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Okay, this might not be the place to get some divine intervention to start (or stop) happening, but I'm really starting to get a nervous breakdown and I desperately need some help. I'm going to tell you my story, because it's my last resort before throwing this phone in a fire and never buy anything Samsung related ever.
So the phone came out of the box and for some magic reason I got the bootloader unlocked and phone rooted. It all started with installing CWM I think. This stopped my phone from taking OTA updates. Of course I could have known, but for some reason I installed CWM. I don't know why! I regret it, I don't even want a different ROM installed, I thought it was necessary to root the phone. So when I got the OTA, at first I was like YEAH YEAH, but then the on the back laying android with the exclamation mark turned up and I felt like I wanted to kill someone. It was 2 in the morning and I had to get up early to go to Dublin for two weeks. This was really not the time...
So after trying a few times of getting the OTA update message again and failing every time I got it, I started searching. Yes, CWM is installed so you can't OTA they all said. Nice, now I hate on the back laying androids AND CWM. Of course the one to hate is me, but I already hate myself so that's no use. Anyway I used the Galaxy Nexus Toolkit 5.6 to put back stock recovery. Now I had to wait a few weeks again before the update turned up again... By this time the phone started to be REALLY slow when scrolling through the home screen(s). It also is empty before the day is done, but I don't know if that's because of the phone being f'ed up or because I'm too demanding.
Anyway, back to the story. Finally the update came about a week ago, and again I was like YEAH YEAH! But then the on the back laying android with the exclamation mark turned up and I felt like I wanted to kill someone. To make things more fun it did a reset of my Go Launcher, 7 screens of widgets and autistic arranged shortcuts gone... Of course I wanted to try again, so this morning the OTA came again and had the same result. By now I killed quite a few, so this has to end, but don't worry there is more torment ahead.
I can't figure out what is wrong now, so I thought, f~ this s~, this phone deserves a full undress and back to the womb operation. So installing all Galaxy Nexus Toolkit v6.0 stuff and drivers. Connect phone, start toolkit, choose 3 (GSM 4.0.2. build ICL53F), phone turns up in main menu, try to put back recovery, -waiting for device-...
It stopped... Or it didn't really stop, it just stood there saying, -waiting for device-... So again a few innocent people died. Tried a different choice, (relock bootloader, just to give the phone a good beating) -waiting for device-...
I raged, pulled my hair, again killed a few, silently cried in a corner and finally started typing this eulogy...
Please kind sirs and madams, help me get this phone back to stock 4.0.4, accepting OTA, bootloader unlocked and rooted, I'm really desperate...
Why did you even root it? If u have root and cwm, you should be able to flash the rooted version of whatever stock os update you want. OTA's are a waste, you just wait a few hours for xda devs to root it and make it flash able.
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How do you proceed?
First you need the SDK for you system
http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
After this you have to start the SDK manager and install "Android SDK Tools" and "Android SDK Plattform-tools" if you are using Windows you have to install USB drivers too. You could find this under the point "Extras".
After that you have to download the factory image to clean your device, once.
(Notice your SD-Card gets wiped)
https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images
Look for right version, which fits to your device.
Now you have to bring your telefon into the bootloader by pressing all 3 buttons at the same time Volume+/Volume-/Power. After this you have to unlock your bootloader if you don't already done this.
Now plug in your phone into your computer an go into the unpacked folder from your factory image. There would be an file called flash-all. You have to run this file. Now your phone is flashed with stock rom, stock kernel newest baseband and stock recovery. Now you get ota updates from google. After this you should look for an howto root your phone in the developer section. You don't have to install clockworkmod recovery for rooting. But clockworkmod isn't change the ota. You get OTA with cwm.
Hope i understand your problem an you could understand my bad english. But i want to help. If some questions ask here into the thread.
regards
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Why did you even root it? If u have root and cwm, you should be able to flash the rooted version of whatever stock os update you want. OTA's are a waste, you just wait a few hours for xda devs to root it and make it flash able.
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I'm out of the house a lot, leaving for Brussels in a couple of hours. I don't want the hassle anymore. I just want to be able to leave the house to go to another hotel and update OTA. I don't have time for all this flashing stuff.
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When the Galaxy Nexus Toolkit says "-waiting for device-..." you need to turn off your phone, press the volume down then the volume up then the power button together. Once you have done that the Galaxy Nexus Toolkit will continue.
There is also tutorials on youtube on how to use the Galaxy Nexus Toolkit.
I hope that helps.
If you want to head back to stock ROM, then one of the ways to do it would be to install Android SDK & then follow the instructions from Google developers site.
Else you can try using the Galaxy Nexus Toolkit to do this for you. I think the latest version is 5.7.
Android SDK - http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing.html
Android Images - https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images#yakju
Galaxy Nexus Toolkit - http://windows.podnova.com/software/5996358.htm
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When the Galaxy Nexus Toolkit says "-waiting for device-..." you need to turn off your phone, press the volume down then the volume up then the power button together. Once you have done that the Galaxy Nexus Toolkit will continue.
There is also tutorials on youtube on how to use the Galaxy Nexus Toolkit.
I hope that helps.
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Ah yes, I now see where I went wrong with the toolkit, I didn't put the phone in fastboot. Stupid...
How is the stock recovery supposed to look like? After putting back stock recovery with the GN Toolkit, I press 'vol+/vol-/power' and choose recovery. It then displays the belly up android with exclamation mark. Is that the way it should be? Am I doin' it wrong?
yes it is the stock recovery. But you dont need it. Flashing everything into fastboot mode(bootloader)
So, I'm currently running a stock phone, but OTA won't update my phone...? Why is OTA constantly failing if I'm running everything stock? Is my bootloader supposed to be locked? Is a rooted phone not updated OTA?
If you flashed the latest Factory-Image there is no OTA out there. It is the newest version of ICS for your Device.
Maybe i don't understand what you mean with failing OTA. Could you explain it a little bit more?
As I said in the long story, I'm currently 4.0.2. and every time when my phone says, "You have update 4.0.4. standing by, please reboot" it fails.
i would prefer to flash the factory image and root your phone again
then you have a cleaned phone and OTA should work but you don't need them because you are at latest version.
https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images
i wrote how you could flash it page before, remeber you wipe your data from sdcard
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So, I'm currently running a stock phone, but OTA won't update my phone...? Why is OTA constantly failing if I'm running everything stock? Is my bootloader supposed to be locked? Is a rooted phone not updated OTA?
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I don't know if I can answer why the OTA isn't working (I'll leave that to smarter men than I), but having an unlocked bootloader and root access won't stop the OTA. I had my phone in that state when the 4.0.4 update came out and all was fine, just had to run the command to get root of my phone again as OTA removes root.
Ah great! S~ has just hit the fan, it's bootlooping after trying option 8 (flash stock rom from google). Oh I really am going to kill myself sooner or later...
Edit: not killing myself yet, just had to pull the battery... Let's see what I f~ up next...
Very strange you problems i don't know the Toolkit and don't know how it flash the stock rom. But i could imagin that it only flash rom and not the other things like recovery and so on.
Try out the hard way without toolkit and use sdk and included batch file into the factory image. it is the clean way and you see whats done.
Ok, I now rebooted the phone after option 8 in the toolkit and it seems I'm running 4.0.4. I have to go to Brussels now for two weeks, but I'll try to post some screenshots later. I'll also be back to thank all of you for holding my hand, I just don't have the time right now. Of course this won't be my last problem (I still have a TF101 that needs some RMA action), but I hope I won't be needing too much time consuming support anymore.
Just got in the hotel, and unable to use my phone in Belgium. No available network... Wifi works, 2G/3G works in The Netherlands, 2G/3G unavailable in Belgium...
Screenshot of my device: http://oi46.tinypic.com/34xp89y.jpg
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Just tried my SIM in a different phone, problems are with my network. Phone works with different SIM, so false alarm.
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If you dont want to root and or flash roms, and knowing android its buggy and you gotta be stuffing with the phone all time to be able to be up to date, cuz even google releases updates oftem and even with OTA things can go wrong, meaning you have to do stuff again...
Dont blame Samsung or google the whole system needs some fixes all time.. I was devoted to stock but after i tried AOKP (Milestones) i wont ever go back to stock and or another rom, these guys has loads of features for a better user experience, stable as hell, and great support, but as you show with your very active/traveling life and those killer instints (poor innocent people), why dont you just go Iphone?
No need to flash anything and will plain work... Thats it no need to worry about anything but being an apple fan boy xDD
Cheers
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msedek said:
If you dont want to root and or flash roms, and knowing android its buggy and you gotta be stuffing with the phone all time to be able to be up to date, cuz even google releases updates oftem and even with OTA things can go wrong, meaning you have to do stuff again...
Dont blame Samsung or google the whole system needs some fixes all time.. I was devoted to stock but after i tried AOKP (Milestones) i wont ever go back to stock and or another rom, these guys has loads of features for a better user experience, stable as hell, and great support, but as you show with your very active/traveling life and those killer instints (poor innocent people), why dont you just go Iphone?
No need to flash anything and will plain work... Thats it no need to worry about anything but being an apple fan boy xDD
Cheers
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I rather eat my own shhhhh... shorts than buy something with an apple on it. With the help of you guys it always works out fine, it just takes a life or two.
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Good afternoon all this is a bright Sunday in Halifax Nova Scotia. I would like to first apologize if this is a redundant thread so if anyone sees that my issue has been resolved elsewhere (and yes I have been at this for DAYS) please close this thread and point me to the right direction.
I have a Samsung Galaxy S3 from Rogers model i747M
Everything was working find until I happened to it lol :silly:
I installed ParanoidKANGdroid succesfully, after playing around with it I got a little cocky and tried to install other roms...
After reading up on the best roms for my device I stumbled upon Pardus HD (not realizing is was for the i9300 because I was all excited and didn't read.... just being honest)
So what I did was followed some guide (can't remember which one but if its imporant ill try and find it) to intall clockwork mod via odin. Successful :laugh:
After this I booted up my phone and moved the Pardus rom to my internal sd as directed and loaded into clockwork recovery...
Now the directions mentioned to WIPE DATA AND CACHE so this probably wiped the working rom off my phone.
I then went to install off sd card, found the rom, and installed it, the install errored out and aborted. At this point I was still in recovery and rebooted :crying:.
Now my phone will not turn on, there is literally no life going to it. When I plug it into my pc I do hear a sound but its the sound of a device driver error the driver its looking for is QHSUSB_DLOAD.
What I've tried...
Download mode again (of course it won't work)
Finding that driver (no luck)
connecting some wires to the battery (poor man jtag; unsuccessful)
What I want to try but haven't yet as I don't want to mess it up further....
jtag (since I don't have it)
sd card trick to install bootloader (scared to mess it up) this seems the most promising but cant find the guide to me particular model
sd card trick using another working phone same model (don't want to mess up someone elses phone)
I would like to try every option other than sending it off before that ends up being my last resort.
Any help would be great appreciated. I thank you in advance.
Did you make the jig and try it yet? Cause that might be the last resort before sending it off...good luck bud!
Edit: found this
http://rootgalaxys3iii.com/diy-usb-jig-for-samsung-galaxy-s3-to-boot-into-download-mode/
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Unhived__Mind said:
Did you make the jig and try it yet? Cause that might be the last resort before sending it off...good luck bud!
Edit: found this
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So this may not seem as simple as it looks. my question is, is my phone hardbricked or softbricked? (just to be clear there is NO life, no led, no download mode, no charging, just QHSUSB_DLOAD when connecting to pc for which i dont have drivers) will this work in either situation?
Thank you so much for the help so far, i assure that i will most my journey and success with every step once i have this figured out. thanx again
I'm pretty sure it is that simple...jig worked great on my captivate and 1st Gen note both hardbricked....making and using the jig can't hurt you at all...try it and see.
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Unhived__Mind said:
I'm pretty sure it is that simple...jig worked great on my captivate and 1st Gen note both hardbricked....making and using the jig can't hurt you at all...try it and see.
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i failed at it miserably, maybe ill buy one and post my results
Sry bud...yea those small connections are tough to work with even for experienced people....good luck going forward!
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Unhived__Mind said:
Sry bud...yea those small connections are tough to work with even for experienced people....good luck going forward!
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my mistake was i chopped a blackberry data cable. found an original samsung one, chopped it, rigged it up, it works on a good s3 (friends) boots it right into download mode so the jig is working now. i will post on how i made it and what youtube video i followed later. however the jig isnt working on my s3. but i found a [email protected] pdf doc from samsung on how to use another s3 to flash bootloader. just need to find i747 boot recovery image and hopefully i can use his s3 to resurrect mine... any ideas on that method?
This issue has been solved!!! YAY
Okay ladies and gentlemen so my issue has been solved!
Here's how I fixed my issue!
I disassembled the phone I connected a Jig that I learned how to make through mobile tech videos, I then connected an external power supply by attaching two prongs to the positive and negative battery terminal at 3.7 mah, Then I shorted with a pair of tweezers the R 313 chip on the back of the motherboard of the phone. After a few tries download mode came up I disconnected the jig reconnected it and somehow the download counter reset.
Up and running on stock Rogers I 747M 4.1.1 Rom
If you buy your jig on Amazon for about $25 usually those ones actually come with a power supply port On the back of them so you don't have to actually hookup an external one. I'm not sure exactly what the purpose of the R313 chip is I found a leaked Samsung Tech service manual online to do this. That manual also asked for another S3 in working order to be part of the equation to force load a boot loader and then reflash to T flash However jumping the gun in this matter it actually worked if I'm lucky I'm happy if this is how it was supposed to work I hope I really helped someone. Thank you all for your help so far! :laugh:
where on the board do you find th R313 chip. how did you know to rcognize it. Is the rogers mother board the same as the atnt i747
djkaozz said:
Okay ladies and gentlemen so my issue has been solved!
Here's how I fixed my issue!
I disassembled the phone I connected a Jig that I learned how to make through mobile tech videos, I then connected an external power supply by attaching two prongs to the positive and negative battery terminal at 3.7 mah, Then I shorted with a pair of tweezers the R 313 chip on the back of the motherboard of the phone. After a few tries download mode came up I disconnected the jig reconnected it and somehow the download counter reset.
Up and running on stock Rogers I 747M 4.1.1 Rom
If you buy your jig on Amazon for about $25 usually those ones actually come with a power supply port On the back of them so you don't have to actually hookup an external one. I'm not sure exactly what the purpose of the R313 chip is I found a leaked Samsung Tech service manual online to do this. That manual also asked for another S3 in working order to be part of the equation to force load a boot loader and then reflash to T flash However jumping the gun in this matter it actually worked if I'm lucky I'm happy if this is how it was supposed to work I hope I really helped someone. Thank you all for your help so far! :laugh:
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need help to find R313 location on i747m rogers s3...
djkaozz said:
Okay ladies and gentlemen so my issue has been solved!
Here's how I fixed my issue!
I disassembled the phone I connected a Jig that I learned how to make through mobile tech videos, I then connected an external power supply by attaching two prongs to the positive and negative battery terminal at 3.7 mah, Then I shorted with a pair of tweezers the R 313 chip on the back of the motherboard of the phone. After a few tries download mode came up I disconnected the jig reconnected it and somehow the download counter reset.
Up and running on stock Rogers I 747M 4.1.1 Rom
If you buy your jig on Amazon for about $25 usually those ones actually come with a power supply port On the back of them so you don't have to actually hookup an external one. I'm not sure exactly what the purpose of the R313 chip is I found a leaked Samsung Tech service manual online to do this. That manual also asked for another S3 in working order to be part of the equation to force load a boot loader and then reflash to T flash However jumping the gun in this matter it actually worked if I'm lucky I'm happy if this is how it was supposed to work I hope I really helped someone. Thank you all for your help so far! :laugh:
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thanks for information you upload about your experience.
would you please let me know where is R313 is located on i747M main board,as I have the exactly same problem.
any help would be appreciated.
QHSUSB-DLOAD Stands for Qualcomm High Speed USB Download Mode.
This means your motherboard can't find working drivers to run, so it will try to boot from somewhere else.
(Which is the SDcard)
To put the sdcard with bootloader info is safe. Its like putting a CD into your computer, it won't make any changes unless its asked to change the harddrive.
Here is a T-Mobile thread that did it: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2439367
Here is the i747m image (only works if you didn't update to 4.3 from an OTA from phone company)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=46258374&postcount=172. (Thanks to @Bradkirk )
clockworkmod
djkaozz said:
Good afternoon all this is a bright Sunday in Halifax Nova Scotia. I would like to first apologize if this is a redundant thread so if anyone sees that my issue has been resolved elsewhere (and yes I have been at this for DAYS) please close this thread and point me to the right direction.
I have a Samsung Galaxy S3 from Rogers model i747M
Everything was working find until I happened to it lol :silly:
I installed ParanoidKANGdroid succesfully, after playing around with it I got a little cocky and tried to install other roms...
After reading up on the best roms for my device I stumbled upon Pardus HD (not realizing is was for the i9300 because I was all excited and didn't read.... just being honest)
So what I did was followed some guide (can't remember which one but if its imporant ill try and find it) to intall clockwork mod via odin. Successful :laugh:
After this I booted up my phone and moved the Pardus rom to my internal sd as directed and loaded into clockwork recovery...
Now the directions mentioned to WIPE DATA AND CACHE so this probably wiped the working rom off my phone.
I then went to install off sd card, found the rom, and installed it, the install errored out and aborted. At this point I was still in recovery and rebooted :crying:.
Now my phone will not turn on, there is literally no life going to it. When I plug it into my pc I do hear a sound but its the sound of a device driver error the driver its looking for is QHSUSB_DLOAD.
What I've tried...
Download mode again (of course it won't work)
Finding that driver (no luck)
connecting some wires to the battery (poor man jtag; unsuccessful)
What I want to try but haven't yet as I don't want to mess it up further....
jtag (since I don't have it)
sd card trick to install bootloader (scared to mess it up) this seems the most promising but cant find the guide to me particular model
sd card trick using another working phone same model (don't want to mess up someone elses phone)
I would like to try every option other than sending it off before that ends up being my last resort.
Any help would be great appreciated. I thank you in advance.
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do you still know how to flash clockwork mod on the phone I have the I747 But the AT&T model from what I have heard the GS3's use the same process just different boot loaders
Also I did kind of the same thing with my phone but instead of flashing a rom I tryed to unlock a boot loader that was already unlocked and was for a different model lol :silly: .
I already know how to fix it I just need the Debrick img for the SDcard trick where you put the boot loader on the card it self
If you have seen the I747 At&t vision debrick img can you tell me?
I have the sdcard trick here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2549068 if you still need it it even has the debrick img for the I747M
Thanks
djkaozz said:
Okay ladies and gentlemen so my issue has been solved!
Here's how I fixed my issue!
I disassembled the phone I connected a Jig that I learned how to make through mobile tech videos, I then connected an external power supply by attaching two prongs to the positive and negative battery terminal at 3.7 mah, Then I shorted with a pair of tweezers the R 313 chip on the back of the motherboard of the phone. After a few tries download mode came up I disconnected the jig reconnected it and somehow the download counter reset.
Up and running on stock Rogers I 747M 4.1.1 Rom
If you buy your jig on Amazon for about $25 usually those ones actually come with a power supply port On the back of them so you don't have to actually hookup an external one. I'm not sure exactly what the purpose of the R313 chip is I found a leaked Samsung Tech service manual online to do this. That manual also asked for another S3 in working order to be part of the equation to force load a boot loader and then reflash to T flash However jumping the gun in this matter it actually worked if I'm lucky I'm happy if this is how it was supposed to work I hope I really helped someone. Thank you all for your help so far! :laugh:
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Hi,I'mhaving the same problem you're having but can't seem to locate the R313 chip on the board. I got the i9300 leaked guide for the shorting but I can't locate the R313 can you please tell me where to look? thanks.
djkaozz said:
Okay ladies and gentlemen so my issue has been solved!
Here's how I fixed my issue!
I disassembled the phone I connected a Jig that I learned how to make through mobile tech videos, I then connected an external power supply by attaching two prongs to the positive and negative battery terminal at 3.7 mah, Then I shorted with a pair of tweezers the R 313 chip on the back of the motherboard of the phone. After a few tries download mode came up I disconnected the jig reconnected it and somehow the download counter reset.
Up and running on stock Rogers I 747M 4.1.1 Rom
If you buy your jig on Amazon for about $25 usually those ones actually come with a power supply port On the back of them so you don't have to actually hookup an external one. I'm not sure exactly what the purpose of the R313 chip is I found a leaked Samsung Tech service manual online to do this. That manual also asked for another S3 in working order to be part of the equation to force load a boot loader and then reflash to T flash However jumping the gun in this matter it actually worked if I'm lucky I'm happy if this is how it was supposed to work I hope I really helped someone. Thank you all for your help so far! :laugh:
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If you still alive can you refer to the r313.
thanks in advance.
They said it was from a leaked guide for the i9300, so there's a very good chance the Qualcomm devices fo not have it. They are very different devices and use entirely different SoC's, do it would make sense that the rest of the hardware would also be different.
Not saying its not worth looking into, just that its a good possibility since no one else seems able to find it.
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They said it was from a leaked guide for the i9300, so there's a very good chance the Qualcomm devices fo not have it. They are very different devices and use entirely different SoC's, do it would make sense that the rest of the hardware would also be different.
Not saying its not worth looking into, just that its a good possibility since no one else seems able to find it.
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yesterday was trying this method but didnot success. I find my lost usb JIG. and will try with external power supply.
I will test more when I have time to unbrick my SCH-I535 and may this way leed to unlock our devices.
Hi. So I'm totally at a loss as to what to do. I've had a Galaxy S3 for a little over a year now, and just recently decided to try and root it. I'm not very experienced with phone software in general, but I've got enough understanding of how Android works to want to try my hand at this.
I followed mrRobinson's really helpful root via Odin guide, found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1774722
I never got past step 2, however. I got everything downloaded, got my phone plugged in and going, and...it's stuck now. It still says it's in the middle of download, but it's been downloading "cache.img.ext4" for about an hour now. Clearly there's something not right.
Here is a screenshot of what this has looked like: http://i.imgur.com/jy21pHd.jpg
I'd heard that using a third party cable was not advisable, but unfortunately that was something I learned after the download had already begun. As of right now, my phone is still in download mode. What do I do? Is there a way for me to go back to normal and try rooting it again with a stock cord? Or is there something I haven't done that'll finish the download? I'm terrified of unplugging it or messing with it in any way without knowing what the consequences will be.
PS: Please explain this to me as simply as possible. I'm not familiar with a lot of Android jargon, I apologize.
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Hi. So I'm totally at a loss as to what to do. I've had a Galaxy S3 for a little over a year now, and just recently decided to try and root it. I'm not very experienced with phone software in general, but I've got enough understanding of how Android works to want to try my hand at this.
I followed mrRobinson's really helpful root via Odin guide, found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1774722
I never got past step 2, however. I got everything downloaded, got my phone plugged in and going, and...it's stuck now. It still says it's in the middle of download, but it's been downloading "cache.img.ext4" for about an hour now. Clearly there's something not right.
Here is a screenshot of what this has looked like: http://i.imgur.com/jy21pHd.jpg
I'd heard that using a third party cable was not advisable, but unfortunately that was something I learned after the download had already begun. As of right now, my phone is still in download mode. What do I do? Is there a way for me to go back to normal and try rooting it again with a stock cord? Or is there something I haven't done that'll finish the download? I'm terrified of unplugging it or messing with it in any way without knowing what the consequences will be.
PS: Please explain this to me as simply as possible. I'm not familiar with a lot of Android jargon, I apologize.
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I don't think its going to work without the stock cord. But I think unplugging it would just result in a failed root I don't think it would brick. Not positive though
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PS: Please explain this to me as simply as possible. I'm not familiar with a lot of Android jargon, I apologize.
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did you unplug the phone yet? how did it go?
Just FYI since it sounds like you are new to this, there are a few different s3 models depending on carrier. Make sure you flash something compatible with your phone.
From your screenshot, looks like everything flashed except the cache partition. Are there any other images in the .tar.md5 file you downloaded?
so yesterday i installed the new optimus de rom and it started up fine and everything was okay, then today i realized my 3g wasnt working and usually thats no big deal because all i have to do is restore my efs in the app FreeG (I think thats what its called, I might be wrong). Well right after i did that, i hit restart phone and it turned off then wouldnt come back on. Then i finally got to the LG symbol but it will turn off then the screen will be on but will just show black. I cant boot in to recovery nor can i do anything on it at all, when i plug it in the charger it says "battery.png is missing, battery: 75%". I took my phone in to sprint and they did a reset although that didnt do anything so there sending me a new one. Now my question is, is there any way I can open up my phones folder so i can get my pictures and everything that was on it? My pics were very important to me and i dont want to lose them, thats all i need so if some could help me get them that would be much appreciated, thanks.
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so yesterday i installed the new optimus de rom and it started up fine and everything was okay, then today i realized my 3g wasnt working and usually thats no big deal because all i have to do is restore my efs in the app FreeG (I think thats what its called, I might be wrong). Well right after i did that, i hit restart phone and it turned off then wouldnt come back on. Then i finally got to the LG symbol but it will turn off then the screen will be on but will just show black. I cant boot in to recovery nor can i do anything on it at all, when i plug it in the charger it says "battery.png is missing, battery: 75%". I took my phone in to sprint and they did a reset although that didnt do anything so there sending me a new one. Now my question is, is there any way I can open up my phones folder so i can get my pictures and everything that was on it? My pics were very important to me and i dont want to lose them, thats all i need so if some could help me get them that would be much appreciated, thanks.
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The key here is going to be getting back into recovery. Have you tried getting into Download Mode? If you saw the LG logo then you SHOULD be able to get into download mode. Make sure the phone is completely powered off. Connect the USB to your pc but before you connect the other end to your phone, hold volume up then connect it. You should see "Download Mode" on the screen. You will see other directions for download mode but for me this always works, usb to pc, hold volume up then plug the phone in while still holding the volume up. If you can get into Download Mode you can flash a teenybin to get back into recovery following the guide in this thread here.
Currently even if you can get into Download Mode adb might not recognize your phone(at least it never did for me). Once you flash a teenybin using LGNPST, you should be able to get into Recovery. Once in Recovery you can use adb to pull your files off of the phone and onto your computer. I use it from a linux terminal but there are guides available for Windows if that's what you use. The adb guide should be easy to find on xda(just search) so I haven't linked to it. Once adb is set up on your computer AND you can get into Recovery you can use the command 'adb pull /data/media' without quotations and it will copy the contents of your internal storage to your pc. However if you can get into recovery you do have other options for just getting the phone back up and running. This guide here should also help.
If you are familiar with irc(internet relay chat) you can hop onto freenode and enter the #lg-optimus-g channel. As soon as you enter the channel you will see "Need Help? You won't read this but..." followed by a link. All the files for LGNPST, teenybins, and in depth tutorials on fixing a soft brick will be found there. I hope this helps you and hooray for me because this is my 200th post!
PS - If you can't get into Download Mode then your secondary bootloader is gone and there isn't anything you can do(to my knowledge). However, like I said, if you saw the LG logo at all, Download mode should still be an option. Also keep in mind these instructions are for the Sprint(ls970) lg optimis g. I believe the keys are flipped on AT&T/International models(Volume Down when you plug it in to get to Download Mode).
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The key here is going to be getting back into recovery. Have you tried getting into Download Mode? If you saw the LG logo then you SHOULD be able to get into download mode. Make sure the phone is completely powered off. Connect the USB to your pc but before you connect the other end to your phone, hold volume up then connect it. You should see "Download Mode" on the screen. You will see other directions for download mode but for me this always works, usb to pc, hold volume up then plug the phone in while still holding the volume up. If you can get into Download Mode you can flash a teenybin to get back into recovery following the guide in this thread here.
Currently even if you can get into Download Mode adb might not recognize your phone(at least it never did for me). Once you flash a teenybin using LGNPST, you should be able to get into Recovery. Once in Recovery you can use adb to pull your files off of the phone and onto your computer. I use it from a linux terminal but there are guides available for Windows if that's what you use. The adb guide should be easy to find on xda(just search) so I haven't linked to it. Once adb is set up on your computer AND you can get into Recovery you can use the command 'adb pull /data/media' without quotations and it will copy the contents of your internal storage to your pc. However if you can get into recovery you do have other options for just getting the phone back up and running. This guide here should also help.
If you are familiar with irc(internet relay chat) you can hop onto freenode and enter the #lg-optimus-g channel. As soon as you enter the channel you will see "Need Help? You won't read this but..." followed by a link. All the files for LGNPST, teenybins, and in depth tutorials on fixing a soft brick will be found there. I hope this helps you and hooray for me because this is my 200th post!
PS - If you can't get into Download Mode then your secondary bootloader is gone and there isn't anything you can do(to my knowledge). However, like I said, if you saw the LG logo at all, Download mode should still be an option. Also keep in mind these instructions are for the Sprint(ls970) lg optimis g. I believe the keys are flipped on AT&T/International models(Volume Down when you plug it in to get to Download Mode).
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Thank you for the response, i just tryed to get in to download mode and it went in to it fine. I would try to do all that to repair it but I dont want sprint to see that its rooted and it I cant have it be fixed when the new phone comes in, the only thing that i want is to get my files from it. Is there any way that I can just do that but leave the phone the way it is? (Not booting up passed the lg logo) I want the new phone because my current Optimus G's battery is going pretty bad I think and I would like a new one.
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Thank you for the response, i just tryed to get in to download mode and it went in to it fine. I would try to do all that to repair it but I dont want sprint to see that its rooted and it I cant have it be fixed when the new phone comes in, the only thing that i want is to get my files from it. Is there any way that I can just do that but leave the phone the way it is? (Not booting up passed the lg logo) I want the new phone because my current Optimus G's battery is going pretty bad I think and I would like a new one.
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There are plenty of ways to get it stuck at the lg logo, sometimes it happens just from dirty flashing a rom, sometimes because you install a rom without wiping dalvik/cache. But you should know if you are on Sprint, one of the reasons I stick with them(even though their coverage is horrible in my area) is because rooting DOES NOT void your warranty with Sprint. They will warn you against it but they are the only carrier that allows rooting and will still fix your phone. Here is some info on that here. They won't advertise it but it's the truth. But bricking your phone intentionally is pretty easy I think. After getting back your data, just go into recovery and start deleting stuff you normally wouldn't. It's similar to opening up your car's hood and saying "This looks important" and ripping it out, lol. At this point that's what I would do, fixing your rooted phone is within their warranty, replacing it(which is what you want) I'm not 100% on. Although the post I linked to, says even ordering a replacement on a rooted phone is covered. Its in a reply on that page, you'll see another link. So you could get your info, use a different LGNPST file to set your phone back to factory(which will relock the bootloader and lose root) and then you can do what you did to get there in the first place or root it and start deleting important files with a root explorer to get it back to being stuck. Hope this helps.
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There are plenty of ways to get it stuck at the lg logo, sometimes it happens just from dirty flashing a rom, sometimes because you install a rom without wiping dalvik/cache. But you should know if you are on Sprint, one of the reasons I stick with them(even though their coverage is horrible in my area) is because rooting DOES NOT void your warranty with Sprint. They will warn you against it but they are the only carrier that allows rooting and will still fix your phone. Here is some info on that here. They won't advertise it but it's the truth. But bricking your phone intentionally is pretty easy I think. After getting back your data, just go into recovery and start deleting stuff you normally wouldn't. It's similar to opening up your car's hood and saying "This looks important" and ripping it out, lol. At this point that's what I would do, fixing your rooted phone is within their warranty, replacing it(which is what you want) I'm not 100% on. Although the post I linked to, says even ordering a replacement on a rooted phone is covered. Its in a reply on that page, you'll see another link. So you could get your info, use a different LGNPST file to set your phone back to factory(which will relock the bootloader and lose root) and then you can do what you did to get there in the first place or root it and start deleting important files with a root explorer to get it back to being stuck. Hope this helps.
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Oh wow I never knew that but that helps a lot thanks for the help, the sprint guy said theydid a master reset or hard reset or soemthing like that, does that mean it deleted all my pictures and everything? And i understand what you mean to rebrick it that's pretty simple. When i get my new optimus is there a new root out for the update? And what roms do you prefer?
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Oh wow I never knew that but that helps a lot thanks for the help, the sprint guy said theydid a master reset or hard reset or soemthing like that, does that mean it deleted all my pictures and everything? And i understand what you mean to rebrick it that's pretty simple. When i get my new optimus is there a new root out for the update? And what roms do you prefer?
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If they did a hard reset it is possible that it wiped everything but not a definite. I purchased my phone from Best Buy and was on zvb. When the zvc update came through it messed my phone up(which is why you don't take OTA's once rooted without further knowledge/modifications) so I took it to Best Buy and they said they did a hard reset to fix it. It worked, my phone booted back up and my internal was fine. However, that's Best Buy and they barely know what they are doing so it may have been a soft reset, I am not 100% sure. As for a new root for the update, I received another phone shortly after because the glass back on mine broke and Best Buy replaced it with a whole new phone. It was on zvc and I used an app named Framaroot with the Gandalf exploit option and it worked fine for me. I have heard of others having issues with that method but for me, it worked and has stuck.
Fiddy619's universal root method seems to be the preferred way for our phone, look in the general section here for a thread by engine95 to see what I mean. After I rooted with Framaroot I then used FreeGee and unlocked the bootloader then made a total nandroid backup of my stock in TWRP before going further. I also copied the backup to my PC just in case.
As for my preferred roms, if we are talking about Android 4.4 both Vanir and PSX are my personal favorites. However as you can tell from my signature I am still using stock zvc android 4.1.2. I have flashed just about every rom available for our phone but my daily driver is stock that I have modified manually(different kernel, removed bloat ware, minor modifications and tweaks, etc). For android 4.3 I have had the best experience with CM10.2 and cfxe. I have not tried CM11(based on 4.4) for awhile but it seems to have overwhelming support - Cyanogenmod usually does.
Really when it comes to roms it's personal preference. They are all very similar with different tweaks/additions. As for which one is the most stable that is also a tricky question. Even though we have the same model of phone, I have seen how picky they can be from one to the other. My roommates have the EXACT same phone, installing CM10.2 worked fine for two of us, but one lost GPS and I had to fix it.
My best advice for when you get your new phone is to backup your working stock and then have fun flashing different things making sure you follow the instructions per rom exactly. It's always a good idea after making your backup(if planning to install another rom) to wipe everything except your internal storage and do a clean install of the rom and gapps. Then, test it for a day or so because sometimes it takes time to settle in. It's a shame that Optimus DE gave you issues, it was rock solid for me, again, these phones are picky! But one of the main reasons I stayed with stock is because the AOSP based cameras leave much to be desired when compared to the LG camera. Again it's just personal preference because some don't like the lg camera.
If you have any other issues or questions I will be glad to help if I can. A lot of the people you see who are active on the forums are very knowledgeable, as long as you ask politely most will be glad to help.
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If they did a hard reset it is possible that it wiped everything but not a definite. I purchased my phone from Best Buy and was on zvb. When the zvc update came through it messed my phone up(which is why you don't take OTA's once rooted without further knowledge/modifications) so I took it to Best Buy and they said they did a hard reset to fix it. It worked, my phone booted back up and my internal was fine. However, that's Best Buy and they barely know what they are doing so it may have been a soft reset, I am not 100% sure. As for a new root for the update, I received another phone shortly after because the glass back on mine broke and Best Buy replaced it with a whole new phone. It was on zvc and I used an app named Framaroot with the Gandalf exploit option and it worked fine for me. I have heard of others having issues with that method but for me, it worked and has stuck.
Fiddy619's universal root method seems to be the preferred way for our phone, look in the general section here for a thread by engine95 to see what I mean. After I rooted with Framaroot I then used FreeGee and unlocked the bootloader then made a total nandroid backup of my stock in TWRP before going further. I also copied the backup to my PC just in case.
As for my preferred roms, if we are talking about Android 4.4 both Vanir and PSX are my personal favorites. However as you can tell from my signature I am still using stock zvc android 4.1.2. I have flashed just about every rom available for our phone but my daily driver is stock that I have modified manually(different kernel, removed bloat ware, minor modifications and tweaks, etc). For android 4.3 I have had the best experience with CM10.2 and cfxe. I have not tried CM11(based on 4.4) for awhile but it seems to have overwhelming support - Cyanogenmod usually does.
Really when it comes to roms it's personal preference. They are all very similar with different tweaks/additions. As for which one is the most stable that is also a tricky question. Even though we have the same model of phone, I have seen how picky they can be from one to the other. My roommates have the EXACT same phone, installing CM10.2 worked fine for two of us, but one lost GPS and I had to fix it.
My best advice for when you get your new phone is to backup your working stock and then have fun flashing different things making sure you follow the instructions per rom exactly. It's always a good idea after making your backup(if planning to install another rom) to wipe everything except your internal storage and do a clean install of the rom and gapps. Then, test it for a day or so because sometimes it takes time to settle in. It's a shame that Optimus DE gave you issues, it was rock solid for me, again, these phones are picky! But one of the main reasons I stayed with stock is because the AOSP based cameras leave much to be desired when compared to the LG camera. Again it's just personal preference because some don't like the lg camera.
If you have any other issues or questions I will be glad to help if I can. A lot of the people you see who are active on the forums are very knowledgeable, as long as you ask politely most will be glad to help.
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Okay Im going to try some new roms out when I get my new phone, I would like to try out an AOSP Kitkat Rom but I couldnt get one to flash last time I tryed but I will figure that out later when I get it. Now back to my Bricked Optimus, I want to try the teenybin method although I dont understand the directions... the second step tells me to flash but how can I do that without recovery? and it doesnt say anything about entering in download mode which is the only thing I can do, am I forgetting something? And thank you for the help Tesla I really appreciate it, Ive had more assistance from you than anyone else.
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Okay Im going to try some new roms out when I get my new phone, I would like to try out an AOSP Kitkat Rom but I couldnt get one to flash last time I tryed but I will figure that out later when I get it. Now back to my Bricked Optimus, I want to try the teenybin method although I dont understand the directions... the second step tells me to flash but how can I do that without recovery? and it doesnt say anything about entering in download mode which is the only thing I can do, am I forgetting something? And thank you for the help Tesla I really appreciate it, Ive had more assistance from you than anyone else.
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Are you a windows user? The teenybin isn't flashed from recovery it is flashed from a tool called LGNPST which is a Windows program. I am going to private message you a link. It will have links for downloading and installing LGNPST on your PC. It says that you will lose all your data but if you are using the teenybin you shouldn't. It's LG's tool for flashing firmware and gives that warning regardless of what you flash. And you're welcome, coming from an EVO 4G this phone is very different and plenty of people have helped me - just paying it forward.
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Are you a windows user? The teenybin isn't flashed from recovery it is flashed from a tool called LGNPST which is a Windows program. I am going to private message you a link. It will have links for downloading and installing LGNPST on your PC. It says that you will lose all your data but if you are using the teenybin you shouldn't. It's LG's tool for flashing firmware and gives that warning regardless of what you flash. And you're welcome, coming from an EVO 4G this phone is very different and plenty of people have helped me - just paying it forward.
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Hey I got in to recovery through the Teenybin although the reset that they did deleted all of my stuff so Im kinda bummed:/ but its okay cause I got my new Optimus today and its brand new so Im happy with it. Thanks again for all of the help. Thats funny that you used to have an EVO 4G because I had it for so long and thats the phone I switched back to when my LG got bricked, but let me tell you Im glad to be back to the Optimus haha the EVO 4G is just way to slow anymore. Now that I have this new Optimus which root method should I go with? Its currently runnning ZVB (4.1.2) should I update the software? It says theres a software update available but I know that sometimes they dont have roots out for those updates so how should I start with this process again with the new phone in your opinion? I havnt done this in forever (going on a year) so I cant really remember everything that I had to do.
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Hey I got in to recovery through the Teenybin although the reset that they did deleted all of my stuff so Im kinda bummed:/ but its okay cause I got my new Optimus today and its brand new so Im happy with it. Thanks again for all of the help. Thats funny that you used to have an EVO 4G because I had it for so long and thats the phone I switched back to when my LG got bricked, but let me tell you Im glad to be back to the Optimus haha the EVO 4G is just way to slow anymore. Now that I have this new Optimus which root method should I go with? Its currently runnning ZVB (4.1.2) should I update the software? It says theres a software update available but I know that sometimes they dont have roots out for those updates so how should I start with this process again with the new phone in your opinion? I havnt done this in forever (going on a year) so I cant really remember everything that I had to do.
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Let your phone update before rooting and unlocking. You should end up with ZVC.
Then, you have a choice on rooting. @HPTesla will say Framaroot. I'd say use fiddy Universal root.
Then DL FreeGee from the Playstore, use the"mako" version of TWRP/CWM, your choice, I'd do with TWRP and you'll be unlocked.
Back it up in recovery and you'll be good to go.
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Let your phone update before rooting and unlocking. You should end up with ZVC.
Then, you have a choice on rooting. @HPTesla will say Framaroot. I'd say use fiddy Universal root.
Then DL FreeGee from the Playstore, use the"mako" version of TWRP/CWM, your choice, I'd do with TWRP and you'll be unlocked.
Back it up in recovery and you'll be good to go.
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The fiddy universal looks easier to me so I will probably use that although its not very Important which ever one is better I will use, and what recovery do you think is better? I used TWRP before but is the other one any better? I will probably go with that anyways Im just trying to get some opinions in. And what ROM do you use? I think Im gonna start out with the stock rooted ROM but theres still some stuff I want from the DE ROM like the G2 keyboard and other features from the G2, is there any way I can get those? And have you had any experience with the KitKat ROMs? Those interest me too
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Let your phone update before rooting and unlocking. You should end up with ZVC.
Then, you have a choice on rooting. @HPTesla will say Framaroot. I'd say use fiddy Universal root.
Then DL FreeGee from the Playstore, use the"mako" version of TWRP/CWM, your choice, I'd do with TWRP and you'll be unlocked.
Back it up in recovery and you'll be good to go.
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Exactly what he said, framaroot was quick and easy for me, but the lgog is so damn picky and fiddy seems to be the preferred method so use it just to be safe. I had zero issues with framaroot but I think I've just been lucky. And definitely update to zvc before doing either. I'd also update prl and profile for good measure.
That sucks that you lost all of your data, they must have actually did a hard reset where as BestBuy told me they did a hard reset and actually did a soft reset. But it's BestBuy so I never expect much. I softbricked my lgog the day after I got it using the GAIO tool(before finding out about FreeGee) and they fixed it with a soft reset. The guy called the manager over and the manager asked me if I tried unlocking the bootloader and I played dumb. My exact words were "What the hell is a bootloader?" and he immediately fixed it. But I was shocked anyone at BestBuy would even know that. Lmao.
As for my EVO, the micro usb port broke so I was charging it for two months like MacGyver, literally stipped the usb charging wire and hooked it straight into the positive/negative terminals in the battery while turned off! It was a fire hazard but it did the trick, lol. And luckily it had external sd(my one big gripe about the lgog) so I could still get my stuff off of it even without usb. I did love that phone, but you're right, it's incredibly slow now compared to the wonderful lgog.
And as always you are quite welcome!
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The fiddy universal looks easier to me so I will probably use that although its not very Important which ever one is better I will use, and what recovery do you think is better? I used TWRP before but is the other one any better? I will probably go with that anyways Im just trying to get some opinions in. And what ROM do you use? I think Im gonna start out with the stock rooted ROM but theres still some stuff I want from the DE ROM like the G2 keyboard and other features from the G2, is there any way I can get those? And have you had any experience with the KitKat ROMs? Those interest me too
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I think the reason I say framaroot is bc its also super easy, install the app, pick gandalf exploit and it will do it's thing - done without ever connecting to a pc. But @engine95 is right, fiddy is more stable so use that. As for TWRP, I love 2.5.0.0 but for KK roms you have to use the one that comes with updated FreeGee, TWRP 2.6.3.x because of the SELinux changes Google made with 4.4. TWRP 2.6 was unstable originally but has since become just as stable as 2.5 according to most. OpTimuS DE was rock solid for me, as for getting some of the G2 apps, I'm not certain. It's doable but I don't know how difficult it would be because I've never tried to install them elsewhere. And I already gave you my choice of best current KK roms but today I found out a few guys are trying to get OMNI official for us. When that happens I think I will be switching to OMNI because they have been producing some impressive commits/tweaks that you won't find elsewhere. Just look through xda news to see what I mean, OMNI is on a roll!
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The fiddy universal looks easier to me so I will probably use that although its not very Important which ever one is better I will use, and what recovery do you think is better? I used TWRP before but is the other one any better? I will probably go with that anyways Im just trying to get some opinions in. And what ROM do you use? I think Im gonna start out with the stock rooted ROM but theres still some stuff I want from the DE ROM like the G2 keyboard and other features from the G2, is there any way I can get those? And have you had any experience with the KitKat ROMs? Those interest me too
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I prefer TWRP just because that has always been our best one since the beginning. Now that all the versions of the OG are coming together though both are fine.
I like stock, but Lrod's OpTimuS 5.0 is my daily. The G2 adds he made got me hooked.
If your gonna try to pull some stuff from DE, check with Lrod. He's made alot of changes to a lot of files making it difficult. For me at least.
I've ran all the KK Roms and I liked them all. PSX is probably my favorite though. I liked Liquid in its early days, pre KK. I'm not sure it's up to KK yet.
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I prefer TWRP just because that has always been our best one since the beginning. Now that all the versions of the OG are coming together though both are fine.
I like stock, but Lrod's OpTimuS 5.0 is my daily. The G2 adds he made got me hooked.
If your gonna try to pull some stuff from DE, check with Lrod. He's made alot of changes to a lot of files making it difficult. For me at least.
I've ran all the KK Roms and I liked them all. PSX is probably my favorite though. I liked Liquid in its early days, pre KK. I'm not sure it's up to KK yet.
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Again, I think you're right on all fronts. Liquid was smooth(heh) but it hasn't been long since we received an official 4.3 so I don't think they're up to 4.4. And same goes for the G2 apps, sometimes it's as simple as pulling an apk out of a zip and pushing it to system/apps and changing permissions but I think Lrod did a lot of work to get the G2 apps working on our phone because they required certain dependencies/modified frameworks.
engine95 said:
Let your phone update before rooting and unlocking. You should end up with ZVC.
Then, you have a choice on rooting. @HPTesla will say Framaroot. I'd say use fiddy Universal root.
Then DL FreeGee from the Playstore, use the"mako" version of TWRP/CWM, your choice, I'd do with TWRP and you'll be unlocked.
Back it up in recovery and you'll be good to go.
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Okay so I rooted it through fiddys universal root but when I try to go on to FreeGee it just doesnt want to open for me? Ive tryed a lot of times and I get nothing it will either send me to the playstore to an app called busy box or will sometimes restart my phone, Im confised I have no clue what to do? I tryed to uninstall and reinstall and nothing I installed the busybox app but it said I didnt have root permission or there was a problem getting the root or something like that.
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Okay so I rooted it through fiddys universal root but when I try to go on to FreeGee it just doesnt want to open for me? Ive tryed a lot of times and I get nothing it will either send me to the playstore to an app called busy box or will sometimes restart my phone, Im confised I have no clue what to do? I tryed to uninstall and reinstall and nothing I installed the busybox app but it said I didnt have root permission or there was a problem getting the root or something like that.
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You have to root before unlocking.
Make sure your phone has at least 70 percent charge or more!!
Go to Settings: Settings>Security>Unknown sources checked: Settings>Developer Options>USB Debugging checked, Settings> Display>Screen Timeout - at least 5 min
from fiddy thread.
Directions
1. Unzip the zip file
2. Make sure USB Debugging is on, and you are in Charge only Mode
3. Run the CurrentRoot.bat, wait for the prompt. (Can now be run as admin if you wish, Still works running as regular user tho. Thanks robisodd)
4. Change to MTP Mode
5. Just ignore when your computer asks how to view files on your device.
6. Press enter in the CMD prompt to continue.
7. Done.
You shouldn't have any issues.
If you do, then try Framaroot. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2130276 and follow those directions.
Follow this. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2050582 It has all the info on rooting and unlocking
Edit. You may have to root as admin/not admin, try both.
Edit #2 Also, do not use USB 3.0 ports. They are iffy for this stuff. LGNPST included
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You have to root before unlocking.
Make sure your phone has at least 70 percent charge or more!!
Go to Settings: Settings>Security>Unknown sources checked: Settings>Developer Options>USB Debugging checked, Settings> Display>Screen Timeout - at least 5 min
from fiddy thread.
Directions
1. Unzip the zip file
2. Make sure USB Debugging is on, and you are in Charge only Mode
3. Run the CurrentRoot.bat, wait for the prompt. (Can now be run as admin if you wish, Still works running as regular user tho. Thanks robisodd)
4. Change to MTP Mode
5. Just ignore when your computer asks how to view files on your device.
6. Press enter in the CMD prompt to continue.
7. Done.
You shouldn't have any issues.
If you do, then try Framaroot. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2130276 and follow those directions.
Follow this. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2050582 It has all the info on rooting and unlocking
Edit. You may have to root as admin/not admin, try both.
Edit #2 Also, do not use USB 3.0 ports. They are iffy for this stuff. LGNPST included
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Okay i will try this later when i have access to a computer, but the last root i tryed told me it was successful although it didnt restart my phone or anything it just said it was in the command prompt. I will try again cause i dont think it did anything. But i have a question about roms, i am most likely going to flash the DE 5.0 again because i like it with the g2 keyboard and i kind of like the lg feel to it but the only problem is google play music always gives me an error when im playing songs and it always has. I heard aosp roms dont have that problen so in your opinion what is the most stable aosp rom with all features working like gps and everything??
Penley94 said:
Okay i will try this later when i have access to a computer, but the last root i tryed told me it was successful although it didnt restart my phone or anything it just said it was in the command prompt. I will try again cause i dont think it did anything. But i have a question about roms, i am most likely going to flash the DE 5.0 again because i like it with the g2 keyboard and i kind of like the lg feel to it but the only problem is google play music always gives me an error when im playing songs and it always has. I heard aosp roms dont have that problen so in your opinion what is the most stable aosp rom with all features working like gps and everything??
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AOSP SuperNexus has been getting good reviews here in the forums but I haven't tried it yet. I would give that one a shot though. I'd flash GAPPS standard with it instead of GAPPS core as well. This is just generally speaking with any of the AOSP roms.
The directions @engine95 gave you for fiddy are spot on(as usual ), specifically having the phone in charge only mode instead of mtp. I think a lot of people have missed that step and it won't work in mtp. Using usb 2.0 is another good tip.
And if your phone didn't reboot, you probably arent rooted. Easiest way to check that you are rooted is by going into the app drawer and seeing either Superuser or SuperSu app. If it's there, you're rooted, if not, it didnt work. If it said it worked but didnt reboot, Im assuming you rebooted manually? It sounds silly but sometimes it's as simple as that. But again, after rebooting if one of those apps arent there, you are not rooted.
EDIT: I've never tried rooting with fiddy without being in charge only mode, Im wondering if being in mtp may install supersu/superuser app but not the binary? Probably not but I could be wrong. Just wondering if there is any possible way that the app could be there but you still wouldn't have root privileges. For me, if the app is there, I'm rooted but I don't pretend to know everything(far from it, lol).
EDIT#2: Once you are rooted and recovery is installed, here is the link to SuperNexus.
EDIT#3: And I can't stress this one enough....after rooting and unlocking the bootloader, before flashing ANYTHING, make a full backup of your stock AND copy the TWRP folder(with your backup in it) to a computer, JUST IN CASE! That way you will always have a backup elsewhere, even if something goes wrong with your phone's internal storage. Better safe than sorry!!! And it's also best to copy the entire TWRP folder.
@HPTesla You're on a roll!
Go with everything he's said.
I don't use Google music ,so I'm of little help there.
Almost every ROM has its quirks, and it's just a matter of finding the one that does what you need/want.
Our devs have given us a lot of options. And I know, I sure appreciate them.
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so yesterday i installed the new optimus de rom and it started up fine and everything was okay, then today i realized my 3g wasnt working and usually thats no big deal because all i have to do is restore my efs in the app FreeG (I think thats what its called, I might be wrong). Well right after i did that, i hit restart phone and it turned off then wouldnt come back on. Then i finally got to the LG symbol but it will turn off then the screen will be on but will just show black. I cant boot in to recovery nor can i do anything on it at all, when i plug it in the charger it says "battery.png is missing, battery: 75%". I took my phone in to sprint and they did a reset although that didnt do anything so there sending me a new one. Now my question is, is there any way I can open up my phones folder so i can get my pictures and everything that was on it? My pics were very important to me and i dont want to lose them, thats all i need so if some could help me get them that would be much appreciated, thanks.
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I ran OpTiMuS for a long time and every time I would try new roms, decide I didn't like or whatever and go back, I'd always have to 1. Dial ##72786# 2. Let it self activate sometimes twice, but usually just once before I would pick up 3g/4g. May have just been my phone but you may try that out if you go back to optimus De. Over all, my favorite stock like rom though.
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I have a sprint note 4 with the OB7 rooted with odin and I used chainfire a long time ago, over a year and I can't remember
Where do I start to update my phone without having to reflash it?
Sorry I will continue to search and hope to find an answer..
Thank for your help and time.
No PC or just looking for alternate method?
You may persuade Best Buy or Sprint to update it if you claim the camera doesn't focus or Wi-Fi Calling is broken. (I carried my phone to Samsung Experience in BB twice early in its day with those actual complaints and both times they insisted on flashing the firmware. Rather inconvenient for a rooted phone but if you're looking to update, may work to your benefit).
If you're wanting Marshmallow on it, I'd suggest removing your fingerprints and factory reset. May help make the transition less buggy.
If you've never updated beyond OB7, know that doing so will mean that you can't go back to to OB7 or lower with Odin. The bootloader will prevent that once upgraded. Just be aware of that limitation.
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samep said:
No PC or just looking for alternate method?
You may persuade Best Buy or Sprint to update it if you claim the camera doesn't focus or Wi-Fi Calling is broken. (I carried my phone to Samsung Experience in BB twice early in its day with those actual complaints and both times they insisted on flashing the firmware. Rather inconvenient for a rooted phone but if you're looking to update, may work to your benefit).
If you're wanting Marshmallow on it, I'd suggest removing your fingerprints and factory reset. May help make the transition less buggy.
If you've never updated beyond OB7, know that doing so will mean that you can't go back to to OB7 or lower with Odin. The bootloader will prevent that once upgraded. Just be aware of that limitation.
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Well, I didn't know there was any updates past the OB7, When I updated with chainfire it kept it from updating through OTA... I also wasn't worried about it because I hate playing games on my phone and flashing all the saves away..
I suppose that is a bit of a clarification on my part... I do want to update the software and not my phone especially since I like the IR blaster and removable battery other options that the Note 7 doesn't have... I almost was going to upgrade to a new Note 7 early but I think I will wait for something new and I am sure I can update the software on the 4 and make it just as good if not better...
You can upgrade fairly easy using Odin. This thread will get you started:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=63868221
I did find this post interesting but can't say I've ever tried it. I would at least remove my fingerprints, wipe cache and dalvik-cache before trying this. But I also prefer to also factory reset and wipe internal memory. But that's not required if you're close to stock touchwiz. The dalvik-cache would also get rebuilt, if needed, without bootlooping. So I DON'T doubt it worked, just that I've read posts saying factory reset and fingerprint removal cleared some issues for some users. (Post#24)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=68549881&postcount=24
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samep said:
You can upgrade fairly easy using Odin. This thread will get you started:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=63868221
I did find this post interesting but can't say I've ever tried it. I would at least remove my fingerprints, wipe cache and dalvik-cache before trying this. But I also prefer to also factory reset and wipe internal memory. But that's not required if you're close to stock touchwiz. The dalvik-cache would also get rebuilt, if needed, without bootlooping. So I DON'T doubt it worked, just that I've read posts saying factory reset and fingerprint removal cleared some issues for some users. (Post#24)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=68549881&postcount=24
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Interesting I used chainfire and odin I think to root my phone originally, the really strange part is I used the supersu app from chainfire and used the full unroot option and it says I am unrooted, I originally wanted to do this just so I can continue playing pokemon go, haha, but I cannot automatically update my phone itself, so I am going to look at the thread you posted and see if I can update that way... I might have to attempt to use magisk also so I can root and continue to use the pokemon game...
In reply to your original question, I have a PC and used it to root originally but I don't have that computer anymore so I need to find the correct stuff to download and I would feel more comfortable with a bit of a how-to as a refresher
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Interesting I used chainfire and odin I think to root my phone originally, the really strange part is I used the supersu app from chainfire and used the full unroot option and it says I am unrooted, I originally wanted to do this just so I can continue playing pokemon go, haha, but I cannot automatically update my phone itself, so I am going to look at the thread you posted and see if I can update that way... I might have to attempt to use magisk also so I can root and continue to use the pokemon game...
In reply to your original question, I have a PC and used it to root originally but I don't have that computer anymore so I need to find the correct stuff to download and I would feel more comfortable with a bit of a how-to as a refresher
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You'll need Odin, stock tar and Samsung USB driver to update with the method I'm familiar with. Make sure that Samsung KIES and Smart Switch applications aren't running when using Odin. You should open Odin in administrator mode but that isn't required for Windows 10. Use your original Samsung USB cable or another cable with data lines included.
The Samsung driver can be downloaded from Samsung support for the Note 4's thread. You'll find all you need in the stock tar thread for a how-to tutorial.
I never used Samsung Switch on my Note 4 so I'm looking for confirmation that it works for upgrading a modified phone to latest OTA update (as posted in that quote).
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