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Need Some Help/ After Rooting

Long story short, just got my GN2 off craigslist and it has SuperSU installed but no memory card was included. Does that mean it was already Rooted or is Rooted and if so how do I get it back to factory settings like it would come if I bought it from the store?
I'd prefer to try and Root it myself later.. Thanks
UPDATE, Need More Help Please...
Ok so after Rooting I have come to a problem, my Note 2 won't connect to my laptop anymore.. I connected my Galaxy S3 to move some of my media and pictures to my Note and it said installing drivers (I thought nothing of it) then I tried to connect my Note and it wouldn't connect.. Is there something I did wrong or what? I have USB debugging on and when I check the drop down box it shows "Connected as a media device" but it's not showing up as a drive in My Computer

You need to get the stock tar file and flah it with odin that should get you to stock and remove root.
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cheapshot789 said:
You need to get the stock tar file and flah it with odin that should get you to stock and remove root.
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Thanks for replying.. Any chance you know of a step by step guide??
I tried doing a factory reset on the phone and after it was complete SuperSU was still there

1st. Go to System setting /About Device / look if you see any custom rom name in it . If not then your phone only root.
2nd. Unroot is easy , go to superSU app /setting / Full unroot .
3rd.Triangle Away to reset counter
4th. factory reset
5th.done

gr8_gamer said:
Thanks for replying.. Any chance you know of a step by step guide??
I tried doing a factory reset on the phone and after it was complete SuperSU was still there
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Here you go
http://www.andromods.com/unroot-loc...y-note-2-to-stock-rom-firmware-with-odin.html
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simplelife said:
1st. Go to System setting /About Device / look if you see any custom rom name in it . If not then your phone only root.
2nd. Unroot is easy , go to superSU app /setting / Full unroot .
3rd.Triangle Away to reset counter
4th. factory reset
5th.done
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Thanks, I did that and once I Full unroot it was deleted, couldn't try Triangle Away (all good though) but everything seemed fine..
cheapshot789 said:
Here you go
http://www.andromods.com/unroot-loc...y-note-2-to-stock-rom-firmware-with-odin.html
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Thanks for this also, I was a lil nervous so I used this as a extra step and it worked perfect.. I'm now on Stock firmware and probably will be (at least for tonight lol) until I find a rom I like with Multi-View, Gmail and other goodies.. Let the search begin.......:silly:
Thanks again guys for the fast replies and help..

Updated original post.. Need some more help Please

GF's phone stuck in a boot loop after Kies update

This is the first time I have used Kies to update a phone. My GF doesn't want to root her phone. I used kies, everything looked like it went fine but we only get to the homescreen and afer 3 or 5 seconds her phone just reboots itself. Is there anyway to fix this?
Can I reupdate manually using a External SDcard or something?

try booting into recovery and doing a factory reset

jerrycoffman45 said:
try booting into recovery and doing a factory reset
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THis will work but she'll lose all her data and I didn't back it up. Is there a way I can reapply a update ZIP through recovery?

not that i am aware of you could try this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2031840

jerrycoffman45 said:
not that i am aware of you could try this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2031840
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I'm sorry for not being able to do all the research myself, but my GF has to meet her parents somewhere, we can't even call them with this problem. Would this method delete her data or just restore Jelly Bean on it?
What is the official model for ATT JB? Is this the stock JB?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1886709

SlimJ87D said:
THis will work but she'll lose all her data and I didn't back it up. Is there a way I can reapply a update ZIP through recovery?
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Do nandroid backup in CWM, then try clear data to factory and restore nandroid..
BTW: in my signature is info how to restore to factory but first do nandroid...

nope thats bell and the link i gave does not wipe

jerrycoffman45 said:
nope thats bell and the link i gave does not wipe
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Thanks guys. I'll give this one a try. I just need to put the phone in download mode and update using the UNROOTED_ATT_i747UCDLK3
It should probably just reapply the update over again and hopefully fix things and keep her root. I hope this is the quickest fix.

SlimJ87D said:
Thanks guys. I'll give this one a try. I just need to put the phone in download mode and update using the UNROOTED_ATT_i747UCDLK3
It should probably just reapply the update over again and hopefully fix things and keep her root. I hope this is the quickest fix.
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if she is rooted after using that one she wont be

jerrycoffman45 said:
if she is rooted after using that one she wont be
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Yes, she is not rooted, she doesn't want her flash counter going up, etc.

ok that one wont trip it but if that is why she doesnt want root triangle away app will reset it

Problem didn't get fixed... I just don't get what could be wrong with the phone. It starts up fine, and for abotu 10 seconds it's fine but then something gets opened that must cause it to reboot. I don't know what service could be causing it to reboot. I wish I could at least backup all her data before the damn phone reboots itself.

download the stock ics firmware odin it that might work but you will probably still bootloop factory reset might be the only answer
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1968625 lg1 is the one you want

jerrycoffman45 said:
download the stock ics firmware odin it that might work but you will probably still bootloop factory reset might be the only answer
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1968625 lg1 is the one you want
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Thank you so much for trying to help me through this. I really should have backed up her data, but I thought it was KIES and I wouldn't have to worry about any stupid problems happening.
First question is, is there anyway I can retrieve and backup her data without rooting? I know it's a longshot, but in recovery can I connect to ADB or something and extract stuff?
Second question, is there a update.zip of the jelly bean I could possibly give a try? I can still put and install update.zips through an external SD card.
I'm going to give the ICS firmware a try, hopefully it retains her data, but I've never downgraded before in hopes of keeping data. I just need to backup her text, phone, apps with kies and try teh update again.

SlimJ87D said:
Thank you so much for trying to help me through this. I really should have backed up her data, but I thought it was KIES and I wouldn't have to worry about any stupid problems happening.
First question is, is there anyway I can retrieve and backup her data without rooting? I know it's a longshot.
Second question, is there a update.zip of the jelly bean I could possibly give a try? I can still put and install update.zips through an external SD card.
I'm going to give the ICS firmware a try, hopefully it retains her data, but I've never downgraded before in hopes of keeping data. I just need to backup her text, phone, apps with kies and try teh update again.
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first question if you can get the computer to see the internal sd card you could copy stuff that way but with it boot looping its not likely
secound question have not seen one but that doesnt meen there isnt one but att didnt do the update ota so i would think there isnt

jerrycoffman45 said:
first question if you can get the computer to see the internal sd card you could copy stuff that way but with it boot looping its not likely
secound question have not seen one but that doesnt meen there isnt one but att didnt do the update ota so i would think there isnt
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screw it... I rooted her phone, I think this is the only way I can fix it. So I am going to try and make a back up using recovery, then factory reset, format system data and then try restoring her phone. I'll let you know how that goes.
Is there a sticky here that gets your phone back to stock and resets the counter? Or does rooting not affect the counter?

SlimJ87D said:
screw it... I rooted her phone, I think this is the only way I can fix it. So I am going to try and make a back up using recovery, then factory reset, format system data and then try restoring her phone. I'll let you know how that goes.
Is there a sticky here that gets your phone back to stock and resets the counter? Or does rooting not affect the counter?
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Root it. Use Triangle Away to reset counter and get rid of the triangle too. Also you could always Odin flash the firmware. Doesn't delete data... Done the same with my I9300. Wanted the XXELKC firmware and didn't delete data. Also worked with GF's I9305.
Its free on XDA from Chain fire and requires Super User. After doing that you can Odin that latest firmware and it'll be on stock.
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the app triangle away will reset it i think you can get it for free here on xda but i bought it in the app store you have to be rooted to use it

weeo said:
Root it. Use Triangle Away to reset counter and get rid of the triangle too. Also you could always Odin flash the firmware. Doesn't delete data... Done the same with my I9300. Wanted the XXELKC firmware and didn't delete data. Also worked with GF's I9305.
Its free on XDA from Chain fire and requires Super User. After doing that you can Odin that latest firmware and it'll be on stock.
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This day just gets worse... I backed up her device using recovery and then continued to format and wipe everything and then guess what. When I go to restore
"MD5 MISMATCH"
Now I'm trying to perform the following to fix it...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1835914

SlimJ87D said:
This day just gets worse... I backed up her device using recovery and then continued to format and wipe everything and then guess what. When I go to restore
"MD5 MISMATCH"
Now I'm trying to perform the following to fix it...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1835914
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Try it. Good luck.
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Q: Trying to return to stock Rogers and unroot for warranty - problems

Hi Everyone,
So my phone finally is acting up, specifically the micro usb port no longer is functioning properly. It doesn't charge, when it charges its 1 percent per half hour, random s-mode activations etc. Im trying to return it back to stock but unfortunately the stock rogers rom file is not available on scroslers server. Also i did follow the tutorial ' how to clear flash count etc' did all the instructions, i am now unrooted, triangled away, and everything but under the status it still says modified. I think this is because i still have cleanrom and perseus installed, is there anyone that can help me with this.
Thank you
Edit: So i finally found out that bell/rogers are same files , gotta edit CSC or something else (gonna read up), so im going to reroot, reinstall twrp, and then install the stock rom, and then after repeat the process, I hope that solves it.
Main question: After doing the 'how to clearn flash count/unroot/ ' why does it still say im modified? Is it cuz of clearn rom still being on it?
Edit 2: OK so i found at least for now its the wire thats giving me the problem so i replaced that. THanks scy for the input, will keeep that in mind next time i have to do it, hopefuly i dont have too since its a pain in the...

Ok odin flash stock rom. Reroot, triangle away. Then factory reset.

scyr2355 said:
Ok odin flash stock rom. Reroot, triangle away. Then factory reset.
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This. ..^^^^^^....
And the trick is the factory reset and data wipe from within the stock 3e recovery. ..
Wipe the cache too...g
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Still Modified ?
gregsarg said:
This. ..^^^^^^....
And the trick is the factory reset and data wipe from within the stock 3e recovery. ..
Wipe the cache too...g
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When my i317M is in Odin Mode it says that it is official but when in settings it says that it is modified. is there a way to fix this.. THANK YOU

[Q] No Phone Service or Data After Flash. Please help

A while ago I rooted my phone with cwm. I remained on the stock rom for a while, but eventually moved to cm 10. No problems. I wanted more features so I'm currently running a pacman nightly. Everything seemed to work, but after I flashed it I had very, very little space left in my internal storage. I read that this was probably a bug in cwm that caused Android system files to be duplicated, possibly even multiple times times. This is what I believed had happened. So yesterday I flashed twrp with Odin, and after rebooting it asked me to activate my phone. I don't have any cell or data signal, only wifi. I've looked everywhere and I can't find any single solution. Does anyone know what may be wrong, and how to fix this? I can try and post more information about this problem if necessary. Please help, thanks.

Anyone? Restoring backups from when everything worked does not work, nor does flashing a modem. When I go to "About Phone" in settings, my phone number is no longer my number. It just says 000-000-0016 (not my number). Sometimes I can get a data signal, only in areas with high signal. It just says "searching for service" everywhere else. On each boot, it tells me to "activate my device" but that doesn't work. I have no idea what to do at this point, can anyone help?

And now I just saw on the lockscreen "no sim card - searching for service". Not sure if that helps, but I'm open to anything at this point

Aaron R said:
And now I just saw on the lockscreen "no sim card - searching for service". Not sure if that helps, but I'm open to anything at this point
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Do you have Sprint version? Just curious because of the "no sim card". I guess some ported roms will show that, but if it's Sprint version, I would flash back to TW ROM, reactivate by the ## code(don't remember what it is) or call Sprint to reactivate. Better to be on TW stock Rom if you use dialer codes or call Sprint.
Edit: dialer code is ##72786# to reset APNs. Once on TW ROM, open up phone, type in code in dialer.
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Do I need to be on the stock TW rom to use the dial code to reset? I've already tried to use it on my pacman rom and it didn't work, saying it had no signal when I tried to dial it. Also, yes I am on Sprint. Would screenshots of the "about phone" page in settings help? Like I said, it lists an incorrect phone number as my number.

Aaron R said:
Do I need to be on the stock TW rom to use the dial code to reset? I've already tried to use it on my pacman rom and it didn't work, saying it had no signal when I tried to dial it. Also, yes I am on Sprint. Would screenshots of the "about phone" page in settings help? Like I said, it lists an incorrect phone number as my number.
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Yes, you need to be on TW to use the dialer. The reset is ##72786#. This will completely reset your phone, so make sure you have everything you want saved backed up to your pc. It will go through the activation process as if you just got it out of the box, but my advice,flash back to stock, unrooted, from scratch, and then do it. Sucks, I know, but that's what I'd do.
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So it'll restore my phone number and reset everything?

And how would I go about unrooting?

Aaron R said:
So it'll restore my phone number and reset everything?
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Yes, it should do exactly that. It will self-activate with your carrier upon reboot and get you back to the original settings. And unroot by flashing a stock unrooted tar. I'm sure qbking77 has a video. There are a lot of tutorials about rooting/unrooting.
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So if I flash the stock unrooted tar, I assume that I'll lose the custom recovery (cwm) but I bought cwm touch. Am I going to have to buy that back again if I choose to root my phone again?

Aaron R said:
So if I flash the stock unrooted tar, I assume that I'll lose the custom recovery (cwm) but I bought cwm touch. Am I going to have to buy that back again if I choose to root my phone again?
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I don't understand why you would buy CWM touch? It's free, and you can get a working, modified copy from Kennyglass123's post here. But yes, you will lose root, recovery, apps, internal storage, everything except what's in your sd card. So backup pics and such to your pc first!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2391616
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2391616
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It's free...of course it's free. Anyway so I guess I'll try flashing the stock tar later, and we'll see if that works. It's been extremely inconvenient being off the grid for a couple days, I hope this works. Thanks for all your help so far

Aaron R said:
It's free...of course it's free. Anyway so I guess I'll try flashing the stock tar later, and we'll see if that works. It's been extremely inconvenient being off the grid for a couple days, I hope this works. Thanks for all your help so far
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Good luck, let us know how it works out.
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And where again could I get the stock tar? And after obtaining it, I would just flash it with Odi, correct?

Aaron R said:
And where again could I get the stock tar? And after obtaining it, I would just flash it with Odi, correct?
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I'm happy to help man, but XDA is also about learning. I think you'll have a greater sense of accomplishment if I don't spoon feed you the solution. Google your carrier, stock, Odin, tar, unroot, etc, etc, and you'll find everything you need(put xda on the end of any search string, that helps weed out the crap). As long as the OP thread and file name matches your phone(sphl710), you will be fine. If you're unsure, post the thread of the file you plan on flashing(yes, through Odin), and I'll confirm for you. Good luck, happy Googling!
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Did everything, flashed the tar, and now its stuck in the boot sequence. The screen just says "Samsung" and the notification light is pulsing blue to a bluish green, like it does on boot. It's been doing this for about ten minutes now...what do I do?

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Did everything, flashed the tar, and now its stuck in the boot sequence. The screen just says "Samsung" and the notification light is pulsing blue to a bluish green, like it does on boot. It's been doing this for about ten minutes now...what do I do?
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What tar did you flash?
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I flashed the tar found here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1737859

Aaron R said:
I flashed the tar found here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1737859
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do you get a pass message or anything? try booting into stock recovery and wiping.

kaos420 said:
do you get a pass message or anything? try booting into stock recovery and wiping.
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Wipe data/factory reset, okay. Do I wipe cache partition?

I guess my Note 2 is bricked?

Well I give up... I have finally done something that I can not fix. I can normally google and find my own answers and I never have to ask anyone but this time is different.
I have the I317 Note 2, Everything was fine, I was running a stock rom earlier this week and the phone started acting funny. So I though screw it, Ill just go back to stock. So i downloaded.KIES_HOME_I317UCALJ2_I317ATTALJ2_215287_REV04_user_low_ship.tar and used Odin to flash the stock firmware. I DID do a full wipe before I went back to stock. It worked fine for 2 days. It kept wanting to download an update. So it did. When it restarted from the update that the phone downloaded it got stuck on the Samsung screen.
I thought no big deal, I will just reflash the stock firmware and start again... FAIL same thing happened. It wont get past the Samsung screen even after leaving it on that screen for a hour. So then I tried to get into recovery... it wont let me.Then I reinstalled the stock rom and waited for boot, then I flashed CWM and tried to get in to recovery that way. No luck.
I feel like I need to do a wipe and start all over but I cant figure out how to do a full wipe without recovery. There has got to be something easy that I am missing but I cant figure it out. I will keep on searching with hope that someone tells me what I am doing wrong or what to do.
THANKS

If its still able to go into download mode and odin recognizes the device your good just be patient and download the correct firmware.
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There are some issues with the OTA update from LJ2 to MH3, which it appears you still have sitting on your phone. You can try booting recovery and clearing cache - that should get rid of the OTA file.
The thread below has some information on how to update from LJ2 up through MH3 and then MK6. It's intended for those who already have the MK6 bootloader - if you don't already have that or want that, you'll want to stop at MH3 and consider your options.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2618447

Do you know did I use the correct firmware? I have had to run Odin a couple of times before but its a no go this time... I can not get into recovery. Even if I run Odin now with TWRP and restart it still wont let me into recovery... Can I use Odin to to a full wipe?

Were you on 4.3 previously? Via OTA?
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yes I did upgrade to 4.3 when it came available then I went to a custom rom. Then full wiped and downloaded what I thought was a stock rom and here I am.
Are you saying I need to download the 4.3 stock firmware and that is my issue. What i downloaded was from September 2013

For a (hopefully) quick solution, see post #2 here, specifically the param/tz file:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2618447
That should get your access to recovery back and allow the mh3 ota to complete.
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Trust in Odin it never fails.
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Zen Arcade said:
For a (hopefully) quick solution, see post #2 here, specifically the param/tz file:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2618447
That should get your access to recovery back and allow the mh3 ota to complete.
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WOW that worked!! I just got my phone into Recovery for the first time in over 24hrs now! I did a full wipe and now I am going to try and reinstall the factory rom that I have. Unless you tell me something different...
Thank you very much, I dont understand it but so happy to have a different screen!

Which factory rom? Where are you ultimately looking to get to?

100% back up and running! Thank you again

Zen Arcade said:
Which factory rom? Where are you ultimately looking to get to?
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One that would work.... LOL I really dont have a preference other then I did not care for 4.3 I ended up with 4.1.1 and I couldn't be more happy. If they ever get 4.4 I would try that.
Its funny 4yrs ago I had the Sprint Evo. I changed roms more often then I changed shirts it seamed. I never had the issues or anything like what I ran into yesterday. I was so careless just trying every rom that was released. Because of that I will always remember the EVO as my favorite phone.

Those were simpler times...
I assume you want root and know how to get it.
Since you have the mk6 bootloader you will need to avoid odin flashing any packages that contain bootloaders in the future. See my mk6 thread for details.
If you want to get to 4.1.2 there are rooted cwm packages for ma4, mc3, and mh3 available. Wherever you end up, I recommend freezing the AT&T Software Update apk from within Titanium Backup or equivalent to ensure that you don't get a forced ota update at some point in the future.
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