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Hi, I'm sure this has been answered but I need specifics as I don't want to Odin the wrong file.
I am returning my phone back to T-Mobile due to dead pixels on screen, I have already received the replacement phone.
Now, I've flashed countless roms\kernels.... what exactly should I do before returning the phone.
Well I recommend using a jig if possible to reset your counter. Well bottom line is make sure to make the phone look unaltered; flash the official firmware as well. Btw I think the jig should be used in download mode. Hope that helps
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Mr. X says it should be flashed via CWM.
Thanks for replying.
Follow the instructions in the sticky [HOWTO] How to restore to complete stock / Recovery from a bad flash
Also make sure your counter is at zero...in download mode is where you would see it. Here is the link to reset your counter if needed http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1578184
Radio/ril and nandroid backup or Odin
I thought this might be a good place to ask my question since it has to do with returning back to stock. In reading, I guess the nandroid backup does not include the radio, but does backup the radio ril's.
I'm running one of the ICS ports so my questions are: I've never changed my radio with any of the ports I've installed, but I do have the default radio on my SD card just in case. So if I ever needed to revert back to stock, or use one of my stock nandroid backup's; would it be advised to flash the stock radio before restoring a backup, especially a GB backup. Or will restoring the ril's be enough since I've never flashed a different radio? Question 2...if I Odin back to stock, does that replace the radio, or leave it untouched like the nandroid backup does? So do you need to flash the radio before using Odin back to stock? Thanks
**Edit**I think I found my answer with Odin not touching the radio either. I know flashing the radio would probably just be smart, but would still be curious if restoring just the radio ril's through the backup would be enough? Thanks!
RikkKeith said:
I thought this might be a good place to ask my question since it has to do with returning back to stock. In reading, I guess the nandroid backup does not include the radio, but does backup the radio ril's.
I'm running one of the ICS ports so my questions are: I've never changed my radio with any of the ports I've installed, but I do have the default radio on my SD card just in case. So if I ever needed to revert back to stock, or use one of my stock nandroid backup's; would it be advised to flash the stock radio before restoring a backup, especially a GB backup. Or will restoring the ril's be enough since I've never flashed a different radio? Question 2...if I Odin back to stock, does that replace the radio, or leave it untouched like the nandroid backup does? So do you need to flash the radio before using Odin back to stock? Thanks
**Edit**I think I found my answer with Odin not touching the radio either. I know flashing the radio would probably just be smart, but would still be curious if restoring just the radio ril's through the backup would be enough? Thanks!
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If you download the tar from the link I posted above, it will odin your ROM, radio, and framework. Just like you got it when you bought it.
I've returned my phone several times with custom rooms on it and. Don't think T-Mobile cares if your phone is modded.
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Actionx1 said:
I've returned my phone several times with custom rooms on it and. Don't think T-Mobile cares if your phone is modded.
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Same with me,many times.Matter of fact every time come to think about it.
FROM A GALAXY BETTER THAN YOURS.
As others have mentioned, you do not need to return to stock or reset your flash counter before sending it in.
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I've rooted my S3 once so far, flashed a few CM mods n' ROM's and such, but my phone crapped out and I had to flash back to stock ICS. Since then, I haven't been able to root, flash CWM, or anything. All I can do with ODIN is flash stock. Everything else I flash soft-bricks my phone, or on start-up, android.process.acore and touchwiz.home crash repeatedly. After that, I factory restore through stock recovery and all works. Why can't I root? I've tried everything, including the no flash trip way. I've tried several guides, including the one that I first rooted with. Anyone have the same issues at some point in time?
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I've rooted my S3 once so far, flashed a few CM mods n' ROM's and such, but my phone crapped out and I had to flash back to stock ICS. Since then, I haven't been able to root, flash CWM, or anything. All I can do with ODIN is flash stock. Everything else I flash soft-bricks my phone, or on start-up, android.process.acore and touchwiz.home crash repeatedly. After that, I factory restore through stock recovery and all works. Why can't I root? I've tried everything, including the no flash trip way. I've tried several guides, including the one that I first rooted with. Anyone have the same issues at some point in time?
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Sounds like you need to factory reset after you flash the stock root.
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abteer said:
Sounds like you need to factory reset after you flash the stock root.
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Will try. Hope it works.
Found out that the drivers weren't installed on my laptop. Installed those and the S3 version of Odin and flashed the rooted stock 4.1.1. Thanks for the help.
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I first posted this in MrRobinson's excellent thread at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=35165945&postcount=1610, but decided others might benefit from it that may not be following his instructions because they're already rooted...
For now, just see my instructions in the post mentioned above. Once I get off work this evening I will be updating this post with more detailed information. At least one other user has followed these instructions and reported that his flash counter remains at 0, even after multiple reboots and custom recovery actions.
The usual disclaimers about bricking your phone, blowing up your grandmother's house, drowning your dog, etc. apply. I'M NOT RESPONSIBLE!!!
Reserved - just in case...
I can confirm this method works as described. I also added instructions in the same thread on how you can still use this method if you happen to have already upgraded to JB via the traditional method (ie via ODIN or Kies) and have a count or custom status. It requires reverting to stock ICS and recovery and then moving forward with the above process, and the end result is Rooted JB with Custom Recovery and retaining official rom status with no counter increments.
whats the point.. if you put a custom recovery on it updates the counter anyway.. on every boot. unless you root and remove certain files.. and if you are rooted and remove those. you can use triangle away anway.
If you revert to ics, then flash jb without the accompanying bootloaders you don't have to worry the flash counter. Why is that important? In case you need to warranty it and can't get to triangle away to reset it. And some of us like to say its never been tripped
Btw, I'm running rooted stock with twrp and my counter is still 0. And i installed twrp after flashing jb.
lgkahn said:
whats the point.. if you put a custom recovery on it updates the counter anyway.. on every boot. unless you root and remove certain files.. and if you are rooted and remove those. you can use triangle away anway.
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That's the point. I flashed and KEPT my custom recovery, and it does not increase the counter no matter how often I use it. I haven't tried loading a different custom recovery now that I'm on JB, but so far all is well.
By the way, sorry I haven't followed up on the OP. Been very busy.
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I can confirm this method works as described. I also added instructions in the same thread on how you can still use this method if you happen to have already upgraded to JB via the traditional method (ie via ODIN or Kies) and have a count or custom status. It requires reverting to stock ICS and recovery and then moving forward with the above process, and the end result is Rooted JB with Custom Recovery and retaining official rom status with no counter increments.
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Thanks for the other post. I was beginning to think no one even cared. I'll see if I can incorporate your info into the OP when I finally get around to it...
lgkahn said:
whats the point.. if you put a custom recovery on it updates the counter anyway.. on every boot. unless you root and remove certain files.. and if you are rooted and remove those. you can use triangle away anway.
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You're doing it wrong. Mine still displays 0 and official after installing multiple recoveries, countless zip flashes to include AOKP and TW ROMs and approx 4-5 Odin flashes. My wife's recently rooted and jb'd S3 also says the same thing.
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Are any of you having SD card issues with the stock version of JB?
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Are any of you having SD card issues with the stock version of JB?
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Nope. Have you tried reverting to ICS to see if the problem persists?
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d3athsd00r said:
You're doing it wrong. Mine still displays 0 and official after installing multiple recoveries, countless zip flashes to include AOKP and TW ROMs and approx 4-5 Odin flashes. My wife's recently rooted and jb'd S3 also says the same thing.
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no that is becuase one of the flashes you did removed those recovery files that comes with stock jb.. or replaced the kernel that reflashes them..
normal upgrade from ics to stock jb.. will reset counter on every boot unless you change the kernel or remove the recovery image.
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Nope. Have you tried reverting to ICS to see if the problem persists?
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It's fine on ICS... this is Jedi Invasion JB and the KT747 kernel. I wasn't sure if it was just the ROM and then noticed that others with different roms and stock roms had the same issues. I'm wondering if it wasn't an issue in the initial JB release (this is a ported T Mobile rom) that the dev built this rom off of. I'll flash another JB version and see if the problem persists.
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no that is becuase one of the flashes you did removed those recovery files that comes with stock jb.. or replaced the kernel that reflashes them..
normal upgrade from ics to stock jb.. will reset counter on every boot unless you change the kernel or remove the recovery image.
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I.E. I did it right. Doing it right the first time keeps you from having to fix it later.
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So... it appears my previous issue was a bad sd card. It's kind of a big coincidence that the old card didn't work with the Jedi rom, and now the new card doesn't work with any rom. I just flashed AOKP and the correct KT747 kernel, and no love. I pulled the 32g sd card and fed it my wife's old 8g card, and it works perfectly. Is there a such thing as a rom cooking an sd card?
great find! followed the instructions with mobile odin and worked like a charm, I came from a jb aosp rom, but first I nandroid back to an ics-lg1 backup I did a few months back, no counter tripping after a few reboots into recovery
one question, is there any thread where I can find mods for this 4.1 TW stock jelly bean, like power menu, toogles, kill back button,tether etc if anyone has a link please share
many thanks!
When your sdcard went did it say damaged? That happened to me going from ics to jb mr robinsons official stock. So i put in a brand new card, then it tells me under about status is modified which it wasnt when the first sd card worked. Even odder my pc couldnt see the card, so i thought it truly was damaged. I put it back in just to try a day later and all of a sudden i can format it within the phone, which, I due and then it works again and the modified under status is back to normal. Im gonna go through the source of that package this week and see if I can find whats up and what could of tripped and then reverted that counter.
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Right on this worked great! And now don't have to worry about the stupid flash counter
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I followed the method in this thread (using mobile odin to go from rooted ICS to rooted JB). It was pretty easy and it worked great. However, after the first restart, I started having a strange problem. Every 5 minutes, the phone will lose its network connection for approximately 30 seconds. This appears as red on the "Mobile network signal" under battery usage details, and I'm unable to make any calls. This drop happens like clockwork. You could set your watch by it.
I've tried everything (uninstalling certain programs, flashed different modems, factory reset, etc) and nothing worked. I reverted back to ICS and then redid the method from this thread, and the same thing happened (JB worked great until I restarted for the first time, etc..
Any ideas? For a while I thought it was some weird issue with the analog clock widget.... But getting rid of that didn't help. And I've tried every possible google search on this issue but I can't find anything. For now I'm back to ICS.
Yea that is weird maybe just try it over again fresh odin ics and go from there. Almost seems like something didn't take going thru the flash process
sent from the dark side of the universe....
did you check the apns? right after I did the flash, it didnt have the "ATT PTA" apn so I had to manually add it
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I bought a T-Mobile Galaxy S 3 LTE with model number SGH-T999L. I used Odin V3 1.85 to flash TWRP recovery and CyanogenMod 10.0.0.
Everything went well but my camera doesn't work. On launching the camera, I get a "Can't connect to camera" error and it quits. The same behavior is observed when using other camera apps. I tried the instructions in this thread(http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2239414) but it did not fix my problem. I now want to go back to my stock ROM. I successfully downloaded and flashed stock recovery using Odin. However, Odin fails when I try to flash the stock ROM obtained from the samsung website. It gives me a "write failed" error and stops. Any tips or suggestions to help me out would be appreciated. Thanks
Is it supposed to use T999 firmware?
Only odin flash T999L firmware. I dont see it released yet at samsing-updates.com though.
Maybe samfirmware.com? I can look later.
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I bought a T-Mobile Galaxy S 3 LTE with model number SGH-T999L. I used Odin V3 1.85 to flash TWRP recovery and CyanogenMod 10.0.0.
Everything went well but my camera doesn't work. On launching the camera, I get a "Can't connect to camera" error and it quits. The same behavior is observed when using other camera apps. I tried the instructions in this thread(http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2239414) but it did not fix my problem. I now want to go back to my stock ROM. I successfully downloaded and flashed stock recovery using Odin. However, Odin fails when I try to flash the stock ROM obtained from the samsung website. It gives me a "write failed" error and stops. Any tips or suggestions to help me out would be appreciated. Thanks
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Why not reflash the stock ODIN flash rom and make sure it all works ok for you, that will tell you exactly what the problem is.
If the stock rom is working properly, then there is only one thing left which is the culprit and that is the CM10/AOKP/AOSP
or PORTED roms which many people seem to like flashing.
The CM10/AOKP/AOSP and ported roms are excellent if you are a developer or if you like to do a lot of experimentation with your phone.
So the thing to do now is reboot your phone to recovery mode, do a "Factory Reset", "Wipe Cache", "Wipe System" and "Wipe Dalvik".
When that's done Open Odin and put the stock rooted T999 Tmobile Jellybean 4.1.2 into Odin's PDA slot, go into download mode
and once you see Odin is connected to the phone start the flash. Have patience for the phone to boot after its done flashing.
Here is the stock rooted Odin flash T999 Tmobile Jellybean 4.1.2 rom that you can download if you like: T999_UVDMD5
Official JB Firmware - Latest JB 4.1.2 Firmware
My suggestion to you is to only flash Samsung T999 Tmobile stock based Jellybean 4.1.1 or 4.1.2 roms in the future.
But who am I to say whats best..... This is just my personal opinion...... Which usually is not worth a dime. LOL
Sorry, but untill we know more about it, I would not flash T999 firmware onto the T999L.
Its only been out a day and tgey are different model phones with different hardware.
If you decide to try anyway, please post your results
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DocHoliday77 said:
Sorry, but untill we know more about it, I would not flash T999 firmware onto the T999L.
Its only been out a day and tgey are different model phones with different hardware.
If you decide to try anyway, please post your results
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I am a newbie. I thought the T999 was the same as the T999L. That would explain why Odin doesnt flash stock T999 onto my device. Can anyone here post a link to the stock SGH-T999L ROM?
Just did a quick check and I dont see that the firmware has been made available for download yet.
If you want stock I would flash one of the stock based custom roms via recovery for now.
Out of curiosity, what is your current baseband version?
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DocHoliday77 said:
Just did a quick check and I dont see that the firmware has been made available for download yet.
If you want stock I would flash one of the stock based custom roms via recovery for now.
Out of curiosity, what is your current baseband version?
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Baseband version is T999LUVAMB7. Still waiting for stock ROM to be released on samsung-updates or sammobile.
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Baseband version is T999LUVAMB7. Still waiting for stock ROM to be released on samsung-updates or sammobile.
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I had the same issue with the same phone. Got it 2 weeks ago haha. Did you happen to make a backup first using CWM Recovery? If so, you can just restore that backup and you'll have your camera functionality back. It's pretty annoying switching back and forth from CM10.1 back to stock just to take pictures but Rom manager makes it pretty quick and effortless.
Actually now that I think of it, they prob wont release the original firmware. Seems like the first build is never available, only when an update is released do we get firmware we csn download.
I am working with another member on getting something going for the T999L, but right now we are stuck until a verified safe method of rooting is found. (Dont want to flash a recovery or cf autoroot w/o knowing it wont screw something up)
Itll happen, but we just gotta be patient.
Just reread the op and see that you say you flashed TWRP. So you were able to initially gain root without any problems?
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Actually now that I think of it, they prob wont release the original firmware. Seems like the first build is never available, only when an update is released do we get firmware we csn download.
I am working with another member on getting something going for the T999L, but right now we are stuck until a verified safe method of rooting is found. (Dont want to flash a recovery or cf autoroot w/o knowing it wont screw something up)
Itll happen, but we just gotta be patient.
Just reread the op and see that you say you flashed TWRP. So you were able to initially gain root without any problems?
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I used Odin to flash Clockwork Mod recovery first. I did not like Clockwork Mod's interface and reflashed with TWRP. I had no problems to gain root with either of these methods. I also tried Cyanogenmod stable 10.0.0 and then 10.1 RC2 without any problems. As far as I can tell, all apps work except for the camera. One word of caution though. As you can see from my posts, I am new and dont know what I am doing. I might have just gotten lucky since my device is still unbricked. I had only one "scary" moment during the entire process. I used TWRP to wipe my phone clean and was stuck with no OS install file. ADB sideload did not work since it could not recognize the device at that point. Luckily, I had a micro SD card lying around and was able to put in a new OS install file using my laptop and then TWRP was able to handle it.
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I had the same issue with the same phone. Got it 2 weeks ago haha. Did you happen to make a backup first using CWM Recovery? If so, you can just restore that backup and you'll have your camera functionality back. It's pretty annoying switching back and forth from CM10.1 back to stock just to take pictures but Rom manager makes it pretty quick and effortless.
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Wish I had made a backup! Could you zip up the files contained inside "/system/cameradata/" folder and post a link here? It would help me and anyone else with the same problem restore the camera's functionality. In case you want to try it out, follow the instructions in this link but using the files from your stock backup
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2239414
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Wish I had made a backup! Could you zip up the files contained inside "/system/cameradata/" folder and post a link here? It would help me and anyone else with the same problem restore the camera's functionality. In case you want to try it out, follow the instructions in this link but using the files from your stock backup
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2239414
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Here is the cameradata folder from the T999L.
http://d-h.st/Ciy
Good Luck!
How did you get Cyanogenmod installed on the t999l every time i try it aborts with status 7
Mine was failing with this same error. I reverted back to stock, re rooted, then downloaded the flash directly to the phones internal storage. Worked like a champ. I think in my case, there is an issue with the SD card, its kind of old.
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Mine was failing with this same error. I reverted back to stock, re rooted, then downloaded the flash directly to the phones internal storage. Worked like a champ. I think in my case, there is an issue with the SD card, its kind of old.
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You reverted to stock on the T999L? please exspain how that was done
Re flashed stock ROM using Odin. I believe I got the file from Samsung's website, but I'm not positive of that. I do know its huge, over 1 gig. If you need help with the re flash I know there are already how to's on here about that, so I won't go into it here.
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You must be using a T999 as your sig indicates, not a T999L. Am I correct?
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Don't I feel like a tool now. Yes Doc, plain old t999 here. Now that I read back through the whole thread here I see that I was being a bit redundant. Now I will return to my closet under the stairs.
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No worries! We all do stuff like that from time to time!
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So, today I flashed MIJJz Goodness Noteworthy 1.0.8. Everything went well. I also changed modems to JC1. Didn't like the rom (personal opinion) and tried to go back to stock. I went through Galaxy note2 toolkit initially and failed. Tried the old fashioned flash and failed. Tried the oneclick and failed. Every time the phone fails to go back to stock the only way I have been able to get it to work again is by using odin to flash boot-stock-alj1-SPHL900.tar from my galaxy note2 toolkit folder. the rom is still there.
So as the title states, lets assume I'm completely retarded.....can someone please hold my hand and walk me through returning my phone to stock?
Update: In addition i have flashed twrp, wiped everything, and attempted a stock flash zip from sd card.....failed. if i do the same for the goodness noteworthy rom.....success. i dont get it.
Update: I have attempted another rom (Illusion) and no dice. It seems I'm currently stuck with Goodness or nothing.
Update: I have made sure that no boxes were checked in TWRP settings. All attempts to flash fail except for the Goodness Noteworthy Rom.
[PROBLEM SOLVED] The issue was that my Odin version and drivers version was too old. I updated both and the flash worked as advertised.
Have you tried the return to stock zip that unroots resets flash counter and installs stock rom?
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I am fairly certain that I have tried that, but for the sake of being thorough, let's assume that I have not. Could you please point me in the direction of this download? I'm going to take the "ultra dummy approach" because chances are this problem has more to do with the operator (me) than with the software.
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I am fairly certain that I have tried that, but for the sake of being thorough, let's assume that I have not. Could you please point me in the direction of this download? I'm going to take the "ultra dummy approach" because chances are this problem has more to do with the operator (me) than with the software.
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[ROM][RESTORE][5-12-13]Back to UNROOTED Stock with Auto Flash Count Reset
Just make sure you read
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