[SOLVED]borked my device with twrp

[androidfan34]

SOLUTION: see answer #2


hi,


i was trying to change CWM recovery with TWRP, but now im stuck in a screen that starts with 2 red lines reading:
could not do normal boot
ODIN MODE

in the background is the green fat android that looks lie R2D2 with arms.
below that it reads:
Downloading....
Do not turn off target !!!


now, its been 15 minutes and of course i turned it off. but it reboots into the same screen.

what i did to get here:
i was happily running cm 12.1, used adb shell to connect to the phone and did run:

dd if=/sdcard/twrp.img of=dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/recovery

dd: /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/recovery: No space left on device
20481+0 records in
20480+0 records out
10485760 bytes transferred in 1.435 secs (7307149 bytes/sec)

i was uder the inpression that this:
https://twrp.me/devices/samsunggalaxys4mini64bit.html

was my device, but apparently it isnt.


now after that first dd failed, i panicked a bit and googled further and found this:
https://s.basketbuild.com/devs/F4k/twrp/serranoltexx

seranolltexx sounded familiar so i dd'ed that to the device, no errors this time.
but now im stuck in this state.

how can i make my device useable again?

 

[Patris_1]

Your device seems stuck in download mode. Try to flash the right recovery through Odin. There are several s4 mini models, so find out which one you have in order to choose the right recovery.
Also, this belongs in Galaxy S 4 Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

 

[androidfan34]

well, after a lot of bad advice from #cyanogenmod
i downloaded the original android firmware...what a annoying waste of time. 1gb with 50kbyte/s.

the poster before me is right.

start odin 3.0.9 on windows
press "AP" select the file: recovery-clockwork-6.0.5.1-seranoltexx.tar.md5
flash
turn device off

start device with: volume up, home, power
and voila, youre in cwm again

came into this trouble by flashing the wrong TWRP. is there a TWRP for the i19195?


download link for CWM(first post, attachements):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2364980

 

[IronRoo]

well, after a lot of bad advice from #cyanogenmod
i downloaded the original android firmware...what a annoying waste of time. 1gb with 50kbyte/s.

the poster before me is right.

start odin 3.0.9 on windows
press "AP" select the file: recovery-clockwork-6.0.5.1-seranoltexx.tar.md5
flash
turn device off

start device with: volume up, home, power
and voila, youre in cwm again

came into this trouble by flashing the wrong TWRP. is there a TWRP for the i19195?


download link for CWM(first post, attachements):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2364980

well, after a lot of bad advice from #cyanogenmod
i downloaded the original android firmware...what a annoying waste of time. 1gb with 50kbyte/s.

the poster before me is right.

start odin 3.0.9 on windows
press "AP" select the file: recovery-clockwork-6.0.5.1-seranoltexx.tar.md5
flash
turn device off

start device with: volume up, home, power
and voila, youre in cwm again

came into this trouble by flashing the wrong TWRP. is there a TWRP for the i19195?


download link for CWM(first post, attachements):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2364980

seranoltexx model number is i9195 (normally written in caps as I9195), but you must make 100% certain what phone you have. Some model numbers are very similar e.g. i9195l (see http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_s4_mini_i9195i-7468.php) but you cannot run software for i9195 on an i9195i as the last letter indicates a hardware difference. Also there are a lot of carrier specific phones so you can't run standard software with this (in most cases, I believe ...... I've never had a carrier version). You need to pop the battery out and find out exactly what your model number is if you can't do it via software.

There is a TWRP version for the i9195, if that is your phone
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2449107

 

[androidfan34]

seranoltexx model number is i9195 (normally written in caps as I9195), but you must make 100% certain what phone you have. Some model numbers are very similar e.g. i9195l (see http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_s4_mini_i9195i-7468.php) but you cannot run software for i9195 on an i9195i as the last letter indicates a hardware difference. Also there are a lot of carrier specific phones so you can't run standard software with this (in most cases, I believe ...... I've never had a carrier version). You need to pop the battery out and find out exactly what your model number is if you can't do it via software.

There is a TWRP version for the i9195, if that is your phone
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2449107

yes thats the one.
but its from 2013....isn that a bit old?

 

[IronRoo]

yes thats the one.
but its from 2013....isn that a bit old?

mmmmm yes does look a bit old, I use CWM, so am not up to date on TWRP, I was just saying there is a version of TWRP for our phone, I guess you searched with the wrong phone model number which is why you didn't find anything.

A quick search shows there is a recent one
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2678420&page=88
but it's an unofficial version, you may find something else searching again or a TWRP user will point you in the right direction