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oirishman

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I tried to flash a rom onto my Galaxy s4 i9505 5.1 lollipop.International version.and the rom didnt flash.I did all the wipes beforehand using TWRP so i am left with the samsung logo now,but it seems i can boot to the download screen.Is there a way back.
 
I'm not familiar with this device, but can you still get into TWRP? If so, try a different ROM to see if you can get it working again. Of course you really should have used TWRP to make a backup before you tried flashing anything: if you did that you'd be able to just restore the ROM from the backup (first rule of root club: always take a nandroid backup before modifying the system software in any way).

But what bothers me is the fact that you can't get into download mode. Because on any device I am familiar with a ROM flash should not do anything to that. So I'm wondering whether you used a ROM for the wrong model of the S4, or maybe a TWRP that was built for a different model? I'd be tempted to reflash to stock, but I think you need to get to download mode to do that (as I say, not a Samsung expert).

BTW the wipes you do before flashing a ROM (data and cache) won't remove the previous ROM. You do not need to wipe system (the ROM) or boot (kernel) in order to flash a ROM.
 
Hadron said:
I'm not familiar with this device, but can you still get into TWRP? If so, try a different ROM to see if you can get it working again. Of course you really should have used TWRP to make a backup before you tried flashing anything: if you did that you'd be able to just restore the ROM from the backup (first rule of root club: always take a nandroid backup before modifying the system software in any way).

But what bothers me is the fact that you can't get into download mode. Because on any device I am familiar with a ROM flash should not do anything to that. So I'm wondering whether you used a ROM for the wrong model of the S4, or maybe a TWRP that was built for a different model? I'd be tempted to reflash to stock, but I think you need to get to download mode to do that (as I say, not a Samsung expert).

BTW the wipes you do before flashing a ROM (data and cache) won't remove the previous ROM. You do not need to wipe system (the ROM) or boot (kernel) in order to flash a ROM.
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I said I CAN get to download mode
 
Well if you can get to download mode you should be able to reflash the device with stock firmware (e.g. from sammobile.com - you'll need the full model number to get the correct firmware for your device). That will fix pretty much anything.

If you can get into recovery you can try flashing a different ROM (you should be able to ADB sideload it when in TWRP, or else just download one on a computer and copy it to the SD card, either via ADB or using a card reader). If you can't get into TWRP then from download mode you should be able to flash a new recovery.
 
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