Do I need to be rooted to use this custom rom? If not what do I need to do?
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Yes you need to be rooted to install any rom or custom recovery.
OK thank you. I rooted my previous phone and when I did. I had nothing but problems it seemed like.. but that was probably 3 years ago or so..
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Since you had to ask if you needed root to flash a custom ROM they were almost certainly User caused. But to each their own.
Do you still need to use a computer and all that too root your phone? And I'm running 4.1.1 is that going to screw me at all?
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Scratch that definitely User error.
There are stickies right at the top of this very section on how to root.
pandaman21 said:
Yes you need to be rooted to install any rom or custom recovery.
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no.. you need to have a unlocked bootloader and custom recovery to flash a custom rom.. root doesnt matter
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xcbkxx said:
Do you still need to use a computer and all that too root your phone? And I'm running 4.1.1 is that going to screw me at all?
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if your bootloader is unlocked you could flash twrp using goo manager and download the supersu zip.. then flash that in twrp to root
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xcbkxx said:
OK thank you. I rooted my previous phone and when I did. I had nothing but problems it seemed like.. but that was probably 3 years ago or so..
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yeah its most likely user error if you have issues.. i have never had any problems
Well I would it if I had a computer. Couse those tutorials make it look pretty easy. But I'll just have to wait my laptop broke.
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If you try to root using the method in the toolkit it will screw up the phone and you will have to revert to stock using Odin. The phone will try to boot up but when it reaches the AT&T logo it will go black and the notification light will shine blue forever until you reboot.
If you did try to root using the QCOM Toolkit and you hit this snag use these links to revert back to stock/JB stock: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2031840 ------ http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1739426
I tried rooting the new JB release using qcom and when I try to do as you stated odin just hangs at setup connection. Any ideas how to get around this?
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Disregard i got it
Use cf root . Works no issues.
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dadeeyoh said:
I tried rooting the new JB release using qcom and when I try to do as you stated odin just hangs at setup connection. Any ideas how to get around this?
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Disregard i got it
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That's why I just flashed pre rooted route 66 version worked without any problems
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Erazo1986 said:
Use cf root . Works no issues.
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Thats what i did...but i still dont know where to get cwm for rogers.
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Mr Patchy Patch said:
Thats what i did...but i still dont know where to get cwm for rogers.
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go to clockworkmod or team epic recovery is another place to get it
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white00gt said:
That's why I just flashed pre rooted route 66 version worked without any problems
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Same here on Bell. And I didn't even have to factory reset coming from Serenity 1.2
I was running aokp for last 7 months and wanted too return to stock to try stock att 4.1 jb update this is what I did .first I have to say that I used root66 and although it worked I was seeing a few little issues. My camera was very dark looking and colors seem to be washed looking and also sound was low. I didnt really notice it much but from what I could remember my phone when I first got it was fine. So what I did was downloaded official jb from the sammy site and. Again re wiped my phone again and flashed with Odin stock rom. And wow what a difference I had forgotten what iI was like to have everthing work perfectly on my phone ..dont no why people hate tw so much..I rooted this time my self. And decided to stay stock for a while till 4.2 get all the bugs worked out..in all stock is running awesome great batterylife super smooth never a fc at all super fast camera and so on..good job. If you want perfect stock is great..
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Odin all day
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Last night I downgraded my phone from 4.3 back to 4.1.1 and it worked fine. So after the 4.1.2 OTA update started and my phone rebooted. Since then it has been stuck at the Samsung Galaxy Note II screen and will only boot into download mode. Does anyone know any way to force it into recovery mode.
What model? I317m or i317?
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I ask cause I want to downgrade. But seems impossible for i317m users. Rogers bell etc.
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Gutierrez2071 said:
Last night I downgraded my phone from 4.3 back to 4.1.1 and it worked fine. So after the 4.1.2 OTA update started and my phone rebooted. Since then it has been stuck at the Samsung Galaxy Note II screen and will only boot into download mode. Does anyone know any way to force it into recovery mode.
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your not bricked
get the appropriate stock odin firmware for your phone and use odin to put yourself stock.
Where you on official 4.3 or leak 4.3?
pandpet first
jester12345 said:
What model? I317m or i317?
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I ask cause I want to downgrade. But seems impossible for i317m users. Rogers bell etc.
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i317 the at&t version
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bbrennan said:
your not bricked
get the appropriate stock odin firmware for your phone and use odin to put yourself stock.
Where you on official 4.3 or leak 4.3?
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Official 4.3. I've tried that and it won't boot
I am on the leaked 4.3 from designgears and want to get the official how do I do that?
I have an AT&t i317
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Official 4.3. I've tried that and it won't boot
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unfortunately due to you being on official its a one way street. LOCKED bootloader, there is no downgrading. Now i believe I read on the s3 forums that if you can reflash the current official bootloader and rom you 'might' be able to boot, suck part is I dont think anybody has posted it yet.
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tubaboy26 said:
I am on the leaked 4.3 from designgears and want to get the official how do I do that?
I have an AT&t i317
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NO
no you dont, stay on leak and stay having the freedom of not being locked down
Listen to the above post.... g
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bbrennan said:
unfortunately due to you being on official its a one way street. LOCKED bootloader, there is no downgrading. Now i believe I read on the s3 forums that if you can reflash the current official bootloader and rom you 'might' be able to boot, suck part is I dont think anybody has posted it yet.
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no you dont, stay on leak and stay having the freedom of not being locked down
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I managed to find a modded bootloader on here and was able to boot up again I'm stuck on 4.1.1 now but its working again
Gutierrez2071 said:
I managed to find a modded bootloader on here and was able to boot up again I'm stuck on 4.1.1 now but its working again
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Mind posting the steps you performed? You might help other members out making the same mistakes you made. And can you just one click back to 4.3?
Yes ....please post...as many users need a bootloader downgrade method ....g
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gregsarg said:
Yes ....please post...as many users need a bootloader downgrade method ....g
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I've seen a lot of luck from this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2502464
Edit: DO NOT run this on the official ota update.
Ya luck for non canadian varients lol.i think were screwed over here
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flymacs said:
I've seen a lot of luck from this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2502464
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You trolling? @Milkman00 reports it not to work with new official 4.3 ota. Just wanting to make sure no one is led astray...
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joedeuce said:
You trolling? @Milkman00 reports it not to work with new official 4.3 ota. Just wanting to make sure no one is led astray...
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No, I'm not trolling. Nothing to troll for. If there are issues with this downgrade on the OTA 4.3, I highly recommend following Milkman00's advise.
I think there is some confusion here.
I was on the stock 4.3 and tried using ODIN to undo the bootloader. It didn't work. Not only did it not work, but it rendered my phone unusable. It claims that there is a firmware problem and to use Kies to restore the firmware, which cannot be done currently as the latest firmware in Kies is <4.3.
DO NOT USE THAT METHOD. Long story short is that I now have a Note 3 because I broke my Note 2. :/
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I think there is some confusion here.
I was on the stock 4.3 and tried using ODIN to undo the bootloader. It didn't work. Not only did it not work, but it rendered my phone unusable. It claims that there is a firmware problem and to use Kies to restore the firmware, which cannot be done currently as the latest firmware in Kies is <4.3.
DO NOT USE THAT METHOD. Long story short is that I now have a Note 3 because I broke my Note 2. :/
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Ouch! Hopefully, thanks to you and joedeuce, the rest of us on the official ota won't go down the same path.
Thank you
I hope not. That is why I posted it. Didn't want anyone else to experience my pain. :/
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Hello, I have been trying to flash a 4.4 ROM on my Optimus G for the longest. I am currently running a 4.3 but can't a stable one as well. Every time I try to flash a 4.4 TWRP almost instantly says fail every time even though it is the most updated version, does anyone know why this is?
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Hello, I have been trying to flash a 4.4 ROM on my Optimus G for the longest. I am currently running a 4.3 but can't a stable one as well. Every time I try to flash a 4.4 TWRP almost instantly says fail every time even though it is the most updated version, does anyone know why this is?
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You have to use a KK recovery. CWM or TWRP will be marked as working for KK. KK being 4.4
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engine95 said:
You have to use a KK recovery. CWM or TWRP will be marked as working for KK. KK being 4.4
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I read that twrp 2.6.3 was for 4.4 which is what I have already. If not then what recovery should I use??
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I read that twrp 2.6.3 was for 4.4 which is what I have already. If not then what recovery should I use??
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Look for octhrope's flashable zip in the TWRP thread. It's marked as working for KK. It'll have the same numbers but modified for Kk.
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In this post, use the one from Shellnutt.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2167386
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Sorry.. This post.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=48839227
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engine95 said:
Look for octhrope's flashable zip in the TWRP thread. It's marked as working for KK. It'll have the same numbers but modified for Kk.
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In this post, use the one from Shellnutt.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2167386
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Sorry.. This post.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=48839227
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i have that recovery and just tried flashing a rom and it still says failed. Any other solutions?
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i have that recovery and just tried flashing a rom and it still says failed. Any other solutions?
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Well, if you have the right TWRP, and are wiping /system, /data, /cache, /dalvic, I'd say bad dl , or your SD might be messed up.
That's the only reasons I can think of.
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Well, if you have the right TWRP, and are wiping /system, /data, /cache, /dalvic, I'd say bad dl , or your SD might be messed up.
That's the only reasons I can think of.
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This sucks and i dont know what is wrong, i got the recovery for 4.4 and 4.3 roms, i got the rom zip, i clear everything except internal storage and still get a fail everytime i try and flash a 4.4 rom. I cant even find a decent 4.3 rom thats stable. any recommendations? And btw thanks for all your help so far
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This sucks and i dont know what is wrong, i got the recovery for 4.4 and 4.3 roms, i got the rom zip, i clear everything except internal storage and still get a fail everytime i try and flash a 4.4 rom. I cant even find a decent 4.3 rom thats stable. any recommendations? And btw thanks for all your help so far
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See if you can flash a stock ROM. Also, reinstall recovery. DL the one from Shelnutt2 on the codefire server. There's also a link for it in the root guide.
After reinstalling recovery, and if it'll install a stock ROM, try a 4.4 rom again. If it still fails, I'd say try wiping your SD.
Other than that, I'm at a loss.
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My girlfriend has an AT&T Note 2 running 4.1.2 that is rooted, but with no custom recovery.
Is there a way to get the update.zip put it on the root of the SD card and upgrade through the stock bootloader?
She doesn't want to start from scratch, just upgrade. Doesn't really matter if she loses root or not.
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My girlfriend has an AT&T Note 2 running 4.1.2 that is rooted, but with no custom recovery.
Is there a way to get the update.zip put it on the root of the SD card and upgrade through the stock bootloader?
She doesn't want to start from scratch, just upgrade. Doesn't really matter if she loses root or not.
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Have you tried doing the ota for kitkat on the phone?
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terpin32 said:
Have you tried doing the ota for kitkat on the phone?
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We're not getting the OTA update, I assume because it's rooted.
You can unroot it then do the update
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Oh nvm i read that wrong do you have the stock recovery on there?
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What comes up when you hold volume up home and power? Cuz if you have don't have the stock recovery you won't get it
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If you used CF auto root to gain the original root...then you have a modified stock recovery and OTA will fail...
You would need to push a stock image via Odin to restore the device to stock I believe...g
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I have lost root access from flashing a ROM...I am not able to access a PC at the moment...is there a way to root my phone again without using a PC (hooking phone up via USB and flashing cf auto root via Odin etc.) ?
Have you searched XDA for a SU.zip you can flash via custom recovery?
OK thanks
Robbdreality said:
You can find Chainfire's SU.zip on XDA. Download it and flash it via custom recovery. No PC needed
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Can you post the link to the zip if possible?
If that search fails you, try towel root. I haven't used it myself but it's an apk root and it might substitute until you have access to a pc
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sevenslugs said:
Can you post the link to the zip if possible?
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See if this gets you pointed in the right direction
http://download.chainfire.eu/396/SuperSU/
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Thanks a lot
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If that search fails you, try towel root. I haven't used it myself but it's an apk root and it might substitute until you have access to a pc
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See if this gets you pointed in the right direction
http://download.chainfire.eu/396/SuperSU/
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Ok, I am downloading the zip now and I will try flashing it with TWRP.
Tell me how it goes
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Tell me how it goes
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The zip worked thanks I have root access now.
sevenslugs said:
The zip worked thanks I have root access now.
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Glad I could be of service