Kies vs odin - AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III

Which is best to return to stock? Im selling my s3 and I need to get it back to stock. Is kies better than Odin since it's an official software from Samsung than Odin?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzydHUG7XZE
This has worked every time. Cheers

xBeerdroiDx said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzydHUG7XZE
This has worked every time. Cheers
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Awesome, thank you!

After flashing stock via Odin, you will likely have to boot into stock recovery, wipe data/factory reset and wipe cache. Reboot.

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[Q] Darkside Super wipe & Odin

I have a bit of a noob question here. I'm going to odin back to stock as well as factory reset, now if i wanted to use Darkside wipe (assuming its not overkill and unnecessary) would I do that before I odin? Ie launch CWM, run darkside wipe, then go into download and odin?
thanks in advance.
AUTX_buckeye said:
I have a bit of a noob question here. I'm going to odin back to stock as well as factory reset, now if i wanted to use Darkside wipe (assuming its not overkill and unnecessary) would I do that before I odin? Ie launch CWM, run darkside wipe, then go into download and odin?
thanks in advance.
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That is the best method to assure you have a clean install. Be aware though, titanium won't work. You will have to root your phone again.
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CWM MD5 checksum mismatch after flashing with Odin

So I'm updating my firmware by flashing to the latest stock rom with Odin, then flashed CWM with odin, and now I'm trying to restore a NAND backup to get back to my previous CM rom and I'm stuck with a MD5 mismatch. So how do I fix this, keeping in mind that I'm now back on stock rom which just hangs on the samsung screen at boot. Funny, everyone in the dev section made this process sound painfully simple.
re: simple
Red Dragons said:
So I'm updating my firmware by flashing to the latest stock rom with Odin, then flashed CWM with odin, and now I'm trying to restore a NAND backup to get back to my previous CM rom and I'm stuck with a MD5 mismatch. So how do I fix this, keeping in mind that I'm now back on stock rom which just hangs on the samsung screen at boot. Funny, everyone in the dev section made this process sound painfully simple.
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It is simple, just reboot into recovery and do a "Factory Reset" & wipe cache and dalvik but don't wipe system or data then reboot the phone.
99% of the time it always works. If you are in the 1% and it still does not work your best bet is to ODIN flash the new stock-rooted
Tmobile T999 v4.1.2 Jellybean rom. That works 100% of the time for everyone.
Misterjunky said:
It is simple, just reboot into recovery and do a "Factory Reset" & wipe cache and dalvik but don't wipe system or data then reboot the phone.
99% of the time it always works. If it still does not work your best bet would be to ODIN flash the new stock-rooted Tmobile T999 v4.1.2 Jellybean rom.
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I will give that a shot, but I assumed having come off a fresh Odin flash to stock, the cache and dalvik would have been wiped already and it basically was just "factory reset" with the flash. Here goes...
Misterjunky said:
It is simple, just reboot into recovery and do a "Factory Reset" & wipe cache and dalvik but don't wipe system or data then reboot the phone.
99% of the time it always works. If you are in the 1% and it still does not work your best bet is to ODIN flash the new stock-rooted
Tmobile T999 v4.1.2 Jellybean rom. That works 100% of the time for everyone.
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Are you referring to the root66 one? Cuz I've been trying to download it already, but the hosting site appears to be down.
Red Dragons said:
Are you referring to the root66 one? Cuz I've been trying to download it already, but the hosting site appears to be down.
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it's not down, here is the link: http://d-h.st/Arn
Thank you very much sir. Factory resetting as you said got me into the stock rom, and from there I deleted the contents of the nandroid.md5 file which allowed me to restore the backup and now I'm back in CM.
Cheers to you.

galaxy s4 stuck on boot screen

i just created myself a problem...i went in TWRP and into wipe and did a formated.... i when i flash the ROMS everything is fine... booted up everything... the problem is when i turn my phone off and turn it back on the phone is stuck at the samsung galaxy s4 logos... can someone please help me solve this problem...
cloudi602 said:
i just created myself a problem...i went in TWRP and into wipe and did a formated.... i when i flash the ROMS everything is fine... booted up everything... the problem is when i turn my phone off and turn it back on the phone is stuck at the samsung galaxy s4 logos... can someone please help me solve this problem...
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Try wiping cache partition and dalvik in recovery then reboot
richardlibeau said:
Try wiping cache partition and dalvik in recovery then reboot
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I did it and it say failed to wipe...i also try to fix permission and it also failed...
after i formatted that when the problem started....
Please do not make multiple threads asking the same question. This belongs in the q and a where you asked it first.
Glad the problem is fixed!
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cloudi602 said:
I did it and it say failed to wipe...i also try to fix permission and it also failed...
after i formatted that when the problem started....
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It's because you formatted your system and it has nothing to boot into now. A factory data reset should fix it.
richardlibeau said:
It's because you formatted your system and it has nothing to boot into now. A factory data reset should fix it.
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If the system has been wiped a factory reset wont fix it. Its not like a factory reset re-installs what has been wiped
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cloudi602 said:
I did it and it say failed to wipe...i also try to fix permission and it also failed...
after i formatted that when the problem started....
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If you have a cwm/twrp flashable rom on your internal/external sdcard or if you have
a nandroid back and if you still have access to get into CWM/TWRP recovery then
why not simply restore a backup or flash a rom?
If you don't have any backups or cwm/twrp flashable zip file roms in your phone
then simply remove the external sdcard and put it into an adaptor and plug it into
your computer, download a cwm/twrp flashable rom and copy it to the sdcard.
Then put the sdcard back in the phone, go into cwm/twrp recovery and flash it.
If you cannot get into cwm/twrp recovery for some god knows what reason you will need
to Odin flash the stock rom in download mode to get the phone running properly again.
Good luck with it!
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Misterjunky said:
If you have a cwm/twrp flashable rom on your internal/external sdcard or if you have
a nandroid back and if you still have access to get into CWM/TWRP recovery then
why not simply restore a backup or flash a rom?
If you don't have any backups or cwm/twrp flashable zip file roms in your phone
then simply remove the external sdcard and put it into an adaptor and plug it into
your computer, download a cwm/twrp flashable rom and copy it to the sdcard.
Then put the sdcard back in the phone, go into cwm/twrp recovery and flash it.
If you cannot get into cwm/twrp recovery for some god knows what reason you will need
to Odin flash the stock rom in download mode to get the phone running properly again.
Good luck with it!
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you know it let me flash and everything...but once it done it failed to wipe cache and dilvic cache...but for the first boot up it fine everything work you know... once i turn off my phone or restarted it then it stuck at the samsung alaxy s4 boot logos.... and it doesn't do anything else....but it work now since i reinstalled twrp and it work fine now.....
cloudi602 said:
you know it let me flash and everything...but once it done it failed to wipe cache and dilvic cache...but for the first boot up it fine everything work you know... once i turn off my phone or restarted it then it stuck at the samsung alaxy s4 boot logos.... and it doesn't do anything else....but it work now since i reinstalled twrp and it work fine now.....
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I have exactly the same problem... can you explain detailed what did you do?
fljotavik said:
I have exactly the same problem... can you explain detailed what did you do?
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I did a format in WIPE and flash my rom... it let me boot into the phone and everything....it didn't let me wipe cache or delvic cache.... so i repeat it and reflash it... once it got into my phone i download goomanage and restalled twrp.... mine was 2.5.0.1 and there was an update version of twrp... so i install it again and my phone is working fine since then i don't know if it work for you but that what i did....
but once i restarted the phone it stuck at the samsung galxy s4 logos...
I have the same problem did you manage to fix it?
twiifm said:
I have the same problem did you manage to fix it?
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i manage to fixed.... i have to return to stock and redo everything..... working good now.....
cloudi602 said:
i manage to fixed.... i have to return to stock and redo everything..... working good now.....
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Did you use Odin to load stock firmware? I tried that but it didn't work. I think I need a pit file. Did you have one?
twiifm said:
Did you use Odin to load stock firmware? I tried that but it didn't work. I think I need a pit file. Did you have one?
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Yes i used odin.....at first it didn't work for me...still stuck at the first boot.... but i went into stock recovery and did a factory reset and it work....then i have to rooted again and flash rom again working good now.. i still got the file just let me know if you needed it
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2267895
http://www.hotfile.com/dl/213469534/9ff06bd/M919UVUAMDL_M919TMBAMDL_TMB.zip.html
cloudi602 said:
Yes i used odin.....at first it didn't work for me...still stuck at the first boot.... but i went into stock recovery and did a factory reset and it work....then i have to rooted again and flash rom again working good now.. i still got the file just let me know if you needed it
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2267895
http://www.hotfile.com/dl/213469534/9ff06bd/M919UVUAMDL_M919TMBAMDL_TMB.zip.html
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Whoo thanks man... flashed atleast 20 phones in the past, never thought will get stuck here
itsme_4ucz said:
Whoo thanks man... flashed atleast 20 phones in the past, never thought will get stuck here
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I had the same problem ... I had to odin everything ...
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JUSMEJOSE said:
I had the same problem ... I had to odin everything ...
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any clue what to do when no matter what u odin or CWM flash it fails to boot past the "Samsung" screen? Im going insane over this? No type of wipe, cache wipe, format fystem, dalvik wipe or anything will seem to help. The problem arose suddenly
Android.Junkii said:
any clue what to do when no matter what u odin or CWM flash it fails to boot past the "Samsung" screen? Im going insane over this? No type of wipe, cache wipe, format fystem, dalvik wipe or anything will seem to help. The problem arose suddenly
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im sure flash back to stock using odin ... everything will be back to normal ....
JUSMEJOSE said:
im sure flash back to stock using odin ... everything will be back to normal ....
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Trying that as i type. Performed a wipe and reboot'd to DL mode for a stock odin flash. Not optimistic though
any reason why this WOULDNT work?
EDIT: No luck. Went past the samsung screen initially to android stock recovery to finish flash...once it rebooted back to stuck at samsung screen!
EDIT: SOLVED. checked Phone EFS Clear in ODIN...then flash stock. BREEZE

[Q] Can't auto detect OTG or USB from Laptop

please help...
Several days ago I installed Clean Master for my SM-T705, after then I used standard clean for my SM-T705.
But after that I couldn't use my OTG on it, before I installed Clean Master its worked properly, so I thought that its own Samsung apk disabled or force to disabled.
So anyone can tell me what apk from its own Samsung which must be run so I can use my OTG again?
Thanks anyway
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Just flash your stock firmware manually with Odin. Should be no-wipe, but I'd recommend to at least wipe cache.
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Just flash your stock firmware manually with Odin. Should be no-wipe, but I'd recommend to at least wipe cache.
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is there any another way enable the original Samsung apk or fix Samsung service apk indeed?
why? because when I connect to my laptop, its couldn't auto detect my tab, so Odin3 either Kies didn't detected it properly
I would try a factory reset then since you can't connect to your PC. And if a factory reset doesn't work if its still under warranty, take it back is your last hope.
UpInTheAir said:
Just flash your stock firmware manually with Odin. Should be no-wipe, but I'd recommend to at least wipe cache.
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DUHAsianSKILLZ said:
I would try a factory reset then since you can't connect to your PC. And if a factory reset doesn't work if its still under warranty, take it back is your last hope.
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thanks guys,
I already factory reset and my T705 in normal condition now.
it's solve
thanks guys

Galaxy Note II Freezing up occasionally

Can anyone let me know the best way I can locate the cause of my note 2 freezing up occasionally so I know what I need to do to remedy it?
Try going into recovery and wiping the cache and Dalvik cache
Don't do a system wipe.
grwalker said:
Try going into recovery and wiping the cache and Dalvik cache
Don't do a system wipe.
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Hey GR,
I did attempt this previously see if this helps but no luck :-/
Any other suggestions?
Factory reset
or
You could try and re-flash stock ROM with ODIN.
grwalker said:
Factory reset
or
You could try and re-flash stock ROM with ODIN.
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I was hoping Factory Reset wasn't gonna be needed if I can locate the culprit (If its an app that is).
I have got it rooted so I can flash the rom I have on it again or a different one. I currently have Ditto Note 3 installed v3.2.1
I am thinking you are about to experience sudden death, where the memory fails. It's what happened to mine before it died
But try re-flashing first. Use latest stock for your phone. Check Sammobile for the latest
grwalker said:
I am thinking you are about to experience sudden death, where the memory fails. It's what happened to mine before it died
But try re-flashing first. Use latest stock for your phone. Check Sammobile for the latest
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Oh I hope its not a memory failure :-/
I'll try a re-flash first after backing up and go from there.
Thanks GR.
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