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[Q] restoring stock rom?

Short and sweet, I'm having trouble restoring the Stock ROM on my phone? I have installed the Ultimatum ROM but following multiple guides (even the one here on XDA that includes a full wipe) doesn't seem to remove it. Am I doing something wrong here?

Everything you need to know is in the first few threads in the Dev section

afrobull said:
Short and sweet, I'm having trouble restoring the Stock ROM on my phone? I have installed the Ultimatum ROM but following multiple guides (even the one here on XDA that includes a full wipe) doesn't seem to remove it. Am I doing something wrong here?
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You need to flash through ODIN while phone is in download mode. You can get the stock .pit and .tar files from the development forums if you look. Then you can restore the stock software and start fresh.
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pussyliquor said:
You need to flash through ODIN while phone is in download mode. You can get the stock .pit and .tar files from the development forums if you look. Then you can restore the stock software and start fresh.
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In dev section under sticky..stock rom with root and no trip counter via odin
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To vanilla stock no root flash stock w/root via Odin, use triangle away to reset binary counter(if tripped) then flash the official UCALG1 ROM via Odin and you should be good to go.
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Q: lost access to recovery after nightly flash

So, I flashed CM10 nightly 11/8. Dirty flash over a previous nightly, just cache and dalvik wipe. Now I can't boot to recovery, it just hangs at the cyan boot logo. Was using TWRP and I made sure to click the inject twrp box. Everything else works well and normally, aside from no recovery. I know the correct answer is to odin to stock and start fresh. However, does anybody know of a way to re-flash twrp or clockwork without access to recovery. I would like a quick temp fix for a few days if there is one. Thanks in advance!
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U can just use odin to flash cwm. Look for the 5.x version thread for cwm and there's a .tar flashable file somewhere there. Just flash it in odin and you should be good. Since ur already rooted it should stick.
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I'm no Odin pro. Do I need the victory pit file too? Also what box do I put the cwm tar ball in? I appreciate the help.
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propjockey said:
I'm no Odin pro. Do I need the victory pit file too? Also what box do I put the cwm tar ball in? I appreciate the help.
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No!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Do not flash the tar file for cwm, that is bml only... there is no .tar for an mtd recovery for this phone... sorry, but if you lost recovery on mtd, sadly the only way to get it back is to odin to stock...

Word. Thanks for the save. I didn't think of the bml/mtd issue. I guess no short cuts this time. Thanks again guys.
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Lol sorry I forgot about that.
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flastnoles11 said:
No!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Do not flash the tar file for cwm, that is bml only... there is no .tar for an mtd recovery for this phone... sorry, but if you lost recovery on mtd, sadly the only way to get it back is to odin to stock...
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Ya it doesn't work if you're on mtd, you'll get error on cwm and can't flash anything, even you flash twrp, you'll get error
One solution..
Odin to stock and odin cwm again
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I think there IS (hopefully) a way of flashing MTD recovery without returning to stock. Maybe... grab a recovery.img from the ROM package, put it in SD card, and go to Terminal Emulator on phone. Then...
Command:
su
cd /sdcard
flash_image recovery recovery.img
This works on my good'ol (sold) G1 and Milestone... but don't know if this works on MTD. Anyway, give it a shot
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Well, I ended up Odining back to stock and starting over. After a crappy night of a bad cable and battery CPR, I got it working. I was using TWRP and I suspect that something went wrong in the re-injection process. All is well now. Thanks for everyone's help and suggestions
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Jelly Bean HELP! Please Help! :)

Hi everyone. I am on the stock rom UVALH2, rooted, with a custom kernel. Can someone please help me flash back the proper kernel so I can update to JB?!
I will be in debt to you forever..
I just tried the OTA update to the newest kernel which failed and brought me to CWM. What do I need to do here?

You must be UVALJ4 to use the ota.
I suggest using odin w/ the fw I have in my fw/ota thread.
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Chicago281 said:
Hi everyone. I am on the stock rom UVALH2, rooted, with a custom kernel. Can someone please help me flash back the proper kernel so I can update to JB?!
I will be in debt to you forever..
I just tried the OTA update to the newest kernel which failed and brought me to CWM. What do I need to do here?
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Just Odin to the rooted JB. TMO T999UVDLJA. Make sure you do factory wipe after install!!!!
You can get it here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1771687

mattedwards2686 said:
Just Odin to the rooted JB. TMO T999UVDLJA. Make sure you do factory wipe after install!!!!
You can get it here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1771687
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I've never used ODIN before. Can you give me the newbie play by play book? Download Odin, flash the TMO T999UVDLJA 4.1.1 image?

Chicago281 said:
I've never used ODIN before. Can you give me the newbie play by play book? Download Odin, flash the TMO T999UVDLJA 4.1.1 image?
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My FW thread has step by step instruction.
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I'll have to try that. I flashed my old UVALH2 kernel back and then went to update. Downloaded the 335mb file but the signature verification failed and it booted to CWM. Is it because I am rooted or not on the latest UVAXXX?

Just go to Samsung updates download the whole Odin tar and just Odin it.. That's the best way
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Faster to download it from my thread. Plus root66 is out too!
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Found the FW thread. Need help extracting the .tar from the .7z file I downloaded. I also have Odin ready to go as well.

I'm a little confused here guys. I'm on Doc's Firmware thread and I've downloaded Odin. I also have downloaded root66_TMO_T999UVDLJA.7z . However I'm stuck on how I extract the .tar file from that?

Www.7zip.org
Download and install 7zip and use it to extract.
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Okay doing that now. Now it seems when my phone is in CWM odin doesn't pickup/recognize the phone. However when the phone is on normally odin detects it.

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Going to do a full rundown so anyone can help me here. When I originally rooted the phone I used some type of tooklit (Looked like a green version of MS-DOS). I've always had the stock rom. I've always used CWM to flash different kernels. Right now in About Phone I'm on baseband T999UVLH2 with kernel version [email protected] #1
I'm trying to get Jelly Bean 4.1 as a clean install. Not worried about keeping root at the moment either. I have root66_TMO_T999UVDLJA.tar.md5 downloaded which I am trying to push through Odin. However when I reboot my phone into CWM and connect the USB cable Odin doesn't recognize my phone. I'm willing to try anything at this point as this is frustrating me beyond belief.

You need download mode not recovery.
Same procedure but vol down instead.
Hold volume down, home and power to boot into download mode. Press vol up when prompted. Then odin will work.
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I feel so stupid.. Thank you for that as well! (Can I buy you a beer?) Okay I did that Odin is now pushing root66_TMO_T999UVDLJA.tar.md5. After this is done will Jelly Bean be on the phone? Should I wipe anything to get rid of the old firmware/files?
Success! Android 4.1.1 is now running with what appears to be the most updated kernel/baseband! Now should I do any type of wipe to get rid of any old files that could slow the phone down? What happens to the old firmware stuff?

Chicago281 said:
I feel so stupid.. Thank you for that as well! (Can I buy you a beer?) Okay I did that Odin is now pushing root66_TMO_T999UVDLJA.tar.md5. After this is done will Jelly Bean be on the phone? Should I wipe anything to get rid of the old firmware/files?
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factory wipe after install, then u should be good to go.
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koolboyztn said:
factory wipe after install, then u should be good to go.
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Factory wipe under CWM? Will it make me lose my apps/contact info? I suppose I could always do a titanium backup.

Factory reset wiil wipe apps and user data. Not necessary but I do recommend it when updating android. Just makes for reduced potential for problems.
Reset in cwm or twrp does not wipe internal sd. Stock recovery will though.
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If you downloaded the root66 zip file you just use winrar and choose extract. It will or at least should unzip to its own folder. After that just follow the directions to use Odin.

Which file is kernal in stock package, how to to flash in Odin?

My brother has a At&t gs3 that needs to be sent for warranty. He still has stock firmware except that it's rooted and has a custom recovery. I assume all he has to do is flash the stock kernal to get rid of root and recovery, right? I Downloaded DLK3 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1968625. The packed contents show 2 .img files, boot.img and recovery.img. Can these be flashed in odin, and is the boot.img the kernal and the recovery.img the recovery? I know that at least from the previous galaxy s models that the kernal was around 5.3 mb. But I may have mistakenly though that the recovery was part of the kernal.

Start with looking here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1725839

diablo009 said:
Start with looking here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1725839
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Thank you for your reply. There is a guide to flash the complete package using odin. However, I am not trying to do that. Because where he is currently at, he does not have the bandwidth to download the 730+mb package, thus I am trying to just get him access to the kernal/recovery, so that he can flash that using Odin.

memphian said:
My brother has a At&t gs3 that needs to be sent for warranty. He still has stock firmware except that it's rooted and has a custom recovery. I assume all he has to do is flash the stock kernal to get rid of root and recovery, right? I Downloaded DLK3 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1968625. The packed contents show 2 .img files, boot.img and recovery.img. Can these be flashed in odin, and is the boot.img the kernal and the recovery.img the recovery? I know that at least from the previous galaxy s models that the kernal was around 5.3 mb. But I may have mistakenly though that the recovery was part of the kernal.
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You will be flashing a .tar file in odin. Look here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=33570269#post33570269

Re: Which file is kernal, how to to flash in Odin?
BAM1789 said:
You will be flashing a .tar file in odin. Look here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=33570269#post33570269
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Yes. I am able to download that file, but he is not. It's too big. Is there a way to flash just the kernel/recovery, pulled from this archive?
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memphian said:
Yes. I am able to download that file, but he is not. It's too big. Is there a way to flash just the kernel/recovery, pulled from this archive?
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A different recovery can be flashed with the .img file through a terminal emulator on the phone. I am unsure about flashing anything else.

Okay, i found a couple tutorials on making odin flashable files, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1484304 and http://www.sxtpdevelopers.com/showthread.php?t=155. I'm just not sure which of the files in the stockfirmware package is the kernel. I'm used to zImage, but don't see that in the list. There is a boot.img whish is 5.48mb, so i assume this is it, but not sure.

memphian said:
Okay, i found a couple tutorials on making odin flashable files, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1484304 and http://www.sxtpdevelopers.com/showthread.php?t=155. I'm just not sure which of the files in the stockfirmware package is the kernel. I'm used to zImage, but don't see that in the list. There is a boot.img whish is 5.48mb, so i assume this is it, but not sure.
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The boot.img is separate from the kernel. DO NOT mess with that.. you will definitely brick the phone.. Im no expert on any of this, but really the best way to go about this is with Odin. There is a mobile version of Odin in the play store. Mobile ODIN
Not sure if this is useful to you guys.

Re: Which file is kernal, how to to flash in Odin?
The plan is a odin flash. Just trying make a odin flashable file of just stock dlk3 kernel and recovery.
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memphian said:
The plan is a odin flash. Just trying make a odin flashable file of just stock dlk3 kernel and recovery.
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Just make sure you know exactly what you're flashing before you do it.

BAM1789 said:
Just make sure you know exactly what you're flashing before you do it.
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Thank you. That's what I'm trying to figure out. I'm pretty sure boot.img is the kernel. Just not sure.
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Here is a copy of the stock recovery.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/x2ct7aqkmivt6fv/ATT_recovery_I747UCDLK3.tar.md5
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My GS3 is really having problems.

I took my stock GSIII and rooted and installed hyperdrive, but texting was really awful, and battery was bad so I proceeded to reinstall. Didn't work. So I flashed one of the rooted stock firmwares from the root no tripping flash counter thread. Now its worse. i cant get in to the app drawer it always just says that android.core or something like that has stopped and proceeds to kick me out. At this point I am done and just want to have rooted stock then use triangle away and then flash pure stock and end up with a good warranty, pure stock phone, any help?

Did you wipe your cache/data factory reset every time you flashed?
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Yes.... Even Odin flashes give me that same trouble
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blu422 said:
Yes.... Even Odin flashes give me that same trouble
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So did you do a factory reset when you Odin back to stock with the rooted stock .tar file?
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hednik said:
So did you do a factory reset when you Odin back to stock with the rooted stock .tar file?
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Yeah...

repeat the process: wipe data and cache in recovery then boot into download mode. flash the correct stock firmware via odin with "auto reboot" unchecked. when you get a "pass", pull the battery. reinsert the battery and immediately press the recovery button combo. once in, wipe data and cache again. reboot. report back.