So I find myself in a bit of a predicament. Just had to get Sprint to switch out my phone due to a shorting USB port. Managed to get enough of a connection to flash back to stock and go. Got new phone, decided I'd flash a JB rom to try out and all was happy. Lo and behold, today I discover that Sprint replaced my phone with a bum unit with...wait for it... a shorting USB port. This time, no matter how many different cables/angles/amounts of pressure I try I can't get the PC to recognize the device. Charges just fine, but no data transfer. I need to go back to Sprint yet again, but now I'm stuck on a non-standard (albeit stock) JB rom and rooted.
I know Mobile Odin exists, but wasn't sure exactly if it would work for this purpose or not. Is it possible to use something like that to revert to the stock ICS build to go back to Sprint with?
If you have super su you can unroot from that. There are other apps as well.
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Ok, so along that line of thought, is Mobile Odin capable of going from JB back to a stock ICS rom. Different partitions and whatnot.
Only if you flash a full restore, bit it can't flash modems. So you need to flash a stock unrooted restore of whatever you have now. Make sure your flash counter is at 0 as well. Triangle away will work for that, but you need to use it first while rooted.
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graydiggy said:
Only if you flash a full restore, bit it can't flash modems. So you need to flash a stock unrooted restore of whatever you have now. Make sure your flash counter is at 0 as well. Triangle away will work for that, but you need to use it first while rooted.
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He'll need to flash a recovery first and flash the matching modem.zip for the restore he chooses to prevent the mix matched baseband and build# or restore far enough back to OTA to FL24 since JB/GB27 isn't OTA and no kies without USB
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he could just say the usb broke after he did the kies update.
HOW TO GO BACK TO STOCK WITH NO USB
1) Use ES file explorer or similar to move all root-related files (rom zips, modems, anything tar, etc) off your internal SD and on to your external. Added bonus: they will already be there when you get the new phone.
2) Use TriangleAway to get the flash counter to 0.
3) Mobile Odin GB27 Unrooted Stock Restore. Since you oneclicked GB27 from PC, your ROM and modem will now match.
4) Uninstall Mobile Odin (it should have injected itself).
5) Unroot (root should have injected itself) from within the SuperSu app.
6) Remove your external SD from the phone.
7) Bring your phone in to Sprint for warranty replacement.
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My USB port is broken on my phone and I am constantly getting FC's.... I'm lookin to go back to stock so I can get my GPS working again?
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ok well i can post links. so go into general and look for a post that has all qbking77's vids and there is a video in there showing how to unroot without a cpu...
phatryan69 said:
how to unroot without a cpu...
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Me thinks you would have a tough time unrooting with no processor
this would be a hard process... never thought bout that lol good call!
BBlunts456,
Do you have a TEP plan on the phone? If so, Sprint will replace it for free if the problem is electrical and not due to user error/abuse (like a physically damaged connector). I had this exact problem this past week. They will only accept it if you have stock firmware I was told though.
Anyway, I'm assuming you have clockworkmod and can still flash .zip files from your SD card.
Check out this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1027904
If you flash the link ReRFS Format Stock ROM EC05 v1.01 you will end up with a stock kernel, stock RFS filesystem, and stock unrooted EC05. You will retain CWM recovery though, so you can always flash a new custom rom. However, if you want to go back to 100% stock, like I needed to, you can flash the file above and then epic4g.stock.recovery.ec05.zip. This will bring your phone back to a state where sprint will accept it. Wiping out the CWM and flashing the stock recovery makes rooting it again a very difficult prospect, as your USB doesn't work, so that's a one way street. I went to a Sprint repair store and am getting a replacement phone for free under the TEP due to the USB hardware not working electrically. But, they told me they would only take it with stock firmware, so I needed to follow the procedure I outlined above. Hope that helps.
If i do the factory reset buy dialing 786# and typing in my msl will that unroot the phone ? I have a friend with a rooted epic and im trying to help in return to stock without flashing anything.
jdjozwia said:
If i do the factory reset buy dialing 786# and typing in my msl will that unroot the phone ? I have a friend with a rooted epic and im trying to help in return to stock without flashing anything.
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No. You have to either Odin to EC05 or flash ReRFS ROM and stock recovery. Unless that forces the phone to download and install the stock ROM. Sprint tried that with my phone and it did not work properly.
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If i do the factory reset buy dialing 786# and typing in my msl will that unroot the phone ? I have a friend with a rooted epic and im trying to help in return to stock without flashing anything.
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If you're trying to get him back to stock, your best bet is Odin EC05 and let it update OTA to EI22. A factory reset won't lose root, but that may be your problem...depends on why you want to return to stock. If it's to get it fixed by taking it into a store, they'll either see Superuser, or there are a variety of other ways to see if a phone is rooted or not.
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...snip... there are a variety of other ways to see if a phone is rooted or not.
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Even after odin ec05 and ota ei22 which over writes the recovery?
Edit: assuming one removes su
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BillyBob3 said:
Even after odin ec05 and ota ei22 which over writes the recovery?
Edit: assuming one removes su
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Odin will wipe SU and any indication from the phone itself.
Its the tell-tale signs on your SD card they might see... keep your sd card or remove files like "clockworkmod" and the like.
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Even after odin ec05 and ota ei22 which over writes the recovery?
Edit: assuming one removes su
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tony_spear said:
Odin will wipe SU and any indication from the phone itself.
Its the tell-tale signs on your SD card they might see... keep your sd card or remove files like "clockworkmod" and the like.
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Yup, recovery is what I was thinking about, but that's just one thing. As tony said, go through your SD card too. There are traces of root (not literally) all over the place there! Not only the 'clockwork' folder, but also the 'Titanium Backup' folder if you have one, and really, about any zip files that aren't 'update.zip'.
If you're super paranoid about it, you could also set up another Google Account to link that with your phone. If you've bought apps with specific root capabilities (Titanium Backup for example), they could see it on your Google Account.
That piece is only if you're super paranoid, but just an idea. This way, after you Odin (which replaces CW recovery with stock recovery), you can login with the 'other' Google account and you'll have virutally zero apps associated with that account. I would probably throw a few games on there, maybe import a few contacts, just to be safe.
I doubt any Sprint employees would go to this length, but if you literally wanted to cover all your bases, this is where you would start.
My phone isn't working properly, and I plan on exchanging it for another E4GT at the Sprint store. I suspect it to be a hardware issue because I've done a few factory resets, and it still isn't working. The problem is that it is constantly freezing, and my pc doesn't detect the phone when I plug it in. It charges, but it won't get recognized as an external device, even in cwm and download mode. I'm not quite sure what to do.
Is there a way to go completely stock, and unroot without the use of ODIN?
How about mobile Odin from the market? No PC required.
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What are you on right now what did you flash with Odin lost kernal? If you were on sfhubs root you dont need Odin just use the option B I think unroots but only if you rooted with it? how did you root?
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If you used the Auto Root package, only the root needed to be done while connected to the computer.
Undoing CWM and unrooting can be done on the phone itself. Instructions are in the 2nd post. Look for the "included scripts" section.
I had a very similar problem with my epic touch. What I did was use mobile Odin to flash stock unrooted eko2.tar on my phone. Qbking77 has a YouTube video on this titled, UNROOT EPIC 4g touch latest. Then I took my phone to a sprint store and they replaced it for free. I suspected it to be a USB port problem. Good luck!
What happens if you did the first root that came out?
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I'm not able to flash the .pit file using mobile odin, is that an issue?
Doing a system update should bring it hack to stock...theyre use to be some zips for that when this phone first came out....I believe I have the files needed to restock fork cwm somewhere...
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I'm not able to flash the .pit file using mobile odin, is that an issue?
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no the pit shouldn't matter in your case. I only use it when I want to absolutely make sure all of my other roms I have flash have nothing left over. just remember after you have all your stuff off it, format your internal sd card. you can do this by first removing your external sd card( the one next to the battery). I just say remove it so there's no confusion. then in setting you can go to storage and format the usb. that way there isn't any personal data on your phone.
hey go to this website refer to steps 7-10 this tell you how to remove root, specifically super user, via adb and the command prompt
http://epic4gtouchroot.com/epic-4g-touch-unroot/how-to-unroot-epic-4g-touch/
I recently flashed my E4GT with Stock GB27 Rooted and added Comadose 1.4V tweaks. Now I went to flash my phone back to stock unrooted and my ODIN failed and now my phone is displaying a message about connecting to Kies to recovery mode. I never got a recovery code.
And I have tried Flashing EL29,EL26,FI27,and FL24 and they all get to different points in ODIN and then fail. I have no idea what to do....
What is the issues?
What did you use to go back to stock un rooted?
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I am using One-Click ODIN and ODIN for Windows.
I had almost the same issue. I did a data wipe using odin factory reset tool. Then wentvstraight into download mode. I was then able to use odin v3 to get back to FI22. You should be able to find the odin factory reset tool here on XDA and the low ship tar file. Hope this works for you.
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I am using One-Click ODIN and ODIN for Windows.
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Going back to original post, your phone was working properly to the point that you had comadose running with root.
Then you wanted to go back to stock/no root, apparently what ever you did to go back borked your phone. Disclosing this exact procedure may help get your problem resolved.
Sounds like you may be having a inproper partition problem.
The difference between jb vs ics/gb is the way the system partitions are set, if these get borked you run into these issues.
Only thing I can think of is going with a Rwilco ics one click odin full restore, after phone boots up allow to run for a while using several apps, phone, internet then trying a one click jb full restore no/root if thats what you desire. *Do not save data *
This process may reset your partitions properly for jb to work properly.
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ok i have a sprint 4gET flashed to cricket.. running Team Acheron's "Touched by an S4" (Awesome) after checking out some of the new roms coming out I decided to flash a few and check out the new cm10.1.3 and the jb4.3 systems... I am familiar with the procedures for flashing jb, ics roms and follow op directions to a t everytime..but today after losing data cable connections twice on an odin install my phone would not respond... after leaving batt and sd card out of phone for 2 hrs I was finally able to set phone into download mode.. flashed directboot recovery by cwm wich cot me to my sd card to reflash my trusty touched by an s4 rom but now when it boots up my samsung screen displays a totally diffferent model.. it says Samsung Sll GT-i9100 but in settings it still says sph-d710... how on earth did that happen and how can i change it...
Install and run triangle away from chainfire paid on play store or free from xda. It's what happens when you use Odin to install non official firmware
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mkfryan said:
Install and run triangle away from chainfire paid on play store or free from xda. It's what happens when you use Odin to install non official firmware
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Not true in all cases^^
some of the direct boot Odin & Mobile Odin files (EL26 or EL29) were originally made from the international phone source and when the kernal is flashed it will reflect the i9100 on boot up. This is normal if your phone is working properly. You can also one-click back to EL26 stock to get rid of it, but then you have to go through the process of re-formatting the partition.
If it is working fine, I would use Triangle Away. If not, you will probably need to start over with a one-click exe.
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Not true in all cases^^
some of the direct boot Odin & Mobile Odin files (EL26 or EL29) were originally made from the international phone source and when the kernal is flashed it will reflect the i9100 on boot up. This is normal if your phone is working properly. You can also one-click back to EL26 stock to get rid of it, but then you have to go through the process of re-formatting the partition.
If it is working fine, I would use Triangle Away. If not, you will probably need to start over with a one-click exe.
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super thanks to mkfryan and byrdcfmma for a super prompt reply and for their super knowledge on these devices... you guys rock!!
THANKS TO ALL XDA DEVS YOU GUYS ARE SIMPLY AMAZING!!!!