is no su binary installed and supersu can not install it. this is a problem." Any help please?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] Gabewithkungfugrip:
Thanks for this. Since taking the NAE ota and then trying to root and install other roms after, I've been experiencing lots of issues and missing features. None of the other stock tar files would get past the bootloader image, so it's great to have one that works again. I had a random reboot during setup on the first boot, and then it did an auto factory reset when it connected to the network. On the third boot, everything was solid. I used CF Autoroot with no problems, and we're all good to go.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] bigjlindy:
Same here I'm having trouble trying to root again. I ran the auto root through odin and I also keep getting the same message. Please help us out. Thanks
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] youngpro83:
Hey guys this thing is legit. The cf auto root you have to use has to come straight from the chainfire repository. You cant use mirrors and ****. Get the official one from his site and make sure it is for the jfspr720 version. That name is not exact but its close.

Once you have that. Use odin and use this tar. Do not auto reboot. Uncheck it. Once the tar finishes. Boot straight back into download mode. Odin the cf root that you got from HIS SITE AND NOT YOUR OWN LAZY ASS ONE YOU ALREADY HAVE DOWNLOADED. If you use a different 1 then official dont.come.here complaining that **** didnt work. Again take off auto reboot when flashing the cf auto root. Once that is done then boot straight into recovery and let auto root work. Phone will boot.

THIS IS OFFICIAL SAMSUNG TAR. NOT SPRINT.

The phone will boot. No sprint flash screen. Just samsung logo. Then phone will do some **** in background causing it to reboot. When it boots up it will go through handsfree and then wipe the phone. The 3rd boot you are good to go. Phone will be functional and fully rooted. I know because I used titanium to restore this app. Hope this helps.

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Also on the 3rd boot you will see Sprint splash screen.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] ChadH42:
CF Auto Root worked for me.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] Darnell0216:
Not knocking this one because I haven't tried it but I got the usual Sprint CDMA release from SamMobile. Unlike this one, it has the usual xxxx_HOME.tar.md5 name packed into a zip. No place to host it but here's the info if anyone goes for it. Previous tars from them didn't wipe but I haven't used it yet to say it doesn't perform a mid-setup factory wipe like this one.

C077C72DA9513A24D4E85ACCA22F94E2 *L720VPUFNAE_L720SPTFNAE_SPR.zip *1.46 GB (1,574,189,181 bytes)

A77570534E22FCE0745EDB09994C84F2 *L720VPUFNAE_L720SPTFNAE_L720VPUFNAE_HOME.tar.md5 *2.29 GB (2,462,750,799 bytes)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] bigjlindy:
I did the update now I can't save to micro sd card.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] ponycarboy:
I flashed this appears to work fine. Do I use the cf root for the international version? That's the one that is suppose to worth with kit kat yes?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] jnadke:
You're a lifesaver!

Three days ago I upgraded to NAE on stock. After a day my phone started going crazy on google.gapps forcecloses. I missed the memo on not rolling backward, and flashed STOCK MK2. Phone has been soft-bricked since. Been phone-less for 2 days!

Flashed NAE. CF Auto Root applied just fine (using Odin of course).
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] Gabewithkungfugrip:
The CF Autoroot for SPH-L720 on the official download page works fine.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] churchey360:
Just flash the latest philz recovery and it has an option to root your phone through the recovery lol.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] daniel4653:
[MENTION=595758]bigjlindy[/MENTION] thats part of kit kat now.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] cartmage:
This saved my *** big time! No problems EXCEPT:

Step 6: I held a needy cat instead of getting popcorn.

Step 7: I honestly just broke even instead of profit (I blame aforementioned cat).

Serious note, yea man it worked great and like others said after a couple reboots everything is working splendid. I cant hit the THANKS button hard enough!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] vat829:
I have the same problem
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] OldMansGhost:
They changed some permissions with the KK update. You'll have to root and do some editing to get the permissions back.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] bigjlindy:
How do I do that? Not liking the update.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] OldMansGhost:
I can't remember right not, but I found the link under a thread in the Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General forum

Found this.

You need to go to platform.xml in the system/etc/permissions folder with root explorer. Open it with a text editor. Look for the WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission line and add this line under the 2 permissions that are already listed. Follow the same formatting as the other permissions.

Add this: <group gid="media_rw" />
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] lowery23:
Thanks, I followed these instructions and mine is up and running with root. Only difference was mine didn't reboot and wipe on it's own. I ended up having to boot into recovery and wipe the phone and now everything is working. Including stuff that wasn't working when I was running just the stock rooted NAE.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] cmonsterf50:
For anyone still having SD card issues. I posted a flashable fix.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2665372

Feel free to share. :)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] random45:
I've updated the TAR to the one that was made newly available from SamMobile

They are really the same build. The only difference is the tar I had originally posted had some extra files in it.

The one on the left is the one that was originally uploaded. The one on the right is the one that was just released.

The old tar had these additional files:

carrier.img.ext4

persdata.img.ext4

JFLTE_USA_SPR.pit
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] Drumrocker:
Would really appreciate it if you could post up a stock rooted NAE Odin flashable TAR :)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] daniel4653:
Or you could in the mean time Odin this then use cf auto root that would take all but 30 seconds. Just a thought. Lol
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] youngpro83:
I agree. Odin then root. Don't be a pest.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] Foulwx:
Odin + CFautoroot is what I did. Works great. Make sure you use the latest CFautoroot from Chain fire's website.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] cartmage:
This is also the route I chose and it worked out just fine.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] mrhankey184:
Anyway to flash this without losing data on internal?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] chris-allen:
probly not...just copy and paste your stuff to your pc...if anythings lost you can just drag it back..
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] af4643:
Just flashed and everything seems good. Did not lose any internal data.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] chris-allen:
Crazy..mine kept failing the ms check... I didn't change or touch a thing...sux
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] mrhankey184:
You flashed this file and didn't lose any data?!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] random45:
I lost a lot of pictures after i flashed MK2 b/c of this reason. Im currently on CM11, and have held off on trying NAE. i put it there as a precaution so that people back their stuff up just in case.Thanks for reporting that it doesnt erase anything.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] af4643:
I just backed up everything expecting it to wipe data and luckily it was still there. Just back up to make sure.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] Mistertac:
I see a couple of you have reported that it doesn't wipe data. Can anyone else confirm this? Just wondering is all, I'm used to using the "no wipe tar" on my Verizon s4 but need to use this for my girls Sprint S4. I'm not looking for a guarantee, and I realize its on me. She has a ton of music on her phone that it'd be in my best interest to keep lol
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] random45:
you'll be fine. i just installed it, and its didnt format internal storage
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] MasterTec:
Can anyone post me to a method of removing the KNOX .apk files from this image before installing it? I already have the KNOX MK2 bootloader just want to get the apps off.

If not how about a list of files to delete from the phone after installation? Is it the same as 4.3? Thanks!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] Mistertac:
Thanks again. The download from filedropper was really quick and its nice that I didn't lose any data. Phones running great
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] Amd4life:
really appreciate this link, this version worked perfect for me. CF auto root, philz latest, and the card fix and I am very happy:good::good:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] aypanthony:
I didn't lose data, rooted with CF, installed latest Philz, flashed SD card fix, flashed wifi tether and is working great!!

Thanks to all who made this possible!!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] patrockss:
I dirty flashed this from full mk2 rooted knox tripped bootloader and Philz recovery. Odin full tar boot everything the same, odin Cf auto root, then Philz recovery. Only issue I have had is titanium back up has to save/backup to internal. Goggles new security where only Google or carrier apps can write to external SD card. Think I have seen a build prop edit to turn this off though.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] random45:
yep. there is a zip that was made in android development section that you can just flash in recovery
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] superflyking:
Okay, I think I bricked my phone.

Here is what I did prior to trying this ROM.

I then did a full NAND backup and started mucking with removing bloat. Then did another NAND backup of the bloat-free ROM. Now I have 2 backups on my SD card.

I was using the phone for a couple of days and noticed some things were not working correctly (auto-screen rotate, samsung step counter) so I thought I may have inadvertently removed something that was not bloat and screwed it up. So I tried to recover the first backup I made that was working using TWRP and I kept getting stuck on the sprint splash screen. I tried wiping, factory reset blah blah and nothing.

That's where I saw this thread and decided to give it a go. I wiped again, then flashed the tar via odin with auto reboot checked (it was greyed out, so I couldn't uncheck it). It rebooted and got stuck on the samsung screen (~10 min) so I did a battery pull and tried to boot again, same thing. I did another battery pull then put in in download mode and flashed cf auto root, same thing. Stuck on samsung screen.

Now I can't even boot into recovery. When I try it says "recovery booting" but then goes straight to the samsung screen and hangs.

Am I effed in the A? Can someone help please.

EDIT: I reflashed TWRP and can now at least boot into recovery.

Thanks.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] daniel4653:
When you odined NAE tar and it hung at the boot screen it doesn't seem like you performed a factory reset to see if that would boot you past the slash screen.

People need to use the correct terminology. Bricked means you can't boot up your phone nor get into download/recovery mode. Soft brick means your phone won't boot past Samsung or sprint screen but still able to boot into recovery or download mode. Since you said you were able to get recovery again that implies you flashed a recovery with odin. Meaning you got into download mode you were SOFT bricked.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] superflyking:
Sorry man, I didn't do it intentionally. I am somewhat of a noob and I do search before asking questions. As you can see, I don't have many posts because I try to work through my problems by reading ENTIRE threads. Most of the time that does the trick. However, right now correct terminology is the last thing on my mind, I need my phone back. You were obviously able to understand from my description that it was a soft brick, I have noted the term, thanks.

I did do a factory reset after I odined NAE tar and now I am back to getting hung on the Sprint splash screen. So I am trying to work through a possible solution I found in the thread	[HOW TO]Update from stock rooted MF9/MJA/MK2 to NAE (with root) without losing data

I am not hopeful though, so I'd like some advice on how to rectify my problem.

Thanks.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] daniel4653:
Sorry if I come off strong. Its meant for everyone. Terminology is important.

That's odd, after odining NAE and performing a factory reset within stock recovery normally works. Based on my knowledge I'm not sure what else you can do. Maybe someone else can chime in.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] superflyking:
So I take that back, I didn't do the factory reset after flashing NAE with the stock recovery because I couldn't get into recovery. I had to odin TWRP and factory reset, but that's what didn't work.

Any hoo, I fixed it with a jedi mind trick or something, I don't know. I wiped and wiped and wiped , then did the process all over again using this method.

Now I've got bush.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] CZuber:
<ID:0/005> Added!!

<OSM> Enter CS for MD5..

<OSM> Check MD5.. Do not unplug the cable..

<OSM> Please wait..

<OSM> L720VPUFNAE_L720SPTFNAE_L720VPUFNAE_HOME.tar.md5 is valid.

<OSM> Checking MD5 finished Sucessfully..

<OSM> Leave CS..

<ID:0/005> Odin v.3 engine (ID:5)..

<ID:0/005> File analysis..

<ID:0/005> SetupConnection..

<ID:0/005> Initialzation..

<ID:0/005> Get PIT for mapping..

<ID:0/005> Firmware update start..

<ID:0/005> aboot.mbn

<ID:0/005> NAND Write Start!!

<ID:0/005> sbl1.mbn

<ID:0/005> sbl2.mbn

<ID:0/005> Complete(Write) operation failed.

<ID:0/005> Added!!

<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 1)

<ID:0/005> Removed!!

<ID:0/005> Added!!

Any ideas?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] raptorseye:
try using a different version of odin
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] aq3e:
I've been getting this now with every Any TAR and ODIN combo, Cannot flash back to stock no matter what I do. Seem to have bricked it. I can only flash custom zips now :(
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] CZuber:
Have to make sure you are using the stock tar file for the last stock version you had before the custom zips. I had to use the latest odin 3.09. And a clean tar from Sammobile. For me it was NAE. It took 5 or 6 times to get it to take
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] daniel4653:
And make sure you have the SPH-L720 and not the Triband model.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] aq3e:
Got it, Finally after several attempts , I found the NAE version off of Sammobile using Odin 3.07, worked the first time. I was going nuts for a while trying to figure out what I was doing wrong out of the thousands of flashes and hundreds of phones ive done. Thanks.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] 13druber:
What is the size of this file?:confused: I have it downloaded and it is 71.8M is this right? The first download stopped at 8megs so I tried it again.:cool: Thanks for the help!:highfive:

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What is the size of this file?:confused: I have it downloaded and it is 71.8M is this right? The first download stopped at 8megs so I tried it again.:cool: Thanks for the help!:highfive: EDIT: Never mind found it. Re downloading again. :o
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] daniel4653:
Its about 1.4GBs
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] 13druber:
Thanks. I am downloading now. It kept stopping at 1.7 Meg. That was on file dropper. I am using the media fire now.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] DroidModder:
Holy smokes! Ive been looking for this for so long! my S4 recently bricked after I tripped Knox. Im planning to trade it in eventually to upgrade to the S5
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] greogory:
[MENTION=3266146]random45[/MENTION] The latest version of Triangle Away from [MENTION=631273]Chainfire[/MENTION] fixes tripped knox problems on NAE. You need to have the stock Samsung kernel for it to work. SuperSU 1.94 detects and disables knox now, too. I know these both work, because I've untripped and disabled knox on my S4 with NAE many times now.

Triangle Away doesn't work with non-stock ROMs or kernels, but it does make it totally safe and acceptable to simply ignore the yellow and red knox warnings during boot up until you need a warranty hardware repair, or you decide to sell or trade-in your phone.

:thumbup:

The easiest way I've found to undo the knox flags is to install the stock ROM and cf-auto-root with Odin 3.07 or 3.09, then install and run Triangle Away. If you need or want a pristine, non-rooted stock S4, you can then simply uninstall Triangle Away (remember to run it first) and then uninstall SuperSU using the "Full unroot" selection from SuperSU's settings.

You can get information and download Chainfire's tools from his XDA threads. Triangle Away and SuperSU are also both available in the Google Play Store.

CF-auto-root: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1980683

Triangle Away: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1494114

SuperSU 1.94: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1538053
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] leaderbuilder:
Does it (triangle away) remove BOTH knox flags?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] greogory:
Yup. 100%. It's awesome. Chainfire figured it out awhile ago, putting to rest the idea that knox set a bit on an efuse and therefore could not be undone.

:beer:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] daniel4653:
So it just removes the Knox warnings on boot up? And not the actual Knox flag from 0x1 to 0x0 correct?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] greogory:
Well, as I originally said, it removes the knox flags and resets the counter. I've had ample opportunities to personally test the updated Triangle Away, because my phone is basically always in a tripped state because I flash so many different ROMs and kernels. I reset my phone back to pristine stock once in a while, even to the extent of rewriting my PIT, to start fresh when I begin experiencing any persistent glitches across wipes and flashes.

The ultimate confirmation for me came when I successfully had my original S4 replaced under warranty due to a defective volume rocker almost 6 months after I had tripped knox and reset it with Triangle Away several times. I watched the guy at the Sprint store test the phone for valid knox and ROM count settings before he exchanged it. Triangle Away appears to work well enough for warranty purposes, and that's good enough for me.

Don't just take my word for it; visit Chainfire's threads to get all the information you need first hand. I'm just some random forum dude, not The Man himself. And [MENTION=631273]Chainfire[/MENTION] is definitely The Man.

:beer:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] pIxiLatEd:
Has anyone managed to deodex this? If not, I would love to see it.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] cyrusalmighty:
Help

If my sprint G S4 is already on NAF 4.4 can I flash the NAE tar files in ODIN successfully? I tried to flash Sacs custom rom 4.4 NAE and it booted with no wifi ,because I was not able to flash the "NAE Modem only" tar file. I got an error and I think It must check the BL to see if its the same.

I also was not able to root NAF with cf auto root. I figure if I could revert back to NAE using all the tar files then I would get root and working roms much easier. I just dont know if its possible to go from NAF back to NAE?? Has anyone tried it yet?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] dpotter38:
If you are on NAF, I believe you have the SPH-720T model. This is for the SPH-720. Yours is the Triband. Little bit different phone.

That said, I don't know if you can flash things meant for the SPH-720 to the SPH-720T. If you can, I imagine you would, at the very least, lose all Tri-Band capability. Maybe much worse.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] daniel4653:
You are correct. He is on the triband model. And he should NOT attempt to Odin this. It would more than likely fail. He should go to the triband thread and grab the tar from there.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] jd3107:
S4 Rebooting like crazy and getting stuck on Samsung Screen for Hours

I flashed this tar file through Odin and everything flashed successfully but as soon as the device auto reboots it goes straight to recovery and wipes data automatically. Then after that it boots into like a setup screen and force closes like nuts. Then it just gets stuck on the Samsung Screen again. Not sure how to fix this, I followed the instructions perfectly, and even booted into recovery and wiped cache and data multiple times. Each time I flash this file the same thing happens. :(

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Mine is doing the same thing. How were you able to get it working with this Tar file?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] slixzen:
Can anyone else confirm this post, or post a screenshot/video of it happening? I followed the Knox trip closely, and stayed away from flashing NAE firmware because of it. However, recently my phone sorta screwed up, and I would rather flash a NAE firmware in the small chance that it will fix it.

If it does fix it however, I would like to root it and get rid of any notifications that it has been rooted or otherwise.

Reading through the Triangle Away thread, it seems as this information posted above is incorrect. I don't know what you are talking about, but I would love to see how you moved the 0x1 bit to 0x0.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] daniel4653:
It doesn't reset Knox flag but rather the two flags that show up on stock kernel when your phone boots up and it shows on the upper left corner like seadroid enforcing and kernel something.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] AlkaliV2:
This worked great, got me up to date, and there are no errors writing to the internal or external memory card. Rooted nicely too with CF Auto. Excellent upload, thank you!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] eQuanoX:
Borked it up!

So i flashed this and did the CF auto Root and everything was fine. THEN I BORKED MY PHONE UP!

I decided to flash Unknownforce's NAE ROM zip file via mobile odin and i believe i soft bricked my phone (wont load pass the Samsung screen). Should i just odin the original NAE tar file again and start over? or is there another/better way to get my phone working again?

Also, can I flash Unknownforces's NAE ROM via mobile Odin or NO? Did I miss something?

Any help is appreciated, Thanks.