system software not authorized by samsung message (SOLVED)

Your recovery partition has become corrupted. It's pretty easy to address. You can find Philz recovery in a tar format in the dev threads on here, which you then flash through ODIN, and you'll be able to continue rooting or whatever you were doing in the first place.

Which build were you on? Just download whatever build you were on, put phone in download mode and flash that through Odin...That should get you back to stock.

GS4 Stock Rooted MJA 4.3,Philz Touch CWM,HotSpot Mod,Transparent Weather Widget...

vk4559 said:

I will give that a try and see if that will go thru....i know that when I flash anything it says it pass on Odin and when I reboot it goes back to the screen

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Just remember that if you updated to 4.3 there is no reverting back to anything lower than that.

GS4 Stock Rooted MJA 4.3,Philz Touch CWM,HotSpot Mod,Transparent Weather Widget...

Mk2 is 4.3 Go into settings > about phone/device and check what it is you are currently on.

GS4 Stock Rooted MJA 4.3,Philz Touch CWM,HotSpot Mod,Transparent Weather Widget...

Duh.. What was I thinking...lol The best bet is to go with the MK2 if thats what you strongly believe that you were last on..

GS4 Stock Rooted MJA 4.3,Philz Touch CWM,HotSpot Mod,Transparent Weather Widget...

vk4559 said:

OMG!!!! I got it working Odin back to MK2, now i cant get wifi im stock no root but thank you very much problem solved

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There's a thread that contains all the modems/firmware somewhere in dev. Find the one with the MK2 modem and download it. At least, that's one of the common reasons for WiFi to stop working.

So I had this problem and and the solution ended up being pretty simple. After finding this thread along with other info I just followed the instructions in the OP of this thread. I was on stock 4.4.2, which I acquired via a regular ole OTA, and attempted to downgrade without doing any research (mainly because I had downgraded before with no problem, but it had been a while). So I got the "

System software not authorized by Samsung has been found on your phone.

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" message.

So if you got the "System software..." message, it's probably because before you tried to do whatever it was you did (probably trying to flash to a version below 4.3...maybe it was something else entirely? I don't know you) you had 4.3 MK2 or 4.4 NAE through OTA and, therefore, had the Knox bootloader. The solution for me was to ODIN flash a .tar of the version I was on before I bricked the phone.

Again, here's the link to the thread I followed with stock 4.4.2 NAE. The OP warns that you'll get the Knox bootloader if you flash it, but if you have the "System software" problem, you have already have Knox. It will also wipe all data from your phone.

And the link to the directory mentioned by the above poster.

So I posted this to summarize the solution to this problem...because I over-complicated it and took a while to figure it out. And hopefully to make search results of the problem easier to find.

Summary of the summary: ODIN flash a TAR of the version you had before things went awry; there are basically only two choices: MK2 and NAE. Hope this helps