It said it can be undone, so what do I do? :S
Open the zip and find what files were flashed. Delete any that weren't originally on your phone, and replace the others with the stock files. That, or you re-flash the firmware I guess
its a hassle to undo a .zip that you flashed. I wouldn't bother going through the trouble
Good question.
Some devs will supply uninstall zip for their files. Sadly, most will not do it as it just a waste of their precious time.
My way to undo any operation is to reflash phone with stock, then start over again. After 20 operations like this, its taking less then 5 minutes to have phone up and running with all add ons applied.
make a nandroid prior to flashing. Restore nandriod. Flashing a zip undone. Viola.
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Okay I have flashed Calkulin's Rom
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=712695
The one without the OTA update that killed Root (I haven't updated to that yet )
I rooted using Toast's method - I did part 1 of his root. For part 2, I did this one
For part 2, I did this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=705113
I'm trying to flash a new ROM now. Maybe damage protection or even FROYO (Yeah froyo sounds better)
I also want to do the NOVATEK FPS bandaide as well.
I just don't know where to start. I read somewhere someone said you just re-flash a rom again with the recovery...but I don't want to screw up.
Can someone post a very brief what I should do or lead me please?
FYI, the Rom you flashed from the first link provided is stock rooted with the latest update.
Anywho, you heard right, you flash new roms the same way you flashed that Rom. Download the Rom to your sdcard, boot into recovery, wipe data cache and dalvik, flash from sdcard, choose the Rom you put on there and confirm. That's all there is to it!
The important thing to remember is to always wipe before you flash, this will ensure no errors occur.
Hey thanks for backing up data I heard nandroid and titanium which one is better
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Two different things. You should have at least one nandroid that you know works, this is used encased you beef anything up from flashing or something and you want to return your phone to the exact state it was at when you did the backup. That's the purpose of nandroid, to backup a complete image of the state your phone is in, Rom and all (excluding radio and wimax)
Titanium is a utility you use to backup all of the apps you have installed, along with their data and market links. This is usefull when flashing a new Rom so you can easily restore all of your apps without having to download and install them again and again.
Check this, it answers quite a bit of your questions and then some.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=710513
is there an app or way to read the info from a nandroid backup to know which rom and kernel its using without flashing it first.
i have several, and have long forgotten which rom/kernel they were.
so i would like to be able to load them in some program and see what they are.
can this be done?
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is there an app or way to read the info from a nandroid backup to know which rom and kernel its using without flashing it first.
i have several, and have long forgotten which rom/kernel they were.
so i would like to be able to load them in some program and see what they are.
can this be done?
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just back up existing one rename it to something
then restore the others to check them and rename/delete them
then when done nandroid back to current one
there isn't really a way to check them without doing that
Same here. After I make the nandroid backup, I rename it to whatever ROM it is.
yeah well i did that a few times then got away from it.
and now am stuck with some backups i would rather not flash,, then rename, then flash back to what i was on.
the android emulator might, i just dont know how to load them, guess i will maybe have to check with one of the dev's.
and just to clarify what these guys are saying, for those who don't know... they are renaming the folder that the backup files are in. //sdcard/nandroid/xxxxxxxx/ gets renamed to //sdcard/nandroid/9.4.10_stock_root_2.2/ or whatever your rom is called.
you do not, and never should rename the files in the backup folder.
A couple of things. I've been reading xda for a while but am by no means anything other than a "noob" I know just enough to be dangerous to my phone, but so far only soft bricked my old cappy once. So a very grateful thank you to all the hard work you guys put in to pushing the development.
As a somewhat experienced noob I can say first hand that reading through all these threads and posts that lead in a thousand directions is pretty hard and time consuming. That's why all the "what ROM is best" threads. I sounds kind of selfish coming from someone who has contributed nothing other than traffic to xda, but a section for comparing different ROMs would stop most of those posts.
Now for the questions. Is there a way to put a .zip of the stock ROM on my sd card so I can go back to stock anytime I want? I know I can flash back to stock with odin, but can it be done thru the recovery console? I would like to be able to have several ROMs saved on sd and use recovery to flash between them. I'm not real happy with ROMManager... is freezes all the time, and I've not one time been able to flash with it.
Thanks
Make a backup! Install cwm on your device ...boot into recovery> create backup....
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k.zacher said:
A couple of things. I've been reading xda for a while but am by no means anything other than a "noob" I know just enough to be dangerous to my phone, but so far only soft bricked my old cappy once. So a very grateful thank you to all the hard work you guys put in to pushing the development.
As a somewhat experienced noob I can say first hand that reading through all these threads and posts that lead in a thousand directions is pretty hard and time consuming. That's why all the "what ROM is best" threads. I sounds kind of selfish coming from someone who has contributed nothing other than traffic to xda, but a section for comparing different ROMs would stop most of those posts.
Now for the questions. Is there a way to put a .zip of the stock ROM on my sd card so I can go back to stock anytime I want? I know I can flash back to stock with odin, but can it be done thru the recovery console? I would like to be able to have several ROMs saved on sd and use recovery to flash between them. I'm not real happy with ROMManager... is freezes all the time, and I've not one time been able to flash with it.
Thanks
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WOW one of the most brutally honest statements I've seen here in a while. That's good. And yes it's all very confusing at times, even for non-noobs lol.
Answer-->once you have rooted and cwm or twrp installed make a nandroid of your system, you can restore this at any time. Once you install a rom and get it running how you want and want to try another rom make a nandroid of that one in recovery, you can go back by restoring it. You can do this in this way until your happy with what your running or you run out of storage.
One word of advice...nandroids are snapshots of how your phone is at that moment...any apps, texts, modifications after the nandroid wont be in it....but...a nandroid combined with my back up or titanium backup is great, nandroid for the system and my back up or titanium backup for texts, apps, call logs and such and you can switch back and forth or install a new rom and restore user apps and call logs, texts, ect without losing those. Remember don't back up system apps or system settings as those may mess up on a different rom, only back up user apps(those you've installed).
Hope this helps a little
BTW--> don't use ROM manager to flash anything other than the recovery. Boot into recovery and flash stuff manually. Also, I would suggest twrp recovery as both have issues with auto naming backups, but at least with twrp you can name it whatever you want before you make it.
Just be careful. I remember a Nandroid not flashing the radio but they may have fixed that. Other than that you should loose nothing other than whatever apps you may have installed on the ROM your tinkering with.
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I was hoping to make a backup of my non rooted completely stock ROM. I don't see how to do that if first I have to root and flash CWM or another recovery to do the backup. I didn't see any way to do it from the stock recovery. I have looked to see if anyone has posted an zip image of stock non rooted but the only way I've seen to go back to stock is odin3. Is that correct and am I just wasting my time? I wanted that image so I could go back and update to the new stock ROMs as they come out to test drive and see if I want to use them. Just seems easier that way.
Thanks for your responses
I THINK someone posted a zip format of stock but your best bet would be Odin since you didn't make a backup before. I was wondering this a while back too.. Kinda surprised its not in such high demand..
Edit: are nandroid backups device specific? Can one nandroid backup be used for multiple phones? If it can, I'll flash Odin and post nandroid of stock later tonight
jethro650 said:
WOW one of the most brutally honest statements I've seen here in a while. That's good. And yes it's all very confusing at times, even for non-noobs lol.
Answer-->once you have rooted and cwm or twrp installed make a nandroid of your system, you can restore this at any time. Once you install a rom and get it running how you want and want to try another rom make a nandroid of that one in recovery, you can go back by restoring it. You can do this in this way until your happy with what your running or you run out of storage.
One word of advice...nandroids are snapshots of how your phone is at that moment...any apps, texts, modifications after the nandroid wont be in it....but...a nandroid combined with my back up or titanium backup is great, nandroid for the system and my back up or titanium backup for texts, apps, call logs and such and you can switch back and forth or install a new rom and restore user apps and call logs, texts, ect without losing those. Remember don't back up system apps or system settings as those may mess up on a different rom, only back up user apps(those you've installed).
Hope this helps a little
BTW--> don't use ROM manager to flash anything other than the recovery. Boot into recovery and flash stuff manually. Also, I would suggest twrp recovery as both have issues with auto naming backups, but at least with twrp you can name it whatever you want before you make it.
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Titanium backup is a must. And pay for the app, its cheap and you support the developer.
Also, I've had better results with cwm. As soon as I make a backup to my SD card I boot into the ROM and change the filename.
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g2tegg said:
Titanium backup is a must. And pay for the app, its cheap and you support the developer.
Also, I've had better results with cwm. As soon as I make a backup to my SD card I boot into the ROM and change the filename.
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I guess we will have to agree to disagree titanium is not a "must" I've been using my backup pro for years without problems to make my backups. In my opinion its has a better more user friendly user interface with the same freeze/uninstall options. Also as a recovery twrp is gaining ground on cwm for its better options, one of which is renaming backups on the spot when you make it. Add in a file manger, terminal window, multiple flashes at once and many more options many think it is a better recovery. The way the newer cwm makes nandroids makes it very hard to delete individual nandroids, search cwm blobs for more info.
Also, check our mskips toolkit stickied in the dev section for a backup. You will need to be rooted but not to sure about the recovery. You may be able to do it with the stock recovery as I think it uses adb for pretty much everything it can. There is a way to make a backup on stock recovery through adb but you will need to be rooted, his toolkit will do that also.
I finally figured out how to root my phone (thank Sithis)
I just flashed TWRP and SuperSU. Sadly I was only able to recover a handful of photos from my whack phone factory resetting itself. (my only reasoning for rooting, to use data recovery. I only found DiskDigger. didn't do that great sadly)
I think I MIGHT have picked up some sort of malware or virus; not entirely positive but since rooting, my phones camera flash randomly goes off as if something is taking pictures. I have GO Security and 360 Security downloaded and it didn't find anything. I don't know how thorough those apps are but hopefully they would have picked up any malicious thing invading my phone.
I know there is an unrooting option through the SuperSU app. Again, I don't know how "complete" of an unrooting that'd be.
I honestly wish I had the links I used to download TWRP and SuperSU. Maybe to see if anyone could figure out if they were legit.
I want to unroot, then factory reset. Would I have to flash a stock ROM before hitting the 'unroot' button? How would all this work? Anyone figure out how to get OTA updates after a complete unroot?
If anyone could point me in the correct direction I'd be thankful. I just don't want to deal with the security risks of a rooted phone and would like it back to stock. If I could do that without flashing a ROM to my phone that'd be great.
Since I couldn't find anything of the sorts for my N910PVPS4DPE2.
[edit: please delete post and redirect me if already asked and solved (within 2016)]
You could press that un-root button now but most likely you cannot take the next OTA without flashing the stock tar in Odin. Modifying some partitions will break OTA updates. Having custom recovery won't work.
I don't think it's ever been established as fact but in theory, you could root a stock phone with Chainfire's CF AutoRoot for Note 4 in Odin. Leaving as that root installer rooted, you could un-root later for OTA update within SuperSU application. It would prompt you to restore both kernel and recovery with the original stock ones and then reboot. *But* if Samsung flags modified read only partitions as being modified, even if modified temporarily, OTA would still be denied for modified status trip. Dunno if anyone has confirmed the theory on our phone or not.
To answer your question, I think you'll have to flash the stock tar in Odin to restore your OTA capability. I would recommend you press the full un-root. You can restore the original kernel, if it was stock, at prompt. But most likely you cannot restore the original recovery if flashed manually. You'll need to flash the stock tar again to both restore read only partitions and stock recovery. If you forget to to perform full un-root, I think factory reset will be enough to clear root and remnants with a stock tar flash. (Stock tar flash should wipe internal memory but to be sure, you could wipe that too).
It's up to you, you could wait until the next OTA to flash the stock tar.
For your camera issue, it might just be enough to factory reset for now.
Have you considered Titanium Backup to backup and restore applications? A lot of rooted users use that. I'm not sure copying and restoring a disk would mesh with Android package id used to link data to original application with proper linking and ownership. I do know that Titanium Backup complies with that. If the package id gets skewed, restoring data may not work as expected. Something to check or confirm beforehand. Just a suggestion.
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You could press that un-root button now but most likely you cannot take the next OTA without flashing the stock tar in Odin. Modifying some partitions will break OTA updates. Having custom recovery won't work.
I don't think it's ever been established as fact but in theory, you could root a stock phone with Chainfire's CF AutoRoot for Note 4 in Odin. Leaving as that root installer rooted, you could un-root later for OTA update within SuperSU application. It would prompt you to restore both kernel and recovery with the original stock ones and then reboot. *But* if Samsung flags modified read only partitions as being modified, even if modified temporarily, OTA would still be denied for modified status trip. Dunno if anyone has confirmed the theory on our phone or not.
To answer your question, I think you'll have to flash the stock tar in Odin to restore your OTA capability. I would recommend you press the full un-root. You can restore the original kernel, if it was stock, at prompt. But most likely you cannot restore the original recovery if flashed manually. You'll need to flash the stock tar again to both restore read only partitions and stock recovery. If you forget to to perform full un-root, I think factory reset will be enough to clear root and remnants with a stock tar flash. (Stock tar flash should wipe internal memory but to be sure, you could wipe that too).
It's up to you, you could wait until the next OTA to flash the stock tar.
For your camera issue, it might just be enough to factory reset for now.
Have you considered Titanium Backup to backup and restore applications? A lot of rooted users use that. I'm not sure copying and restoring a disk would mesh with Android package id used to link data to original application with proper linking and ownership. I do know that Titanium Backup complies with that. If the package id gets skewed, restoring data may not work as expected. Something to check or confirm beforehand. Just a suggestion.
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Thanks for the reply man!
Looking over it, it seems like a true hassle to go through finding the stock ROM for my phone and unrooting and that whole process. I think I'll stick with the root for now. I have a couple more questions if you don't mind:
1) If I kept root, could I perform a factory reset without it screwing up the root? I think there's a 'factory reset' option when I boot into TWRP. I would just like to know if it'd remove TWRP/SuperSU. I have heard a lot about Titanium Backup so I will be giving that a try before doing so!
2) Any chance you'd know if when the new OTA comes out, they will have it flashable for my N910PVPS4DPE2? I'm relatively new to all of this and I know if I flashed something not meant for my exact device; I might as well slap some cement on my new Brick Note 4. I've never seen any ROMs/Mods that say 'For N910PVPS4DPE2' specifically. Maybe I'm being overly cautious and don't have all the new lingo down. So, are there ROMs and mods for my phone that I'm just completely overlooking?
Thanks again for helpin a newbie out!
Stock tars are here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=63868221&postcount=1
A stock ROM with system based root that isn't easily wiped or lost is here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=63028063&postcount=1
I believe factory reset still un-roots systemless root. There was a script that you may have been prompted to install to keep root but I'm not familiar with its retention capability because I use and prefer system based root in the ROM above. You can factory reset the ROM above without losing root.
You would need root for titanium backup. I would recommend factory reset and install the beta 3 ROM. You may not like the missing voicemail app. I use the long press of 1 key in dialer for voicemail. You could just save the apk and install with apk installer by tapping its file with root browser or MyFiles and install. But extract or copy and paste with root browser from current ROM.
OTA's can be expected nearly monthly now. Tars release a bit behind the OTA.
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I got a few battery saving apps and one or two of them required xposed. now my phone keeps boot-looping. i tried deleting what i could find of the apps in twrp, it did not help. i dont want to remove my root, custom kernel, and all my custom stuff in general.. and i have apps that i cant log out of without losing everything, such as chats, unread messages, etc. so basically i REALLY dont want to factory reset. ive done that probably 5 times over the past few months of having an android phone. what should i do? help
stiarlitserenity said:
I got a few battery saving apps and one or two of them required xposed. now my phone keeps boot-looping. i tried deleting what i could find of the apps in twrp, it did not help. i dont want to remove my root, custom kernel, and all my custom stuff in general.. and i have apps that i cant log out of without losing everything, such as chats, unread messages, etc. so basically i REALLY dont want to factory reset. ive done that probably 5 times over the past few months of having an android phone. what should i do? help
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Can you mount userdata partition in TWRP? If so back up right away and move the backup data off your phone before continuing.
Do you have a TWRP backup you can restore? Start with system and boot. If you are lucky the bootloop is because of changes you made in system and this will get you booting.
If not, see if you can restore boot and system from factory images.
Worse case, you might need to factory reset again and reinstall yet another time.
Reflash rom, kernel and supersu. You shouldn't lose anything doing that.
sfhub said:
Can you mount userdata partition in TWRP? If so back up right away and move the backup data off your phone before continuing.
Do you have a TWRP backup you can restore? Start with system and boot. If you are lucky the bootloop is because of changes you made in system and this will get you booting.
If not, see if you can restore boot and system from factory images.
Worse case, you might need to factory reset again and reinstall yet another time.
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im a newbie to all of this.. what will mouting user data partition do, and how do i do it?
backups dont work because i dont have enough free storage. i do have one backup but it was back when i restored my phone to factory settings.
what will restoring boot and system from factory images do, and how do i do it? will i lose all the customization i have on my phone?
stiarlitserenity said:
im a newbie to all of this.. what will mouting user data partition do, and how do i do it?
backups dont work because i dont have enough free storage. i do have one backup but it was back when i restored my phone to factory settings.
what will restoring boot and system from factory images do, and how do i do it? will i lose all the customization i have on my phone?
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Lesson learned bud. Half of the reason for TWRP and CWM is to have a full recent/current backup. Its always been like this. All roms, tweaks, xposed, write-ups or threads all say "make a backup" A backup is needed when something goes wrong. Notice the word "when" its not a if something goes wrong. Playing with androids involves way to much stuff and things do go wrong. Everytime your gonna do something just make a backup and delete your previous backup. Keep the backup on a sd card and delete the previous one. You put yourself in a situation like street racing on the freeway in a thunderstorm on new years eve. Not being a **** but for years and years now there a thousands of tutorials on this stuff. How to use adb, fastboot, twrp, soft brick, hard brick, de-brick tool. I don't know where the link is but I have a xposed script to flash in recovery that disables xposed and all modules from recovery in case of a bad module. If that can be found still I suggest that using xposed
FYI. The two replies before this told you what to do. If your looking for a easy everything is 100% going to be ok and you won't lose your text messages its probably not going to happen.
stiarlitserenity said:
what will restoring boot and system from factory images do, and how do i do it? will i lose all the customization i have on my phone?
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If you are on the stock rom, flash the stock boot.img and stock system.img either in TWRP or via fastboot will erase any mods in /system (including Xposed). This will return you to a stock setup. Your apps, sms, and data would be retained.
To do this, download the factory image that matches your rom base. The July OTA is MTC19Z by the way. June is MTC19V, you'll have to remember which one you were on. This can be found on Google's Nexus factory image website. Next, unzip the downloaded file then flash the boot.img and system.img in TWRP (transfer the files to your phone). Alternatively, you could learn to use fastboot. Follow section 10 of this amazing guide by Heisenberg, but flash only boot.img and system.img.
You *should* be able boot up and learn from your mistakes as others have said. If you still have issues, factory reset and charge this loss to the game.
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