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My wife is going to be pissed if this does not get resolved.
I wanted to backup her phone. I already flashed Mr X's telus stock rom a week or so ago. I realized I hadn't done a nandroid backup so I though i'd install rom manager to quickly backup that rom. When I selected it it said clockworkmod recovery wasn't installed so I started the process to flash it (i thought it was strange). It went slow and I thought that I'd flash it again for good measure.
I selected the backup option expecting it to reboot into recovery and back up but nothing happens. I tried to pull the battery and boot into recovery but nothing but black, same with a regular pull and try to boot. I get the boot screen for a second and nothing but black. It will go into download mode.
My guess is it did not flash cwm successfully and this is the cause of problems. How can I fix this without having to wipe even if I can get recovery flashed properly? Can I flash cwm onto it from my pc and possiblly have it boot properly?? I would like to not have to set her phone up again and wipe her sms and things.
Thanks

Flash CWM from ODIN.
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hompsar said:
Flash CWM from ODIN.
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hompsar said:
Flash CWM from ODIN.
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+1 if it doesn't boot up after that might try flashing darkside cachewipe. If that don't work she's gonna be mad at you for flashing rom again and wiping her stuff, might try a dirty flash to save her data.
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Thank you all for the quick advice. I flashed CWM and it rebooted right into my wife's glorious setup! I had the prompt to assign Apex launcher as default but that was it at a glance.
XDA rox.

jets76 said:
Thank you all for the quick advice. I flashed CWM and it rebooted right into my wife's glorious setup! I had the prompt to assign Apex launcher as default but that was it at a glance.
XDA rox.
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Not that i had anything to do with helping you but glad your still alive. I know from experience messing with the wife's phone can result in couch time.
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ScreamingSkulls said:
Not that i had anything to do with helping you but glad your still alive. I know from experience messing with the wife's phone can result in couch time.
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Or just a cold shoulder and no dinner for a week!!

That's the truth! I found it ironic that this happened because I wanted to back it up lol
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Also don't forget how we have to tip toe around our wives when it comes to flashing! "Why are you messing with your phone again?! " Geez
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^^I have found this to be the issue with anything that does not revolve around my wife or child.. It used to be the phone she complained about, until I got a car.. then I started getting complaints about "I really don't see the purpose of brighter lights" or something of that nature.

My wife doesn't let me touch her phone anymore....
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Mine complains, but also won't take my advice on what phone to get. The truth she'll never admit: her G2 running ILWT CM7 is the best any phone has treated her yet, and if she'd just try to learn what a problem means when I've occurs, she could solve it in 10 secs.

My wife doesnt like me wiping her data at all when im flashing a rom...even if her rom is full of bugs and needs a serious update lol stubborn
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[Q][Sprint] Just Received S III Rooted Now Update Available (Nevermind, found answer)

I just received my S III today and the very first thing I did after activation was gained root access to my phone.
Now my phone is saying there's an update available, does anyone know if my root access will survive the OTA?
So far I really like my phone, I upgraded from the (deep breath as I say this because the name is so long) Samsung Galaxy S II Epic 4G Touch
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Doh! Found my answer by reading READ FIRST!

Will not work since u have clockwork mod recovery. Have to have stock recovery
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civicstyle01 said:
Will not work since u have clockwork mod recovery. Have to have stock recovery
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Thank you for your quick response...
Would you know after I posted this, I then read READ FIRST and lo-and-behold there was my answer... just kidding!

Np...just look up stock recovery.tar on xda for s3 and flash it through odin ...then apply update
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don't update it takes away your Google search functions. Damn to late hope you read about that update.
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[App]Google Wallet Installer

Google Wallet Installer for Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, and US Cellular Samsung Galaxy S3.
Requires ROOT, an UNLOCKED BOOTLOADER, and BUSYBOX!(A deodexed ROM is just recommended)
My newest project, RemoteFlash, was just released! Take a look and give it a try!
Wallet Installer Is Now Available For Free To All Supported Carrier Models On XDA! (Donations Appreciated)
My application, "Wallet Installer", will install Google Wallet on almost any US based Samsung Galaxy S3. It simply edits your build.prop and then places the correct modifications into your system. It downloads all the files from my personal server, which is pretty quick. Just select the appropriate Rom type: AOSP, JB Touchwiz, or ICS TouchWiz, and then your carrier: Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, or US Cellular. I also added a restore option for your build.prop, so you can restore it after you setup Google Wallet. Hopefully this helps you out and makes the process easier!
Wallet Installer has been updated on the server side. The credit goes to Paul Obrien for the new version! To install it, simply reset Google Wallet, delete it, and then rerun Wallet Installer! Make sure to also have BusyBox installed/updated!
Please donate if my work helps you : )
V3: No Recovery/More Stable
Original Thread: Here
And as always: I take no responsibility for bricked devices, whether a soft brick or a full on brand new coffee coaster.​

It does re-write your recovery, but it appears to have worked perfectly. The install part was actually pretty seamless. But I would suggest some clarification on the play store about everything with the recovery. Well worth $2. Thanks.

bradleyw801 said:
What if you already have a recovery, say CWM? Does it still flash a new recovery over the old one?
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It does. Backing up the current recovery is a very possible future update though. I just got the other carriers supported, so that wasn't my main concern at the time. You can simply flash back over it with whatever recovery you prefer.
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bradleyw801 said:
It does re-write your recovery, but it appears to have worked perfectly. The install part was actually pretty seamless. But I would suggest some clarification on the play store about everything with the recovery. Well worth $2. Thanks.
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Glad to have helped! If you have any questions feel free to post them or pm me. I now have 3 threads and Google Play comments to watch, but I always try to reply as much as possible!
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Forgive my ignorance, but once you root your GS3, doesn't that automatically unlock your bootloader? If not, then how do you unlock it on a Tmous Gs3?
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Eudeferrer said:
Forgive my ignorance, but once you root your GS3, doesn't that automatically unlock your bootloader? If not, then how do you unlock it on a Tmous Gs3?
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I use a Verizon S3, so I don't know the specifics of your methods to root/unlock. The VZW S3 had a locked bootloader at first, but the dev community managed to unlock it. You'll have to ask around your device forums for an answer.
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Eudeferrer said:
Forgive my ignorance, but once you root your GS3, doesn't that automatically unlock your bootloader? If not, then how do you unlock it on a Tmous Gs3?
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You don't need to do anything other than root on tmo s3.
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seshaz said:
You don't need to do anything other than root on tmo s3.
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Thanks for the input seshaz.
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Prl91 said:
Thanks for the input seshaz.
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Np
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I pressed install, it turned my phone off went to clockwork recovery, and soft-bricked my gs3.

Marshall2017 said:
I pressed install, it turned my phone off went to clockwork recovery, and soft-bricked my gs3.
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You had to have done something wrong. Install twrp
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Marshall2017 said:
I pressed install, it turned my phone off went to clockwork recovery, and soft-bricked my gs3.
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Did you have a good connection and have busy box installed? It sounds like I'm going to have to pre-package busybox in a new release.
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Just a note on this app. Google Play now recognizes my phone as a Galaxy Nexus. May not be a huge deal, but things like TeamViewer quick support won't work because the build.prop is telling it I have a nexus.

bradleyw801 said:
Just a note on this app. Google Play now recognizes my phone as a Galaxy Nexus. May not be a huge deal, but things like TeamViewer quick support won't work because the build.prop is telling it I have a nexus.
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Do restore build prop in the app
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bradleyw801 said:
Just a note on this app. Google Play now recognizes my phone as a Galaxy Nexus. May not be a huge deal, but things like TeamViewer quick support won't work because the build.prop is telling it I have a nexus.
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That's the point of the restore build.prop option. As long as you have your cards already setup in wallet, you can restore it and your device will be registered as an S3, and Wallet will still work.
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Hi I'm about to buy this app and use it to install wallets. I understand that it will flash a new recovery an that I can just flash my old one back. I also understand that I need to restore my build prop afterwards. My question is that once I hopefully get this working what if I wanted to flash another mod or rom? Could I still do that? I remember reading about the secure element breaking and not being able to?
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circuit.007 said:
Hi I'm about to buy this app and use it to install wallets. I understand that it will flash a new recovery an that I can just flash my old one back. I also understand that I need to restore my build prop afterwards. My question is that once I hopefully get this working what if I wanted to flash another mod or rom? Could I still do that? I remember reading about the secure element breaking and not being able to?
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Yup! You can still flash other mods. I would just not recommend flashing another wallet mod on top of the wallet my app installed. Also, before flashing a ROM, reset Google Wallet.
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What does it rewrite in recovery? I am running CWM touch.
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zul8er said:
What does it rewrite in recovery? I am running CWM touch.
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It just flashes twrp
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Why? Doesn't work in cwm?
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Stuck on bootscreen

Hello!
So now for a few days my phone has been acting weird. When I wake up in the morning, I see that the phone has restarted under the night and now today, it is kind of dead. First it wouldn't open when pressing homebutton or powerbutton and then I took out the battery and put it in again and then the bootscreen showed twice and after that the phone worked for about 5 minutes to later be frozen again and now it only shows the "Samsung Galaxy Note II" bit before the Samsung logo and won't proceed.
I have rooted my phone and I have Clockwork as recovery and also the mod app2sd to change so my sdcard is the default one. I can access download mode but not recovery.
So I'm hoping for a answer from you guys, how should I "unbrick" it? I still want to keep the stock Samsung ROM. I might agree to add a custom Samsung ROM that only have been bricked because I kinda like the Samsung ROM. But mainly, I want my phone to start!
Regards, DarknessSky

Is there any red light glowing when it is on the n7100 screen?
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UtkarshGupta said:
Is there any red light glowing when it is on the n7100 screen?
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Yes, one at the front. The smallest nearest the SAMSUNG-logo. It did just flash pretty fast when holding power-button.

Sds issue.
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UtkarshGupta said:
Sds issue.
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And does that mean I can't fix it myself?
My warranty is still "active" but I have a rooted phone with CWM and the mod "app2sd". I have used Triangle Away to change the flash count to 0 but when I was "inside" the phone and viewed the phone status it said "modified". Will Samsung notice these things or might they just flash a "working" ROM and then send it back?
Thanks in advance!

It's sds. It can't be booted up without replacing motherboard.
If the counter is zero and binary is official then there should be no issues. If they asking you questions related to rooting which they probably wouldn't just act like a complete ass.
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UtkarshGupta said:
It's sds. It can't be booted up without replacing motherboard.
If the counter is zero and binary is official then there should be no issues. If they asking you questions related to rooting which they probably wouldn't just act like a complete ass.
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Haha, thanks man!
When going into download mode I see this
ODIN MODE
PRODUCT NAME:
CUSTOM BINARY DOWNLOAD: No
CURRENT BINARY: Samsung Official
SYSTEM STATUS: Custom
I guess I'm safe due to "custom binary download: no" and "Samsung Official"?

Yeah.
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UtkarshGupta said:
Yeah.
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I've got another question that is related to Samsung... When I send my phone in my motherboard then is "broken", right? Do they actually take the time to replace it or do they just send another one? How likely is it that they just send a new one? I've also have a problem with my 3,5mm input because it is too big.

UtkarshGupta said:
Sds issue.
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Wasnt this fixed? I never keep my count at 0,should i?

Cruzfire said:
Wasnt this fixed? I never keep my count at 0,should i?
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It's safe to. There have been a few reports that say that SDS occurs with the latest ROMs, and it's been confirmed that if the symptoms start before you flash the relevant updates, there's nothing you can do.
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There are no symptoms other than sudden death.
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same case and ODIN active in download mode
i just need to know what does this mean. i have the same case this guy has.......woke up this morning and phone was on first splash screen and not responding nor allowing recovery mode.
i never rooted it and to my surprize when i enter the download mode i find ODIN!!!
so does this still mean it's an SDS with the motherboard thingi? or can i just flash my first custom rom and get thru the day easily? please advise!

Stock random reboots

Hello everyone. My wife has a newly purchased S4 from Tmobile. We rooted it right away and installed TWRP. Everything else is stock. Even kept the bloatware hanging around... She has had some random reboots from time to time not often but like 3-4 times since she has had the phone. Google searches turn up random bits of info so I thought I'd ask the experts here at good olé XDA. I've seen some advice to factory reset but wouldn't that lose root? Also some say it could be SD card related.. There is no common theme to it happening.. I guess we could return it. I was hoping to avoid that though... Any thoughts? Thanks for any help!
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Yes it will lose root but it's better than the phone rebooting itself alot so if it still does it then try to flash a rom and if it still does it it might be the phone then
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Factory reset won't actually loose root. Root stuff is stored in the system while factory resetting wipes the user's data. Factory reset through TWRP would be my first recommendation
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So as far as I know simply rooting doesn't cause this issue... My gut says no but this is a new phone to me...
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jcnbama said:
So as far as I know simply rooting doesn't cause this issue... My gut says no but this is a new phone to me...
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Simply rooting does not. Touching system stuff can so yeah simply rooting wouldn't cause that.
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What did she recently install? if anything. Some apps will cause random reboots. And the answers here are correct, you will not lose root doing a factory reset.

TheAxman said:
What did she recently install? if anything. Some apps will cause random reboots. And the answers here are correct, you will not lose root doing a factory reset.
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Well thanks we may try that. She hasn't installed anything new really. She's not the techie I'm more likely to have RR than her.. Lol. We just rooted used TB to restore basic apps like Go Launcher and such. No system restored apps at all. We may try factory reset and then if that doesn't work we may return it... Thanks for the help.! Feeling the XDA love today... :beer:
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jcnbama said:
Well thanks we may try that. She hasn't installed anything new really. She's not the techie I'm more likely to have RR than her.. Lol. We just rooted used TB to restore basic apps like Go Launcher and such. No system restored apps at all. We may try factory reset and then if that doesn't work we may return it... Thanks for the help.! Feeling the XDA love today... :beer:
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hehe I caught my wife installing stuff, she wouldn't admit it to me, but I can tell. Ouch, she just hit me. anyways, try factory reset, and test.
And if you do decide to return it, clean it up, don't need no surprises at the att store oops my bad, scuse me, T-Mobile store. Sorry, forgot where I was at, and the wife beatin on me.
Btw, thanks for supplying us with your device info here, it aides in the help. Others just do not get it.
The Ax says, very good post from the OP.

soccerswag said:
Why does your wife need a rooted device?
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Ad blocker... And Titanium Backup....
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jcnbama said:
Ad blocker... And Titanium Backup....
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Hey next time it reboots retrieve file /proc/last_kmsg and post it. I wanna see what's causing the reboots. Any file browser will work so long as you can browse the root level stuff.
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elesbb said:
Hey next time it reboots retrieve file /proc/last_kmsg and post it. I wanna see what's causing the reboots. Any file browser will work so long as you can browse the root level stuff.
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So I will if we don't reset it soon.... May wanna take it back... She said today she was watching a video she had recorded and it was buffering like a dang you tube video... Wonder if it's SD issues...
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soccerswag said:
Why does your wife need a rooted device?
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Why does it matter to you?? You remind of me of that ahole @androidsoccer. He got banned for being an ahole. Hmmmm androidsoccer and soccerswag??
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soccerswag said:
Just because there is a common word in both usernames doesn't mean they are related
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And the fact that both of you act like douches, plus the fact that he was a 14 year old boy and you're using the word "swag". And also the fact that you crested this account around the time he got banned. Hmmmm
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If I was you I would Odin back to stock.
Then gaining root again is only a tiny problem.
CF-Auto Root literally takes about 25 seconds to root.
Refer to this thread to odin back to stock.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2258628
Refer to this video to root again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONzxfyTnWIY&feature=youtube_gdata_player
You're probably getting reboots because of the method you used to root.
I was getting tons of problems with my phone because the way I previously rooted the device.
I used this way and I get absolutely no more problems.
Now, after you root with the above method, you will have to install a custom recovery (I recommend TWRP).
Do that through goomanager.
(Search goomanager in app store, install, open, hit menu, then hit "install custom recovery.)
Hope this helps.
Damn, Eflip douche is on a roll today.
Someone hasn't got laid in a while ;o.
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devynbf said:
If I was you I would Odin back to stock.
Then gaining root again is only a tiny problem.
CF-Auto Root literally takes about 25 seconds to root.
Refer to this thread to odin back to stock.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2258628
Refer to this video to root again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONzxfyTnWIY&feature=youtube_gdata_player
You're probably getting reboots because of the method you used to root.
I was getting tons of problems with my phone because the way I previously rooted the device.
I used this way and I get absolutely no more problems.
Now, after you root with the above method, you will have to install a custom recovery (I recommend TWRP).
Do that through goomanager.
(Search goomanager in app store, install, open, hit menu, then hit "install custom recovery.)
Hope this helps.
Damn, Eflip douche is on a roll today.
Someone hasn't got laid in a while ;o.
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Thanks for the info. She appears to be on an MDL baseband. Would it work with that? I forget exactly which thread I used to root it.. I used Odin and some zip files with TWRP and it seems like we had to do something with the bootloader... This was a few weeks ago.
And a follow up question. How would the rooting method effect the stability of the device, Causing RR added such?
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jcnbama said:
Thanks for the info. She appears to be on an MDL baseband. Would it work with that? I forget exactly which thread I used to root it.. I used Odin and some zip files with TWRP and it seems like we had to do something with the bootloader... This was a few weeks ago.
And a follow up question. How would the rooting method effect the stability of the device, Causing RR added such?
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Ah yes the TWRP root method.
That's the faulty method that is causing problems.
Once you odin to stock by following the steps in the thread above, everything will be taken off the phone, it will absolutely work with that baseband, yes.
Use the CF Autoroot method in the video I posted above and follow the steps i explained about goomanager.
You will love being rooted with TWRP from goomanager. You will then be able to flash custom roms which will make the phone a lot speedier and more responsive. In most cases, better battery life also.
(I am on the Darthstalker rom and it is super fast!)
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devynbf said:
Ah yes the TWRP root method.
That's the faulty method that is causing problems.
Once you odin to stock by following the steps in the thread above, everything will be taken off the phone, it will absolutely work with that baseband, yes.
Use the CF Autoroot method in the video I posted above and follow the steps i explained about goomanager.
You will love being rooted with TWRP from goomanager. You will then be able to flash custom roms which will make the phone a lot speedier and more responsive. In most cases, better battery life also.
(I am on the Darthstalker rom and it is super fast!)
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Well great thanks! I will do this. We will most likely not flash a custom rom for her purposes. If I root per the method above would it be necessary to install TWRP via Goo? If we're not going to be flashing mods and roms to her phone I'm not sure what we would use it for...
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jcnbama said:
Well great thanks! I will do this. We will most likely not flash a custom rom for her purposes. If I root per the method above would it be necessary to install TWRP via Goo? If we're not going to be flashing mods and roms to her phone I'm not sure what we would use it for...
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No, it is NOT necessary to install TWRP, you can have the rooted device with the stock recovery on it with no problems .