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[Q] Forced eL30 update Can i still root?

So my FF cam wasnt working along with a few other things on my phone so i took it to sprint and paid 30$ some odd dollars to fix.... When i get my phone back i realized they upgraded my software.... [email protected]#K.
I am now on GB EL30 2.3.6 and am searching for a root method... So far i have read that there is no solid root for this version yet and may not be for some time??
Here is where i need help... Am i wrong here? Is there a root for 2.3.6 GB out there?
Does the Gingerbreak work for this version... I have a feeling that it wont.... Can anyone confirm?
IF there is no way to root this version, will i be able to go back to an older version and root my phone ? like 2.3.whatever?
Thanks for the Help guys!!

Gingerbreak doesn't work....You have to odin in a recovery to flash su and it won't stick afterwards so make sure you have a su.zip flash the recovery make sure auto reboot isn't checked and 3 finger salute and flash su and reboot you'll be stock with su permissions.. I do think some kernels will actually work on it though I've read tw.bml samurai kernel works fine.
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Let me know if im getting this right,
Step 1. Get my phone connected to odin (uncheck auto reboot)
2. Flash a recovery (do you know where i can get one)
3. boot pressing power volume up and camera button and Flash su.zip?
I have a feeling im doing something wrong here please let me know, and THANKS for the help!!!

Gagstr said:
Let me know if im getting this right,
Step 1. Get my phone connected to odin (uncheck auto reboot)
2. Flash a recovery (do you know where i can get one)
3. boot pressing power volume up and camera button and Flash su.zip?
I have a feeling im doing something wrong here please let me know, and THANKS for the help!!!
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That is correct, for a recovery look for cwm5 in the development stickies, make sure its a .tar file extension and not a .zip
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Gagstr said:
Let me know if im getting this right,
Step 1. Get my phone connected to odin (uncheck auto reboot)
2. Flash a recovery (do you know where i can get one)
3. boot pressing power volume up and camera button and Flash su.zip?
I have a feeling im doing something wrong here please let me know, and THANKS for the help!!!
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It's volume down. And make sure you add the power button last.
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Okay wait let me update there is now a custom el30 kernel so do this.
Make sure you have the custom kernel .zip before going step by step sorry wrote this up in a hurry.
1. Get your su.zip and your recovery.tar(which ever recovery) and get odin to recognise and so forth.
2. Odin in the recovery.tar and make sure auto reboot isn't checked.
3. Hold power button, camera button, and volume down to boot into recovery and Flash this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1460540 scroll to find the .zip link. Once this is flashed flash su.zip
4. Boot up and you'll be rooted with with a custom recovery
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I cant get Odin to work on the computers at work, im assuming they don’t let users have the privileges that it takes to run this program and complete this operation so I will have to wait till im home to use Odin but I will report back later.

Yes this will be stock rooted... and there isn't an exploit for our stock kernels anymore samsung got smart I guess.... root calls for a modded kernel now anyways yes this will be just what you need for tethering
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One more thing, will this recovery work?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1357655
Thanks again guys, been very helpfull.

Here's the steps I used, but, I understand that toadlife now has a clean Kernel EL30 that takes the place of deleting the recovery script (that overwrites your CWM on reboot):
1. Attach phone to PC and mount...then copy the su zip file to the root of your SD card. Then unmount and unhook phone from pc.
2. Open Odin and uncheck everything. Put the CWM5.2.0.7 tar under PDA
3. Power off phone and then hold the Keyboard "1" key and Power at same time until phone gets the yellow triangle and says "Download Mode"
4. Attach the usb cable to PC and wait for a Yellow box to illuminate on Odin.
5. Now hit start and wait until it turns green and says "Pass"and the script has stopped running (the last line is something like 1 Pass 0 fail)
6. Unplug phone and remove battery (to get out of download mode without booting)
7. Now reinsert battery and 3 finger salute to CWM...from there, choose and install the su zip (now you are rooted).
8. Reboot and use your Root Explorer or other root explorer to go to system/etc and find the installer-recovery.sh file and delete it (you have to click Mount in Root Explorer to allow it to delete a system file).
9. Now power off and go back to download mode again and go into Odin with the CWM tar again, but make sure you check Autoreboot this time.
10. Now reinstall CWM with Odin like you did above.
If you use the kernel flash we mentioned above you can save yourself steps 8-10.
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Gagstr said:
One more thing, will this recovery work?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1357655
Thanks again guys, been very helpfull.
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yes, but I think you have to delete the .md5 extension off the .tar file. Mine just has .tar at the end.

Gagstr said:
One more thing, will this recovery work?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1357655
Thanks again guys, been very helpfull.
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Yep that's the recovery you want...
Sent from my SPH-D700 using Tapatalk

Instructions copied from the general forum.
1. Odin flash cwm 5.0.27 with reboot checked off (nothing checked), put file in pda.
2. when its done, unplug data cable and pull out battery.
without rebooting system.
3. vol down, camera, power, to get into cwm recovery
4. install su.zip and reboot the phone (now you have root)
http://downloads.androidsu.com/super...fgh-signed.zip
5. install es explorer from market
5a. under menu/setting, check the box root explorer and mount file system
5b. browse into phone /system/etc/install-recovery.sh
delete "install-recovery.sh" script
(long press into that file and delete option will come out)
6. shut off your phone
7. odin cwm 5.0.27 again with reboot checked
8. restart, cwm and root will be stick forever.

Also Toadlife has a prerooted EL30 kernel over in the Development section.
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Ok so i was able to get all of this done and it seemed to have worked but before i did it correctly i managed to screw this up.....
I accidently flashed the cwm recovery to the damn phone in odin and now my baseband version and harware version are unknown... Can anyone help me flash the correct Baseband version and hardware files back to the phone so i can start making phone calls hahaha....

I don't know whats wrong

I got the phone straight out the box and used the toolkit to root, it did it succesfully and now my phone boots and says galaxy s 3 and makes the noise but the screen stays black and the led light is blue, i've booted cwm through toolkit and did a factory reset and everything nothing shows up. Like I said its like my screen doesn't work but the battery signals shows up when the phones off and the white gs3 shows up at boot then nothing.

You can put your phone into download mod, get one of the ROM from here --> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1949687, and odin
Or
follow these steps:
1. Vol Up + Home + Power (Let go the power button when the phone vibrate)
2. Factory Reset
Good luck
C-4Nati said:
I just got my phone fresh out the box and downloaded the toolkit, i went to root and it loaded odin then I put the write file in the pda and hit start as the instructions say, It says reset in blue at the top so I hit button to continue. now the phone wont turn on fully, it says galaxy s 3 on the screen then just stays black and a blue light at the top comes on. then on the toolkit it got stuck, the same thing happened with my nexus 7 on my pc so i'm assuming somethings wrong with my usb port but I downloaded the toolkit on my laptop which works and I went into download mode and I have the drivers installed but when I open the toolkit no device number is at the top and under my computer options the phone doesn't show up with the check mark on the usb thing. Not sure what to do.
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VibrantThemer said:
You can put your phone into download mod, get one of the ROM from here --> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1949687, and odin
Or
follow these steps:
1. Vol Up + Home + Power (Let go the power button when the phone vibrate)
2. Factory Reset
Good luck
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I updated my OP as I got things to connect. Now after seeing your reply I can get into CWM and i factory reset but the phone still sits on black screen after boot.

Then, choose the first option, which is to put your phone in download mod and odin your phone with one of the ROM on my previous post link.
C-4Nati said:
I updated my OP as I got things to connect. Now after seeing your reply I can get into CWM and i factory reset but the phone still sits on black screen after boot.
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Or install a ROM from there...
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Just tried the stock JB file given in that link, in odin I can't add the tar file I extracted. it says its invalid.

Is the file you downloaded from the first section root66 - PreRooted Firmware (for use with Odin)?
After you selected the file to load into the PDA, wait for a few minutes for the ODIN to extract the file.
C-4Nati said:
Just tried the stock JB file given in that link, in odin I can't add the tar file I extracted. it says its invalid.
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VibrantThemer said:
Is the file you downloaded from the first section root66 - PreRooted Firmware (for use with Odin)?
After you selected the file to load into the PDA, wait for a few minutes for the ODIN to extract the file.
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I downloaded that then extracted it myself then tried to add it to odin

I don't remember that I have to extract the file myself. Can you see the file without extrating it?
Edit: if you extracted that file, make sure not change the file name.
C-4Nati said:
I downloaded that then extracted it myself then tried to add it to odin
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It's simple as this put your phone in download mode by first holding volume down home and power all at same time.
Download the stock ics or jb tar file for the t999 galaxy s3 JUST GOOGLE IT YOU WILL FIND IT.
And simply place FILE right on desktop
Open odin and Uncheck auto reboot and reset In the Odin tool all 3 should be unchecked. Now Select pda find and choose the tar file on desktop before selecting it rename and delete the .Md5 it should just end with
. Tar
Then select it and click start it will show reset and pass its done then manually pull battery and restart phone.
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If you can get into cwm recovery why not copy a rom of your choice to the sdcard wipe and flash the rom ? Easy fix.
Sent from my SGH-T999 using xda premium

I would suggest flashing a pre rooted Odin stock firmware. Especially if you are a new user. Read the threads about flashing carefully especially md5 checking and what to do if something goes wrong.

[Q] Rooting results in wrong recovery mode

I am in the middle of rooting my TMO GS3 with 4.1.2 and I am getting Android System Recovery instead of CWM recovery. What did I do wrong?

cybrguy1 said:
I am in the middle of rooting my TMO GS3 with 4.1.2 and I am getting Android System Recovery instead of CWM recovery. What did I do wrong?
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What process did you try?
T-Mobile SGS III

re: sure way to root - success everytime
cybrguy1 said:
I am in the middle of rooting my TMO GS3 with 4.1.2 and I am getting Android System Recovery instead of CWM recovery. What did I do wrong?
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There are dozens of ways to root your phone, some methods work better than others and some don't work at all.
Here is the way to root your phone with the T999 Jellybean 4.1.2 rom.
This method works all the time and every time, no more trial and errors.
Easy and sure way to have a fully rooted T999 Galaxy S3 - Here is s step by step guide:
Download the newest pre-rooted Samsung Galaxy S3 T999 Jellybean v4.1.2 rom: T999_UVDMD5
After downloading make a folder on your computer's desktop and unzip the
file using Winzip or 7zip so the .TAR file is in the new folder you just made.
Download and extract Odin into the same folder you made containing the TAR file
Here is the link for Odin: http://d-h.st/Q14
Download ODIN which is required for flashing the stock rooted firmware (a windows app)
Download the Odin Flash firmware for T999 Tmobile then copy it to the same folder as Odin
Run Odin by double clicking the Odin.exe within the same folder as the TAR file you extracted
Turn off your phone and boot into DOWNLOAD MODE (Volume Down + Home + Power Hold until phone powers up, then release and press Volume Up to enter Download Mode)
Once in Download Mode, connect the USB/Charger cable to the phone and plug into the USB port on your computer.
You should now see a COM** port listed toward the top-left of Odin (under ID:COM)
Click on the PDA button in the middle-right area of Odin.
Browse to and select the Firmware you downloaded (TAR file)
Make sure Auto-Reboot and F. Reset Time are the only options checked and that PDA is the only other thing checked.
TRIPLE CHECK your settings and that you have selected the correct firmware for your model phone and are using the correct options.
If you are using a laptop, make absolutely sure you are plugged in, or if on battery, that it is charged enough and will not go into sleep mode during flash.
Click Start to begin the flash. This will take a while, so be patient!
Once complete, in the top-left box in Odin, it will say PASS and the phone should have automatically rebooted.
You may unplug the phone and close Odin if you wish.
Wait at least 5-10 minutes for the system to boot the first time and then build its cache!
(It may seem to hang during boot, this is normal and you must be patient!!!)
Once it's rooted be sure to make a nandroid backup of the rom using cwm or twrp recovery.
Good Luck!

The above advice is irrelevant to the problem, way to read the OP. When you flash CWM with Odin, when you reboot your device, you need to drop to recovery before the device is allowed to boot. Do you understand? Flash CWM > boot straight into recovery. Once there you can exit. You will be prompted to disable some recovery crap. Do that.

mt3g said:
What process did you try?
T-Mobile SGS III
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I've been following Max's galaxys3root.com video instructions. Used Odin 1.85, got the yellow COM indicator, ran the clockworkmod.tar, got the pass indicator and rebooted. Copied the CWM file to the phone. Can't seem to get into CWM recovery mode. Gives me Samsungs...

cybrguy1 said:
I've been following Max's galaxys3root.com video instructions. Used Odin 1.85, got the yellow COM indicator, ran the clockworkmod.tar, got the pass indicator and rebooted. Copied the CWM file to the phone. Can't seem to get into CWM recovery mode. Gives me Samsungs...
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See my signature, too. Stop using files that are older than I am.

cybrguy1 said:
I've been following Max's galaxys3root.com video instructions. Used Odin 1.85, got the yellow COM indicator, ran the clockworkmod.tar, got the pass indicator and rebooted. Copied the CWM file to the phone. Can't seem to get into CWM recovery mode. Gives me Samsungs...
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Do what aerowinder said.
T-Mobile SGS III

Aerowinder said:
See my signature, too. Stop using files that are older than I am.
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OK, took your advice to heart and reflashed the newer (6.0.3.1) CWM, and I can now boot to it. Did an image.
Now, one of the main reasons I rooted the phone is so that I can add other programs to the MultiView feature. I most want Dolphin and my (stock) contact tool. Just dragging them to the tray doesn't get them there. I can imagine Dolphin may need to be reinstalled, but what would I need to do to get the built in contact tool to work with it?
Somehow I got the impression that rooting the phone would make everything available to MultiView...

You have to install the firmware with your recovery. Then it'll be available. Look in to the development section for the mod.
T-Mobile SGS III

mt3g said:
You have to install the firmware with your recovery. Then it'll be available. Look in to the development section for the mod.
T-Mobile SGS III
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Sorry to be thick, but I don't know what you mean. I'm not sure what firmware you mean for me to install.

Rooting your device grants you permission to be able to do things. Not grant you things. You still need to flash a superuser root access .zip, a recovery doesn't grant root. I'm not on a PC so I'm not sure if what Aero pointed you towards also has the .zip you need included. Look in your app drawer and look for a superuser app. If its there then download this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2278022, And search how to flash a .zip in recovery. Make sure you read up a little more, and then ask questions before messing your phone up.
T-Mobile SGS III

Thanks, I do understand that rooting doesn't do anything but enable. I thought, though, that superuser was all I needed to enable most apps for multiview. I did flash SU when I rooted but mistakenly thought that would be enough for this feature.

There is an app that will grant the feature also, I don't use it but its out there. "multi window manager" that requires root so install it open it and follow instructions.

mt3g said:
There is an app that will grant the feature also, I don't use it but its out there. "multi window manager" that requires root so install it open it and follow instructions.
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Thank You! That was exactly what I was looking for, and it works just fine.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bjbinc.multiwindowmanager&hl=en

No worries. Forgot about the app for a few minutes glad I remembered lol.
T-Mobile SGS III

Samsung Galaxy Tab S (10.5 Wifi) - "Semi-Rooted" Device Crashes on Reboot

Recently tried to root my Samsung Galaxy Tab S (I am not allowed to post links yet so I'll just say the site is techbeasts)
I believe I went through these instructions and followed them all precisely.
This method also installs SuperSU on my device..
However, I tried checking the root status with Root Checker, and it says "verification failed"
I then checked SuperSU, and it said something along the lines of "binary needs updating". I tried the "normal" method for doing this twice, but it didn't seem to work. There is an option presented in SuperSU to do this through TWRM or CWM, so I tried that option. ( NOTE I do NOT have TWRM or CWM installed)
**Then when I started the tablet, a whole bunch of messages came up saying "unfortunately, ____ stopped" [/B]and a whole bunch of these are there. I'm sure this is a crash.... **
I managed to get the tablet back to semi-working state by using the factory reset from the recovery partition (it's the stock recovery partition). However, the crash-on-reboot problem still persists.
Any help on getting back to working state? I can use the tablet but I cannot restart it as it will crash again (have had to do the factory reset from recovery twice now...)
I should mention that i am trying to:
1) have a rooted tablet
2) Not have these crash-on-reboot issues...
Bharat

Best would be to flash your firmware again with Odin. You can download your firmware on sammobile (see link below).
You will need Odin for this, the correct drivers on your pc and to have USB Debugging on (under Developer options in Settings).
Unzip the firmware you downloaded and put it in PDA or AP in Odin, connect your tablet in download mode (power + home + volume down , afterwards volume up to 'continue') and click start.
Go to TWRP website, search for Tab S 10.5 and download the latest TWRP (tar-file).
Download supersu.zip as well (see link below, you can download 2.46 or 2.49 beta) and put it on the tablet or external sd card.
When this is done and your tablet rebooted (can take a while), reboot in download mode, open Odin again and add the twrp-tar you downloaded before (same PDA or AP).
Tablet should reboot as well after that. To enter recovery mode press home button + power button + volume up. This should bring you in TWRP recover. Flash the supersu.zip you downloaded before, reboot and you should have root.
http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/database/SM-T800/
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1538053
Note: should the tablet reboot in stock recovery after you flashed the TWRP-recovery. Go to download mode again, fire up Odin but uncheck 'Auto Reboot' and flash TWRP-tar again. Once it's done, hold power + home + volume down, you will get to the screen again where it says volume up to continue volume down to cancel and reboot. Choose volume down but quickly press power + home + volume up until the screen turns on again. That should take you straight to TWRP recovery. You can flash supersu.zip and TWRP recovery should stick now.
Good luck!

Wow, how to massively over complicate something.
Just install the stock firmware, then look for my build of cf_autoroot in the dev section, flash in ODIN. Done.
If you want to upgrade twrp to the latest version you will find it in the dev section too. This version fixes some of the issues with the official version and has more options.

Hi guys,
TThanks so much for your replies! Complicated or not, anything helps...
I had previously used Odin to flash the rooted firmware to the tablet, so I amn faniline with the software.
Alta1r: looked at the links and it looks like sprue stock firmware. A couple of questions about this procedure:
1) Is it normal that the stock firmware file (as downloaded) is larger than firmware images used to root the tablet?
2) Would using TWRP to flash Supersu onto the tablet root the tablet, even if the stock firmware is installed?
Thanks again guys!!

Not sure what you mean with firmware images to root the tablet. Do you mean a custom rom? Those should be smaller in size yes, as the are usually de bloated.
Maybe you flashed a wrong version if a custom rom for your tablet before, that would give you problems when flashed.
Both my or ashyx's method can be applied on a stock rom. I'm running just stock with root.
@Asynx: I flashed the latest firmware on my T800 this week and twrp didn't stick after the first boot. Tried many versions, also the one you mention in the dev section, but to no avail. Even replaced the recovery in the samsung's tar file and flashed it like that: twrp screen showed up right after the flash, but on next boit it was stock again. Only way to make it stick was to reboot into recovery right after flashing it.
Never had that problem before though on the Tab S (did have it already once on Galaxy S6).
Edit: forgot to mention I hadn't seen there was cf-auto root available for our current firmware. If I knew it would have saved me some time. Could have flashed the recovery with Flashify afterwards.

Apologies I am still getting used to the lingo with this stuff
Have done some stuff with Linux and some tweaking in Windows as well, so figured this shouldn't be too bad...
@Alta1r: so the process you describe is what you said, flashing the stock ROM and then root it afterwards...
Will try this process and report results here
(aside: I think the tablet was working fine after flashing with CF autoroot ROM -- is that the right word? -- what I think ruined it was when I told Supersu to try updating its binary through TWRP or CWM....which isn't yet on my tablet)

Alta1r said:
Only way to make it stick was to reboot into recovery right after flashing it.
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It seems since lollipop this has to be done if flashing over stock recovery or it will be replaced at boot with stock.
Twrp will patch the recovery install script at first boot.

Sooooo...
First off, thanks for the "luck wishing"
I decided to try the method of @Alta1r.
@ashyx - I tried the CF-autoroot thing before (this was first attempt at getting a rooted tablet), and this didn't work for me. So I wanted something a bit more "hands on".
This is procedure I followed and worked for me (as of this post):
1) Before I began, I accidentally went into recovery mode instead of download mode. So I had to restart the tablet *gulp*
....yet I was able to restart just fine (no crashed as mentioned in my first post). I think this ~might~ have something to do with the fact that I downgraded the version of supersu that was "updated" through Google Play, but I'm not really sure...
2) Downloaded all relevant files.
3) Flashed firmware for tablet as instructed:
Alta1r said:
Unzip the firmware you downloaded and put it in PDA or AP in Odin, connect your tablet in download mode (power + home + volume down , afterwards volume up to 'continue') and click start.
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Result was that tablet booted just fine!
Made sure that a few apps worked OK, and also rebooted the tablet a few times to make sure it was stable
(this is a linux based system, not Windows, but I still like reboot tests for stability checking...)
4) Next I did the TWRP flash through Odin:
Alta1r said:
Go to TWRP website, search for Tab S 10.5 and download the latest TWRP (tar-file).
When this is done and your tablet rebooted (can take a while), reboot in download mode, open Odin again and add the twrp-tar you downloaded before (same PDA or AP).
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TWRP flashed fine. But then....
5) Tried to boot into TWRP recovery:
Alta1r said:
Tablet should reboot as well after that. To enter recovery mode press home button + power button + volume up. This should bring you in TWRP recover. Flash the supersu.zip you downloaded before, reboot and you should have root.
Note: should the tablet reboot in stock recovery after you flashed the TWRP-recovery. Go to download mode again, fire up Odin but uncheck 'Auto Reboot' and flash TWRP-tar again. Once it's done, hold power + home + volume down, you will get to the screen again where it says volume up to continue volume down to cancel and reboot. Choose volume down but quickly press power + home + volume up until the screen turns on again. That should take you straight to TWRP recovery. You can flash supersu.zip and TWRP recovery should stick now.
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As predicted, Alta1r, the TWRP didn't flash properly. I got an error on the stock recovery saying:
"Error message is "E:ensure_path_unmounted failed to unmount /efs (Device or resource busy)"
So I tried your odin + reboot trick as above, and this booted into TWRP recovery.
6) Then I flashed supersu.zip (had kept on microSD card that is in tablet).
Andddddd.....
Root checkers says all good
Thanks so much for the help guys. I wrote the procedure above for anyone else who attempt this method!

bsquared938 said:
Root checkers says all good
Thanks so much for the help guys. I wrote the procedure above for anyone else who attempt this method!
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Glad to hear all went well, and by the looks of it had fun doing it.

Although computer/device problems can get me agitated, I still have fun in the end
Not sure if I can ask this here, but two other slight issues after the rooting:
1) Upon rebooting the tablet, I always get the message "android is upgrading", even if I didn't touch any apps through Titanium Backup or other root-only apps that are meant to remove pre-installed applications.
Is this an issue? And if so, is there a way to get rid of this?
2) I am able to uninstall/remove apps with Titanium Backup (freezing them isn't possible without the paid version of the app), but I am not able to restore them. I made a full backup before I started to uninstall stuff. I put on USB debugging mode in developer options, but still I cannot put apps back. Any thoughts on this?
Thanks again!
Bharat

I wouldn't worry about the upgrading message, most get that.
AFAIK TB requires a kernel that can be set permissive to fully function.
If you want the ability to remove and restore apps use system app remover (root)

ashyx said:
I wouldn't worry about the upgrading message, most get that.
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Okay thanks, I will not worry about that upgrading message for now...
ashyx said:
AFAIK TB requires a kernel that can be set permissive to fully function.
If you want the ability to remove and restore apps use system app remover (root)
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Is there a way to set this up? Even System App Remover does not let me reinstall stuff...
(I don't plan to ever use any of the apps I am removing, but I would like this feature for "sanity" purposes...)

bsquared938 said:
Okay thanks, I will not worry about that upgrading message for now...
Is there a way to set this up? Even System App Remover does not let me reinstall stuff...
(I don't plan to ever use any of the apps I am removing, but I would like this feature for "sanity" purposes...)
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Are you sure you have full root?

ashyx said:
Are you sure you have full root?
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Yes I am sure I have full root.
I used root checker to check if I have full root access and it comes back green (to say root access is good).
(Just checked again now before posting this...)
Using either Titanium Backup and Root App Deleter, I am unable to restore deleted apps...
I have enabled USB debugging in the developer tools, as instructed to by Titanium Backup....
I read something about the "mount namespace separation" in supersu, I might try to toggle that option to see if it helps this situation.

Root app deleter? Is that system app remover?
Also what is the error when you try to restore with it?

ashyx said:
Root app deleter? Is that system app remover?
Also what is the error when you try to restore with it?
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App is called System App Remover
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jumobile.manager.systemapp&hl=en
It tries to restore the app, and after about half a second it just says "try again if it fails" with a "yes" button to be selected...

bsquared938 said:
App is called System App Remover
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jumobile.manager.systemapp&hl=en
It tries to restore the app, and after about half a second it just says "try again if it fails" with a "yes" button to be selected...
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That doesn't mean it doesnt restore. It says that every time iirc. Check in system apps to see if it restores.

ashyx said:
That doesn't mean it doesnt restore. It says that every time iirc. Check in system apps to see if it restores.
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Okay I'm just going to say exact issue...
I deleted calendar storage, thinking that it's part of Samsung's calendar app (when in fact it is used by all calendar apps).
So now Google Calendar doesn't show me my calendar....and I'm trying to restore calendar storage, but it's not restoring
(had previously deleted through System App Remover, but now can't get it back)
Edit: I uninstalled and reinstalled Google Calendar, and that seemed to bring back my calendar.....
Sorry to cause you this trouble, I guess I panicked too early...
But will still be careful of what I remove...

Alta1r said:
Best would be to flash your firmware again with Odin. You can download your firmware on sammobile (see link below).
You will need Odin for this, the correct drivers on your pc and to have USB Debugging on (under Developer options in Settings).
Unzip the firmware you downloaded and put it in PDA or AP in Odin, connect your tablet in download mode (power + home + volume down , afterwards volume up to 'continue') and click start.
Go to TWRP website, search for Tab S 10.5 and download the latest TWRP (tar-file).
Download supersu.zip as well (see link below, you can download 2.46 or 2.49 beta) and put it on the tablet or external sd card.
When this is done and your tablet rebooted (can take a while), reboot in download mode, open Odin again and add the twrp-tar you downloaded before (same PDA or AP).
Tablet should reboot as well after that. To enter recovery mode press home button + power button + volume up. This should bring you in TWRP recover. Flash the supersu.zip you downloaded before, reboot and you should have root.
http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/database/SM-T800/
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1538053
Note: should the tablet reboot in stock recovery after you flashed the TWRP-recovery. Go to download mode again, fire up Odin but uncheck 'Auto Reboot' and flash TWRP-tar again. Once it's done, hold power + home + volume down, you will get to the screen again where it says volume up to continue volume down to cancel and reboot. Choose volume down but quickly press power + home + volume up until the screen turns on again. That should take you straight to TWRP recovery. You can flash supersu.zip and TWRP recovery should stick now.
Good luck!
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worked for me thx :good:

Odin 3 auto re-boot - STUCK on reboot screen. Help!

I've been having some issues keeping my Tab Pro 8.4 rooted. It doesn't seem to want to stay rooted after rooting.
I installed CM13 on the device about a week ago and its been buggy as hell. I went to install CM13 updates and for that root had been lost again. When I try to reroot (using the guides provided) Odin3 works fine until the tablet tries to re-boot. At that point it gets stuck on the reboot screen and goes no further. I can't flash anything or get the device to get past that re-boot screen.
Any advice?

AustinTech said:
I've been having some issues keeping my Tab Pro 8.4 rooted. It doesn't seem to want to stay rooted after rooting.
I installed CM13 on the device about a week ago and its been buggy as hell. I went to install CM13 updates and for that root had been lost again. When I try to reroot (using the guides provided) Odin3 works fine until the tablet tries to re-boot. At that point it gets stuck on the reboot screen and goes no further. I can't flash anything or get the device to get past that re-boot screen.
Any advice?
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if you are losing root by upgrading your rom, all you should have to do is flash supersu zip via custom recovery after your rom upgrade
try holding vol - and power till you see a glip in the screen at samsung splash and let go this should take you to your custom recovery.
if that doesn't work you will need
to fix your current issue, you will want to download your stock firmware, push via odin3 (let tab fully boot) then push your custom recovery via odin3.
if your custom recovery worked with vol - and power just start here
then flash your cm13 rom, gapps, then the supersu zip

@AustinTech
get it fixed?
also holding vol+ and power takes you to download mode for odin

toolhas4degrees said:
if you are losing root by upgrading your rom, all you should have to do is flash supersu zip via custom recovery after your rom upgrade
try holding vol - and power till you see a glip in the screen at samsung splash and let go this should take you to your custom recovery.
if that doesn't work you will need
to fix your current issue, you will want to download your stock firmware, push via odin3 (let tab fully boot) then push your custom recovery via odin3.
if your custom recovery worked with vol - and power just start here
then flash your cm13 rom, gapps, then the supersu zip
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How do I push the stock firmware via odin3? I can get into download mode and then run odin3 but I'm not sure how to push firmware through the program. I'd also need to find the stock firmware.
Sorry if these are basic questions, but I'm not all that familiar with rooting. This is only my second device. And thanks for your help!

AustinTech said:
How do I push the stock firmware via odin3? I can get into download mode and then run odin3 but I'm not sure how to push firmware through the program. I'd also need to find the stock firmware.
Sorry if these are basic questions, but I'm not all that familiar with rooting. This is only my second device. And thanks for your help!
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go to www.sammobile.com and go to firmware. then type in sm-T*** in the search bar(I believe your device is sm-t320). search then download your firmware based on your country. cellular south is US
open the zip with 7zip or winrar and extract the .tar.md5 file
after you download this go to download mode on your tab
then plug in via usb to pc make sure the com light turns green in odin
then run odin 3
click AP button
select the .tar.md5 file
wait for it to load
then press start and wait for about 20 min until your tablet reboots to the origonal setup
everything will be stock like when you bought it @ this point you will have to redo everything you did when you bought it to regain root and custom recovery

same issue
toolhas4degrees said:
after you download this go to download mode on your tab
then plug in via usb to pc make sure the com light turns green in odin
then run odin 3
click AP button
select the .tar.md5 file
wait for it to load
then press start and wait for about 20 min until your tablet reboots to the origonal setup
everything will be stock like when you bought it @ this point you will have to redo everything you did when you bought it to regain root and custom recovery
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I'm having the same issue. I'm trying to return to stock, so I use odin, it says PASS but the tablet wont boot past the samsung logo.

protectnor said:
I'm having the same issue. I'm trying to return to stock, so I use odin, it says PASS but the tablet wont boot past the samsung logo.
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do you have the right firmware for your region?ex the stock region your tab is from and last firmware ver your tab was on. and is auto reboot selected?

toolhas4degrees said:
do you have the right firmware for your region?ex the stock region your tab is from and last firmware ver your tab was on. and is auto reboot selected?
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Wow I feel like an idiot. It didn't give me an option at first, it sent me to the Trinidad and Tobago link.

toolhas4degrees said:
do you have the right firmware for your region?ex the stock region your tab is from and last firmware ver your tab was on. and is auto reboot selected?
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I downloaded and flashed the correct firmware, but it still is stuck at the boot screen.

protectnor said:
I downloaded and flashed the correct firmware, but it still is stuck at the boot screen.
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try going to stock recovery by vol- or + and power and try wiping data and cache

toolhas4degrees said:
try going to stock recovery by vol- or + and power and try wiping data and cache
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Yes that helped. Thanks!

toolhas4degrees said:
go to www.sammobile.com and go to firmware. then type in sm-T*** in the search bar(I believe your device is sm-t320). search then download your firmware based on your country. cellular south is US
open the zip with 7zip or winrar and extract the .tar.md5 file
after you download this go to download mode on your tab
then plug in via usb to pc make sure the com light turns green in odin
then run odin 3
click AP button
select the .tar.md5 file
wait for it to load
then press start and wait for about 20 min until your tablet reboots to the origonal setup
everything will be stock like when you bought it @ this point you will have to redo everything you did when you bought it to regain root and custom recovery
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I've downloaded the firmware but what the hell is a .tar.md5 file? I don't see anything like that in my extracted files.
I also don't have a PA button on my odin3

protectnor said:
Wow I feel like an idiot. It didn't give me an option at first, it sent me to the Trinidad and Tobago link.
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Where did you get you firmware? I tried sammobile.com but the download was took 12 hours and both times gave me corrupt files.
I went to a different site and downloaded what I thought was the correct firmware but since there is no .tar.md5 file in the extracted files I'm thinking no...

Alright, sammobile is downloading a bit faster now so maybe in 2 hours I'll have the correct firmware. I think the site I used earlier was crap.
I educated myself on what a .tar.md5 file is as well and I think I'll be set once I have the firmware.

AustinTech said:
Alright, sammobile is downloading a bit faster now so maybe in 2 hours I'll have the correct firmware. I think the site I used earlier was crap.
I educated myself on what a .tar.md5 file is as well and I think I'll be set once I have the firmware.
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Yeah sammobile was pretty slow for me too. Just make sure you have your tab!et in download mode before you connect it to the computer.

if you still have problems with sammobile you can download the firmware from the samsung servers with the tool SamFirm
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-tab-s/general/tool-samfirm-samsung-firmware-t2988647
also in regards to your first post, CM13 has built in root, you don't need to manually root it, if you are then that's why it's breaking to enable root in cm13 go to settings -> developer options - > root access (then select apps, adb) this setting will persist over all future flashes, to enable developer options go to Settings -> about tablet and tap the build number 5 or 6 times to enable the option.

toolhas4degrees said:
@AustinTech
get it fixed?
also holding vol+ and power takes you to download mode for odin
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I got it fixed.
Thanks for your help. PM me your PPal address - I want to buy you a beer. Or a pizza. You might be 13 yrs old for all I know.

AustinTech said:
I got it fixed.
Thanks for your help. PM me your PPal address - I want to buy you a beer. Or a pizza. You might be 13 yrs old for all I know.
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I'm 32 lol, no money needed, just hit the thanks button. glad all is well.