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[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samccfl99:
Lost Ability to Go Back to OA1 Kernel After Failed Install Attemp

Sorry to post and report this. G900A-ATT S5 on OA1 BL and OC4 kernel on Alliance 8 rom. I did try to install MS today, but it did not work. I have read all posts and answers in every thread. i think after i installed the apk, i FF'd the zip outside of the app. rebooted, nothing seemed to be changed, would try it again after thinking about it. I did uninstall MS, then i did a FF restore of the backup i made before i started. I was communicating with Talkingmonkeys and he told me his Safestrap did not work anymore. Neither does mine. Anytime I try to Odin the OA1 or NCE Flasher to OA1 kernel, it takes a long time to reboot and then reboots to system recovery. When i odin back the OC4 kernel, my Alliance rom comes back up fine. It's a little disturbing when i did restore the backup, so i do not know what that zip did. i do not know a whole heck about Linux. everything works fine except cannot get back to OA1 if needed.

about the sdcard, i had a 16gb laying around and i do not have a sdcard reader on my pc, but i used the APART app which actually worked on LP, contrary to what someone else had posted. The only thing was that there was no option to make them Primary, so i do not know if they are.

I would like to try again. maybe i will get an answer about if the formatting of the sdcard could be the problem.

I hope it is not true about someone saying Viper still did not work on a virtual rom with Permissive mode. That is one of the main reasons i would like this, among other things. Thanks for all this hard work. I am sure it will all work out. You saved us all Hsbadr.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xlylegaman:
Quick tip

For people who have issue with using multisystem status code. Simple fix is to edit the build number using an editor. One way to check.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gabbyii:
Did you find a fix?

Did you find a fix for this as I'm having the same issue - its like all the files for multisystem are just not there.

Thanks
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wabmorgan:
Awesome idea. Worked like a charm. I even did a reboot on virtual and stock to verify.

Sent from my SM-900V running Jasmine 5.0.2 Lollipop rom and MultiSystem 1.3
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] prime64:
Nothing yet, there should be a reason that files don't show up but nobody seems to have an answer or any kind of fix
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] look4alec:
Did you boot into stock before installing 1.3? Do you have to uninstall the binaries from the app? Mine is working very well and I don't want to break it as it took me a while to get it working. If anyone moved from 1.x to 1.3 successfully could you just tell me your steps? Thanks!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gabbyii:
Fix for MultiSystem files not found

Okay I finally got it - here's a little history in case this helps anyone else:

I have a 64 gig sandisk ultra card and I think this all ties back into not having a card reader that supports this in windows. So EaseUS Partition master would only show the card has having 27.x gig available. I tried making partitions within this range and no luck. With Minitool Parition Wizard - it showed the card has having around 683 gig (ya I wish!) so I tried creating partitions within the 64 gig limit and still no luck getting the MultiSystem files to show.

There were some adb/terimal commands in a post somewhere for Multisystem you could run that displayed partition information which all looked correct. After lots of hours of messing around I came back to it had to be the partitions. I put the sdcard back in my phone and installed aparted from the Google store (there's a good 5 min or so video on youtube on how to use it) - careful of the popup add on startup of it. The first thing I noticed as it had my secondary partition listed as ext2 (created from EAseus/Minitool). I deleted all my partitions and tried to recreate them. The fat32 worked fine but when I went to create the ext4 partition - it came up with an error about "only position independant executable (PIE) are supported". I went out of Aparted and back in and it had created an ext2 partition. I tried to convert it to ext4 with no luck.

I grabbed the bypass-pie.zip from this post -> http://xdaforums.com/google-nexus-5/development/fix-bypassing-pie-security-check-t2797731

and flashed it with FlashFire. I went back into Aparted and recreated my ext4 partition and this time it worked and took a few minutes to format it and create the journaling.

I reinstalled the MultiSystem_v1.3.apk and went in and hit the Install button and it flashed the script which looked about the same as before. The select and flash zip buttons still didn't work so I figured it was still busted. I went into FlashFire anyway and flashed the MultiSystem_v1.3.zip. Upon reboot my LED went GREEN for about 3 seconds!

Once the phone was back up I went into a terminal prompt and typed in MultiSystem and got what I should! I double checked in settings/about phone and SE for Android is in Permissive. So that's as far as I've gotten as of writing this.

Hopefully this is helpful and saves some time.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] midimench:
Green is good color when sh*t is working properly

Sent from my Galaxy Note 3 with MultiSystem 1.3
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rezokrazy22:
If I wanted to increase the size of the second partition to incorporate enough space for a second rom after having already created 1 virtual img would i have to start the process over?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lehocki:
Thanks this is exactly the same problems I've been running in to. Thanks again.

Edit I flashed the bypass - pie. Zip and it messed up my phone, when I try to open su app goes to a black screen, tibu just hangs on the screen waiting for the su. My data is working but can't get on the net or download any application from Play store. Where did I go wrong? Was I supposed to mount in FF?

Edit : it appears that I have lost root
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samccfl99:
This was definitely NOT a good zip to flash on a G900A. screwed my phone up and lost root. good thing i know how to get it back. The APART app sucks, at least on my phone. today i went to Best Buy and bought a $9 usb sdcard reader and used it to format my test 16gb card. it took quite a while, it must have worked. have not tried MS again, not until Hsbadr puts out the next one that fixes some installation problems. i think i understand the system, but if i cant install it, what good will it do me?...LOL.

SO AGAIN, GO OUT AND BUY A USB SDCARD READER IF YOU DONT HAVE ONE IN YOUR PC. TODAY'S TIP...LOL

Oh, I did not see the post above this one!!!!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] prime64:
I know that I have asked this question already and have read and reread instructions but MultiSystem directory is there after I install it through the app, but when I do the 1st reboot directories disappear and not sure what to do?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stueycaster:
Maybe I shouldn't ask this here but I asked it over in the Note 4 MultiSystem Q&A thread 2 days ago and my post is still the most recent post.

I installed MultiSystem 1.3.1 and the tests showed it was properly installed. But when I tried to install a virtual rom the selector says "File selected: null". Then when I tried it in FlashFire it installed the rom over my main system. I couldn't figure out how to install the rom to my virtual directory.

Sorry but I've been watching all of this pretty closely and I've done a ton of reading. The instructions for using this are inadequate. Can someone point me to where the step by step instructions that say which buttons to push are in the MultiSystem app?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] midimench:
How do you delete any virtual ROM that you don't want anymore. Last week I was able to use the FX file manager, and now it won't let me delete any image and I get a access denied error message. I'm going to system/MultiSystem /img/system to find the images.

Sent from my Galaxy Note 3 with MultiSystem 1.3.1
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tswb:
how to install rom lollipop on virtual im run rom 4.4.4 kitkat
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] midimench:
When I'm viewing the virtual images on system/miltisystem/img/system. Am I viewing internal memory or the contents of the ext4 partition of the external SD card?

Sent from my Galaxy Note 3 with MultiSystem 1.3.1
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hoffeva:
You are viewing the ext4 partition of the external sdcard. JasmineROM automatically detects the partition on boot and mounts it at system/MultiSystem
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] midimench:
Excellent, life just got better

Sent from my Galaxy Note 3 with MultiSystem 1.3.1
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hoffeva:
Unfortunately, you need root first. You're best shot is to take the OTA to lollipop and wait for a root exploit to be discovered and released since 4.4.4 is considered unrootable.

Sent from my SM-N900V running JasmineROM 5.0.2 Virtual with MultiSystem
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ippolito1971:
Is this the video I'd use for the g3 testing also? [MENTION=5868929]hsbadr[/MENTION]
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hsbadr:
Yup, I was going to tell you, but have been very busy at work. Test it & report me back! Also, send me the output of the folliwing command (leds.txt):

busybox ls -1 /sys/class/leds > /sdcard/leds.txt
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ippolito1971:
Willdo. It's OK I was on vacation last week on a cruise. I will let u know when I get started.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] khanam:
2 things:

Have multi system activated and running and 2 virtual roms created and visible but can't figure out why the damn thing won't reboot to a virtual system. increased the time to 7 seconds to select system but it just won't reboot to a virtual system!! I keep clicking the up button, the vol down button and nothing - it just boots to the stock systemm. Any ideas?

Any way to create a patch file to convert unfriendly zips (which install only on stock systems to making them flash on virtual imgs?) They did that in the dualboot forum for n3)
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] midimench:
Did you assign the virtual rom 1 & 2 in the MultiSystem app before rebooting?

Sent from my Galaxy Note 3 with MultiSystem 1.3.1
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] khanam:
Yes, finally figured out that that was what I was not doing. It works now.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] midimench:
Excellent

Sent from my Galaxy Note 3 with MultiSystem 1.3.1
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fire3element:
Are there any ill affects of doing a Factory Reset? Will we loose root?

Having some issues with MultiSystem apk not mounting virtual images properly.

Posted what I am experiencing over in the General Q&A thread. (did not notice it was General section, too many Q&A threads)

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=60890975&postcount=63

Please advise
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] midimench:
I did a factory reset and root remains as long as that reset is Jasmine 5.02

Sent from my Galaxy Note 3 with MultiSystem 1.3.1
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fire3element:
Cool. Thanks for the reply. Did you remove any system apps before you reset?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] midimench:
Reset removes everything for you. No selective deletions required

Sent from my Galaxy Note 3 with MultiSystem 1.3.1
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] golfslicer:
FYI: The led that is supposed to light up when creating an image does not work. After the device has settled down. I clicked on the created image and went into to root explorer and found that the device was making the image without the led. You have to go back and forth until it is finished at 2.65GB. Restart the phone and then you can see the image to select in the MultiSystem App.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fire3element:
That is exactly the same thing I had to do.

No notification LED for any actions in MultiSystem app.

Had to watch file explorer to see when the file was done.

I have a feeling that MultiSystem (not the app) is not installing 100%.

I am having new issues now, one of which is the "MultiSystem status" command in Terminal Emulator is not returning correct information.

After checked MS status and got errors, rebooted phone. Phone is hanging up on boot at System Process is not Responding.

Phone stays there on black screen.

After 2~3 more reboots, it will finally boot up all the way.

This is booting into the Stock system, not Virtual
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sandvich123127:
Stuck on Bootloop HELP!

I tried to delete cache through stock recovery after flashing bad zip, but still bootloops. I can't get past the splash screen with the blue LED going off.... I keep trying to switch virtual systems, and back to stoc, but it isn't working :confused:. The weird part was that I was mounted on a virtual ROM and booted on it too.... I need a fix if I can please, even pulling the sd card doesn't work....
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Grompy:
Pull sd card then boot to recovery and factory reset. That should get you back going again. It'll look like it gets stuck on the android boot logo, but gives her 10 minutes and she should boot up.

Sent from Cerj's Kickass Themed Tapatalk App on my Eye Candy Duece_Biggin's Rom.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sandvich123127:
Nope :( :crying: . Is the last resort to flash through odin WITHOUT root?????:confused: :(

Edit: Well I think I might have to flash, and doing so right now :(
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] droidstyle:
You need to Odin to fix
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samccfl99:
So i got a dumb question. first the person above does not even tell us what phone he got. dont all androids react differently? i mean i know how to get all around my G900A, so the dumb question is, what will result from a Factory Reset? i never did that on my GS5. on my old phones that were not rooted or have custom roms it would wipe everything out and revert to stock. what is stock when you have a custom rom OR does it just wipe DATA?

My other question, which is harder is, how do you get MultiSystem to work???!!! I am not dumb and can read instructions fine, but i never got a virtual rom up yet and bricked my phone several times trying (but like i said, i REALLY know how to get around in my phone..LOL). i have a spare 16gb sdcard and it configured perfect. the instructions are not perfect. really.

INSTALL BusyBox to /system/xbin

INSTALL MultiSystem APK & open it

INSTALL MultiSystem binaries by pressing Install button

UPDATE BusyBox by runnig the folowing commands in Terminal Emulator

Code:

su

MultiSystem advanced update_busybox

REBOOT to check LED indicator for boot options

CHECK permissive SELinux after reboot

Now, you should be able to create a virtual ROM & boot into it...

After the mount commands, it says to Install Busybox to /system/xbin. IS THAT JUST INSTALL BUSYBOX, which ALL of us have or is it something special??? (not much linux in this head...)

Install APK and press Install button. This results in a /Multisystem entry, but no sub-folders. When you try and update busybox it say MS not found. now if you reboot, still nothing. if you go in and turn virtual system on and save config, then you might get something. if i try to update busybox, forget it. soft brick. Hsbadr told me how to make an img file from current rom (which i did earlier and then i restored stock rom before starting this whole thing) so i did and i placed that where it should be and it then it showed up in the virtual list and i activated and saved config, but it never was on Loop0. I have tried this maybe 4 times with never any success and the video tutorials are not very good, even the one from RootJunky, and his are usually very informative.

So maybe if someone wants to PM me sometime to discuss, that would be great. I really only want this to work because Viper needs Permissive to run on LP and my G900A has a LOCKED BL, so that sucks. Hsbadr finally posted something so we know he is still out there, but no ETA for a new version. There are many things that need to be done with this, like at least making a toast msg or something when a task is done? and that green light. if you are copying a rom, it never goes out. I still never saw permissive mode EVER on my phone. THANK YOU SAMSUNG AND ATT...:rolleyes:

SORRY THIS WAS LONG. MAYBE SOMEONE WILL ANSWER. THANKS IN ADVANCE...:D
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Grompy:
This is the Q&A thread in the Verizon Note 3 forum. So I assumed they had a SM-N900V.. by all means I don't know what would happen if you factory rest on different devices and wouldn't recommend it.

There's a busybox installer app in the appstore.https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jrummy.busybox.installer

Sent from my Tapatalk App on Hsbadr's MultiSystem Rom.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samccfl99:
This is the Q & A for MultiSystem, sir, not just the VZ Note3. You have answered nothing I really care about. I would never factory reset my phone, it was just a question, and you insult me by pointing me to a BusyBox app that everyone knows about, one of many. You are as helpful as the dev on this supposedly wonderful system that I have never seen run and that there is no proper documentation on, in my opinion. Did not answer a single question about MS. Why did you bother? These forums are for people to ask questions and hopefully get answers. Sorry for the sharp post, but really........

I give up for now. No one seems to want to help and I guess I will wait for the next version and see what happens. Probably by then someone will figure Viper out liked they have Xposed. Thank you so very much. NOT...

I will never lose root anyway. I know my phone and can get it back from anything!!!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xconwayx:
I was finally able to get mine to go. I had to use a 16GB Samsung SD Card. My 64GB Samsung was just not working.

I thought this was a clever ruse as well. I went back through the documentation and BOOM it worked. I could not believe it.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] midimench:
I had a similar problem where I couldn't create an ext4 partition on a brand new Samsung pro 64 Gig SD card, so I ended up sending it back to amazon and used a Samsung EVO 64 Gig SD card I had laying around and it worked right away.

Sent from my Galaxy Note 3 with MultiSystem 1.3.1
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samccfl99:
Funny, I had problems with the same exact card i got thru Ebay, but no problems with EXT4, i had problems after writing a certain amount of data in the Fat32 partition. My spare 16gb old card works fine, although i still have not managed to get MS to work on my G900A. Finally got it to boot to a virtual image, but it just got stuck on boot screen with the blue light on. Oh well, just waiting for another version to try again.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] midimench:
You just reminded me that every time I copied an mp4 file to the fat32 partition, it ended up corrupt and wouldn't play.

Sent from my Galaxy Note 3 with MultiSystem 1.3.1
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] midimench:
Has anybody tried other custom roms with their Jasmine 5.02 MultiSystem enabled phones yet?

Sent from my Note 3 with Jasmine 5.02 and MultiSystem 1.3.1
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] z720:
it managed to boot the virtual img. Virtual I'm using MiuiV6 and stock is lgl22 stock rom, but the problem facing, I need to clear cache and data then only manage to boot virtual successful. Is it possible to split both /data like for virtual use /virtual/data ?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hsbadr:
JasmineROM v5.1: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=61294188&postcount=10939

MultiSystem v2.x: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=61294616&postcount=72
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] look4alec:
I am having an issue copying the Virtual ROM into /MultiSystem/img/system/ it says "Not enough space" even though there is certainly enough space. Does anyone know how to overcome this? I changed permissions on all the folders to drwxrwxrwx and it still says full space. I tried booting in Stock ROM and still the same message. I have also tried both ES File Explorer and File Manager and had root and the writing options ticked. Anyone have this problem?

Edit/SOLVED (kind of):

I realized I just had to be ballsy and boot to stock, and delete my Virtual ROM (after backing it up).
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sevenseal:
i have to have a issue where MultiSystem 1.3.1 does not stay installed,

even with rootfs and /system mounted as read and write. even following the instruction to every point does not change this for me. MultiSystem dispear after a reboot but present before the reboot, plus even updating busybox works.. just all gone after reboot. i am on sm-n900v phone. not sure what to do
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] K03WL3R:
Are you trying to do this whole on a virtual system?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sevenseal:
the phone is on the main partition, havent been able to make a virtual img because it would restart my phone in mid process, so i was never able to produce one inorder to use that feature.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wabmorgan:
I just installed 5.1. Install went smooth as silk. Running GREAT !!!!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nukeboyt:
Does it take a long time to boot each time you switch systems, or just the first time?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sevenseal:
if i reboot the phone as follow by the instruction, MultiSystem is no longer present/installed, i checked using MultiSysem status which states MultiSystem not found, root explore to MultiSystem and it is blank. if i check the folder before reboot, all files+folders are there but gone once i reboot. not sure why MultiSystem folder to continues to get wiped.... so switching rom state is not possible in this situation.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wabmorgan:
^ Did you reinstall Multisystem and hit update configuration afterwards? If you do, I think you will see the rom/img files.

---------- Post added at 02:14 AM ---------- Previous post was at 02:09 AM ----------

And I could be wrong but I think you would need to do a wipe before switching back to 5.0.x.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sevenseal:
yes i have done that before and updated the configuration, remains the same where MultiSystem doesnt stick, just to mention... i am unable to make/use a virtual img due to system reboot where MultiSystem is attempting to create in progress... if i create a virtual img via android emulator the whole phone becomes unstable and msgs pop up thats apps stop responsing... example of some are dailer, messenger, bluetooth, etc...
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sevenseal:
well i found out the issue is, my phone is stuck on enforcing mode and it wont change to permissive mode. anyone have an idea to fix this?

tried manual emulator with this command

u

setenforce Permissive

doesnt change a thing...
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wabmorgan:
^ Sounds like you need to flash the 5.0.2 zip.