Since I cant post in the developer area. How do I unroot my 217s and restore the stock recovery?
cheezhead said:
Since I cant post in the developer area. How do I unroot my 217s and restore the stock recovery?
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I forget where I found it, but I downloaded the stock firmware (massive 2 day google search) and flashed it with ODIN to put it back to stock. i think i'm going to leave it stock until I can get a root that doesn't have all the security pop ups every 45 seconds (I easily get annoyed with notifications and my OCD tells me to deal with them as soon as they come in, really angers my fiancé lol).
Kies didn't work since it was modified so I had to unzip the file and push it through with ODIN and a custom recovery, which flashed to stock through the firmware. The stock firmware is over a GB if I remember correctly so I can't send it via gmail if you want it. Sorry.
Edit: Make sure that when you go to push with ODIN, that you put the file in the Phone section and uncheck all the options on the left
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So I rooted mine S III and flashed the clockworkmod recovery in preparation to install Cyanogen mod 10 ROM for it, bute after reading more I decided to not do it, afraid of bricking, unstable ROM etc. After a while I used super user option to ''Un-root'' it, after reboot it was gone and I though it was back to normal state. Now just last week I received Update from T-mobile which is bugging me every few days, but when I try to install it the phone boots with Android icon and it's belly open like shelf with tesseract moving around and progress bar for few seconds, then recovery shows up and says something failed. Can I throw it out somehow and install the update? I'm worried because I won't be able to install the 4.1 which is coming sometime soon.
I have yet to come across a stock recovery file on its own. You probably need to ODIN back to stock. Make sure you back up.
Also, (assuming you have a T Mobile phone)I believe the OTA you are receiving is the UVALH2 update, in which case you can already find that ODIN package in this thread if not, there are other stock images in this thread also.
Infamous_Cheez said:
I have yet to come across a stock recovery file on its own. You probably need to ODIN back to stock. Make sure you back up.
Also, (assuming you have a T Mobile phone)I believe the OTA you are receiving is the UVALH2 update, in which case you can already find that ODIN package in this thread if not, there are other stock images in this thread also.
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Screw the update I want Jelly Bean, what if it shows up and phone just boots up into recovery and just stands there like an idiot?
Only two ways to get jb right now is to update to UVALH2 then apply the ota patch from samsung. Alternatively wildchld has the jb rom ready to go in the dev thread.
Note that with these updates if you flash a rom with cwm or twrp you will not get the full update. Only odin or kies can update all partitions available in the ota.
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I'm sure this has been brought up before but with 20 something internet tabs and countless youtube videos I definitely get the jist of what needs to be done in order to root the phone as I've done it a few years ago with another phone. The problem i'm having is I think I'm making this more complicated than it is. First off, I cannot find a NON rooted stock Bell rom for galaxy S III SGH-I747M all I can find are rooted ones. I'm trying to root my phone yes but what if I wanna revert back to stock with no root? I haven't found one yet. Secondly all the different roms I been finding are 555mb to 725mb in size, I just want to root my phone I don't recall half gig sized files just to do that. So then I downloaded a stock rom apperantly named stock root66_tar it's 1.5 GB!! it doesn't have anything else with it. I feel like an idiot because there's so many files and OTA and LH1 and stock rom, kernel, ect I know they all mean something I guess I'm just overwhealmed with so much info, I just want to root my Galaxy S III SGH-I747M from Bell and then if and when I choose I want to be able to unroot it and have a copy of a stock untouched unrooted rom, and then I still don't know if I need to have a stock rom to unroot.
I'm currently on this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1739426
seems straight forward as I just want a stock rom with root access no fancy CWM or rom flashing and I'm downloading the Bell rom which it says its stock just root injected...im guessing that means it's rooted but again if I need warranty repairs or need kies to update my phone when jelly bean comes out I will need to unroot the phone so kies recognizes my phone and allows me to update to 4.1 hope someone can send me in the right direction from the thread im in and can let me know about unrooting and wether or not if a rooted phone can be recognized by kies to update to jelly bean next month when it comes out as I dont wanna be stuck not able to update all because I rooted my phone and don't know how to fully reverse the process. Thank you
1st download odin from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1165122&d=1340993443
2nd download this http://www.blownco.com/smartguy/CWM-Recovery-LTE-SGS3-v5.tar.tar
3rd download this http://www.blownco.com/smartguy/Superuser-3.1.3-arm-signed.zip
ok so the 1st download is odin what you need to do is open that and put the 2nd download (which is clockwordmod recovery) into the pda part of odin and hit start...when its done phone will reboot. after phone is reboot you need to put the 3rd download onto your sdcard and then reboot back into recovery and flash that zip and that will put superuser on your phone which will give you root.
smartguy044 said:
1st download odin from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1165122&d=1340993443
2nd download this http://www.blownco.com/smartguy/CWM-Recovery-LTE-SGS3-v5.tar.tar
3rd download this http://www.blownco.com/smartguy/Superuser-3.1.3-arm-signed.zip
ok so the 1st download is odin what you need to do is open that and put the 2nd download (which is clockwordmod recovery) into the pda part of odin and hit start...when its done phone will reboot. after phone is reboot you need to put the 3rd download onto your sdcard and then reboot back into recovery and flash that zip and that will put superuser on your phone which will give you root.
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Thanks for the info I'm just about to read it now. seems so far from what else I been researching about that thread I linked is that a stock rom that is root injected not trippin the timer thingy means I can just unroot it by simply doing a factory reset unless I read that wrong. Since im just going for root on a stock rom with no recovery as im told I dont need it if I don't plan on flashin different roms, but I see you mention downloading it so I take it I should ? even though I don't plan on flashing other roms? I just downloaded your 3 files you linked and it was interesting that it was all about 7MB where as the other thread the file was over 600 MB lol and both are to root as well.
Yea its just good to have just incase you do decide to flash a custom rom like the team insomnia roms but there is no need to worry about flash counter since there ia an app to reset it for you
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smartguy044 said:
Yea its just good to have just incase you do decide to flash a custom rom like the team insomnia roms but there is no need to worry about flash counter since there ia an app to reset it for you
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ah I see now I have another dumb question before I go to bed, what is the difference between rooting my phone using the files you supplied which is like 1 mb for the super user which gives root access as you say and flashing it using the stock rom that's 600 MB with root injection?
what are the differences between them both? would seem impractical to download a 600mb file if a 1mb file does the same thing unless I'm blind and too tired as Ive been up over 30 hours. Thanks for the replies and I will be back tomorrow to check on this thread for any additional info anyone writes.
Well the way i suggest just leaves you with the stock eom you are currently using and the whole process will prob be completed by the time you download half of the stock rooted rom......both ways work but the way i mention is just the one i use
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If you already have a "recovery" image installed, then you don't need to worry about rooting the phone. Just flash a root injected ROM as you mentioned.
But if you don't already have a recovery image (like TWRP or Clockwork Mod) then it's easier/quicker to flash a recovery if your phone is already rooted.
Thanks for the replies, I will experiment with both methods but before I hit the button once and for all I will try to find out in the meantime what I need to unroot it with a stock rom which I did download but it says root injected which I'm guessing is just that it's a rooted stock rom so then technically it's not stock if it's root injected? and I'm trying to figure out if I do a factory reset from the root injected rom if it brings it back like it was from the factory.
PS: after more reading I found out you need a non root injected stock rom to go back to 100% factory, for the life of me I cannot find a stock rom that is NON root injected for when I want to unroot and flash back to factory for Bell Galaxy S III SGH-I747M.
Hello,
I have Galaxy S3 running 4.1.1, i have perviously
rooted it. After that i done a Factory Rest to the Device,
then tried to UpDate it to the latest Version!
But it always tells me that this device is modified!
What i want is to Completely REMOVE the Root,
then UPDATE it to the latest version? Please HELP!
DaYiM said:
Hello,
I have Galaxy S3 running 4.1.1, i have perviously
rooted it. After that i done a Factory Rest to the Device,
then tried to UpDate it to the latest Version!
But it always tells me that this device is modified!
What i want is to Completely REMOVE the Root,
then UPDATE it to the latest version? Please HELP!
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As long as you have a custom recovery (either CWM or TWRP), you will not be able to update. You could go back to 100% stock unrooted and then update, but this is not necessary and you'll be doing a lot more steps. More steps means more chances to mess something up.
Good news is that you can just install the stock Rom. Freeza always updates his thread with the most recent Stock Rooted Rom. A lot of times he comes out with it even before I get the OTA from Sprint. All you have to do is flash it in TWRP or CWM. In case you're not familiar with the procedure for doing this, please see this linked post.
Finally, OTAs are fairly common, so check out CNexus' thread on OTAs.
DaYiM said:
Hello,
I have Galaxy S3 running 4.1.1, i have perviously
rooted it. After that i done a Factory Rest to the Device,
then tried to UpDate it to the latest Version!
But it always tells me that this device is modified!
What i want is to Completely REMOVE the Root,
then UPDATE it to the latest version? Please HELP!
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If you want to go back to stock completely, you will need to odin the tar file and the latest triangle away. This will set your binary and get you back to normal and then odin the stock tar. This will put you back to completely stock with a stick recovery. You should be able to update from there. There are several links to the info you need.
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4_Weasel said:
If you want to go back to stock completely, you will need to odin the tar file and the latest triangle away. This will set your binary and get you back to normal and then odin the stock tar. This will put you back to completely stock with a stick recovery. You should be able to update from there. There are several links to the info you need.
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They don't necessarily have to use Odin and Triangle Away. Here is a thread for a recovery-flashable zip which will reset their counter and restore them back to unrooted stock.
That being said, if the only reason they want to go back to stock is to take the update, it's entirely unnecessary. Like I said before, the more steps they have to take, the more chances they have to mess something up (especially when it comes to Odin and Download mode, in my opinion). If they want to return to stock unrooted for another reason, the easiest way is to use the flashable zip.
Thanks alot for all of your help
Hi i am new to rooting and wind up loosing my stock backup, i had to flash a custom rom and used clean rom 2.0 se.
the data is very slow i went form have 20mbps down to 3mbps download speed. i have been doing some research and i think it may have something to do with my basband, apn settings, and so forth. the issue is clean rom blocks any modification to the settings.
if im on the right track im assuming i can flash a newer verion of my basband and possible my basband?
badsband is- LTE 1.4 or 1400
basband version is- I317UCALJ2
any help ill be greatful, i am a power user and paying 130 a month for the lte speed i need it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2004650
You need the UCAMA4 baseband and the associated RIL files as well.
Are you familiar with Odin ??
The best way back to stock and keeping root is to Odin flash the stock rom.
I'll get the thread for you. ..BRB. .g
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Thread is on top. .Just follow the instructions provided and you'll be stock and rooted in no time.
I used this method a few days ago and it was perfect.
The device will be restored to factory software with root so back up anything you wish to keep first.
You will even have the option to go full stock from here with a few more easy steps.
Read carefully and use the appropriate files. ..g
gregsarg said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2004650
You need the UCAMA4 baseband and the associated RIL files as well.
Are you familiar with Odin ??
The best way back to stock and keeping root is to Odin flash the stock rom.
I'll get the thread for you. ..BRB. .g
Edit. ..
Thread is on top. .Just follow the instructions provided and you'll be stock and rooted in no time.
I used this method a few days ago and it was perfect.
The device will be restored to factory software with root so back up anything you wish to keep first.
You will even have the option to go full stock from here with a few more easy steps.
Read carefully and use the appropriate files. ..g
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thank you for your help but when i download the image odin does not recognize it, i also downloaded a 7z zip managers and it says zero files.
daze28nyc said:
thank you for your help but when i download the image odin does not recognize it, i also downloaded a 7z zip managers and it says zero files.
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it verted back to stock but the basband version did not change speeds are even worst now... is there somthing i may have did wrong
First of all if you go to settings and about device and than to status and then under imei does your phone show a bunch of numbers?
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Andrew149 said:
First of all if you go to settings and about device and than to status and then under imei does your phone show a bunch of numbers?
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i got it was still on 4.1.1, it was weird something with firefox would not download the image properly, 4.1.2 is harible stock i dnt know whyi went back. at least know i can properly back up my stock rom and flash back custom. thank you for all help i got it know.
im going to use odin to flash 4.1.2 image so i can get root then add custom recovery.
daze28nyc said:
i got it was still on 4.1.1, it was weird something with firefox would not download the image properly, 4.1.2 is harible stock i dnt know whyi went back. at least know i can properly back up my stock rom and flash back custom. thank you for all help i got it know.
im going to use odin to flash 4.1.2 image so i can get root then add custom recovery.
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count says 3 on anyway to set that two zero?
Yes...
By using "triangle away" from the play store.
But you would also need a stock recovery to do this, otherwise the counter will stay at 1 until you restore a factory recovery. That is done by flashing CF auto root again to give you the stock recovery.
Honestly, if you are going to stay rooted I would not worry about the counter.
It can easily be set to zero if you need to go stock for a warranty or service....g
Can I flash sprint factory rom to my at&t note 2?
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I was on CM 12.1 and I want to go back to completely stock Note 4, as if I purchased my device from the Sprint Store!
I went to download Odin and the stock firmware of Android 5.0.1 for my device, I followed instructions online, and when I press start in Odin, after about 3 seconds it Fails.
Can I not go back to stock Touchwiz 5.0.1 firmware after being on CM 12.1? I do not have a nandroid backup, and even when I try and access Recovery, it is no longer custom recovery, it is a very simple looking recovery screen, with no option to restore a backup.
What can I do! ): I'm extremely stressed and worried I'm not quite sure what to do.
My phone does go into Download mode just fine and show up in Odin.
Also, my phone actually boots up fine, and works fine, but there is no custom recovery, and Odin is failing when trying to flash the stock firmwares
Down load the latest tar from samsung its in the dev section that will fix your phone with odin
pbedard said:
Down load the latest tar from samsung its in the dev section that will fix your phone with odin
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Since you're familiar with CM and recent OE1 writes both on TW and CM, can you tell the OP if reactivation lock exists on CM, please? How to disable, if enabled?
He's trying to flash OF5 in Odin but it quickly fails or he's downloading the correct OF5 tar now. Add any suggestions you think he might need when coming from CM12 to stock tar these days.
I suspect the recovery is now stock due to partial flash (if possible), reactivation lock or attempt to root in Odin again.
Thanks in advance.
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