Samsung GS4 Verizon Cyanogenmod

mitchellediting · August 10, 2016

My dad's work provides him smartphones (verizon) and he got an upgrade to a GS6 and he had a GS4. I have a Moto G (2nd Gen) and realized (about 6 months after his upgrade) that his phone has support for the T-Mobile bands and has a sim card slot. This being an upgrade for me (better processor, camera, screen, 4g, nfc, 5ghz, etc) I wanted to use this phone. I have no issue with getting my sim card to work (adding the apn and changing the in-phone setting to gsm) however, the last supported version of android is 5 lollipop which I would much prefer to have android 6 for the battery life and less bloat ware (thanks touchwiz). So I did a quick google search to find that you can install cyanogenmod 13 (android 6) on the GS4! I was able to complete the task of rooting the phone, something that i'm new too. However on unlocking the boot-loader i found out (correct me if i'm wrong) that there are only workarounds for the Verizon version of the phone. So I go and attempt to install twrp through Goo-manager to discover their servers no longer work... Next attempt was with Twrp Manager and this succeeded until you reboot the phone to give you an error that the phone cannot start. I was able to avoid this by plugging in my usb cord while the phone was off and booting into android.(also got this error when attempting to boot into recovery) However this leaves us at no progress. So I seeked a less user-friendly way of installing twrp by using a program called Odin however this leaves this.

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<ID:0/005> Initialzation..
<ID:0/005> Get PIT for mapping..
<ID:0/005> Firmware update start..
<ID:0/005> recovery.img
<ID:0/005> NAND Write Start!!
<ID:0/005> FAIL! (Auth)
<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 1)

On the phone is says.

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START [224, 1440]

SECURE CHECK FAIL : recovery

It has some text before that says write protection enabled but searching on google people have this and still can install things through Odin. and NO i dont have reactivation lock enabled

I would like to have cyanogenmod 13 (nightly) on my GS4 but get stuck at getting twrp installed because of Verizon's security on the device.