[Q] $100 Reward / Bounty - Boot Loop OC4 to OE1

[raggedrebel92]

The title pretty much says it all.
Don't late night flash.

The Good:
Verizon S5, OC4 flashed to OE1 - Deodexed successfully using FlashFire. FlashFire backup restored successfully.

The Bad:
Tried to Flash a tethering fix using FlashFire / Flash Zip or OTA. Now stuck in boot loop.

What I've Tried:
Wipe Cache, Factory Reset, Wait it out (4 hours).


Reward:
$100USD via PayPal if you can get my s5 booting back to either OC4 or OE1 (preferred) with tethering. Contact via PM please.

 

[Badger50]

If your still on OC4 firmware and kernel, your in good shape. If your on OE1, your hosed. If you know how to use Odin, you'll be fine. You can flash a stock NCG or NI2 Rom, then root it with Towel Root, then load up FlashFire and restore your backup. Hopefully you saved your backups on your external sd card, and have Odin and the proper .tar files on there to get you back up and rolling. It takes a little time, but not too bad

---------- Post added at 06:17 AM ---------- Previous post was at 06:14 AM ----------

This should help you a lot my friend. And if you do get it working. Keep your money. Most of us like helping folks out for fun

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2784880

 

[raggedrebel92]

So I am forever in your debt. I have my phone back running kit-kat. So Ive rooted, and installed FlashFire.....

If I want to get back to where I was...... (oc4) I go to restore and the defaults are listed below. Do I need to add/subtract any checked boxes?

[x] Verify MD5 hashes
[_] Verify Primary Bootloader
[_] Secondary Bootloader
[_] Secondary Bootloader AP
[x] Boot
[x] Recovery
[x] System
[x] Data
[x] Cache
[x] Param
[x] Persist
[x] Persisted Data
[_] EFS
[_] TrustZone
[_] DBI/SDI
[_] Modem Firmware
[_] Firmware
[_] Modem Firmware Data #1
[_] Modem Firmware Data #2
[_] Modem Firmware FSG
[_] Modem Firmware SSD

 

[Badger50]

Glad your up and running. Depending on how you backed it up, full or partial, I would check all the boxes that you can. Won't hurt anything at all

 

[Badger50]

Although, you may need to Odin the OC4 firmware again if your restore doesn't boot up correctly, or your Rom is acting wonky. I always do a full backup with FF. That way my firmware and kernel are still intact.

 

[raggedrebel92]

I did a full backup with FF and TP - Just to make sure. I was able to restore everything and am running back on OC4. I plan on keeping OC4's boot loader when I move to OE1 - In case something like this happens again. I don't see any info about a new tethering patch / app for OE1 - am I missing it?

 

[Thorkle]

I was about to say the same thing as Badger50. Glad to see this community is willing to help out for free even when money is offered .