I was wondering if someone would know of a simple way to receive an update to my gs3 after rooting, I recently purchased it. It is the U.S cellular variant and I must say I was pretty impressed (shocked) that on my first attempt ever at rooting a device I was able to root my gs3 without a single problem using the CMteamepic root file>>cwmrecovery tar file>> odin file>>> based on the sprint illustration on youtube. Followed it to a T and voila'... It was done, I actually did it without a single issue to the root process or to phone If someone could help with the update issue, I tried updating and the phone actually went through the process all the way to where it asks where you want to boot from and then press the power button. I'm not sure if I was suppose to scroll to something else prior to pressing the power button but when I did so from the first selection and phone booted up it said update failed. If anyone could please help I would greatly appreciate it.
tuckytuck0204 said:
I was wondering if someone would know of a simple way to receive an update to my gs3 after rooting, I recently purchased it. It is the U.S cellular variant and I must say I was pretty impressed (shocked) that on my first attempt ever at rooting a device I was able to root my gs3 without a single problem using the CMteamepic root file>>cwmrecovery tar file>> odin file>>> based on the sprint illustration on youtube. Followed it to a T and voila'... It was done, I actually did it without a single issue to the root process or to phone If someone could help with the update issue, I tried updating and the phone actually went through the process all the way to where it asks where you want to boot from and then press the power button. I'm not sure if I was suppose to scroll to something else prior to pressing the power button but when I did so from the first selection and phone booted up it said update failed. If anyone could please help I would greatly appreciate it.
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You can't apply ota updates while rooted. You need to unroot if you really want the update. Honestly, most devs just incorporate the updates in to their roms once the updates are are released anyways.
The above is true however...
In my opinion I say **** the whole OTA. The baseband is what counts. The rest of the updates are sprint garbage. As above post states,Most roms are updated to reflects the ota's however if your on an older build I recommend grabbing the newest baseband here http://www.mediafire.com/?u4793wlu5r97t3g. Then stop the update nag by flashing this http://dl.xda-developers.com/attach...2042/503dad17/1/2/4/4/2/7/7/blazerOTAkill.zip. Just my 2 cents.
Voodoo OTA rootkeeper...no?
evoer said:
Voodoo OTA rootkeeper...no?
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I've used that and it worked
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So I am running the stock rom but have root access. the update pops up every 5 minutes to remind me to install it. I let it install and about 3 second in i get a yeild sign with an exclamation point in it. and the phone stops there. I waited for about 3 hours and nothing happened. Anybody know what I need to do here? I used Galaxy Nexus root toolkit v1.3 to root my phone. BTW i am with verizon
For as far as i now you cant update a rooted device. i sugest unrooting an try to update agian.
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yea that's what I thought I was going to have to do. but wanted to see if there was an update package someone had made for rooted devices like some others had.
nvm i think im going to trade the phone
So no one has an answer on this?
jordi97 said:
For as far as i now you cant update a rooted device. i sugest unrooting an try to update agian.
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Yes you can. You can't update a phone with CWM recovery though.
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Correct a rooted phone can update but not with any custom recovery. You need to flash back to the factory stock recovery.
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OK so looks like everyone is here was incorrect. The 4.04 rooted update is here in the XDA forums all i needed to do was flash it and the new antenna and everything is working fine now. here are the links.
4.04 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1631796
radio http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1630438
Thank you Brandon for helping me out with this.
There are no stupid questions only stupid answers.
Sdalton19 said:
OK so looks like everyone is here was incorrect. The 4.04 rooted update is here in the XDA forums all i needed to do was flash it and the new antenna and everything is working fine now. here are the links.
4.04 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1631796
radio http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1630438
Thank you Brandon for helping me out with this.
There are no stupid questions only stupid answers.
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Your right, stupid answers, that's not an ota update you did. That was pulled from a phone which was updated and packaged into a flashable file to use on a rooted device. But a carrier ota update as your device was asking you to update will not work without stock recovery.
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Isn't that exactly what i asked for second post in? Point is if you knew that, why didn't you say so? Look there's nothing wrong with being wrong every once in a while but be graceful about it. And if your going to give advice make sure you fully read the question and offer decent advice. You were saying there was no way to update it without unrooting and flashing back to stock. That was after I asked "yea that's what I thought I was going to have to do. but wanted to see if there was an update package someone had made for rooted devices like some others had." Is that not exactly what I asked for????
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Isn't that exactly what i asked for second post in? Point is if you knew that, why didn't you say so? Look there's nothing wrong with being wrong every once in a while but be graceful about it. And if your going to give advice make sure you fully read the question and offer decent advice. You were saying there was no way to update it without unrooting and flashing back to stock. That was after I asked "yea that's what I thought I was going to have to do. but wanted to see if there was an update package someone had made for rooted devices like some others had." Is that not exactly what I asked for????
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Well, you are right that there are a lot of partially right and partially wrong answers in this thread. But what are you saying is not exactly right either.
1) There is a difference between updating your existing build (like what you had asked to do in the first post) and flashing an entirely new build.
2) There is a difference between running a stock ROM (like what you were running before) and running a ROM that looks like it's stock, but is not (like what you are running now).
3) Root has NO impact whatsoever on your ability to install OTA updates on your stock ROM.
4) An OTA update will NOT install with a stock recovery UNLESS you are using the stock recovery version that came with the build you are using. (It seems like a lot of toolkits are flashing non-matching stock recoveries).
5) An OTA update file can EASILY be installed if you have CWM installed. See here.
6) Your phrase "unrooting and flashing back to stock" is silly, as flashing back to stock replaces your ROM, so why would you need to "unroot" your current ROM only to flash a stock ROM overtop? You don't root a device - you root an Android OS build. The phrase "root my device" does not make any sense.
I'm rooted but running a stock rom. Yesterday I got a notification of an OTA update trying to be pushed to my phone. I did some reading and found out it's the fault of Apple (insert several nasty words here) forcing Samsung to remove the global search function. I've delayed it twice now by 8 hours, but it says it won't delay any more, and will automatically install in 8 hours.
What's the easiest way to circumvent this? I'm sorry if it's been answered before, but I barely have time to post this thread because my life's so busy, so please have mercy and just point me in the right direction!
Root, flash cwm and install custom rom.
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Same happened to me yesterday. Still searching a way to avoid update..
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If you have root , install Titanium backup , and freeze "FWUpgrade 1.2.0".
If i am not mistaken that will prevent any OTA updates. Or as others said custom rom time.
I got the update but because I'm rooted, it never got pushed to the phone.
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ghost77 said:
If you have root , install Titanium backup , and freeze "FWUpgrade 1.2.0".
If i am not mistaken that will prevent any OTA updates. Or as others said custom rom time.
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Thank you! I've frozen it and will let everyone know in a few hours if it worked. Thanks!
maxh said:
Thank you! I've frozen it and will let everyone know in a few hours if it worked. Thanks!
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You can also just take the update and replace the apk. It's linked to in the development section for root without tripping flash counter.
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maxh said:
I'm rooted but running a stock rom. Yesterday I got a notification of an OTA update trying to be pushed to my phone. I did some reading and found out it's the fault of Apple (insert several nasty words here) forcing Samsung to remove the global search function. I've delayed it twice now by 8 hours, but it says it won't delay any more, and will automatically install in 8 hours.
What's the easiest way to circumvent this? I'm sorry if it's been answered before, but I barely have time to post this thread because my life's so busy, so please have mercy and just point me in the right direction!
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If you are rooted and have CWM installed, the update will be downloaded to the phone, it will restart, but it will fail to install the update as it needs stock recovery for the update to happen. Your phone will restart again saying that the update has failed and you will be back to where you started.
Source: I was rooted and I wanted to update the OTA update. There was no way I could do it with CWM installed. I had to unroot the phone to get the update and root it again.
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If you are rooted and have CWM installed, the update will be downloaded to the phone, it will restart, but it will fail to install the update as it needs stock recovery for the update to happen. Your phone will restart again saying that the update has failed and you will be back to where you started.
Source: I was rooted and I wanted to update the OTA update. There was no way I could do it with CWM installed. I had to unroot the phone to get the update and root it again.
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To confirm, this is exactly what happened.
Thanks!
I am curious if I will receive the new S3 update, as I am rooted on stock rom. I have not received any update notifications yet, but I know other people that have. Pressing "software update" in settings just waits saying "Checking for software updates". What do I need to do to get the update?
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I am curious if I will receive the new S3 update, as I am rooted on stock rom. I have not received any update notifications yet, but I know other people that have. Pressing "software update" in settings just waits saying "Checking for software updates". What do I need to do to get the update?
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If you are rooted, my guess is that you most likely tripped the modified counter. By default if you are not using a work around, Samsung has certain methods in place that detect when you modifiy your phone or boot loader. Once tripped, you will most likely not get any ota updates. To check, first ensure that you dont have a yellow exclamation mark while your phone is booting, second, go to settings about phone and there is a string that she either read normal or modified. If you are rooted though, why dont you just flash one of the new roms with android 4.1.2? That is the update.
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I am curious if I will receive the new S3 update, as I am rooted on stock rom. I have not received any update notifications yet, but I know other people that have. Pressing "software update" in settings just waits saying "Checking for software updates". What do I need to do to get the update?
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Forget waiting for the OTA update, why not download the full Samsung T999 S3 stock-rooted
deoxidized firmware and flash your phone with it. Since your phone is already rooted, it's easy.
Good Luck!
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If you are rooted, my guess is that you most likely tripped the modified counter. By default if you are not using a work around, Samsung has certain methods in place that detect when you modifiy your phone or boot loader. Once tripped, you will most likely not get any ota updates. To check, first ensure that you dont have a yellow exclamation mark while your phone is booting, second, go to settings about phone and there is a string that she either read normal or modified. If you are rooted though, why dont you just flash one of the new roms with android 4.1.2? That is the update.
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Forget waiting for the OTA update, why not download the full Samsung T999 S3 stock-rooted
deoxidized firmware and flash your phone with it. Since your phone is already rooted, it's easy.
Good Luck!
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Yes, it appears I am modified. I used triangle away in the past. I havn't done any phone mods in a long time, and I basically have root for apps requiring SU. I did not want to have to break out the USB cable and download a 700MB file if I could just run the update tool (call me lazy).
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Yes, it appears I am modified. I used triangle away in the past. I havn't done any phone mods in a long time, and I basically have root for apps requiring SU. I did not want to have to break out the USB cable and download a 700MB file if I could just run the update tool (call me lazy).
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Well in that case, why not just wait for the OTA update... (you will never see one unless your phone is 100% stock) LOL
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Well in that case, why not just wait for the OTA update... (you will never see one unless your phone is 100% stock) LOL
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Right, I went ahead and updated using cwm and the stock rom and am now on 4.1.2. Flashing was just scary to me when I havnt done it in a very long time
If you wish to do it the easy way I'd say TWRP it. But another way is Odin back to complete stock UVDLJC so that your status is normal and not modified. I'm pretty sure TriangleAway doesn't need to be used to reset your binary for an OTA. Just the ROM itself can't be detected as modified for the OTA to work.
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Right, I went ahead and updated using cwm and the stock rom and am now on 4.1.2. Flashing was just scary to me when I havnt done it in a very long time
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If you don't mind me asking, how exactly did you go about that? I was on CM, tried changing the rom, messed up, ended going to my backup of touchwiz 4.1.1 and don't mind it but I'd like to go to 4.1.2. I'm a noob at this so if you can help me out that would be awesome. Thank you.
Go to my firmware thread stickied in development. You will find firmware and instruction there.
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I bought a phone on eBay to use on the Ting (Sprint) network. It is a used Samsung Galaxy S3 running Android 4.0.4 which I thought was strange as I know the S3 has been updated past this. So I started looking around and I found a program called SuperUser which has root options, then I found a file called TeamEpic-Root-from-Recovery-v5(1).zip in the root of the phone. There is a firmware update available but when I try to apply it a screen comes up which says installation aborted (I can get more info if needed on this).
I have been using Android phones for years and never been interested in rooting. I'm worried that I will not be able to activate this phone on July 8 when I can get out of my Verizon contract. And I'm concerned that I won't be able to update it past 4.0.4.
Could anyone advise how I can get this back to stock? Thanks in advance.
rickybee61 said:
I bought a phone on eBay to use on the Ting (Sprint) network. It is a used Samsung Galaxy S3 running Android 4.0.4 which I thought was strange as I know the S3 has been updated past this. So I started looking around and I found a program called SuperUser which has root options, then I found a file called TeamEpic-Root-from-Recovery-v5(1).zip in the root of the phone. There is a firmware update available but when I try to apply it a screen comes up which says installation aborted (I can get more info if needed on this).
I have been using Android phones for years and never been interested in rooting. I'm worried that I will not be able to activate this phone on July 8 when I can get out of my Verizon contract. And I'm concerned that I won't be able to update it past 4.0.4.
Could anyone advise how I can get this back to stock? Thanks in advance.
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Can't apply OTA update if it has custom recovery such as TWRP or CWM. Has to have stock Samsung recovery. You can try this post-http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1904099. Follow instructions very carefully. This should do the trick to get you back unrooted, with stock recovery, and updated firmware to MD4.
rickybee61 said:
I bought a phone on eBay to use on the Ting (Sprint) network. It is a used Samsung Galaxy S3 running Android 4.0.4 which I thought was strange as I know the S3 has been updated past this. So I started looking around and I found a program called SuperUser which has root options, then I found a file called TeamEpic-Root-from-Recovery-v5(1).zip in the root of the phone. There is a firmware update available but when I try to apply it a screen comes up which says installation aborted (I can get more info if needed on this).
I have been using Android phones for years and never been interested in rooting. I'm worried that I will not be able to activate this phone on July 8 when I can get out of my Verizon contract. And I'm concerned that I won't be able to update it past 4.0.4.
Could anyone advise how I can get this back to stock? Thanks in advance.
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Look in the Android Development section and there is a ROM Restore so you can restore to unrooted stock
Thank You!!
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Can't apply OTA update if it has custom recovery such as TWRP or CWM. Has to have stock Samsung recovery. You can try this post-http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1904099. Follow instructions very carefully. This should do the trick to get you back unrooted, with stock recovery, and updated firmware to MD4.
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Starting with your link and checking some basic firmware flashing instructions I was able to get it back to stock. The counter is reset and it says it is genuine samsung After doing this it then updated to JB. Happy now, thanks so much for the help.
Hello!
So currently I'm looking for some advice on where to go from here. I bought my SM-n910v DE directly from Samsung because I wanted the unlocked boot loader right from the get-go. Once I got it, I decided to root it. I don't exactly remember the exact method to root, I believe it may have been with an app.
Since then, I have not taken any OTAs and so I am still on 4.4! I don't know what disabled the OTA, or if I needed to activate it somehow since I didn't buy the phone from Verizon, and perhaps there was a step I missed when I activated it with them. Either way, I have enjoyed my Note 4 a ton. I like being on 4.4 since I know it'll function as expected and I had read some people talking about later releases being not so great on the Note 4 particularly so I decided to not worry about the OTAs and stay on KitKat.
So I was trying to do some research on perhaps customize it a bit more, and so when I tried a few steps, and I booted into recovery (vol up + home + pow), the blue text above booting into recovery did appear, but then when the green droid first appears, the phone seems to reset itself back into the green droid again, again. It is as if recovery mode (starting with the pic of the green droid with its belly open) restarts again, and again and again. Never getting passed the green droid.
I'm wondering if anyone has any suggestions as to what to do about the OTAs. What is the safest path to a good stable release? do I need to un-root prior to taking an update? Do I have to do updates in succession? Can I even take an OTA with root? will that break things?
also about the loop I'm experiencing. What could it be? If I revert back by attempting to flash a stock firmware, or something, will I need to re-root? Would I need to try? Since I can't even get into recovery, can I even revert?
Any direction would be greatly appreciated. Thanks so much for this forum and the awesome people that help in here!
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I would think that yes, you will have to unroot and then I would take it to a Verizon store and ask them to flash it. I know Sprint will. I had a bad ota. They fixed it free as well. I can tell you that 6.0.1 is solid. This one is rooted and running 7.1.1 not bad either. Whatever you decide to do, good luck!
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Modtronix said:
I would think that yes, you will have to unroot and then I would take it to a Verizon store and ask them to flash it. I know Sprint will. I had a bad ota. They fixed it free as well. I can tell you that 6.0.1 is solid. This one is rooted and running 7.1.1 not bad either. Whatever you decide to do, good luck!
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Thanks for the response. I might have to end up going and have them just flash it. I was wondering if I could avoid going over there. If perhaps there was a way to reset the phone through Odin or something. Glad to know 6.0.1 is solid as well! cheers!:good: