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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Johnalexis69:
cant install safestrap, the " state: " is always " Not Installed " i tried uninstalling safestrap then install again it didnt install the safestrap. i keep tapping " Install recovery " but still not installed. how to fix this?

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my NC1 Flasher app says " Either SS or SafeStrap or busybox could not be found on this device. Both are needed to flash nc2. " uhm i have to many problems i need someone who can help me here :( i will try to reset my phone as soon as someone help me here.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] jroq8400:
Did you install busybox?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] SgtMac02:
I had the same problem. You have to manually go install BusyBox form the play store.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] trjons:
Well, I got through step 3 and I'm feeling pretty good about myself. The Rooted 5.01 is better than what I had (4.2.2).

I'd like to figure out Step 4 but some of the jargon is beyond my paygrade! Thanks for the post!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] lior1262:
hi i have stock rom Lollipop from where to start plz somene help
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] sway8966:
You need to root your phone first. Then install either safestrap or Flashfire.

This OP is talking about flashing the rootable kitkat firmware first. Then Rooting the phone, installing safestrap and flashing goldeneye rom.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Kelderic:
Alrighty, I just went through this tutorial and I've got it finished, with Android 5.0.1 on my phone! I want to thank you so much for writing this, because with this level of complexity, I would never have gotten through it on my own. ( Do you have one of those 'buy me a cup of coffee' paypal donation links? )

I ended up going with LolliRom 9, rather than Goldeneye ( because LolliRom has ported the gray/blue design of the dropdown toggles from Marshmallow ), and it works beautifully. I took it into an AT&T store and tested with a sim card, and I haven't found any connectivity issues yet.

I do have a few suggestions though, based on my experience going through the process. There are a couple things that could be clarified and updated in the tutorial.

First, regarding Odin and updating from 4.2 to 4.4, I couldn't get the version of Odin and Kitkat to work that are in the tutorial. When I searched the thread, I saw you gave someone updated links, (Odin 3.10.6), and those worked for me. We could probably update those links in the OP.

Second, the process you have for downloading Flashfire is out of date. The beta program has been shut down and it's now just an app on the play store that can be downloaded without sideloading. I ended up going to Flashfire's main xda thread to ask that to figure it out.

Third, it would help I think to explain step 4.1 a little better. It starts out by saying:

"Do not install it at this point, Safestrap is currently not compatible with Lollipop - you are going to flash a different Kernel in Step 4.2 to work around this."

Then, before step 4.2, you say to install Safestrap. Which is really confusing. The key is Busybox, which lets Safestrap be installed, but that isn't explained. We could update the verbiage there to make it clear. Related, there are 4 or 5 different Busybox apps on the play store. One of them has many more downloads than the rest (10m), so I just took a chance, and it worked. However, there's another one that has full material design and looks like it is being updated regularly, so many people might try it instead (though it might work, I don't know. Would all of them work?).

Fourth, for step 4.3.3, when you are sent back to Safestrap after flashing the final ROM, I had a major scare because instead of booting into Safestrap, I was sent into an error mode. There were lots of steps, and I had no idea what to do. I ended up just clicking continue booting, and then it went to the Safestrap options, and into Safestrap.

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This is a lot of feedback, and I'm not trying to be a ****, I just want to make the guide as easy and clear as it can be, because after 3 hours on this, I know how difficult it is for people with little to no experience with this kind of stuff. Again, thank for so much for creating this initially!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] NinjaBaller:
ok so i have sgh-i337m and i used cf root to root on 5.01, can i just install a custom rom from here using odin or do i have to install a custom recovery and do it through there?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] soreyes:
Worked pretty well. On Goldeneye up and running for the most part.

Wifi won't tun on.... I may unfortunately have the baseband modem mismatch issue. I am not sure how to fix it.

I can get back to NC1 Safestrap and apply zips as needed.

Baseband = I337UCUFNB1

Kernel = 3.4.0-4408911

dpi@SWDD5005 #1

Version = Goldeneye 53 XXUHOD7

getprop ro.bootloader = I337UCUFNB1
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] utsc:
I would like to install pure Android version on my Canadian Fido (Rogers) GSM Galaxy SGH-I337M Android 5.0.1

The phone is unlocked, rooted installed TWRP, SuperSU and runs stock Lollipop Baseband I337MVLUGOH1

Can someone please give some suggestions and links to suitable Pure Android 6 ROM?

Do I need to change any modem files or make other modifications

Phone is currently used in India & gets 4G LTE without any isues
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] qwer43:
Thank you.

I had followed your steps and I was able to update my ROM to your recommended custom ROM.

I had an issue with Flashfire not running even after SuperUser install and disabled know. Work around was to disable the auto time and change the date/yr to 2013.

I had not opted to uninstall SS. I had to press 'Continue' twice to continue.

I appreciate your post.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Timstuff:
So I've been out of the loop for a really long time. My Galaxy S4 1337 is still running rooted 4.3 Jellybean (downgraded from KitKat), and it has safestrap installed. I want to upgrade to either a rooted 5.0 ROM or a custom 6.0 ROM but I'm not sure what the easiest, safest way to do that is at the moment. Can anyone give me a recommendation as to what ROM I should install, and what extra steps might be involved in upgrading from such an old version of Android? I'm hoping the fact that my phone is already rooted with Safestrap installed means I've got a head start on getting upgraded.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] thehummer12:
Is this possible to do on Verizon SCH-i545 Galaxy S4?

If so, will this work even though I have Lollipop installed? I've heard flashing to older roms doesnt work anymore. My S4 is rooted btw.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] ryandigweed:
Amazing thread.. keep up the work. Cant wait to try this on my mums phone once it comes back from repairs.. :)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] johnsfleming:
I am getting stuck on step 3.4 - when I use Flashfire to flash the I337_OC3_Stock_Rooted_ROM, it completes the flash, reboots, and then freezes on the Samsung Galaxy S4 splash screen. I can power out of the frozen screen, but if I power on again, it freezes at the Samsung screen again or gives me the grey battery. I can get into download mode or recovery mode on boot. In recovery mode, it lists the ROM as the OC3 one, so it is getting flashed. In recovery mode, I also get this error at the bottom of the screen:

#MANUAL MODE#

-- Appling Multi-CSC. . .

Applied the CSC-code : ATT

remove failed file '/system/csc_contents'

Any thoughts on what the problem might be?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] philPtr:
excuse my noobiness. When stock firmware is flashed will all the apps and settings have to be redone?

and on same note does stock put on all the same bloatware as prior.

on my AT&T i337 S4 OK2. 5.0.1
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] xhxwarlordxhx:
help!

stuck in boot after using flashfire. what am i doing wrong
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] philPtr:
this reference says to set reboot into download mode but we aren't doing the bootloader download per thread so you may want to modify this OP to reflect normal reboot setting on flashfire.

so far has been flawless thank you and [MENTION=4708661]muniz_ri[/MENTION]
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] philPtr:
ok I competed everything and hit the continue button at the end until Samsung(star) screen came up and it just sits there about 5 minutes now...wait aha voila.

thank you again.

note to everyone it takes awhile for the final boot up
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] philPtr:
Ok all done and only part that had to change was the very end where uninstalling SS required checking 'allow' for the root permission and enable root access on boot. Otherwise SS would not load for the uninstall of recovery

I got a question? I did the GE rom, how do I make a nandroid backup and do a recovery when necessary.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Gizmosis350k:
Trying to get the preveiw version of flashfire, not support in my country
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] philPtr:
I installed the goldeneye. Now i think i might try out the ok2 and xposed framework. How do I get to the OK2 root.

I'm looking at this thread http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s4-att/help/guide-att-samsung-galaxy-s4-sgh-i337-t3383078
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Baconwich:
I was just about to write asking if the original post could be updated: the Flashfire beta isn't a thing anymore, you can just download the app from the Play Store. All that's left on the Google+ page is people passive-aggressively telling people that there is no beta anymore.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Gizmosis350k:
Lmao I see. Awesome. I managed to do this process after some amount of work. Boy, Samesung really sucks these days :(
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] denynwa:
im on GE too and i have xposed installed (unofficial by arter97) using safestrap
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] eevee67:
Everything went smoothly on my Samsung Galaxy S4 AT&T i337, flashing Goldeneye(GE-XXUHOD7-53) I did OK2 instead of OC3.

My step by step process:

1. Flashed to stock I337UCUFNB1 (4.4.2)

2. Used stock recovery for update to 4.4.4 using NJ4_update_from_NB1

3. Rooted 4.4.4 using this Guide

4. Installed Flashfire and flashed I337_OK2_Stock_Rooted_ROM using this guide

5. Followed Step 4 to 4.3 of this guide. but instead I flashed the ATT_OK2_modules and the I337_Stock_OK2_kernel.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] arcmanov:
I'm at this step, and when I open SafeStrap, I just get a dark green background with 'Safestrap' at the top.

Eventually it times out (not responding) and the system asks if to close it or wait.

Phone works fine otherwise.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] techjaggu:
Everything went smooth but playstore not working. it worked wen i flashed rooted_stock_OC3/OK2. but in GEv53 its not working:confused:

What am i missing?

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Had same problem UPDATE ur SU then in SU settings check "enable SU during boot" is ticked then set defualt access to grant and reboot. try installing safrstrap 3.75, it should work now.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] catsruul:
I'd like to add, for everyone to know here, that you DO NOT need to flash 5.01 via flashfire in order to flash a custom LP ROM such as GoldenEye.

Simply flash the NB1 Rootable ROM, root it, install BusyBox and Safestrap, and flash the ROM along with the needed module+kernel.

It may not work a couple of times (mine would show the GS4 black screen of death a few times). Just make sure to Advanced Wipe and wipe everything except the SDCard before flashing.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] sus hill:
After flashing OC3 as you have mention it reboots and stuck on a black screen

After flashing OC3 as you have mention it reboots and stuck on a black screen with numbers of unfortunately xxx has stopped and I tried ok ok to all of those then also no luck. It was a long night search for all the things and finally I wiped chase memory and now In rooted NB1.

I think it's only in my phone hasn't seen it on comment section too can you direct me on the right path ?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] SomeOrdinaryGamr:
Okay, I tried flashing the I337_OC3_Stock_Rooted_ROM repetitively and I get the same result. I get stuck at the ATT screen and I end up having to factory reset my phone and restart it until my phone loads. When it loads it loads firmware 4.4.2 but still rooted. Could someone help?

NOTE: Some people might need to install OC3 Stock Rooted Rom on safestrap ( 4.4.2) and then reboot to download and flash OC3 bootloader. Flashfire did not work for me though the method I mentioned worked for me.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] icon_x:
The steps in the OP worked *almost* perfectly.

I got stuck at the final reboot - it appears the OC3 kernel flash didn't take while in SS. I would get past the SS boot screen to the animated Samsung logo, but the phone would turn itself off about 15 seconds later. I could not get back into Safestrap or the OS - thankfully I had a copy of the OC3 kernel in a tar that I could flash with Odin.

After that, I was able to get into GE 53.

(I use GE 53 also on my Loki'd S4, this was to fix the wife's S4 as she was tired of using 4.4 stock and her bootloader was locked)

It's one of the best roms I've used in any phone, period.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] techjaggu:
working

wrking solved all my issues

PS: i was about to trash my s4
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] cfli1688c1:
i am not able to get wifi working, i read that my modem and kernel mismatched.

i try to run nc1 flasher, but it took forever to flash. how do i get back to recovery to reflash the module and kernel?

** i odin back to nb1 and start over, i am in ss, flash the module and kernel, went to terminal, did the getprop, it still saids NB1. what gives?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] :
Great tutorial
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] :
Help! After following step 4.1.4 (Installing BusyBox) I then proceeded to step 4.2.4 (Running NC1 Flasher) And I get a message saying 'Either safestrap of busybox could not be found on this device. Both are needed to flash NC2.' I'm not sure if there is something I did wrong or if there is some kind of compatibility issue. Help would be greatly appreciated.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] megh1982:
Thank You...

Thank You for the detailed procedure...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] nabril15:
I came across this thread, and I was able to update my emergency-use S4 to OC3 rooted (step 3 in the op); my LG V10 is being repaired.

1. How can I go to OK3 and keep root and safestrap?

2. Should OTA remain disabled?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Re7r0re7r0:
Can I use the guide to upgrade from KitKat 4.3 (instead of 4.4.x as it's stated everywhere) to Lolipop? Thanks.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] y2kyasir:
how can i move on if the first tw rootable nb1 file which flashes perfectly without any error only to know that the phone is in bootloop
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Icone24:
Clear cache and dalvik and reboot.

Or perform factory reset through recovery.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] y2kyasir:
i have done all of that all i dont have clear dalvik i only have clear cache wipe/factory reset

android recovery kot49h.1337ucufnb1
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Icone24:
Which firmware where you before attempting to flash nb1? A more recent one?

Because if so, it will not work and will leave you in bootloop.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] y2kyasir:
yes i was on OC3 lollipop but on the recovery the rom i tried to flash the stock one changed so now in recovery it shows the above mentioned so should i be installing a lollipop one if yes how cos previously i had installed it through flashfire but since my phone is on bootloop. HOW ?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Icone24:
If you had a more recent one, trying to downgrade will make your device bootloop, if you want to keep your phone alive try to flash latest ROM for your device through Odin and that's it.

Then try to root it with kingroot for example.

Good luck.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] y2kyasir:
where can i get the latest rom for my sgh i337 that i can flash through odin none of them are tar they are only flashable through ex sd cart when ever i try that it gives me footer and verification error
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Icone24:
Sammobile is your solution.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] y2kyasir:
i dont have sammobile premium account the roms there are on premium accounts i have seen the website
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Icone24:
Which carrier?

EDIT: Nevermind i've only found 4.2.2 I337ATTAMDL from AT&T carrier.

If you want it tell me and I'll download it and upload it to mega or drive.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] y2kyasir:
i am not on any US carrier using an atnt phone here in pakistan i guess they just unlock sims and voila but id like the mdl but i dont think id be able to downgrade it from nb1 ?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Icone24:
Check this and i hope it helps you.

https://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s4-att/general/guide-odin-to-stock-updating-rooting-t2926642
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] y2kyasir:
followed this to the letter still stuck in bootloop
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Icone24:
Seriously? Well are you 100% sure that your phone is a i337?

Remove battery and check the back.

If your phone is indeed a i337 there's nothing I can do more to help you, I run out of possibilities.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] vipulmathur:
Cannot copy OC3 rom zip file to a micro SD card

IHey guys, I am a newbie at this so pardon me for my dumb query. I am having trouble copying the I337_OC3_Stock_Rooted_ROM from my computer to a micro SD card. It will copy all the files except the most important one in the zipped folder. I tried a couple of different SD Cards and tried to copy zipped file and unzipped folder....but failed to do so. Has someone else ever faced that problem.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] robot_head:
Try and copy the files directly to your phone then from your phone to the sd card. Sometimes sd cards are just like that for some reason.

sent from my sghi337 on *°°•carHD ROM•°°*
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] rickjeffers:
Thanks for the instructions. It helped me get the GE rom installed successfully on my ATT S4.

On issue though, I don't have root on the ROM after completing all the steps. I tried installing the OC3 files both before and after the OC3 Kernel, but that seemed to make no difference. Any suggestions?

Also, it might help if you listed the selections you made in the Aroma installer. Maybe that would make a difference. I selected the defaults of ATT with Safestrap. Maybe that is my lack of root issue?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] sac02:
You are on GE but not rooted? That doesn't make sense to me, I think GE is already rooted by default.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] enerj:
How do these modified lollipop ROMs run on the phone? My friend has the OTA 5.0.1 on a work phone (completely stock everything) and he says it's terribly slow.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] xstokerx:
I'm running goldeye 5.0.1 and its super smooth and fast I'll have to wait a few cycles for it to settle in to tell how battery life is
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] sac02:
I also have a friend that took the 5.0.1 OTA and absolutely hates it and says his phone is slow as poop.

I've been on GE53 for about 2 weeks now and I am absolutely thrilled with it. My Antutu benchmark scores went from ~26k on stock rooted 4.4.2 to nearly 33k (I was surprised to see that much objective improvement), and subjectively I feel like I can tell the difference in daily use. The battery use is great - I use BBS to monitor and I consistently get 0.4% per hour drain overnight (which is very low (low is good)). So far it is super stable, I've only had a handful of FC issues but they were all from me tinkering and freezing things in TB, and I have not had the phone reboot itself unexpectedly ever.

Overall, highly recommended.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Cats_PJs:
Did you run root checker to confirm root? You probably just need to go into SuperSU and set default access to "grant" ,GE has a minor bug in that area.

Also, if anyone is looking for a different rom to try, look at Kushan rom in i9505 forum. I've been running it for a few weeks now and it's been perfect so far.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] pratikgr:
currently stuck at flashfire asking supersu 2.40 or newer...There was no instruction to download supersu during "update to I337_OC3 - 5.0.1 and KeepRoot". Even after installing superSu,...flashfire still asking same thing again...Need help

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Fixed above by rebooting device. On next step now...let's see
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] pratikgr:
everything went smooth so far. However 2 questions.

1. Installed safestrap after installing GE. But only safestrape log comes up. Not able to uninstall recovery.

2. How to enable supersu? Not working

Is there anything else we need to take care after installing GE? How do we auto update GE when GE gets newer version out?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Cats_PJs:
Q. WHERE DID SUPERSU GO?

A. GO TO /SETTINGS/SECURITY NOW TAP SUPERSU

Go to default access and set to "grant". After you do that try safestrap again.

Not sure about the auto update part.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] sac02:
My understanding is that safestrap (v3.75 is latest as of this writing) is not yet compatible with Lollipop. That's why you can't get it to install on GE ROM. It's also why you had to flash the NC1 kernel when you were on stock OC3 before you could flash your custom ROM. You had to use the NC1 kernel for SS compatability, but then you had to flash back to the OC3kernel so you could actually run the OS.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Cats_PJs:
True, but you can install the app so you can uninstall the recovery.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] pratikgr:
1. there is nothing like supersu under settings/security

2. Agree that I shoul dbe able to uninstall the recovery but the page do not laod after I lanuch the SS app
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] DTW167:
Worked perfectly, thanks!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] DTW167:
Has anyone tried flashing any other ROM's besides Goldeneye v53? I'm considering installing Imperium LL v7.1 solely because it features Xposed, but it looks like compatibility is limited to i9505.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] robot_head:
absolutely... Imperium works

Car hd is awesome themed up.

Goldeneye works flawless.

Eudemony works as well.

And albe95 rom works. Im on sghi337 and flashed all these with safestrap, nc1 flasher, and odin'd the oc3 kernel for lollipop Roms. Flashfire is great for flashing stuff while on lollipop, mods and such.

Sent from my GT-I9505 on carHD ROM
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] enerj:
Would Safestrap 3.72 work? Just curious, not an issue to upgrade but is it necessary?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Can0dope:
I'm just gonna leave this here...

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2616221
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] rickjeffers:
thanks! Yes, all I had to do was set SuperSU default access to "grant"
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] enerj:
Got it running! That was very easy, thanks for the writeup. See you in 6.0 ;)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Homeboy76:
Great job preparing the instructions

Wait a minute, GoldenEye v53 is a "deodexed" ROM.

DeOdexed ROM's "...allows for theming and running tools like Xposed..."

Install Xposed
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] longreach:
Hi sac02

Thanks for the very in depth guide. I want to ask a question that I hope doesn't get me flamed but I haven't found it mentioned explicitly anywhere. With all the firmware/build number info I never see mine included which appears to be NF1. I'm running 4.4.2 which I rooted via towelroot. Soooo do you think I should flash the NB1 rom anyway just to be safe?

I wouldn't even know this was an AT&T phone if not for the locked bootloader and the default AT&T signature on outgoing emails (I bought it off Ebay in Australia, didn't realise it was an import)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] xelerater01:
Good work should always be appreciated! Cheers!