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Unrooting - Return to Stock - T989UVKL1

To root my 'glorious' SGS2, i used the methods posted at:
www.galaxys2root.com
Which I should have nandroid a back up of my system BEFORE i rooted..
Anyway.. Every forum, and every 'how-to's shows how to get back to stock if you had a T989UVKID, but nothing if you have a T989UVKL1.. In other words, I purchased my Samsung Galaxy SII from T-Mobile with the T989UVKL1 already installed.
There is a thread in this very forum, howbeit in the developers section HERE with an image of the T989UVKL1 that you can download and Odin back to stock using the image in the PDA field, however it doesn't get rid of the CWM.. or does it?
Has anyone rooted, then decided (for what ever reason, non-important) to un-root and return back to COMPLETE stock T989UVKL1????
Does the Odin way with the image work like as if I was just turning on the phone for the first time? I also know that the stock kernal would need to be reflashed.
Any help un-rooting for those who purchased a T989UVKL1 phone from the start, would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks..

Yes, itll be back to how it was when you bought it. And it removes cwm and puts in stock, everything. Factory reset within the phone, when it reboots and does its thing.. Wait for the animated bootscreen. Not the first splash screen. Remove battery, then odin flash that file from your link. You will have to unrar it, get your odin ready and have your phone in download mode. Put the file in the pda section. Then flash away. Only reason to factory reset first is because it just overwrites the system files and adds your stock recovery keeping all user apps, but if you want a fresh clean install like nothing happend unless you had custom roms, i think your binary will have how many times you flashed custom when you get into download mode on the phone.
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[Q] How can I restore after pin has been bypassed?

Gave my epic 4g to my 15 year old cousin, she forgot the pin after enabling the security feature, and her Dad decided to try to bypass it by going into CWM 3.0.0.6. I honestly am not sure exactly what he did, but now it will only show the samsung logo when it is turned on. I figured the phone just wiped itself, inserted another micro sd after putting the final version of sfr (syndicate frozen rom) on it (already installed before the current brick) and reflashed the rom. The screen indicated that the flash was successful, but the phone still appears to be in bootloop. If this has been covered already I appoligize, but I haven't had the phone for a while and haven't kept up with it's development. Any help would be appreciated. I thought about reflashing it with odin, but after my pc crashed a while back I couldn't figure out which program I was missing to get my computer to open and use the program.

Go back into CWM and do a Factory Data reset and then flash the ROM. If it still doesn't boot then follow this thread to Odin it back to Froyo stock:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1052813

kennyglass123 said:
Go back into CWM and do a Factory Data reset and then flash the ROM. If it still doesn't boot then follow this thread to Odin it back to Froyo stock:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1052813
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I did the factory reset before reflashing sfr, so I'm going to follow the odin link. Appreciate the help.

Yea, just odin back to ec05. After which, u probably get an update alert for ei22 and then el30. Its not hard to root them, just takessome time.
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[Q] cant get my phone to say its not modified

Hi,
i have a sgs3, rogers, and i rooted it last week to try out some roms, yesterday i used my backup in CWM to restore to the original software i had on the phone.
Since then, i cant get any decent connection to the network, and it caps out at edge, when im lucky. I addition, to even get to edge i had to fix the imei in the phone because when i restored it soemhow got reset to 0
So, now i have followed the steps to unroot the phone and reset all the counters and get it to say that it is unmodified, and nothing has worked.
i have been seraching for hours today to try to find a similar situation, but i cannot find anything...
I dont know what else to try, i have used the triangle away program and followed the steps that are associated with it.
I would like to get my phone back to stock, with full conection if possible, and at the very least be able to get it reset to saying that the system is official and the phone is unmodified.
Any help is appreciated, im out of my wheelhouse with this problem..
Thanks,
k1
in download mode i get this readout:
Name: SGH-I747m
Binary download: No
Current binary: Samsung Official
System Status: Custom
Secureboot: enable
doesnt matter what i try, i cant get it to stop saying custom

k1llua said:
Hi,
i have a sgs3, rogers, and i rooted it last week to try out some roms, yesterday i used my backup in CWM to restore to the original software i had on the phone.
Since then, i cant get any decent connection to the network, and it caps out at edge, when im lucky. I addition, to even get to edge i had to fix the imei in the phone because when i restored it soemhow got reset to 0
So, now i have followed the steps to unroot the phone and reset all the counters and get it to say that it is unmodified, and nothing has worked.
i have been seraching for hours today to try to find a similar situation, but i cannot find anything...
I dont know what else to try, i have used the triangle away program and followed the steps that are associated with it.
I would like to get my phone back to stock, with full conection if possible, and at the very least be able to get it reset to saying that the system is official and the phone is unmodified.
Any help is appreciated, im out of my wheelhouse with this problem..
Thanks,
k1
in download mode i get this readout:
Name: SGH-I747m
Binary download: No
Current binary: Samsung Official
System Status: Custom
Secureboot: enable
doesnt matter what i try, i cant get it to stop saying custom
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your going to have to use odin to go back to stock and that might fix your data issue it did with some, didnt with others go here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1739426
and download the tar you want and flash it, it will ERASE your sd so just be warned, if you dont want your sd erased you can use mobile odin, which is in chainfire's thread or the play store, his thread has a free version though but you will have to dl the flash kernal for you phone which is also in his thread, i would suggest downloading the tar from mr robinsons thread then flashing it with mobile odin and then see what comes up

jthrasher47 said:
your going to have to use odin to go back to stock and that might fix your data issue it did with some, didnt with others go here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1739426
and download the tar you want and flash it, it will ERASE your sd so just be warned, if you dont want your sd erased you can use mobile odin, which is in chainfire's thread or the play store, his thread has a free version though but you will have to dl the flash kernal for you phone which is also in his thread, i would suggest downloading the tar from mr robinsons thread then flashing it with mobile odin and then see what comes up
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I have done flashes through odin several times now, and hasnt worked yet, but i will try again...ill use the mobile odin next time and see what happens.
thanks

Did you try a factory data reset after odin?
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jthrasher47 said:
Did you try a factory data reset after odin?
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Factory reset only affects the /data partition, and the flash counter stuff is stored in the bootloader partition, isn't it?
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Did anyone else see that his imei got set to 0? I'm pretty sure he has to restore his imei if he wants a working connection beyond edge.
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[Q] Quickest, easiest way to update to JB on rooted stock S3

Ok lets assume you have a nice clean completely stock ATT S3 that is rooted. I do have nandroid and titanium backups and I do have the google wallet hack working, and froze most bloatware..but this is all I have done to the phone.
What if any is the best way to slap the JB update on here without loosing a thing? I mean loose nothing, games, contacts no resetup of anything, just update to 4.1.1?? Am I dreaming here? If its not possible, what is the easiest way to get updated and back up to my existing state without having to reinstall and resetup everything?
Please dont ask why not put just custom rom instead, I have never found one that at least one small detail was not working or complete, so lets not go there, I want just a rooted ATT JB update to what I already have.

Update through Kies and you won't lose anything except for root. Re-root with CF auto root.
I did the above with a bunch of frozen ATT crap and everything was good.
Make sure you backup your data just in case.

Anon_ said:
Update through Kies and you won't lose anything except for root. Re-root with CF auto root.
I did the above with a bunch of frozen ATT crap and everything was good.
Make sure you backup your data just in case.
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I also flashed with Oden over a stock setup and it left all data there except the root.

tried kies on 2 laptops and a pc still no go. re downloaded kies a few times and still nothing. tried all the usb ports too.

I had trouble with kies too, sho I finally used odin and flashed a pre-rooted att update.
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I tried Kies on 5 PC's - no go. finally used Odin and flashed Robinson's root injected bin. Worked
and lost nothing upon reboot. However, what is really differnet?? Camera is the same, which I thought
was supposed to be different as is the gallery. SAME.
anyone else verify????????????
Thanks

I have no clue why I can't connect with kies through usb, have all drivers, and I did administrative permission, I was able to use kies through wifi tho.
I did mine through odin. Worked well for me.
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Ok got JB via Kies easy enough,and rooted with CF...I get 3 apps that are getting errors on boot, Poweramp, Titanium BU and Torrent....
The other issue Im having is trying to get GW back on there , it was removed...so in order to do this I need CWM back on here but can figure out how I used the Qcom toolkit the lasttime and its not ready for JB yet the page says....so whats the easiest way to get CWM back on to load wallet back on?

I did the exact same thing I did with ICS. I flashed JB with kies, and i've flashed with ODIN (wanted to reflash).
I then used ODIN to flash the a cwm recovery (older version). Then I rebooted into the recovery and installed super SU. Started the phone and used terminal emulator to install the latest touch recovery for the phone. Rebooted and installed wallet just like I did with ICS. First the fix, then the wallet app. change your prop and follow instructions.

Anon_ said:
Update through Kies and you won't lose anything except for root. Re-root with CF auto root.
I did the above with a bunch of frozen ATT crap and everything was good.
Make sure you backup your data just in case.
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I feel like an idiot, and ive searched everywhere, but what is CF Auto Root?
Thanks in advance for the answer!

Its a chainfire app from the play store
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I used ODIN to flash Mr. Rogers pre-rooted stock JB over my rooted ICS and everything seemed to work just fine. No problems yet. I was curious though since I still have CWM as my recovery (according to ROM Manager) and I thought I would lose that. Anyway, device status went back to "normal" after the flash. I haven't checked the flash counter yet to see if it is back to 0 yet. I'm still trying to figure all this out. This was only the 3rd time I'd flashed anything and I was still nervous! I haven't noticed any extra battery drain or anything yet.
Can anyone tell me, after you boot into download mode to check the flash counter, how do you reboot if your not actually gonna flash anything?
Thanks,
Matt

rocknmj said:
I used ODIN to flash Mr. Rogers pre-rooted stock JB over my rooted ICS and everything seemed to work just fine. No problems yet. I was curious though since I still have CWM as my recovery (according to ROM Manager) and I thought I would lose that. Anyway, device status went back to "normal" after the flash. I haven't checked the flash counter yet to see if it is back to 0 yet. I'm still trying to figure all this out. This was only the 3rd time I'd flashed anything and I was still nervous! I haven't noticed any extra battery drain or anything yet.
Can anyone tell me, after you boot into download mode to check the flash counter, how do you reboot if your not actually gonna flash anything?
Thanks,
Matt
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Mobile Odin and Rogers file is easiest.
If you used Odin and Mr. Rogers pre-rooted stock to go from ICS to JB you will increment the flash counter as soon as you go into your custom recovery. If you use Mobile Odin, than you will not increment the flash counter. This information is in the most current posts: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1739426.
I didn't care about the counter but didn't want to reflash TWRP recovery so I used Mobile Odin and didn't flash the recovery, cache, or Everoot. Fast, easy, and I liked having my Nandroid backup available if something went wrong.

I thought about using moble Odin, but had never used it before and only downloaded it yesterday for future use. So I'm assuming that Mr. Rogers pre-rooted stock didn't flash the stock recovery? ROM Manager still shows that I have CWM installed. I did check with Triangle Away and it shows a count of 2 and binary as "official". I haven't booted back into download mode to check the counter because I wasn't sure what the process for rebooting was if I wasn't flashing something new. I'm a total beginner, so I hope everyone is patient!
Thanks for the help.

recovery stock tar file passed in odin but wont boot up!

I have flashed the boot stock recovery tar file for my Sprint sph-l900 and it says pass in odin. Then the samsung emblem comes up like its going to boot and then goes black. It wont show its charging while plugged in to charger. But if I take the battery out and hold on, home, and up buttons it will go into stock recovery. So I know that it loaded that at least. Because obviously my TWRP recovery is gone. But I don't understand why its not loading I have done this before and no the steps to take but it is not rebooting properly! I don't know if my only option left is to use ADB side load but if that is the case I do not have the faintest idea on how that is accomplished and done correctly. I woke up this morning and my phone was stuck on the boot screen of the parinoid android rom I had installed that has been working for a good while now. I installed an app to help optimize the system yesterday for better performance and it was an app for rooted phones and it had good reviews so I wasn't worried. I made sure that in the options in the app that the system files and other files that I new could not be touched by the app actions I made sure they were white listed so they would not be effected. That is the only thing that I think could have done this to my phone. And when I realized I could not recover to any nandroid backups I had, that's when I decided to just reinstall the boot recovery stock rar file but not before I wiped the correct files to get a clean install (Flash) Any way that is where I'm at and I do not know what to do...... So could any body please help PLEASE!!!!!!
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Basically your problem is the rom is incompatible with your current boot loader. You'll need to ODIN back to stock rooted MC2 then ODIN a custom recovery then modem. From there flash the rom you want. I'm not sure why you went back to stock recovery with the custom rom but it's not compatible. Or else you need to make sure the md5 is correct for the rom & other files you flashed. I'd just do what I first suggested and make sureyou have a good md5 for ythe rom you want before flashing it. Good luck.

Thanks for the reply!
tx_dbs_tx said:
Basically your problem is the rom is incompatible with your current boot loader. You'll need to ODIN back to stock rooted MC2 then ODIN a custom recovery then modem. From there flash the rom you want. I'm not sure why you went back to stock recovery with the custom rom but it's not compatible. Or else you need to make sure the md5 is correct for the rom & other files you flashed. I'd just do what I first suggested and make sureyou have a good md5 for ythe rom you want before flashing it. Good luck.
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I don't know about that because it was already mk4 before I ever rooted it and putt the rom on and I have already had to use the same recovery stock rar file two other times to get it back to original stock. And I haven't changed the mk4 since stock not even with the root or the rom Ive installed so it doesn't make sense especially when I have done this twice with the same rar file flashed with odin and always had good result never got stuck from not booting all the way. But so far your the only person all day i have had any advice from and you are a senior member who im sure knows what they are talking about so i guess I will have to find out how to revert from mk4 that Ive never changed to a MC2 and hope that that will do something for me im just baffled that the same thing that Ive done 2 other times wont work again....
Thanks again for the reply any other advice along the way or what ever you feel like adding is more than welcome i really appreciate you now im gonna be on the hunt for this MC2 install and what is the best steps to follow and go on....

slade1style said:
I have flashed the boot stock recovery tar file for my Sprint sph-l900 and it says pass in odin. Then the samsung emblem comes up like its going to boot and then goes black. It wont show its charging while plugged in to charger. But if I take the battery out and hold on, home, and up buttons it will go into stock recovery. So I know that it loaded that at least. Because obviously my TWRP recovery is gone. But I don't understand why its not loading I have done this before and no the steps to take but it is not rebooting properly! I don't know if my only option left is to use ADB side load but if that is the case I do not have the faintest idea on how that is accomplished and done correctly. I woke up this morning and my phone was stuck on the boot screen of the parinoid android rom I had installed that has been working for a good while now. I installed an app to help optimize the system yesterday for better performance and it was an app for rooted phones and it had good reviews so I wasn't worried. I made sure that in the options in the app that the system files and other files that I new could not be touched by the app actions I made sure they were white listed so they would not be effected. That is the only thing that I think could have done this to my phone. And when I realized I could not recover to any nandroid backups I had, that's when I decided to just reinstall the boot recovery stock rar file but not before I wiped the correct files to get a clean install (Flash) Any way that is where I'm at and I do not know what to do...... So could any body please help PLEASE!!!!!!
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What recovery did you use? Philz 6.12. X?
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No TWRP 2.6.3
jlmancuso said:
What recovery did you use? Philz 6.12. X?
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No I had TWRP recovery but when i realized there was no getting to flash the rom nandroid BU I went ahead and did a factory wipe and all the files your suppossed to wipe and then I used odin like I have many times before and flashed the same recovery stock rar I have used before to go back to stock and start fresh any way this time odin said pass as usu-wall and then it acted as though it were going to boot and then it lit up the silver samsung emblem for a hot sec and then went black and stayed black after that even when i plugged the charger in the led light would not even show it was charging. But if I take the battery out and back in while its plugged in to charger the screen comes on with the little green battery icon and shows it charging. if i push pwr it show samsung icon then goes dead. Now if I push all the button for recovery it will boot back to stock android recovery. and i can upload one of the backups which was my last rom but it of course act as if it will load and then fails which i know is because i dont have the custom recovery any more but it didnt work either when I did and i don't know man im baffled...
The only suggestion Ive been given so far was from the senior member above and said i need to flash a earlier firmware than mk4 but that is weird to me since I have never had any thing installed on anything other than an mk4 but it make sense that it could work I just have not found the info that makes me feel confident about choices yet...
Thanks for replying any other thought please share!

Well sounds like the odin flash had some kind of issue even though it did not state one. Try going back into download mode and flash a custom recovery (twrp) then flash billards back to stock MC2. This will restore everything back even if you have the knox bootloader. Link is below for easy access. Two things twrp is recommended and do a factory reset before installing. After install reboot (apply su when asked if you want it) the phone will reboot display a messed up screen then reboot once again (normal dont worry). After that you can flash your custom recovery via odin and you should not have any more issues.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2086769
Let me know if that works for you.

So I found the write far file for mk4 and it flashed beautifully I tried a flash of the Mc2 in the reply from earleier post but it did not pass in Odin but I really expected that because I was pausitive that there was another mk4 rar that would work. And now I'm back to a fresh stock rom and I have all the flash file I need to get it rooted and custom romed in no time. I really do appreciate the help and suggestions it is nice to know there is help when needed! So thanks again and I got the file from TA TRUE ANDROID vpubmk4 firmware android 4.3 for the sprint sph-l900 I just had to do some hunting in order to find it. And it didn't help that my renters from the other side of the duplex were having their Internet fixed and the Tech accidently disconnected my lines out side so I was with out Internet for a long time and then when it was finally fixed I found this and flashed it no problems. Thanks again. If you don't mind I'm gonna send a friend request to you I don't have any friends or contacts in this forum and it would be nice to have another person to occasionally check in with? Ya know any way take my brother and stay cool......
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slade1style said:
So I found the write far file for mk4 and it flashed beautifully I tried a flash of the Mc2 in the reply from earleier post but it did not pass in Odin but I really expected that because I was pausitive that there was another mk4 rar that would work. And now I'm back to a fresh stock rom and I have all the flash file I need to get it rooted and custom romed in no time. I really do appreciate the help and suggestions it is nice to know there is help when needed! So thanks again and I got the file from TA TRUE ANDROID vpubmk4 firmware android 4.3 for the sprint sph-l900 I just had to do some hunting in order to find it. And it didn't help that my renters from the other side of the duplex were having their Internet fixed and the Tech accidently disconnected my lines out side so I was with out Internet for a long time and then when it was finally fixed I found this and flashed it no problems. Thanks again. If you don't mind I'm gonna send a friend request to you I don't have any friends or contacts in this forum and it would be nice to have another person to occasionally check in with? Ya know any way take my brother and stay cool......
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For the record (since people seem to still be having issues) you CANNOT DOWNGRADE THROUGH ODIN WITH THE NEW BOOTLOADER!!! You can however downgrade through (custom?) RECOVERY using the previously mentioned method.
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