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Help me fix my Droid Charge please!

Okay, I am not a total noob but I'm not a developer either so I only ~kind~ of know what I'm doing.
I bought a rooted gingerbread droid charge. I tried to un-root it so that I may activate it on my verizon line - to do this I used Odin to put a rooted ED1 rom on the phone. I then used an OTA update which was "supposed" to unroot it but it did not. I only updated it once, not twice, so it was only running froyo.
I then brought the phone to Verizon hoping that they would be able to activate the phone. The first thing that they did was switch the 4G Sim card with a new one and tried to activate it. After multiple failed attempts, they did a hard reset on the phone and tried to activate it again. The verizon guy said that the phone was able to use voice commands to search the internet, but that was all. He said that technically the phone was "all-set-up" and that the problem was was that the phone was not able to activate because it had a hacked kernel. He then told me that in order to fix this problem I would have to find a stock kernel and install it onto my phone.
I then went home and used tried to use Odin with several roms. The last one I tried was this one:
chargeforums.com/forum/droid-charge-development/1575-odin-rom-ep4d-factory-full-factory-restore-2-3-6-radio-unrooted-12-7-11-a.html
However, regardless of the rom I try to use, Odin fails at this line:
ID:0/006 Complete (write) operation failed
If I try to put my phone into recovery mode now, I get a picture of a phone with an arrow pointing to a computer.
Please help me!!!

af.austin.french said:
Okay, I am not a total noob but I'm not a developer either so I only ~kind~ of know what I'm doing.
I bought a rooted gingerbread droid charge. I tried to un-root it so that I may activate it on my verizon line - to do this I used Odin to put a rooted ED1 rom on the phone. I then used an OTA update which was "supposed" to unroot it but it did not. I only updated it once, not twice, so it was only running froyo.
I then brought the phone to Verizon hoping that they would be able to activate the phone. The first thing that they did was switch the 4G Sim card with a new one and tried to activate it. After multiple failed attempts, they did a hard reset on the phone and tried to activate it again. The verizon guy said that the phone was able to use voice commands to search the internet, but that was all. He said that technically the phone was "all-set-up" and that the problem was was that the phone was not able to activate because it had a hacked kernel. He then told me that in order to fix this problem I would have to find a stock kernel and install it onto my phone.
I then went home and used tried to use Odin with several roms. The last one I tried was this one:
chargeforums.com/forum/droid-charge-development/1575-odin-rom-ep4d-factory-full-factory-restore-2-3-6-radio-unrooted-12-7-11-a.html
However, regardless of the rom I try to use, Odin fails at this line:
ID:0/006 Complete (write) operation failed
If I try to put my phone into recovery mode now, I get a picture of a phone with an arrow pointing to a computer.
Please help me!!!
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Did you odin the pit file along with froyo rom?
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No, and I don't know how I would do that either...

Go to the Development forum and follow the "How to fix your phone" guide that is stickied. I would recommend using the EP4D Odin package to get to the latest software. The PIT file used is the same for all builds, and when flashing with Odin, leave the battery in the phone.

Thanks! I ~think~ that it worked. One question though, I wasn't able to find out if my my phone is now rooted or not (after using the EP4D Package)...

af.austin.french said:
Thanks! I ~think~ that it worked. One question though, I wasn't able to find out if my my phone is now rooted or not (after using the EP4D Package)...
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if your rooted try and app that needs root
depending on which rom you installed or if you ended up ota to gingerbread..
Ota - odin cwr, flash new kernel using cwr
Rooted rom - do you have superuser app, if yes open it up.. If no dl it from market. See if you have root.
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Every time I brick my droid going from rom to rom. I use the all_in_one_ep4d odin package. Even if your reverting completely back to stock your gonna have to upgrade your stock recovery anyway (thanks imnuts). I suggest you that use package if you didn't already.

Phone did not upgrade to ICS properly

First of all I apologize if this has been brought up before in other posts. I am in a mixture of frustration and panic right now because I tried upgrading to ICS on my Rogers SGS2 LTE, and it failed.
Using Kies, I followed the prompts, and for whatever reason it didn't finish. Now when I boot up the phone, it keeps telling me to use the recovery mode option in Kies. However, if I do try to use recovery mode, it always times out and tells me I may need to contact a Samsung service center. The computer has no problem communicating with the phone, AFAIK.
Basically, I'm here to ask what options I have. Currently, i'm trying to do this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1342348 , but because the stock TAR is taking a long time to download, I'm asking if I have any other options. I would like to keep the data on my phone, but if I have to wipe it to return it to normal I'm willing to do that.
Please help.

Reboot and try again
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Are you rooted? Are you running the stock recovery that came on the phone? If your rooted and have apps that are froze or your running a modded recovery like cwm you must flash back to stock or kies will not ever work
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I've tried rebooting the computer I was using, and I've also tried another computer with no luck. I got the latest Kies on the other computer, connected the phone with no problem, and tried recovery mode on THAT 2nd computer, but it didn't work because it didn't recognize my recovery code that the first computer gave me.

garydv2002 said:
Are you rooted? Are you running the stock recovery that came on the phone? If your rooted and have apps that are froze or your running a modded recovery like cwm you must flash back to stock or kies will not ever work
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I *think* I was rooted. I remember doing something a long time ago involving odin. I never installed Cyanogenmod or any other 3rd party roms.
I had Superuser under my apps, if that helps.
I wish I could reply sooner but this board is making me wait 5 mins between posts. Sorry. It's like I'm in the emergency room with a gunshot wound and I'm waiting for the doctor to finish his smoke break, then his coffee break, then washroom break, jesus
by CWM, I think you're asking about Clockwordmod? If so, yes, I had that on my phone. Does this mean I can't use the steps in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1342348 to fix my phone now? Or can I still proceed.

If you have superuser then most likely you are rooted and since you have clockworkmod especially then kies is not gonna update your phone. Your on Rodgers so you need to find the stock firmware and flash it. I'm on att or I could link you to one that would work. I got my stock firmware from Samsung website. Try going to sammobile and see if you can find the stock firmware for your phone. I'm sure since its Samsung they should have Rodgers firmware to. Download the stock firmware and flash it in Odin onto to your phone and then kies should work. If you can't find the stock firmware at sammobile then look for the stock firmware here on xda I'm sure someone on Rodgers has it....
Edit. The link up there to Odin back to stock should work. Just download the file and follow the steps in order and don't leave one out. There are no shortcuts when it comes to flashing a phone or it could be rendered useless for anything more than a paperweight. Konane is real good and would not lead anyone wrong....
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Just flashed it via Kies, had to use ODIN by flashing stock, Odin wouldn't work till I rebooted my computer, then once Kies updated, I had had a error ( com.Android.phone stopped) but I cleared data and cache in 3e, then everything worked.
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I just wanted to post a follow-up. I followed the steps from this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1342348 and it fixed me phone. Best of all, I didn't lose anything.
I would still like to get ICS on my phone. I noticed on Sammobile's site that there is a firmware for 4.04 that was released recently. Would I somehow be able to use that, combined with Odin, to get ICS on my phone? In other words, follow all the steps in the aforementioned thread, except, use this newer firmware file? Sorry I realize this may sound like a dumb noob question, but I want to make sure I do things right.
Thanks for all the help btw.

bobbastard said:
I just wanted to post a follow-up. I followed the steps from this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1342348 and it fixed me phone. Best of all, I didn't lose anything.
I would still like to get ICS on my phone. I noticed on Sammobile's site that there is a firmware for 4.04 that was released recently. Would I somehow be able to use that, combined with Odin, to get ICS on my phone? In other words, follow all the steps in the aforementioned thread, except, use this newer firmware file? Sorry I realize this may sound like a dumb noob question, but I want to make sure I do things right.
Thanks for all the help btw.
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If you're back to stock and on Rogers, you should be able to update using Kies.

The thing is, when Odin fixed my phone, it didn't remove Superuser, so doesn't that mean my phone isn't stock anymore? I was expecting Odin to basically reset my phone back to factory settings, but it seems to have just reverted it back to before I tried updating to ICS with kies.

bobbastard said:
The thing is, when Odin fixed my phone, it didn't remove Superuser, so doesn't that mean my phone isn't stock anymore? I was expecting Odin to basically reset my phone back to factory settings, but it seems to have just reverted it back to before I tried updating to ICS with kies.
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If you go into 3e or cwm if you still have it, you should be able to clear cache and data, so after that Kies should recognize it and start the download
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denenatse said:
If you go into 3e or cwm if you still have it, you should be able to clear cache and data, so after that Kies should recognize it and start the download
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I haven't used the stock 3e that much always just flash cwm but I would suggest that you do a factory data reset to from the recovery if 3e gives that option I've never used it so I'm not sure. But if you are still on cwm recovery kies will not ever update your phone until you put everything back stock. You must have just flashed the kernel only. Flashing just the kernel does not wipe anything you need to flash the stock firmware from sammobile in Odin and that will do a full wipe and restore everything to stock
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Sorry but what is 3e? The only place i see cwm mentioned is under the rom manager app, but when i launch it rom manager says i don't have a rooted device and super user can't be found. Weird thing is i see super user as an app on my phone.

bobbastard said:
Sorry but what is 3e? The only place i see cwm mentioned is under the rom manager app, but when i launch it rom manager says i don't have a rooted device and super user can't be found. Weird thing is i see super user as an app on my phone.
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Turn the phone off. Hold both volume up and volume down and hold the power button do not release the volume buttons yet. Pressing all 3 buttons when you first see the screen come on mine shows an att logo then release the power button only. The phone will then boot into either 3e stock recovery or cwm recovery
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OK, I did what you said, and I see 3e and the option to wipe data/factory reset. So you're recommending I do this BEFORE i try to use Odin and the latest firmware for Sammobile?
Just out of curiosity, if I didn't do a reset before flashing using Odin, what would happen?

bobbastard said:
OK, I did what you said, and I see 3e and the option to wipe data/factory reset. So you're recommending I do this BEFORE i try to use Odin and the latest firmware for Sammobile?
Just out of curiosity, if I didn't do a reset before flashing using Odin, what would happen?
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Yes. And if you don't it might not wipe everything. I suggest you do it before you flash it and again after...
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read this to return to stock http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1652398
this post is just a copy paste from another post i wrote to a n00b
read, read more, read the stickies, i read alot b4 i even attempted to flash, at least a few hundred posts and using the search button.
all problems and solutions have been posted, as u r a n00b all u have todo is invest time into reading alot of posts, because of ur post we all know u havent even bothered to read the stickies, espicially read the one w/n00b's in the title, thats y they r there. .
once u know what ur r doing and r stumped at a certain problem, believe me we can tell by how u post a question, post in the q&a forum

[Q] problem usind odin

long story short i had a rooted from ics verizon s3 that had the cracked glass then phone was dropped and digitizer went out so instead of sending it to sammy to get fixed i had an updrage on my acct so i opted to get another s3 and this one already had jb installed, so i found a guide on this forum by usin odin, the first mistake i made was flashing the "vralec" bootchain under the bootchain tab above the pda tab, then went about flashing clockworkmod using the pda tab and now i cant get into recovery mode, when i try i get a samsung custom message and a picture of a unlocked pad lock, and everytime i boot the phone up i get the same message the boots reguarly. someone please help i wanna get all this bloatware gone and start flashing roms.
thanks in advance
Bill

silveradodmax said:
long story short i had a rooted from ics verizon s3 that had the cracked glass then phone was dropped and digitizer went out so instead of sending it to sammy to get fixed i had an updrage on my acct so i opted to get another s3 and this one already had jb installed, so i found a guide on this forum by usin odin, the first mistake i made was flashing the "vralec" bootchain under the bootchain tab above the pda tab, then went about flashing clockworkmod using the pda tab and now i cant get into recovery mode, when i try i get a samsung custom message and a picture of a unlocked pad lock, and everytime i boot the phone up i get the same message the boots reguarly. someone please help i wanna get all this bloatware gone and start flashing roms.
thanks in advance
Bill
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Can you get back into odin/download mode? If you can then redo the guide to root/unlock/custom recovery via odin. Make sure to follow the steps exactly and only use pda. I assume you are using this guide HERE to root and unlock JellyBean.

dark_system said:
Can you get back into odin/download mode? If you can then redo the guide to root/unlock/custom recovery via odin. Make sure to follow the steps exactly and only use pda. I assume you are using this guide HERE to root and unlock JellyBean.
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thanks i got it figured out, i used this link https://www.google.com/url?q=http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php%3Ft%3D1853159&sa=U&ei=9MYkUfO0I6mN0QGdvIGIDw&ved=0CAcQFjAA&client=internal-uds-cse&usg=AFQjCNFbbP3bzyuz9d-Tjqy1ooqFS6br2A for rebooting into recovery from ADB

Kies just saved my phone

Here's the story:
I got excited about the bootloader vulnerability (Loki) being released, and I saw that a few devs had updated their ROMs to work with Loki so I decided to give it a shot.
The easiest, fail-free way of installing a recovery was to install TWRP through goomanager. I had only ever used CWM, but I figured it couldn't be that difficult to learn/use. And it wasn't, I'm just dumb. I went to wipe my S4 and I misunderstood what I was supposed to do and ended up formatting the phone instead. On CWM, this is normal and basically just means factory restore, but on TWRP this wipes everything, including the OS. This might not have been as big of a problem if that wipe hadn't just erased the ROM I was intending to install.
Long story short, with no OS on the phone, I was stuck on the Samsung boot screen and I could not even get into recovery. I tried ODIN restoring the stock firmware twice, but despite the fact that ODIN said "SUCCESS", my phone was in the same state. After panicking for a couple of hours :crying: and trying different things (including just leaving the phone alone for a while in hopes that I would come back and it would be magically fixed) I downloaded Kies. I figured, Kies comes directly from Samsung. If there's a way to fix my phone, this has to be it.
I did the emergency firmware recovery, and it took forever and when it was done it looked like I was going to end up right where I started, when after about a minute of the Samsung boot screen, I saw the heavenly blue-purple swish of the boot animation. :victory:
tl;dr: I thought I bricked my phone. I brought it back to life with Kies.
That's my story. Hopefully it'll help someone who is panicking that they just borked their new phone and helps them restore it.

I'm sad to say that I also wiped a phone with TWRP. It wasn't an S4 and I didn't need Kies.
I had no idea that it would delete the OS - I don't think there was even a warning.

What ROM were you going to use that supported Loki?? I can't seem to find one anywhere...
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drucquerkellan said:
What ROM were you going to use that supported Loki?? I can't seem to find one anywhere...
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Okay, I hope it goes without saying that what you do with this is your responsibility. That being said, I was going to try:
[ROM][BETA][4.2.2][May 23] Slim Bean jflteatt [build 5.6] - LOKI patched
and here are a few more:
[ROM] Task650 AOKP(Jellybean 4.2.2)(5.23.2013)(LOKI-d) (AT&T)
[KERNEL][ATT][AOSP/TW][5/23/2013] KT-SGS4 - MDL - LOKI'd - KTweaker
CyanogenMod 10.1 Loki'd for the Galaxy S4 ATT

okzygen said:
Okay, I hope it goes without saying that what you do with this is your responsibility. That being said, I was going to try:
[ROM][BETA][4.2.2][May 23] Slim Bean jflteatt [build 5.6] - LOKI patched
and here are a few more:
[ROM] Task650 AOKP(Jellybean 4.2.2)(5.23.2013)(LOKI-d) (AT&T)
[KERNEL][ATT][AOSP/TW][5/23/2013] KT-SGS4 - MDL - LOKI'd - KTweaker
CyanogenMod 10.1 Loki'd for the Galaxy S4 ATT
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OK thanks I'll try them in a little bit and report back here how it goes!
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You can still mount to USB through recovery and transfer a ROM zip over and then flash it.
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okzygen said:
Here's the story:
I got excited about the bootloader vulnerability (Loki) being released, and I saw that a few devs had updated their ROMs to work with Loki so I decided to give it a shot.
The easiest, fail-free way of installing a recovery was to install TWRP through goomanager. I had only ever used CWM, but I figured it couldn't be that difficult to learn/use. And it wasn't, I'm just dumb. I went to wipe my S4 and I misunderstood what I was supposed to do and ended up formatting the phone instead. On CWM, this is normal and basically just means factory restore, but on TWRP this wipes everything, including the OS. This might not have been as big of a problem if that wipe hadn't just erased the ROM I was intending to install.
Long story short, with no OS on the phone, I was stuck on the Samsung boot screen and I could not even get into recovery. I tried ODIN restoring the stock firmware twice, but despite the fact that ODIN said "SUCCESS", my phone was in the same state. After panicking for a couple of hours :crying: and trying different things (including just leaving the phone alone for a while in hopes that I would come back and it would be magically fixed) I downloaded Kies. I figured, Kies comes directly from Samsung. If there's a way to fix my phone, this has to be it.
I did the emergency firmware recovery, and it took forever and when it was done it looked like I was going to end up right where I started, when after about a minute of the Samsung boot screen, I saw the heavenly blue-purple swish of the boot animation. :victory:
tl;dr: I thought I bricked my phone. I brought it back to life with Kies.
That's my story. Hopefully it'll help someone who is panicking that they just borked their new phone and helps them restore it.
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all you have to do is boot to recovery, and push a rom through adb to your phone. I've done this dozens of times accidentally and the easiest way to avoid it is to keep a backup rom on your sd at all times

mcmb03 said:
all you have to do is boot to recovery, and push a rom through adb to your phone. I've done this dozens of times accidentally and the easiest way to avoid it is to keep a backup rom on your sd at all times
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or....takeout the sdcard...put the rom on it and flash....
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niceppl said:
or....takeout the sdcard...put the rom on it and flash....
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yeah, either way kies was probably at the bottom of the list for solutions since you were trying to put a different rom on your phone anyways

niceppl said:
or....takeout the sdcard...put the rom on it and flash....
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Or the easiest of the options that I already mentioned 4 posts up... Don't even need to bother with adb or taking off your back cover. Plug in, mount, click-and-drag file transfer, unmount, flash, done.
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I'm just glad you got it taken care of OP. Hopefully this thread will help others who may have a mishap while flashing ROMs.

To all of those talking about recovery... maybe I wasn't clear. It's not that I couldn't get into TWRP. I couldn't get into recovery mode at all. I could get into download mode, which is why I went the ODIN route. Whenever I would try to boot into recovery, it would show the little blue text on the top right of the screen, and the proceed to throw me right back to the booth screen.

This is incredible. Incredible how badly you almost screwed yourself over with, and incredible that Kies was actually helpful.
I installed Kies to backup contacts, once. After that? Thing crashes on updates, takes 30 minutes to load, hated any music I threw at it, didnt like my wireless transfer setting....
idk I had a pretty bad experience with Kies, i'm glad to hear that program isnt all useless.

okzygen said:
To all of those talking about recovery... maybe I wasn't clear. It's not that I couldn't get into TWRP. I couldn't get into recovery mode at all. I could get into download mode, which is why I went the ODIN route. Whenever I would try to boot into recovery, it would show the little blue text on the top right of the screen, and the proceed to throw me right back to the booth screen.
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Yea that part doesn't make sense though. Many times I've seen people try to boot out of recovery with no system and always be able to get right back into recovery. Not that I don't believe you, just saying it's weird. Which leads me to the guy above... he didn't really screw himself that bad, no danger of bricking at all, just needed a reflash.
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Just FYI on Kies
Am not sure on windows pc, but on my imac adb does not work with Kies. Had to use the Kies uninstaller to get if off imac then use adb. Maybe this isn't an issue on all phones?
Just got s4, and coming from HTC One S. So, if this is old news, sorry--

okzygen said:
To all of those talking about recovery... maybe I wasn't clear. It's not that I couldn't get into TWRP. I couldn't get into recovery mode at all. I could get into download mode, which is why I went the ODIN route. Whenever I would try to boot into recovery, it would show the little blue text on the top right of the screen, and the proceed to throw me right back to the booth screen.
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I'm pretty sure you have to wipe cache once you do odin in order to boot back in OS or else you'll just get stuck at logo

polish_pat said:
I'm pretty sure you have to wipe cache once you do odin in order to boot back in OS or else you'll just get stuck at logo
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I'm curious, is there a way to do this in download mode (via Odin or otherwise)? As far as I know, I can only do that through recovery. Do I have to adb and wipe /cache?
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okzygen said:
I'm curious, is there a way to do this in download mode (via Odin or otherwise)? As far as I know, I can only do that through recovery. Do I have to adb and wipe /cache?
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i do it thru recovery, thats always how it worked for me. You cant do it thru adb since you need root to do that and odin wipes root

okzygen said:
Okay, I hope it goes without saying that what you do with this is your responsibility. That being said, I was going to try:
[ROM][BETA][4.2.2][May 23] Slim Bean jflteatt [build 5.6] - LOKI patched
and here are a few more:
[ROM] Task650 AOKP(Jellybean 4.2.2)(5.23.2013)(LOKI-d) (AT&T)
[KERNEL][ATT][AOSP/TW][5/23/2013] KT-SGS4 - MDL - LOKI'd - KTweaker
CyanogenMod 10.1 Loki'd for the Galaxy S4 ATT
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OK I installed the AOKP one and it works like a charm. Only thing is NFC doesn't work so once that works it will be pretty Much perfect
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jasbur17 said:
I'm sad to say that I also wiped a phone with TWRP. It wasn't an S4 and I didn't need Kies.
I had no idea that it would delete the OS - I don't think there was even a warning.
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Yeah me too, was and still am not happy about it. Should gave stuck to CWM. TWRP is a cool recovery, as long as you realize what you hit.
Glad Kies worked! Now that I have an Att phone I can utilize it again. Wouldn't recognize my International SGS3, so Kies was useless.
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Took Update. Can't get into Recovery.

Hey All.
I tried to DL the new verizon update today for my S3 and it didn't work. Now I can't even start my phone, i get an error "System software not authorized by VZW has been found on your phone. Please turn off your phone and go to the nearest VZW store for help."
This happened to me the last time there was an update because i was rooted at the time, but i never rooted again after that. Any ideas on how to get my phone back on?

You will most likily need to use Odin and restore a stock image. I'll PM you a link to the stock image of 4.1.2. It's on my personal website .

Just flash cmr in odin..I had to do it as well
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I appreciate the input! I did end up rooting again and flashing cmw and everything worked out.