I am currently running on the .62 firmware but would like to root the phone. After researching this it seems the easiest way is to flash to a previous version, root and the update back to 0.62.
Now i hate to ask as i am usually more than capable of using the search function, but......where the hell can i download previous firmwares??? I have been looking for either .42 or .58 but cannot find??? The only time i have found any, they link to multiupload which refuses to do anything!!!?
Please help a dumb ass...
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This will probably be really easy to answer:
I've just downgraded my friend's Arc from .62 to .42 standard ROM, and rooted it.
I read that I could then OTA upgrade back to .62 and keep root. OTA upgrade with sim card inserted tells me I have the latest software.
PC Companion is offering me 4.1.B.0.431, which is ICS - correct?
Is there any way I can upgrade this phone back to .62 GB, whilst keeping root? Can I flash a .62 ROM with Flashtools, or will that lose my root?
Any other suggestions?
If this isn't possible, then can someone tell me the positives and negatives of going to ICS on this phone, vs .42?
It's not mine, and I don't want to give back a phone with any (worse!) bugs than it already has. Also I don't want to unlock the bootloader. The reason for the root in the first place is purely because the owner wants rid of the camera sounds. The ROM it had before did not have the option to turn off the shutter sound.
Ah, don't worry - the phone has offered me 4.0.2.A.0.62 OTA now, problem solved!
Incidentally, I just want to get my facts straight - if I now delete some bloatware, that means that if this phone (rooted, but locked bootloader) ever needs to be updated again (to ICS), then it will have to be done by flashing a clean .ftf rather updating OTA/via PC Companion. Is this correct?
If my friend inadvertently tried to update it herself then the update would just fail - it wouldn't brick, since it still has a locked bootloader - correct?
btw its not .62 ROM its a firmware on GB... flashing .62 on flashtool will make you lose your root so you have to do an OTA update on your phone to .62
.62 and .42 are practically the same, on the other hand upgrading to ICS is not any better... scrolling is laggy, the OS itself is not smooth (ICS) unless you wanna use MooDeD 90.5 on your phone
which is fast and not laggy and this ROM doesnt require a unlocked bootloader because its based on stock ICS
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Well if you have a locked bootloader and no custom ROM flashed on your phone, you can use PCC to upgrade to ICS but i always flash through flashtool
Once you have got root suggest you install cwm and do. A complete backup before removing any bloatware.
This way if something goes wrong you have a clean system to go Back to.
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Ok, I hope that this post doesn't just instantly get bashed or ignored for its nature, but I feel like I'd waste so much more time just fumbling through the forum trying to find something relevant if I had to do this on my own. So, hopefully someone can point me in the right direction. Basically, while overseas my Sprint s3 had to get rooted to work, but now that I'm back in the states I'd like to properly root my phone for functions like wifi tethering.
At the present this is what is on my phone.
-clockworkmod recovery v6.0.1.2
-android version 4.1.1
My main questions would be the following?
1.Can I have the latest version of android and still have my phone rooted, and can this be done with what presently on my phone?
2.How do I remove the present clockworkmod recovery (or should I), for something better?
3.What is generally considered the best set up for the sprint s3 at the moment?
Thanks in advance.
Since you are rooted, go the this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2541900. It has the latest version. You really should use Philz recovery, I'll try to find the link.
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Here's the thread for Philz recovery.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2446393
-_- I just downloaded a app called root checker, because my assumption was that just because I had Clockworkmod my phone must be rooted, but it turns out that the results were negative, plus I forgot to mention that I've done a factory reset when I first got back if that effects anything. So, my phone isn't actually rooted, sorry about that.
No worries, If you can boot into recovery then just flash a rooted rom. If not, I suggest you root it before you take any OTAs, especially the OTA for 4.3
If you want the latest set up, I suggest not taking the OTA at all and flashing on of the latest stock 4.3 roms that are de-knoxed. I have I've for Boost and VM and @CNexus has one for Sprint.
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This new update is garbage, greatly reduced my battery life, wifi off, cloud sync off, minimal apps installed.
How do I rollback update?
Thru companion app im going to do the same...
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After trying it out it seems like Sony updated the companion app with 5.1 aswell. From here im not sure how to roll back.
sony pc companion says: Sony Update Engine doesn't have software available for your phone
any solution?
My guess would be that you would have to find the 5.02 image file on the forums and flash it through ADB.
I'm not sure you can.
If fact if you could I suspect OTA would update without asking you.... The update before the last one did for me.. I had it on charge looked over to it and it was rebooting after installing the update. No warning, No questions... just did it.
So I wondered this at the last update--from v4 to v5--and after much research, AndroidWear is very much like any Android rom on a phone or tablet. Officially, going backwards in an update is impossible using the stock recovery because each OTA only allows for an update from x version to y version and will error if you try to update from w version. The only way to get backwards is to unlock the bootloader, replace the recovery with something like TWRP and flash an old image. Among many problems that you might experience though is that OTAs are not system images in that they sometimes they only update specific partitions. In short, you run the risk of bricking your watch, just as you could with a phone or tablet.
If you can live with it, keep it. If you can't, start doing your research.
Isn't there a repacked stock rom in development forum? It gets flashed via twrp
Is there a way to block updates from getting pushed to the watch?
Hi everyone. I need to know if it's possible to downgrade from CM13 to the stock rom/firmware my phone came with which is Jellybean 4.3. I decided to upgrade my OS so I could try out Pokemon Go. Originally I was just going to upgrade to 4.4 which is the minimum version required for the app but I decided I might as well upgrade to the newest one. The newer the better right? And I would also be future proof for any other apps that might require a newer OS. But not only did I not like Pokemon Go, which I ended up uninstalling, (I don't know how such a simple bare bones game like that is so popular) I also don't like marshmallow. Some features are missing that I had in 4.3 like Double Tap to Top where you can double tap the top of the phone to quickly scroll to the top of the screen or the option to hide folders in the gallery which is bare bones and has no options or features. I can't move apps from one screen to the next with my thumb like I used to because I have to push the app as far past the edge of the screen as possible in order for the screen to switch so I have to use my index finger to do it. I'm thinking this is because it was designed for the edge which has the screen going over the side of the phone. I also just don't like the look of Marshmallow compared to Jellybean. And my phone takes forever to boot up now clocking in at about a minute and a half. Instead of gaining access to something better that previously wasn't available to me I feel like I forced something on the phone that doesn't belong and shouldn't be there.
If anyone can help me downgrade I would appreciate that very much. I tried to do it with the same method I used to upgrade by rooting the phone again with odin and then just flashing the stock OS but odin didn't work (I already had CyanogenMod installed from when I upgraded). Odin gave me the confirmation that I successfully rooted my phone but when I checked it with a root verification app it said my phone wasn't properly rooted and SuperSU also says there's no root detected. I'm sure this has something to do with me having marshmallow this time instead of jellybean. I tried using google for help but I couldn't find anything about my situation. Now I don't know what to do which is why I'm here. This was my first time installing a different OS so I'm new at this.
I'm guessing you could use the root66 version to flash back to stock with root.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1949687 for the root66 thread
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Thanks for replying. I'll look into it. I also recently found something that might do the trick. It's a how-to guide for my phone on unrooting it and restoring the stock firmware.
Problem solved. Turns out all I had to do was install the stock firmware with odin. I didn't have to root my phone again. Then I updated to the latest version of Jellybean with Samsung Smart Switch. I'm glad I was able to figure it out.
Trying to find a way to root the phone to install a custom rom since the phone isnt being used anymore. I read that it cannot be rooted as is and has to be rooted from Lollipop instead. In trying to find how to do that, the only thing I could find way someone talking about flashing a rom based on ZVB and that once it was done, you could never roll back to a previous firmware version.
I was wondering if this was true of the OTA update as well, which would pretty much mean I am screwed and can never do anything else with the phone since it can't be rooted.
Thanks for any help and direction that can be provided.
No zv6 is the only rootable firmware. Do not try to downgrade or u will brick
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As in you are outa luck. Try the sprint forum there is a rom with some tweaks. But no root