TL;DR
1. Rooted using towelroot
2. Installed CWM's app, tried installing their custom recovery
3. Got the Yellow Triangle of Death ('non-stock software...take to Verizon store...yadda yadda')
4. Tried flashing stock recovery using ODIN v3.09
5. Seemed like it worked, tried turning phone off and then booting into recovery mode, still had YTOD.
6. Basically back at square one, not sure if there's something more I can do (I'm sure there is, but what?), or if I should just try playing dumb with the folks at the Verizon store across the street and seeing if they can get the recovery working again.
Device Info:
SCH-I535 running 4.4.2 stock (minus any kind of functional recovery mode)
please feel free to ask for more info if the long version below leaves anything pertinent out
Okay, so some weeks ago, I attempted installing CWM's custom recovery on my phone for the first time after successfully rooting. This was my first time doing anything of the sort. Unfortunately for me, I didn't realize that Verizon had apparently locked its bootloader since 4.3 (Was running 4.4.2 at the time, still am). I also didn't realize that this meant I wasn't going to be able to install a custom recovery without running into the yellow triangle of death.
So, long story short, my phone has been fully functional ever since then as far as I can tell, except that I can't boot it into recovery mode at all now. All I get is that yellow triangle. I've basically just been living with this for over a month now as it doesn't really break the day-to-day functionality of the phone, but I'd really like to get it fixed, as it's been in the back of my mind annoying me for some time now.
Fast forward to this past week, and I've been trying to troubleshoot a couple nights after work, to no avail. I've tried flashing the stock recovery using ODIN 3.09, and I already got the latest drivers (think they were June 2014) from Samsung's website. When I load up the recovery file and run ODIN, it goes through the whole process, and the phone reboots normally. But then, every time that I've gone and turned it off and then tried to boot into recovery, it STILL gives me that dang yellow triangle, telling me to take it to my nearest Verizon store, et cetera.
I've gotten to the point now where I'm not really sure how to proceed; when I boot it into download mode, the little ticker says "Samsung Official" and all, so technically I might not get in trouble if I do take it to the store warranty-wise, but I'd rather avoid having to try and come up with a fake reason how my phone got a botched non-stock recovery installed onto it if I supposedly didn't do it (i.e. knowingly void my warranty).
Anyway, any and all help or ideas would be greatly appreciated at this point. The ROM itself is still stock, as I never got that far (which is probably a good thing, as my ignorance of the locked bootloader would have probably ended up meaning some sort of brick/boot-loop situation for me, which wouldn't have been too dandy).
So, really, all I'm looking to accomplish here is to find some way to Mulligan this whole custom recovery endeavor and get it back to stock (I know it won't be that easy, ha ha). At that point, I'll probably do my best to get everything un-rooted and back to stock (start fresh), and then give rooting another go, sans the attempts at flashing custom software now that I'm privy to the limitations put in place by Verizon's bootloader.
If there's any pertinent information that I may have left out, please mention it and I'll be sure to respond quickly with an answer. Once again, thanks in advance for anyone who might be able to help. I really am sort of stuck at this point.
1. Rooted using towelroot
2. Installed CWM's app, tried installing their custom recovery
3. Got the Yellow Triangle of Death ('non-stock software...take to Verizon store...yadda yadda')
4. Tried flashing stock recovery using ODIN v3.09
5. Seemed like it worked, tried turning phone off and then booting into recovery mode, still had YTOD.
6. Basically back at square one, not sure if there's something more I can do (I'm sure there is, but what?), or if I should just try playing dumb with the folks at the Verizon store across the street and seeing if they can get the recovery working again.
Device Info:
SCH-I535 running 4.4.2 stock (minus any kind of functional recovery mode)
please feel free to ask for more info if the long version below leaves anything pertinent out
Okay, so some weeks ago, I attempted installing CWM's custom recovery on my phone for the first time after successfully rooting. This was my first time doing anything of the sort. Unfortunately for me, I didn't realize that Verizon had apparently locked its bootloader since 4.3 (Was running 4.4.2 at the time, still am). I also didn't realize that this meant I wasn't going to be able to install a custom recovery without running into the yellow triangle of death.
So, long story short, my phone has been fully functional ever since then as far as I can tell, except that I can't boot it into recovery mode at all now. All I get is that yellow triangle. I've basically just been living with this for over a month now as it doesn't really break the day-to-day functionality of the phone, but I'd really like to get it fixed, as it's been in the back of my mind annoying me for some time now.
Fast forward to this past week, and I've been trying to troubleshoot a couple nights after work, to no avail. I've tried flashing the stock recovery using ODIN 3.09, and I already got the latest drivers (think they were June 2014) from Samsung's website. When I load up the recovery file and run ODIN, it goes through the whole process, and the phone reboots normally. But then, every time that I've gone and turned it off and then tried to boot into recovery, it STILL gives me that dang yellow triangle, telling me to take it to my nearest Verizon store, et cetera.
I've gotten to the point now where I'm not really sure how to proceed; when I boot it into download mode, the little ticker says "Samsung Official" and all, so technically I might not get in trouble if I do take it to the store warranty-wise, but I'd rather avoid having to try and come up with a fake reason how my phone got a botched non-stock recovery installed onto it if I supposedly didn't do it (i.e. knowingly void my warranty).
Anyway, any and all help or ideas would be greatly appreciated at this point. The ROM itself is still stock, as I never got that far (which is probably a good thing, as my ignorance of the locked bootloader would have probably ended up meaning some sort of brick/boot-loop situation for me, which wouldn't have been too dandy).
So, really, all I'm looking to accomplish here is to find some way to Mulligan this whole custom recovery endeavor and get it back to stock (I know it won't be that easy, ha ha). At that point, I'll probably do my best to get everything un-rooted and back to stock (start fresh), and then give rooting another go, sans the attempts at flashing custom software now that I'm privy to the limitations put in place by Verizon's bootloader.
If there's any pertinent information that I may have left out, please mention it and I'll be sure to respond quickly with an answer. Once again, thanks in advance for anyone who might be able to help. I really am sort of stuck at this point.
