Monday, December 30, 2013

Sprint Galaxy S4 Stock ROM Flash

I rooted my S4 but when I tried the hotspot hack I froze on the yellow Sprint screen. Restore did not solve it so I had to flash a Stock ROM. Nothing worked so you can imagine it was alarming for awhile.

When flashing Android 4.3 you must use Odin v3.09. Select the "AP" slot for the file and check "reboot" only. Don't bother with the rooted version because it will not be rooted anyway.


QBKing77's video on rooting works but do not do the hotspot hack.

WSL Create a windows_backup Folder in Ubuntu

 I used WSL Ubuntu to make a Ventoy Persistance file. I needed a folder in Ubuntu that Windows could access the file. Here are the commands....