Plz Help! Got Un-Rooted but now cant update - T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989

the person who un-rooted my phone yesterday took a very very long time un-rooting it and then finally camr through , BUT when I got home I noticed now I have Android 2.3.5 basebandT989UVLC8 Kernel 2.6.35.11 and build GINGERBREAD.UVKID
How do I fix this ?????? ugh!'please help!!

al u had to do wsa leave it alone and update the software that t mo has been harrassing every1 to get. might have flash a rom. sounds like its not UNrooted

how can I find out if its un-rooted then? im stuck I am a newb total virgin and I just want my phone stock and updated if you can help me I would sincerely appreciate it.. thank you

kalelmichaelroberts said:
how can I find out if its un-rooted then? im stuck I am a newb total virgin and I just want my phone stock and updated if you can help me I would sincerely appreciate it.. thank you
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Read the stickies and use google

kalelmichaelroberts said:
how can I find out if its un-rooted then? im stuck I am a newb total virgin and I just want my phone stock and updated if you can help me I would sincerely appreciate it.. thank you
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Do you have superuser app on your phone now? Can you use root only apps? Do you have Kies downloaded on your PC?

no superuser on my phone, i havent tried using root only apps and yes I have Kies on my PC..

kalelmichaelroberts said:
no superuser on my phone, i havent tried using root only apps and yes I have Kies on my PC..
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Then use kies to grab the latest update.

I tried but the update doesnt pop up on kies.. yet it recognizes my device

Ok Kies finally told me that my device is not supported.. wtf? I take it that my phone is still rooted in some sort of way?

kalelmichaelroberts said:
Ok Kies finally told me that my device is not supported.. wtf? I take it that my phone is still rooted in some sort of way?
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do you have stock recovery, or did he leave cwm on it? Did you use an official tar?
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kalelmichaelroberts said:
Ok Kies finally told me that my device is not supported.. wtf? I take it that my phone is still rooted in some sort of way?
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Do you know how to boot into recovery? If your on stock recovery and whoever unrooted your phone did not wipe data and cache it could give you issues.

Related

I know wrong area

So Im running Sprint Lovers ROM and I just got a update.. 3.30.651.3... which is different than 3.30.651.2... I downloaded it but how do I get it to XDA?
jdawg0024 said:
So Im running Sprint Lovers ROM and I just got a update.. 3.30.651.3... which is different than 3.30.651.2... I downloaded it but how do I get it to XDA?
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are you rooted? because if you are, that shouldnt have happened. you cannot get OTA's when you are rooted. unless its to their voicemail application but not to their roms.
oshizzle1991 said:
are you rooted? because if you are, that shouldnt have happened. you cannot get OTA's when you are rooted. unless its to their voicemail application but not to their roms.
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I am ROOTED and I did just get an OTA Update... How do I post a pic?
There Take a look
You know its the wrong area, yet you posted anyways....
Someone over at Sprint Users mentioned an update getting pushed out on the 11th...
See here
VinceOB said:
You know its the wrong area, yet you posted anyways....
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Trying to get an OTA update from sprint to XDA even though its a small file... it still might help... sorry..
Bump for more info!
NYCguy2020 said:
Bump for more info!
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It looks like it's the same camera fix update for the older Evos that the newer 0004 hardware versions received recently...
Any idea how to get the update to install for root users? (tried to install twice unsuccessfully).
i got an "installation aborted" message!
Same... thing.. reboots to recovery and them errors out
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Devs will add it to there roms soon
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jdawg0024 said:
Same... thing.. reboots to recovery and them errors out
Sent from my Super EVO!!
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Yup,same here!
Are you using stock recovery for flashing? If I recall with s-off you needed to use a stock recovery to install any sprint updates?
wildgillis said:
Are you using stock recovery for flashing? If I recall with s-off you needed to use a stock recovery to install any sprint updates?
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I'm running a custom recovery(Amon Ra).how do i get the stock recovery??!
thnx.
NYCguy2020 said:
I'm running a custom recovery(Amon Ra).how do i get the stock recovery??!
thnx.
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by unrooting
u can go ahead and download the ota. itll either download to /cache or to /sdcard/downloads. if u down load it just dont apply it. once u have it downloaded just delete it from the directory it was in.
If you guys are trying to do an OTA update and it actually lets you, then you will lose ROOT, just so ya know....
You can download it without installing it.
Can someone post the update package to see what files changed?

Full unroot and stock recovery?

Just wondering how i can do this?
Im having over heating problems while video calling(the phone gets so hot it shuts down) and I need to take it back for exchange. If they see super user im dead in the water.
How do I unroot and go back to stock recovery?
combatmedic870 said:
Just wondering how i can do this?
Im having over heating problems while video calling(the phone gets so hot it shuts down) and I need to take it back for exchange. If they see super user im dead in the water.
How do I unroot and go back to stock recovery?
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Just delete the super user app. There should be an unroot option in there somewhere. You shouldn't need to worry about the recovery. But I believe there is a stock recovery in the non carrier branded forum
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Cuppeerr said:
Just delete the super user app. There should be an unroot option in there somewhere. You shouldn't need to worry about the recovery. But I believe there is a stock recovery in the non carrier branded forum
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It just comes right back at start up. I tried a couple of times
combatmedic870 said:
It just comes right back at start up. I tried a couple of times
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You could download this rom and once it's done downloading open the .zip up and delete Superuser.apk from either /system/app or Data/app. Then when you boot up it should look normal enough. After that you could just flash a stock recovery
IMO that's your best option since I haven't seen a ruu yet.
Cuppeerr said:
You could download this rom and once it's done downloading open the .zip up and delete Superuser.apk from either /system/app or Data/app. Then when you boot up it should look normal enough. After that you could just flash a stock recovery
IMO that's your best option since I haven't seen a ruu yet.
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Great idea!
combatmedic870 said:
Great idea!
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was the unrooting and trade in successful??????
psyman42 said:
was the unrooting and trade in successful??????
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nope
combatmedic870 said:
nope
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What happened?
DinoSoup said:
What happened?
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I was charged 145 for sending back a dev unlocked device. They didnt ask, they just charged.
Please Help me Dudes
Yo
I have a quick question for the administrators. I was on Cyanogenmod with TWRP Recovery on my Htc one M8, i did everything stock (installed 2.22.401.4 odexx stock rom, with stock recovery, relocked the bootloader and turner S-ON) Now i have OTA update and when i click install now it shows red triangle and the update fails. When i go into recovery it shows something like 2.22.401.4 "something is wrong or missing something-i dont like to go into recovery to see again but i think you know this issue ) Can you please tell me what to do guys i dont want to sell my htc m8 and i want to get the OTA's in the future without any problem. Btw my phone is bought from T-Mobile Macedonia, where i wondered is this t-mobile RUU for all countries T-Mobile devices or just US?
I will be very grateful for your answers dudes.
Thank you in advance.

Im too scared of rooting my phone >.<

I've been reading a LOT about rooting for the past few weeks and understood everything perfectly and I DO know how to recover my phone from accidental soft bricks but whenever I boot to download mode and run odin i start shaking and end up doing nothing..I really want to root but Im too scared..what do you think I should do?
supposition said:
I've been reading a LOT about rooting for the past few weeks and understood everything perfectly and I DO know how to recover my phone from accidental soft bricks but whenever I boot to download mode and run odin i start shaking and end up doing nothing..I really want to root but Im too scared..what do you think I should do?
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Root it man,there is nothing to fear. If you doing it exactly how it writen in instructions,there is nothing to worry about. just don`t plug off your phone and let it complete. It`s last ~ 10 sec,and you`ll be good
I don`t think something whould happen,since a lot of us done it and we are happy rooted users
Blackie3 said:
Root it man,there is nothing to fear. If you doing it exactly how it writen in instructions,there is nothing to worry about. just don`t plug off your phone and let it complete. It`s last ~ 10 sec,and you`ll be good
I don`t think something whould happen,since a lot of us done it and we are happy rooted users
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This isnt going very well with me..I just tried flashing philz touch and it said reset instead of pass? nothing happened to my phone (can still open my phone and all) but i panicked when i saw that message.. any idea?
Stock ROM flashes stock recovery on boot, that's why Philz doesn't stick.
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xpmode said:
Stock ROM flashes stock recovery on boot, that's why Philz doesn't stick.
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So what can I do to flash philz?
supposition said:
So what can I do to flash philz?
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You used Autoroot,or what?
Odin sometimes stucks on RESET,it`s not telling you that something went wrong. Start worry if you see FAIL
Did you tryed to enter recovery?
Blackie3 said:
You used Autoroot,or what?
Odin sometimes stucks on RESET,it`s not telling you that something went wrong. Start worry if you see FAIL
Did you tryed to enter recovery?
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Ohh thanks, yeah philz was actually flashed..Just flashed superuser and i got root access! Thank you!
I have a question though, If i reset my phone, do i lose root access?
supposition said:
Ohh thanks, yeah philz was actually flashed..Just flashed superuser and i got root access! Thank you!
I have a question though, If i reset my phone, do i lose root access?
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No man, you lose it when you flash official samsung rom, then your device will be able to get OTA updates from samsung. So called " Unroot "
Great to hear that all passed smoothly to you! :good:

[Q] Cant make a back up on TWRP is it safe to flash a ROM?

Hey guys so i rooted my G3 using purple drake a while back and i remember not being able to create a back up it just stays in TWRP recovery forever. I was wondering if somone could point me in the right direction here because im a little skeptical about trying to flash a rom and my recovery not working.
I am still on D85110c so im thinking that maybe when i rooted it TWRP wasnt fully supported?
Thanks guys
No problem with twrp and 10c. Do you follow purple Drake steps correctly?
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yea i did im rooted and can access TWRP i however cannot perform a backup of my stock ROM it just stayed there for close to 2 hours and then i decided to do a battery pull. Haven't tried since that first time but i just saw that sportstar's CM11 ROM so i wanted to give it a try
EduardoZ714 said:
yea i did im rooted and can access TWRP i however cannot perform a backup of my stock ROM it just stayed there for close to 2 hours and then i decided to do a battery pull. Haven't tried since that first time but i just saw that sportstar's CM11 ROM so i wanted to give it a try
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Make sure you're on the newest version of TWRP... if not, update to the newest and try again, may help.
kwfsoh said:
Make sure you're on the newest version of TWRP... if not, update to the newest and try again, may help.
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Would you happen to know how to update it??
EduardoZ714 said:
Would you happen to know how to update it??
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Have you looked at this at all??
http://forum.xda-developers.com/tmobile-lg-g3/general/how-to-properly-install-twrp-flashify-t2930943
EduardoZ714 said:
Would you happen to know how to update it??
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I usually use TWRP Manager from the play store.

Software Update

anyone else get the prompt to update the software? are you going to update?
Got it and did it 2 days ago
Same and same
probably too early to know, does anyone know if this update will affect root? coming from htc, i remember updates were frowned upon as they can make rooting more difficult.
pwr2wh8 said:
probably too early to know, does anyone know if this update will affect root? coming from htc, i remember updates were frowned upon as they can make rooting more difficult.
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Got phone few days ago and update popped up. I postponed it so its in my notification bar until someone confirms device can be rooted on update safely.
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Now that I rooted my phone it will not let me update the phone.
skyheli said:
Now that I rooted my phone it will not let me update the phone.
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Yeah you have to flash the stock tars in Odin but they aren't available just yet.
skyheli said:
Now that I rooted my phone it will not let me update the phone.
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Did you root OCF?
boomer8403 said:
Did you root OCF?
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Yes I did. the battery drain is horrible. cant wait for a factory image. I will start from scratch again.
skyheli said:
Yes I did. the battery drain is horrible. cant wait for a factory image. I will start from scratch again.
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Awesome! Please for the love of God tell me which version you used from Chainfire since I can't find a solid answer anywhere. Thanks bro.
boomer8403 said:
Awesome! Please for the love of God tell me which version you used from Chainfire since I can't find a solid answer anywhere. Thanks bro.
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below is the link I used. The battery drain is bad but manageable. I think it puts the wrong recovery on the phone, but it does root the phone. I was able to use titanium again :highfive:
http://download.chainfire.eu/731/CF...Auto-Root-zerofltetmo-zerofltetmo-smg920t.zip
skyheli said:
below is the link I used. The battery drain is bad but manageable. I think it puts the wrong recovery on the phone, but it does root the phone. I was able to use titanium again :highfive:
http://download.chainfire.eu/731/CF...Auto-Root-zerofltetmo-zerofltetmo-smg920t.zip
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We're you able to use TWRP after rooting this way?
boomer8403 said:
We're you able to use TWRP after rooting this way?
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I have not loaded TWRP yet !
skyheli said:
I have not loaded TWRP yet !
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Sorry for all the questions but which version of ODIN did you use? This is my first Samsung device.
boomer8403 said:
Sorry for all the questions but which version of ODIN did you use? This is my first Samsung device.
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The Odin you need is in the Zip file.

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