was wanting to install Miui but new to all of this and was trying to find out how to root and flash on my phone,ive got gingerbreak but it just keeps failing. I know there are other steps involved in this but couldnt really find anything about it. any help would be great. oh yeah and to put cwm3 on the phone.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=779238
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=789823
my post is help with samsung showcase which is i500 i would try that i left detailed instructions.
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My buddy got a rooted EVO on craigslist, wants to go back to stock, just feels better without root, doesn't have any interest in rooting, roms, etc.
I rooted my own evo so i have some exp with rooting the phone but was thinking i could just flash update.zip and it would update his phone and unroot.
but two update.zip i dl which were supposed to be official 2.2 did not work, one failed verification/signature cant remember excactly but will post if needed. the other one just gave a strange error.
Do i need to wipe the data/factory reset/or anything special?
Am i to hopeful assuming flashing update.zip will unroot? also if he gets OTA update tomorrow should he accept and will that unroot?
thanks in advance, i tried to do a search on unrooting and found a bunch of dead end options, i tried a few with no success. I was hoping the new update would be the easiest route.
here is a few i tried
sorry to new for links....
did not try this one yet, was hoping the OTA would avoid this:
any insight is greatly appreciated, i have tried to convince him to stay rooted but no luck. if anybody had success with one of the OTA 2.2 update.zip floating around and could share a link it would help me out, i used two different ones with no success.
For the love of god, please search and post in the right forum. There are tons of threads on this, including a new one this evening.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=743192
The thread above is even on this PAGE with the subject line of 'How To UN ROOT. TUTORIAL. Your Problems are solved!'.
HOW you missed that is incomprehensible.
PLEASE IF SOMEONE CAN MOVE THIS TO THE PROPER FORUM I WOULD APPRECIATE IT, I MESSED UP AND POSTED INCORRECTLY. thank you...
I searched the forums, I tried to post the links of many options available for unrooting the phone, I don't have the privileges to post links.
The one you posted I DID SEE I should have been more direct, I was looking to see if the new OTA update will update the phone to 2.2 and unroot the phone, since its not my phone i don't want to spend to much time on it or simply pass the info on to him.
I was NOT IN ANYWAY looking to be directed to another source for unrooting or lead to a link, what i could not find was if the new ota will be the easiest route. I had him try two run two of what I had believed were the newest ota update.zip with no success.
Okay so I'm a noob with rooting Samsung phones. Well I think somehow I did a bad flash I used the one click method and ever since then I've had continuious problems with my phone. Nomatter which rom I flash I have the same problem a constant reboot that gets stuck in a bootloop and the only way to stop it is to pull the battery out also it shuts off in the middle of the night while charging. I was going to use odins unroot but every link I find is not working. I finally downloaded odin3 1.62 but I can't find the files or instructions to use it. If anybody can help it would be greatly appreciated.
The roms I have tried are:
Syndicate
Mammons 2.2
Epic experience
And I believe heroic.
Currently running mammons 2.2
Thanks again.
Check the stickies in the development section, there is even a link to the wiki which lists the instructions and has links to the necessary files.
To save you a couple clicks, go here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=794138
The first link in the first post goes to instructions on how to use Odin. The second link is the DI18 file used to flash your phone back to stock.
I have never tried the 1.61 version of Odin, or the 528.pit file, but the page with the instructions has the older version and a link to the 512.pit... I know for a fact that those work just fine, so I would suggest using those first before trying the newer files.
Hey thanks for all the help. My Epic is back in working order. Need to find a better way to root now.
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Hey thanks for all the help. My Epic is back in working order. Need to find a better way to root now.
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First off this needs to be in the development section, this is themeing. The best way to root is with the one-click posted by noobnl. Version 2.40 should be compatible with any ROM on here, and it is very easy to use. Just follow the instructions in the sticky in the dev section.
Apparently people have rooted and installed all kinds of ROMs on the myTouch 3G Slide.
I have one and I have completey uterly failed to understand a darn thing from all the different root instructions I have found.
Can one of you fine gentlemen who owns this exact device tell me exactly how you rooted and installed any basic ROM with Android 2.2 or 2.3 on this device?
Please keep in mind I am a complete Android n00b. I am not tech-illeterate, just never tried anything like this before and all the instructions I found are baffling and sound like they're written for an Android developer/hacker guy.
So give me the simplest plainest easiest way to do this...please!
for rooting, go here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=954725 this does almost everything for you, you just have to do a few things here and there. but hey, it tells you what to do.
advice: don't do ANYTHING on your computer until you're done rooting your phone, you might accidentally cancel something you shouldn't have.
for flashing rom, go here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=921931
and find the part where it talks about flashing stuff.
to get the clockwork they're talking about, download ROM Manager from the market and the press the option of Flash ClockworkMod Recovery, then move on with the instruction.
Hello,
I have a Samsung Galaxy Ace. I want to root it and flash it with CyanogenMod (the latest working version for Galaxy Ace). I also want to make a backup of the current state of the Ace i.e. the stock ROM so that I may revert back to it in case I don't like what I get after the flashing of the new ROM.
I have never before rooted any android phones and I have no intentions of bricking my Ace. I have searched about how to go about the process but I keep reading about CWM, odin, unlocking bootloader and stuff like that which I am not at all familiar with.
So, can anybody guide me through the steps? What should be the first step?
I request somebody to guide me through the process so that if anything goes wrong, lets say I softbrick my phone, you can help me recover it. If I follow along a tutorial all on my own, I might end up with a bricked phone.
Thanks in advance for all the help :laugh:
Hi, I've been able to successfully flash cwm and then a custom ROM.
moderators can delete this thread if they want.
Thanks XDA.
Hello guys, i am new to installing custom roms.
This will be my first install.
I have i9100 international version and want to upgrade it from stock 4.1.2 to lolipop mainly because my phone is old and lagging like hell.
Before i posted i have searched the forum and google and found some info but its still kinda confusing to me.
I was thinking to upgrade to CM12. CM13 i think will be too much for this old phone!
A lot of guides say that i must have installed a custom recovery. I dont have any...
trying to search how to do the above, i find that in order to do that i need to root my phone! This is where i get lost. Some say i need root, some say i dont!
Some guides say to use odin, some others to use bootloader or something....
Can someone that has done this give me some pointers or some step by step guide to read on how to do this?
Also, is it possible after installing the ROM to get my apps and my settings back? logs,sms,contacts, etc etc etc?
thanks for reading guys..