Hello everyone!
Im not sure if this post belongs in this thread, but I thought it would be best suited in the Sprint Galaxy Nexus thread.
Can someone please make a stock 4.3 rooted rom for the Sprint Galaxy Nexus? Or, if someone has already received the update, could you post a nand backup?
I want to update, but I dont want to lose root. However, If there isn't any other solution, I will definitely take the plunge
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vincentallen2 said:
Hello everyone!
Im not sure if this post belongs in this thread, but I thought it would be best suited in the Sprint Galaxy Nexus thread.
Can someone please make a stock 4.3 rooted rom for the Sprint Galaxy Nexus? Or, if someone has already received the update, could you post a nand backup?
I want to update, but I dont want to lose root. However, If there isn't any other solution, I will definitely take the plunge
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what's funny is that there is a 155mb zip out there, but no one has seen a actual update rollout even start yet like sprint said it was doing yesterday, and shockingly no one has used that 155mb zip to even do this yet, lol.
tomh1979 said:
what's funny is that there is a 155mb zip out there, but no one has seen a actual update rollout even start yet like sprint said it was doing yesterday, and shockingly no one has used that 155mb zip to even do this yet, lol.
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Ive downloaded that yesterday, but just like QBKing said, itd probably be better to wait for a stock rooted option. I think it would be just less of a hassle than to go through all the motions of unrooting and updating.
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tomh1979 said:
what's funny is that there is a 155mb zip out there, but no one has seen a actual update rollout even start yet like sprint said it was doing yesterday, and shockingly no one has used that 155mb zip to even do this yet, lol.
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when I updated from 4.1 to 4.2.1, I had CWM, and I got the ota, with it prompting me to keep root and disable recovery flash. I actually have the zip on my phone, I'm just scared of what will happen if I try to flash it. I don't have access to a PC, so there's no way to recover if I f*ck up.
mattchew86 said:
when I updated from 4.1 to 4.2.1, I had CWM, and I got the ota, with it prompting me to keep root and disable recovery flash. I actually have the zip on my phone, I'm just scared of what will happen if I try to flash it. I don't have access to a PC, so there's no way to recover if I f*ck up.
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Nandroid backup just in case.
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tomh1979 said:
what's funny is that there is a 155mb zip out there, but no one has seen a actual update rollout even start yet like sprint said it was doing yesterday, and shockingly no one has used that 155mb zip to even do this yet, lol.
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If you're doubting the update don't, the OTA process involves sending the update 1 by 1 randomly so that everyone doesn't download the file at once and overload the download servers, causing bad downloads, and bricking devices and in the end you'll get unhappy customers.
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Savoca said:
Nandroid backup just in case.
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If he loses root or custom recovery how's he gonna restore ? I'm thinking of trying it as well . I've made a nandroid , just wondering if I'd be able to get it restored complete with root and custom recovery ? Thanks
Jimlarck said:
If you're doubting the update don't, the OTA process involves sending the update 1 by 1 randomly so that everyone doesn't download the file at once and overload the download servers, causing bad downloads, and bricking devices and in the end you'll get unhappy customers.
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I never said I was doubting, just surprised I haven't seen anyone saying they got it yet since it was supposed to start rolling out yesterday,
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I actually flashed the 155 mb zip and rooted using nexus toolkit and all is well.
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Been running stock rooted all day today. I just used Odin to go back to 4.2.1 and used that zip Phandroid (I think it was them) renamed it update.zip put it in root of storage. Booted the phone and it said there was an update. Choose to reboot and it installed it. Then fastboot flashed twrp and flashed an su zip. Granted It wiped my phone but I just used helium to restore data on some of my apps and everything has been fine
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MonstaDriva said:
If he loses root or custom recovery how's he gonna restore ? I'm thinking of trying it as well . I've made a nandroid , just wondering if I'd be able to get it restored complete with root and custom recovery ? Thanks
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Tl;dr custom recovery stayed, root obtained by flashing supersu.
Last night I used fastboot to flash system user data radios and boot images from the 4.2.1 factory image. Flashed the 4.3 zip in twrp. Made a nandroid of stock, then flashed supersu zip. All is good
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I tried flashing the zip in TWRP and it failed. Not sure why maybe a bad download.
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Nandroid backup just in case.
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I went ahead and flashed it, in CWM, and everything is working great. Had to reflash Superuser, in this case, Koush's Superuser, and everything is fine.
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I went ahead and flashed it, in CWM, and everything is working great. Had to reflash Superuser, in this case, Koush's Superuser, and everything is fine.
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I renamed the file update.zip and tried this, and no go, what am I doing wrong, could it be due to being on a 4.2.2 ROM?
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I tried a fresh download using CWM this time and it still failed. What am I missing?
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tomh1979 said:
I renamed the file update.zip and tried this, and no go, what am I doing wrong, could it be due to being on a 4.2.2 ROM?
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I went and restored a backup of Stock 4.2.1, and just flashed over that. No wiping or anything. Do you have a Stock backup?
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I went and restored a backup of Stock 4.2.1, and just flashed over that. No wiping or anything. Do you have a Stock backup?
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Nope, any chance on flashing a stock rooted ROM perhaps.
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Nope, any chance on flashing a stock rooted ROM perhaps.
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You could try it. My Stock ROM was rooted, and I all I had to do was reflash my Superuser zip after I let it boot up once, just to make sure the update took properly.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1419170
Download the file from the linked thread there for our device and then pick which instruction set applies to you from the second post in that thread. Since I'm leaving Sprint and giving my Gnex to my two year old, I unrooted, returned to stock, and locked the device. After following the directions for adb sideload, everything came up great.
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I flashed the latest GSM small 4.0.4 update on stock rom using cwm, but forgot to use RootKeeper app, and of course I lost root . Any way to bring it back? Thanx.
PS: I did remove the recovery folder from the update before flashing, come recovery still installed.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1392310
Im writing this post cause i havent 10. Im new in this forum but not in development Knowledge, and i consider its a stupid rule. Im sorry if i write any Irrelevant post.
I just don't want reset everything and starting from the beggining
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guinnes.s said:
I flashed the latest GSM small 4.0.4 update on stock rom using cwm, but forgot to use RootKeeper app, and of course I lost root . Any way to bring it back? Thanx.
PS: I did remove the recovery folder from the update before flashing, come recovery still installed.
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If you still have CWM installed, then just download this and flash it in CWM. Done.
just want to let you know that T-Mobile firmware is ready for download
http://samsung-updates.com/device/?id=SGH-T999
Is this for odin
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Can this be used with the t mobile variant
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If this is for sprint, why does the title say T-Mobile..
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Edit: In that case, thanks PP
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Its for T Mobile.. if you click on the link it says its for the T999
I was wondering the same thing, but if it matters I went to the link and it says it's for T-Mobile T999UVALEM like the title
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Tweezydak1d said:
Is this for odin
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yes it is - same firmware as you would get updting with kies
anthonykash said:
Can this be used with the t mobile variant
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ye, it is tmobile version i am tired and made a typo - corrected thnks and gnite
my phone came with this firmware. is this just posted to revert to stock if on a custom rom or is there other significance?
Has anyone tried flashing yet?
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So this must mean we can flash fash back to stock with odin if we have problems.
yup! this is our fall back ROM. now we need a triangle away to reset the counter!
It Works
I decided to be the test monkey on this one.
I had a nandroid backup of when I screwed my system so badly it just boot looped repeatedly. Restored that with cwm, verified it was still hosed, unpacked this zip, used odin to burn the .tar.md5 to the phone as PDA, rebooted.
It does some gear chunking while booting the first time then reboots - don't panic yet! On second boot it does some more rebuilding, then 'WELCOME!'
Bonus: CWM now sees the actual external sdcard as /sdcard and can find things like roms and backups on it. Edit: This CWM finds .zips on the sdcard, but doesn't seem to know how to backup/restore.
So is this for un rooting our phones?
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sizer99 said:
I decided to be the test monkey on this one.
I had a nandroid backup of when I screwed my system so badly it just boot looped repeatedly. Restored that with cwm, verified it was still hosed, unpacked this zip, used odin to burn the .tar.md5 to the phone as PDA, rebooted.
It does some gear chunking while booting the first time then reboots - don't panic yet! On second boot it does some more rebuilding, then 'WELCOME!'
Bonus: CWM now sees the actual external sdcard as /sdcard and can find things like roms and backups on it. Edit: This CWM finds .zips on the sdcard, but doesn't seem to know how to backup/restore.
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What do you mean "This CWM" ? The tars we're talking about in this thread are completely stock from samsung, there is no CWM in these... please elaborate.
hiazn said:
What do you mean "This CWM" ? The tars we're talking about in this thread are completely stock from samsung, there is no CWM in these... please elaborate.
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After burning this with Odin I ended up with a CWM that I didn't expect - and I've never seen one that actually recognized the external card. However, with all the things I've been trying it's quite possible I ended up burning a boot image I forgot about. I need to try reburning this and see if anything changes, but can't do it right now.
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After burning this with Odin I ended up with a CWM that I didn't expect - and I've never seen one that actually recognized the external card. However, with all the things I've been trying it's quite possible I ended up burning a boot image I forgot about. I need to try reburning this and see if anything changes, but can't do it right now.
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Sounds like a plan, let us know what you find.
is this actually
T999UVALEM
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T999UVLEM
M9x3mos said:
is this actually
T999UVALEM
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T999UVLEM
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Mine stock is T999UVLEM, whats the difference between the two?
does this restore everything, including stock recovery, but resetting the counter?
Strange - I had kind of a weird experience with this. I flashed via Odin as usual (as I've done a 100x before) and when it rebooted, it still had remnants of the previous rom I had installed. I didn't get the "welcome" screen as if I was starting from a new factory rom. but at least it got me back to step 1 and I could flash the Lean 2.1 rom again to repair my screw ups.
I got my notification to update to L710VPLG2 and chose the install now option. It failed because I had CWM installed. Doh! I forgot to remove CWM.
So, I uninstalled CWM, unrooted and went back to the stock recovery. Now the Device Status is: normal.
However, I can't get the device to find the update when checking Update Samsung Software.
When I reverted to the stock recovery using this method, it went back to PALF9 with a date of Wednesday May 23. Before I installed CWM and used EpicTeam's recovery last week, the phone was updated had a date of June 28.
Any ideas? Does anyone have a download of L710VPLG2 available?
Many thanks!
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/55403425/209d73b41846.update_SPH-L710_LF9_to_LG2.zip
ORIGINALLY POSTED BY ITISAGOODNAME
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w8setter said:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/55403425/209d73b41846.update_SPH-L710_LF9_to_LG2.zip
ORIGINALLY POSTED BY ITISAGOODNAME
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Thanks dude!
I see it's a zip files. So, reinstall CWM and root. Then apply update?
When i installed the other update you had to be on a stock unalltered rom, it can be rooted though, install the update in cwm then install root and then reinstall cwm, and restore nandroid.....reboot
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w8setter said:
When i installed the other update you had to be on a stock unalltered rom, it can be rooted though, install the update in cwm then install root and then reinstall cwm, and restore nandroid.....reboot
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Unfortunatley the install fails both from stock recovery and CWM.
I get a long winded message that says: Verifying current system... assert failed. Error in /tmp/sideload/package.zip.
I am choosing the ZIP file you provided both in stock recovery and CWM.
CWM probably doesnt read the update script the same as stock. It looks like the stock recovery is looking for the update in a different location "/tmp" I would just go back to complete stock, get the update, then restore data.
I flashed the .zip from CWM successfully....
Swayyy said:
I flashed the .zip from CWM successfully....
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To confirm, you had CWM and root still enabled?
Went into CWM and chose the ZIP file, installed and you were good to go?
For me, when I removed CWM, it also downgraded my kernel.
I think I'm going to revert to stock removing CWM and root in hopes I get the OTA.
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I think I'm going to revert to stock removing CWM and root in hopes I get the OTA.
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OK, back to stock recovery and no root.
I'm curious though, why would http://www.epiccm.org/2012/06/sprint-sgs3-stock-restore.html downgrade my kernal?
I'm on stock rooted too and am not getting the OTA update.
Does anyone know of any dialer codes? On the NS4G there was *#*#CHECKIN#*#* to manually check for an update
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fergie716 said:
I'm on stock rooted too and am not getting the OTA update.
Does anyone know of any dialer codes? On the NS4G there was *#*#CHECKIN#*#* to manually check for an update
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It just popped up on me after a reboot, but have you tried here in settings?
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fergie716 said:
I'm on stock rooted too and am not getting the OTA update.
Does anyone know of any dialer codes? On the NS4G there was *#*#CHECKIN#*#* to manually check for an update
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I was hoping there was some sort of manual or push check besides the one under Settings, Update.
So, when I reverted to stock using Team Epic's instructions my kernel went back a month in date. Screenshot 1 is from when I installed CWM and rooted. Screenshot 2 is when I removed CWM and root using Team Epic's instructions.
Obviously, I've rebooted quite a few times without any further notifications after the initial one failed.
Check out the attached files.
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It just popped up on me after a reboot, but have you tried here in settings?
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Yea I tried. Not really a big deal just wanna make sure I'm all set when a big update comes
I'll try a reboot later (recording battery stats lol)
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So let me get this str8, i cant just flash this through cwm and go about my way?
There are other steps required after flashing this? If so then ill wait til theres a rom out with this update already applied.
Is there any difference in the update
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Is there anyway to stop the update popup and reminder, it's getting very aggravating
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Is there anyway to stop the update popup and reminder, it's getting very aggravating
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I was getting annoyed with the popup reminder too. I flashed the stock recovery via Odin and accepted the updated. Flashed CWM and re-rooted
I am willing to bet a DEV out there will work on a rooted stock rom with the latest...at least there will be an updated custom rom in the next few days..bet freeza, phantom, clark44 or kmullins will have a custom ready in a day or two. They are nicer anyhow, I mean, isn't that why we are all here?
Naddict said:
I am willing to bet a DEV out there will work on a rooted stock rom with the latest...at least there will be an updated custom rom in the next few days..bet freeza, phantom, clark44 or kmullins will have a custom ready in a day or two. They are nicer anyhow, I mean, isn't that why we are all here?
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I could actually do this and upload it tomorrow if there's interest
Only thing is it would probably be deodexed, I can try to re odex it but I've been having issues when doing that lately
But anyway you would want a full, rooted stock ROM with this latest update included (all the new libs and patched apps etc)?
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Here's how to root and install TWRP Recovery on your Sprint Galaxy Note 2, video tutorial for noobs.
Rooting file you need:
http://downloadandroidrom.com/file/GalaxyNote2/rooting/GalaxyNote2RootSprint.zip
and Samsung USB drivers for Windows:
http://stockroms.net/file/Drivers/Samsung/SAMSUNG_USB_Driver_for_Mobile_Phones.exe
Will this method wipe the phone, or will it boot with everything I have done saved?
Compnetbobby said:
Will this method wipe the phone, or will it boot with everything I have done saved?
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No, you are just flashing the recovery and a zip file for root. Does not wipe data.
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smark72 said:
No, you are just flashing the recovery and a zip file for root. Does not wipe data.
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His apps will be lost. He will have to resetup all apps
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dallastx said:
His apps will be lost. He will have to resetup all apps
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Not ture, I just flashed and it saved everything but I have root.
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Not ture, I just flashed and it saved everything but I have root.
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Oh ok cool
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Sweet will be rooting mine Friday
Would it be wise waiting until an OTA update comes? You would think there would be one just for misc bugs, as well as hopefully multi window support.
jreuschl said:
Would it be wise waiting until an OTA update comes? You would think there would be one just for misc bugs, as well as hopefully multi window support.
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Sure if you have about 6 months of patience.
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jreuschl said:
Would it be wise waiting until an OTA update comes? You would think there would be one just for misc bugs, as well as hopefully multi window support.
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there'll be stock-based roms for rooted devices anyways if and when they release updates
thanks man, done and done!
Amazingly easy and worked flawless. Used your technique on my S3 also, many Thanx!!!
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So I just have twrp installed so i could use wifi tether. I just got the OTA last night for the security update. I knew it would fail after the reboot. I went into TWRP selected install, from /cache were the ota was sitting. It appeared to be working but failed at the end.
error message: assert failed getprop ro.secure =1
Is there anyway around this?
So as of right now there is now way to root with the latest OTA installed correct? I just got my Note II yesterday and the OTA came through this morning and I, without thought, accepted and installed it. Is there a way to root or need I wait until a method releases with the latest OTA?
Quis89 said:
So as of right now there is now way to root with the latest OTA installed correct? I just got my Note II yesterday and the OTA came through this morning and I, without thought, accepted and installed it. Is there a way to root or need I wait until a method releases with the latest OTA?
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You can root using odin or cf auto root or twrp or cwm etc. No more exonys abuse.
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Quis89 said:
So as of right now there is now way to root with the latest OTA installed correct? I just got my Note II yesterday and the OTA came through this morning and I, without thought, accepted and installed it. Is there a way to root or need I wait until a method releases with the latest OTA?
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You can still root using any method other than the exynos abuse app. Just flash a custom recovery In odin and then flash a root.zip
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So I just have twrp installed so i could use wifi tether. I just got the OTA last night for the security update. I knew it would fail after the reboot. I went into TWRP selected install, from /cache were the ota was sitting. It appeared to be working but failed at the end.
error message: assert failed getprop ro.secure =1
Is there anyway around this?
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No way around that. Easy way to explain, need to reset your binary counter using triangle away. Must be run as many times as you need to get it down to 1, then you must unroot using su preferably so it can cleanly do it. Then you must install the stock recovery then you can update. Hope that helps. I just did all this today, hence that's why I'm posting this late. Took me a while to figure out why it kept failing. Triangle away is a must if you want to do it without installing a rooted rom with update built in.
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Ok I got my note today and want to root. It looks like I'm still on 4.1.1 .So will this method work for me? Thanks.
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No way around that. Easy way to explain, need to reset your binary counter using triangle away. Must be run as many times as you need to get it down to 1, then you must unroot using su preferably so it can cleanly do it. Then you must install the stock recovery then you can update. Hope that helps. I just did all this today, hence that's why I'm posting this late. Took me a while to figure out why it kept failing. Triangle away is a must if you want to do it without installing a rooted rom with update built in.
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Thank you! maybe you can post some steps and the links for stock sprint recovery.:good:
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Thank you! maybe you can post some steps and the links for stock sprint recovery.:good:
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Try this, this is how I did it:
http://galaxynote2root.com/galaxy-note-2-tutorials/how-to-install-stock-recovery-on-galaxy-note-2/
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Hi, So about 5 days ago I rooted my Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II using the video Max Lee made from galaxynote2root(dot)com, and about 36 hours later I get a notification for an OTA update. I kept off updating because I didn't really know what to do. I'm really new to this and there's still a lot I have to learn. Anyway, I ran the update and it restarted my phone and went to the TWRP screen. I restarted the system and it stopped notifying me about the update. And I checked and it says that my system is up to date. And I also checked to see if I still have root with a root checker app I downloaded, and it said I still had root also. So, was the app wrong and I don't have root anymore? And after I updated should I have restored the backup I made when I originally rooted? Also, thanks for any help, I've looked around and couldn't find anyone else with this question.
Your phone automatically downloaded the update and was waiting to be powercycled to install. However it failed to install because it requires stock recovery to install and you dont have it. So your phone boots back up and all is good with no changess.
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xKrisx said:
Your phone automatically downloaded the update and was waiting to be powercycled to install. However it failed to install because it requires stock recovery to install and you dont have it. So your phone boots back up and all is good with no changess.
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So my phone is not updated, but what if I want to update in the future? I just download and run stock recovery?
same issue
Sandelorian said:
So my phone is not updated, but what if I want to update in the future? I just download and run stock recovery?
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I also have the same issues. I did a back up of my original roms and re installed using twrp . I down load the new update and when its going to restart it goes into to twrp menu. From there i am stuck on what to do.
It failed because you're not on stock recovery. If flashing the stock ota, you need stock recovery.
If you have twrp recovery, read and review this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2148604
thunderwagn said:
It failed because you're not on stock recovery. If flashing the stock ota, you need stock recovery.
If you have twrp recovery, read and review this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2148604
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Before I rooted my note I made a back up using twrp. Is that not a stock recovery file ?.
Yes and no. That's basically just a backup of the stock rom that's only flashable via twrp since that is the recovery used to create the nand. So yes it is a recovery but only flashable thru twrp.
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thunderwagn said:
Yes and no. That's basically just a backup of the stock rom that's only flashable via twrp since that is the recovery used to create the nand. So yes it is a recovery but only flashable thru twrp.
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Ok well I did recovered using twrp and it installed and took me back that state before the root. I was thinking that took me back to original state and then update . I did download the update but as it was restarting the twrp home sceen would pop up and not update. So now I have no root or new update. Its funny it was easier to root then to unroot.
The link I posted above would have allowed you to flash new firmware and ma7 through twrp. No unroot reroot required. ..
And like stated, you can't update the stock ota update without stock recovery.
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Confused about all the links!
thunderwagn said:
The link I posted above would have allowed you to flash new firmware and ma7 through twrp. No unroot reroot required. ..
And like stated, you can't update the stock ota update without stock recovery.
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There are 6 links on that thread, one for odex and deodex (which I have no idea what it does), and then the 2 links for ma7 one all in one, and one just regular. And then there are another set of 2 links for the kernals, one regular and one modified. I guess what I'm asking is, how do I install these and which ones should I install? I have no idea what any of them do anyway.
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how do we go about it and what files exactly do we need? why is everyone so vague?
thunderwagn said:
The link I posted above would have allowed you to flash new firmware and ma7 through twrp. No unroot reroot required. ..
And like stated, you can't update the stock ota update without stock recovery.
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Links go to mystical places with instructions and posts and helpful comments and answers. All you have to do is click and read and absorb the knowledge.
thunderwagn said:
The link I posted above would have allowed you to flash new firmware and ma7 through twrp. No unroot reroot required. ..
And like stated, you can't update the stock ota update without stock recovery.
Sent from my SPH-L900 using xda app-developers app
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I have flashed over 30 SPH-L900 (Note 2) fron Sprint to Boost.
I do everything on CDMA (paid version) 3.9.
Since the L.900VPAMAZ update I can no longer change the esn to Boost because the 16 digit CDMA passcode is no longer the default passcode for the Note 2. The old pascode: 01F2030F5F678FF9 still works for the Galaxy S2 and S3 but is no longer recognized on CDMA Workshop or QXDM.
If anyone knows the new passcode please let me know.
If I find it I will post it so that noone else has this problem.
Thanks!