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Help non techy girl needs help :(

this is the file it gave me : ss.dl.dll


oh wait, i think its ok, i opened the contsining folder and found the actual zipped file. lol
 
dynomot said:
No tar.md5 file in the .zip you downloaded ? The ss.dl.dll file is also in the .zip but I have never seen it used for anything at all.
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EDIT

Downloading your firmware now I'll stick the tar.md5 file you need in my dropbox and PM you a Link.
 
flashing now :)

and thanks :) im actualy just flying by the seat of my pants lol. this oden seems to be alot better then the root i used before though.
 
When rooting with Odin and the CF rooting file, which by now you'll have done; I hope, watch, but don't touch, the phone. It gives a picture of a "pirate Android" in red, briefly installs a custom rooting recovery, roots, restores the stock recovery and then reboots in the space of about 15 seconds.
 
phone is rooted im pretty sure :)says pass!
ok so now what do i need to do? its telling me to update the supersu.. what do i do from there?

is there certain apps i need to have on my phone? sorry for all the questions lol is there anything really important i need to know about having this rooted phone and what i can do with it?

i have to go out for dunner with the fam, ill be back in a bit, and thank you so much, im so happy i came across this forum and met a great guy like you ! ill be back soon!
 
Excellent and well done mariag461 !:party:

Yes update SuperSu (it probably say something about binaries), it always does this after first rooting.



Now it's done and working. Look in your App drawer and you'll see the new app called SuperSU. This grants applications that require root permission to gain root access. To confirm you have root (you have, but to see for yourself) go to the play store and download Root Checker :

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.joeykrim.rootcheck

This will give you a demonstration of SuperSU and show you you have root when you run it.

Now you have root, you can do all sorts with your phone, including kill it totally (you won't).

You'll need one or two things to make root access easy to use. I'll give a quick run down and when your ready read ironass' "rooting for Dummies" guide. Found at the top of the rooting forum for the international Galaxy S4.:

http://androidforums.com/internatio...t/732797-rooting-galaxy-s4-dummies-guide.html

You will probably know there are 29 different variants of a Samsung Galaxy S4 and now your rooted it important you know yours, if you have a rooting question, by all means ask me by PM or visitor message, or post in the general S4 forum, but I may not know the specific answer for your phone. Yours is as you have learnt is a SGH-I337M mine, when I had one (I have a Note 3 now) was an international Samsung galaxy S4, a GT-I9505. Both look identical and act the same way, but are not hardware or software wise. Flashing a mod, ROM or basically anything meant for one on to the other will at best cause major problems and at worst kill it ("Brick" it ie turn it into an irretrievable shiny brick).

However general rooting things apply to all newly rooted phones and people new to the world of rooting.

The first thing to install what is known as a "custom recovery" this is a piece of software you access from your phone via recovery mode from a turned off phone (Volume up, Home key then power, holding all three until it boots). A custom recovery lets you do a "Nandroid" a complete snapshot of your phone as it is at that point you can restore if you ever get into trouble with a mod or other tweak. It lets you flash .zip files that are what most mods and tweaks come as, also know as a "flashable .zip". They can and do all sorts of different things. Always make a Nandroid before you do any mod, save your latest one on your PC and never delete one from your phone before making another. You use Odin, exactly the same was as you did to root to install a custom recovery.

Titanium Backup (referred to as TB) is an ordinary app from the play store that requires root access to work. It can save all your applications and data for them on your phone as a backup, freeze and hide system apps you don't use and even uninstall system apps (although that can be dangerous). It has a myriad of features and has quite a steep learning curve but is very handy if you start flashing different custom ROMS (firmwares, like your stock firmware but heavily modded and even ported from other phones) as you can restore all your apps and their settings and data very quickly.

BusyBox. Install it from play store and forget about it. It is a library of commands not normally available in Android that gives very powerful tools to interact with the linux base kernel of your phone. Haven't a clue what I'm on about, don't worry, you don't need to. It just lets mods do some very esoteric things that can enhance your phone.

Xposed Installer and WannamXposed. Xposed installer is a framework for installable (rather than .zip flashable) mods. It has a repository of hundreds and hundreds of mods that you download, install and activate in it. Dead easy to use and some mods do some pretty impressive things. WannamXposed is a module for Xposed Installer that has an easy to navigate and understand UI of thousands (literally) tweaks to your phone, circle batteries meters, alter colours of text, background etc.

There's a quick taster of what you should be looking at. If you get bitten by the bug (you will, rooting was fun and it's only just begun) you will have in no time a phone that looks like non other SGS4 to use. It will be exactly how you want it to be and be unique.
 
jj14x said:
I haven't used Kies, but does it really take the crown of "worse piece of phone related PC software ever" from iTunes? I had to use iTunes once (albeit a couple of years ago) - brought my computer to its knees (and me to my knees hoping to be delivered from that evil POS)
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No, iTunes really does wear that crown. When I used it for my daughters ipod on version 10 of it, it was awful. It, too, brought my laptop to it's knees, froze, would not respond, hung for hours and was totally unusable. I had to reinstall it when she had a problem with her ipod (she forgot her pin lock ) only the other week, and to be fair it was much improved, but still pretty slow and cumbersome to use. I have a Mac owning friend and on that it is slick and "just works" (as S. Jobs always said).

I have, unistalled as an .exe in a folder on my PC something from circa 2008 that is even worse though : "Ovi Suite" for old Nokia (Symbian) phones was a law unto itself. It would connect, disconnect, freeze the phone, kill the phone (yep brick it, fortunately not irretrievably) and just crash and close when it was sat there doing nothing. Nokia made some damn fine products, but couldn't write PC software to save it's life, Ironic (and sad), that Nokia only exists as Microsoft now really.
 
OMG! I actually remember that OVI suite!!! I had to get a Nokia 5800 for a friend and needed to update the maps software on it. Unbelievably painful to just get the suite installed in the first place (forget about updating the maps onto the phone - ugh) LOL! I had almost forgotten about it after using iTunes that one time ;)

On a different note, thank you for your patience in helping out mariag461 with this! To the point, and precise directions :)
 
jj14x, your absolutly right! thank you Dynomot for being so patient with me!


ok, so supersu has been updated and im rebooting the phone now. so i need a custom recovery? this is the part that stumped me when i rooted my phone last time.. lol
 
mariag461 said:
jj14x, your absolutly right! thank you Dynomot for being so patient with me!


ok, so supersu has been updated and im rebooting the phone now. so i need a custom recovery? this is the part that stumped me when i rooted my phone last time.. lol
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Right, a custom recovery. Normally I would recommend a CWM (Clock Work Mod) based recovery, but I am reliably informed that it is no longer being supported and at the moment I'm having major headaches with it myself. So your alternative is TWRP (Team Win Recovery Project) recovery. You use Odin on your PC to flash a .tar file exactly the same as rooting it. My experience of TWRP recoveries is 0, I really don't like their layout and have always gone back to CWM in the past, without actually using it, but I know it works (unlike CWM ATM for me :( ).

Here is a link to install your phones version of it, download the Odin .tar file and flash in Odin as I mentioned. Once done do a complete back up of your phone (A nandroid) and then the rooting world is your oyster.

TWRP Recovery for Canadian Samsung Galaxy S4 SGH-I337M (Android 4.4 KitKat Compatible!)

As long as you make sure any mod, ROM, kernel, whatever thing your flashing that needs root is for your S4 -SGH-I337M (try and remember always to call your phone by it's model number - SGH-I337M rather than an S4 to yourself now your rooted and looking for things to flash) and follow the ionstructions to flash and use it exactly you'll not go far wrong. However wrong it may do one day, that is why you have a Nandroid back up to avert disaster.
 
i tried using the mthd you provided for the recovery, using odin, but for some reason it didnt work right, so i searched another method and used a commsnd prompt to do it. it worked! iv now got twrp on my phone, and the nandroid is complete :)
 
funny story today guys lol. so i rooted my phone, installed recovery, then installed a rom, from xda and it worked, but when i booted up and there was problems. so i went to twrp and tried to recover my back up. then for hours i was stuck with what i thought was a bricked phone. it wouldnt load up past the samsung logo. and twrp worked once but then it wouldnt let me get into it again. so i ended up flashing the stock firmware back to my device. . so basicly i am back to square one. i guess its called a boot loop? not sure why that even happened but i almlst cried lol.
anyways, i am going to reroot my phone. and start again lol

mabe tomorrow, Dynomot you can help me to instal a working custom rom to my phone properly? lol clearly i am not ready go at it alone haha

*sigh*
 
mariag461 said:
funny story today guys lol. so i rooted my phone, installed recovery, then installed a rom, from xda and it worked, but when i booted up and there was problems. so i went to twrp and tried to recover my back up. then for hours i was stuck with what i thought was a bricked phone. it wouldnt load up past the samsung logo. and twrp worked once but then it wouldnt let me get into it again. so i ended up flashing the stock firmware back to my device. . so basicly i am back to square one. i guess its called a boot loop? not sure why that even happened but i almlst cried lol.
anyways, i am going to reroot my phone. and start again lol

mabe tomorrow, Dynomot you can help me to instal a working custom rom to my phone properly? lol clearly i am not ready go at it alone haha

*sigh*
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Oh dear lol.

It sounds as though you did everything *almost* right. When installing a new ROM a "Full Wipe" is always recommended (even if the ROM installation instructions say there is no need). This wipes everything from your old ROM that may conflict with a new one. To do a full wipe go to your TWRP recovery and wipe is top right. It is basically a factory reset, I'd recommend an advanced wipe as well, but leave out internal storage and Micro SD card or you'll delete all your media. You will have to set up your phone from scratch, but at least you'll know any problems are to do with the ROM you installed and not residual data from your old ROM. Always do a Nandriod before a new ROM or flashing anything, and if you need to restore your Nandroid do a full wipe then before doing so.

My guess is in your scenario you didn't full wipe. The ROM you installed conflicted with leftover data from your previous ROM you restored your Nandriod that conflicted with data left from the new ROM installation.....a sort of compounding the problem issue. Not really your fault, all part of the learning curve. Better luck next time.

I am currently in the middle of my third complete rebuild of my Note 3 this week, and I only wanted to try a new ruddy kernel. I am now using TWRP myself rather than Philz or any other CWM based recovery as I am having issues with seemingly good Nandroids that restore but then render my Note 3 unusable with everything FCing (Force closing or stopping, you know - "Unfortunately blah, blah app has stopped") repeatedly. I have yet to reinstall a TWRP Nandroid. I know CWM Nandroids are not compatible with TWRP and vice versa.

All good "fun" :rolleyes::)
 
Yes, your absolutly right, i didnt do a full wipe. lol so basicly any time i need to reinstal a backup, or instal a new rom, always do a wipe ? gotcha!

im wondering .. is Rom installer a good place to go for roms? i tried xda but i dont like that site. i find it too .. busy. too much crap to sift through before you get to what you want.
 
mariag461 said:
Yes, your absolutly right, i didnt do a full wipe. lol so basicly any time i need to reinstal a backup, or instal a new rom, always do a wipe ? gotcha!

im wondering .. is Rom installer a good place to go for roms? i tried xda but i dont like that site. i find it too .. busy. too much crap to sift through before you get to what you want.
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I always go through XDA for my ROMs, I find that apps looking for ROMs and installing them are more trouble than they are worth.
 
ok, ill definalty take your advise then. mabe ill jjst get myself used to using that site then. ok so iv redone everything, and i am currently backing up my nandroid now.

so im searching through the site. in lamens terms, what can you tll me about roms vs kernels? i see there are both those options to download from on xda


ok so im searching around xda, but i cant actualy seems to find anything for the s4 SGH 1337M. instead i keep finding stuff for
Samsung Galaxy S 4 i9500, i9505, i9505G, i9506
 
ironass said:
Some suggestions...

Information: Samsung Galaxy S4 (Canadian) ("jfltecan") - CyanogenMod (You will need to go to the CM page, here, for more info on the unified edition)

How to Convert Galaxy S4 into Galaxy S5! | GalaxyS4Root.com

Gummy ROM for Galaxy S4! [Android 4.4.4] | GalaxyS4Root.com

GPE ROM for Galaxy S4! [Android 4.4.4] | GalaxyS4Root.com
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Thank you so much ironass! im definatly gonna try the s5 conversion rom first ): ok.so backup, wipe, flash using odin?
 
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