Step By Step Fully return to stock? - AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III

I need a guide on how to return to stock with no root and no trace of rooting. I have a dead line of pixels on my screen and im looking to get it replaced and i need to have it returned to stock fully in order to do so. Could anybody tell me what that process entails to? i have also checked my custom binary counter, it is at 0 because of the no count tripper recovery i flashed. :laugh:

Gunraykilla said:
I need a guide on how to return to stock with no root and no trace of rooting. I have a dead line of pixels on my screen and im looking to get it replaced and i need to have it returned to stock fully in order to do so. Could anybody tell me what that process entails to? i have also checked my custom binary counter, it is at 0 because of the no count tripper recovery i flashed. :laugh:
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use odin and flash the most up to date software of samsung touchwiz. check the stickies for odin under development.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1737848
You'll find the most recent official here, UCLG1. don't forget to run triangle away before unrooting.

Gunraykilla said:
I need a guide on how to return to stock with no root and no trace of rooting. I have a dead line of pixels on my screen and im looking to get it replaced and i need to have it returned to stock fully in order to do so. Could anybody tell me what that process entails to? i have also checked my custom binary counter, it is at 0 because of the no count tripper recovery i flashed. :laugh:
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Use kies for samsung to get back to stock
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[Q] Rooting and warranty

Hello all,
I have a friend that is wanting to uninstall the T-Mobile pre installed CRAPPS. Since the only way to do so is by rooting, he has questioned if rooting his GS2 will void his mfg warranty. Since I Sid not know and do not own a galaxy I figured I would ask here. Thanks in advanced.
-T
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Yes it does but if your friend messes up his phone and needs to send it to tmobile I recommend to flash stock on it via Odin and then send it in.
pyrocide said:
Hello all,
I have a friend that is wanting to uninstall the T-Mobile pre installed CRAPPS. Since the only way to do so is by rooting, he has questioned if rooting his GS2 will void his mfg warranty. Since I Sid not know and do not own a galaxy I figured I would ask here. Thanks in advanced.
-T
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Technically it does, and if Samsung finds out that you did root it, they have the right to not honor the warranty. However, it's relatively easy to keep them from finding out that you rooted it. The basic outline of how to do it is this:
1) Flash this in CWM.
2) Flash stock kernel in CWM.
3) Flash stock ROM in Odin.
The order is important as you should only flash ROMs (and not kernels) through Odin otherwise you will trip a flash counter that Samsung can see. The first link resets the counter if you have already flashed a kernel through Odin.
Rooting will void your warranty; however, as the previous poster said, you can "unroot" and tmobile/samsung wouldn't find out in case you need a warranty repair/replacement.
yoft1 said:
Technically it does, and if Samsung finds out that you did root it, they have the right to not honor the warranty. However, it's relatively easy to keep them from finding out that you rooted it. The basic outline of how to do it is this:
1) Flash this in CWM.
2) Flash stock kernel in CWM.
3) Flash stock ROM in Odin.
The order is important as you should only flash ROMs (and not kernels) through Odin otherwise you will trip a flash counter that Samsung can see. The first link resets the counter if you have already flashed a kernel through Odin.
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I was curious about the flash counter because I see that there is a flashable zip to reset it but I've flashed everything I can think of to this phone at least once and never made it say anything but no lol so thanks for the clarification :thumbup:
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yoft1 said:
Technically it does, and if Samsung finds out that you did root it, they have the right to not honor the warranty. However, it's relatively easy to keep them from finding out that you rooted it. The basic outline of how to do it is this:
1) Flash this in CWM.
2) Flash stock kernel in CWM.
3) Flash stock ROM in Odin.
The order is important as you should only flash ROMs (and not kernels) through Odin otherwise you will trip a flash counter that Samsung can see. The first link resets the counter if you have already flashed a kernel through Odin.
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The stock file you flash in Odin includes the kernel either way. I've never had it trip the flash counter.
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Towle said:
The stock file you flash in Odin includes the kernel either way. I've never had it trip the flash counter.
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As long as it's the stock official kernel it will not trip the counter

UNROOT sgh-t999v

i need to unroot my s3 for warranty purposes but i cannot find proper procedures for the the model sgh-t999v..
i have 2 questions,
1. can i just root a stock rom for sgh-t999 to my sgh-t999v?
2. anyone have the procedures to unroot my sgh-t999v
thanks
Flash a stock rooted Rom. T-Mobile one. That seems to be ok as long as you don't flash a T-Mobile radio.
Not sure if triangle away works on the Canadian version.
Maybe someone else has tried it.
All I had to do to return my last one was flash a stock rooted Rom.
I don't think they check the flash counter
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If the Rom has some T-Mobile bloat left on it get it off there.
Hide superuser in a folder
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Thanks, ill try it tonight
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Or you can download the actual fw for your device. You will have to register but its no big deal.
Www.sammobile.com/firmware
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WE WILL NEVER FORGET!!!
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I can see you have a Videotron Galaxy S3. They don't check the flash counter. Let's just say I know this "by experience". As long as it's just rooted and you don't have any custom ROM, you should be fine. But indeed if you can at least hide the SU app it would be a good thing.
You could also perform a factory reset in CWM prior to going to the store, as they will make you do it anyways (and you actually don't want them to see the CWM screen)prior to any exchange. It's company policy.
lightpsycho said:
I can see you have a Videotron Galaxy S3. They don't check the flash counter. Let's just say I know this "by experience". As long as it's just rooted and you don't have any custom ROM, you should be fine. But indeed if you can at least hide the SU app it would be a good thing.
You could also perform a factory reset in CWM prior to going to the store, as they will make you do it anyways (and you actually don't want them to see the CWM screen)prior to any exchange. It's company policy.
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It's still probably safer to just use Triangle Away to get rid of the flash counter
Triangle away? Please explain
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yukuansu said:
Triangle away? Please explain
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Heres everything to know about triangle away, it resets the flash counter...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1494114
Jake
T-Mobile & SGH-T999V
Hi,
Can we use the T-Mobile stock recovery on SGH-T999V?
flyerspat said:
Hi,
Can we use the T-Mobile stock recovery on SGH-T999V?
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If your trying to go back to stock, just download the stock rom from sammobile, it has everything you need like stock recovery, and then just flash it via odin.
htc fan89 said:
If your trying to go back to stock, just download the stock rom from sammobile, it has everything you need like stock recovery, and then just flash it via odin.
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Hi,
The only downloads availables are the firmwares, does it include the stock recovery in it?
flyerspat said:
Hi,
The only downloads availables are the firmwares, does it include the stock recovery in it?
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Yes it should be the full fw which includes radio, recovery and more.
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Thanks!
I'll test it tonight, wouldn't look good to download a 700 mb file at work!
I tried a few firmwares, but for some reason they all said "unsupport dev_type" when trying to use odin to return to stock non root (from stock rooted) In the end, the easiest way to remove root was to just let Kies update my gs3 to Jelly Bean (sgh-t999v). Painless, no data loss, took about 30 minutes with the firmware download.
Good luck
You will likely also want to triangle away. I won't link because it's extremely dangerous software that requires you to read up on the risks.
But that will reset your custom flashes assuming you have some on your counter you can check easily by going into download mode.
i recently lost my stock rom backup.. deleted it off clockworkmod touch by accident, so i only have the cm10.1 nightly i was running when i deleted it.. now i'm assuming i will lose root if i flash the stock firmware through odin? is there another way to get my stock rom back without losing root (and cyanogenmod rom backups)?
hey guys im having trouble with triangle away on my sgh-t999v with the baseband version: T999VVLUFNF1
after I used triangle away and I go into download mode it says:
current binary: Samsung Official
System status: official
qualcomm secureboot:enable
Warranty Bit:1
Bootloader AP SWAEV: 2
Although the current binary and the system status have changed the warranty bit is still at 1
Please help!
There is no way (and never will be a way) to change the Warranty Bit. Sorry
DocHoliday77 said:
There is no way (and never will be a way) to change the Warranty Bit. Sorry
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I guess im screwed for warranty..I thought it might be cuz I have a custom kernal installed that triangle away didnt work..but thanks anyway and sorry about posting in multiple threads, im kinda new to this
No problem, thats why i mention it, so you know for the future.
Tecnically, with the warranty bit tripped, the warranty is void. However, i have seen a lot of posts where people sent it in anyway and their warranty was still honored. Its not a guarantee, but there is hope it can be used if needed. The good thing though, is you most likely will never need to use it anyway!

[Q] tmobile returning phone

I need to return S4 White and get another S4 white.
Can I just do the nandriod backtup on Phone 1 and restore on phone 2?
Ques 2.
Is that okay that I just do the factory reset and leave the root on along with twrp?
if not then I just need to ODIN the stock rom?
I am still within the 20 days return policy
First, yes u can restore it with everything you have on that one with no issue except if your getting the s4 from another carrier, the bloat might give you issues with it.
Second, If you're returning it and it's rooted your warranty is voided so you need to go back to stock and unroot it and the flash counter that tells if you've made any unauthorized changes to the software might give you issues so I don't now how to reset the flash counter so I would wait until u can restart the flash counter and go back to stock... I hope this answered your question...
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lagunas11 said:
First, yes u can restore it with everything you have on that one with no issue except if your getting the s4 from another carrier, the bloat might give you issues with it.
Second, If you're returning it and it's rooted your warranty is voided so you need to go back to stock and unroot it and the flash counter that tells if you've made any unauthorized changes to the software might give you issues so I don't now how to reset the flash counter so I would wait until u can restart the flash counter and go back to stock... I hope this answered your question...
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isn't if I ODIN back to stock would unroot automatically? even remove the recovery as well?
you mean there is no way to check the flash counter or reset?
Odin erases any root files but hey the only way to see if it resets the flash counter is by doing it and once you went back to stock and get on download mode again and once you proceed check at the top left where a small text will say something like, system version: official Samsung, flash counter: 0 or 1, name... Etc... And yes it will take the recovery as well
Edit: if it doesn't reset it try researching it on Google I'm pretty sure there's some way to do it..
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flash counter only increase if you ODIN anything other than Stock. Correct?
I use the exploit to get the root access, so technically I never ODIN, and my flash counter should be to 0.
question is if I do the ODIN to stock, is that gonna increase the flash counter?
Can I not just go back to stock via kies? that will not increase the flash counter I guess.
here is the screenshot showing the current status of what it is now after root and twrp installed.
Does not really show the flash counter.
I'm not really sure but try to use triangle away and see if it shows u Ur flash counter and if it does don't try to reset it with it Kuz I don't know if it's compatible with the s4 yet
Edit: I just checked and yes that app does work with the s4 so there's Ur option... Check if it's showing the flash counter nd if it does reset it nd then go back to stock nd problem solved..
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here is the screenshot showing the current status of what it is now after root and twrp installed.
Does not really show the flash counter.
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System Status is Custom, which if I remember correctly means it has at one point been flashed with a custom firmware.
I may be wrong though.
can someone who is not rooted please tell me the difference, what they see on ODIN screen?
-greenboy- said:
can someone who is not rooted please tell me the difference, what they see on ODIN screen?
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You mean in download mode?
-greenboy- said:
can someone who is not rooted please tell me the difference, what they see on ODIN screen?
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It will say Official instead of Custom. I used Odin to install the MDL update and it changed to Official. In settings > about device > scroll to the bottom and under Device Status it should also say Official.
yeah!!.
This thing is getting on my nerves now.
First that stupid Tmobile error which is forcing me to order the same phone for different line and return this.
Like I said just used an app called TRIANGLE AWAY and it will reset your flash counter...
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Triangle Away says I am not using jellybean and the app won't work
now what?
Go to recovery, do a full wipe, power off, use Odin and install the new MDL update.
the s-health is hooked up with the samsung account or I need to do the backup for that data separately?
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the s-health is hooked up with the samsung account or I need to do the backup for that data separately?
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Is hooked to the phone so once you get a new one it will b there but u will have to re start everything you've made on it its not good to back up system apps.. It will give you too many issues..
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follow the instructions as you said.
Now I am back to stock but the Device Status still shows "custom".
I also used the triangle away 2.90 which let me reset the counter back to 0, it showed me on the confirmation page, but looks like that didn't do the job.
Now there is no root but custom device status.
Returning phone like this would cause any issue?
I tried kies as well, its just not connecting with kies, even after re-installing drivers couple of times
Go into stock recovery and wipe cache and do a factory reset from there that should clear it up.

Need help in unrooting N7100 international, please :(

Hi Everyone
i need to unroot my phone so i can return it to carphone warehouse as it keeps freezing, i have tried every other option to fix it but its still happening, i haven't flashed any other roms, just wanted to root it so i could use directory bind.
The method i used to root was the CF Autoroot method as detailed here
http://androidjinn.com/root-xxdmb2-android-4-1-2-on-galaxy-note-2-n7100-official-firmware.html/2
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I also have installed TWRP Recovery so need to know how to remove that and go back to the stock recovery
Please Please can someone help me out with what to do, i can supply any details needed as the phone does still turn on.
Thanks Pete
Just flash your stock firmware via odin and you'd be unrooted..
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dbanzon said:
Just flash your stock firmware via odin and you'd be unrooted..
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Thanks but i have no idea how to do that or where to get the stock firmware from, sorry to be a pain but can you explain more or is there a guide?
Also will i have to use Triangle away?
I have just rung car phone warehouse to confirm if the warranty is void if you root a phone & they say yes, so really need to get this sorted so i can get it back for repair.
Thanks
Pete
peter7769 said:
Thanks but i have no idea how to do that or where to get the stock firmware from, sorry to be a pain but can you explain more or is there a guide?
Also will i have to use Triangle away?
I have just rung car phone warehouse to confirm if the warranty is void if you root a phone & they say yes, so really need to get this sorted so i can get it back for repair.
Thanks
Pete
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There are plenty of guides in xda regarding unrooting.
Download stock firmware from sammobile.com or samsung-updates.com for your device.
Use triangle away to reset counters.
Flash stock firmware and optionally factory reset.
Thanks, I take it that I use triangle away before unrooting? Also will doing this remove TWRP or do I have to do something else for that?
Thanks again
Pete
peter7769 said:
Thanks, I take it that I use triangle away before unrooting? Also will doing this remove TWRP or do I have to do something else for that?
Thanks again
Pete
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Can't use triangle away unless you're rooted. So do it before you flash stock. Never really used it much so won't know the details but aparently if you have custom kernels installed, the counter will stay at 1, so you might wanna switch to stock firmware, root it, triangle away, then use the full unroot option on your superuser app or alternatively just reflash stock firmware.
Thanks but as i put in my original post i havent flashed any ROMS so im using stock firmware anyway.
Pete
Go to the Note 2 Original android development section and there's a thread there regarding flashing firmware and using triangle away
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[Q] Unrooting t310?

Hi there. Basically I have rooted the tab I have, t310, and ive now realised that the screen is loose in one corner and it needs unrooting if this is a fault worth getting a replacement from my place of purchase.
I rooted using a guide which gave me a screwy recovery so I changed to philz. I am rooted with supersu. I was winderinf about flashing the official firmware. However, the samsung firmware site download links for official firmware are duds.
There is an unroot option in supersu but I'm guessing that won't get rid of the philz recovery. What can I do? Any help is very much appreciated.
Have you had a look to see if your stock firmware is listed on here? - http://samsung-updates.com/device/?id=SM-T310
There is a T31x stock recovery zip posted on here, can't remember which thread I got it from now but I do have it backed up.
warranty
Is there a way to restore back warranty after onroot?
thank you very much. If there is anybody who could possibly take a small amount of time to tell me how I go about getting my tab back to how it was at purchase, I would be so so grateful.
Basically all I have to do is unroot and get rid of this philz recovery.
Here 'ya go:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2471516
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dcharleyultra said:
Here 'ya go:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2471516
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Thank you. All though, I can't seem to find the UK version of the firmware. Closest I can get is EUR. I believe the UK one is called BTU?
If anyone knows how or where to find it please let me know. Thanks
UPDATE:
http://www.tsar3000.com/Joomla/inde...ab-3-8.0-firmwares&catid=55:samsung&Itemid=82
This is gonna help a few people looking for UK stock. So now I've got access to the files.. How do I use Odin to restore my phone back to normal? My apologies if this is a big request but thanks very much in advance.
There are Odin directions in my link I gave you earlier.
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There are Odin directions in my link I gave you earlier.
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Oh, my bad, I didn't even think of just using those instructions with this firmware. Silly me. Thanks, I'll let you know how goes.
Quick question - I noticed that this is the stock rom - I think I already have stock ROM... I just need to unroot and get rid of Philz recovery. Will this method do that? Or do I need an entirely separate file?
This method will do that.
However, you may also first try using the unroot feature of SuperSU.
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Before I do that, I've also wondered about the flash counter. Now I haven't flashed roms but does the recovery and root count as a flash? I have no triangle at boot - and when I use triangleaway it says my device is not supported, which renders me unable to find out if its flashed (i'm hoping not as i do not have the warning sign at startup) but does that mean that I can't get my warranty back even if it was unrooted and such?
that_guy20 said:
Before I do that, I've also wondered about the flash counter. Now I haven't flashed roms but does the recovery and root count as a flash? I have no triangle at boot - and when I use triangleaway it says my device is not supported, which renders me unable to find out if its flashed (i'm hoping not as i do not have the warning sign at startup) but does that mean that I can't get my warranty back even if it was unrooted and such?
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As with all recent Samsung devices it's likely that there is a hidden counter that increases when you flash anything else BUT Official Samsung ROMs. You will have already increased the counter flashing a different recovery. As Triangle Away doesn't support the T310 as well as lack of developer support you won't be able to reset this counter at present.
Just hope they don't check the counter when you send it back for warranty repair.
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