I was stupid enough to let my friend work on my phone for me. I was trying to get rid of some leftover data from apps and asked for help and he ended up erasing everything it seems. How can I re-install any version? I'm still a noob and only really work with rooting and have installed a custom rom. When I try too boot from the standard recovery it states that I am missing an Operating System entirely.
Missing OS
- Thread starter GrimXI
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Yes it was a custom rom. He said he flashed team win then erased somethings but it was everything the system file is empty. I got a .zip file of a tar that is a compatible version but I can't get it to unzip. Is there a way to install with a zipped .tar using odin?
Can u boot into download mode? If so try and flash ur custom recovery and then flash a zip file.Try and maybe use a temporary Custom Recovery for now that is not zipped, and then install ur preferred one later
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Have you tried placing the .zip file for the ROM on an SD card, and reflashed in TWRP?
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After the erase, TWRP stopped working and now its only the default android recovery. Where can i get a recovery to flash all i have is the root with the recovery combined but then it attempts too boot and loses the recovery.
I might have something, I tried a different compatible version and I was able to get an MD5 file out of the zip, flashing it now. I think it should allow the recovery that was installed to be usable as well because theres evidence that its is in there just not fully activated I guess. Ill update whether or not this works.
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What recovery are you using? You need a recovery that supports Loki because the S4 has the Knox bootloader
Hey last update, With all of your suggestions and help I was successful in fixing my issue! thanks, you really are the best.
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Glad you are up and running. Thanks for the follow up. See you around. The forums.
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i beed help to i have the same problem but since my brother wanted to erase everything from it and ended up erasing the OS from my phone. i dont know much on these things and i dont want to move it. every time i try to factory reset ect. it tells me th super us and the OS is missing. what can i do?
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