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yes it's kinda of a "duh" question, but it is also something that i have not seen posted and i think it's something most would miss.
what phone model should you use when flashing crm on this phone? my first assumption is the sgs i9000 (mtd) but i'm not sure, so i am not going to choose it.
i do have cmw files for when i rooted, so this isn't much of an issue but it would be nice not flashing the hard way.
no official clock work recovery as of yet
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anyone talk to koush yet about official CWR??
Is it possible to sign a zip file so I can install some things on one of my unrooted friends' phone? I've searched around, and it seems the usual idea is "just root your phone," but my friend doesn't want to do that. Is the certificate it's signed with proprietary to Sprint, or the software itself?
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This is in the wrong section (unless you've figured out how to do this).
But I don't believe this is possible anyway. You'd need to find Sprint / Samsung's private keys.
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jaqual said:
Is it possible to sign a zip file so I can install some things on one of my unrooted friends' phone? I've searched around, and it seems the usual idea is "just root your phone," but my friend doesn't want to do that. Is the certificate it's signed with proprietary to Sprint, or the software itself?
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It is the wrong section.. but, if you're just looking for the stock files they can be found all over..
This one is the Odin and Heimdall packages to get your friend's phone to the latest STOCK EL30 Gingerbread..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1461337
And Aluminous is correct, you'd need samsung/sprint's private key to properly sign zip's.
You can Odin in CWM5, flash the few things you want on his phone (though most things need to be on a rooted or deodexed ROM) then after you boot the CWM recovery will be gone. Just have the files already on his sd card to flash.
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And Aluminous is correct, you'd need samsung/sprint's private key to properly sign zip's.
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This is what I was after...thanks guys.
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Stock Samsung recovery pulled straight from stock firmware and packaged as a Odin flashable tar file. I decided to do this for those who may want or need to flash the stock recovery. I have tested this and worked fine on my phone. I am not sure if it will work with any other carrier besides AT&T so if you try it do so at your own risk and if it works report it and I will add any other confirmed carriers that it works for. I am not responsible if you brick, melt or blow up your phone so don't cry to me lol...
Below is the link to download the tar file. If anyone wants to make a cwm flashable zip feel free to and post a link to where it can be downloaded....
Edit....
It has been confirmed that this will work on Bell devices also...
http://db.tt/AvISQtPy
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garydv2002 said:
Stock Samsung recovery pulled straight from stock firmware and packaged as a Odin flashable tar file. I decided to do this for those who may want or need to flash the stock recovery. I have tested this and worked fine on my phone. I am not sure if it will work with any other carrier besides AT&T so if you try it do so at your own risk and if it works report it and I will add any other confirmed carriers that it works for. I am not responsible if you brick, melt or blow up your phone so don't cry to me lol...
Below is the link to download the tar file. If anyone wants to make a cwm flashable zip feel free to and post a link to where it can be downloaded....
http://db.tt/AvISQtPy
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sorry to ask such a nooby question but is this the stock recovery as in the ROM or as in a recovery like cwm or twrp?
eddied042092 said:
sorry to ask such a nooby question but is this the stock recovery as in the ROM or as in a recovery like cwm or twrp?
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This is pure stock. Not custom (new vocab: custom is what you call cwm and twrp, stock is, well, stock ;P)
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rani9990 said:
This is pure stock. Not custom (new vocab: custom is what you call cwm and twrp, stock is, well, stock ;P)
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Thanks lol I knew that already its just I just barely upgraded to thw gs3 from an htc vivid and im not sure if this had an hboot menu like that one did you know? Im just a little new to the whole samsung thing my bad
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Thanks lol I knew that already its just I just barely upgraded to thw gs3 from an htc vivid and im not sure if this had an hboot menu like that one did you know? Im just a little new to the whole samsung thing my bad
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Samsung doesn't have hboot. Only recovery and download (Odin) modes.
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Samsung doesn't have hboot. Only recovery and download (Odin) modes.
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Can you explain to me what the odin mode is for?
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eddied042092 said:
Can you explain to me what the odin mode is for?
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Odin mode or download mode is for flashing a new firmware. I mainly posted this stock recovery for the ones using a custom recovery like cwm or twrp and just wanted to flash the stock recovery back so they could update their phones via a OTA update. If you are running a recovery like cwm or twrp and your phone tells you that you have a ota firmware update available it will not let you install it with a custom recovery. To update via a OTA update you must have the stock Samsung recovery. So now anyone using cwm or twrp can just flash this stock recovery download everoot from the play store for free then run ever root update their phone run ever root again and never even lose root privaledge on their phone....
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Has anyone tried it on a canadian i747m yet ?
I'm not willing to be the first one to try it out as I can't afford to brick it due to software incompatibility. :/
Thanks for posting this Gary! And good to see ya here, we gotta get the remaining skyrocket crew to join the dark side lol
Does anyone know if stock recovery is required to perform official OTA updates with the S3 on AT&T? I remember needing stock recovery for updates to the S2 Skyrocket, but I'm not sure if anything's changed with the S3 (and I did see a Rogers user say he was able to get the jb OTA while using TWRP for recovery, so maybe it isn't necessary?).
EDIT: Also wanted to mention, in case anyone is wondering, this .tar does work with Mobile Odin Pro. Just used it successfully.
From what I've heard yes you do need the stock recovery to ota update on the s3. Again I hadn't tried it but that's what I hear anyway.
Oh and its good to be here. I still have my rocket. Its used for highly experimental testing and flashing lol.. I've soft bricked it three times since I've had my s3 in less than a month lol. I just hope my next experiment whatever that may be isn't my last lol...
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garydv2002 said:
Stock Samsung recovery pulled straight from stock firmware and packaged as a Odin flashable tar file. I decided to do this for those who may want or need to flash the stock recovery. I have tested this and worked fine on my phone. I am not sure if it will work with any other carrier besides AT&T so if you try it do so at your own risk and if it works report it and I will add any other confirmed carriers that it works for. I am not responsible if you brick, melt or blow up your phone so don't cry to me lol...
Below is the link to download the tar file. If anyone wants to make a cwm flashable zip feel free to and post a link to where it can be downloaded....
http://db.tt/AvISQtPy
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You didn't mention it, or I missed it, but this is LH9 stock, yes?
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You didn't mention it, or I missed it, but this is LH9 stock, yes?
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As far as I know the stock 3e recovery has not changed, it's the same for any build number for the S3. The stock recovery is on a partition separate from the rom so it shouldn't matter which build you're on.
(99% sure on this but someone please correct me if I'm wrong)
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As far as I know the stock 3e recovery has not changed, it's the same for any build number for the S3. The stock recovery is on a partition separate from the rom so it shouldn't matter which build you're on.
(99% sure on this but someone please correct me if I'm wrong)
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Stock 3e recovery? Not familiar with this, so research seems in order. Thanks.
Stock 3e recovery == Stock Samsung recovery
However, I'm still curious to know if the stock recovery is indeed the same for any build number / variant of the North American GS3...
Anyone know if this triggers the counter?
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It did not trigger my flash counter....
And I also agree with skrambled I think the stock recovery is for all builds of the S3
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Worked perfect on my att gs3 running jelly bean. Thanks for posting. I would also be curious if this works on the other variants as well.
No tripping of the flash counter either.
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I don't use ODIN enough to remember. Which button do i pick to flash the "stock recovery.tar"? (bootloader, PDA, PHONE, CSC)
thanks
eggwardo said:
I don't use ODIN enough to remember. Which button do i pick to flash the "stock recovery.tar"? (bootloader, PDA, PHONE, CSC)
thanks
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Pda.... make sure re-partition IS NOT checked....
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garydv2002 said:
Stock Samsung recovery pulled straight from stock firmware and packaged as a Odin flashable tar file. I decided to do this for those who may want or need to flash the stock recovery. I have tested this and worked fine on my phone. I am not sure if it will work with any other carrier besides AT&T so if you try it do so at your own risk and if it works report it and I will add any other confirmed carriers that it works for. I am not responsible if you brick, melt or blow up your phone so don't cry to me lol...
Below is the link to download the tar file. If anyone wants to make a cwm flashable zip feel free to and post a link to where it can be downloaded....
Edit....
It has been confirmed that this will work on Bell devices also...
http://db.tt/AvISQtPy
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this stock recovery, will it "upgrade" my phone to 4.3? as in make all the adjustments already made go back to new? asking because i accidentally upgraded what i think was a Knox security thing that crashed my SuperSU and now i cant even start it.
So what is this?
I have always wondered would it be safe and easier to flash custom roms using Odin if we had odin packages for custom roms. So I started to poke around and research. Rwilco12 has been a great help. I was working on this before new year and was getting somewhere. I had created quite a few full Odin tars for couple ROMs but none of the packages had successfully flashed the whole ROM. These tar packages are similar to the stock .tar files that sextape posts but they are rooted and are not stock Sprint builds.
As some of you may know, I got sick and caught flu on new year so had to stop working on this and hasn't worked on this since 27th Dec plus now new college semester has started so I am somewhat short on time.
So the reason I am posting this here is that I want to know from you whether you would be interested in using Odin to flash custom roms? OR Would you rather continue to flash custom ROMs using CWM?
If more people are interested in this and would seriously use these to flash custom ROMs then I will continue to work on it. I want honest responses. I wouldn't mind a bit if you think Odin custom ROM flashing is not the way you would go. Also you can use the poll for your response.
I will appreciate any useful responses.
Im actually working on something similar for my Note 2 rom. Gonna have the choices of a zip, tar or aroma install. Going the extra tar route to include files for people rolling back from higher firmware with errors so they dont have to flash modems and the fix separately and can just odin 1click back. It would actually probably work well for any rom it makes it much easier for a noob to flash without fear of using an unsafe kernel on et4g and without having to learn everything all at once before they can try something out. Odin has been fairly safe for me minus one incident with a leak when I flashed an incomplete tar and bricked nyself but other than that never had a single hiccup using odin with complete files. It would make it easy for people to flash without recovery as well since they could mobile odin the new rom instead :thumbup:
I give this idea :thumbup::thumbup:
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It has its ups of convenience but is not practical for developers. From my understanding, it is much easier to break into a zip file to update stuff for the new builds fix bugs and find bugs to fix, as well as it being easier to build a zip to flash. Also, as the end user of a ROM, I like to go in and add or remove things before I flash my ROM. I can't do that easily if at all if it is Odin based.
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I've been talking about this for months, since we had the eMMC super brick issue. No one listened...
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graydiggy said:
It has its ups of convenience but is not practical for developers. From my understanding, it is much easier to break into a zip file to update stuff for the new builds fix bugs and find bugs to fix, as well as it being easier to build a zip to flash. Also, as the end user of a ROM, I like to go in and add or remove things before I flash my ROM. I can't do that easily if at all if it is Odin based.
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I hear you but its only couple linux commands to unpack the system folder and then you can make any changes.
Mattix724 said:
I've been talking about this for months, since we had the eMMC super brick issue. No one listened...
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I heard you, I just had no clue how to pack a tar for odin yet lmao. I know how to create one in linux in place of a rar or zip file but didnt have the first clue what I needed to pack for odin to pick it up and flash. Now I have a nifty little tool that builds the oneclicks for me
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I heard you, I just had no clue how to pack a tar for odin yet lmao. I know how to create one in linux in place of a rar or zip file but didnt have the first clue what I needed to pack for odin to pick it up and flash. Now I have a nifty little tool that builds the oneclicks for me
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Is this the tool you use that came from the N2 forum?
http://www.xda-developers.com/android/package-odin-roms-with-gzip-compression-hidden-menu-gets-an-update/
And Blues - I was attempting this for the deodexed and couldn't get it to clean flash properly. I'd be interested in seeing if odexed/deodexed can be used in this manner since there were people asking for it.
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Is this the tool you use that came from the N2 forum?
http://www.xda-developers.com/andro...-gzip-compression-hidden-menu-gets-an-update/
And Blues - I was attempting this for the deodexed and couldn't get it to clean flash properly. I'd be interested in seeing if odexed/deodexed can be used in this manner since there were people asking for it.
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Might be im not at my pc to check the package name atm. But if its the one garwynn told me about then yeah that be it
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BluesRulez said:
I hear you but its only couple linux commands to unpack the system folder and then you can make any changes.
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But how many of the average users have either a dedicated Linux box or even a VM to do that? On top of that, How many of the average users that don't have either want to set all that up then learn those commands to unpack the tar, edit what they extracted, re-pack it, then re-sign the tar? Yeah there are programs that will pretty much do that for you, but like I said, it is more convenient to keep the official and unchanging builds for Odin and and keep the custom ROMs that are changing every week in the zip format.
Why try to fix something that isn't broken and is much easier to do?
Am I saying "no you can't do it."? Not at all. If you want to spend the time to do all that, go for it. But I can bet you money that half of the developers that are pushing weekly and nightly builds will not want to do all the extra stuff. Look at the bigger picture, most people want pure convenience. There are also big risks with flashing ROMs via Odin.
Bricks being the biggest one.
This topic has been brought up quite a few times in many device forums including this one, and what I have said has been said by many others.
It's just not logical.
That's why im giving 3 install options. Zip tar and aroma. You choose how you wanna install each have their own pros and cons. The biggest pro for odin is I can pack fixes that cant be flashed in a typical zip and can AIO everything so its a single flash and not a zip stack to get it working
I like to break stuff!
If a developer wants to offer tar files for their ROMs then they can do it. It is their decision, not the end user.
Just because you want to dissect someone else's work, does not mean that they are going to cater to your every desire.
Yes, there are risks in flashing via Odin such as flashing the wrong pit, boot.bin, data... but if the developer has tested the tar like all developers should always be testing their own work before releasing to the general public. The only other issue would be bad downloads, which it is entirely up to the user to always check the MD5 before flashing.
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Ok I want to clarify something. I am not saying rom devs have to do this.
I will be creating them for the various roms.
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BluesRulez said:
Ok I want to clarify something. I am not saying rom devs have to do this.
I will be creating them for the various roms.
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And you have my approval for my FK23 and any future ROMs that I may or may not make.
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My thoughts are that it is great for a noob. That is they only want to flash a rom and run with. If you are a dev or like me trying to get the hang of theming and more the zip is the way to go. It its possible to brick your phone ether way. But its is much easer for the noob to do a one click than installing a cwm zip. That they tend to mess up and post after post about all the problems. LoL
But for a dev I can see the problem. I say yes sofpr the noobs. We were all anoob at one point in time. Thanks op I was thinking of this too.
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My thoughts are that it is great for a noob. That is they only want to flash a rom and run with. If you are a dev or like me trying to get the hang of theming and more the zip is the way to go. It its possible to brick your phone ether way. But its is much easer for the noob to do a one click than installing a cwm zip. That they tend to mess up and post after post about all the problems. LoL
But for a dev I can see the problem. I say yes sofpr the noobs. We were all anoob at one point in time. Thanks op I was thinking of this too.
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Well, in the words of garyd (search if you don't know to whom I refer to), it seems that 75%, or more, of people aren't here to dev.
I'll be honest; when I first came here a short time ago, I wanted to root so I could add all the tweaks and themes because a fellow co-worker showed me what could be done. Then the inner geek came out and now I am like a dog on a squirrel going tree to tree trying to soak up all I can. Just gotta focus..
My point = this is a place for "stuff". I'm not taking away from the roots of XDA nor it's intentions because I now understand what a dev told me (Venum, cough, cough, good guy, cough) - This is a place to learn.
I hope Blues follows through with this because he can help me figure out where I may have failed or vice versa.
Who cares about the "numbers" that want it..
Ask a teacher - "If you can reach one.. " What they'd say..
My 2 cents... I have always kept a blu kuban nandroid that is a fully functional backup that's ready to go if I crap up the phone and don't have time to rebuild before say going to work. Even if it's out dated, it's ready to go. To turn said backup into a one click would be that much cooler if the recovery is blown too. Could a script be made to turn a nandroid folder into a one click?
As for the roms being released for odin, it sounds cool but I would miss adding stuff like swype and other system apps myself.
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Hey Blues, if you need any help building tar files for the vast number of ROMs out there, I am waiting for more work to be available before I can go back to work... damn construction.
I have at least this week maybe some of next week available to help.
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Hey Blues, if you need any help building tar files for the vast number of ROMs out there, I am waiting for more work to be available before I can go back to work... damn construction.
I have at least this week maybe some of next week available to help.
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Thanks. So far I have used couple ICS roms. Took the system folder and packaged that into factoryfs.img and then a blank data.img and zimage with all remaining files which are standard in stock .tar such as boot.bin, param.lfs etc to create a full rom .tar. It flashes all the parts but when the time comes for it to boot, it goes to samsung flash screen. Tries 2 times to boot and then boots into custom recovery (agat for the zimage I used).
Rwilco has suggested couple things but haven't had a chance to try those so may be I will get on it!
Hey Moho. How much have you done yet?
BluesRulez said:
So what is this?
I have always wondered would it be safe and easier to flash custom roms using Odin if we had odin packages for custom roms. So I started to poke around and research. Rwilco12 has been a great help. I was working on this before new year and was getting somewhere. I had created quite a few full Odin tars for couple ROMs but none of the packages had successfully flashed the whole ROM. These tar packages are similar to the stock .tar files that sextape posts but they are rooted and are not stock Sprint builds.
As some of you may know, I got sick and caught flu on new year so had to stop working on this and hasn't worked on this since 27th Dec plus now new college semester has started so I am somewhat short on time.
So the reason I am posting this here is that I want to know from you whether you would be interested in using Odin to flash custom roms? OR Would you rather continue to flash custom ROMs using CWM?
If more people are interested in this and would seriously use these to flash custom ROMs then I will continue to work on it. I want honest responses. I wouldn't mind a bit if you think Odin custom ROM flashing is not the way you would go. Also you can use the poll for your response.
I will appreciate any useful responses.
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Yessssssss do it!!! It will be less bricks out there cuz ppl don't know wat safe recovery to use! Like certain peeps like to flash using blu Kuban kernel! Then wonder why the ROM don't boot!!! Do it BluesRulez
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Hey Moho. How much have you done yet?
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Slightly different way of making the fs.img and only doing a Rom flash.
Was working with deoxdexed flashing on top of a stock base.
Boots but ui crashes. Like a blank ui..
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Hey Guys,
I know it is probably not possible, but in case it is, I wanted to post the question.
I have been working with MotoDefier for a few days now learning about the new model S3 (SGH-T999L). Because there is no firmware available for download yet, we are trying to find a way to either pull the stock recovery before rooting, or figure a way to root without flashing CWM or TWRP first.
The ultimate goal here is to pull all of the parts that are included in firmware updates, and create the firmware from there. This way, if anyone runs into problems, they will be able to Odin back to stock.
Moto has already tried several different rooting methods, including CF-AutoRoot, and has had no luck so far. So if anyone has any ideas on how we can get this done, please do share!
Thanks!
Doc
This may be out of place but perhaps the 999l is closer recovery to the s4? I don't know. But have you tried to pull it with the paid version of the s3 toolkit?
I wish I could help. Sorry Doc
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Doesnt the toolkit flash recovery though? Ive never actually used it. Ill look into it though, thanks.
As far as it being closer to the S4, im just not sure. I do know you can root by flashing the T999 CWM or TWRP, then superuser. Plus.from what I see the overall layout is the same as the original T999.
Thanks for the reply!
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I don't have an answer for your question, but wouldn't the only way be through flashing an insecure kernel (exploit)? Then you could push SU and you would have your recovery. But then you lose the kernel.
Can't you download the firmware through Kies? I know it's not on sammobile, but I would think that Kies would be able to restore the factory image. The prospect of Kies not being able to do this is ridiculous. If that's the case, it's even more useless than I previously thought.
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I don't have an answer for your question, but wouldn't the only way be through flashing an insecure kernel (exploit)? Then you could push SU and you would have your recovery. But then you lose the kernel.
Can't you download the firmware through Kies? I know it's not on sammobile, but I would think that Kies would be able to restore the factory image. The prospect of Kies not being able to do this is ridiculous. If that's the case, it's even more useless than I previously thought.
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I was actualy thinking the same thing about the kernel. Just sent a PM to one of the guys who already rooted to see if they would pull the boot.img for me. Im not worried about losing the kernel, as I will still have the original copy after setting it to insecure.
Moto already tried getting the firmware through kies, but it didnt work. We figure that its because there is no publicly released firmware to begin with. As to the uselessness of Kies......completely!
.......I was just thinking, when you flash CM, it flashes its own kernel with it, right? (Its been a long time since Ive messed with CM, sorry). If thats the case, i wont be getting the kernel from the guy I PM'd.
Does anyone else have the new model T999L? If so have you rooted yet, or do you plan to? If so, please PM me if you are willing to help us out with this.
And by all means, hit me with any other ideas you guys may have!
Yes, it flashes it's own battery hog kernel.
Well, I hope I dont jinx anything by announcing too early, but I think we got it!
It appears that using the motochopper exploit did the job. It was originally created for a Motorola device, but as it turns out it will work on a number of Qualcomm based devices.
I got the info from the S4 forums.
It appears the main thread is in the ATT forum here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2252248
Here it is reposted in the Tmobile S4 forum:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2258633
Just wanted to share in case anyone's interested in taking a look.
Note: it looks like the latest updates may have been patched against this exploit. Just fyi.
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I love you Doc. (Hetero)
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Lol!
Be sure to hit thanks when you see MotoDefier. He took all the risk and did all the hard work! I mostly just helped with ideas and such. (Most of which didnt work!)
Ill be working tonight and tomorrow on getting some sort of flashable firmware put together so you guys have a way back to stock if need be.
Also I have a deodexed rom based on the T999L almost ready in case anyone wants to mess with it. Just got to double/triple check my work and test first. There are a few differences from the original T999 so im curious to see if any of it is noticeable while its running.
Let the fun begin!
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DocHoliday77 said:
Doesnt the toolkit flash recovery though? Ive never actually used it. Ill look into it though, thanks.
As far as it being closer to the S4, im just not sure. I do know you can root by flashing the T999 CWM or TWRP, then superuser. Plus.from what I see the overall layout is the same as the original T999.
Thanks for the reply!
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What I meant was pulling files from device without pushing anything to it. I believe this is an option within the toolkit, not sure if paid version required. Hmmm.
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What I was getting at, was that we didnt want to use the toolkit because it flashes recovery. And I could be mistaken, but Im pretty sure the toolkit requires you to root first, then it can pull system firmware for you. Either way though, we got what we needed. I am uploading files now and will post shortly.
Note that most of what I am doing is currently untested. I do not have a T999L, and I dont want to take the chance of flashing certain parts of the T999L to it. I am confident that it will work, or i wouldnt release any of it, but just for full disclosure.....!
I dont believe it needs root and it wont do anything you dont want it to do unless you tell it to do it. All of that aside, I wasnt trying to pimp the toolkit, I just thought it might work, but as I have little knowledge about that which I am talking, I'll just defer to you fellows as you seem to know a thing or two about a thing or two.
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I have the T999L, I used the Toolkit to flash TWRP and then updated it to 2.5.0.0 from Doc's page, I then flashed SuperSU 1.30, wiped Cache and Dalvik, then rebooted. Bam, Rooted. But it not 100%, ROM Manager doesn't seem to have root, but Adfree Android, TiBackup and ES File Explorer. I'm going to uninstall ROM Manager and then reinstall to see if that helps.
Thanks again to DocHoliday77 for his help.
EDIT: I found out why ROM Manager was failing, BusyBox was not installed. I installed it and everything works.