My Android Nightmare

I dont think i've done a real blog entry until now, but this seems worth sharing. First of all, im not big into the android modding scene, so its a miracle that i was able to root a verizon samsung galaxy s5 and install safe strap in the first place. (anyone with this phone knows what a bitch it is to open up). fast forward a couple years later and im tired of being stuck on 4.4.4. by the grace of god im blessed with another miracle and able to remove safestrap, unlock the bootloader, flash a custom recovery, and install lineage with gapps and supersu.

well, this morning the devil must have wanted to get his dick wet too. i looked at a notification for a lineage update i had been ignoring and thought "fuck it". went to install it and the device rebooted. two hours later the lineage bootlogo is still going. i restart the device, no boot at all. wtf? i boot into twrp, no backup. so i wipe the device and try to install the original rom still resting on my sd. "zip file corrupted, install failed".

ok.. redownload rom and other things, boot back up, again "zip file corrupted. At this point i seem to recall updating twrp at some point. so i go to flash an older version. reboot and "no boot.. blah blah.. some error". i dont even have a recovery at this point. just a smug green robot and a wall of doomed text.

so i fire up my laptop, put the cunt in download mode and start flashing every twrp version in existence. each one "zip file corrupted". but, i have recovery back. get a copy of adb, put the phone in adb mode, and i start sideloading lineage, gapps, su, etc.. i'm finally sighing out of relief because, as i type this, im looking at the "set up new device screen".

thanks for reading

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I know that feel. Had pretty much the same problem with my nvidia shield tablet.
 
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Me S4 bootlooped once, got a new phone.
Couple of months ago, I flash some CM version of... Android 5? 6? and it works flawlessly ._.

Fucking phones..
 
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I thought it was just me, but I think android might just be a pain in the ass platform.
 
Reinstall the stock ROM using Odin and re-do everything else.
A partition must've fucked up. Samsung devices are finicky as shit when it comes to custom ROMs.
 
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@Darkyose not really. Samsung can suck my left nut since they suck at pretty much everything when it comes to making smartphones.
Apple on the other hand knows what its doing, and something either works or not and never in-between.
 
I've got it sorted now. I tried to find a stock rom for this phone, but no luck.
 
Really? For a Samsung phone its the easier, although pay attention to the baseband version of your phone.
If the version doesn't match, Odin won't install it and you might brick.
 
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