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[Rom][Verizon][2.3.4] Official Verizon 2.3.4 Gingerbread Leak

Do it yourself.
Enjoy. See Ya.

Any chance could we get file size? Just downloaded it but want to double check file size and MD5

Fate0n3 said:
Any chance could we get file size? Just downloaded it but want to double check file size and MD5
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215.1mb
funny story, no idea on how to do an MD5. *hides in corner*
Its been up for awhile now, its probably good to go.

Thanks. I've been borrowing a Tab from a friend, and wanted to give it back with GB. I'd use your ROM instead, but he is getting it back tomorrow, so he'll take this one
To install, just follow the Heimdall instructions for your version? Want to make sure before i brick it

gunslingerfyre said:
Thanks. I've been borrowing a Tab from a friend, and wanted to give it back with GB. I'd use your ROM instead, but he is getting it back tomorrow, so he'll take this one
To install, just follow the Heimdall instructions for your version? Want to make sure before i brick it
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Yeah follow directions.
Its always good to do a full wipe in recovery prior to expecting it to actually work.....better safe than sorry.....

oldmacnut said:
215.1mb
funny story, no idea on how to do an MD5. *hides in corner*
Its been up for awhile now, its probably good to go.
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for any file you in linux you can get a md5 by:
Code:
md5sum filename.zip
also just so ya know when making an odin compatible tar you would do it this way:
Code:
md5sum -t filename.tar >> filename.tar
mv filename.tar filename.tar.md5

Thanks for this

İs this a gsm rom?
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cdma
ggursel said:
İs this a gsm rom?
Sent from my GT-P1000 using XDA Premium App
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Link is down :-(

[#10869] You do not have access to this section of the site.

Oditius said:
[#10869] You do not have access to this section of the site.
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That's because you need to register and be a member.

Thanks, I just want to restore my tab. Camera doesn't work thanks to the Verizon Tab bootstrapper. Personally I rather have my tab restored to original condition.

So why not just register and download and flash? I just tried the link and it's working fine.

I did, and downloading... Thanks a million...

I have registered and Im getting the same error.

I had to close the browser, and then open it. Did you get the email? It will let you logon first, but not go there till you click on the link in the email to verify your address..

Verizon Bootstrapper doesn't work with this as of yet. :-(
I hope I can get a recovery on it....

ripjaw27 said:
Verizon Bootstrapper doesn't work with this as of yet. :-(
I hope I can get a recovery on it....
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I've been pretty silent in regards to people asking if boush's voodoo kernel will work, or if the bootstrapped will work, until now.
I'm not trying to come off as a **** right now, but come on.
This is gingerbread, the bootstrapper is for froyo, kernels are different.
I have a kernel+recovery, if you need 3g, stick with stock kernel for now, if you use the tab for wifi only, then my kernel + recovery is perfect for you.
If I may, I suggest people read threads, read instructions, follow instructions, and fully understand what they are doing before they flash a device, as it always comes back onto the devs as our fault. If people do not read the title, read every word of a post, then it is not our fault if the end user is impatient and flashes the wrong thing.
I am 1 person working on 4 builds for the sprint and Verizon tablet, 2 builds per tab, plus working on the kernel and recovery. If you can not read all my updates in the active Verizon better than life gingerbread thread, then you end up wasting your time, and mine as I have to reply to the pm, email, or thread asking for help bailing out of a brick, and in that I lose dev time.
Boush doesn't come to xda anymore, his threads should be closed and considered abandonedware, it only creates confusion when it comes to the new people.
Sorry if I came off harsh, but its true. Dan and I are currently the only cdma devs now, time for people to fully read our detailed instructions.
Jim
Sent from my SCH-I800 using XDA App

Well said. Thanks for your work.

[Q] unlock lock screen

has anyone here been able to unlock a pin locked screen? I changed my pin and forgot it. I own this Sprint galaxy S3, i can verify that with a sprint rep and account. How can I unlock the screen without a hard reset?
No, I dont get the option to enter my gmail account to unlock.
thanks,
jc

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2179721
May take a couple tries, so set aside a good amount of time to unlock it.

CNexus said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2179721
May take a couple tries, so set aside a good amount of time to unlock it.
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tried it, over 40 times, not luck. is there any other way?
one youtube video shows using a site calld FGM service and for a fee, if you give them your IME number they will unlock the phone. Anyone here tried this before or know about this service?

I would not give any info to anyone, if it were me. As for other ways, I dont know of any but the method in the link above worked for me when I tested it on my sisters S3

Just throwing this out there no idea if it will work but I'm guessing it would if worse comes to worse. Flash the a stock or rooted tar in Odin from freeza.
Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 2

That true. OP, go into recovery, and make a backup
Then ODIN to stock rooted and restore your data...should work

CNexus said:
That true. OP, go into recovery, and make a backup
Then ODIN to stock rooted and restore your data...should work
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Thanks for the help but I'm a noob, this is my first smart phone. Are there any write ups or links to how to do recovery/backup, ODIN, restore?

backinblack00 said:
Thanks for the help but I'm a noob, this is my first smart phone. Are there any write ups or links to how to do recovery/backup, ODIN, restore?
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You're in luck, my friend. Our mighty qbking77 has created a set of videos with just what you need in his thread over here. They are easy to follow. The main thread on how to root is here. Just watch and read all you can before starting, and make sure not to use international ROMs on your Sprint phone (this causes a hard-brick and many facepalms here on XDA)

topherk said:
You're in luck, my friend. Our mighty qbking77 has created a set of videos with just what you need in his thread over here. They are easy to follow. The main thread on how to root is here. Just watch and read all you can before starting, and make sure not to use international ROMs on your Sprint phone (this causes a hard-brick and many facepalms here on XDA)
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awesome! I'll give that a try. Thank you.

topherk said:
You're in luck, my friend. Our mighty qbking77 has created a set of videos with just what you need in his thread over here. They are easy to follow. The main thread on how to root is here. Just watch and read all you can before starting, and make sure not to use international ROMs on your Sprint phone (this causes a hard-brick and many facepalms here on XDA)
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Yeah, dont flash international ROMs or any mods/flashable zips you find outside the Sprint forums
Sent from my PG06100 using xda premium

CNexus said:
That true. OP, go into recovery, and make a backup
Then ODIN to stock rooted and restore your data...should work
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thanks for the help so far but just tried and got stuck again.
Question, I got into the "Android system recovery <3e>" menu and the back-up option is not listed.....
Is there another way to back-up? or am I out of luck and have to do a hard reset from same menu?

You can root it through ODIN (in download mode) and then flash a recovery

[Q] trouble rooting

could someone please point me in the right direction on how to root my note 3 version 4.3. I am finding so many conflicting answers I would love to hear from someone who knows for sure which thread has the correct method. Thanks And I will be sure to hit the thanks button.

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bls2633 said:
could someone please point me in the right direction on how to root my note 3 version 4.3. I am finding so many conflicting answers I would love to hear from someone who knows for sure which thread has the correct method. Thanks And I will be sure to hit the thanks button.
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You need to download/flash cf-autoroot using Odin for root access.
Here is the download link: http://download.chainfire.eu/354/CF-Root/CF-Auto-Root/CF-Auto-Root-hltetmo-hltetmo-smn900t.zip
This zip file also contains Odin, so just unzip all files to a new folder in windows and odin flash
the cf-autoroot TAR file, reboot the phone and your good to go.
Good luck!

How did your rooting go? Success?

Lorettaa said:
How did your rooting go? Success?
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no now nothing nis working right on my phone and keis wont recognize it now

bls2633 said:
no now nothing nis working right on my phone and keis wont recognize it now
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Did you use this file?
http://download.chainfire.eu/354/CF-Root/CF-Auto-Root/CF-Auto-Root-hltetmo-hltetmo-smn900t.zip

Did you follow Misterjunky's guide?

Lorettaa said:
Did you follow Misterjunky's guide?
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Parrot speaks again with no new info...

LOL! Krev, what's wrong with my question? Like you are following all my posts like the other guy. Well I don't care anyway

Lorettaa said:
Did you follow Misterjunky's guide?
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i actually got an email from the "XDA developers" that said to try using odin to flash a recovery and thats what I did. and it actually worked. then when i hit the turn off button it said "your phone is not rooted would you like to root it now by sliding this will root your phone, and sure enough when i turned there was the super user icon in the app drawer. thanks for your help

krelvinaz said:
Parrot speaks again with no new info...
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i actually got an email from the "XDA developers" that said to try using odin to flash a recovery and thats what I did. and it actually worked. then when i hit the turn off button it said "your phone is not rooted would you like to root it now by sliding this will root your phone, and sure enough when i turned there was the super user icon in the app drawer. thanks for your help

idtheftvictim said:
Did you use this file?
http://download.chainfire.eu/354/CF-Root/CF-Auto-Root/CF-Auto-Root-hltetmo-hltetmo-smn900t.zip
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i tried so many im not sure if that was one, however, i actually got an email from the "XDA developers" that said to try using odin to flash a recovery and thats what I did. and it actually worked. then when i hit the turn off button it said "your phone is not rooted would you like to root it now by sliding this will root your phone, and sure enough when i turned there was the super user icon in the app drawer. thanks for your help

That's good to hear you got it right and fixed it now.

[SPH-L710T]-[ Hotspot WORKS FREE !!! ]

Are you a BOOST MOBILE customer??
You now have the new Tri-Band model: Samsung Galaxy S3 (SPH-l710T)
[Update: OH1 and still works flawlessly
I RECENTLY SWITCH TO THE 60$ A MONTH PLAN COMPLETELY UNLIMITED WITH NI THROTTLING SPEEDS WHICH IN RETURN CAN HOTSPOT MULTIPLE DEVICES AND ITS WONDERFUL!!!!]
YOU CAN CALL YOUR CARRIER AND GET THE MSL NUMBER!! THAT EASY!
Are you are prompted when trying to use your HOTSPOT that you need to subscribe???
Well I got great news for you! No need to worry... Follow this guide and get your HOTSPOT
working again for ABSOLUTLY FREE !!!!!
Me nor XDA is NOT responsible for what you decide to do to your phone.
I can guarantee this will work on stock rom 4.4.2 SPH-L710T GS3.
If your willing to try this on any other phones please comment and let others know. Make/model of the phone for starters.
If you will explain your steps taken also would help others out very much! THANK !!!
I received the SPH-L710T after making an insurance claim. I originally had the SPH-L710. Anyway, all I have done so far was use ODIN to install the latest .TAR FILE from
Philz Recovery thread:---> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2201860 (only custom recovery I recommend to use period) BIG THANK YOU TO PHIL! You can check Philz Recovery out for yourself and how to root this device. I'm not going through the whole thing on how to root and so on. So, I am pretty much running the STOCK ROM that came on the phone straight out the box, [BOOST MOBILE]-[NF4]-[4.4.2]. I did ROOT w/ Philz Recovery very simple. Please make sure you take your time and read directions.
This is CONFIRMED to work on SPH-l710T running the STOCK ROM out of the box but ROOTED and I have Philz Recovery once again. I used SPCUtility.apk to finally get my MSL/SPC that I been reading about the past 4 days and couldn't get it till NOW!!! I attached the SPCUtility.apk for you to download. It did work for me. Took me days of searching till I came across a old post I tried so many different ways its ridiculous.
I ran the SPCUtility.apk and it gave me my MSL(SPC) number with out problem! (FOR WHATEVER REASON WHEN YOU LOOK IN YOUR APP DRAW THE APPS NAME IS MSL UTILITY and the icon is a picture of a lock. Open the MSL UTILITY and hit the Read SPC button. You might want write it down. You want to change your APN TYPE now.... Follow these directions to the T. This was is very easy! By adding the following ",Dun" fixed my hotspot(of course without the quotations) It was very simple. I had to find the APN TYPE option but once I found it, it was a text box and all I had to add was ,Dun and hit ok. REBOOTED and it work that easy! . AGAIN follow this EXACTLY and you should have no problems finding the APN type option.
GUIDE FOR GETTING YOUR HOTSPOT TO WORK:
STEP 1: Download the attached file named SPCUtility.apk to phone or EXTsd card. Now install it. Go to your apps and run the MSL Utility app that you downloaded. Click the Read SPC button and write it down. (icon for the app is a lock)
STEP 2: Okay so Go to dial pad and type ##3282# (##DATA#) and hit EDIT then enter the MSL/SPC number you wrote down from STEP 1.
STEP 3: Next go to MORE and select it...
STEP 4: Scroll down to LTEAPN SETTINGS and select it.
STEP 5: Select APN2 LTE internet. Scroll about half way down and select APN type and add ,Dun and select OK.
REBOOT AND PROFIT !!!
ENJOY
Please hit THANK YOU button if I was of any HELP TO YOU!
It would be very appreciated! This took a lot of time and research to get this working. I couldn't find anything on a working HOTSPOT. Only info I could find was paying for an app from the play store. Well in this case its completely FREE !
Please leave some comments or a simple reply!
4.4.2 -Boost Mobile SPH-L710T
WORKING HOTSPOT !!!!

So anybody else try this out??? I would love to get some feedback for others. Im seeing alot of views but no replys..... Wow this was huge for me. I was so excited to have my HOTSPOT back and working finally. Since i got this tri-band phone i thought i was gonna have to run sprints software to get my HOTSPOT working but that was not true. Some replys would be nice. I love and enjoy XDA very much. Such a great community!

I posted a question on the other thread asking hot you turned on the hotspot.
Sent from my SPH-L710T using XDA Free mobile app

covergeek said:
I posted a question on the other thread asking hot you turned on the hotspot.
Sent from my SPH-L710T using XDA Free mobile app
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You dont have the hotspot in your settings option under connections???

No...for some reason the Sprint prepaid is neutered. Won't work with foxfi either
Sent from my SPH-L710T using XDA Free mobile app

covergeek said:
No...for some reason the Sprint prepaid is neutered. Won't work with foxfi either
Sent from my SPH-L710T using XDA Free mobile app
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Your phone is rooted correct?
Also if your phones prepaid be careful cause i get messages tht i have reach my data limits. I dont know if it would burn up your money fast using the hotspot or not cause im with boost and I get a message that my data limit has been reached and i notice my speed is a lil bit slower after that. Would hate for you to use it and run threw all your money and it be cut off with lack of funds. I pay month to month plan with boost mobile
Sent from my SPH-L710T using XDA Free mobile app

@covergeek you can try using odin and flash the NF4 stock .tar file. Then flash the philz recovery .tar and root it again. Its very simple. Look around the threads for the stock NF4 .tar and go from there..... just a thought. It will deff give you the hotspot option in settings under your connections tab. I attached the screenshot. Follow the directions in the thread on the NF4 .tar to make sure you do it right. Might wanna ask questions first to make sure. Im positive someone will assist you with any questions you might have before committing to the NF4 build. Then try my guide

Cool..thanks for the info..
Sent from my SPH-L710T using XDA Free mobile app

covergeek said:
Cool..thanks for the info..
No problem bro. Anything i can do to help. Once you get either NF4 build or ND8. USE my hotspot thread and its sure to work! Rooting once you odin philz recovery is super easy. I even added the superuser update file in case its needed. Just flash the updated supersu thru recovery and you should be good to go. It will do its thing and reboot. Make sure to download busybox and supersu by chainfire. Thats what work for me. I had a problem at first but flashed the UPDATED SUPERSU file and that did the trick. Also download root checker. That will confirm you have root.
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Works4Me
XxTeXx07xX said:
@covergeek you can try using odin and flash the NF4 stock .tar file. Then flash the philz recovery .tar and root it again. Its very simple. Look around the threads for the stock NF4 .tar and go from there..... just a thought. It will deff give you the hotspot option in settings under your connections tab. I attached the screenshot. Follow the directions in the thread on the NF4 .tar to make sure you do it right. Might wanna ask questions first to make sure. Im positive someone will assist you with any questions you might have before committing to the NF4 build. Then try my guide
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Thank you Tex, I must have missed the link in the L710T rooting thread; NF4 hotspot is unlocked Getting the MSL was a major PITA but MSL Utility worked like a charm. Big thanks again my friend!

NightFlight1 said:
Thank you Tex, I must have missed the link in the L710T rooting thread; NF4 hotspot is unlocked Getting the MSL was a major PITA but MSL Utility worked like a charm. Big thanks again my friend!
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You are very welcome. Im super stoked i was of help. I love this community
dearly. Im sure this will work on other phones too.... Not getting much feedback
as I thought. It took me days to find a app that actually work for the MSL/SPC code.
Anyway I wanna thank you for reply and feedback ENJOY that hotspot and please hit the thanks button lol

XxTeXx07xX said:
You are very welcome. Im super stoked i was of help. I love this community
dearly. Im sure this will work on other phones too.... Not getting much feedback
as I thought. It took me days to find a app that actually work for the MSL/SPC code.
Anyway I wanna thank you for reply and feedback ENJOY that hotspot and please hit the thanks button lol
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I'll try this out as soon as I can. Working on getting rooted,which I find out now. Also will this work on Sprint gs3?

zoedreads said:
I'll try this out as soon as I can. Working on getting rooted,which I find out now. Also will this work on Sprint gs3?
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Im sure it will. Follow the guide. You wanna find that option APN TYPE. Not 100 percent on if your menu is exactly like mine but im 99 percent sure it will be. Once you go for it let me know either post it here or pm me. If you need any help during the process please ask for help. Its very handy if you have a pc to communicate during the process. It will make it easier for me to help if you run into any confusion.... Also please reply and give feedback for others that might come across the same thing as you do. Im pretty sure it will be the same as my guide explains...
Also its very easy to root these phones. I recommend using ODIN and flash Philz Recovery .tar file in the PDA slot. Uncheck auto reboot and other option. Once you get the green pass sign. Disconnect phone, pull battery and enter recovery mode. There a option to root phone in the menu. Very easy. There is alot of helpful guides here to look at. Good luck to ya. Pay attention to them. You need to flash the 4.4. Know as the kitkat bootloader if you upgrading. Depending on what you are already running on your phone.
¤[SPH-L710T_4.4.2_NF4]¤
¤[STOCK_ROOTED_DEODEXED]¤

XxTeXx07xX said:
Im sure it will. Follow the guide. You wanna find that option APN TYPE. Not 100 percent on if your menu is exactly like mine but im 99 percent sure it will be. Once you go for it let me know either post it here or pm me. If you need any help during the process please ask for help. Its very handy if you have a pc to communicate during the process. It will make it easier for me to help if you run into any confusion.... Also please reply and give feedback for others that might come across the same thing as you do. Im pretty sure it will be the same as my guide explains...
Also its very easy to root these phones. I recommend using ODIN and flash Philz Recovery .tar file in the PDA slot. Uncheck auto reboot and other option. Once you get the green pass sign. Disconnect phone, pull battery and enter recovery mode. There a option to root phone in the menu. Very easy. There is alot of helpful guides here to look at. Good luck to ya. Pay attention to them. You need to flash the 4.4. Know as the kitkat bootloader if you upgrading. Depending on what you are already running on your phone.
¤[SPH-L710T_4.4.2_NF4]¤
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Thanks that what I needed. I'm at work but getting off soon.I'll let you how turns out.Been at this all week.Also I'm on stock,use towelroot but as you know they patch that.
But thanks again n I'll let you know

zoedreads said:
Thanks that what I needed. I'm at work but getting off soon.I'll let you how turns out.Been at this all week.Also I'm on stock,use towelroot but as you know they patch that.
But thanks again n I'll let you know
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Np again thank you for the replay. Please hit the thanks button I join this wonderful community to help and help others. Its truly a good feeling every time I see a happy person reply getting their hotspot working! I should title it just HOTSPOT cause i kno it should work on more the just my SPH-L710T. Anyway ENJOY! N please hit the thanks button
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XxTeXx07xX said:
Np again thank you for the replay. Please hit the thanks button I join this wonderful community to help and help others. Its truly a good feeling every time I see a happy person reply getting their hotspot working! I should title it just HOTSPOT cause i kno it should work on more the just my SPH-L710T. Anyway ENJOY! N please hit the thanks button
¤[SPH-L710T_4.4.2_NF4]¤
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Hey need some help with the philz recovery. I have it on my phone n all. Thing is still no root. I saw the re root superuser n pick it reboot still nothing

zoedreads said:
Hey need some help with the philz recovery. I have it on my phone n all. Thing is still no root. I saw the re root superuser n pick it reboot still nothing
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After you (re)root with Philz, install/update SuperSU via play store.

zoedreads said:
Hey need some help with the philz recovery. I have it on my phone n all. Thing is still no root. I saw the re root superuser n pick it reboot still nothing
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Have you went to the playstore and downloaded busybox by stericson and SuperSU by chainfire???? Thats a must. After you download them try recovery mode and re root. Check the option the verify root on exit. If that still does not work try installing the SuperSU-UPDATE that I attched to this post and install it thru recovery.

Well crazy thing I had it. After reboot it everytime I lost root n superuser. I downloaded superuser n after reboot it gone n my root gone.

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After you (re)root with Philz, install/update SuperSU via play store.
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Agree.... thats a must

Noob here! How can i UNroot my phone?

I want to UNroot my phone/restore my phone due to the fact that I believe I may have done something wrong in the process. I am on 5.0.1
When I turn my phone on, I do get the welcome screen saying my phone's unlocked and all but when I try to use xposed installer it says that my device is not properly rooted?
Specifically it says " The latest version of Xposed is currently not active. Did you install the framework and reboot?" When I try to do this, it says
"Xposed is not (yet) compatible with Android SDK version 21 or your processor architecture (armeabiv7a)
CANNOT LINK EXECUTABLE: could not load library "libdvm.so" needed by" /data/data/de.robv.android.xposed.installer/cache/app_process";
cause by library "libdvm.so" not found"
And I believe I had a very hard time (when rooting) copying and pasting the SuperSU to internal storage. Not all the files were actually being transferred over.
I pretty much want to restore my phone so that I can try to root it properly this time.
When the tutorial on how root our phones came out, I feel as though I rushed it from excitement without properly educating myself on what to watch out for.
Maybe I am only HALF rooted? lol sounds so stupid. but my greenify works and superSU grants access to everything. I just don't understand.
My last phone was iphone4 and jailbreaking that was easy. This is something else.
Can anyone help? Thank you for your time!

yungzhvo said:
I want to UNroot my phone/restore my phone due to the fact that I believe I may have done something wrong in the process. I am on 5.0.1
When I turn my phone on, I do get the welcome screen saying my phone's unlocked and all but when I try to use xposed installer it says that my device is not properly rooted?
Specifically it says " The latest version of Xposed is currently not active. Did you install the framework and reboot?" When I try to do this, it says
"Xposed is not (yet) compatible with Android SDK version 21 or your processor architecture (armeabiv7a)
CANNOT LINK EXECUTABLE: could not load library "libdvm.so" needed by" /data/data/de.robv.android.xposed.installer/cache/app_process";
cause by library "libdvm.so" not found"
And I believe I had a very hard time (when rooting) copying and pasting the SuperSU to internal storage. Not all the files were actually being transferred over.
I pretty much want to restore my phone so that I can try to root it properly this time.
When the tutorial on how root our phones came out, I feel as though I rushed it from excitement without properly educating myself on what to watch out for.
Maybe I am only HALF rooted? lol sounds so stupid. but my greenify works and superSU grants access to everything. I just don't understand.
My last phone was iphone4 and jailbreaking that was easy. This is something else.
Can anyone help? Thank you for your time!
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This may be of some help.

kkretch said:
This may be of some help.
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Thank you for replying so quickly! :good:
Do you happen to know if this will automatically upgrade me to the newest OTA upgrade?
I want to stay on 5.1.1 so I can try to root it properly. And I've been delaying the OTA upgrade since day 1 and still doing so even with the supposed root I have on my phone right now.

yungzhvo said:
Thank you for replying so quickly! :good:
Do you happen to know if this will automatically upgrade me to the newest OTA upgrade?
I want to stay on 5.1.1 so I can try to root it properly. And I've been delaying the OTA upgrade since day 1 and still doing so even with the supposed root I have on my phone right now.
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If you're going to root your phone, you don't want to take the OTA. You'll just have to downgrade to Lollipop anyway.
Use ODIN and flash the full firmware. 5.1.1 should be good. @hsbadr has a thread in the Development forum with all of the firmware that's available. It'll save you the slow download speed of Sammobile.
If when you go into download mode and you see "mode: developer," you're pretty close to root. Flash SuperSU and TWRP and you'll be there.

douger1957 said:
If you're going to root your phone, you don't want to take the OTA. You'll just have to downgrade to Lollipop anyway.
Use ODIN and flash the full firmware. 5.1.1 should be good. @hsbadr has a thread in the Development forum with all of the firmware that's available. It'll save you the slow download speed of Sammobile.
If when you go into download mode and you see "mode: developer," you're pretty close to root. Flash SuperSU and TWRP and you'll be there.
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"If when you go into download mode and you see "mode: developer," you're pretty close to root. Flash SuperSU and TWRP and you'll be there."
Can you elaborate a little more on this for me? Because when I first rooted I made sure to do EVERY step. Read the forums and watched youtube videos directly linked from the forum.
The thing I just didn't know how to do correctly was flashing the SuperSU and TWRP (I THINIK)
I sincerely just remember trying to copy and paste some files into system storage? something like that... and not EVERYTHING was transferring over.
When I turn on my phone I get the welcome screen with the picture of the unlocked lock with "custom" underneath. So I know I must have done SOMETHING correctly.
Im just sincerely lost. It's quite infuriating .

yungzhvo said:
"If when you go into download mode and you see "mode: developer," you're pretty close to root. Flash SuperSU and TWRP and you'll be there."
Can you elaborate a little more on this for me? Because when I first rooted I made sure to do EVERY step. Read the forums and watched youtube videos directly linked from the forum.
The thing I just didn't know how to do correctly was flashing the SuperSU and TWRP (I THINIK)
I sincerely just remember trying to copy and paste some files into system storage? something like that... and not EVERYTHING was transferring over.
When I turn on my phone I get the welcome screen with the picture of the unlocked lock with "custom" underneath. So I know I must have done SOMETHING correctly.
Im just sincerely lost. It's quite infuriating .
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Go into download mode. From phone off, hold the volume down, power and home buttons together. If it says "mode: developer" in the upper left hand corner when you get it in developer mode, your bootloader is unlocked. At that point you can pick up the instructions for flashing SuperSU and TWRP. You may need to flash the Emotion kernel... it's been awhile since I unlocked Lollipop.

douger1957 said:
Go into download mode. From phone off, hold the volume down, power and home buttons together. If it says "mode: developer" in the upper left hand corner when you get it in developer mode, your bootloader is unlocked. At that point you can pick up the instructions for flashing SuperSU and TWRP. You may need to flash the Emotion kernel... it's been awhile since I unlocked Lollipop.
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I'm about to head home to try this out. maybe I'm just a step away from getting this whole thing to work!
Thank you for your help!! I will respond if I have any issues!

yungzhvo said:
Thank you for replying so quickly! :good:
Do you happen to know if this will automatically upgrade me to the newest OTA upgrade?
I want to stay on 5.1.1 so I can try to root it properly. And I've been delaying the OTA upgrade since day 1 and still doing so even with the supposed root I have on my phone right now.
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As long as you use the stock firmware from SamMobile and follow the directions in the video, EXACTLY ......... don't take any shortcuts. You will need to join SamMobile to get the download but its simple and free.

kkretch said:
As long as you use the stock firmware from SamMobile and follow the directions in the video, EXACTLY ......... don't take any shortcuts. You will need to join SamMobile to get the download but its simple and free.
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Hey! Thank you for the advice!
I downloaded the firmware from @hsbadr ! Will that work? Or is it better for me to download it from SamMobile? I want to make sure I don't do anything incorrectly.
p.s. have you already rooted your phone?

yungzhvo said:
Hey! Thank you for the advice!
I downloaded the firmware from @hsbadr ! Will that work? Or is it better for me to download it from SamMobile? I want to make sure I don't do anything incorrectly.
p.s. have you already rooted your phone?
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SamMobile is very reliable but if you trust your source then you should be OK. I have done the root thing many times years ago but I'm happy with stock firmware and I need my devices to work without issue so I leave well enough alone.