Ok lets assume you have a nice clean completely stock ATT S3 that is rooted. I do have nandroid and titanium backups and I do have the google wallet hack working, and froze most bloatware..but this is all I have done to the phone.
What if any is the best way to slap the JB update on here without loosing a thing? I mean loose nothing, games, contacts no resetup of anything, just update to 4.1.1?? Am I dreaming here? If its not possible, what is the easiest way to get updated and back up to my existing state without having to reinstall and resetup everything?
Please dont ask why not put just custom rom instead, I have never found one that at least one small detail was not working or complete, so lets not go there, I want just a rooted ATT JB update to what I already have.
Update through Kies and you won't lose anything except for root. Re-root with CF auto root.
I did the above with a bunch of frozen ATT crap and everything was good.
Make sure you backup your data just in case.
Anon_ said:
Update through Kies and you won't lose anything except for root. Re-root with CF auto root.
I did the above with a bunch of frozen ATT crap and everything was good.
Make sure you backup your data just in case.
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I also flashed with Oden over a stock setup and it left all data there except the root.
tried kies on 2 laptops and a pc still no go. re downloaded kies a few times and still nothing. tried all the usb ports too.
I had trouble with kies too, sho I finally used odin and flashed a pre-rooted att update.
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I tried Kies on 5 PC's - no go. finally used Odin and flashed Robinson's root injected bin. Worked
and lost nothing upon reboot. However, what is really differnet?? Camera is the same, which I thought
was supposed to be different as is the gallery. SAME.
anyone else verify????????????
Thanks
I have no clue why I can't connect with kies through usb, have all drivers, and I did administrative permission, I was able to use kies through wifi tho.
I did mine through odin. Worked well for me.
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Ok got JB via Kies easy enough,and rooted with CF...I get 3 apps that are getting errors on boot, Poweramp, Titanium BU and Torrent....
The other issue Im having is trying to get GW back on there , it was removed...so in order to do this I need CWM back on here but can figure out how I used the Qcom toolkit the lasttime and its not ready for JB yet the page says....so whats the easiest way to get CWM back on to load wallet back on?
I did the exact same thing I did with ICS. I flashed JB with kies, and i've flashed with ODIN (wanted to reflash).
I then used ODIN to flash the a cwm recovery (older version). Then I rebooted into the recovery and installed super SU. Started the phone and used terminal emulator to install the latest touch recovery for the phone. Rebooted and installed wallet just like I did with ICS. First the fix, then the wallet app. change your prop and follow instructions.
Anon_ said:
Update through Kies and you won't lose anything except for root. Re-root with CF auto root.
I did the above with a bunch of frozen ATT crap and everything was good.
Make sure you backup your data just in case.
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I feel like an idiot, and ive searched everywhere, but what is CF Auto Root?
Thanks in advance for the answer!
Its a chainfire app from the play store
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I used ODIN to flash Mr. Rogers pre-rooted stock JB over my rooted ICS and everything seemed to work just fine. No problems yet. I was curious though since I still have CWM as my recovery (according to ROM Manager) and I thought I would lose that. Anyway, device status went back to "normal" after the flash. I haven't checked the flash counter yet to see if it is back to 0 yet. I'm still trying to figure all this out. This was only the 3rd time I'd flashed anything and I was still nervous! I haven't noticed any extra battery drain or anything yet.
Can anyone tell me, after you boot into download mode to check the flash counter, how do you reboot if your not actually gonna flash anything?
Thanks,
Matt
rocknmj said:
I used ODIN to flash Mr. Rogers pre-rooted stock JB over my rooted ICS and everything seemed to work just fine. No problems yet. I was curious though since I still have CWM as my recovery (according to ROM Manager) and I thought I would lose that. Anyway, device status went back to "normal" after the flash. I haven't checked the flash counter yet to see if it is back to 0 yet. I'm still trying to figure all this out. This was only the 3rd time I'd flashed anything and I was still nervous! I haven't noticed any extra battery drain or anything yet.
Can anyone tell me, after you boot into download mode to check the flash counter, how do you reboot if your not actually gonna flash anything?
Thanks,
Matt
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Mobile Odin and Rogers file is easiest.
If you used Odin and Mr. Rogers pre-rooted stock to go from ICS to JB you will increment the flash counter as soon as you go into your custom recovery. If you use Mobile Odin, than you will not increment the flash counter. This information is in the most current posts: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1739426.
I didn't care about the counter but didn't want to reflash TWRP recovery so I used Mobile Odin and didn't flash the recovery, cache, or Everoot. Fast, easy, and I liked having my Nandroid backup available if something went wrong.
I thought about using moble Odin, but had never used it before and only downloaded it yesterday for future use. So I'm assuming that Mr. Rogers pre-rooted stock didn't flash the stock recovery? ROM Manager still shows that I have CWM installed. I did check with Triangle Away and it shows a count of 2 and binary as "official". I haven't booted back into download mode to check the counter because I wasn't sure what the process for rebooting was if I wasn't flashing something new. I'm a total beginner, so I hope everyone is patient!
Thanks for the help.
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i have a T989, rooted, Clockwork Mod, and installed some stock Android (sans bloatware) MOD.
i had updates set to automatic and am now being bugged to install the new TMobile update, which doesn't seem to be able to install with Clockwork, and i can't turn off the persistent Update prompts.
i've already bricked one GS2, and obviously fear doing it again. I wouldn't get another chance, i don't think. (i do have insurance on the phone, not sure if it would cover a rooted phone?)
what can someone tell me about the TMobile update and Clockwork, or whatever i need to do, go with the update or stop it somehow...?
thanks for your help.
Ota update requires stock recovery.
Grab one of the updated stock roms and flash via cwm. Then Odin the new baseband.
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i think i have one of those stock roms - i chose one that was just 'the same thing but without some of the standard apps'. how can i check to see what rom i have...?
and what do you mean by baseband? the new update? is it already dl'd to my phone? i've searched through the phone's dirs (rooted File Explorere, i guess) and could not find anything...
sorry to be a pain - i can't brick another one, of course... (
is this what you mean by a 'stock updated rom':
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1312736 ?
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sorry to be a pain - i can't brick another one, of course... (
is this what you mean by a 'stock updated rom':
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1312736 ?
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No, look for the KL1 release.
Baseband is your radio btw. Don't worry about the radio for now, just work on getting the rom flash.
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ok, found Deodexed_KL1_T989 (T989UVKL1 by Whitehawkx) is that what i'm looking for? -
couple of questions:
he says on the post:
"DONT FLASH - add files to the zip in the app folder, then flash. Or usb connect drag to sd the use some rooted file explorer to place in system/app then reboot."
Flash or don't Flash? I'm transferring the zip to sd now, then i need to move it to system/app...?
once i've 'flashed' what do you mean "Odin the baseband"? i have Odin, used it last time...
thanks
GideonX said:
No, look for the KL1 release.
Baseband is your radio btw. Don't worry about the radio for now, just work on getting the rom flash.
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I flashed the ROM, now i have 2.3.6, and now i'm stuck with 2 OTA notifications, one states postponed, and choosing START for the update does nothing.
help?
I had the base load on mine with a bunch of stuff frozen and Clockwork on it (plus root)
I first unfroze all the stuff I had frozen, then ODIN'd back the stock recovery. Didn't touch anything else, then told the OTA to go ahead.
It updated just fine -- removed root of course. I then ODIN'd back the clockwork recovery and re-installed SU, then re-froze all the boatware.
Done in about 15 minutes -- no muss, no fuss, didn't lose anything.
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I had the base load on mine with a bunch of stuff frozen and Clockwork on it (plus root)
I first unfroze all the stuff I had frozen, then ODIN'd back the stock recovery. Didn't touch anything else, then told the OTA to go ahead.
It updated just fine -- removed root of course. I then ODIN'd back the clockwork recovery and re-installed SU, then re-froze all the boatware.
Done in about 15 minutes -- no muss, no fuss, didn't lose anything.
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ok, thanks - this is what i didn't understand - i can Odin back to Stock recovery?
for some reason Odin doesn't recognize my phone in download mode, but it does when i'm connected and the phone is on... any reason for this? i don't use odin in any means but download mode, right?
glennnall said:
I flashed the ROM, now i have 2.3.6, and now i'm stuck with 2 OTA notifications, one states postponed, and choosing START for the update does nothing.
help?
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You can probably clear this up by formatting /system in CWM. Then wiping cache and dalvik. Then flash the FL1 update. Hit advance, fix permissions and then reboot.
GideonX said:
You can probably clear this up by formatting /system in CWM. Then wiping cache and dalvik. Then flash the FL1 update. Hit advance, fix permissions and then reboot.
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did all this, nothing's changed. i'm unable to get Odin to see my phone in DL mode. when i boot into DL mode, the device manager shows an alert on my phone. in normal, the drivers work fine and Odin sees the phone.
damn.
Hi,
i have a sgs3, rogers, and i rooted it last week to try out some roms, yesterday i used my backup in CWM to restore to the original software i had on the phone.
Since then, i cant get any decent connection to the network, and it caps out at edge, when im lucky. I addition, to even get to edge i had to fix the imei in the phone because when i restored it soemhow got reset to 0
So, now i have followed the steps to unroot the phone and reset all the counters and get it to say that it is unmodified, and nothing has worked.
i have been seraching for hours today to try to find a similar situation, but i cannot find anything...
I dont know what else to try, i have used the triangle away program and followed the steps that are associated with it.
I would like to get my phone back to stock, with full conection if possible, and at the very least be able to get it reset to saying that the system is official and the phone is unmodified.
Any help is appreciated, im out of my wheelhouse with this problem..
Thanks,
k1
in download mode i get this readout:
Name: SGH-I747m
Binary download: No
Current binary: Samsung Official
System Status: Custom
Secureboot: enable
doesnt matter what i try, i cant get it to stop saying custom
k1llua said:
Hi,
i have a sgs3, rogers, and i rooted it last week to try out some roms, yesterday i used my backup in CWM to restore to the original software i had on the phone.
Since then, i cant get any decent connection to the network, and it caps out at edge, when im lucky. I addition, to even get to edge i had to fix the imei in the phone because when i restored it soemhow got reset to 0
So, now i have followed the steps to unroot the phone and reset all the counters and get it to say that it is unmodified, and nothing has worked.
i have been seraching for hours today to try to find a similar situation, but i cannot find anything...
I dont know what else to try, i have used the triangle away program and followed the steps that are associated with it.
I would like to get my phone back to stock, with full conection if possible, and at the very least be able to get it reset to saying that the system is official and the phone is unmodified.
Any help is appreciated, im out of my wheelhouse with this problem..
Thanks,
k1
in download mode i get this readout:
Name: SGH-I747m
Binary download: No
Current binary: Samsung Official
System Status: Custom
Secureboot: enable
doesnt matter what i try, i cant get it to stop saying custom
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your going to have to use odin to go back to stock and that might fix your data issue it did with some, didnt with others go here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1739426
and download the tar you want and flash it, it will ERASE your sd so just be warned, if you dont want your sd erased you can use mobile odin, which is in chainfire's thread or the play store, his thread has a free version though but you will have to dl the flash kernal for you phone which is also in his thread, i would suggest downloading the tar from mr robinsons thread then flashing it with mobile odin and then see what comes up
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your going to have to use odin to go back to stock and that might fix your data issue it did with some, didnt with others go here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1739426
and download the tar you want and flash it, it will ERASE your sd so just be warned, if you dont want your sd erased you can use mobile odin, which is in chainfire's thread or the play store, his thread has a free version though but you will have to dl the flash kernal for you phone which is also in his thread, i would suggest downloading the tar from mr robinsons thread then flashing it with mobile odin and then see what comes up
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I have done flashes through odin several times now, and hasnt worked yet, but i will try again...ill use the mobile odin next time and see what happens.
thanks
Did you try a factory data reset after odin?
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Did you try a factory data reset after odin?
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Factory reset only affects the /data partition, and the flash counter stuff is stored in the bootloader partition, isn't it?
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Did anyone else see that his imei got set to 0? I'm pretty sure he has to restore his imei if he wants a working connection beyond edge.
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I've searched and tried different methods to unroot and set the custom counter to 0 (ZERO) (using Triangle Away) and nothing seems to work 100%. I've easily spent 5 hours mucking with this. Basically, I want to get my phone back to stock state so T-MO OTA updates will work again.
I always end up with a custom counter of 1 because as soon as I boot to the system, the firmware sees that SuperSU is installed (I guess) and the counter goes to 1. I've only rooted my phone and not installed a custom rom. I've used the toolkit and the CF-root-only method to root my phone. I've done SuperSU / Settings / Unroot ... but, it's too late by this time (custom counter is 1).
The latest and closest attempts to unroot and zero counter have been: Use CF root (w/stock recovery installed) and use Triangle Away. If I immediately go into the download manager after Triangle Away boot, the counter is 0 and phone is Samsung Official... all is well. If I reboot to system, as soon as the Samsung logo appears the counter is back to 1 (I know this because I immediately pulled the battery and went back to download manager).
So, whats the trick to get unrooted and custom counter to 0 (zero)? Do I have to reflash the stock rom and wipe cache/data or something?
zrocker said:
I've searched and tried different methods to unroot and set the custom counter to 0 (ZERO) (using Triangle Away) and nothing seems to work 100%. I've easily spent 5 hours mucking with this. Basically, I want to get my phone back to stock state so T-MO OTA updates will work again.
I always end up with a custom counter of 1 because as soon as I boot to the system, the firmware sees that SuperSU is installed (I guess) and the counter goes to 1. I've only rooted my phone and not installed a custom rom. I've used the toolkit and the CF-root-only method to root my phone. I've done SuperSU / Settings / Unroot ... but, it's too late by this time (custom counter is 1).
The latest and closest attempts to unroot and zero counter have been: Use CF root (w/stock recovery installed) and use Triangle Away. If I immediately go into the download manager after Triangle Away boot, the counter is 0 and phone is Samsung Official... all is well. If I reboot to system, as soon as the Samsung logo appears the counter is back to 1 (I know this because I immediately pulled the battery and went back to download manager).
So, whats the trick to get unrooted and custom counter to 0 (zero)? Do I have to reflash the stock rom and wipe cache/data or something?
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Normally you use both Triangle Away in conjunction with Stock ROM AND Stock Recovery.
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Since TriangleAway needs root use ExynosAbuse option to give you root access. That after of course stock ROM and kernel. At the end TriangleAway and uninstall it and maybe also Full unroot in SuperSu if you don't need it anymore.
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Do a full wipe. Odin root66 by mrRobinson to return to stock recovery with rooted stock ROM. Run triangle away to clear flash counter. Do another full wipe. Run SuperSu and permanently unroot. Back to stock, no counter trip, unrooted.
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Coug76 said:
Do a full wipe. Odin root66 by mrRobinson to return to stock recovery with rooted stock ROM. Run triangle away to clear flash counter. Do another full wipe. Run SuperSu and permanently unroot. Back to stock, no counter trip, unrooted.
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I may have to do this, I'm on the stock ROM, only installed clockwork through Odin and then flashed the root zip. I'd want to be able to install the OTA update without having to wipe the phone, I'd hate to install all my apps again and then still have to customize all the settings. Is there a way to install the stock recovery, unroot, and be able to receive the OTA update without any wiping? Help would be greatly appreciated to get this done.
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I may have to do this, I'm on the stock ROM, only installed clockwork through Odin and then flashed the root zip. I'd want to be able to install the OTA update without having to wipe the phone, I'd hate to install all my apps again and then still have to customize all the settings. Is there a way to install the stock recovery, unroot, and be able to receive the OTA update without any wiping? Help would be greatly appreciated to get this done.
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My *guess* is you might be able to do that.
The following is not vetted. It seems like it should work but I have not tested it.
Before you do anything nandroid and Titanium (TiBu) backup your phone. If you are running SuperSu have it forget the apps that have been granted root access. Unroot using the SuperSu command.
Odin the mrRobinson root66 UVALJ1 to the device, this will return the bootloader to stock. It will also give you root that the Device status won't notice (I don't know if this is completely necessary but it makes sense to me). Install Triangle Away (available from Play Store as a paid app or free from XDA if you search for ChainFire's threads). Run Triangle Away. This should reset the counter. When the device reboots go into SuperSu and have it forget the apps that have root permissions. Check device status, if it is normal you are set. If not, reboot the phone. Check the Device status again. If it is still modified you may need to wait a while. If all else fails you factory reset and restore your TiBu. Permanently unroot via SuperSu.
My wife's S3 flipped to modified after a week and a half on root66. The only root function I had it do was a TiBu restore on 5 apps that she wanted to retain data from her old phone. To get it back I had SuperSu forget the root apps then reboot. I don't remember how long we waited for it to go from modified to normal. It did flip back without a factory reset. The factory reset is tried and true however.
Coug76 said:
My *guess* is you might be able to do that.
The following is not vetted. It seems like it should work but I have not tested it.
Before you do anything nandroid and Titanium (TiBu) backup your phone. If you are running SuperSu have it forget the apps that have been granted root access. Unroot using the SuperSu command.
Odin the mrRobinson root66 UVALJ1 to the device, this will return the bootloader to stock. It will also give you root that the Device status won't notice (I don't know if this is completely necessary but it makes sense to me). Install Triangle Away (available from Play Store as a paid app or free from XDA if you search for ChainFire's threads). Run Triangle Away. This should reset the counter. When the device reboots go into SuperSu and have it forget the apps that have root permissions. Check device status, if it is normal you are set. If not, reboot the phone. Check the Device status again. If it is still modified you may need to wait a while. If all else fails you factory reset and restore your TiBu. Permanently unroot via SuperSu.
My wife's S3 flipped to modified after a week and a half on root66. The only root function I had it do was a TiBu restore on 5 apps that she wanted to retain data from her old phone. To get it back I had SuperSu forget the root apps then reboot. I don't remember how long we waited for it to go from modified to normal. It did flip back without a factory reset. The factory reset is tried and true however.
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Thanks! I'll definitely look into that, hopefully it works that way.
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Thanks! I'll definitely look into that, hopefully it works that way.
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Ill try this later today or 2morrow, but ill let u know...phone is modified as well, def dont want to wipe phone as sell
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I'd also uninstall busybox if it was on there...
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Coug76 said:
Do a full wipe. Odin root66 by mrRobinson to return to stock recovery with rooted stock ROM. Run triangle away to clear flash counter. Do another full wipe. Run SuperSu and permanently unroot. Back to stock, no counter trip, unrooted.
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What exactly is meant my "Do a full wipe." ? I want to make sure I don't wipe more than I need to or that I, in fact, do enough.
Factory reset.
Hastily spouted for your befuddlement
using the stock rooted ROM posted over at the development forum we can upgrade without losing root or any data/apps. Really simple, only the cache and davlik cache need to be cleared. Now I'll just wait for the 'all apps multiwindow" mod.
I rooted using super su and I just used kies to upgrade the firmware. All settings are saved, git multi window, but root is lost.
Does anyone know if I can just root again with the same method?
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@jillmoto, you can root again using the root toolkit. Works fine. @erik, multiwindow mod is in the dev section
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j_shelton1988 said:
@erik, multiwindow mod is in the dev section
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yes, it's there, but aimed at those with the deodexed version of the update. I installed the odexed version to make sure I'd retain all my apps and data. I'm waiting for someone to confirm a way to use that mod without having to do a complete wipe.
erickdj said:
yes, it's there, but aimed at those with the deodexed version of the update. I installed the odexed version to make sure I'd retain all my apps and data. I'm waiting for someone to confirm a way to use that mod without having to do a complete wipe.
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You dont have to wipe. Just flash it over the stock rom. I did with no issues and everything works fine. Only thing I had to do was remove bloatware again
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Can anyone please point me to an easy way to get stock recovery back? I used mskip Toolkit to root and install TWRP and tried to use it again to flash stock. Problem is no recovery Tar. file in the folder for my 889v... Thanks guys
Edit: I guess the toolkit is not relevant anymore... Thanks mrRobinson flashed the root 66 rom and all is ok!
So last night I decided to try to out the cyanmod installer . Everything seemed to go well phone booted. Now here's the strange part later on that night I tried a front face camera app the phone rebooted. I know this is a known issue. But my phone would not reboot after. Or even go into recovery mode. I tried reflashing the recovery via Odin. That did not work either. I feared my phone is bricked. I googled found a rooted version of MD 4 tar file. I attempted to flash this via Odin. All went well. Now the strange thing I still cannot flash recovery via Odin. I used to work fine before. Nothing haschanged on my computer. I fear maybe somehow I corrupted something. The only way I was able to flash recovery was via goo manager. Now the strange thing when I first tried to boot into recovery after goo manager. The phone flashed and said installing open recovery script. Then rebooted too system. i then tried to reboot into recovery.then the phone booted fine . My only issue is when I flashed the recovery via Odin it always set my day and time correctly for the recovery. And now after the goo manager method it's just way off
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i should add when flashing recovery via odin it seems to work but i get recovery,reset and never a green pass up top now in the left hand box.i almost feel like i need to some how wipe all the phone chips. feel like the reinstall of md4 just overwrote and made it functional. but feel like maybe there is a under lying issue causing me from being able to odin flash recovery now.
Have you tried going to complete 100% stock and re-root? maybe going back to stock will help starting clean and making sure nothing goes wrong.
EverDeathly said:
Have you tried going to complete 100% stock and re-root? maybe going back to stock will help starting clean and making sure nothing goes wrong.
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couldnt last night was on call for work. but i did flash 100 stock with root. so. idk im going to try 100 stock tonight with no root. then reroot the thing.
kaos420 said:
couldnt last night was on call for work. but i did flash 100 stock with root. so. idk im going to try 100 stock tonight with no root. then reroot the thing.
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makes sense, it was only a suggestion since going back to stock did help solve some issues my device had.
EverDeathly said:
Have you tried going to complete 100% stock and re-root? maybe going back to stock will help starting clean and making sure nothing goes wrong.
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I agree. I just suggested this in another post. Sometimes, as much as it sucks, it's best to go back to the beginning and start over. Try to remember your steps as you get your office back to the way you want it, and ifv these issues happen again, you'll know what is causing it. Might have been a corrupted file that you flashed, that's what I'd guess. And what recovery are you using? I'm on the latest CWM touch and my backups are always a wrong time, life 1970 Would love to get that fixed. Good luck!
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Hello
I have Galaxy S3 (ATT), currently i'm stuck at 4.1.1. I can't update to 4.1.2 or 4.3.
I had my phone rooted by the Galaxy tookkit.
What I tried so far is.
1) recovered recovery back to stock (rooted stayed), update failed
2) used the toolkit to remove root, also removed busybox and superuser, toolkit put the clockwork recovery back in., update failed.
How can I update to 4.3?
nekrosoft13 said:
Hello
I have Galaxy S3 (ATT), currently i'm stuck at 4.1.1. I can't update to 4.1.2 or 4.3.
I had my phone rooted by the Galaxy tookkit.
What I tried so far is.
1) recovered recovery back to stock (rooted stayed), update failed
2) used the toolkit to remove root, also removed busybox and superuser, toolkit put the clockwork recovery back in., update failed.
How can I update to 4.3?
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have you tried using kies to go to 4.1.2 and then manually update to 4.3?
rkant18 said:
have you tried using kies to go to 4.1.2 and then manually update to 4.3?
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how? Kies is telling me 4.1.1 is the latest.
anyone else?
Tried again yesterday, no root, stock recovery, superuser, busybox all removed. And it downloaded 650mb updated it failed at 31%, this update was interrupted.
nekrosoft13 said:
anyone else?
Tried again yesterday, no root, stock recovery, superuser, busybox all removed. And it downloaded 650mb updated it failed at 31%, this update was interrupted.
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I used this thread to get back to stock so my flash counter would be reset back to 0 - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2363882
Then I used KIES recovery to reflash 4.1.1 just to be sure it was exactly what Samsung intended.
Then when i checked for OTA update (while on 4.1.1) it found one and took a while to download. When it installed the update, it was already to 4.3 - i guess it skipped the 4.1.2 official update.
I then did a master reset from the settings menu and deleted everything so that 4.3 could start fresh. I haven't had any problems with the stock 4.3.
Goofy? Did u try the ota to get to 4.3
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Prometh1216 said:
Goofy? Did u try the ota to get to 4.3
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yes, it fails at 31% phones reboots and once booted it tells me update was interrupted.
jack man said:
I used this thread to get back to stock so my flash counter would be reset back to 0 - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2363882
Then I used KIES recovery to reflash 4.1.1 just to be sure it was exactly what Samsung intended.
Then when i checked for OTA update (while on 4.1.1) it found one and took a while to download. When it installed the update, it was already to 4.3 - i guess it skipped the 4.1.2 official update.
I then did a master reset from the settings menu and deleted everything so that 4.3 could start fresh. I haven't had any problems with the stock 4.3.
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Thanks will try that, you did a factory reset prior to flashing this?
At work now, so can't download the files, but will try it later.
What did you use to backup your files?
nekrosoft13 said:
Thanks will try that, you did a factory reset prior to flashing this?
At work now, so can't download the files, but will try it later.
What did you use to backup your files?
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I didn't factory reset before flashing because i knew that when I use KIES to do a recovery it will erase everything on the phone. However, I did wipe cache and dalvic in recovery beforehand... well, come to think of it, i probably did also wipe data before flashing the 4.1.1 that resets the flash counter.
Regarding backing up my files, I have all the files I need on an external sd card so all i have to do is take out the card. Plus, I also use Google Drive to store my pictures as I take them with the camera. no real need to back-up things because things are saved somewhere else, and not directly to the phone. I will probably use the phone storage more now, though since I won't be flashing anything for a while. Taking a break from flashing.
Hope it works out for you.
jack man said:
I didn't factory reset before flashing because i knew that when I use KIES to do a recovery it will erase everything on the phone. However, I did wipe cache and dalvic in recovery beforehand... well, come to think of it, i probably did also wipe data before flashing the 4.1.1 that resets the flash counter.
Regarding backing up my files, I have all the files I need on an external sd card so all i have to do is take out the card. Plus, I also use Google Drive to store my pictures as I take them with the camera. no real need to back-up things because things are saved somewhere else, and not directly to the phone. I will probably use the phone storage more now, though since I won't be flashing anything for a while. Taking a break from flashing.
Hope it works out for you.
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have you ever tried Helium? I was planning to use that for backup of my apps data.
last time I recovered/flashed phone was with Windows Mobile... so yeah really behind with all of this.
So if I first use helium for backup and then do factory reset, then flash the stock 4.1.1.
I know google account has all my contacts and calendar.
After I have the stock 4.1.1 back I should be able to update to 4.3 and from there restore the backup?
nekrosoft13 said:
have you ever tried Helium? I was planning to use that for backup of my apps data.
last time I recovered/flashed phone was with Windows Mobile... so yeah really behind with all of this.
So if I first use helium for backup and then do factory reset, then flash the stock 4.1.1.
I know google account has all my contacts and calendar.
After I have the stock 4.1.1 back I should be able to update to 4.3 and from there restore the backup?
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Never used Helium. I have use Titanium Backup before. It's widely used for backing up app data. You can get it in the Play Store. Make sure you don't try to restore system data - it will cause all kinds of trouble. I don't usually restore app data anymore - well, now that I'm on stock I can't, anyway. I always had some kind of issue, whether it be small or big, when I restored data. who knows, maybe I wasn't doing it exactly right.
I'm not sure if restoring apps from 4.1.1 to a 4.3 base would be safe or not. remember, if you try, that means you'll have to root the 4.3 and that will trip your warranty bit count off of zero, so if you're concerned about warranty, you shouldn't root. (if you upgrade to 4.3 stock, you can go to download mode and see that they now have included two flash counts: one to count custom binaries (that can be reset) and the other one called warranty bit, that no one here knows how to reset yet.)
according to Helium, it doesn't require root. I will make a backup just in case, just want my angry birds progress...
still at work, so I can't download the file (yet), so how exactly does this work, since it says you don't need odin?
nekrosoft13 said:
according to Helium, it doesn't require root. I will make a backup just in case, just want my angry birds progress...
still at work, so I can't download the file (yet), so how exactly does this work, since it says you don't need odin?
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After you download it, make sure it's on your internal sd card in the phone. Boot into ClockWorkMod recovery, wipe data/factory reset, clear cache, clear dalvic from the advanced menu, then flash the zip. that's it. near the end of the flash it will ask you if you want to keep root. i chose no since I knew I was going to be update to the official release. I've heard of people having problems trying to update OTA with root.
Just make sure that updating to 4.3 is what you want because it will limit what you can do with the device after you have the new bootloaders.