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Using the TWRP Manager app, which did require rooting. And, uh, sorry to keep bugging you. There is no i9505 on the TWRP site. Just i9500 and i9506. edit: Ah, I assume you meant the TWRP file for the jfltexx?

Okay, then. A final question then. The phone is already as if I just bought it. All my data was lost. So can I use Odin to install a new OS first, and then install TWRP? Because trying to install TWRP first is what started my troubles.

Okay, twrp's site has a version specifically for the jfltecan, which everywhere I've looked up says is the phone I have, the i337m. Why do you recommend the one for the i9505?

Okay, took me a bit to go out to the Samsung store to get the cheapest cable they had. But I'll be damned if it didn't work. Okay, so now that the phone is back to normal, does that mean I can do the same thing in Odin to get the OS I actually want to get loaded?

No, no error of any kind. Just that it sets up the transfer, then that's it. I left the phone for hours and the progress bar didn't budge. Also, no, I don't have that original cable anymore.

Managed to get the phone rooted, but then the System UI wouldn't load after a couple restarts. Used the phone's recovery to reload the OS, but after one restart, the phone got locked in a bootloop. So I tried to go back to stock first with Kies, but my USB cable popped off which softbricked the...

sgh-i337m with stock 5.0.1 /was/ rooted with Odin3 but when I tried to do the nandroid backup with TWRP, I ended up corrupting System UI and was forced to do a factory recovery. So now that my phone is a blank slate again, how do I properly root it to get the ROM to flash?