I'm sort of a noob to all this. I rooted my phone a little over a year ago and bricked it and finally got it rooted about 3 days later and dont want to do that again. i would now like to unroot this device before i sell it and need some instruction on how to do it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I'm having the same issue. I can't find a link to the origional boot rom. But I have my recovery set to twrp. The tutorial I used was bad so I overwrote my boot with the twrp. So both are that twrp now..
I'm lost, and need my phone back. I can't restore anymore. I'm freaking out.
Try flashing a ruu
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Whenever i try to install a new ROM on my HTC Wildfire 2.1 it blocks at the boot-up.
I erased everything and the cache memory from the ClockWork Recovery and made a back-up image.
I tried installing them from the cold-boot and with ROM Manager even though it's the same thing.
Also, by updating it to 2.2 will i lose my root?
Thanks
I am rockin a hero200 and i have gone between 1.5 to 2.2 to 2.1 then 2.3 back to 2.1 not in the same day of course.Through all that i have kept root with out having to re-root.
you should be fine depending on how you go about rooting it. as for the problem you are having im not the most qualified out there but i do know my fare share it could be a bad recovery flash or your phone didn't hold the root i had that happen once.
i would recommend going on the market and downloading Root Checker to see if your is actually rooted.
what method did you use to root.
The one where you use the android sdk. Not the unrevoked one
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not sure if i can link so goggle Guide one click root wildfire. <-- i beleave this is an unrevoked method
i talked to a friend he had a similar issue and that worked.
it should be the first. I usually dont recommend the one click root mainly because i like to have control over what is going on but it fixed a friends phone.
like i said before use Root Checker to see if your is actually rooted.
when i first rooted my phone last year i had a recovery img but no root privileges in the the phone and i fixed it by re-rooting.
il look some more and get back to you but if you want to give this a shot i hope this helps. good luck my friend
The app says that my phone is rooted.
So, i remember now how i rooted the phone.
Installed the HBOOT drivers, then Unrevoked.
Any way of un-rooting the phone, update, re-root?
Also, will it work on 2.2?
ok so this is what i found you can try to find a wildfire stock ruu. I have never looked into un-rooting so im not the best one to ask. From what i understand it flashes a stock rom back to the phone.
you can also try looking up other methods of flashing and test them out when i started thats what i did. i mean your phone is already saying its rooted whats the harm. just read and ask questions before you try something never hurts to be safe and let the others know what your attempting and why.
Unrooting is not my problem.
I want to know why i can't install a custom rom on my phone.
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n0ster are you going back to stock using odin? That was my problem and with my captivate, I used odin did the back to the American stock and I was able to load my first rom which was firefly!!!
No. Now it seems i can't update to 2.2.
So i should go back to stock, and try installing a new rom?
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I was thinking.
If i would reset the phone to its factory settings, then root it again.
Would i still be able to install the ROM?
n0ster said:
I was thinking.
If i would reset the phone to its factory settings, then root it again.
Would i still be able to install the ROM?
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no problem bro..
I have done it once.
I unrooted my Desire because there was some problem with flashing, then I rooted
once again, the flashing problem gone.
I can root my phone
Pleas help me
I can post something
Why i Can't post reply when i using thread working aopengles 1.1?
can't root
my phone hang
Should i use the unrevoked 1 click version or the classic one?
Also, should i let it update, or then it's going to be unrootable?
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I successfuly routed my wildfire but could anyone tell me how to turn off sim protection ? Thanks a lot ! B.R
how do you root your wildfire?
Mine is Froyo 2.2.1 and the unrevoked method isn't working with it.
Hello,
My phone is rooted but ROM is stock. I don't generally flash anything and just stick to removing bloatware.
I installed TWRP and now I cannot get the latest official OTA AT&T update since the update load fails due to not having stock recovery. I have been searching online and cannot figure out how to get stock recovery.
I have been able to locate a supposed stock zip ROM for this phone. Can I just somehow flash this ZIP to return my phone to stock.
On previous phones I have been able to do a factory reset, which I have done several times on this phone today, in order to get it back to stock and accept OTA updates. This TWRP seems extremely invasive and I cannot get rid of it.
Thanks for any help
dave
Wrong section dude better move it before you get flamed to general
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Use this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2052779 and POST IN THE CORRECT SECTION
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You can run cf-auto root and it will install stock recovery
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Need help guys, can't get the update , I'm only rooted and tried changing the date trick and no luck .. funny thing my next retry is after 805 hrs , any ideas what to do ?
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chadiz said:
Need help guys, can't get the update , I'm only rooted and tried changing the date trick and no luck .. funny thing my next retry is after 805 hrs , any ideas what to do ?
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I gave up and ended up just flashing cleanrom 3.5. Didn't wipe, kept all of my apps and data. I recommend this route if, like me, you want to keep stock kernel and tw.
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I would love to help you, but help yourself first: ask a better question
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
I am the original poster. My phone would not flash the stock ATT rom that I downloaded somewhere. It could have been a bad ROM.
I could only end up getting into recovery and download mode. I did something to erase the entire operating system.
The guys over at TWRP or at least the guys on the message board got me through it. I ended up flashing the 3.5 clean rom. I never flashed a rom before only rooted. i also flashed the new modem zip as well. So far so good I guess.
Im going to have to figure out how to do an entire backup of my phone so that next time I can just restore it.
Thanks for the replies
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Im going to have to figure out how to do an entire backup of my phone so that next time I can just restore it.
Thanks for the replies
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Boot in to recovery (it's now an option from the power button) and follow the very easy buttons for backup. Select everything for an entire system backup (7 checks, I believe). Future backups can be just your data and apps if you want.
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I would love to help you, but help yourself first: ask a better question
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
So guys wat u r saying is there isnt any way to unroot then do the official update im rooted with the exynos app just tryed to update and duh got the same thing everybody else got but was hoping i didnt have to flash any roms
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I originally posted in the wrong area, and was told to post here instead so, here goes. I have a US Celluar GS3, SCH-R530U, and I lost root access while trying to upgrade from stock rooted 4.1.2 to CM 10.1.3. I've tried flashing SuperSU along with CM 10.1.2 to my phone with no success. Every time I try to flash something new it says 'Can't open /storage/sdcard1/-filename-.zip (bad)' and it aborts. I don't know how I can get a file on the phone memory since the phone never boots up past the 'Samsung Galaxy S III' screen, so I'm really stuck and I don't have a backup phone, so if someone could help me get my phone up and running again, I would really appreciate it.
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I really only need help getting my phone to a bootable state again, I have backups of everything, so if someone could please help me out, I would be most grateful. I've been trying dozens of things. I just tried doing CF Auto Root through Odin, and that didn't work, it just removed CWM. It still freezes up at the same screen, so I'm really lost as to what to do.
My best advice would be that you download the Odin file that matches with your phone. But get the fully stick one. There should be one that is rooted and non-rooted. Get it back to stock and start from scratch. I know it may suck but honestly in problems like this it doesn't hurt to go the safe way
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Spider_Pig27 said:
My best advice would be that you download the Odin file that matches with your phone. But get the fully stick one. There should be one that is rooted and non-rooted. Get it back to stock and start from scratch. I know it may suck but honestly in problems like this it doesn't hurt to go the safe way
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That would not be a problem at all, in fact, that is what I would love to be able to do, but I haven't been able to find an image file for odin to do it. Every image for a stock rooted file for my phone is formatted for CWM, and it won't flash anything from my sd card right now. If I had an odin image, I would do just that.
Found one and flashed it. It's sad to see everything on my phone get deleted though.
Had a s3 a year ago. No probs rooting and flashing. Sold it. Got another one yesterday. Rooted and put on TWRP which I never used before. Wiped and flashed Eclipse and gor a soft brick with continuous Samsung logo.
Used the back to stock rom zip avaible on xda. Kept twrp and root. Phone works as it should. Wiped and flashed again and got same soft brick.
Questions is....am I doing something wrong? Can some explain in detail how to wipe and what to wipe with twrp for someone new to it? And any thoughts why I would get the soft brick? Thanks in advance...
Have u checked over in the general forum for the modded recoveries? Seems that sprint or Samsung had locked the new s3s up. Not a ure if what you have explained are the symptoms or not, but @kennyglass123 and @CNexus worked on some issues with new bootloaders. Check here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2391616
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jwitt418 said:
Had a s3 a year ago. No probs rooting and flashing. Sold it. Got another one yesterday. Rooted and put on TWRP which I never used before. Wiped and flashed Eclipse and gor a soft brick with continuous Samsung logo.
Used the back to stock rom zip avaible on xda. Kept twrp and root. Phone works as it should. Wiped and flashed again and got same soft brick.
Questions is....am I doing something wrong? Can some explain in detail how to wipe and what to wipe with twrp for someone new to it? And any thoughts why I would get the soft brick? Thanks in advance...
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Check to see if it was a bad download.
Ok. Ill give it a go with a different rom and see if that helps. Again I'm new to twrp. Which wipe should I be doing. I don't care about losing music or photos. Just want a clean slate.
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Also...read about the custom recovery in the link you posted. I can access both external and internal storage so I don't think that would help. If I'm correct that's what the custom recovery seems to be for right?
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UPDATE: Ok, flashed PAC-MAN, same deal....soft brick....turned off phone. Odined custom recovery upgrading TWRP from 2.4 to 2.6, flashed PAC-MAN, soft brick...i dont understand why I can flash a rom, keeps soft bricking at bootloop. I've flashed the old SG3 and the HTC Evo about 1000 times...but this has me stumped....Androidians, please help.
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UPDATE: Ok, flashed PAC-MAN, same deal....soft brick....turned off phone. Odined custom recovery upgrading TWRP from 2.4 to 2.6, flashed PAC-MAN, soft brick...i dont understand why I can flash a rom, keeps soft bricking at bootloop. I've flashed the old SG3 and the HTC Evo about 1000 times...but this has me stumped....Androidians, please help.
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Tell the devs to cherry pick this commit if they haven't already: https://github.com/CyanogenMod/andr...mmit/959a9d61c2dd1f3ebcafe6a88ea4c979ee061bc8
I understand you are helping but I'm not really sure which devs you mean or what I'm telling them to do...lol...but if it will help fix this issue I'm having then I'm all for it
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Is there a way I can pull a logcat in TWRP? And would that help tou know what's going wrong...or I'm assuming by the commit you already do....sorry for the ignorance...I'm pretty good with tweaking and flashing roms but am by no means in the dev world
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i cant believe this! i got the phone to go into recovery(very nice PHILZ!) then i downloaded the HD rom. after all the installation i rebooted and it went back to bootloader!!!! a little history: i rooted and accidently deleted some vital htc files and it totally messed this phone up. it wouldnt charge, stuck in bootloader, wouldnt go into recovery. now that i go into recovery and up load mike's hd rom, it goes back to bootloader. what am i doing wrong here? do i have to relock and upload stock htc rom? i really need my phone for work and family. dont know what else to do :crying:
Don't open a new thread when you already are discussing your issues here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2589090
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