If I just do a factory reset will my phone just go back to stock and be UN rooted?
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No, in order to return to stock you would have to flash a stock, non-rooted rom/kernel.
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No, A factory reset will only wipe Data/cache etc..
I've honestly never unrooted a phone so if that is your goal You'd probably have to look through the dev forum a bit to figure it out.
If you were just wondering about the factory reset, then we're good.
*note* Don't use RoM manager for wiping/factory reset if you are on an ICS RoM.
To unroot Odin a stock unrooted tar and profit, well nonprofit cuz ur phone won't be rooted anymore, check the stickies in the dev section for the tar file and the download for Odin and the drivers if u don't already have them. A factory reset will only return your rom to the condition it was in right after flashing it, it will erase all user data/settings and start your rom fresh.
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Hopefully it's not a dumb question but I can't find the answer anywhere else.
I have a rooted phone w/ CWM and faux's kernel.
No 3rd party ROM installed.
I got the update today. Can I install the update with the kernel or will that do bad things to my phone?
Do I have to go back to a stock kernel and recovery to do that update or is going back to a stock kernel good enough?
I don't mind losing root, I can always reroot it. I just don't want to do something stupid to my phone.
knurdle said:
Hopefully it's not a dumb question but I can't find the answer anywhere else.
I have a rooted phone w/ CWM and faux's kernel.
No 3rd party ROM installed.
I got the update today. Can I install the update with the kernel or will that do bad things to my phone?
Do I have to go back to a stock kernel and recovery to do that update or is going back to a stock kernel good enough?
I don't mind losing root, I can always reroot it. I just don't want to do something stupid to my phone.
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You definitely have to go to stock recovery...i also went back to stock kernel too..then applied them back without error after update
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Thanks, another possibly stupid question.
Is there only one stock recovery or are there different versions between the UVKL1 and UVKID recovery?
Will this recovery work with my UVKL1 phone?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1319830
It's the same. To prevent having issues, I recommend doing a factory reset before flashing back to stock.
Just back up whatever you don't want erased. You don't have to worry about the external sd, the reset won't touch that.
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Can you flash a different kernel after installing the latest update? Yes. Should you if you want a flawless ICS update this Monday and possibly avoid a brick? Probably not. Up to you.
Simply put, NO. As mentioned above Odin fully back to unrooted stock for he update to flash properly. Otherwise you'll have a soft brick on your hands.
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Can we just flash a stock rom and Odin the update? Is their a tutorial somewhere on the easiest way to get the uvdle update
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tdizzle404 said:
Can we just flash a stock rom and Odin the update? Is their a tutorial somewhere on the easiest way to get the uvdle update
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You can just Odin the update from where you are now. Just super wipe first.
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Towle said:
You can just Odin the update from where you are now. Just super wipe first.
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everytime i odin the update i have to pull battery cuz it bootloops..then boot into recovery wipe cache and dalvik then reboot and it boots. is that normal?
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Can we just flash a stock rom and Odin the update? Is their a tutorial somewhere on the easiest way to get the uvdle update
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Also, if you're on ICS right now, you may get boot loops after flashing back to stock. Just do a factory reset in recovery and you're good to go.
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k786 said:
everytime i odin the update i have to pull battery cuz it bootloops..then boot into recovery wipe cache and dalvik then reboot and it boots. is that normal?
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It depends what you're coming from and how/if you wiped your phone.
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Towle said:
It depends what you're coming from and how/if you wiped your phone.
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i was gonna follow these steps..
superwipe
wipe cache dalvik
power off
go to download mode
odin stock
are those fine? or do you recommend some other steps?
Questions go in the Q&A section
k786 said:
i was gonna follow these steps..
superwipe
wipe cache dalvik
power off
go to download mode
odin stock
are those fine? or do you recommend some other steps?
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That looks fine. If you're on ICS and reboot after wiping to get into download mode, some apps will automatically install on first boot so you will get boot loops after you flash back to stock. That's fine if you do, just do a factory reset in recovery.
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Just as a follow up to my own thread.
I followed this guide to go back to stock and then did the maintenance update.
http://rootzwiki.com/topic/16727-howto-restore-stock-rom-recover-bad-flashes/
I backed up everything just in case but I didn't lose any data and it took about 10 minutes to do everything.
I'm just going to run stock until I get ICS and then reroot again.
I have heard you can brick your phone by trying to do a factory reset in cm9s recovery so how would I go about doing this?
Flash el29 cwm via Odin, do your needed wiping, then flash back the rom you were on or one that u want.
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Thanks, that's what I figured.
Basically I want to delete everything this on the phone including all the system files. Is there a way to restore the phone back to stock kind of like how you can restore an iPhone by pressing restore in iTunes. I don't want to factory reset because I want everything to be gone and put back on the phonekinde of like it's brand new. I don't want any garbage files in the system directory of folders. If there isn't please give me instructions on how to properly factory reset.
Depends..are you on stock to start out with or running a custom rom? If stock then just do a factory reset remember to clear your internal sd. If custom then use odin
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Teo032 said:
Depends..are you on stock to start out with or running a custom rom? If stock then just do a factory reset remember to clear your internal sd. If custom then use odin
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I'm fully stock but I also want the junk files that get created in the system directory to get deleted as well. Will a factory reset do this Anne what is the way to properly factory reset my device.
A factory reset would suffice, it's in your settings. I'm on aokp now so it's a bit different... Might be under privacy or something. if you're rooted and have cwm, you can superwipe and flash a stock rooted rom
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So choose backup and restore in the settings?
It should say factory reset, unless my memories fail me
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I took my stock GSIII and rooted and installed hyperdrive, but texting was really awful, and battery was bad so I proceeded to reinstall. Didn't work. So I flashed one of the rooted stock firmwares from the root no tripping flash counter thread. Now its worse. i cant get in to the app drawer it always just says that android.core or something like that has stopped and proceeds to kick me out. At this point I am done and just want to have rooted stock then use triangle away and then flash pure stock and end up with a good warranty, pure stock phone, any help?
Did you wipe your cache/data factory reset every time you flashed?
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Yes.... Even Odin flashes give me that same trouble
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blu422 said:
Yes.... Even Odin flashes give me that same trouble
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So did you do a factory reset when you Odin back to stock with the rooted stock .tar file?
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So did you do a factory reset when you Odin back to stock with the rooted stock .tar file?
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Yeah...
repeat the process: wipe data and cache in recovery then boot into download mode. flash the correct stock firmware via odin with "auto reboot" unchecked. when you get a "pass", pull the battery. reinsert the battery and immediately press the recovery button combo. once in, wipe data and cache again. reboot. report back.
I am trying to unroot my phone before I send it out for repair. I am running CM10.1 with TWRP recovery. I reset the binary counter with triangle away but I can't find a link for a flashable stock recovery? If I flash the stock rom, will it replace the recovery as well or do they have to be flashed seperately. I've heard that going into a custom recovery will trigger the binary counter so there's no point of me flashing a stock rom only to trigger the binary counter again...
I have the GS3 T999v with Wind Mobile
Thanks in advance!
I'm pretty sure flashing any stock rom will not affect the recovery. You could try flashing stock firmware or the unrooted stock rom.
Flash stock firmware in Odin. Everything is in my sig.
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Flash stock firmware in Odin. Everything is in my sig.
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@dannytron
I meant to say that I have the unrooted stock rom ready to roll. The issue is that I'm not sure if it will replace my recovery to stock as well, or would I have to flash the stock recovery before I flash the unrooted stock rom.
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The recovery in your sig says it's for t-mobile gs3 or does it not matter?
Thank you for the fast reply guys!
Go to the firmware thread linked in my sig. Download the correct firmware for your model/carrier.
Follow the instructions for flashing that in Odin. It will take care of everything.
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@dannytron
I meant to say that I have the unrooted stock rom ready to roll. The issue is that I'm not sure if it will replace my recovery to stock as well, or would I have to flash the stock recovery before I flash the unrooted stock rom.
@DocHoliday77
The recovery in your sig says it's for t-mobile gs3 or does it not matter?
Thank you for the fast reply guys!
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Is your carrier T-Mobile?
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Go to the firmware thread linked in my sig. Download the correct firmware for your model/carrier.
Follow the instructions for flashing that in Odin. It will take care of everything.
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Ok so I'm assuming you mean just download the official non-rooted stock rom and flash it via odin? Ok doing it now!
I'm with Wind Mobile!
Thanks
EDIT: Ok I am following this guide : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2323847 and it says 1) Reset binary counter 2) flash stock recovery 3) go into stock recovery and perform a data wipe....I cannot data wipe from custom recovery since it will reset the binary counter! This is why I need the stock recovery, do I not? Won't flashing the Offical Non-root Stock ROM on top of CM10.1 without data wiping give me problems??
Sorry, I must've misread, thought you already reset the flash counter. In that case flash the root66 firmware instead of the official stock. Once done, you csn now use triangle away to reset thr counter.
Next choose full unroot from the supersu app. Then factory reset.
Done!
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Sorry, I must've misread, thought you already reset the flash counter. In that case flash the root66 firmware instead of the official stock. Once done, you csn now use triangle away to reset thr counter.
Next choose full unroot from the supersu app. Then factory reset.
Done!
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Do this ^
You're supposed to flash the stock firmware (not rom) in Odin and it'll return everything back to factory. But in your case you should do what doc says and flash root66 for your device so you can then use triangle away and unroot the phone.
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DocHoliday77 said:
Sorry, I must've misread, thought you already reset the flash counter. In that case flash the root66 firmware instead of the official stock. Once done, you csn now use triangle away to reset thr counter.
Next choose full unroot from the supersu app. Then factory reset.
Done!
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Thanks Doc. Well, it kinda worked.
The odd thing is that I flashed the root66 (which also restored recovery from TWRP to stock) and i wiped the data from stock. Now the device status is listed as "Normal" (So I guess my device isn't rooted) so I guess i don't need to do anything else. I'm even downloading an OTA update right, I'll let ya know if I run into any problems.
Thank you very much for your help
Actually you are probably still rooted.
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