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Mobile odin back to stock.

I am stock and rooted. I woke up this morning with a CONGRATULATIONS!!! message saying there is an OTA for me... I tried to update and it wouldnt let me cuz im rooted...
I looked into it and found I could use mobile odin to unroot...
I have the app (mobile odin) I do not have the tar file. Is there a link handy?
With maybe a how-to?
Thx in advance
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MikeJennni said:
I am stock and rooted. I woke up this morning with a CONGRATULATIONS!!! message saying there is an OTA for me... I tried to update and it wouldnt let me cuz im rooted...
I looked into it and found I could use mobile odin to unroot...
I have the app (mobile odin) I do not have the tar file. Is there a link handy?
With maybe a how-to?
Thx in advance
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You can get all the FW and itas here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1949687
Just to clarify, Mobile Odin won't unroot you, but it will reinject root during flash so you stay rooted.
Also you can get the ota if rooted but if you don't have stock recovery, modem and everything else it'll fail.
Using Mobile Odin and the fw in my thread will work. Just make sure the Everroot options are selected to keep root.
Voodoo OTA Rootkeeper can temp unroot you so maybe that's what you were thinking of?
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MikeJennni said:
I am stock and rooted. I woke up this morning with a CONGRATULATIONS!!! message saying there is an OTA for me... I tried to update and it wouldnt let me cuz im rooted...
I looked into it and found I could use mobile odin to unroot...
I have the app (mobile odin) I do not have the tar file. Is there a link handy?
With maybe a how-to?
Thx in advance
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You can also skip the BS and just use Mobile ODIN to apply your OTA......

Ok... im gonna try this at work.
Im downloading for tmobile T999 UVALJ4
When its complete I extract then load the tar file into mobile odin?
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Uh oh ran into a speed bump. Mobile odin doesnt support device without external sd card. I do not have one .
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MikeJennni said:
Uh oh ran into a speed bump. Mobile odin doesnt support device without external sd card. I do not have one .
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Well, seems like you answered yourself there....

Just trying to get unrooted. As much help that youve been, im preeeeeeety sure theres other ways than buying a card. Thx anyway bro.
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MikeJennni said:
Just trying to get unrooted. As much help that youve been, im preeeeeeety sure theres other ways than buying a card. Thx anyway bro.
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Well if your just trying to unroot, go into your root program and have it uninstall itself. SuperSU and SUperuser both support the ability for them to fully uninstall themselves.
Will just need to install root via recovery again once your updated.... Pretty easy

Wellllll... I got a super root kit from this site rooted just fine but removed it frim my computer avg said it was infected.
Is that what you mean forgive me for being nooby
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Mobile Odin should support internal sd.... I guess you have the free version from his thread here? I didn't realize it didn't support internal...sorry bout that.
In that case just plug into the computer and use pc odin. You can use regular fw or MrRobinsons root66 fw which is pre-rooted. You can find his thread in development.
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MikeJennni said:
Wellllll... I got a super root kit from this site rooted just fine but removed it frim my computer avg said it was infected.
Is that what you mean forgive me for being nooby
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I am only focusing on your phone. IF your rooted, then you will have an app in your app drawer called either superuser or supersu (That is your root ) Open that and click full uninstall, then your unrooted.
When your done with the update, you can use Odin (Windows Version) to flash a custom recovery and then install the supersu.zip file located in chainsfire's thread.

I have superuser. I cannot find an option within the app to do a uninstall.
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MikeJennni said:
I have superuser. I cannot find an option within the app to do a uninstall.
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Why bother with OTA when you are rooted...there are a lot of custom ROMS with good potential

Well. With my galaxy s1 I did the whole flashing a new rom every week thing.. none of them worked properly... every rom had at least one problem wether it was wifi calling or gps or battery issues... I dont know convince me to start doing it again with jelly bean right around the corner
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[Q] Phone Rooted and Running Custom JB

Well, I'm on XquiziT's ROM, and I've been dying to get the actual JB release.
If I do the OTA update, will it erase root and reset my flash counter?
Will it harm my phone if I do an OTA while rooted?
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I read around and found that I should ODIN root66,.. Anyone have an idiot-proof guide for doing this?
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Try the firmware thread in my sig. Instructions for Odin are there.
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Kelevro said:
Well, I'm on XquiziT's ROM, and I've been dying to get the actual JB release.
If I do the OTA update, will it erase root and reset my flash counter?
Will it harm my phone if I do an OTA while rooted?
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Odin + root66 or official tar images will NOT trip your counter.

T999v jellybean ..

So im on stock rooted and lets say i get the update but im rooted do i need to unroot to proceed ??.. or i can do it whit root? Cant wait for some jellybean goodies
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Root should be fine. Its the custom recovery that'll prevent you from even being able to get the update.
You will lose root though unless you use voodoo rootkeeper or mobile odin pro.
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DocHoliday77 said:
Root should be fine. Its the custom recovery that'll prevent you from even being able to get the update.
You will lose root though unless you use voodoo rootkeeper or mobile odin pro.
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Okay so how do i take off cwm and go back to stock recovery for the update ?
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Flah stock recovery through odin or flah stock jb thourgh odin
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sean19661 said:
Flah stock recovery through odin or flah stock jb thourgh odin
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Ok so i get a stock jb firmware flash it whit odin and then can is root released for jb ? Sorry for my nooby questions..
Also i have a t999v im not sure what to flash..
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shahkam said:
Ok so i get a stock jb firmware flash it whit odin and then can is root released for jb ? Sorry for my nooby questions..
Also i have a t999v im not sure what to flash..
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Just flash the root66 firmware. Its in the thread in my sig. Its pre-rooted.
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DocHoliday77 said:
Just flash the root66 firmware. Its in the thread in my sig. Its pre-rooted.
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Okay last time i flashed thru odin i kinda forgot the steps .. would you kindly help a newbie here ?
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shahkam said:
Okay last time i flashed thru odin i kinda forgot the steps .. would you kindly help a newbie here ?
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Its pretty straight forward actually. There should be steps laid out in post 2 of the fw thread and I believe Theexel hasit in his thread stickied in this section.
If you have any problems let me know, but don't see a reason to retype it all again!
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Along the same lines...I just got an s3 yesterday and rooted stock 4.0.4. Used OTA root keeper, downloaded the ota for JB and when I attempt to upstate it fails....I have stock recovery. No idea why it keeps failing. I would Odin the prerooted JB but my wife doesn't want to lose her settings she already set up. Any ideas?
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idtheftvictim said:
Along the same lines...I just got an s3 yesterday and rooted stock 4.0.4. Used OTA root keeper, downloaded the ota for JB and when I attempt to upstate it fails....I have stock recovery. No idea why it keeps failing. I would Odin the prerooted JB but my wife doesn't want to lose her settings she already set up. Any ideas?
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You probably have a custom recovery causing it to fail.
Regardless of how you update you will possibly lose some settings. Its recommended, but not required to do a clean update anyway. But flashing with odin should preserve your settings as well as the ota would. Once they boot up it shouldn't matter as the resulting build is the same.
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DocHoliday77 said:
You probably have a custom recovery causing it to fail.
Regardless of how you update you will possibly lose some settings. Its recommended, but not required to do a clean update anyway. But flashing with odin should preserve your settings as well as the ota would. Once they boot up it shouldn't matter as the resulting build is the same.
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So let's say I download the flash able version of the JB stock OTA, I can flash it through stock recovery or twrp or cwm, right?
Sorry, not new to flashing ROMs at all..but normally I flash custom ROMs and don't care about losing anything, but my wife likes the touchjizz...lol
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idtheftvictim said:
So let's say I download the flash able version of the JB stock OTA, I can flash it through stock recovery or twrp or cwm, right?
Sorry, not new to flashing ROMs at all..but normally I flash custom ROMs and don't care about losing anything, but my wife likes the touchjizz...lol
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Touchjizz lawl.
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idtheftvictim said:
So let's say I download the flash able version of the JB stock OTA, I can flash it through stock recovery or twrp or cwm, right?
Sorry, not new to flashing ROMs at all..but normally I flash custom ROMs and don't care about losing anything, but my wife likes the touchjizz...lol
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Depends if you've done anything to your current build.
Cwm will flash it, but I just don't care for it. Caused probs for quite a few people.
But you have to be full stock. No mods, no deodexing, no bloat removal, no modems flashed, etc.
Then you should be able to flash it in cwm.
Its preferred you do it through stock recovery. You can use voodoo rootkeeper to preserve root.
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Ok im gonna do it whit odin i feel safer that way now i have this build (see screenshot below ) im on the fw thread and two fingers away from downloading the t999_UVDLJA it says t999 and not t999v am i safe to proceed ahead ? I really dont want a brick thanks for your help !
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it will prob lose your root

dr.devman said:
it will prob lose your root
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ok i have another issue now i downloaded the correct version for my phone and i decided to flash it whit cwm recovery so what happens basicly is i select zip to flash and it says something like : assert failed getprop("ro.product.device" (status 7 ) any ideas??

I give up..
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Rooting official T-Mobile jb

Can the official T-Mobile jb update be rooted the same as always thru Odin flashing recovery-cmw-hercules.tar den going into recovery an flashing CWM Super user???
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OM13 said:
Can the official T-Mobile jb update be rooted the same as always thru Odin flashing recovery-cmw-hercules.tar den going into recovery an flashing CWM Super user???
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yes or use twrp.

Thanks
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euklid said:
yes or use twrp.
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@euklid, I have new post here:http://http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2227373 Regarding a problem that I cannot root my phone after updating via Kies.
Wondering if you could help?
Thanks

Niggiebro said:
@euklid, I have new post here:http://http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2227373 Regarding a problem that I cannot root my phone after updating via Kies.
Wondering if you could help?
Thanks
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I haven't updated mines yet but I was thinking of doing it thru Odin instead of kies does anyone know if it could be rooted after thru Odin?
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OM13 said:
I haven't updated mines yet but I was thinking of doing it thru Odin instead of kies does anyone know if it could be rooted after thru Odin?
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Yes..if you look in dev section there is a how to....
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OM13 said:
I haven't updated mines yet but I was thinking of doing it thru Odin instead of kies does anyone know if it could be rooted after thru Odin?
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Yes very east proceed after using Odin
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Stock ROM

I am still new to the forums and flashing ROMs. I want to go back to the stock ROM, but I've seem to have lost my stock ROM I originally set up before I started flashing. Can anyone please direct me to where I can download the stock ROM. Thanks
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Try here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1968625
Don't forget the search button.............it's a goldmine of information at your fingertips

bcb325ci said:
I am still new to the forums and flashing ROMs. I want to go back to the stock ROM, but I've seem to have lost my stock ROM I originally set up before I started flashing. Can anyone please direct me to where I can download the stock ROM. Thanks
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to flash in odin or one that is just rooted to flash in recovery ?

Flash in recovery, but if using Odin will work better than I will do that.
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bcb325ci said:
Flash in recovery, but if using Odin will work better than I will do that.
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Here you go. I'd say "search if your friend" but its a pain to find for some reason
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2161667