Downloading...Do not turn off target!! Stuck after installing TWRP via Goo Manager - Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4

I just rooted a Verizon GS4 (VRUAME7) using this method. Everything went fine. I verified root with Root Checker, rebooted the phone, checked again.
Then I followed this method to install TWRP. When I rebooted the device as instructed, it got stuck on a splashscreen that has and Android logo and says "Downloading...Do not turn off target!!" :'(
The upper left in red says "Could not do normal boot. ODIN MODE"
I tried a battery pull, vol dwn + power, vol up + power and vol down + up + power.
How do I get back to normal boot or into TWRP recovery? I have a ROM I'd like to install, and as of now...it won't get past that splash screen.
What do I do?
Thanks!

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First off youre in the wrong section. Questions go in the Q and A section. Second your on the me7 ota and you cant install a custom recovery/roms on the me7 ota. To get your phone booting again you will have to flash the stock recovery (not sure if someone has posted a stock recovery flashable via odin as I havent looked)or flash me7 again.
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hexitnow said:
First off youre in the wrong section. Questions go in the Q and A section. Second your on the me7 ota and you cant install a custom recovery/roms on the me7 ota. Not yet at least. I havent ran into this problem myself so I dont know an exact fix. To get your phone booting again you will have to flash the stock recovery (not sure if someone has posted a stock recovery flashable via odin as I havent looked)or flash me7 again (which will work without a doubt).
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Where was there a note about ROMS not working on ME7. I didn't see that anywhere.
Regardless, how do I fix it?

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dreamliner330 said:
Where was there a note about ROMS not working on ME7. I didn't see that anywhere.
Regardless, how do I fix it?
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In the thread about the me7 update.
Also in the 500 or so threads where people freaked out when they couldn't ROM anymore after they took the update.
Or in the bounty thread.
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^I didn't update.

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dreamliner330 said:
^I didn't update.
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if your on me7 then you updated..
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Check this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2301259
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elliwigy said:
if your on me7 then you updated..
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I didn't. Perhaps it automatically did it or it was updated when I got it, as I don't recall manually doing it.
Regardless. What do I do now?

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I already posted how to fix it ............ if you dont know how to restore your phone via odin then you have a small amount of reading to do and then your phone will be back up and running in no time :thumbup:
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dreamliner330 said:
I didn't. Perhaps it automatically did it or it was updated when I got it, as I don't recall manually doing it.
Regardless. What do I do now?
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There are reports of it doing it over night.
To fix the phone find the full me7 Odin package and Odin it back to stock. Id link you but I have had no reason to have links for me7 packages yet.
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dreamliner330 said:
Regardless. What do I do now?
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I had this same problem trying to install TWRP. What I did to fix it was to boot into download mode (volume down + home +power) and then I got prompted for did I really want to do that, I responded no and the phone booted up.
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thornev said:
I had this same problem trying to install TWRP. What I did to fix it was to boot into download mode (volume down + home +power) and then I got prompted for did I really want to do that, I responded no and the phone booted up.
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Thank you. :victory:
This worked perfectly.
Hopefully it'll won't fall back into that. Can't wait until I can ROM this sucker. Laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaag.

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Since you have the update, boot the phone up in Odin mode and plug in your USB cable.
If you installed the desktop software you will have a Verizon folder in your start menu.
In that folder there should be an app "Verizon Software Upgrade Utility"
Run that and it should tell you you are up to date.
There is a repair utility within that app, run that and it should fix your problem.
It takes a while because it downloads the rom and then flashes it.
No guarantees, but I believe that will get you back to stock unrooted.
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Sounds like he just got into download mode and didn't recognize it, and his rom, recovery, and everything was untouched.
To the OP, you're probably good if your phone has booted normally, works fine, and you're still rooted. You can't flash any roms or mods, but you can still apply some mods by simply pushing them to your /system partition, setting permissions, and rebooting. Either follow the instructions for which directory to put the file/files in, or you can open up a flashable zip and use the same path as the directories in the zip.
You should even be able to push a modded framework-res.apk and SystemUI.apk and rename the old ones, once people start building ME7 roms, though I can't guarantee it'll work. All you can do is try, and now you know how to get into Download mode to use Odin if it doesn't work.
As far as plain lag goes, just freeze alot of the bloat, there's around 50 apks (in MDK, anyway) that aren't doing anyone any good. Then grab a cpu app like Trickster Mod and see what, if any, parameters the stock kernel enables you to change. If you can set the Interactive cpu governor, Deadline scheduler, Performance gpu governor, and increase the read-ahead size, you should see a significant improvement.
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