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Un-Flashing Clockworkmod

So I rooted mine S III and flashed the clockworkmod recovery in preparation to install Cyanogen mod 10 ROM for it, bute after reading more I decided to not do it, afraid of bricking, unstable ROM etc. After a while I used super user option to ''Un-root'' it, after reboot it was gone and I though it was back to normal state. Now just last week I received Update from T-mobile which is bugging me every few days, but when I try to install it the phone boots with Android icon and it's belly open like shelf with tesseract moving around and progress bar for few seconds, then recovery shows up and says something failed. Can I throw it out somehow and install the update? I'm worried because I won't be able to install the 4.1 which is coming sometime soon.

I have yet to come across a stock recovery file on its own. You probably need to ODIN back to stock. Make sure you back up.
Also, (assuming you have a T Mobile phone)I believe the OTA you are receiving is the UVALH2 update, in which case you can already find that ODIN package in this thread if not, there are other stock images in this thread also.

Infamous_Cheez said:
I have yet to come across a stock recovery file on its own. You probably need to ODIN back to stock. Make sure you back up.
Also, (assuming you have a T Mobile phone)I believe the OTA you are receiving is the UVALH2 update, in which case you can already find that ODIN package in this thread if not, there are other stock images in this thread also.
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Screw the update I want Jelly Bean, what if it shows up and phone just boots up into recovery and just stands there like an idiot?

Only two ways to get jb right now is to update to UVALH2 then apply the ota patch from samsung. Alternatively wildchld has the jb rom ready to go in the dev thread.
Note that with these updates if you flash a rom with cwm or twrp you will not get the full update. Only odin or kies can update all partitions available in the ota.
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[Q] I just want Android 4.3...

(Note - I'm unrooted and on stock MC2)
I'm going crazy at this point... I figured I'd just wait for my phone to get the OTA but it's already been 11 days, no OTA.
So then, fine, I figured I might as well use Kies to do the trick - no dice, I get the following message: "Your device's current firmware version is not supported to update firmware via kies."
Whatever, I just hit up trusty old XDA to find the update.zip file that I can apply easily from stock recovery. I found the file here. After realizing I needed an SD card for some reason (since stock recovery doesn't have the option to apply update.zip from internal storage) I finally did it... Until it encountered an error and terminated. Rebooted, still on 4.1.2. Tried again, same problem.
THEN I started looking for the files I could use to push the update to my phone through Odin.This thread sent me to sammobile, which, after making me register, sent me to hotfile. I keep trying to press the "Regular Download" button but nothing happens... it's not downloading!
Now I'm super frustrated, can someone tell me how I can get my hands on this elusive beast? Again, I'm unrooted and stock and have no desire to flash a ROM.

Okay, I'd got here and follow the OP instructions http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2541395
Then i'd stop posting they same thing in to different sections. Just root your phone, place a custom recovery on it, and flash 4.3. I do want to sound rude or disrespectful but we have to keep the forums clean and clutter free.:laugh:

daswahnsinn said:
Okay, I'd got here and follow the OP instructions http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2541395
Then i'd stop posting they same thing in to different sections. Just root your phone, place a custom recovery on it, and flash 4.3. I do want to sound rude or disrespectful but we have to keep the forums clean and clutter free.:laugh:
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Sorry, are you saying that the only way to update is by rooting and installing this ROM?

You should get the OTA, just got a notification today on mine and I'm not even on stock Might be a good to root though as there are nasty bootloader mods in 4.3. If you are rooted on 4.1.2 check out the Note 2 development threads for the mk4 zip and several mk4 based rom updates (synergy etc). Just flash the modem then the Rom. (use goo manager to make sure you're on the latest boot manager). No custom kernels that I've been able to find yet unfortunately. Figure since you're rooted this all makes sense to you

I'm on stock and waited for the update for many days. No dice. But then I installed Kies on my PC, connected the phone, and was prompted to run the update. Now running 4.3.

I posted it at the end of the thread here (it's hosted from my Dropbox account).
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2536242
This is the MK4 Stock Un rooted Odin file I found in a tmp folder on my computer while Kies was grabbing the update. I've had it up for a few days with no complaints and I've flashed it 3-4 times with no issues. Just to be safe, wipe data and cache AFTER update has completed.
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Unroot to accept update

Hi,
I have a rooted Sprint GS3, running the stock ROM with just one or two root based apps. Do I need to unroot to accept the OTA update? If so, how do I go about doing that?

TheSapient said:
Hi,
I have a rooted Sprint GS3, running the stock ROM with just one or two root based apps. Do I need to unroot to accept the OTA update? If so, how do I go about doing that?
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if you would like to run a 4.3 stock ROM, there are a couple in the development section that you can choose from without having to run the 4.3 boot loader that contains KNOX. That way you don't have to go through the unroot process to accept the OTA.

jdelano said:
if you would like to run a 4.3 stock ROM, there are a couple in the development section that you can choose from without having to run the 4.3 boot loader that contains KNOX. That way you don't have to go through the unroot process to accept the OTA.
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Thanks. I think the preference is to accept the OTA. If we need to unroot, we'll do that if we can figure out how. Sorry for being a little vague. I'm trying to help someone else out.

ok, you can go here Restore to unrooted MD4 follow that and you're good to go

I was stock rooted with clockwork recovery.
Took the OTA without unrooting with no problems at all, just had to re-root when it was done.

dotNETProgrammer said:
I was stock rooted with clockwork recovery.
Took the OTA without unrooting with no problems at all, just had to re-root when it was done.
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Really? I thought it was always a bad idea with a custom recovery. Maybe we will try it rooted as well. Thanks.

Every other time I've tried it would download, but just wouldn't flash the OTA.
This time, it did. Surprised me.

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I got the update notification today when i woke up and when i clicked the restart and install it went to recovery mode, i panicked and clicked reboot (honestly still dont know what to do),
and restarted the phone without updating
I'm running stock 4.1.2 with just 2 root apps (superuser) and tatanium backup, how can i update ?
thanks

mjkubba said:
I got the update notification today when i woke up and when i clicked the restart and install it went to recovery mode, i panicked and clicked reboot (honestly still dont know what to do),
and restarted the phone without updating
I'm running stock 4.1.2 with just 2 root apps (superuser) and tatanium backup, how can i update ?
thanks
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Relax . You do not have to update. You do not have to lose Root. Check out THIS thread. It will explain a few things to you in detail about Updates, and how to stop the update nag. If you want to update to the latest TW 4.3 Stock Rooted, check out the thread HERE. Just make sure you read, and read again before doing anything. Also make sure to download the correct Rom. There are several versions on the thread.

prboy1969 said:
Relax . You do not have to update. You do not have to lose Root. Check out THIS thread. It will explain a few things to you in detail about Updates, and how to stop the update nag. If you want to update to the latest TW 4.3 Stock Rooted, check out the thread HERE. Just make sure you read, and read again before doing anything. Also make sure to download the correct Rom. There are several versions on the thread.
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Thanks for the answer.
I actually want to update to stock 4.3, and I was trying to achieve that by getting the OTA update.
And i was wondering if i can still do that?
If I simply can't then I'll just go to CM instead of getting other rooms since I used to have them with my old HTC.
Thanks again

If you want completely Stock Rooted 4.3, it's the second link I posted for you. It's the Stock, Rooted, Factory Rom, with Knox removed. All done by CNexus . Just be sure to read before doing anything. As there are several versions posted. I would highly suggest going this route instead of taking the OTA update. Once you take the OTA you will have Knox, and a different bootloader.
TEAM MiK MikROMs Since 3/13/11

Thanks a lot man, I'm having a problem installing the ROM, I'm getting assert error (status 7) error when trying to install the odexed rom,
I have just updated my CWM to 6.0.4.5
Sorry I cant reply to the thread directly, need 10 posts to be able to do so.
MJ
edit: now it's stuck on boot loop
edit: I downloaded the original recovery rom and installed it from ordin, then updated phone through kies. it's all good now.

[Q] AT&T Update Won't Install?

I checked my stock 4.3 rooted AT&T Samsung Galaxy S3 for an update in the settings and it said an update was available so I think it's the 4.4 KitKat update and so I downloaded the update and tried to install it but then it took me to a custom recovery mode and my friend told me I needed to get stock recovery / download mode for it to work so I flashed it on with ODIN and I checked and it worked. I then went back into the settings to check for an update and it said something like "Current software is up to date, you can check back in 23 hours and 21 minutes" and so I changed my time and date for tomorrow to bypass the wait and I downloaded the update OTA and while it was downloading I used Triangle Away to reset the binary counter back to 0 and then I tried to install it again and it seemed to be working fine and I got to an AT&T logo and a blue loading bar under it and next to that it said 5% so I went out of the room to let it load all the way and then when I came back I saw my phone rebooting and then everything was still the same when it rebooted so I checked the Current software in the settings and it still said 4.3 and I checked for an update too and it said "Install interrupted, try again in 48 hours" or something like that and so I changed my time and date to 2 days ahead and I am currently downloading it again. What should I do?

bump.

Where did you get the stock recovery? Were you unrooted before installing the update?

audit13 said:
Where did you get the stock recovery? Were you unrooted before installing the update?
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Well, I searched on Google for stock recovery and I found it, I would link it to you in the comments but I'm pretty sure it's against the rules. I was not unrooted and have no idea how to unroot my phone..

I don't believe its against the rules to link to anything

The update needs the stock recovery. Are you able to boot into stock recovery? Can you wipe data and cache in stock recovery?

I've run into the same problem. I'm running completely stock aside from being rooted, I unrooted my phone but it still wont take the update. It gets to about 28% then reboots and says that it failed. I'll probably just go ahead and put custom recovery on and not even worry about the update at this point.

mschandler76 said:
I've run into the same problem. I'm running completely stock aside from being rooted, I unrooted my phone but it still wont take the update. It gets to about 28% then reboots and says that it failed. I'll probably just go ahead and put custom recovery on and not even worry about the update at this point.
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I also made it only to around 27% and it reboots and fails, all this with root and stock recovery. I tried the OTA update with custom recovery from the settings and it just rebooted without even getting to the loading screen of AT&T.
audit13 said:
The update needs the stock recovery. Are you able to boot into stock recovery? Can you wipe data and cache in stock recovery?
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Just so I wont break the rules if there is one about links like on many forums, I'll put the file here. Also, yes I did boot into stock recovery but I didn't try to wipe data and cache since, I'm not trying to delete my files.

There are no fixes for this?

internethuman said:
There are no fixes for this?
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Did you remove any of the ATT bloatware before updating?

audit13 said:
Did you remove any of the ATT bloatware before updating?
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I did remove Google+ but then I downloaded it back, other than that, I don't think so.

internethuman said:
I did remove Google+ but then I downloaded it back, other than that, I don't think so.
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I asked because I noticed that my ATT Atrix HD would not take the OTA update because I had removed some of the ATT bloatware. I flashed back to a completely stock rom on my Atrix HD and it took the update.

[Q] Upgrade procedure from rooted 4.1.2

I am on a rooted stock ROM 4.1.2 (LDMF1) on an i747m.
Can someone point me to an upgrade procedure to KK?

desirus said:
I am on a rooted stock ROM 4.1.2 (LDMF1) on an i747m.
Can someone point me to an upgrade procedure to KK?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1725839 is full of ressources.
What exactly are you trying to do? Get the official update or flash a custom rom?
If you want the official, remove root and install the OTA (you can use towelroot afterward to root).
If you want a custom rom, follow the FULL instructions in the rom's OP that you choose.

BWolf56 said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1725839 is full of ressources.
What exactly are you trying to do? Get the official update or flash a custom rom?
If you want the official, remove root and install the OTA (you can use towelroot afterward to root).
If you want a custom rom, follow the FULL instructions in the rom's OP that you choose.
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Thank you
I want to the official ROM for KK, which I can find.
OK so from what you said the first thin I do is unroot? I will research that.
I was wondering if I can go direct from 4.1.2 to 4.4.2?
I would use ODIN on my PC?
Do I have to do any sort of backing up ( I have Titanium pro) before hand, restore procedures?

desirus said:
Thank you
I want to the official ROM for KK, which I can find.
OK so from what you said the first thin I do is unroot? I will research that.
I was wondering if I can go direct from 4.1.2 to 4.4.2?
I would use ODIN on my PC?
Do I have to do any sort of backing up ( I have Titanium pro) before hand, restore procedures?
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Tibu is my fav backup app, just make sure you don't restore system app/data. Just make a batch backup and restore once you've flashed KK.
Unroot can be done directly in SuperSU (app).
Yes you can go directly to KK (or any other version), just don't downgrade once you'll have the 4.3+ bootloader or you'll brick your device.
And yes, use Odin on your PC, mobile Odin doesn't flash bootloaders.
The entire process is fairly simple. Just gotta be patient

galaxy S3 AT&T: from stock 4.1.2 to 4.4.2
I am new to these forms, please help me with my questions.
I have a smartphone SGS III AT&T. It is unlocked and working perfect with:
ROM: 4.1.2 Stock
Baseband: DMG2
Kernel: 3.0.31-1300972
Build Number: JZO54K.I747UCDMG2
I am not in USA, so my Smartphone is unlocked.
Initially I used the *#197328640# commands to unlock it
I want to apply enewman17 thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2789917 to upgrade to 4.4.2
My questions are:
1. When the procedure is finished, the smartphone still unlocked?
2. If it became locked, is there a free procedure to release it again?
regards

franzrocamolina said:
I am new to these forms, please help me with my questions.
I have a smartphone SGS III AT&T. It is unlocked and working perfect with:
ROM: 4.1.2 Stock
Baseband: DMG2
Kernel: 3.0.31-1300972
Build Number: JZO54K.I747UCDMG2
I am not in USA, so my Smartphone is unlocked.
Initially I used the *#197328640# commands to unlock it
I want to apply enewman17 thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2789917 to upgrade to 4.4.2
My questions are:
1. When the procedure is finished, the smartphone still unlocked?
2. If it became locked, is there a free procedure to release it again?
regards
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Unlock is "permanent". You shouldn't lose root but everything you do is at your own risk.

AT&T I747 from 4.1.2 to 4.4.2 Perfect procedure
BWolf56 said:
Unlock is "permanent". You shouldn't lose root but everything you do is at your own risk.
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BWolf56...you are right!!!
Ran all procedure http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=2789917.
My I747 AT&T is now in 4.4.2. No problems at all. Still Unlocked.
One point more:
When I was in 4.1.2 Stock, I was not able to use "USB Theter" because I am not with AT&T SIM Card. With this version I can USB Theter without restriction.

unrooted 4.1.1 won't update dead android
My AT&T SG3 was rooted until yesterday with stock 4.1.1. I unrooted, re flashed stock image and stock recovery. The phone status says "Normal" now so I think I successfully unrooted. When I try to do the OTA after downloading, it goes to a screen which says installing then updating with an incremental percent counter. When it reaches about 29%, it just reboots and comes back with "Install Interrupted The software update could not be installed". When I do "adb reboot recovery" from a command window, I see a dead android with a red triangle and I assume that has something to do with it or is some kind of symptom. Is there anything I can do to get the latest stock image installed? Did I miss something in the unroot process?
SGH-I747 4.1.1 1747UCDLK3

hannahse said:
My AT&T SG3 was rooted until yesterday with stock 4.1.1. I unrooted, re flashed stock image and stock recovery. The phone status says "Normal" now so I think I successfully unrooted. When I try to do the OTA after downloading, it goes to a screen which says installing then updating with an incremental percent counter. When it reaches about 29%, it just reboots and comes back with "Install Interrupted The software update could not be installed". When I do "adb reboot recovery" from a command window, I see a dead android with a red triangle and I assume that has something to do with it or is some kind of symptom. Is there anything I can do to get the latest stock image installed? Did I miss something in the unroot process?
SGH-I747 4.1.1 1747UCDLK3
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I'm in the exact same boat. I was rooted with stock rom and recovery previously. No matter what I've done, it always fails.
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Yellow triangle did not solve problem
hannahse said:
My AT&T SG3 was rooted until yesterday with stock 4.1.1. I unrooted, re flashed stock image and stock recovery. The phone status says "Normal" now so I think I successfully unrooted. When I try to do the OTA after downloading, it goes to a screen which says installing then updating with an incremental percent counter. When it reaches about 29%, it just reboots and comes back with "Install Interrupted The software update could not be installed". When I do "adb reboot recovery" from a command window, I see a dead android with a red triangle and I assume that has something to do with it or is some kind of symptom. Is there anything I can do to get the latest stock image installed? Did I miss something in the unroot process?
SGH-I747 4.1.1 1747UCDLK3
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I spent several hours on this again today. I thought I had discerned the fix when I found a post showing the custom download count on the download screen and references to the yellow triangle program to reset it. I rerooted the phone, put stock recovery back, zeroed out the counter with yellow triangle, put the stock image back with ODIN, factory reset, and ended up with an unrooted phone with zero count. The download screen now says:
CUSTOM BINARY DOWNLOAD: No
CURRENT BINARY: Samsung Official
SYSTEM STATUS: Official
QUALCOMM SECUREBOOT: ENABLE (in light Grey)
I thought that would do it but the OTA still fails and I still see the red triangle on the stock recovery page. The only thing I can think of now is that SuperSU is still on the phone. It is disabled but still has 12KB of data that I don't know how to clear. I used the stock image from the skipsoft Android Toolkit.
Any ideas would be really appreciated.

I would steer clear of the toolkit. Follow enewman17's how to update thread in the General section. Seems to have a pretty good success rate.

get KK 4.4.2 in your AT&T SG3 without OTA
BWolf56 said:
Unlock is "permanent". You shouldn't lose root but everything you do is at your own risk.
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hannahse said:
My AT&T SG3 was rooted until yesterday with stock 4.1.1. I unrooted, re flashed stock image and stock recovery. The phone status says "Normal" now so I think I successfully unrooted. When I try to do the OTA after downloading, it goes to a screen which says installing then updating with an incremental percent counter. When it reaches about 29%, it just reboots and comes back with "Install Interrupted The software update could not be installed". When I do "adb reboot recovery" from a command window, I see a dead android with a red triangle and I assume that has something to do with it or is some kind of symptom. Is there anything I can do to get the latest stock image installed? Did I miss something in the unroot process?
SGH-I747 4.1.1 1747UCDLK3
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I did the same than you and also what n01un0 says but couldn't get OTA update to 4.3 or 4.4.2.
If you want the 4.4.2 in your S3, follow enewman17's http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2789917 Thread.
It worked perfect for me from 4.1.2 stock to 4.4.2. The final result is the same that you get by OTA (if OTA works)

unrooted 4.1.1 won't update dead android - solved
hannahse said:
My AT&T SG3 was rooted until yesterday with stock 4.1.1. I unrooted, re flashed stock image and stock recovery. The phone status says "Normal" now so I think I successfully unrooted. When I try to do the OTA after downloading, it goes to a screen which says installing then updating with an incremental percent counter. When it reaches about 29%, it just reboots and comes back with "Install Interrupted The software update could not be installed". When I do "adb reboot recovery" from a command window, I see a dead android with a red triangle and I assume that has something to do with it or is some kind of symptom. Is there anything I can do to get the latest stock image installed? Did I miss something in the unroot process?
SGH-I747 4.1.1 1747UCDLK3
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I solved my problem by a convoluted process that I could not recommend but will lay out as best I can in case anyone is that desperate. I had re-rooted and un-rooted a couple times since my last post and finally decided to try a different stock image. I found a link to one in an article
how-to-unroot-att-galaxy-s3-sgh-i747 (sorry - not allowed to post URL)
The link is to stockroms.net. Really slow download - it took a couple hours. After the download (and unzip),
I attached my unrooted phone via USB cable to my computer.
Installed it with ODIN and watched the phone reboot
It seem to get stuck on the Samsung splash screen.
I went into recovery mode and noticed that - at last - I did not have the red triangle and no dead android. I tried wiping the cache a couple times from the recovery screen but it still seemed to get stuck at the splash screen (not sure if I waited long enough).
I finally did the factory reset from the recovery and it finally came back to life and went through the whole initialization thing. I confirmed a couple times that the red triangle was gone and noted that I had gone from Android version 4.1.1 to 4.04. Maybe that was the key or maybe I had a bad stock version of 4.1.1. IDK. But I started going through a series of updates. I am currently at version 4.3 and downloading what I hope will be the last update.
Started with 4.1.1 and used outdated stock image to go back to
4.04 - small update but version still
4.04 - cleared data from AT&T Update App to get around the wait 24 hours - got the update installed to version
4.1.2 - checked for update and got upgraded to
4.3 - check for update wanted me to wait 24 hours and I could not see how to clear the data - so changed the phone's date to next day. Automatically started downloading a new update - I'm hoping its the last