hey guys i was needing some help on how to get from rooted EK02 to stock EL29 any answers would be helpful, thanks
There is a whole thread dedicated to this. It's a stickie in the development section
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abadasstanker69 said:
There is a whole thread dedicated to this. It's a stickie in the development section
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1433101 this is the one correct? just making sure don't want to brick anything
bossman82011 said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1433101 this is the one correct? just making sure don't want to brick anything
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I am having a problem. I used Sfhub's EL29 method, I am on el29 and Calks rom. Odin works and goes all the way except it never says complete... It just stays there. Any ideas?
bossman82011 said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1433101 this is the one correct? just making sure don't want to brick anything
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Yes, that thread is the correct one for going to EL29. Be advised to read the entire OP as you said you want to go to stock el29. Using either the full restore or no data version will keep you rooted. There are directions in there to unroot.
As always, take your time, read it once, then read it again...
I do have some questions - how did you end up on ek02 and not get the automatic update notice to el29? Did you just get the phone from someone? Did you purposely put it back to ek02 rooted?
The reason I'm asking it that it seems the automatic update pushes have been suspended. Just trying to get your background..
i was on and ics rom the aokp mileston6 but my phone froze and wouldnt reboot so i used qbking77 on how to go backto stock unrooted using odin because i was worried my phone was bricked lol once i finally got on eko2 stock i tried to update through update android and it told me my system was up to date so im going to get on el29 unrooted and follow 2 of his instruction videos to get on rooted ics no rom
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i was on and ics rom the aokp mileston6 but my phone froze and wouldnt reboot so i used qbking77 on how to go backto stock unrooted using odin because i was worried my phone was bricked lol once i finally got on eko2 stock i tried to update through update android and it told me my system was up to date so im going to get on el29 unrooted and follow 2 of his instruction videos to get on rooted ics no rom
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Understood. The ota process is down apparently and you got stuck in holding just like everyone else wanting to get the otas. I purposely went back to ek02 to see if the process is back up, which it isn't.
Just use that thread and you'll get back to el29.
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I have followed all directions and I can Not unroot... I followed QBKings video and it just isn't working at all. Any ideas?
Sean-El said:
I have followed all directions and I can Not unroot... I followed QBKings video and it just isn't working at all. Any ideas?
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Judging by you're previous posts all over xda, surely you jest, dear sir..
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MoHoGalore said:
Judging by you're previous posts all over xda, surely you jest, dear sir..
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Lol?.. No really> I am pretty good with android and a little good at theming but I can not for the life of me get this to unroot. I am selling my phone tomorrow and this thing is pissing me off. Now I did the EL29 in QBKings vid and its stuck at RQT Close in Odin.
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Lol?.. No really> I am pretty good with android and a little good at theming but I can not for the life of me get this to unroot. I am selling my phone tomorrow and this thing is pissing me off. Now I did the EL29 in QBKings vid and its stuck at RQT Close in Odin.
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Ooh. I seriously thought you were kidding.
If you're back on el29, did you try using sfhubs autoroot package to unroot?
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I am going to redownload Kies and see if that garbage software does the trick.
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MoHoGalore said:
Ooh. I seriously thought you were kidding.
If you're back on el29, did you try using sfhubs autoroot package to unroot?
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Yep, it got stuck as well. ANy ones; you suggest? I think I tried 3 of them. I am on EL29 Modem.
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Hmmm. Well not it's unrooted but I need to go back to stock.. Factory reset or will that screw **** up?
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Okay, so now I am unrooted and with a stock recovery but calkulins rom... wtf mate?
Sean-El said:
I am going to redownload Kies and see if that garbage software does the trick.
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Yep, it got stuck as well. ANy ones; you suggest? I think I tried 3 of them. I am on EL29 Modem.
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Hmmm. Well not it's unrooted but I need to go back to stock.. Factory reset or will that screw **** up?
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Okay, so now I am unrooted and with a stock recovery but calkulins rom... wtf mate?
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Whoa. I'm confused.
Sorry, just got done putting some beers back.
How can you be on el29 modem and on calks ROM if you used the el29 full restore?
Its just a matter of running the one click.
Can you explain what you did?
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MoHoGalore said:
Whoa. I'm confused.
Sorry, just got done putting some beers back.
How can you be on el29 modem and on calks ROM if you used the el29 full restore?
Its just a matter of running the one click.
Can you explain what you did?
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it's ok. The one clicks DO NOT work. I used sfhubs method to unroot and go back to stock Recovery but then I was on Calks rom but unrooted..
If I could find just a stock EL29 or Stock TW rom I would be good. Then the Triangle problem is ttill there so I am going to flash ICS and then triangle away. This is really a headache and risiculous.
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it's ok. The one clicks DO NOT work. I used sfhubs method to unroot and go back to stock Recovery but then I was on Calks rom but unrooted..
If I could find just a stock EL29 or Stock TW rom I would be good. Then the Triangle problem is ttill there so I am going to flash ICS and then triangle away. This is really a headache and risiculous.
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If youre used to using tars with Odin or mobile, sfhubs posts, usually the second one, has them listed in the resources post I believe..
And how are you going to flash ics?
Why not just flash ff18 rooted, use triangle away and then unroot?
You'd be the same as of you had the ota..?
I'm confused sir.
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Me too....I read this a few times and I don't get how things aren't working, plus I have used the one click flash from sfhub a couple different times with zero issues on different builds.
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MoHoGalore said:
If youre used to using tars with Odin or mobile, sfhubs posts, usually the second one, has them listed in the resources post I believe..
And how are you going to flash ics?
Why not just flash ff18 rooted, use triangle away and then unroot?
You'd be the same as of you had the ota..?
I'm confused sir.
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I have root and recovery now.
I flashed Calks ICS and just flashed Triangle away and am clear.
The one clicks do not work with me so it seems.
I guess I can try FF18 and see.
See what I mean? The one clicks from sfhub do not work, they get stuck at the end.
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Sean-El said:
I have root and recovery now.
I flashed Calks ICS and just flashed Triangle away and am clear.
The one clicks do not work with me so it seems.
I guess I can try FF18 and see.
See what I mean? The one clicks from sfhub do not work, they get stuck at the end.
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Are you saying to do this all on the phone like his instructions say? As in not to use the PC at all?
That's what I see from his thread on ff18. I guess it is a little confusing.
I am confused, lol.
Sean-El said:
I have root and recovery now.
I flashed Calks ICS and just flashed Triangle away and am clear.
The one clicks do not work with me so it seems.
I guess I can try FF18 and see.
See what I mean? The one clicks from sfhub do not work, they get stuck at the end.
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Considering the number of people that have used them, myself included, there is nothing wrong with them. Something in your phone or PC isn't set correctly.
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dante32278 said:
Considering the number of people that have used them, myself included, there is nothing wrong with them. Something in your phone or PC isn't set correctly.
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I know but I can't seem to find out what is wrong, any ideas?
I have kies and the drivers downloaded.
Sean-El said:
I know but I can't seem to find out what is wrong, any ideas?
I have kies and the drivers downloaded.
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Silly question, but one that has solved a few problems for some..
Have you ran a windows update lately?
And did you install kies?
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T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II Stock Kernel // UVKID
Finally guys we have root access and with root access that brings goodies, this is one of those goodies.
Explanation
What we have here is a stock boot.img (imagine that Samsung changing things up again on us) pulled from a rooted (via recovery) T-Mobile SGH-T989 (Samsung Galaxy S II).
With this you can recover your phone using ODIN, in the case of a brick or just to return to a factory state.
Initramfs for Developers
I have extracted the boot.img and posted it up for all developers on my github.
Code:
https://github.com/bubby323/stock-initramfs-UVKID-galaxysII-tmo
Downloads
Also to restore you're phone I have a nice little tar file that will take care of the job for you that you can grab from here.
How to Flash
We are going to be using Odin in this explanation to flash the stock kernel to your phone.
Downloads
First you are going to want to start by downloading all the needed files onto your computer and then place them onto your Desktop.
Samsung Kies
Odin3-v1.85.zip
SGH-T989-Stock-UVKID.tar
Process
Once you have everything downloaded and on your desktop, you are going to want to first install kies.
After this is done you should restart your computer for proper driver installation.
Next, extract Odin to a new folder on your Desktop. Leave the tar in the form it is.
Now, open up Odin by double clicking the .exe in the folder you extracted it to.
The most important step is now, you need to put your device into Download/ODIN mode so your computer will recognize it and be able to flash to it. To do this simply turn your phone off completely (or pull the battery). Then you are going to want to use the following button combination to force your device into download mode:
Hold the volume up/down and power button all at the same time.
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Now ODIN should have recognized your device ( it may take a while for the drivers to complete installation so don't panic the first time).
Lastly, we want to click on the PDA button and then search for the SGH-T989-Stock-UVKID.tar we download earlier and placed on the Desktop.
If all of the above has taken place you are free to hit the Start button.
Done!
If all has gone well at this point the flash should be proven successful and your phone should reboot like normal.
If so, please feel pressured to give yourself a pat on the back, that was tough!
Is this method better then slayher?? Method?
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Different thing. This is to restore your phone to stock in a bricky situation...
fatboy547 said:
Is this method better then slayher?? Method?
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hey bubby, you happen to know the defconfig of this phone?
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Different thing. This is to restore your phone to stock in a bricky situation...
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hey bubby, you happen to know the defconfig of this phone?
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Ok.. Starting to panic. Just rooted via Slayers method. In the process of doing the Nandroid backup now. Am I at risk?? What should I do now/ I want to try this method. as this seems to be the safe bet. Is it too late for me to? Fogive my noobage..
cr1130 said:
Ok.. Starting to panic. Just rooted via Slayers method. In the process of doing the Nandroid backup now. Am I at risk?? What should I do now/ I want to try this method. as this seems to be the safe bet. Is it too late for me to? Fogive my noobage..
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You are A ok man! Nothing has done wrong for you so you are in the clear you only need this kernel if you need to get back to stock.
bubby323 said:
You are A ok man! Nothing has done wrong for you so you are in the clear you only need this kernel if you need to get back to stock.
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Sweet. Root confirmed though. Had some issues with su zip install but all was well when I installed zip from internal sd. Now just need to know what bloatware is safe to remove. Itchy trigger finger in Titanium Backup now.. LOL! Thanks
Mac Instructions
thanks for everyones hard work.
anyone have any tips on how to root using a Mac?
onyonees said:
thanks for everyones hard work.
anyone have any tips on how to root using a Mac?
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For the moment we mac folks are a bit sol but it'll. Come ;-)
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kenvan19 said:
For the moment we mac folks are a bit sol but it'll. Come ;-)
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Use parallels and windows.
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Ty bubby!!!
onyonees said:
thanks for everyones hard work.
anyone have any tips on how to root using a Mac?
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I rooted mine using VM Fusion and windows xp on my Macbook without any issues.
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cr1130 said:
Ok.. Starting to panic. Just rooted via Slayers method. In the process of doing the Nandroid backup now. Am I at risk?? What should I do now/ I want to try this method. as this seems to be the safe bet. Is it too late for me to? Fogive my noobage..
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This is not a method for obtaining root. It's reference material, and also a way to return yourself to stock if you flash a hosed kernel.
If you already have a stock kernel, I am 90% certain that this will do absolutely nothing.
But having a "return to stock kernel" path AND a fresh initramfs are major milestones for development.
You're not at risk, you should be perfectly fine using slayher's method, but if you screw up, this will be a component of your path back to a working phone. But it's only useful if you screw up, you're a kernel developer who wants a clean initramfs for reference, or need to return your phone back to 100% stock. However, if you're in one of those three categories, this is a critical milestone.
This will put stock recovery back on also right?
[Q] Files from a ROM around?
I've asked this before and I should probably shut it, but if anyone has files from a ROM that works with ODIN or a ZIP file (CWM compat or not), root or unrooted (doesn't matter), or a NANDROID backup, could you let me know?
I got stock kernel up, CWM recov, but broke my actual OS- since it broke, I done flashed /data /emmc /system to empty out my stomach. I really just need everything from / (minus your personal data, of course) - can get it to work with a recovery by myself (and can post that up if I do).
Thanks in advance, bruvs.
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I've asked this before and I should probably shut it, but if anyone has files from a ROM that works with ODIN or a ZIP file (CWM compat or not), root or unrooted (doesn't matter), or a NANDROID backup, could you let me know?
I got stock kernel up, CWM recov, but broke my actual OS- since it broke, I done flashed /data /emmc /system to empty out my stomach. I really just need everything from / (minus your personal data, of course) - can get it to work with a recovery by myself (and can post that up if I do).
Thanks in advance, bruvs.
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If you haven't gotten it by the time I get home tonight (10pm mst) I'll do a wipe and then backup and upload it for you
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If you just upload the backup folder minus the data part that will get him going. Im at work or i would have done it already
drewtang said:
If you haven't gotten it by the time I get home tonight (10pm mst) I'll do a wipe and then backup and upload it for you
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drewtang said:
If you haven't gotten it by the time I get home tonight (10pm mst) I'll do a wipe and then backup and upload it for you
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I would love to have a clean on as well. Thanks in advance.
drewtang said:
if you haven't gotten it by the time i get home tonight (10pm mst) i'll do a wipe and then backup and upload it for you
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thank you hella much, drewtang!
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zoth said:
I would love to have a clean on as well. Thanks in advance.
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ABOUT YOUR CIG:
Vaping - like, 420 or cigs?
I lost both due to flatmates (breakage and physical loss, respectively).
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thank you hella much, drewtang!
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ABOUT YOUR CIG:
Vaping - like, 420 or cigs?
I lost both due to flatmates (breakage and physical loss, respectively).
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out off topic but e-cig's. analogs are regular cig's.
Hey guys,
I just wanted to start off by saying thank you to everyone involved here - all of the guys answering questions, the coders, the devel guys, the people who sponsor, host the site, everyone involved. I have an SPH-D710 currently running CM 10a6, port by... Darkstar? Something similar to that.
I've read about JBrissen's JB port and I'd like to roll that - it doesn't mention which GApps to flash.
Can anyone tell me which version of GApps to flash / provide a download link?
My main CM10a6 issue is battery life - full battery at 6:30 am this morning, dead battery at 3pm. No real use, calls, or texts; that sucks.
Anywho, if anyone would like to provide a link to the JBrissen & whichever GApps, that's fantastic - if I failed in my search button capabilities feel free to let me know
You failed.
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rovar said:
You failed.
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Jerk.
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Latest JB gapps
http://goo.im/gapps/gapps-jb-20120726-signed.zip
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CM9a6 -> CM10
I fully welcomed the fail. I actually work in IT and am used to this kind of thing, but hey, I won't learn by being an arrogant douche, now will I? My work more focuses around datacenter/247 availability. Android is fairly new to me, and mods/roms are new as of ~ 1 week for me. But I digress.
I searched more and think I found what I'm looking for. Has anyone gone thru these steps and bricked?
I'm running CM 9a6 (20120628), kernel 3.0.15 663858. I've been using MobileOdin. I had at some point flashed el29 and rooted, and most recently flashed EL 26, then directbooted CWM recovery, and loaded CM 9a6 from there, wiping data, cache, davlik.
Now, I can boot CWM 5.5.0.4, or I've got a directboot image I can run via mobileodin for el29 v3 something, I've also got stockcwm el26.
My plan is to go to cm10-20120822-unofficial and gappsjb20120726.
Has anyone run thru a similar procedure, and what's the general advice? Just looking to not brick and possibly have the procedure for moving forward should I want to swap roms around.
Let me know if I'm not being clear.
hurrah
so perhaps labeling your images and things correctly is a good idea. I believe I just loaded stock el26 and bricked my phone.
Yay for me. I think I'll leave now before the trolls come out.
Sigh...
If you can enter download mode. Flash the direct boot el26 kernel
Wipe everything
Flash rom
Flash gapps
Profit
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rovar said:
Sigh...
If you can enter download mode. Flash the direct boot el26 kernel
Wipe everything
Flash rom
Flash gapps
Profit
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What he said. You will end up with the yellow triangle... to remove it,you may want to direct CWM flash then go to cm9. Use that triangle remove apk. Then mobile odin flash direct CWM then CM10 though. If you care to remove the triangle.....
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calisro said:
What he said. You will end up with the yellow triangle... to remove it,you may want to direct CWM flash then go to cm9. Use that triangle remove apk. Then mobile odin flash direct CWM then CM10 though. If you care to remove the triangle.....
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Of course wipe between....
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oh, it wasn't just me.
I did some reading, apparently sometimes you need 2 or 3 power cycles.
After 3 power cycles, I'd actually done exactly what you stated above, and I'm now powered by google now.
If I understand correctly, I flashed a kernel that's incompatible with my ROM & recovery, and effectively disabled my phone, sans download mode. Flashing the ready boot el29 gives me the safe recovery for the later rom.
Cheers rover.
Cheers all of xda. With the patience and hard work of this team, forums, and helpful folk like rover and calisro and all of the developers (too many to name), you guys do what Sprint promised and couldn't deliver for 8 months. Finally, a happy customer, and yet what gets me here voids warranties.
Now, to scour how to fix the evil yellow triangle after el26.
Just get to CM9. Then use the triangle removal app in market. Then direct boot CWM and wipe and go to CM10. WINwithout triangle.
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hmm.
do I wipe, CWM to CM9, then triangle, and CWM to CM10? I'm on 10 now
in other news, I saved 2 other boxes. highly wonderful night.
vsfh said:
do I wipe, CWM to CM9, then triangle, and CWM to CM10? I'm on 10 now
in other news, I saved 2 other boxes. highly wonderful night.
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Correct. triangle away doesnt work in JB. If you on jb, nandroid then get back to 9,then restore
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sweet
Awesome.
Question: I've read a lot on modems and PRL and all of that. The JB build I'm using has a 'Check for sprint updates' that wanted to update my profile; is that hte update people were talking about to not do as it caused bugs?
Question 2: ff18/ff30? Not sure on any of this -- there was an update yesterday or hte day before to help battery life. If I'm going to be back on ICS, can I apply this?
Hello folks,
I am a newbie to the forum but I am constantly on the site checking stuff out and finally decided to join!
Anyways,
I recently updated my phone to the new Jelly Bean OTA released from sammobile and find that the wi-fi calling feature that doesn't work is a big no-no for me. I need it constantly since I am in college and most of my classes have wi-fi in basements that have no cell phone service.
If anyone can help me out I would appreciate it.
I tried downloading the stock rom from sammobile and installing it and I got an error:
"signature failed".
I did factory wipe and partition wipe prior to trying to apply the update. I also put the file as update.zip (no I did not make the file update.zip.zip) in the root of the external sd card.
Any other tips?
DL zip from this post, extract and use Odin to flash.
It's the H2 ICS update.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=31185703
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ThC23 said:
DL zip from this post, extract and use Odin to flash.
It's the H2 ICS update.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=31185703
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I cannot find the ICS zip in that thread.
Can I restore ICS on my unrooted S3 without flashing it?
Excuse me for misreading the post. Like none of you guys ever done that before, oh yeah I forgot this place is full of XDA God's who never make mistakes.
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Download this and flash in Odin it is UVALH2 ROOTED TAR which is good it won't mess with your flash counter then u can just install cwm or twrp from there
https://s3.amazonaws.com/test_file_66/root66_TMO_T999UVALH2.7z
Thank Mr. Robinson
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Markor13 said:
Factory data reset.
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Eehh.....y u no make sense....he wants to go back to an ics ROM lol if he factory reset he still on jb lol
sarni84 said:
Download this and flash in Odin it is UVALH2 ROOTED TAR which is good it won't mess with your flash counter then u can just install cwm or twrp from there
https://s3.amazonaws.com/test_file_66/root66_TMO_T999UVALH2.7z
Thank Mr. Robinson
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Eehh.....y u no make sense....he wants to go back to an ics ROM lol if he factory reset he still on jb lol
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This should work fine
Factory reset, had a good laugh lol
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If you are a newbie, you might need this guide to how to use odin as well: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1671969
Thanks a lot guys!!!
Worked no porblems.
Hey XDA! I recently perm-rooted my SGS3 T-mobile versionT999 using the QCOM Toolkit and Odin and I flashed custom CMW recovery 6.(whatever) and did backups of all my stuff like data, system, EFS partition and more. It also renamed my recovery restore files. I read a few things regarding the OTA update of JB coming out soon and heard that if it is updated it could actually turn s-off back on and mess up your root and mess up a bunch of other things that I've done.
First off I would like to ask for some clarification on this subject as to what exactly will happen if the OTA updates to JB and if it will automatically be prevented or if I have to do something to keep my phone from automatically upgrading to JB on its own. Also if it turns out that I cannot do the OTA JB update should I just flash a custom JB rom or possibly flash a stock release of the JB rom?
Secondly I wanted to ask about the flash counter. Currently I have not flashed anything but CWM (twice cause I tried to flash touch but it failed) I have not flashed any roms or kernels or radios yet. Has my flash counter already been tripped? What exactly will trip the counter? I also read something about resetting the trip meter and flashing everything back to stock including unrooting. Can someone post a link to a guide(s) that have steps for that? (Trust me I've been looking on XDA for a few hours trying to answer all these questions myself but I cant find some of them and I figured asking and having them answered all in one place would be much easier and helpful to me and others as well). In the future I may look into flashing another kernel so I can overclock and also some other roms. Another question arises though: What exactly is and insecure kernel ( I believe thats what they're called) and also what is an insecure boot img? Sorry I have so many questions but theres a lot of information to take in when a new phone receives root and gets a bunch of new possibilities!
One final question until new ones arise. What exactly are these new builds I keep reading about? Ive seen "T999UVALEM", "uvalh2", "uvalh3" , "UVLI2,3 & 4", "UVDLI3", "UVDLH3", "UVALG1", and "ULVH2" and I assume there are many more haha.
What exactly even are these??? Its just too much to keep up with. Thanks to anyone who can clear up the confusion
Well I believe that about sums up my questions so if you can help me out I would greatly appreciate it! Thanks guys!
If you have cwm installed the OTA will fail.
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We don't have S-on/off either. That is an HTC thing.
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flashing using Odin trips the counter
Flashing using cwm does not
You can use triangle away (an app) to reset your flash counter
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the uvl stuff is different leaks (builds)
The different builds came with new basebands (modems) as Samsung tries to increase reception
Look in development for the modem thread
For example I'm running the latest cm10 nightly and using the latest modem. So my baseband is T999UVLI8
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Android_Monsters said:
flashing using Odin trips the counter
Flashing using cwm does not
You can use triangle away (an app) to reset your flash counter
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the uvl stuff is different leaks (builds)
The different builds came with new basebands (modems) as Samsung tries to increase reception
Look in development for the modem thread
For example I'm running the latest cm10 nightly and using the latest modem. So my baseband is T999UVLI8
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So when I used the toolkit (which used Odin) to root and flash CWM the counter was tripped? Oh well I'm sure there will be workarounds later
Yes go ahead and flash a custom Rom. The developers will have a rooted version of the ota once it drops. And you can just flash that.
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jtl_777 said:
So when I used the toolkit (which used Odin) to root and flash CWM the counter was tripped? Oh well I'm sure there will be workarounds later
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You can download triangle away on xda website or buy it in the play store
It resets the counter to zero.
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So when I used the toolkit (which used Odin) to root and flash CWM the counter was tripped? Oh well I'm sure there will be workarounds later
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I don't know what the toolkit is but there was a guide in the development section on rooting without tripping the counter. Essentially it used Odin to flash a stock rom that had root injected and from there you could install cwm. As long as u flash roms with cwm it shouldn't trip the counter to my knowledge but if u use Odin to flash roms it will trip the counter
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Here is a guide on reseting ect, and making it look stock just found.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=31890397
mystycs said:
Here is a guide on reseting ect, and making it look stock just found.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=31890397
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Thanks matey I'll give it a look
mystycs said:
Here is a guide on reseting ect, and making it look stock just found.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=31890397
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holy mackerel this is GOLD!!! Clears SOOOOO much up! many thanks dude!!!
Why do I have root and a custom rom (I was running ktoonsez kernel before i did the hard reset) when I hard-reseted my phone?
I'm trying to make my phone like it came out of the box.
With no root or anything. With the original kernel and stuff.
How do I do that?
I don't think hard reset can make your phone look like out of box.You have to flash stock rom with Odin to return to stock.
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umair42 said:
I don't think hard reset can make your phone look like out of box.You have to flash stock rom with Odin to return to stock.
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How do i do that?
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How do i do that?
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Go to sammobile.com and download your phone's firmware.Then search on google how to flash roms using odin.
I can't post links because i'm not on my pc and using it from mobile.
umair42 said:
Go to sammobile.com and download your phone's firmware.Then search on google how to flash roms using odin.
I can't post links because i'm not on my pc and using it from mobile.
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It looks complicated, I'll see if I need to do it tomorrow because I reset my phone because I was experiencing an issue,
Is there a thread made for the S4 to revert to complete stock? I know I saw one in Android Development, but it said "fix soft brick" or something like that
This thread in the stickies shows how to unroot and how to use odin.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2268880
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Android_Monsters said:
This thread in the stickies shows how to unroot and how to use odin.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2268880
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so this is the thread I need to be looking at?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2258628
yep is too easy if you read and if you have a doubt read again, follow these steps...good luck
a hard reset does a factory reset too if i'm not mistaken which only wipes /data /cache and dalvik. doesn't touch system or boot which is where the rom and kernel are, respectively. therefore doesnt get rid of root
kevinrubio1 said:
It looks complicated, I'll see if I need to do it tomorrow because I reset my phone because I was experiencing an issue,
Is there a thread made for the S4 to revert to complete stock? I know I saw one in Android Development, but it said "fix soft brick" or something like that
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It is so... not hard, its easier then buttering toast, if you can adjust the sound volume on a pc or navigate a standard windows xp/7 o.s , you can odin a tar file to a galaxy phone .. it takes literally 5 min from dload file time / to flashing finished.
In fact you have the easiest phone to deal with be :thumbup: thankful not a motorola or htc.
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kevinrubio1 said:
It looks complicated, I'll see if I need to do it tomorrow because I reset my phone because I was experiencing an issue,
Is there a thread made for the S4 to revert to complete stock? I know I saw one in Android Development, but it said "fix soft brick" or something like that
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Puting a galaxy any galaxy back to stock requires what wr call removing root and more importantly getting stock 3e recovery back. Its only done by flashing the stock out of the box firmware, otherwise known as a tar.md5 file.
You search in GOOGLE,for
"M919 uvuamdl stock tar. "
Dload it to computer then extract file to desktop or a folder
Next Download odin and open odin,
Connect phone to usb cable to the computer. You will see in odin top left corner a com port when your phones recognized the port will be yellow and say com with a # like com8 for example.
Select pda in Odin, it will direct you to the folder you put the tar file in and select open.
Then click start in Odin.When its done itlll say reset/pass .flashing takes 3-10 minutes on average the s4 takes little longer than older galaxy's used to.
Your all done Back to as STOCK AS YOU CAN GET
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kevinrubio1 said:
Why do I have root and a custom rom (I was running ktoonsez kernel before i did the hard reset) when I hard-reseted my phone?
I'm trying to make my phone like it came out of the box.
With no root or anything. With the original kernel and stuff.
How do I do that?
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Sent you a PM also