I recently rooted to the new cyanogenmod and in an attempt to fix the known wifi error I replaced my kernel. I thought I had a nandroid backup, but apparently not.. To make matters worse I tried to unroot and turn s-on. Well I got s-on and now I'm stuck with the htc splashscreen, I can get into bootloader and I still have clockworkmod installed. My question is, how can I get s-off (unrevoked won't see it because of lack of debugging) and also what could I do to get my kernel back on track (stock or pretty much anything that works).. I'm sorry if this is vague, I'm a pretty tech savvy person but I'm still newer on rooting android systems.
best way is to follow step #2 here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=817487
that will get you back to stock.
Pretty sure you can just mount your SD card in clockwork, then download the stock cyanogenmod kernel to your PC, transfer it to your phone, and install from there.
if you want s-off, just download unrevoked forever from the unrevoked site and install it in cwm (mount usb, transfer patch, apply)
now for fixes.
easiest would just be the install the correct kernel via cwm (again, you can mount usb in cwm, transfer new kernel, install it).
or, wipe everything in cwm, reinstall cyanogen and thus being back where you were before tinkering with the kernel.
another step..
use this tuturial to go back to stock
http://androidforums.com/incredible...16-how-revert-back-earlier-version-hboot.html
and youll be back at 2.2 stock (use the froyo ruu instead of the one in the link)
then you can reroot and do whatever youd like
Moved to Q&A as not development.
Transferring the Cyanogenmod kernel worked, I kinda feel like an idiot for not trying that, figured with s-on I couldn't do it.. Wifi works now, which is what got me into this mess in the first place. Thanks for your input!
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Hi guys
I rooted my desire with unrevoked 3, and now I want to install stock froyo 2.2 update and it doesnt seem to work. It stops unpacking update after restart and shows exclamation mark and the droid, pressing menu from there brings up clockwork recovery. Is there any way to easily get this working or are the two options to either unroot or install custom rom?
In case of unroot, do I have to reflash the whole device loosing all settings and apps?
Hope someone has an answer for me, starting to get anxious to try the new rom out
Am having exactly the same issue. First I thought there was something wrong with the download as the Clockwork Mod says 'failed to verify full file'. Can someone help?
There are many stock roms with root access on this forum. Can't you just use one of them? If you flash the official upgrade, it will overwrite HBOOT as well, making it impossible to root the phone again until someone finds a new rooting method.
snowroller said:
Hi guys
I rooted my desire with unrevoked 3, and now I want to install stock froyo 2.2 update and it doesnt seem to work. It stops unpacking update after restart and shows exclamation mark and the droid, pressing menu from there brings up clockwork recovery. Is there any way to easily get this working or are the two options to either unroot or install custom rom?
In case of unroot, do I have to reflash the whole device loosing all settings and apps?
Hope someone has an answer for me, starting to get anxious to try the new rom out
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Ok first of all since you have rooted your phone, did you make a backup? Did you use nandroid? Have you made a gold card? Okay this what I did with my phone. Use the stock ROM from UK 1.21.405.2 WWE version and flash that to your phone (rooted of course with gold card).
Once you have flashed the UK ROM you should get a system software update. BUT......you have to make sure you download one of the rooted Froyo that can be found in xda.
DON"T DO WHAT I DID AND USED A STOCK (unrooted) Froyo! Because now I can't root my phone until someone in here finds a way and shares it.
Ok, how do I flash one of the rooted roms and how do I go about installing it and still keeping the data on the phone? I know there are guides all over this place, but I find them a bit hard to understand a lot of the time...
Happy to use a custom Rom. There are so many here though - any suggestions?
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Happy to use a custom Rom. There are so many here though - any suggestions?
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Try them all It's fun and addicting.
But will flashing a custom rom wipe the device, and how do I go about getting all apps, sms'es and so on back on the device? I guess nandriod backup has something to do with it, but how do I use it right?
Titanium backup in market. Restor all data and apps. thet use all.
Titanium backup won't run...
Hmm, titanium backup is installed but it won't run claiming I don't have root or busybox is not installed. Installed busybox installer, it says I have root, but stops saying it might not have enough privileges or it is unable to mount...
What next? Anyone got any bright ideas? Thinking more and more about wiping device with a clean RUU and getting the stock 2.2 update, but would like to keep all my info, sms's and so on...
So I never rooted, I have been waiting for the Over the Air.
If I root now, when I get the OTA will I still be rooted? And if so, what steps should be taken?
I know there are two unrevoked applications that need to be run...the first for root...the second for s-off (which I am still not entirely sure what this is)....
I have also seen that unrevoked is much simpler on a Mac and thankfully I just got one.......
So if rooting now and getting the OTA and keeping root is possible.... is there a step by step of the order I should do this in? (please don't flame and say I can search...I did...couldn't find.. I did however find a ton of threads where people say to search.......if you need to flame me can you at least post a link to where I was stupid enough to miss it)
Thanks
I am wondering the same. I have rooted with unrevoked3 and forever but have not touched the radio. Will I receive the OTA like this? If not what do I have to do to get the OTA and then get root back ?
Assuming you have a truly stock Incredible (meaning you didn't force any third party roms or leaked radios), then you follow this order:
1. Unrevoked Flash/Recovery - Adds Clockwork Mod and Superuser permissions to your phone
2. Unrevoked Forever - Adds S-OFF functionality, which means that the HBOOT startup will no longer check for updates that are signed with HTC's super secret signature... Meaning you can flash anything to the phone.
3. Flash Original Stock Recovery - Removes the Clockwork Mod recovery console. Since you have S-OFF, you can return CWM to the phone whenever you damn well please. The original stock recovery is necessary for the OTA to commence, because it is developed to rely on the stock recovery console.
4. Wait for OTA
5. Upon receiving OTA, flash Clockwork Mod to the phone via HBOOT (using a PB31IMG.zip containing it)
6. Flash the root payload via Clockword Mod recovery console.
7. Go to bed and make love to your wife after beating on your chest in victory like tarzan.
8. Reboot phone, bask in Official Froyo coupled with Superuser permissions.
9. Download the busybox installer from the market and install busybox to the system.
10. Make love to your wife again.
UPDATED: with slightly better instructions
Note: If u are s-off and on a custom rom, or have already s-off and customized your current rom you can start at step 3. make sure u have s-off by checking hboot. i put this in because many people asked me what to do if they ddnt start in a stock state.
This process is for people with a fully stock phone who want to apply the stock 2.2 update and maintain root.
I just went through this process.
(sd card must be formatted to fat32. without that most of this will fail.)
Step 1: do this -> http://unrevoked.com/recovery/
(this will root your phone and flash clockworkmod recovery.)
Step 2: do this -> http://unrevoked.com/forever/
(this will use clockworkmod recovery to permanently unlock the nand, also known as s-off.)
-- To backup apps that you want after the phone is fully updated at this point download titanium backup and backup whatever apps u need. make sure u take the backup folder from the sd card and store it on ur pc for later use.
Note: Titanium is probably going to tell u that it couldnt get root. that is because busybox is missing. hit the problems button on titanium and upgrade busybox. this will upgrade busybox if ur using an older version, or download the right version if u dont have one. this should take care of all busybox needs.
Step 3: do this -> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=756850
(put into sd card and hboot apply)
(this will restore the recovery back to stock as it is needed for the RUU)
now u have an s-off phone with everything else stock.
Step 4: now either get the RUU -> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=765596
or wait for OTA
(install htc sync to be able to run this. the RUU will load the stock 2.2 rom 2.15 radio that is needed. everything will be wiped, but that is a good thing imo.)
once u have updated ur phone fullly
Step 5: get recovery here http://downloads.unrevoked.com/forever/recovery/clockworkmod/PB31IMG.ZIP
put in sd card and hboot apply
(this will load clockworkmod recovery on your phone so that u can apply updates.)
Step 6: put in sd card -> http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=388592&d=1282834695
and
http://bit.ly/su234ef
and use recovery to install both those zips.
(clockworkmod recovery allows u to apply .zip files, use that option to do this.)
(this will re-root the newly updated phone and install the superuser.apk.)
congratulations now u have an OTA/RUU applied phone with root.
-- If you had titanium backups you want to restore, paste the folder u saved on the desktop back here, re-install titanium from the market and restore apps. It is recommended to redownload the app from the market and just restore the data for the app if possible.
Note: Titanium is probably going to tell u that it couldnt get root. that is because busybox is missing. hit the problems button on titanium and upgrade busybox. this will upgrade busybox if ur using an older version, or download the right version if u dont have one. this should take care of all busybox needs.
notes:
* to enter hboot turn off phone then hold vol down and power till hboot appears.
* to enter recovery, enter hboot and select recovery.
* to check if nand is unlocked, hboot must read S-OFF
* you only need stock recovery to load the RUU, so if you have flashed a different rom, simply revert to the stock recovery and apply the RUU
* all links are property of their original creators, thanks to all of them.
EDIT: and yes please make love multiple times.
Wow... Thanks... This should definitely be stickied as a guide!
Sent from my HTC Incredible
No prob, if you need any help when you are getting to the nitty gritty pm me and I'll give you a phone number to call me at, I love doing this stuff.
Thanks... Will probably wait til the phone starts nagging me to update (from other phones I have seen its pretty persistent). This way in case anything new pops up I can add it to the process.
Also its 2 AM in New York right now, I have never rooted, let alone do everything to get ready for the OTA (definitely waiting for the push... Not applying it manually).... I'd probably frak it up at this hour!
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Thanks rdmerck and k.electron...very helpful and exactly what I've been looking for. After waiting a while, I finally decided to root tonight prior to the impending OTA update.
One cautious newbie question for step 3 (Flashing The Original Stock Recovery). Once in hboot (I entered this by holding down the volume down while powering up, right?), how do you know it will be running the PB31IMG.zip file (Stock Rom)? I didn't see it listed anywhere on the screen and it only offers the option of running recovery or not. I want to make sure that it's running off the correct .zip file. It lists:
INCREDIBLE XC SHIP S-OFF
HBOOT-0.77.0000
MICROP-0417
TOUCH PANEL-ATMEL224_16ab
RADIO-1.00.03.04.06
Mar 23 2010,19:26:22
HBOOT
Parsing...[SD ZIP]
[1] RECOVERY
Do you want to start update?
<VOL UP> Yes
<VOL DOWN> No
Just wanted to be sure before running the update. I assume you can delete the unrevoked-forever.zip once it's run, but can you delete the "update.zip" that appeared on the sdcard after running unrevoked?
Thanks in advance for any and all help!
chaint said:
Thanks rdmerck and k.electron...very helpful and exactly what I've been looking for. After waiting a while, I finally decided to root tonight prior to the impending OTA update.
One cautious newbie question for step 3 (Flashing The Original Stock Recovery). Once in hboot (I entered this by holding down the volume down while powering up, right?), how do you know it will be running the PB31IMG.zip file (Stock Rom)? I didn't see it listed anywhere on the screen and it only offers the option of running recovery or not. I want to make sure that it's running off the correct .zip file. It lists:
INCREDIBLE XC SHIP S-OFF
HBOOT-0.77.0000
MICROP-0417
TOUCH PANEL-ATMEL224_16ab
RADIO-1.00.03.04.06
Mar 23 2010,19:26:22
HBOOT
Parsing...[SD ZIP]
[1] RECOVERY
Do you want to start update?
Yes
No
Just wanted to be sure before running the update. I assume you can delete the unrevoked-forever.zip once it's run, but can you delete the "update.zip" that appeared on the sdcard after running unrevoked?
Thanks in advance for any and all help!
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I just went through doing the same thing. I deleted the update.zip from my SD card just to make sure there was no confusion. Then I clicked yes when it asked to apply the update. Also, after this, if you boot into recovery ( its a couple options down in hboot, move with your volume button) you should get a red caution sign after a few seconds. Apparently this means you are back to stock. All credit goes to someone who helped me in another thread but I cannot find it right now.
chaint said:
Thanks rdmerck and k.electron...very helpful and exactly what I've been looking for. After waiting a while, I finally decided to root tonight prior to the impending OTA update.
One cautious newbie question for step 3 (Flashing The Original Stock Recovery). Once in hboot (I entered this by holding down the volume down while powering up, right?), how do you know it will be running the PB31IMG.zip file (Stock Rom)? I didn't see it listed anywhere on the screen and it only offers the option of running recovery or not. I want to make sure that it's running off the correct .zip file. It lists:
INCREDIBLE XC SHIP S-OFF
HBOOT-0.77.0000
MICROP-0417
TOUCH PANEL-ATMEL224_16ab
RADIO-1.00.03.04.06
Mar 23 2010,19:26:22
HBOOT
Parsing...[SD ZIP]
[1] RECOVERY
Do you want to start update?
<VOL UP> Yes
<VOL DOWN> No
Just wanted to be sure before running the update. I assume you can delete the unrevoked-forever.zip once it's run, but can you delete the "update.zip" that appeared on the sdcard after running unrevoked?
Thanks in advance for any and all help!
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Yes, where it says
Parsing...[SD ZIP]
[1] RECOVERY
It is informing you that the only thing contained in the PB31IMG.zip file is a recovery image to be flashed. In this case, it is the stock Android 2e recovery that you will need. Press the volume up key to flash it, and then you can boot into the recovery console to verify that it works.
When you see a black screen, with a phone and a triangle with an exclamation point, you are in Android 2e recovery (your goal all along), press power+plus volume up, and you will see a meaningless error message and then a menu will appear at the top of the screen.
The first option will be to reboot the system, make sure it is selected and press the power button again. When you do, it will bring you back into your operating system.
Wait. I went out of order and started with the love making. That's as far as I got....
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amdpimp said:
Wait. I went out of order and started with the love making. That's as far as I got....
Sent from my ADR6300 using XDA App
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what? nooooo.... rooted 2.2 is the main thing your wife is interested in.. and your incredible too..
amdpimp said:
Wait. I went out of order and started with the love making. That's as far as I got....
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I most certainly hope you bricked lol
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When I do this method (and waiting for the OTA) do I need to back up anything? Or does it leave my apps and data untouched?
Sent from my HTC Incredible
Format FAT32 required on storage card
I'd like to point out that step 3 REQUIRES your storage card to be formatted FAT32. Clockwork will not update to "[Recovery] Stock 2.1 Recovery Image for DI" without you having first formatted your storage card to FAT32. This may be common sense but for a first rooter like myself, I figured it out by trial and error.
k.electron said:
I just went through this process.
first do this -> http://unrevoked.com/recovery/
then do this -> http://unrevoked.com/forever/
then do this -> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=756850
(put into sd card and hboot apply)
now u have an s-off phone with everything else stock.
now either get the RUU -> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=765596
or wait for OTA
once u have updated ur phone fullly
get recovery here http://downloads.unrevoked.com/forever/recovery/clockworkmod/PB31IMG.ZIP
put in sd card and hboot apply
put in sd card -> http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=388592&d=1282834695
and
http://bit.ly/su234ef
and use recovery to install both those zips.
congratulations now u have an OTA/RUU applied phone with root.
EDIT: and yes please make love multiple times.
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NYC Coyote said:
When I do this method (and waiting for the OTA) do I need to back up anything? Or does it leave my apps and data untouched?
Sent from my HTC Incredible
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It will leave all data and apps untouched but get in the habit of backups ALWAYS. You never know when playing around like this. You may do one thing wrong and will be wishing you had taken 5 minutes to do a backup.
anothen said:
I'd like to point out that step 3 REQUIRES your storage card to be formatted FAT32. Clockwork will not update to "[Recovery] Stock 2.1 Recovery Image for DI" without you having first formatted your storage card to FAT32. This may be common sense but for a first rooter like myself, I figured it out by trial and error.
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thank you and yes fat32 for all things sd card related.
anothen said:
It will leave all data and apps untouched but get in the habit of backups ALWAYS. You never know when playing around like this. You may do one thing wrong and will be wishing you had taken 5 minutes to do a backup.
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frankly its much better to just use the ruu and have it update everything and wipe the phone. 2.1->2.2 app and data moving can sometimes leave behind some stale stuff that u dont want.
before i did the RUU i installed titanium and saved any apps that had states that i needed, like games. then after i installed the RUU and reinstalled the apps from the market, i just titanium restored the data for the app so it still had the latest app, but my save games were back in. that will give u a good factory like device but with whatever data you find necessary.
i also mounted system in recovery after the whole process and removed things like cityid, vzwnav, stocks etc.
k.electron said:
frankly its much better to just use the ruu and have it update everything and wipe the phone. 2.1->2.2 app and data moving can sometimes leave behind some stale stuff that u dont want.
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If you ran the RUU straight up were you rooted before hand with S-off? Then you ran the full RUU and retained root?
I currently have root, stock radio and no s-off yet. and want to update and retain root.
Thanks.
-Lil'
rdmerck said:
Yes, where it says
Parsing...[SD ZIP]
[1] RECOVERY
It is informing you that the only thing contained in the PB31IMG.zip file is a recovery image to be flashed. In this case, it is the stock Android 2e recovery that you will need. Press the volume up key to flash it, and then you can boot into the recovery console to verify that it works.
When you see a black screen, with a phone and a triangle with an exclamation point, you are in Android 2e recovery (your goal all along), press power+plus volume up, and you will see a meaningless error message and then a menu will appear at the top of the screen.
The first option will be to reboot the system, make sure it is selected and press the power button again. When you do, it will bring you back into your operating system.
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Thanks rdmerck. I didn't see the phone and triangle when flashing, however. When I originally pressed volume up to flash, it took just a few seconds, then prompted me to reboot which I did, then it loaded the OS as normal. Not sure if I needed to do something else, or if there's a way to check to see if it worked (I still see SU Permissions in my apps). Should I just try again? Any thoughts. Thanks, and sorry for these newbie questions!
Help a noob out
OK can someone help out ANOTHER noob here?
I have been following this thread among 30 others since yesterday and there seems to be a ton of different ways to go about getting the same results, which for me is the new leaked build with root. I am hoping someone can set me straight as I have info overload right now.
I am currently running stock 2.1 and used unrevoked to root.
I have not done anything else at this point. No radio update, no s-off, no roms.. nothing. I do not mind wiping the phone and reinstalling all my apps and probably would want to start fresh with the new install.
Someone made a reference a few post up about just running the RUU. Can I do that without losing root? Do I need to update my radio first? Should I installed 'forever' s-off before hand?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I basically want to install what seems to be the official OTA/RUU and retain my root access so I can run wireless tether and remove bloat I dont want. Once some of the roms get cooked with the new build I can full around with them. Just need some help getting over the hump right now, so I can be running some Froyo goodness.
Thanks so much for any help you can lend.
-Lil
Hi all.
I'll start by saying I have gotten in way over my head. I rooted my Evo with unrEVOked's one-click method, and then began to experience some problems with my 3g. Thinking I had somehow botched the rooting process, I tried to unroot using the two-step method I also found on xda (cannot post link.. further proof I am a noob ). More problems sprang up, one thing led to another, various fixes were tried (HUGE thanks to everyone in the IRC channel last night that tried to help my sorry ass..) but to no avail.
Here is where my phone is at now: booting using vol down+power shows me S-ON. Trying to flash mtd-eng.zip results in an error, so I am seemingly stuck with S-ON. Normally I would be happy about this (that's one step closer to unrooted, right?) but I notice I still have Superuser in my apps. My 3g is working again for whatever reason (no complaints here! maybe it was a Sprint-side problem in my area.. what timing!) but I'm confused as to whether my phone is rooted or not.
Ideally, I would like to go back to unrooted, since I have made it abundantly clear to myself that I am not yet prepared to embark in rooting. If anyone could guide me in the right direction, I would be very thankful.
You no longer have root access. Nothing you do at this point will allow you to run a .img on your own.
Your best bet would be to try and run one of the RUU programs to get it all back to stock.
I don't know if the Superuser application will be removed by this but you can try it:
Go to Settings>SD & Phone Storage>Factory Data Reset
Your phone should reboot and may have erased the Superuser app.
Jim M said:
You no longer have root access. Nothing you do at this point will allow you to run a .img on your own.
Your best bet would be to try and run one of the RUU programs to get it all back to stock.
I don't know if the Superuser application will be removed by this but you can try it:
Go to Settings>SD & Phone Storage>Factory Data Reset
Your phone should reboot and may have erased the Superuser app.
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I did this, and my phone is now in RA-evo-v1.8.0 (it rebooted into recovery). Should I reboot the system now? I find it strange that it took me here in the first place.
The current PC36IMG that is flashed to the Evo is one with Amon Ra built into it.
The only RUU program that I am allowed to run (from the list that was given out in one of the unrooting evo threads) gives me the 170 error before anything happens.
You don't have root access, but your phone still has a custom recovery (Amon_RA) right now. No way to get rid of the custom recovery now except through an official update that replaces the recovery file.
Like I said you can try to run one of the RUU Official updates found in the Developer forum.
Don't know your location, but if you post it, someone close to you might try to help you out in person.
Jim M said:
You don't have root access, but your phone still has a custom recovery (Amon_RA) right now. No way to get rid of the custom recovery now except through an official update that replaces the recovery file.
Like I said you can try to run one of the RUU Official updates found in the Developer forum.
Don't know your location, but if you post it, someone close to you might try to help you out in person.
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With a little digging and poking and reading, I found the proper RUU, ran it, and I believe I am now back to fully unrooted. Thank you very much for your help!
Was running a Rotted stock Rom which is flashed with CWM. All was fine until i tried to install Google official 4.2.1 update. That messed up something and now i cant get it to boot. I wiped everything in CWM but nothing. Also been trying to connect it to PC to transfer a new ROM but i dont know why the mount sdcard option is not working.
1) you were not on a 100% stock rom, so dont ever take a OTA
2) the mount sdcard will never work on this phone as there is no sdcard
3) do yourself a favor and follow this (it even has a section on how to root your phone): http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1626895
Restore
Try this it has always worked for me and I have bricked my phone many, many times. I find this to be so much easier than all the other ways out there, but that's just me.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1426207
Thanks for the help. I turned it back to stock and all good now.
Like I'm sure this topic hasn't come up before, but I've searched for hours and I'm probably just making things worse. I also just accidentally deleted this post halfway through. It's too late and I'm too tired and I have no working phone.
Bought an SGH-I747 on E-Bay. Got a Straight Talk SIM card kit, activated it, so far so good.
Rooted it with CF-Auto-Root. Worked pretty well, took a lot of reboots, upgraded the SU from the Play Store and it got rid of Knox. So far so good. Got everything all set up the way I like it. Happy.
It was running 4.4.2. I'm assuming it was the release prior to the November 12th OTA release, but I can't say for sure.
Phone downloaded and installed an upgrade automatically. Now, it won't boot. I get the SAMSUNG logo, then the Samsung Galaxy S III logo then nothing.
I retried the CF-Auto-Root, no change.
I booted into recovery (volume up, home and power on), did factory reset, no change.
Started looking around for a way to return it to stock. Found an upgrade43.zip file somewhere (I'm sorry I can't find where I got that now). Put it on the sdcard card and tried installing it with the recovery and it fails part way through.
At this point, I think I probably need to completely overwrite everything with something stock. I just don't know how to do that. I see posts on such subjects but they all have warnings that make me think I'm going to totally brick the phone, so I'm hoping someone can point me the right way. I'm not all that Android savvy, as you can tell.
Help.
Since your phone was running 4.4.2, do not attempt to flash any ROMs using that attempt to downgrade your bootloader to anything prior to 4.4.2.
Try this to get your phone up and running:
download the latest CM11 for the d2lte and save it to an external SD card: https://download.cyanogenmod.org/?device=d2lte
dowload the latest tar.md5 version of Philz Touch for the d2lte from here: https://goo.im/devs/philz_touch/CWM_Advanced_Edition/d2lte/
boot phone in download mode, open Odin 3.07, do not check anything except f.reset.time, flash Philz via PDA box, remove USB cable when you see the word Reset appear in the status window, remove battery, replace battery, boot into recovery, format system, Dalvik, data, and cache, flash cm11, and reboot.
Thank you for your reply. There are a few things in there I don't quite understand, but I think I can figure it out.
I was going to attempt this...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2658486
In fact, I did attempt it with TWRP last night after I posted here and new I still wasn't going to sleep. I kept getting an error about a bad ZIP file.
Is that stock restore a bad idea?
Do not attempt to flash an older bootloader. The mjb bootloader is from 4.3 and attempting to flash it could hard brick your phone.
I suggest doing what I suggested so you can confirm the bootloader and modem installed on your phone.
OK. Thanks. Probably a good thing I couldn't get it to work then.
Thank you so much. I have a working phone again. Now I just have to get it all set back up the way I like it.
I have to say, and it's probably words straight from the devils mouth, that I kind of wish I could have restored the Samsung stock software. It's just what I'm used to. But I will take what I can get.
A few questions. I like having root. But root is what got me in trouble in the first place. Is this going to be rooted now, or will I have to do that or am I better off just leaving it alone.
Second, I'm probably going to have questions since this is so different than what I'm used to (like I already can't find the Play store). Where is the best place to ask?
If you want root, one of the easiest ways to get it is to flash supersu from your custom recovery. Most ROMs are pre-rooted.
Many custom ROMs do not include Gapps. Just download and install the Gapps version for your ROM.
If you like the TW look, flash a TW-based ROM. Check out the development threads for different ROMs.
here is a thread for Q's that has some pretty good/friendly helpers on it if you need.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2257421
"all i can really do , is stay out of my own way and let the will of heaven be done"
How to save in to external SD card
How do you save the file into the external SD card? I am having the same brick issue with my GS3.
To save a file to an external SD card, just put the card into a card reader and save the ROM to the SD card.