Bypass Setup Wizard SGS4

[wtd966]

For those of you who have an error completing the setup wizard, this is how I bypassed it.

1. From the wizard, on the Samsung account screen, select sign up for new Samsung account
2. Select log in with Facebook - which launches a browser
3. On that page click and hold a word to select it
4. Scroll to the right to do a web search
5. Select Chrome
6. Navigate to facebook.com
7. Click the link to download the app which launches the Play Store
8. In Play Store download Nova launcher and then launch
9. From here you can enable developer options and USB debugging
10. Root again and reboot

11.From here, you can use your ADB skills to rename/remove the SetupWizard.apk and SecSetupWizard2013.apk files from /system/app, or as I did, repeat the steps 1-7, install Root Explorer and alter the files that way.

12.Reboot

I hope this helps until we can install a custom recovery and flash ROMs.

Thanks to RandomHandle for helping me repeat the process to verify it worked, as well as clean up the instructions!

 

[aafevo]

I followed all of the steps but for some reason I can't rename or delete the setup files. I re-rooted and even installed root checker to make sure I had root access but it's not letting me touch them.

 

[pakxelaos]

Did you mount as R/W ?
I am able to rename those files with Root Explorer.

 

[aafevo]

Did you mount as R/W ?
I am able to rename those files with Root Explorer.

Ah, yes... That was it. Thank you so much.

 

[RandomHandle]

I am still getting boxes popping up occasionally saying that text-to-speech has stopped. Other than that the phone is working good. Thanks again for finding this clever fix.

 

[ethem11]

For those of you who have an error completing the setup wizard, this is how I bypassed it.

1. From the wizard, on the Samsung account screen, select sign up for new Samsung account
2. Select log in with Facebook - which launches a browser
3. On that page click and hold a word to select it
4. Scroll to the right to do a web search
5. Select Chrome
6. Navigate to facebook.com
7. Click the link to download the app which launches the Play Store
8. In Play Store download Nova launcher and then launch
9. From here you can enable developer options and USB debugging
10. Root again and reboot

11.From here, you can use your ADB skills to rename/remove the SetupWizard.apk and SecSetupWizard2013.apk files, or as I did, repeat the steps 1-7, install Root Explorer and alter the files that way.

12.Reboot

I hope this helps until we can install a custom recovery and flash ROMs.

Thanks to RandomHandle for helping me repeat the process to verify it worked, as well as clean up the instructions!

Thank you very much

 

[gsessons]

Thank you very much

For those of you who have an error completing the setup wizard, this is how I bypassed it.

1. From the wizard, on the Samsung account screen, select sign up for new Samsung account
2. Select log in with Facebook - which launches a browser
3. On that page click and hold a word to select it
4. Scroll to the right to do a web search
5. Select Chrome
6. Navigate to facebook.com
7. Click the link to download the app which launches the Play Store
8. In Play Store download Nova launcher and then launch
9. From here you can enable developer options and USB debugging
10. Root again and reboot

11.From here, you can use your ADB skills to rename/remove the SetupWizard.apk and SecSetupWizard2013.apk files, or as I did, repeat the steps 1-7, install Root Explorer and alter the files that way.

12.Reboot

I hope this helps until we can install a custom recovery and flash ROMs.

Thanks to RandomHandle for helping me repeat the process to verify it worked, as well as clean up the instructions!

I don't have the Samsung account screen. I had uninstall alot of Samsung stuff with Titanium, so I don't know if that is the reason. I did do a factory reset from the recovery screen but I still don't see where it says sign up for Samsung on setup...

 

[wtd966]

I don't have the Samsung account screen. I had uninstall alot of Samsung stuff with Titanium, so I don't know if that is the reason. I did do a factory reset from the recovery screen but I still don't see where it says sign up for Samsung on setup...

When you do the factory reset, do you get the setup wizard on the first boot? The Samsung account login is a few pages in after the personal information.

 

[gsessons]

When you do the factory reset, do you get the setup wizard on the first boot? The Samsung account login is a few pages in after the personal information.

When I get home I will tell you everything I see on phone.... Off top of head... Yes I do get the setup wizard but I do not see where it say Samsung account.

EDIT******** this is what im getting....no samsung sign up

 

[RandomHandle]

Yeah unfortunately that is the only way to get into the browser to be able to get out of the wizard. Looks like you need to wait for the official firmware release.

 

[huang1231991]

hey

i dont see SetupWizard.apk in my phone where i can find it and remove that damn thing!

 

[wtd966]

i dont see SetupWizard.apk in my phone where i can find it and remove that damn thing!

/system/app