Failed at Odin

johnny quest · Feb 10, 2014

Hey gang, I'm stuck. I wanted to start my phone up back from stock to sell it to my friend and he wanted it not rooted. So I went to Odin and did all the steps correctly but it keeps failing. Ok last night I was able to use it and I did all the set up and even installed the update on my phone and now its on 4.3 over the air.
I wanted to put the S3Rx rom to show my friend what you can do with the phone but I can't install it because Odin keeps failing. The only thing I've noticed different was that the phone has now this "knox" app. I don't know if samsung made it harder to root your phone or what with this 4.3 upgrade.
Can someone help me solve this? what I want to do is just root my phone again. Any clues?

serio22 · Feb 10, 2014

What are you trying to do in Odin?

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johnny quest · Feb 10, 2014

serio22 said:
What are you trying to do in Odin?

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I'm trying to root my phone with Odin. I've used this method many times and never had these issues

serio22 · Feb 10, 2014

And what method is it? Use cf-auto root

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johnny quest · Feb 10, 2014

serio22 said:
And what method is it? Use cf-auto root

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I don't know what you mean about cf-auto root. I even tried the other method up the installing the twrp.tar file and using Odin trying to flash the Knox removal zip, and nothing seems to work.
I don't understand I used to do this all the time and it never gave me problems. I used to do this to clean out my phone with so much junk that it was chewing up my storage space.

serio22 · Feb 10, 2014

If all you want to do is remove Knox then flash a recovery with Odin, and flash a stock ROM like stockmod 4.3, its also pre-roooted.. You cannot do that with Odin

Edit: also if you ever want to restore to stock or use root66 you need to flash the 4.3 tar versions, nothing below or it will fail everytime.. Things changed with the 4.3 official update

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johnny quest · Feb 10, 2014

serio22 said:
If all you want to do is remove Knox then flash a recovery with Odin, and flash a stock ROM like stockmod 4.3, its also pre-roooted.. You cannot do that with Odin

Edit: also if you ever want to restore to stock or use root66 you need to flash the 4.3 tar versions, nothing below or it will fail everytime.. Things changed with the 4.3 official update

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Thats what I'm trying to do, is to flash a 4.3 rom but I keep getting "Failed" when I try to run a odin, I hit "pda" and pick a stock rom

serio22 · Feb 10, 2014

johnny quest said:
Thats what I'm trying to do, is to flash a 4.3 rom but I keep getting "Failed" when I try to run a odin, I hit "pda" and pick a stock rom

You can't flash ROMs in Odin, only firmware.. If you want to flash a ROM you need to flash it with a custom recovery

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johnny quest · Feb 10, 2014

serio22 said:
You can't flash ROMs in Odin, only firmware.. If you want to flash a ROM you need to flash it with a custom recovery

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oh ok, so do I get the stock firmware and then put that through odin? then after reboot run a recovery to flash a rom. The hard part is trying to find a up to date firmware. I don't know where

serio22 · Feb 10, 2014

The firmware is already installed on your phone, you don't need to flash it again.. now just flash a recovery with Odin and then flash your rom

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johnny quest · Feb 11, 2014

serio22 said:
The firmware is already installed on your phone, you don't need to flash it again.. now just flash a recovery with Odin and then flash your rom

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ok, I give it a shot, thanks again.

I'm using rom manager and I keep getting "an error occurred while flashing your recovery" but then I was looking into TWRP and it says that I must root my phone. I thought I was rooted after using a recovery in Odin

serio22 · Feb 11, 2014

If you already flashed a recovery in Odin then just flash your ROM in recovery.. If you haven't flashed a custom recovery, flash it in Odin, then reboot to recovery and flash your rom

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johnny quest · Feb 11, 2014

serio22 said:
If you already flashed a recovery in Odin then just flash your ROM in recovery.. If you haven't flashed a custom recovery, flash it in Odin, then reboot to recovery and flash your rom

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I'm down loading a custom recovery now, I'll give it a try.

keep trying to upgrade my rom manager app but keep getting that error. but I'm going to try to flash a rom

serio22 · Feb 11, 2014

johnny quest said:
I'm down loading a custom recovery now, I'll give it a try.

keep trying to upgrade my rom manager app but keep getting that error. but I'm going to try to flash a rom

Because you need root to flash a recovery with those apps

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johnny quest · Feb 11, 2014

Ok, I am trying hard to get this and all I'm getting is frustrated with x amount of attempts. This is where I am: I'm on 4.3 Device status: Custom
Build: JSS15J.T999UVUEMJC
with this I can't get to flash a rom. I was trying to flash the S3Rx 3.0 aroma but whenever but it just won't and whenever I try to go to recovery through Rom Manager theres an era.
I guess I'm stuck with this so called stock 4.3 without any special features. I'm going to give it another try with another rom and see.

johnny quest · Feb 11, 2014

serio22 said:
Because you need root to flash a recovery with those apps

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Thats the thing I can't root, I keep getting failed in Odin

serio22 · Feb 11, 2014

What error did you get in twrp?

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johnny quest · Feb 11, 2014

serio22 said:
What error did you get in twrp?

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I've never used TWRP. I don't even know how to get it. If I do go to Rom Manager it says "you must root your phone for Rom Manager to function. Superuser was not found at "/system/bin/su" or "/system/xbin/su".
thats what I get when I go into Rom Manager.

when I pick ClockworkMod Recovery it asks for either 2.x or 3.x+ I pick either one and it says that it has been set up to use your existing recovery installation. then I tap OK and when I get out of app and go back into it, it says there is an update available for CWM I click at it and then it does the installation at 100% then I get "an error occurred while trying to flash your recovery"

So basically I have no recovery that can flash any roms. I really appreciate your help and patience. I'm just going insane here I honestly believe its that upgrade I got OTA to 4.3 because all along before I had 4.1.2 and gave me no problems. I think what it was is that when I used Odin to unroot my phone I did all the installation to get back to stock, then I was wondering about updates so I went to the menu and tapped on the Software upgrade and then it was upgrading (500 and something megabytes) then it reboot and it was 4.3

serio22 · Feb 11, 2014

You need to download the recovery from http://techerrata.com/browse/twrp2/d2tmo and flash it with Odin.. Keep in mind that this will trip the warranty counter just to let you know, and you cannot reset it.. After that you can flash the ROM

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johnny quest · Feb 11, 2014

serio22 said:
You need to download the recovery from http://techerrata.com/browse/twrp2/d2tmo and flash it with Odin.. Keep in mind that this will trip the warranty counter just to let you know, and you cannot reset it.. After that you can flash the ROM

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thank you so much, I don't mind about the trip counter. I give this a go and see, thanks.

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