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i have a T989, rooted, Clockwork Mod, and installed some stock Android (sans bloatware) MOD.
i had updates set to automatic and am now being bugged to install the new TMobile update, which doesn't seem to be able to install with Clockwork, and i can't turn off the persistent Update prompts.
i've already bricked one GS2, and obviously fear doing it again. I wouldn't get another chance, i don't think. (i do have insurance on the phone, not sure if it would cover a rooted phone?)
what can someone tell me about the TMobile update and Clockwork, or whatever i need to do, go with the update or stop it somehow...?
thanks for your help.
Ota update requires stock recovery.
Grab one of the updated stock roms and flash via cwm. Then Odin the new baseband.
Sent from my SGH-T989
i think i have one of those stock roms - i chose one that was just 'the same thing but without some of the standard apps'. how can i check to see what rom i have...?
and what do you mean by baseband? the new update? is it already dl'd to my phone? i've searched through the phone's dirs (rooted File Explorere, i guess) and could not find anything...
sorry to be a pain - i can't brick another one, of course... (
is this what you mean by a 'stock updated rom':
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1312736 ?
glennnall said:
sorry to be a pain - i can't brick another one, of course... (
is this what you mean by a 'stock updated rom':
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1312736 ?
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No, look for the KL1 release.
Baseband is your radio btw. Don't worry about the radio for now, just work on getting the rom flash.
Sent from my SGH-T989
ok, found Deodexed_KL1_T989 (T989UVKL1 by Whitehawkx) is that what i'm looking for? -
couple of questions:
he says on the post:
"DONT FLASH - add files to the zip in the app folder, then flash. Or usb connect drag to sd the use some rooted file explorer to place in system/app then reboot."
Flash or don't Flash? I'm transferring the zip to sd now, then i need to move it to system/app...?
once i've 'flashed' what do you mean "Odin the baseband"? i have Odin, used it last time...
thanks
GideonX said:
No, look for the KL1 release.
Baseband is your radio btw. Don't worry about the radio for now, just work on getting the rom flash.
Sent from my SGH-T989
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I flashed the ROM, now i have 2.3.6, and now i'm stuck with 2 OTA notifications, one states postponed, and choosing START for the update does nothing.
help?
I had the base load on mine with a bunch of stuff frozen and Clockwork on it (plus root)
I first unfroze all the stuff I had frozen, then ODIN'd back the stock recovery. Didn't touch anything else, then told the OTA to go ahead.
It updated just fine -- removed root of course. I then ODIN'd back the clockwork recovery and re-installed SU, then re-froze all the boatware.
Done in about 15 minutes -- no muss, no fuss, didn't lose anything.
Genesis3 said:
I had the base load on mine with a bunch of stuff frozen and Clockwork on it (plus root)
I first unfroze all the stuff I had frozen, then ODIN'd back the stock recovery. Didn't touch anything else, then told the OTA to go ahead.
It updated just fine -- removed root of course. I then ODIN'd back the clockwork recovery and re-installed SU, then re-froze all the boatware.
Done in about 15 minutes -- no muss, no fuss, didn't lose anything.
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ok, thanks - this is what i didn't understand - i can Odin back to Stock recovery?
for some reason Odin doesn't recognize my phone in download mode, but it does when i'm connected and the phone is on... any reason for this? i don't use odin in any means but download mode, right?
glennnall said:
I flashed the ROM, now i have 2.3.6, and now i'm stuck with 2 OTA notifications, one states postponed, and choosing START for the update does nothing.
help?
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You can probably clear this up by formatting /system in CWM. Then wiping cache and dalvik. Then flash the FL1 update. Hit advance, fix permissions and then reboot.
GideonX said:
You can probably clear this up by formatting /system in CWM. Then wiping cache and dalvik. Then flash the FL1 update. Hit advance, fix permissions and then reboot.
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did all this, nothing's changed. i'm unable to get Odin to see my phone in DL mode. when i boot into DL mode, the device manager shows an alert on my phone. in normal, the drivers work fine and Odin sees the phone.
damn.
Hi all,
Basically, I went to install S-voice (Samsungs Siri competitor) and it worked fine. I did it the proper way by putting it in the system/app folder and then changing the permissions (rw-r-r), rebooted and then installed the apk (while in the system/app folder). I did rename the apk to svoice.apk instead of voicetalk.apk (before I put it in the system/app) but I don't think that could've changed anything.
While installing it said it was going to modify system apps, fair enough. I used it, didn't like it and went to uninstall it, but when I went to uninstall it, all it said was "Uninstall updates" I clicked this and it was then uninstalled, then it said it was returning the system apps back to stock, and then I deleted the file from the system/app folder.
From there I decided I want to just flash back to a previous recovery, but upon launching CWM, everytime I try to launch recovery it loads and then freezes with the Dead Android Symbol. I can only imagine I didn't uninstall svoice properly which modified the system apps somehow causing it to mess up my CWM? I can launch my bootloader, root is still intact, I just cannot launch recovery.
Any help would be greatly appeciated, I have my nandroid backups but I have no idea who I can flash them if I can't get into recovery.
Oh and I'm running a VZW G-Nexus with 4.0.4 (Rooted, unlocked bootloader, stock rom) I also have the latest version of CWM 5.5.0.4
Thanks
Try flashing cwm again.
The android on its back is the stock recovery.
If you used the update file to update to 4.0.4, then CWM was replaced by the stock recovery.
Every OTA update zip adds two files to your ROM that re-flash the stock recovery on EVERY boot.
You need to delete those files. They are:
/system/etc/install-recovery.sh
/system/recovery-from-boot.p
After you delete them, re-flash CWM.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk 2
Hey Efrant, Thanks for the reply, you've answered all of my questions before!
With that said, I thought I deleted, I actually think I renamed the recovery-from-boot to recovery-from-boot.bak so as to circumvent this (back when I had 4.0.2) I then installed 4.0.4 as update.zip from within CWM and then used Voodoo OTA rootkeeper. After I did this I then made a nandroid back-up from within CWM. (Or maybe I'm just confusing myself more).
Thanks for the tips, I'll look into this and then I will update accordingly.
JayBeezy802 said:
Hey Efrant, Thanks for the reply, you've answered all of my questions before!
With that said, I thought I deleted, I actually think I renamed the recovery-from-boot to recovery-from-boot.bak so as to circumvent this (back when I had 4.0.2) I then installed 4.0.4 as update.zip from within CWM and then used Voodoo OTA rootkeeper. After I did this I then made a nandroid back-up from within CWM. (Or maybe I'm just confusing myself more).
Thanks for the tips, I'll look into this and then I will update accordingly.
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Those files do not exist on stock ROMs. They are placed there by OTA updates. The thing is, EVERY OTA update will place those files on your system, regardless of whether you deleted them before or not. Every time you upgrade your ROM, those files will be re-placed by the update zip.
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Those files do not exist on stock ROMs. They are placed there by OTA updates. The thing is, EVERY OTA update will place those files on your system, regardless of whether you deleted them before or not. Every time you upgrade your ROM, those files will be re-placed by the update zip.
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Ahhh, got it. Flashed over CWM and was able to boot into recovery and flash a nandroid back-up. Unfortunately, it was of 5.0.2 so then I had to install update.zip reflash CWM then make another back-up.
Thanks again!
Hi guys,
I just picked up the One X international version and am loving every moment. So far, I've unlocked the bootloader from htcdev.com, installed the Clockwork mod recovery, made a backup, and installed SuperSU (in that order).
While waiting for the next version of ARHD to be released, I've got a few questions hopefully someone can help to answer
1) The directions say to manually flash the corresponding boot.img manually before flashing the ROM. Does this mean I do the reboot into fastboot and use the command prompt to type "fastboot boot boot.img"?
2) In the future when there are new versions of ARHD released, or I want to try a different ROM, do I just flash the new ROM over the existing one and that's it? Will all my settings and contacts still be intact on the phone or will it be erased? If it will be erased is there any way to back up just those info so I can restore on the updated ROM?
3) If/when I decide to sell the phone, is there a step by step guide somewhere I can follow to restore the phone back to factory conditions? I assume the backup I made of the phone after I installed Clockwork mod recovery will still be unlocked and have Clockwork installed?
Thanks in advance for any help/suggestions Can't wait to get started with the ROMs!
1) The directions say to manually flash the corresponding boot.img manually before flashing the ROM. Does this mean I do the reboot into fastboot and use the command prompt to type "fastboot boot boot.img"?
Yup that sounds about right to me.
2) In the future when there are new versions of ARHD released, or I want to try a different ROM, do I just flash the new ROM over the existing one and that's it? Will all my settings and contacts still be intact on the phone or will it be erased? If it will be erased is there any way to back up just those info so I can restore on the updated ROM?
If coming from ARHD I think you can just flash the new ROM directly onto the phone and you wont or shouldn't loose any data.
In the 'How to Flash' section of the ARHD Thread it reads:
Download "Super Wipe" script & place it on your SD card (optionally if coming from earlier version of my ROM, obligatory if coming from stock or other custom ROM) So basically, the Superwipe script wipes the whole phone, you do this when first flashing a ROM onto your phone, when flashing a newer version onto the phone it isn't necessary to perform a Superwipe.
3) If/when I decide to sell the phone, is there a step by step guide somewhere I can follow to restore the phone back to factory conditions? I assume the backup I made of the phone after I installed Clockwork mod recovery will still be unlocked and have Clockwork installed?
There are guides somewhere, I'll look for them and PM you a link if I can find it, however a lot of people sell their phones rooted and with custom roms on nowadays. Only re-locking them if they're trying to gain back some warranty.
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This is a good thread to read through: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1799881&highlight=unrooting
A guide to unrooting: http://onexroot.com/category/one-x-unroot/
And here are the shipped RUUs for the Endeavour: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=23542734&postcount=1
The-Last-Hylian said:
1) The directions say to manually flash the corresponding boot.img manually before flashing the ROM. Does this mean I do the reboot into fastboot and use the command prompt to type "fastboot boot boot.img"?
Yup that sounds about right to me.
2) In the future when there are new versions of ARHD released, or I want to try a different ROM, do I just flash the new ROM over the existing one and that's it? Will all my settings and contacts still be intact on the phone or will it be erased? If it will be erased is there any way to back up just those info so I can restore on the updated ROM?
If coming from ARHD I think you can just flash the new ROM directly onto the phone and you wont or shouldn't loose any data.
In the 'How to Flash' section of the ARHD Thread it reads:
Download "Super Wipe" script & place it on your SD card (optionally if coming from earlier version of my ROM, obligatory if coming from stock or other custom ROM) So basically, the Superwipe script wipes the whole phone, you do this when first flashing a ROM onto your phone, when flashing a newer version onto the phone it isn't necessary to perform a Superwipe.
3) If/when I decide to sell the phone, is there a step by step guide somewhere I can follow to restore the phone back to factory conditions? I assume the backup I made of the phone after I installed Clockwork mod recovery will still be unlocked and have Clockwork installed?
There are guides somewhere, I'll look for them and PM you a link if I can find it, however a lot of people sell their phones rooted and with custom roms on nowadays. Only re-locking them if they're trying to gain back some warranty.
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This is a good thread to read through: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1799881&highlight=unrooting
A guide to unrooting: http://onexroot.com/category/one-x-unroot/
And here are the shipped RUUs for the Endeavour: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=23542734&postcount=1
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Awesome, thanks for the reply and links! I have one last question hopefully someone can confirm... I assume once I flash to any custom ROM whenever there is a software update on the phone I should NOT update? Is it safe to update the apps through the Google Play store such as Facebook GMail etc?
Well with venom Rom for hox u can update it is actually the only rom that has over the air updates directly by the people that made the rom also most customizable Rom too.
Sent from my HTC One X using xda app-developers app
HungryPillow said:
Awesome, thanks for the reply and links! I have one last question hopefully someone can confirm... I assume once I flash to any custom ROM whenever there is a software update on the phone I should NOT update? Is it safe to update the apps through the Google Play store such as Facebook GMail etc?
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It's safe to update any Apps and things through the Play Store yeah, On a lot of ROMs the OTA Updater is disabled, you'll have to flash the latest RUU onto the phone to get the Update.
E.G We had an ARHD ROM that was running off the 1.29.401.11 update, now we've got a version of ARHD that's running off 2.05.401.2 instead as Mike had updated the ROM to include the latest updates, so everytime there is a new update, the ROMs get updated by the Devs and we can reflash on said ROM.
HungryPillow said:
Awesome, thanks for the reply and links! I have one last question hopefully someone can confirm... I assume once I flash to any custom ROM whenever there is a software update on the phone I should NOT update? Is it safe to update the apps through the Google Play store such as Facebook GMail etc?
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You may safly update anything from Market (Play). You may backup your phonebook in Google account and through settings in phone book (Export to SD or somthing like this). SMS you may backup also to SD card or to email (there is an option in it). Or try ROMcleaner 2.1 it will backup some settings also and user apps.
And when Mike (ARHD developer) release new ROM, if it is based on NEW official update (RUU) with new sw version it is highly recomended to do a full wipe(Super Wipe script is in his thread). It will erase every app and configuration, except you SD card files.
The correct command is fastboot flash boot boot.img, not fastboot boot boot.img
Sent from my HOX running CMX by Tbalden.
hey guys
let me start off by saying i am a noob to this site and android in general , ive learnt a lot from my galaxy s2 .
now i got the s3 , ive rooted it .. however i tried to upgrade to 4.1 awhile back . kept getting error .
anyways i want to upgrade to jellybean im sick of waiting like everyone else.
cm10 seems like a good rom , ive read a lot on this forum, could some one tell me what the first step is do i flash cwm first on the rogers stock or do i have to put ATT stock on it
thanks
cheers
Hi!
Welcome to the site! You'll really love the community here!
Here are some simple instructions I found for you: http://www.androidauthority.com/gal...elly-bean-cyanogenmod-10-cm10-preview-104742/
Just make sure you download the latest CWM from here (6.0.1.2 currently): http://download2.clockworkmod.com/recoveries/recovery-clockwork-6.0.1.2-d2att.img
And flash it to your device.
Then follow those steps, wipe/format data partition, as it says there. CAREFUL make sure you download the latest CyanogenMod version from here too, the top one on the list is always newest, latest version came out today actually: http://get.cm/?device=d2att
Let me know how it goes and if you're enjoying it! Tried leaked version of JB on my S3 with Telus in Canada and didn't like the bugs in there...so let me know if the 'CM Finishing Touch' on there is really better than stock!
Michael
thanks man. i will give it a try soon and let you know..
so just i get this straight i can do everything from my rogers stock rom right .. i dont have to download the att stock rom ??
starting off with the flashing of cwm recovery ?
cheers
totti107 said:
thanks man. i will give it a try soon and let you know..
so just i get this straight i can do everything from my rogers stock rom right .. i dont have to download the att stock rom ??
starting off with the flashing of cwm recovery ?
cheers
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Yup! Start off with CWM Recovery flash, when that's done, transfer file to device (internal sd card) and from the ROGERS stock rom you can do the apply update from zip option in CWM.
Michael
greenglue said:
Yup! Start off with CWM Recovery flash, when that's done, transfer file to device (internal sd card) and from the ROGERS stock rom you can do the apply update from zip option in CWM.
Michael
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hey i downloaded all the files..
first i opened odin i couldn't find cwm in the pda. so i downloaded it again and added .tar at the end of the file name so it is now visible in pda odin
i flashed it succesfully however when i go to recovery mode it goes to android system recovery ?? not cwm recovery
iam i doing something wrong
totti107 said:
hey i downloaded all the files..
first i opened odin i couldn't find cwm in the pda. so i downloaded it again and added .tar at the end of the file name so it is now visible in pda odin
i flashed it succesfully however when i go to recovery mode it goes to android system recovery ?? not cwm recovery
iam i doing something wrong
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Hmm...try ROM Manager free from the Play Store. If not just google around how to install CWM, installed it a while ago so I forgot sorry. But ROM Manager should work.
greenglue said:
Hmm...try ROM Manager free from the Play Store. If not just google around how to install CWM, installed it a while ago so I forgot sorry. But ROM Manager should work.
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should i take off auto reboot then take out battery... i remember doing this when i rooted the phone . i think...
oh and for rom manager i cannot find my phone on the list , there isn't any galaxy s3 on it weird?
Hmm...weird. Guess it doesn't support the extra-super-duper-phone yet! Haha!
If you get the SGS3 All-in-one toolkit from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1703488 , you can install CWM from it just make sure you have drivers installed, it can help you with that if you don't have them, and enable USB Debugging.
If that doesn't work, which I think it should, try to use this link a bit. Download the version they have it should be pretty recent.
http://www.epiccm.org/2012/06/cwm-recovery-on-all-sgs3-lte-variants.html
Hmm...weird. Guess it doesn't support the extra-super-duper-phone yet! Haha!
If you get the SGS3 All-in-one toolkit from here , you can install CWM from it just make sure you have drivers installed, it can help you with that if you don't have them, and enable USB Debugging.
If that doesn't work, which I think it should, try to use this link a bit. Download the version they have it should be pretty recent.
i cant find my phone version on the tool kit :S
but why cant i get cwm to work with odin ? that is angering me lol
i just rooted it again with superuser with galaxys3uscanada and installed superuser through cwm version 5. somthing
hxxp://androidroot.org/watch_video.php?v=28GYMH82S6Y1#
with this video... but i had to remove the battery and take auto reset off for it not to overwrite cwm recovery
totti107 said:
i cant find my phone version on the tool kit :S
but why cant i get cwm to work with odin ? that is angering me lol
i just rooted it again with superuser with galaxys3uscanada and installed superuser through cwm version 5. somthing
hxxp://androidroot.org/watch_video.php?v=28GYMH82S6Y1#
with this video... but i had to remove the battery and take auto reset off for it not to overwrite cwm recovery
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Oh so now you have CWM? Well as long as you have it, you'll only need it once or twice to erase all data, then install CM and GApps.
Ill try it with the cwm from the superuser one but I remember doing that it said error 9 or something
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Quick question, I flashed CWM recovery using the terminal, and I see it when I boot into recovery, but when I go to ROM Manager to flash CM10, it says to flash CWM Recovery, and won't let me access the list. I would've flashed CWM from ROM Manager, but the S3 wasn't on the list of devices. Is there anyway to get around this?
ily112 said:
Quick question, I flashed CWM recovery using the terminal, and I see it when I boot into recovery, but when I go to ROM Manager to flash CM10, it says to flash CWM Recovery, and won't let me access the list. I would've flashed CWM from ROM Manager, but the S3 wasn't on the list of devices. Is there anyway to get around this?
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Hi there!
Basically you must first but the CWM ZIP file on your internal sdcard then boot into CWM, from there go to install zip file or something like that, then select from SD Card, find the zip, you're done!
Don't forget to do a factory reset through CWM before the CM10 update and maybe after too.
Let me how it goes,
Michael
Never liked CWM, I personally love TWRP as a recovery. Go to the app store and download GooManager.
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But don't I already have CWM? Or is CWM and CWM Recovery two different things? Where would I get the CWM .zip for my rogers phone? I backed up my phone from recovery mode, does that mean I backed up my current ROM (stock rooted ROM)? And I backed up a few apps using Titanium Backup, if I use factory reset, would all my backups get erased? Thanks for your help!
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But don't I already have CWM? Or is CWM and CWM Recovery two different things? Where would I get the CWM .zip for my rogers phone? I backed up my phone from recovery mode, does that mean I backed up my current ROM (stock rooted ROM)? And I backed up a few apps using Titanium Backup, if I use factory reset, would all my backups get erased? Thanks for your help!
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Hi,
CWM = CWM Recovery; same thing just shorter .
The ZIP file for your rogers phone can be found here: http://get.cm/?device=d2att
Click the one at the top of the list as it is the newest.
Don't worry about the ROM because worst case scenario if you want to downgrade to stock, you can re-download it online and re-root.
For the apps, it depends where your backups are, usually, in TitBak, the backups are stored in /sdcard/TitaniumBackup which will be safe as formatting to factory settings and data partition in CWM doesn't format the internal or external SD Card. But I am not responsable if it does so be careful!
Michael
Also, I just got a notification to update SuperUser, which takes me to the Playstore, but on I remember seeing not to update SuperUser on the thread where I was told how to root my phone. So do I update it or not?
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Also, I just got a notification to update SuperUser, which takes me to the Playstore, but on I remember seeing not to update SuperUser on the thread where I was told how to root my phone. So do I update it or not?
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You can update it, I don't see what could go wrong because an update will only help fix things if there were bugs you had.
Okay, thanks! I'm going to use this <http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1587607> guide to flash the cm ROM. But say afterwords, I want to unroot and remove the 'Modified' status of my phone, and return back to the stock ROM like nothing happened, and remove the flash counter. How would I do that?
ily112 said:
Okay, thanks! I'm going to use this <http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1587607> guide to flash the cm ROM. But say afterwords, I want to unroot and remove the 'Modified' status of my phone, and return back to the stock ROM like nothing happened, and remove the flash counter. How would I do that?
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That would be with Odin you would redownload the Stock ROM for Rogers and then flash it. To reset counter, you can download the app TriangleAway for free from the Play Store and with root, it resets the counter. Then you can unroot.
Hello again, I recently got the push for update from device for the 4.1.1 with the mb1 and had TWRP and when I accepted it it booted to recovery and then nothing. So I went to Rom Manager app then updated to the CWM 6.0.3.0 regular no touch then tried to get into recovery and instead got the yellow triangle so then I had to pull battery because it was in odin download mode so no way out unless cut power. When I rebooted I got the update message again then accepted what the heck, it gave me a count down of 700 sec then in went to recovery with the android i believe CWM 6.0.3.0 and it took the official update from Sprint only to find out later on I have no root after checking with root checker app and trying to boot to recovery.
So my million dollar question is now what. I downloaded the [SAMSUNG GALAXY S3 UNIFIED TOOLKIT V7.0] Drivers, Backup, Root, Recovery + MORE [SPR] but only supports 4.1.1 and I dont know if its safe to Root 4.1.2 which is not listed unless I donate but not even sure if its supported otherwise I would donate.
How do I regain Root access the easiest way?
[2013.02.20][SPH-L710] CF-Auto-Root
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1963812
or
[SAMSUNG GALAXY S3 UNIFIED TOOLKIT V7.0]
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1746680
or other way to bring back super su, root, cmw, adb ,and all the goodies?
Thanks again m8's
Lanboy
=)
lanboy said:
Hello again, I recently got the push for update from device for the 4.1.1 with the mb1 and had TWRP and when I accepted it it booted to recovery and then nothing. So I went to Rom Manager app then updated to the CWM 6.0.3.0 regular no touch then tried to get into recovery and instead got the yellow triangle so then I had to pull battery because it was in odin download mode so no way out unless cut power. When I rebooted I got the update message again then accepted what the heck, it gave me a count down of 700 sec then in went to recovery with the android i believe CWM 6.0.3.0 and it took the official update from Sprint only to find out later on I have no root after checking with root checker app and trying to boot to recovery.
So my million dollar question is now what. I downloaded the [SAMSUNG GALAXY S3 UNIFIED TOOLKIT V7.0] Drivers, Backup, Root, Recovery + MORE [SPR] but only supports 4.1.1 and I dont know if its safe to Root 4.1.2 which is not listed unless I donate but not even sure if its supported otherwise I would donate.
How to I regain Root access the easiest way?
[2013.02.20][SPH-L710] CF-Auto-Root
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1963812
or
[SAMSUNG GALAXY S3 UNIFIED TOOLKIT V7.0]
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1746680
or other way to bring back super su, root, cmw, adb ,and all the goodies?
Thanks again m8's
Lanboy
=)
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Ok, I'm going to answer your question.
First off, I'd recommend looking through CNexus' sticky thread about OTAs (always good to look through the stickies before you post). You'll see exactly why your OTA is failing.
Since you say that you are able to boot into CWM, I'm going to assume that you've done your Odin work. I would recommend going through it again, based on qbking77's thread. Check out the videos and learn how to use Odin to gain root and a custom recovery. (always good to take a refresher course).
Now that you have CWM and have rooted through Odin, you will not be able to update using the OTAs from Sprint(again, look through CNexus' thread).
This is not a bad thing, as Freeza always releases an updated Stock Rooted Rom based on the most recent OTA (normally he gets it done before a number of people, myself included, even get the OTA notification).
I'll give directions on how to flash a Rom below. The instructions will be for TWRP, but CWM has similar options/settings
Turn your phone completely off (hold down power for 3-5 seconds)
Boot your phone into recovery. Hold Up, Menu, and Power for a few seconds (until SAMSUNG appears on your screen and the phone vibrates)
Make a Nandroid backup. I can't emphasize this enough. In flashing, it's almost a certainty that one time, something will mess up. When that happens, you want to be able to restore a backup. In TWRP, just go into Backup Menu and choose where you want it (internal vs. External storage). It takes my phone a few (5-10) minutes to completely backup my data.
In TWRP, click the wipe button, then system. This will completely wipe the Rom from your phone. Doing this will allow you to get a "clean" install, without any settings or leftover files from your old Rom getting in the way. Instead, you could only wipe data (factory reset), which is good enough for most Roms. I'd still recommend a system wipe, though.
Also while in the Wipe menu, wipe Cache and Dalvik Cache.
Go back to the TWRP main menu.
Click Install, then find your Rom zip file (may have to switch from internal to external storage).
Let TWRP do it's thing.
If you're installing a TW-based Rom, chances are it had gapps already installed. If not, you should now flash the correct gapps package from goo.im. Make sure you're flashing the correct one, as if you don't, your google apps will force close upon use.
Reboot into system and give it time to boot (first boot sometimes takes a couple of minutes).
Set up your phone the way you like.
These should be the directions to follow whenever you flash a new Rom. Some Roms have the Aroma installer, so you'll have more options once you choose to flash the Rom zip, but those are typically easy to follow (and vary from Rom to Rom, so I won't be able to give you a good guide on that).
Hope this helps!
Wow! Just had to come out and say, nice writeup!
CNexus said:
Wow! Just had to come out and say, nice writeup!
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Thanks, CNexus. By-the-way, I'm still working on the addition to your sticky I promised... I haven't forgotten about it.
topherk said:
Thanks, CNexus. By-the-way, I'm still working on the addition to your sticky I promised... I haven't forgotten about it.
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No problemo, take your time :good:
So its better to use qbkings method instead of [SAMSUNG GALAXY S3 UNIFIED TOOLKIT V7.0]
read this abouy 4.1.2 rooting afterwards, great news...
Originally Posted by Ramer84015
I am on stock recovery and my phone has been updated to v4.1.2 (MB1). Have the files in the OP been updated, or does it matter to get root?
The files will still work exactly the same. Follow the instructions, and you'll be good.
I remember now I used qbking's method had the files in phone TeamEpic-Root-from-Recovery-v5.zip
Thanks for the heads up I got scared after updating but read If you take OTA then you will lose ROOT. This is normal what I don't get is how I was able to get OTA with CWM and not TWRP, but I read somewhere some ppl were able to take the OTA with CWM.
Thanks M8's for coming though in the clutch... now to ROOT my moms Samsung Galaxy Tab2...
Lanboy
=)
Always better to root the right way than using a tool kit, one wrong choice in a tool kit and you have an international brick worth 600 dollars.
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