I was having some issues with my phone and had to use this to reset my phone, but my phones status was "official". never had that "custom" status that is mentioned above. Worked flawlessly
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Try a different cable.
If you used the stock tmobile 4.3 firmware, then you will not be able to go back to 4.2.2. If you have knox showing in download mode then you might as well just flash the stock metro 4.3 firmware.
If you go into download mode "power and volume down" it should have a knox counter. If it has a 0 x 1 next to any knox then your knox counter has be tripped. ShabbyPenguin should have our new 4.3 firmware
Metro will unlock the phone if you had it for more than 90 days.Oh yeah I have 0x1 next to knox warranty void.
I was messing around trying to get my metro s4 unlocked by flashing tmobile firmware but I would just like it back as a metro phone lol.
Going to download that off shabbypenguin now thank you.
Btw do you or anyone know of any ways to unlock the m919N?
I've read theories about flashing to tmobile firmware then using the *#whatever# codes but that didnt seem to work for me, and I'm skeptical if the FASTgsm and other types would work on my 4.3 tmobile flashed metro s4
Metro will unlock the phone if you had it for more than 90 days.
I haven't really looked into it. Let me know how that flash goes with the stock metro 4.3.
Well worst case scenario you have a bill for 3 months.
Oh yeah I have 0x1 next to knox warranty void.
I was messing around trying to get my metro s4 unlocked by flashing tmobile firmware but I would just like it back as a metro phone lol.
Going to download that off shabbypenguin now thank you.
Btw do you or anyone know of any ways to unlock the m919N?
I've read theories about flashing to tmobile firmware then using the *#whatever# codes but that didnt seem to work for me, and I'm skeptical if the FASTgsm and other types would work on my 4.3 tmobile flashed metro s4
You should check out this thread: [Q] Unlock for new Metro pc galaxy s4(SGH-M919N)? - Page 5 - xda-developers
specifically the last two pages. Basically if you flashed the tmobile firmware then use the app RegionLockAway (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.chainfire.regionlockaway) It will work. I havent tested it but a few people on that thread said it worked for them. I found out about it only after I paid to unlock my Metro S4 (only couple bucks) so not too bad. Again definitely read the thread before doing anything. Good luck!
If you are on t-mobile firmware you can use fastgsm. I did it and my phone is unlocked. I think I posted in that thread at xda. Just go to fastgsm and put your model number SGH-M919, download the app and follow the steps, easy as that.
Even with tmobile 4.3 ?? and does the phone have to be rooted?
Here you have the Unofficial M919NUVUAMF2 firmware made by me flashable with Odin working 100%.
First of all I want to thank techguy1214, exel and dulal18, without their files and threads would have been impossible for me to do it.
After many unsuccessful flash attempts using the firmware provided by techguy1214 in this thread:
http://androidforums.com/metropcs-g...ropcs-m919n-uvuamf2-stock-odin-flashable.html
and using the files provided dulal18 in this thread:
http://androidforums.com/metropcs-galaxy-s4-all-things-root/773303-guide-how-return-stock-if-you-have-flashed-tmobile-odin-tars.html
Using heimdall I opened the .pit file included in dulal18's thread and found that there is an extra partition for sbl1.mbn, this file was also present in BOOTLOADER_M919NUVUAMF2... and was not included in the .tar that was posted by techguy1214/exel in their post.
What I did was to decompress all files posted by dulal18 and repacked in a new .tar file with similar structure as exel .tar but adding sbl1.mbn using Cygwin.
Flashed with Odin 3.07 as PDA and everything went ok. Now I have a brand new perfectly working unroot MPCS M919NUVUAMF2. The only downside is that it shows
Just a quick (maybe stupid) question.... Is this link for the stock 4.2 or 4.3 firmware? (I need 4.3 since I have updated to that).
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