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[Q] Rooting Help

I recently upgraded to 2.3.5 and would like to root my phone to remove crap apps. Is there a simple, one click method to make this happen?
Thanks in advance

alarmmec said:
I recently upgraded to 2.3.5 and would like to root my phone to remove crap apps. Is there a simple, one click method to make this happen?
Thanks in advance
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Nope. One clicks don't work on 2.3.5. You need to use Odin to install CWM 5.027, then pull the battery before it boots, power up into CWM first then flash a custom GB ROM.
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Why not just have him install the gb3.tar kernel instead of "pull the battery before it boots" much easy and less fearfull.
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alarmmec said:
I recently upgraded to 2.3.5 and would like to root my phone to remove crap apps. Is there a simple, one click method to make this happen?
Thanks in advance
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For this journy qbking videos are your compass now go go onto the land of Root.
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Biggoron said:
Why not just have him install the gb3.tar kernel instead of "pull the battery before it boots" much easy and less fearfull.
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Does that have clockwork in it too? Usually I say uncheck reboot in Odin but then you still gotta pull the battery and pop it back in then boot to CWM. Didn't mean to be scary..lol!
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kennyglass123 said:
Does that have clockwork in it too? Usually I say uncheck reboot in Odin but then you still gotta pull the battery and pop it back in then boot to CWM. Didn't mean to be scary..lol!
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No but it qbkings tutorial he says to flash the kernel first.... then flash Cwm just saying it would be less chance of error. Something in the stock kernel has a script that searches for cwm and causes it to delet after the first boot anyways.....
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kennyglass123 said:
Nope. One clicks don't work on 2.3.5. You need to use Odin to install CWM 5.027, then pull the battery before it boots, power up into CWM first then flash a custom GB ROM.
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Exactly! And no worries about it overwriting recovery as long as you flash a custom gb rom (there is a mostly stock one if trying to stay stock) as the kernel will be included with the rom... don't let biggorn scare you... its not scary to pull the battery after odin ;-)
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Sounds pretty spooky. Thanks for your reply's but I need a step by step. No technical dummy but this is a first.

alarmmec said:
Sounds pretty spooky. Thanks for your reply's but I need a step by step. No technical dummy but this is a first.
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There are videos in the General subforum. Search for qbking77's videos in the stickies in the top and there is also a thread with videos on How to root the OTA EI22 or Google update.
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Just odin the kernel 3gb and go from there. U don't really need to pull battery, unless ur phone or odin hangs for awhile
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Success
The Odin kernel trick worked like a charm. Thanks so much for the help, my Epic is now rooted and has superuser access. The primary intent of this project was to remove all of the crap-ware and now that that is accomplished I have to ask...now what? What other things should I look at to make it faster and better?
Thanks again.

alarmmec said:
The Odin kernel trick worked like a charm. Thanks so much for the help, my Epic is now rooted and has superuser access. The primary intent of this project was to remove all of the crap-ware and now that that is accomplished I have to ask...now what? What other things should I look at to make it faster and better?
Thanks again.
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Flashing a custom rom.... and a custom kernel.
Suggestions: legendary 2.2 and the samurai or shadow kernel
MarcusantRom revival v2..... just go through the android development forums to see which rom you'd like to use. Just be careful what your trying to download thought. If your Rom is BML or MTD then you have to download that type of kernel.
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kennyglass123 said:
Nope. One clicks don't work on 2.3.5. You need to use Odin to install CWM 5.027, then pull the battery before it boots, power up into CWM first then flash a custom GB ROM.
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U don't even have to pull out the battery is instantly boots up into cwm that's what happened to me when I got my replacement that was already on ei22 I just connected to odin and flashed the latest cwm and had a rom already on my sd card so I just flashed the rom when it opened cwm for me
Its very easy and no worries and if it doesn't open cwm its not like your phone will brick or anything u just need to try again. To flash a kernel would be easy too
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lilajrestnom said:
U don't even have to pull out the battery is instantly boots up into cwm that's what happened to me when I got my replacement that was already on ei22 I just connected to odin and flashed the latest cwm and had a rom already on my sd card so I just flashed the rom when it opened cwm for me
Its very easy and no worries and if it doesn't open cwm its not like your phone will brick or anything u just need to try again. To flash a kernel would be easy too
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Read everything before you post we've established this already... and he's all good to go... no need to bash other people over their instructions if they work.
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Some phones didn't boot into clockwork. They hung at the black screen. Remember every phone is different so those of us post answers that try to cover every possibility. Great for you that yours booted into CWM...go play the lottery now...LOL.
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qbking77 has a 2 part video on it that is very step by step. just follow it and you will be fine. from what i remember just 1 extra fie to odin and you need a file on your sdcard. it was pretty gravy. have fun and mistakes are a short odin back to the beginning
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haha forgot there was a second page..... use remember you can go from bml to bml, or bml to mtd, mtd to mtd type roms. YOU CAN NOT JUST FLASH FROM MTD TO BML!!! you must odin back to ec05 and make sure repartition is checked and use the victory pit. happy playing

just remember though... after reading the information on these forums, and you are still unsure or whatever... ask questions, ask questions , ask questions...

Well everything is running great but now Sprint is trying to upgrade my firmware to EL30. Will this do away with my new found rooting and can it be re-rooted if it does?

alarmmec said:
Well everything is running great but now Sprint is trying to upgrade my firmware to EL30. Will this do away with my new found rooting and can it be re-rooted if it does?
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It will fail to update since your rooted you have to go completely stock to upgrade and once upgraded its the same root process with the exception of using a different kernel.
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You can root EL30 the same way you root EI22.
Here is a link to qbking's tutorial videos on rooting EI22/EL30
Pre-root (allows custom recoveries to stick): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwFRzzIqouE&feature=relmfu
Root: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWOLEXqAeCc
Upgrade to CWM: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuLWzeJ1lT4&feature=relmfu
For whatever reason, Unroot and return to BML: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFazLOVXPns

Rooting UVALH3?

Noob here. I can't find this anywhere. I just flashed (or whatever you call it,) to UVALH3. With 4.1.1 came all the bloatware again that I had removed when I had the phone rooted. Is it possible to root UVALH3 as well? I can't find it anywhere. Do I just go ahead and ODIN the same file to do it or has there just been no safe way found yet for UVALH3? Thanks.

[ROM][LEAK] Stock Deodexed T999UVDLH3 + Root
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1852218
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sourabh_st said:
[ROM][LEAK] Stock Deodexed T999UVDLH3 + Root
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1852218
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thank you
EDIT: Actually I'm not quite sure how to do this. Are you supposed to go into recovery mode and install from external? It gives me a signature verification error when I try that.

OP: for your own good don't do anything else at the moment. I'm on my phone and driving so I can't really help too much but for your own good don't do anything or else you might end up bricked. Make sure you get a reply before you continue. If you don't get one in the next few hours I'll post a reply and walk you through the steps. I can't right now though.

To the op, you need to get back to ics to root and flash the jellybean rooted rom(need a custom recovery)
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Well that could have been absolutely horrible, I guess. I think I'll just wait until there is a method for rooting when I already have UVALH3

[Q] In need to some help, need to reset or nuke my phone.

OK, so here is my deal. I got my SGS2 a little over a year ago. With the help of this forum I was able to root without issue and flash many of roms. I am now at a point in my playing around that I am having issues doing anything. I would like to just factory reset in Kies, but I can't even do that. For some reason (I have a telus phone), Kies thinks I am a T-Mobile phone, or at least its what I can tell. When I launch Kies and it displays the phone and the and its settings eg: PDA, Radio, etc they all say TMB. I have no idea if that has nything to do with it or not. I tried flashing the Telus radio via Odin, though nothing changed in Kies. The last ROM I used seemed to have screw my Clock Work Recovery and I cannot figure how to get it back. I have tried re-flashing CWR, but I don't think I really understand the difference between Touch and Touch-less. As you can see I am fairly lost at this point. I am turning to all of you for help. I am open to trying anything, just point me to some guides, tips, tricks. I have tried a ton of stuff with no luck. I know these questions get asked all the time and I apologize for making another. I would not be doing so unless I really needed the help as usually I am pretty good with this stuff. I appreciate everyone in this forums and all the time they have put in to bringing us great information. I am thankful to anyone that can help me out. If you need any further info please just ask and I'll provide it as fast as I can!

Have you tried flashing the stock Rom with Odin?
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jd1639 said:
Have you tried flashing the stock Rom with Odin?
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I have, actually I may be running it now actually. It just seems like I have a lot of over lapping stuff. Things that were not fully removed, parts left behind, etc. Is there a easy way to lock up what ROM is running. I assume it's the stock rom as I have the Samsung Apps application on my phone and that is removed with most custom roms. Like I said I really just want to nuke this biatch and start from step one again. She is running like crap atm.

If you flashed the stock Rom you won't have cwm any more. You'll have to reflash it. The phone will be like it was when it was new.
You can get the stock Rom from Sammobile.com for your device and carrier. You 'll have to extract the tar.md5 file out of it using 7_zip. Then flash it with Odin
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jd1639 said:
If you flashed the stock Rom you won't have cwm any more. You'll have to reflash it. The phone will be like it was when it was new.
You can get the stock Rom from Sammobile.com for your device and carrier. You 'll have to extract the tar.md5 file out of it using 7_zip. Then flash it with Odin
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I think the reason I am confused is if it worked, which it appears that it did why does it retain all my data? I would just like to totally kill the ***** to nothing. I'll try flashing to stock again with the site you provided when I get. I appreciate your help!

When you say kill it, do you want to make it so it never works again?
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jd1639 said:
When you say kill it, do you want to make it so it never works again?
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Nah, I meant just no data totally factory. Which last night I did figure out how to do finally. I think I just had a lot of messed up info, wrong files etc. I also think my permissions were totally messed on my phone. Anyways I got it all sorted. Thank you!

Sounds good, don't forget the thanks button.
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if that doesnt work, follow these steps. easy as pie?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1513359

Help please with OTA AT and T update on rooted phone

Hello,
My phone is rooted but ROM is stock. I don't generally flash anything and just stick to removing bloatware.
I installed TWRP and now I cannot get the latest official OTA AT&T update since the update load fails due to not having stock recovery. I have been searching online and cannot figure out how to get stock recovery.
I have been able to locate a supposed stock zip ROM for this phone. Can I just somehow flash this ZIP to return my phone to stock.
On previous phones I have been able to do a factory reset, which I have done several times on this phone today, in order to get it back to stock and accept OTA updates. This TWRP seems extremely invasive and I cannot get rid of it.
Thanks for any help
dave

Wrong section dude better move it before you get flamed to general
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Use this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2052779 and POST IN THE CORRECT SECTION
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You can run cf-auto root and it will install stock recovery
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Need help guys, can't get the update , I'm only rooted and tried changing the date trick and no luck .. funny thing my next retry is after 805 hrs , any ideas what to do ?
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chadiz said:
Need help guys, can't get the update , I'm only rooted and tried changing the date trick and no luck .. funny thing my next retry is after 805 hrs , any ideas what to do ?
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I gave up and ended up just flashing cleanrom 3.5. Didn't wipe, kept all of my apps and data. I recommend this route if, like me, you want to keep stock kernel and tw.
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I would love to help you, but help yourself first: ask a better question
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

I am the original poster. My phone would not flash the stock ATT rom that I downloaded somewhere. It could have been a bad ROM.
I could only end up getting into recovery and download mode. I did something to erase the entire operating system.
The guys over at TWRP or at least the guys on the message board got me through it. I ended up flashing the 3.5 clean rom. I never flashed a rom before only rooted. i also flashed the new modem zip as well. So far so good I guess.
Im going to have to figure out how to do an entire backup of my phone so that next time I can just restore it.
Thanks for the replies

livingaboard said:
Im going to have to figure out how to do an entire backup of my phone so that next time I can just restore it.
Thanks for the replies
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Boot in to recovery (it's now an option from the power button) and follow the very easy buttons for backup. Select everything for an entire system backup (7 checks, I believe). Future backups can be just your data and apps if you want.
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So guys wat u r saying is there isnt any way to unroot then do the official update im rooted with the exynos app just tryed to update and duh got the same thing everybody else got but was hoping i didnt have to flash any roms
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cannot connect to wifi, Prevention Information

Hello all Im afraid Im in need of dire help
I cannot connect to wifi. every time I try to turn it on a notification comes up
"prevention information" [see attachment]
here's how it happened
I rooted my phone via tutorial by chainfire and everything was working fine
I then decided to backup my phone using clockwork mod
-however rebooting to backup brought some small glitch so I decided to go back to regular root
I unrooted my phone following this tutorial http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2258628
I then rooted my phone again
*at this point the wifi didnt work so I unrooted again and performed a factory reset
the wifi still doesnt work and im not sure why
I am currently not rooted
phone stats are:
samsung galaxy s4 sgh-m919 tmobile 4.2.2
baseband version m919uvuamdL
thank you
Edit: yes I have rebooted as recommended by the notification

Did you install any apps in which you didnt get from the playstore lately?

Adam0524 said:
Did you install any apps in which you didnt get from the playstore lately?
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nope just installed rom manager cwm manager and ayakashi [a game form playstore from zynga]

Tried to add this to my original post but XDAs....shortbus.....rule and dumb robabtion" period prevented it
Here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2274271"]btw http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2274271[/URL]

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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2274271"]btw http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2274271[/URL]
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is there anyway you can explain that to me in lamens terms?
every thing theyve said is gibberish to me. I need to root my phone then make a backup then I can do that? its very confusing

Install a custom rom like wicked. It will fix your problem
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XxKINGxX2580 said:
Install a custom rom like wicked. It will fix your problem
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will I then be able to return to stock without running a custom rom? or atleast cr-autoroot?

I do not know for certain, but wicked is very close to stock. And it doesn't have the crappy T-Mobile bloatware
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XxKINGxX2580 said:
I do not know for certain, but wicked is very close to stock. And it doesn't have the crappy T-Mobile bloatware
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I will try that thank you, do I need to root my phone first before installing a rom or is the root included in the roms?
where do I get the roms and tutorials for it? I searched here[see attachment] but I didnt find wicked.
I just dont want to accidentally get a rom for a diff phone

Go to the android development section it's over there. It's something like wicked 5.1 the game changer
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Have you tried freezing SEAndroid and KnoxAgent via Titanium Backup?

lordcheeto03 said:
Have you tried freezing SEAndroid and KnoxAgent via Titanium Backup?
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idk what any of that is
I wanted to uninstall SEAndroid but that was probably going to be a bad choice lol

yay I have fixed it!
I followed this guide to return to stock but instead of using "Stock TAR (original)" I used "Download UVUAMDL Official TAR"
now Im going to try and root again. Hopefully it will stay fixed
Thank you everyone for your help!:laugh:

JokerFrown said:
idk what any of that is
I wanted to uninstall SEAndroid but that was probably going to be a bad choice lol
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I just Odin'd back to stock yesterday because I had lost my backup of the 100% stock ROM... After rooting, I as well was getting the Prevention Information error; I just used Titanium Backup to freeze SEAndroid... Using TiBu to freeze an app is like uninstalling it, but it's less permanent. It doesn't run, it doesn't start.. just like it's not there, but you can 'defrost' the app and it's back to doing what it does. It did get rid of the Prevention error and it all still works.

lordcheeto03 said:
I just Odin'd back to stock yesterday because I had lost my backup of the 100% stock ROM... After rooting, I as well was getting the Prevention Information error; I just used Titanium Backup to freeze SEAndroid... Using TiBu to freeze an app is like uninstalling it, but it's less permanent. It doesn't run, it doesn't start.. just like it's not there, but you can 'defrost' the app and it's back to doing what it does. It did get rid of the Prevention error and it all still works.
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is titanium backup like CWM or is it just an app?
I know what freezing is though I was going to use that in the battery life tutorial until my wifi stopped working lol

JokerFrown said:
is titanium backup like CWM or is it just an app?
I know what freezing is though I was going to use that in the battery life tutorial until my wifi stopped working lol
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It's just an app. It's for backing up apps and data.

I seriously do not know why you prefer stock. It has so much bloatware and it lags a lot. But, if you like it, OK.
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JokerFrown said:
yay I have fixed it!
I followed this guide to return to stock but instead of using "Stock TAR (original)" I used "Download UVUAMDL Official TAR"
now Im going to try and root again. Hopefully it will stay fixed
Thank you everyone for your help!:laugh:
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The warning you are getting is only from rooting. All you have to do is remove KNOXAgent.apk from the /system/app directory. You can use any eoog explorer found on the market to do this. That's all that is. The apk is pointless.
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elesbb said:
The warning you are getting is only from rooting. All you have to do is remove KNOXAgent.apk from the /system/app directory. You can use any eoog explorer found on the market to do this. That's all that is. The apk is pointless.
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Just pointing out the dialog went away for me when I froze SEAndroid... I still froze KnoxAgent as well, but SEAndroid killed the message.