[Q] Unrooting Telus SGH-I747 (Canada) - AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III

Hey all, I was just wondering if anyone had a quick tutorial on how to unroot a Canadian Telus SGH-I747 and return to stock? I'm not very knowledgeable with this sort of thing (I know, with this in mind I probably shouldn't have done anything in the first place, but...) I rooted mine a few months back at the suggestion of a friend, using the walkthrough posted this past June on the 'Honai of Android' blog, under 'How to Root Galaxy S3 (Canadian) SGH-I747M on Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean Firmware' (I can't post the link directly because I have too few posts). Anyway, I ended up really having little to no use for it and now I may be selling the phone anyway. Even if I don't, I'd prefer to return it to stock just so I can get regular updates, etc. I've looked around pretty extensively for a Canada/Telus-specific tutorial on how to do this, as everything I've found involves other carriers, or makes a point of warning international users, etc. so I'm a bit paranoid about screwing anything up. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. :good:

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Roger's Galaxy Nexus (yakjuxw or yakju)?

Alright I've been doing some research on the forums, I found out that the Bell's & Virgin's GNex is yakjuxw and not properly synced with Google's Updates.
I'm hoping that Google fixed this issue and our month long wait for our GNex (Rogers for me) would be yakju.
Yes I know that it's easy fix however I'm not willing to void the warranty especially with the other threads with discharging, and other possible (hardware) issues.
So who's going to take the plunge when Roger's releases their GNex on the 13th?
I'm starting this thread so others who have the same concern as me can find the answer. Those who are could you please report your results. If it is a yakju version, I'd be off to get myself my own. (My Nexus One is dying to retire)
I am with Bell, and the Build is not yakju or yakjuwx, it is yakjuux I dont know why.. But its yakjuux.
I have flashed it to yakju a couple days ago and installed the lasted image: 4.02 and everything works fine.
Dude, thats the magic with the Gnex, you can unvoid your warranty. You just need to relock your phone : fastbook oem lock and bam! Bell will never see it. The guys that are selling those phones.. they dont have a clue of what yakjuux or yakju is..
Malarie said:
I am with Bell, and the Build is not yakju or yakjuwx, it is yakjuux I dont know why.. But its yakjuux.
I have flashed it to yakju a couple days ago and installed the lasted image: 4.02 and everything works fine.
Dude, thats the magic with the Gnex, you can unvoid your warranty. You just need to relock your phone : fastbook oem lock and bam! Bell will never see it. The guys that are selling those phones.. they dont have a clue of what yakjuux or yakju is..
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yeah I've done some more research, I also found out that the Nexus S had this issue but everybody got their updates regardless, thank you for your help
I'm guessing the Rogers GN will be yakjuux. That appears to be the Canadian release. No bloatware, no branding, pure google, probably without Google Wallet because that isn't launching in Canada for a few more weeks/months.
Mine was purchased at Bell/Virgin, and I actually do see 'Telus' in plain text at the bottom of the notification bar, which I take to mean ICS is pulling my carrier from the sim and putting it there. So no branding beyond the OS telling you what network you are on.
I got mine from 3UK and it is yakju.
Doesn't matter which you have.. everyone gets updates
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I picked up a phone today and it is yakjuux.
What the hell is yakjux and yakjuux. I know there some type of versions but how do you know, why does it matter, and why is it called yakxxx ??
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What the hell is yakjux and yakjuux. I know there some type of versions but how do you know, why does it matter, and why is it called yakxxx ??
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It doesn't matter. People have determined that there are different version names for versions that come from Google, Samsung, or regional distributors. Because of this, its the new thing for people to freak out about, because they think they aren't getting updates as quickly as they could.
"yakju" is the build, so the other builds are "yakju___" with extra characters that determine where its "from".
Thanks for your reply!!
Kind of useless to stress over that stuff. I do want to know where mine came from though, how do I check?
BlackMamba08 said:
Thanks for your reply!!
Kind of useless to stress over that stuff. I do want to know where mine came from though, how do I check?
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There's an app called Official Update Checker which makes it really easy. Here's the link from the market https://market.android.com/details?id=de.cbruegg.officialupdate&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImRlLmNicnVlZ2cub2ZmaWNpYWx1cGRhdGUiXQ..
Rogers gnex turned yakju
Not sure is anyone still looks at this post but just wanted to add.
I did have a rogers variant but flashed it to plain yakju, as I wasn't getting any updates
From Google or Samsung, and or rogers.
After I flashed to stock yakju, I got all the updates str8 from Google and am running stock jelly bean
Right now.
So there are differences in the variants, most notably the updates.
I think I turned my Rogers variant into a real "pure Google" cell.
No problems as of yet either
blind1eye said:
Not sure is anyone still looks at this post but just wanted to add.
I did have a rogers variant but flashed it to plain yakju, as I wasn't getting any updates
From Google or Samsung, and or rogers.
After I flashed to stock yakju, I got all the updates str8 from Google and am running stock jelly bean
Right now.
So there are differences in the variants, most notably the updates.
I think I turned my Rogers variant into a real "pure Google" cell.
No problems as of yet either
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Which thread did you use to flash it I`m currently trying to flash my telus gnex to stock yakju and was wondering if the image you take from the google developers is the 4.1.1 but if that were the case wouldn`t it already be flashed onto your phone. Help would be much appreciated thanks. Also if you know of any videos out there that give step by step instructions on how to flash it to stock yakju that would be greatly appreciated as well.. cheers.
Jets1985 said:
Which thread did you use to flash it I`m currently trying to flash my telus gnex to stock yakju and was wondering if the image you take from the google developers is the 4.1.1 but if that were the case wouldn`t it already be flashed onto your phone. Help would be much appreciated thanks. Also if you know of any videos out there that give step by step instructions on how to flash it to stock yakju that would be greatly appreciated as well.. cheers.
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Use the "flash" link in my sig. Step-by-step method.
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efrant said:
Use the "flash" link in my sig. Step-by-step method.
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I actually have been using it I was just wondering if there were any videos out there to make it a little bit easier.
Jets1985 said:
I actually have been using it I was just wondering if there were any videos out there to make it a little bit easier.
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Have a look at this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=21308202&postcount=251
It was based on an earlier version of my guide, but I think it should be pretty close.
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To Custom or to Stock?

Hello people, I hope you are all well.
So I have bought myself a Galaxy Nexus and will be selling my Galaxy SII. I decided to get the GNex, because I wanted as close to a Google phone as possible (along with the purchase of my Nexus 7).
Now, for the longest time, regardless of which Android phone / tablet I've had I normally end up loading a custom rom, which invariably ends up being CyanogenMod.
Now what to do, should I go custom again or should I try stock this time (for my N7 I've stuck with stock for the time being)?
Or should I use stock and see how the custom roms develop?
I guess more than anything I'm just thinking out aloud.
I got the gnex because of the vast amount of roms but I guess my phone does not like custom roms and prefers stock ics I have left it stock plus the leak of vz jb for their gnex prompted this too. If vz gnex has a leak means they are working on it and the sprint version should be out soon
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donsh00tmesanta said:
I got the gnex because of the vast amount of roms but I guess my phone does not like custom roms and prefers stock ics I have left it stock plus the leak of vz jb for their gnex prompted this too. If vz gnex has a leak means they are working on it and the sprint version should be out soon
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Ha, interesting. Luckily as I'm on GSM, I am now rocking JB on my phone.
Must be nice!!!! Lol
Nandroid and try out a custom rom. Codename android has lots of features
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play around with custom roms when you are bored but I wouldn't flash my daily driver cause no time to keep up with it.
Note: it's highly addicting
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hp13 said:
play around with custom roms when you are bored but I wouldn't flash my daily driver cause no time to keep up with it.
Note: it's highly addicting
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hep, I know its highly addictive!! I just get lazy having to reset all the widgets / settings etc!
custom stock. since we own an aosp device after all.
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try custom roms..u wudnt wanna get back to stock
The stock Jelly Bean is wonderful....Old versions of Android missed many things which forced us to have custom ROMs. But with JB, switch to custom only if you really need some tweaks.
The only thing you will need to do is rooting.
I rooted the phone, installed a couple of custom roms, but came back to stock. Custom roms offer a wonderful world of customizations, but for the Nexus, its still evolving and it comes with some bugs or minor problems. You may end up switching roms...
As for me, the stock is smooth and stable. And since I have root, I can always do a selective mod if needed!
You have stock JB on your N7 so why not play around a little?! :good:
browngeek said:
hep, I know its highly addictive!! I just get lazy having to reset all the widgets / settings etc!
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Everything can be backed up. So there's no reason to ever have to manually restore stuff.
Anyway, no question try custom ROMs, then make the decision if you prefer stock or not. But without a doubt you have to try custom ROMs to determine if you like them or not.
Thanks for the input guys. Yep, already rooted, so that's all good.
I actually used Titanium backup to backup all my apps form my SG2 and shift them over to the GNex. I also restored the user data (yes, I know you should not do that, but, touchwood, everything got transferred OK).
I guess I'll play around with stock first, just to get used to it, and then after a week or so, may give some custom roms a try.
Please help with going back to stock using a Mac
Hello, I have looked at all the guides and googled everything possible regarding returning my recently purchased Sprint GNEX back to stock so I can get the ota Jelly Bean from Sprint whenever they decide to roll it down.
I have found all kinds of vids and tutorials regarding using a pc to do this, even one post/guide that said just follow this pc guide and do this for a mac but it only confused the "H" out of me lol.
I am currently using the Codename Android JB rom but I was guided with a perfect video and guide to even do this. I am a noob or whatever they call us.
Could someone, if there is someone who knows help me find a way to go back to 4.04 on Sprint using a MAC. Please do not direct me to the guides I have seen on here for mac because they are either not for my Sprint version or are only instructions for PC. The person who did help me get Codename Android does have a youtube vid for unrooting but I tried it and it does not work for me.
There is not a whole lot around here for mac which I totally understand do this being geared to a more open system than Apple.
Thanks for any advice. I would like to get this done even if the update takes even longer to come down. I just want to be back to where I was when I bought the Sprint GNEX so I can get regular ota updates. I do not think messing with flashing is for me and on the plus side for you guys, it'll be one less dope you have to deal with.
If you are already familiar with cyanogenmod, then how could you ever settle for stock? Although CM10 is still in it's infant stages, it is coming along rather nicely. The only selling point of stock ROMs over custom ones is their reliability and even stock Android has been known to have bugs. Be honest with yourself, if you have the know how to install a custom ROM, you will never be happy unless you are flashing nightlies. You're an addict just like the rest of us, face it!
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Thank you Mike
mikedyk43 said:
If you are already familiar with cyanogenmod, then how could you ever settle for stock? Although CM10 is still in it's infant stages, it is coming along rather nicely. The only selling point of stock ROMs over custom ones is their reliability and even stock Android has been known to have bugs. Be honest with yourself, if you have the know how to install a custom ROM, you will never be happy unless you are flashing nightlies. You're an addict just like the rest of us, face it!
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For the record, I absolutely don't have the know how to install these things or root unlock etc etc. The only reason I was able to do it was due to a vid for very amateur persons. I am just a 44 yr old lady and just want to not be messing around with my phone. In fact I do not know if I even properly rooted or installed because as I said when I went to the vid from the great guy who helped me install codename, he also had a vid to unroot for mac with a sprint phone. it was such easy steps and my phone would not do it I got errors saying radio failed blah blah blah. Also don't know if I am even rooted or not but I am still on the codename rom and not back to 4.04. Is Cyangenmod what I am running? See what I mean? My issues is I am one who should not be messing around with my phone. And especially when everytime a new rom or update comes along, I have to have someone practically baby step me through it.
As for this codename android it is great. Am I rooted if I have it? See again, I literally know nothing about developing flashing rooting etc. It is just too much for my non technical brain, and as I said I really did not install this on my own and cannot even get back to stock on my own and to top it off I have only a macbook pro.
Now please do not be upset with me because I think the droid open platform is awesome compared to Apple's closed forum but being someone whom, as I said should not be messing with my phone in the 1st play since I do not understand nor do I know wth I am doing when I read instructions, I really miss my old iphone 4 8gb since I couldn't do nothing special with it.
Also I honeslty do not do too much on my phone but am the materialistic type who wants to have the latest or greatest software on whatever device. I hope you understand what I am trying to say cause I don't!
So does anyone know how to do this then?
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For the record, I absolutely don't have the know how to install these things or root unlock etc etc. The only reason I was able to do it was due to a vid for very amateur persons. I am just a 44 yr old lady and just want to not be messing around with my phone. In fact I do not know if I even properly rooted or installed because as I said when I went to the vid from the great guy who helped me install codename, he also had a vid to unroot for mac with a sprint phone. it was such easy steps and my phone would not do it I got errors saying radio failed blah blah blah. Also don't know if I am even rooted or not but I am still on the codename rom and not back to 4.04. Is Cyangenmod what I am running? See what I mean? My issues is I am one who should not be messing around with my phone. And especially when everytime a new rom or update comes along, I have to have someone practically baby step me through it.
As for this codename android it is great. Am I rooted if I have it? See again, I literally know nothing about developing flashing rooting etc. It is just too much for my non technical brain, and as I said I really did not install this on my own and cannot even get back to stock on my own and to top it off I have only a macbook pro.
Now please do not be upset with me because I think the droid open platform is awesome compared to Apple's closed forum but being someone whom, as I said should not be messing with my phone in the 1st play since I do not understand nor do I know wth I am doing when I read instructions, I really miss my old iphone 4 8gb since I couldn't do nothing special with it.
Also I honeslty do not do too much on my phone but am the materialistic type who wants to have the latest or greatest software on whatever device. I hope you understand what I am trying to say cause I don't!
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I still did not have my original question answered. Does anyone here no how to get me back to 4.04 with my Sprint GNEX using a Mac and is willing to help/guide me through? Please? Thank you. I was surprised nobody replied back last night after my reply to Mike. Also I was directed by another forum that someone on this site would definitely be able to help and know how to go back to stock using a mac. I think I gave pretty good reasons why personally, I should not be messing with my phone.
zandermomof3 said:
I still did not have my original question answered. Does anyone here no how to get me back to 4.04 with my Sprint GNEX using a Mac and is willing to help/guide me through? Please? Thank you. I was surprised nobody replied back last night after my reply to Mike. Also I was directed by another forum that someone on this site would definitely be able to help and know how to go back to stock using a mac. I think I gave pretty good reasons why personally, I should not be messing with my phone.
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first, read this. then read this.
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bk201doesntexist said:
first, read this. then read this.
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I have read both those top two guides but as I said I have a mac and am not technically inclined and need baby steps but thanks anyway. heck I don't even know if I flashed codename android correctly or made a back up and if that is true then I am screwed anyway right?
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zandermomof3 said:
I have read both those top two guides but as I said I have a mac and am not technically inclined and need baby steps but thanks anyway. heck I don't even know if I flashed codename android correctly or made a back up and if that is true then I am screwed anyway right?
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whoa, wth do all those links mean? I already told you guys I do not understand this technical stuff and those links you provide with all those codes. Thank you, honestly, I could never follow those. I was very honest here when I said I cannot mess with my phone anymore. It is only more work for you guys.
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zandermomof3 said:
I have read both those top two guides but as I said I have a mac and am not technically inclined and need baby steps but thanks anyway. heck I don't even know if I flashed codename android correctly or made a back up and if that is true then I am screwed anyway right?
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whoa, wth do all those links mean? I already told you guys I do not understand this technical stuff and those links you provide with all those codes. Thank you, honestly, I could never follow those. I was very honest here when I said I cannot mess with my phone anymore. It is only more work for you guys.
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you are kidding right? This is a joke on me. I have no idea how to build a thing. If noone wants to actually help just say so. I also saw nothing about mac except in the top 1st link which I already tried and got radio failed error and my phone booted right back into 4.1.1 codename android.
i dont use a mac. i was trying to help anyway. next time, dont do anything to your device. the first link i gave you was for you to understand OUR technical language and terms, so that you can SEARCH for the info you need, and you can help us help you. you just want stock right? "gnex sprint back to stock" on google gave me " http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=25190768&postcount=1"? have you tried that?
if you cant flash a recovery like cwm or twrp with fastboot.. then you need to search on how to do it.
still one more way to it here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1620036
seems to me you just needed to understand OUR (yourself included) technical terms; this is xda-devs, not xda-help-noobs.
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[Q] Can someone help, this is just not making sense?

Ok i have a Bell Samsung Galaxy S2 model number gt-I9100m, currently i have updated through kies to 4.0.3.
Baseband: I9199MUGLD3
Kernal Version: [email protected] #3
Build number: IML74K.UGLD3
Now, the problem i am having is plain and simple, Bell ICS BLOWS! The phone runs like complete crap. Now my other problem is also pretty plain and simple, i dont understand or have not found how to root the bloody thing. I dont have a micro sd card, and even if i did i dont no what version of anything to use. I have used search i have used google and either its just not clicking for me in my brain or i have not found the information i need. I want to root the phone and load a custom rom onto it.I found one site but it had a giant warning stating the roms listed where only for the verizon version of the phone. Anyways im just really frustrated and a noob to android and samsung and throw my self upon the mercy of the android gods and hope that someone out there(who is not annoyed by me asking) can help me out. Thanks in advance.
And crap, i put this in the wrong section. Im sorry.
No one is going to get mad for asking a question. But they might get mad if you ask the question in the completely wrong forum. This is the GS3 forum, not the GS2 forum.
Best advice I can give you is to start with the right forum. Read the stickies, and you should be fine.
Personally I also own a Bell GS2 and ICS sucks. Battery life is brutal, phone constantly locks up etc etc. But its a work phone so I'm unable to root it, and install a different rom. I just live with it considering I use my GS3 more lol
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g2tegg said:
No one is going to get mad for asking a question. But they might get mad if you ask the question in the completely wrong forum. This is the GS3 forum, not the GS2 forum.
Best advice I can give you is to start with the right forum. Read the stickies, and you should be fine.
Personally I also own a Bell GS2 and ICS sucks. Battery life is brutal, phone constantly locks up etc etc. But its a work phone so I'm unable to root it, and install a different rom. I just live with it considering I use my GS3 more lol
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Thanks for the kind reply, ya i noticed i posted it in the wrong spot seconds after i posted. Can someone plz move this to the right spot for me. tahnks

[Q] Help rooting my Straight Talk Samsung Galaxy S3

Hello, I'm new to these forums. I bought a Straight Talk Samsung Galaxy S3 (SCH-S960L). And i am pretty new to rooting, custom ROM's, etc. And because of that reason, along with the fact that i bricked my last Straight Talk phone after incorrectly attempting to root it, I am now quite apprehensive to go about rooting. I am not too keen on the idea of rooting my Straight Talk phone with any root that is specified to Sprint, T-Mobile or another carrier/model of phone, at least not without being sure that i am able to with no problems. I would like to have the most knowledge i can gather about rooting this specific model of phone before i go about with actually doing it. So recently i have been looking through any information i am able to find online and through the forums about how I was going to go about with rooting. However, I cant seem to find hardly anything on how to root this specific model of phone, and any information i do find seems to be iffy with reliability for my carrier, and i would really hate to mess something up. So my question is, could ANYONE help guide me through this process so i can successfully root my device without messing something up and having a $399 dollar brick on my desk. Thanks in advanced.

[Q] ROMs for Straight Talk SCH-S960L on Sprint Towers

Hello everyone,
First off, I want to apologize if this question has already been asked and answered. I've found a lot of conflicting information and I just wanted to get everything straight. I have the SCH-S960L Galaxy S3 that I purchased thru Straight Talk and this phone runs off of Sprint towers. Of course as everyone already knows, Straight Talk does not update the firmware on their branded phones and my phone is stuck running 4.1.2 - something I wish I would have known about before buying it for over $400. Anyway, I have read that the SCH-S960L is a variant of the SCH-L710 Sprint GS3. What I would like to know is if any custom ROMs on XDA will work on the SCH-S960L? If I can update my firmware to a solid ROM, I wouldn't mind keeping the phone for another year or so... but there are just too many things 4.1.2 won't allow me to do such as link certain bluetooth devices.
If anyone knows of any custom ROMs that would work, could you please reply and list their names and/or links to them? If you know of more than 1 custom ROM that will work, what one would you recommend? This is my daily phone, so everything has to work on it.
I really appreciate everyone's input. Thanks in advance.
There are several roms that work I have the exact same phone some roms I've tried are
-Cyanogen mod
-AICP
-OctOS (recommended)
I'm having trouble with the data right now I'm trying to find out how to fix it if I find out I'll let you know
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