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I just recieved my new EVO today from sprint. (my other one had a dead pixel) I have done no updates to it, just turned it on. I have just tried the Simple Root and it fails because i have Software Number 1.47.651.1 and i guess i need the older one. But the phone came with it. Im currently on Stock 2.1. Can i still fully root somehow????
Just wait and try to be patient. You're not the only person in that situation. A fix will, no doubt, be on it's way eventually.
And don't be in a rush to try other things that aren't made for the release you have. You might end up like some other people and really mess up the phone by being impatient.
Wait, isn't Simple Root made for 1.47? And can't you root 1.47 manually anyway using toast's guides?
Huh, i just rooted one with that build. Did u get the 1 click simple root program for that build? I still use the 4 step one for the evos i root.
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I thought i traveled back in time there for a sec lol. There is a new simpleroot. I bet he is using the old 3 step for 1. 32
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Yeah either the one step simpleroot or on the wikwi guide page use "simplest root method without a user gui" all work fine with 1.47
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I thought i traveled back in time there for a sec lol. There is a new simpleroot. I bet he is using the old 3 step for 1. 32
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Im not sure if it was for 1.32 but yes it it was the 3 step simple root. Maybe thats why it didnt work Could you maybe show me the link to the one you are talking about please?? Thanks much
1.47 is the easiest to root. You are not on the "new software number". Don't freak out....
Use simple root for 1.47, search for it... It is easy to use, after that you can flash any rom through recovery.
So I'm getting my number change.
Do I need to unroot for sprint to do it or can I stay rooted.
Thanks in advance
I'm guessing that you are on Sprint. I think that you can just call them and get your number changed, in that case I don't see why that you would have to, but if you need to take it in to get them to do something then that might be a different story. I think that they are required to take a note on your file if you are rooted or not now, but I'm not sure. I do have to say though that it is not hard to root again after you unroot your evo now. I have had to do this with a RUU in the past because of getting bricked for a few hours. My advice if you go in back up using titanium backup and unroot for the duration of the trip. That might save your ass in the long run. lol )
Over the phone
bscholt22 said:
I'm guessing that you are on Sprint. I think that you can just call them and get your number changed, in that case I don't see why that you would have to, but if you need to take it in to get them to do something then that might be a different story. I think that they are required to take a note on your file if you are rooted or not now, but I'm not sure. I do have to say though that it is not hard to root again after you unroot your evo now. I have had to do this with a RUU in the past because of getting bricked for a few hours. My advice if you go in back up using titanium backup and unroot for the duration of the trip. That might save your ass in the long run. lol )
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I'm doing it over the phone. And yea I'm on Sprint
Legendary20 said:
I'm doing it over the phone. And yea I'm on Sprint
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Then I don't see where you would have a problem with just calling them without unrooting. Granted if you still have doubts unroot anyways. I don't want to be the person who says yes you can leave rooted and then they tell you that your insurance is not valid any longer... lol. leave rooted at your own risk, but I don't think that it would be a problem. Hit thanks if this helped.
You need a stock Evo-based Sense rom if activation requires you to access menus through the dialer. Just to be safe, I'd do a nandroid backup and flash the stock rooted rom. When you're finished, just nandroid restore and you'll be good to go.
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plainjane said:
You need a stock Evo-based Sense rom if activation requires you to access menus through the dialer. Just to be safe, I'd do a nandroid backup and flash the stock rooted rom. When you're finished, just nandroid restore and you'll be good to go.
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Number swaps don't require dialer codes. Only a profile update but yes you need to be on a sense ROM to do this.
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Yeah, you should be okay leaving rooted especially if you're doing it over the phone. I've had to bring my phone into sprint before for speaker problem, stopped there on my way to Walmart a few days ago, didn't even think about it being rooted until they already had it in back fixing it, but they brought it back up all fixed up, and I still have my insurance, and the store manager asked me what I did to get my phone looking so cool lol... I took a risk and told him it was rooted, so I know they deffinitly now know...and he asked me to root his lol.
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Rooter or not rooter
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Rooted is better if you know how to use a rooted phone. If he has no idea than he may just mess his phone up.
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if he doesnt want to root.. then let him be, he'll just be missing out.
I rooted to get the latest firmware [in canada it goes through samsung womp-womp ] and to get some extra customization out of my phone. It can give a phone the extra features you might feel are missing.
I always root my androids except my nexus's I rarely root them and as of now haven't my gnex
zephiK said:
if he doesnt want to root.. then let him be, he'll just be missing out.
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This! If he sees the pros + cons then decides he doesn't want it, then he shouldn't. You're a bad friend if you force him to do something he's not comfortable with to his phone.
AndreaCristiano said:
I always root my androids except my nexus's I rarely root them and as of now haven't my gnex
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Same. Loving my GNex bone stock.
lazcoreaedu said:
Hey guys I'm trying to convince my buddy that root is the way to go, I myself have my phone rooted and wouldn't go back to stock for any reasons, I've told him why he should go with root but he just wants some more opinions, so please can you give us your 2 cent on what's better rooted or not rooted?
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Regardless of whether he ultimately wants to root or not - make sure that even if it's remotely on the radar that he unlocks the BOOTLOADER as soon as he gets the phone.
Unlocking the bootloader wipes the ENTIRE phone (SD card partition and all) so it's something to do before anything else.
With the ability to subsequently make backups, rooting can easily come later.
It's rather simple:
If you don't know why you want root, you don't need root.
Valynor said:
It's rather simple:
If you don't know why you want root, you don't need root.
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I was going to say the same.
If he doesn't want/know then he SHOULDN'T cause he could end up with a bricked phone.
There's absolutely no reason to try to convince your friend, you're doing a disservice.
Murphy's law says he'll end up bricking it.
Unless you enjoy modding and willing to take the risk, let them use it stock - it's far more stable anyway.
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It's rather simple:
If you don't know why you want root, you don't need root.
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My thoughts exactly!
If your friend doesn't want it, he didn't need it. Eot.
And since you seem confused and mixing terms.... You can still be on stock while rooted.
You can even run a custom firmware without being rooted/having root.
Rooted merely means having local admin rights on the OS you are currently running. Custom firmware or not us entirely unrelated.
On most Samsung phones you don't even need to root to load custom ROMs, because they have open bootloaders. They're is no real relation between these terms which you are mixing.
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You can root the factory image so he'll still be stock with root. It'd best to root in case he wants future access for whatever, for example titanium backup would let him backup all his data, needs root. There are a milkion reasons to need root for very basic things.
Steal his phone, root it, install aokp/franco/theme and be like I dunno.. It just said update and I clicked yes, sorry bro.
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RogerPodacter said:
You can root the factory image so he'll still be stock with root. It'd best to root in case he wants future access for whatever, for example titanium backup would let him backup all his data, needs root. There are a milkion reasons to need root for very basic things.
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But if the guy doesn't want to use any of those things, there's no need to root it in the first place. If he doesn't see the value in it right now theres no need to force him into it. Rooting because you think he'll want it later in the future makes no sense.
ChongoDroid said:
Steal his phone, root it, install aokp/franco/theme and be like I dunno.. It just said update and I clicked yes, sorry bro.
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What a stupid suggestion.
ChongoDroid said:
Steal his phone, root it, install aokp/franco/theme and be like I dunno.. It just said update and I clicked yes, sorry bro.
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this was my thought too!
At least let him figure out how to do it himself. If he figures it out. It might be for him. Let him do it via fast boot commands. Not one click.
I remember fist time rooting. I only had to press "root" in an app, and I ended up messing my sgs i9000 up completely. I had to learn everything the hard way. The right way. You should never do anything to your phone, unless you know how to get back to where you were.
I removed root from my device because I needed to take it to the sprint store. I could not get the toolkit to remove root I saw a option under SU to remove root and uninstall. Removing root via SU worked but now I can't re-add it. I've tried using the toolkit and I've tried CF auto root.
Apparently I screwed something up. Phone boots up and works just fine, just no root despite both methods claiming success.
Why not download a pre rooted rom?
Wipe all, and install the pre rooted rom in recovery
trim81 said:
Why not download a pre rooted rom?
Wipe all, and install the pre rooted rom in recovery
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Was hoping I could back up my data on a few games first. Is it possible to do that not rooted? And yes, I tried the root kit and it didn't let me access the game files.
Edit: Found the tool that allows me to back up my data. Now I have to get things set up so I can run it. Needed to do this anyway for programming.
Why unroot to take it to sprint? No one has ever cared at my store.
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epicnoob66 said:
Why unroot to take it to sprint? No one has ever cared at my store.
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They refused to even touch mines rooted. Another store a little farther from me didn't care but I had already removed it.
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The backup didn't work for our device. Any other root methods?
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Do you have stock recovery? How did you remove root
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SuperSU let me do it by uninstalling it. It was the only way I knew how since the remove root tool didn't work.
So you should be able to install su from the market. Maybe I'm not understanding
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You are understanding. That is how I thought it would work but when I reinstalled it told me it couldn't get root. I am unsure how but later on when I was trying to do a adb back up my device rooted itself. I'm thinking I'm going to take it back to stock and start over. Something strange happened with the way I removed root and it might give me problems in the future.
Though right now my device is working like it is suppose to. I just don't understand how it found root again. I swear I rebooted multiple times when I was trouble shooting it.
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I play hardball at my store, if it shows modified or is rooted I wont touch it. Only because we get audited like a ***** and I've been charged back on by sprint for the simplest of **** and thats the majority of my bonus if I even manage enough profit to get one. Some stores can get away with it but normally I just take the customer aside and tell them to go home and unroot / triangle away and I'll do the exchange.
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I play hardball at my store, if it shows modified or is rooted I wont touch it. Only because we get audited like a ***** and I've been charged back on by sprint for the simplest of **** and thats the majority of my bonus if I even manage enough profit to get one. Some stores can get away with it but normally I just take the customer aside and tell them to go home and unroot / triangle away and I'll do the exchange.
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Yea, that is what he did for me too. Said he couldn't get caught touching it. Rules are rules. I asked them about last year and they didn't care so I didn't even think to unroot it first since I was running on a stock rom with root.
Next time I will make sure to go to the store completely stock. Safer for me and the employee that wants to help me.
Silent25r said:
Yea, that is what he did for me too. Said he couldn't get caught touching it. Rules are rules. I asked them about last year and they didn't care so I didn't even think to unroot it first since I was running on a stock rom with root.
Next time I will make sure to go to the store completely stock. Safer for me and the employee that wants to help me.
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Glad you were able to get everything worked out and root again though :good: sprint can be bad at times
Yeah I played it safe and went back to stock going back to the store to get some things sorted out.. . I went before checking out a phone for my girlfriend and the lady spotted my screen and said "We won't touch your device if it's rooted".. I just gave her the evil look
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You will not be able to reroot without root, because you will not be able to set perms needed on the su binary.
To reroot, just do what you did to root it. Use Odin to flash the rooted recovery.img from Chainfire's CF Auto Root thread and boom, you're golden.
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Hey all，
I have lg g3 d855 .
I want to do root but i have 2 years of Manufacturer Warranty.
If I m do root i can remove the root and the shop I bought from them they cant know i was with root??
Tnx all and sorry on my bad English.
Einavbs1 said:
Hey all，
I have lg g3 d855 .
I want to do root but i have 2 years of Manufacturer Warranty.
If I m do root i can remove the root and the shop I bought from them they cant know i was with root??
Tnx all and sorry on my bad English.
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So you how long left of it warranty
If u unroot ur phone the Tech can't check got root inside cause u already remove the root
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PR3DATOR Aaron said:
So you how long left of it warranty
If u unroot ur phone the Tech can't check got root inside cause u already remove the root
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1 year and 10 mouths left hahah..
If Im unroot my phone they cant see I had root on my phone?
I hared have something call "Counter heartburn" and if I want do root on my phone its write there.
Einavbs1 said:
1 year and 10 mouths left hahah..
If Im unroot my phone they cant see I had root on my phone?
I hared have something call "Counter heartburn" and if I want do root on my phone its write there.
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Yes they can't check got root in your phone even the tech even use computer check also got no root
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Just Do It
Root and start having fun with your phone. It probably will never break as long as you don't drop it or get it wet. You can always unroot and go back to stock. There are lots of threads in XDA explaining how to do that and anything else you might think of.
Smithfolk4 said:
Root and start having fun with your phone. It probably will never break as long as you don't drop it or get it wet. You can always unroot and go back to stock. There are lots of threads in XDA explaining how to do that and anything else you might think of.
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Do you know how to back to stock??
I want see that before Im rooting my device.
I really scared B-cause my friend told mr if I do unroot its keep files can not delete them...
Here You Go
Einavbs1 said:
Do you know how to back to stock??
I want see that before Im rooting my device.
I really scared B-cause my friend told mr if I do unroot its keep files can not delete them...
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The instructions are here - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2785089
Use the correct instructions and files for your specific phone (if you ever need to go back to stock which I doubt).
If you are not interested in being able to do extra things with your phone or you are not willing to play around a bit to get things working right you probably don't want to root your phone. It is a bit nerve racking and I have spent some time worried that I couldn't recover from some stupid things that I have done. But, with the help of the community I was always able to get my phones working fine. I think that the LG G3 is a good phone even when it is stock so it may not be worth it for you to root it. However, it can be a much better phone if you root, use custom ROMs, and some of the other root apps out there. If you are uncomfortable or not willing to spend time tinkering stay stock.