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[Q] How to unroot

I was wondering how to completely go back to stock from ICS, without root of course. Thanks!
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Scoutamis said:
I was wondering how to completely go back to stock from ICS, without root of course. Thanks!
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well firstly get the tmobile 2.3.6 kernel and flash it ( if you dont and revert to stock you will bootloop) then download the unroot file its in the dev section unzip it then place the tar file on pda and flash but do a factory reset before you flash the process takes about ten minutes.. reboot and well i did another factory reset.. also flash the vl1 radio as well before you flash odin..

mysticfrog said:
well firstly get the tmobile 2.3.6 kernel and flash it ( if you dont and revert to stock you will bootloop) then download the unroot file its in the dev section unzip it then place the tar file on pda and flash but do a factory reset before you flash the process takes about ten minutes.. reboot and well i did another factory reset.. also flash the vl1 radio as well before you flash odin..
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Or just flash the sammobile tar and get it all done in one shot.
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xcrazydx said:
Or just flash the sammobile tar and get it all done in one shot.
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If I may ask, where do I get the sammobile tar?
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Scoutamis said:
If I may ask, where do I get the sammobile tar?
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Sammobile.com of course. Lol
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Scoutamis said:
I was wondering how to completely go back to stock from ICS, without root of course. Thanks!
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Przekret said:
T989UVLDE:
https://hotfile.com/dl/156479275/2dec738/SGH-T989_TMB_T989UVLDE_T989UVLDE_T989UVLDE.zip.html
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Download that zip. (this the newest update released yesterday)
And download odin from http://www.mediafire.com/?u868rqz4qn0ta34
Then follows these steps:
1) Power off your phone
2) Plug the USB cable into your computer, without plugging it into your phone.
3) Hold VOL UP + VOL DOWN while plugging in the USB cable to your phone. Stop holding with 'Warning' appears.
4) Press Volume UP and start ODIN (Run as Admin on Vista and 7, just to be safe)
5) Click PDA and locate the MD5 file extracted earlier.
6) Press 'Start' and be patient. It will take a few minutes because it is a large file.
7) You phone will reboot when its finished then you can unplug the usb and reboot your phone once again.
Got odin link and modified the steps from KonstantinKeller restore stock thread..so thanks to him and thanks to przekret for making the flashable zip

xcrazydx said:
Sammobile.com of course. Lol
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REALLY!! I'll have to check that out.. I haven't heard that one before.. Is there a posting in the Dev section?? i'm planning on rerooting today I just never unrooted my phone before.. Damn so much bloat on this phone now.. Lol
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mysticfrog said:
REALLY!! I'll have to check that out.. I haven't heard that one before.. Is there a posting in the Dev section?? i'm planning on rerooting today I just never unrooted my phone before.. Damn so much bloat on this phone now.. Lol
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And this does work for the t989 right?
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mysticfrog said:
REALLY!! I'll have to check that out.. I haven't heard that one before.. Is there a posting in the Dev section?? i'm planning on rerooting today I just never unrooted my phone before.. Damn so much bloat on this phone now.. Lol
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No post in dev section. This is a little jewel I discovered months ago. Far more simple and it's official firmware, with everything included, and won't trip the counter.
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xcrazydx said:
No post in dev section. This is a little jewel I discovered months ago. Far more simple and it's official firmware, with everything included, and won't trip the counter.
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Yeah after I flashed I forgot to flash the counter posted by Mr x ooh well.. I'm Just kinda waiting for the official update.. I love all the roms specially cm9.. My phone I'd some boring shizz now.. Lol
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mysticfrog said:
Yeah after I flashed I forgot to flash the counter posted by Mr x ooh well.. I'm Just kinda waiting for the official update.. I love all the roms specially cm9.. My phone I'd some boring shizz now.. Lol
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I wouldn't be. Run a custom rom until it's pushed out. No sense in running a crap, bloated up stock rom for the next 2 months or whenever they release it.
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I did Odin like three times yesterday.. Cause the damn bootloop.. Thank good there were backups there.. I'm just gonna my phone a break today..
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Well from what everyone wad saying that update yesterday was a kind of a catalyst for the ics update.. Basically that you needed it
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mysticfrog said:
Well from what everyone wad saying that update yesterday was a kind of a catalyst for the ics update.. Basically that you needed it
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Why worry about that now? There is no official ics, nor a date in which it will come. When the time comes do what needs done. It takes all of 5 minutes to flash this stuff and prepare
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Yeah I know I just have never unrooted my phone so for personal reasons I just wanted to get the feel for it.. I learned a bit yesterday.. Like that crap with the kernel.. Now if I go back to cm9 it does have that ROM specific kernel right? bootloops are so friggin irritating
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mysticfrog said:
Yeah I know I just have never unrooted my phone so for personal reasons I just wanted to get the feel for it.. I learned a bit yesterday.. Like that crap with the kernel.. Now if I go back to cm9 it does have that ROM specific kernel right? bootloops are so friggin irritating
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The kernel is built in, just follow the directions.
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That's cool... Thanks about that easy unroot process ilk check that out later today.. I'm not flash crazy.. all it takes is one bad flash and boom brick.. Sides i've heard of some people frying there sd card.. You just never know..
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k786 said:
Download that zip. (this the newest update released yesterday)
And download odin from http://www.mediafire.com/?u868rqz4qn0ta34
Then follows these steps:
1) Power off your phone
2) Plug the USB cable into your computer, without plugging it into your phone.
3) Hold VOL UP + VOL DOWN while plugging in the USB cable to your phone. Stop holding with 'Warning' appears.
4) Press Volume UP and start ODIN (Run as Admin on Vista and 7, just to be safe)
5) Click PDA and locate the MD5 file extracted earlier.
6) Press 'Start' and be patient. It will take a few minutes because it is a large file.
7) You phone will reboot when its finished then you can unplug the usb and reboot your phone once again.
Got odin link and modified the steps from KonstantinKeller restore stock thread..so thanks to him and thanks to przekret for making the flashable zip
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Will this set my phone back to 1gb instead of 768mb?

idb117 said:
Will this set my phone back to 1gb instead of 768mb?
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Your phone will never read "1GB". Due to how android handles memory, some will be reserved for it and not be visible to you. Kinda like what Windows does to your hard drive.

Thnx.. Well back 2 rooting & JB'in lol
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Guys help I don't know what happened

My S3 wont bootup, I reflashed the stock Odin like 10 times and everything goes smooth but I can't get it to boot, can you guys help me
PLEASE HELP, I HAVE NO IDEA HOW I SOFT BRICKED MY PHONE
this is my first Sammy phone so have mercy
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I did everything man D,:
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What did you flash beforw you break it ?
Can you get into download mode ?
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bikrame said:
What did you flash beforw you break it ?
Can you get into download mode ?
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CM10, then when I flashed a kernel it never booted again, and yes I could go to download mode,
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It's seeming that it's the kernels that are killing our fone. It's the 1 common denominator
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Find a different cm10 compatible kernel and flash it through cwm or through Odin.
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blade30p said:
It's seeming that it's the kernels that are killing our fone. It's the 1 common denominator
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So my phone is dead D: I only had it for like 18 hours
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monkeypaws said:
Find a different cm10 compatible kernel and flash it through cwm or through Odin.
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But I flashed the stock tar image already, and it still won't bootw
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EclipzeRemix said:
But I flashed the stock tar image already, and it still won't bootw
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What is the name of the ker el you flashed. And link possibly.
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Have you tried going into recovery? Maybe there is still cwm? Since your flash back to stock seems to have been unsuccessful.
Can always jtag
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Just had a thought. It's easy to get stuck on boot when you flash back to stock without wiping.
If you can wipe it/factory reset that could solve you're problem.
And it'll boot up.
It's confusing cause it looks a lot like your phone not booting cause of the kernel
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Yeah just take the battery out and get into android recovery by pressing volume up, power, and home button. Then wipe/factory reset and reboot system.

^^^^ just like the gentleman said. Reboot into recovery and factory reset it. It should boot up after that.
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chrisram88 said:
^^^^ just like the gentleman said. Reboot into recovery and factory reset it. It should boot up after that.
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Recovery isn't there, any way I could do it from adb?
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If you can get into download mode, reflash the stock tar in Odin again or just flash the cwm or trwp recovery tar and reflash a different kernel
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Here is a link to Odin-able recoveries that you can use. I also agree with the others that this is probably a mismatched ROM/Kernel that is preventing you from booting up. The only problem I foresee is that you Odin'd a stock image, so now you are not on CM10 anymore. Now you'll have to find a TW kernel that you can flash, like Morfic's or I think Ktoonez has one too. But you can ADB push the kernel to your SDcard so that when you flash the recovery above, you should be able to then go in and find your kernel and flash that.
What I suggest first is to Odin one of the recoveries (TWRP is what I use) and then once that is done, go in and Factory Reset and try to boot it up. If it works, great. If not, then you may need to move on to pushing a kernel and flashing that.

Volume up + Home + Power takes you to Recovery.
Have you tried that?
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got it fixed , up and running again, made a couple of Beta Roms to get use to the galaxy, its amazing

EclipzeRemix said:
got it fixed , up and running again, made a couple of Beta Roms to get use to the galaxy, its amazing
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Tell people what worked so that it can be documented when it happens again and I can link them to something they didn't search for themselves.
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I've had that issue with mobile odin... I just do factory reset from stock recovery after the stock rom wont boot and it works.
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Removing CWM Recovery off stock device

Hi. I was wondering how I would go about removing CWM Recovery off my stock s3.
My computer isn't that good and I want to remove it so I can do the jb update. It keeps saying the file signature failed and wont install and I thought if maybe I got rid of CWM it would let me update.
All help is appreciated.
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Same issue here. I have CWM Recovery and the device is rooted. Doesn't seem to like the OTA for Jelly Bean.

My device isn't rooted tho. That's why I wanna get rid of it. If I was rooted I'd flash jb. I couldn't get rooted. My computer screen wasn't big enough to click ok in Odin. And when I finally did It rebooted but said it couldn't finish the root.
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Can't even get kies to recognize my device...stupid xp
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stock rooted jb 4.1.1
punkyskunky said:
Can't even get kies to recognize my device...stupid xp
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can you flash stock rooted jb from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1739426?

wujiku said:
can you flash stock rooted jb from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1739426?
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Im not rooted tho...I have CWM Recov but no SU access
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what about this http://galaxys3root.com/galaxy-s3-tutorials/how-to-re-install-stock-recovery-and-update-ota-on-galaxy-s3/?

Ill try that as soon as I can get on a computer not running XP. If it works you'll see a thanks coming your way.
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Update:
Flashed stock recovery. Went to do update and the update got to 24% and rebooted. Pop-up said it failed and to use kies.
Ill try again later and see if maybe a new update cache would fix it.
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I used the SnapDragon tools to restore to stock recovery. Worked like a charm.

punkyskunky said:
Hi. I was wondering how I would go about removing CWM Recovery off my stock s3.
My computer isn't that good and I want to remove it so I can do the jb update. It keeps saying the file signature failed and wont install and I thought if maybe I got rid of CWM it would let me update.
All help is appreciated.
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There is a sticky on how to bring your phone back factory..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1725839
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carlharsch said:
I used the SnapDragon tools to restore to stock recovery. Worked like a charm.
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Can you teach me how to use the snapdragon tools. It would help. Just pm me and ill reply when I get a chance.
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Just checked my recovery (volume up+ home+ power) and it is stock now.
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Awesome phone. Too quirky

Simply unlocking boot loader and flashing stock rooted rom nearly bricked my phone and definitely bricked wife's phone. Now my wife is on her old evo due to bricking and I don't want to go through this again on the my lg when jelly bean comes out next month. HTC was much easier and more reliable. Just my 2 cents.

MikeDroid said:
Simply unlocking boot loader and flashing stock rooted rom nearly bricked my phone and definitely bricked wife's phone. Now my wife is on her old evo due to bricking and I don't want to go through this again on the my lg when jelly bean comes out next month. HTC was much easier and more reliable. Just my 2 cents.
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Uhhhhh...I rooted and unlocked mine during halftime of a bball game easiest thing in the world. Its not the device I'm sure its the user
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Rooting and unlocking... Easy schmeezy, Flashing a zip, not a very reliable thing on our lg phones. I'm familiar with flashing roms wiping cache etc. Never worried about it on evos.
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What recovery are you using?
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simpkill said:
What recovery are you using?
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Yeah stick to twrp and you'll be super good that's the most reliable recovery
If you have cwm just use the freegee app to change to twrp
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You did not do it right then because it worked fine on the 3 i have used it on before posting something about it being too quirky you should do a little research
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Simply unlocking boot loader and flashing stock rooted rom nearly bricked my phone and definitely bricked wife's phone. Now my wife is on her old evo due to bricking and I don't want to go through this again on the my lg when jelly bean comes out next month. HTC was much easier and more reliable. Just my 2 cents.
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gitit20 said:
You did not do it right then because it worked fine on the 3 i have used it on before posting something about it being too quirky you should do a little research
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1. ROOTED
2. UNLOCKED 2 weeks later
3. Rebooted. No issues
4. DL stock rooted odexed v9 from xda
5. From recovery wiped cache/dalvick
6. Flash zip from root directory
TWRP nearly bricked my phone. CWM = Wife's phone bricked.
Where is the user error?
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MikeDroid said:
1. ROOTED
2. UNLOCKED 2 weeks later
3. Rebooted. No issues
4. DL stock rooted odexed v9 from xda
5. From recovery wiped cache/dalvick
6. Flash zip from root directory
TWRP nearly bricked my phone. CWM = Wife's phone bricked.
Where is the user error?
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I have done this 3x on two different phones using TWRP and have not had one issue. I am not sure what happened but I promise you it was not the phone. CWM is buggy, so I see why your wife's phone is messed up. However I can only assume you have some corrupted download to explain your issues on the other phone. I have also walked a kindergarten teacher with no computer skills beyond word through this over instant message with no problems.

MikeDroid said:
1. ROOTED
2. UNLOCKED 2 weeks later
3. Rebooted. No issues
4. DL stock rooted odexed v9 from xda
5. From recovery wiped cache/dalvick
6. Flash zip from root directory
TWRP nearly bricked my phone. CWM = Wife's phone bricked.
Where is the user error?
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4.5/5.5. Wipe user data?
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Tried that too although not necessary unless your flashing a custom or deodexed rom. Devs are great. Phone is unstable when it comes to flashing. That's all.
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Mike its quiet hard to actually hard brick it. What is your wife's phone doing?
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Shelnutt2 said:
Mike its quiet hard to actually hard brick it. What is your wife's phone doing?
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Black screen after LG logo. I can get into cwm and dl mode. I can't get usb to recognize phone in dl mode.
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MikeDroid said:
Black screen after LG logo. I can get into cwm and dl mode. I can't get usb to recognize phone in dl mode.
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the isnt bricked, its soft-bricked. when its full bricked it wouldnt even show the lg screen. use this guide to fix her phone.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2082084

MikeDroid can you still get into recovery on either of them?
-Frank

My phone is fine, but yes I can get into cwm on wife's phone.
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I had an issue with Cwm try going into mounts and mount the system plug in usb that should give u adb that's how I got through with the help of shellnut again thanks
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MikeDroid said:
Black screen after LG logo. I can get into cwm and dl mode. I can't get usb to recognize phone in dl mode.
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Reinstall drivers. Use tsilenzios automated lgnpst install which has drivers. Then flash stock.
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Yea I dont think you like the phone, there is nothing quirky about this phone. Its fast looks beautiful and has awesome battery life.
I like other members have used all the tools avail to root on 6 different phones and haven't had a single issue.
If your flashing stock deodexed ZV9 over ZV8 then you absolutley going to need to wipe everything and only use twrp at the current moment as it is the most stable recovery we have.
There is never a reason to not do a full factory reset wipe cache/dalvik cache other than being lazy , and yes I understand that having to re-do all apps and contacts is a pain but if you use gmail to its potential ( all of us androiders should) then logging back into your account does most of the work and leaves no room for questions or error.

I've never had any issue at all with flashing
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I've had zero issues doing a full wipe every time i flash a new ROM.
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Bricked My Note 2 via Brain Fart

So here's what happened - I installed digitalblur but forgot to install the 4.3 bootloader prior to flashing digitalblur. ROM flashed fine and went thru setup of rom and then as I always do after setup I like to reboot the phone. But it wouldn't reboot, all it would do is continue to boot loop at the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 screen. Now I can't get into recovery. Anyone have any ideas of what I can do to fix this issue?
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If you can get into download mode, you should be able to Odin back to stock.
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shuka325 said:
If you can get into download mode, you should be able to Odin back to stock.
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Thats exactly what I ended up doing thanks for the help.