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i need to unroot my s3 for warranty purposes but i cannot find proper procedures for the the model sgh-t999v..
i have 2 questions,
1. can i just root a stock rom for sgh-t999 to my sgh-t999v?
2. anyone have the procedures to unroot my sgh-t999v
thanks
Flash a stock rooted Rom. T-Mobile one. That seems to be ok as long as you don't flash a T-Mobile radio.
Not sure if triangle away works on the Canadian version.
Maybe someone else has tried it.
All I had to do to return my last one was flash a stock rooted Rom.
I don't think they check the flash counter
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If the Rom has some T-Mobile bloat left on it get it off there.
Hide superuser in a folder
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Thanks, ill try it tonight
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Or you can download the actual fw for your device. You will have to register but its no big deal.
Www.sammobile.com/firmware
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I can see you have a Videotron Galaxy S3. They don't check the flash counter. Let's just say I know this "by experience". As long as it's just rooted and you don't have any custom ROM, you should be fine. But indeed if you can at least hide the SU app it would be a good thing.
You could also perform a factory reset in CWM prior to going to the store, as they will make you do it anyways (and you actually don't want them to see the CWM screen)prior to any exchange. It's company policy.
lightpsycho said:
I can see you have a Videotron Galaxy S3. They don't check the flash counter. Let's just say I know this "by experience". As long as it's just rooted and you don't have any custom ROM, you should be fine. But indeed if you can at least hide the SU app it would be a good thing.
You could also perform a factory reset in CWM prior to going to the store, as they will make you do it anyways (and you actually don't want them to see the CWM screen)prior to any exchange. It's company policy.
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It's still probably safer to just use Triangle Away to get rid of the flash counter
Triangle away? Please explain
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yukuansu said:
Triangle away? Please explain
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Heres everything to know about triangle away, it resets the flash counter...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1494114
Jake
T-Mobile & SGH-T999V
Hi,
Can we use the T-Mobile stock recovery on SGH-T999V?
flyerspat said:
Hi,
Can we use the T-Mobile stock recovery on SGH-T999V?
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If your trying to go back to stock, just download the stock rom from sammobile, it has everything you need like stock recovery, and then just flash it via odin.
htc fan89 said:
If your trying to go back to stock, just download the stock rom from sammobile, it has everything you need like stock recovery, and then just flash it via odin.
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Hi,
The only downloads availables are the firmwares, does it include the stock recovery in it?
flyerspat said:
Hi,
The only downloads availables are the firmwares, does it include the stock recovery in it?
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Yes it should be the full fw which includes radio, recovery and more.
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Thanks!
I'll test it tonight, wouldn't look good to download a 700 mb file at work!
I tried a few firmwares, but for some reason they all said "unsupport dev_type" when trying to use odin to return to stock non root (from stock rooted) In the end, the easiest way to remove root was to just let Kies update my gs3 to Jelly Bean (sgh-t999v). Painless, no data loss, took about 30 minutes with the firmware download.
Good luck
You will likely also want to triangle away. I won't link because it's extremely dangerous software that requires you to read up on the risks.
But that will reset your custom flashes assuming you have some on your counter you can check easily by going into download mode.
i recently lost my stock rom backup.. deleted it off clockworkmod touch by accident, so i only have the cm10.1 nightly i was running when i deleted it.. now i'm assuming i will lose root if i flash the stock firmware through odin? is there another way to get my stock rom back without losing root (and cyanogenmod rom backups)?
hey guys im having trouble with triangle away on my sgh-t999v with the baseband version: T999VVLUFNF1
after I used triangle away and I go into download mode it says:
current binary: Samsung Official
System status: official
qualcomm secureboot:enable
Warranty Bit:1
Bootloader AP SWAEV: 2
Although the current binary and the system status have changed the warranty bit is still at 1
Please help!
There is no way (and never will be a way) to change the Warranty Bit. Sorry
DocHoliday77 said:
There is no way (and never will be a way) to change the Warranty Bit. Sorry
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I guess im screwed for warranty..I thought it might be cuz I have a custom kernal installed that triangle away didnt work..but thanks anyway and sorry about posting in multiple threads, im kinda new to this
No problem, thats why i mention it, so you know for the future.
Tecnically, with the warranty bit tripped, the warranty is void. However, i have seen a lot of posts where people sent it in anyway and their warranty was still honored. Its not a guarantee, but there is hope it can be used if needed. The good thing though, is you most likely will never need to use it anyway!
Wondering if anyone could help me out....
I rooted my Samsung Galaxy S3 SGH-T999 a couple of weeks ago and everything went well. I was using my rooted phone for two weeks until i got a device update from t-mobile. I was hoping it was the jelly bean update so I went ahead and tried to install the update but it was failing. Since I wanted jelly bean so bad I decided to unroot my phone and flash the stock recovery in order to install the update. I flashed the stock recovery and installed the update obviously it was not jelly bean... Now I want to root my phone again but every time I try to flash clockworkmod recovery with odin it does not flash. Odin says everything went okay but when i put my phone in recovery it brings up the stock recovery. I think I may need to reset my flash counter but I could be wrong. Can any one tell me how i can root my phone again? Is there a way to reset the flash counter if my phone is not rooted? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Triangle away. Seriously? Pull the battery after flashing recovery or delete the two files (search) or untock a box.. SEARCH. It gets asked once a week at least.
psykhotic said:
Triangle away. Seriously? Pull the battery after flashing recovery or delete the two files (search) or untock a box.. SEARCH. It gets asked once a week at least.
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Can I use Triangle away when I am not rooted? I posted it here because im not sure if i can't root because of the flash counter or because i got an update. I tired pulling the battery after flashing recovery and it did not work. Now my flash counter is up to 4.
TwistedNy7 said:
Can I use Triangle away when I am not rooted? I posted it here because im not sure if i can't root because of the flash counter or because i got an update. I tired pulling the battery after flashing recovery and it did not work. Now my flash counter is up to 4.
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I wrote this again yesterday....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=33239838
And yes triangle away requires root.
Good luck!
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DocHoliday77 said:
I wrote this again yesterday....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=33239838
And yes triangle away requires root.
Good luck!
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Thank you DocHoliday77.
DocHoliday77 said:
I wrote this again yesterday....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=33239838
And yes triangle away requires root.
Good luck!
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DocHoliday77 If I flash the stock recovery after I rooted the phone would i loss root? I
So I downloaded the stock firmware for my phone to flash via Odin, (The Samsung GS4 M919V), and I just noticed that the phone still thinks i'm on modified software. Is there anyway to fix this? I want to be 100% on stock so I can receive OTA updates...
Have you tried Triangle Away from the market? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.chainfire.triangleaway
KaneHusky said:
Have you tried Triangle Away from the market? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.chainfire.triangleaway
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I'm not longer rooted. I don't see why the flash counter would make my device "modified". On my S3 I had a huge flash counter and when I'd flash stock I was able to install OTA's.
Mateoftw said:
So I downloaded the stock firmware for my phone to flash via Odin, (The Samsung GS4 M919V), and I just noticed that the phone still thinks i'm on modified software. Is there anyway to fix this? I want to be 100% on stock so I can receive OTA updates...
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Do you by any chance have a microSd card plugged in? I'd recommend you take it out, reboot and see if you still get the same message. Also delete any rom, root files you may have on your Internal & external SD.
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dj_aj said:
Do you by any chance have a microSd card plugged in? I'd recommend you take it out, reboot and see if you still get the same message. Also delete any rom, root files you may have on your Internal & external SD.
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I tried that and it didn't have any effect :/
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Did you perform a factory reset? You have to, to get it to say official again.
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You must use triangle away. It is the only way to reset everything to factory standards.
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stevessvt said:
Did you perform a factory reset? You have to, to get it to say official again.
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By flashing stock it's assumed that it's also a factory reset. None the less I just factory reseeted the phone and it didn't do anything. In order to use Triangle Away, I need to be rooted, which I am not.
Mateoftw said:
By flashing stock it's assumed that it's also a factory reset. None the less I just factory reseeted the phone and it didn't do anything. In order to use Triangle Away, I need to be rooted, which I am not.
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Which stock file did you flash? There was a "return to stock" file floating around, but it was made from a system dump and not an official ROM.
Mateoftw said:
By flashing stock it's assumed that it's also a factory reset. None the less I just factory reseeted the phone and it didn't do anything. In order to use Triangle Away, I need to be rooted, which I am not.
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Okay so root your device by flashing cwm through Odin the flash supersure zip and boom you got root. Now run triangle away
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Or chainfire auto root...then use triangle away, while still in triangle away have it reboot back in to bootloader mode, odin stock again, after it reboots perform another factory reset.
Done.
Mateoftw said:
So I downloaded the stock firmware for my phone to flash via Odin, (The Samsung GS4 M919V), and I just noticed that the phone still thinks i'm on modified software. Is there anyway to fix this? I want to be 100% on stock so I can receive OTA updates...
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Get Triangle Away and use CF-Auto-Root to root but leave you with stock. Reset the flash counter and use the workaround which delays loading superuser on each startup. That makes your phone report "official". Then factory wipe.
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Yeah, I was wondering the same thing. The file floating around is 2.4gb~ file (uncompressed), but its failing for me. I downloaded it twice and attempted from 2 different computers. Also, is there a Triangles Away compatible with the S4.
Sorry for the n00b questions. i just moved to S4. I was on S3 and a land where everything just worked
Toleraen said:
Which stock file did you flash? There was a "return to stock" file floating around, but it was made from a system dump and not an official ROM.
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electroyo said:
Yeah, I was wondering the same thing. The file floating around is 2.4gb~ file (uncompressed), but its failing for me. I downloaded it twice and attempted from 2 different computers. Also, is there a Triangles Away compatible with the S4.
Sorry for the n00b questions. i just moved to S4. I was on S3 and a land where everything just worked
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Nothing you flash will reset you back to an official status. You MUST use triangle away. Period.
electroyo said:
Yeah, I was wondering the same thing. The file floating around is 2.4gb~ file (uncompressed), but its failing for me. I downloaded it twice and attempted from 2 different computers. Also, is there a Triangles Away compatible with the S4.
Sorry for the n00b questions. i just moved to S4. I was on S3 and a land where everything just worked
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Try this if you haven't already. Use the 'UVUAMDL official' tar and make sure to MD5 the file after downloading.
Toleraen said:
Try this if you haven't already. Use the 'UVUAMDL official' tar and make sure to MD5 the file after downloading.
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This is a great tutorial, however, just following this tutorial alone, will restore you to stock with a CUSTOM bootloader status.
Use triangle away to reset the flash counter, once triangle away is finished, it will ask if you wish to reboot to system, or reboot to download mode. Select download mode, then follow that tutorial.
I don't know what I'm doing wrong. I put my S4 in download mode checked the md5 of the suggested tar file but it failed again
Him rlandtst
I was able to flash the original original tar file just fine. So I know its not my phone. Maybe I need to wait till the Nexus ROM on the 26th. Can't even get the baseband up
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I don't know what I'm doing wrong. I put my S4 in download mode checked the md5 of the suggested tar file but it failed again
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Reboot phone back into download mode and try again. They fail for unknown reasons from time to time. Also make sure you're connected directly to the USB port and not a hub.
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I recently bought a T-Mobile Galaxy S4 and right away put a custom recovery on and rooted the phone. I'd actually like to go back to stock recovery, no root, and have my download mode show as non custom. Can I use Triangle Away to reset it, flash a stock recovery and be back to 100 percent stock? Or would I have to use Triangle Away and then flash a while stock firmware and pretty much start with a clean install?
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Flash stock rom using odin that should fix it all. But just in case reset counter then flash stock rom.
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Fishtick26 said:
I recently bought a T-Mobile Galaxy S4 and right away put a custom recovery on and rooted the phone. I'd actually like to go back to stock recovery, no root, and have my download mode show as non custom. Can I use Triangle Away to reset it, flash a stock recovery and be back to 100 percent stock? Or would I have to use Triangle Away and then flash a while stock firmware and pretty much start with a clean install?
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First, Triangle Away:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1494114
Then, Odin back to stock:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2258628
Should fix everything.
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Fishtick26 said:
I recently bought a T-Mobile Galaxy S4 and right away put a custom recovery on and rooted the phone. I'd actually like to go back to stock recovery, no root, and have my download mode show as non custom. Can I use Triangle Away to reset it, flash a stock recovery and be back to 100 percent stock? Or would I have to use Triangle Away and then flash a while stock firmware and pretty much start with a clean install?
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You have to use triangle away first, and then just odin back to stock firmware.You can't flash the stock recovery by itself though.
Not entirely true, you can use triangle away, then use mobile Odin to flash just stock recovery out of the full .tar file, then use the unroot option in super su.
stevessvt said:
Not entirely true, you can use triangle away, then use mobile Odin to flash just stock recovery out of the full .tar file, then use the unroot option in super su.
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This sounds amazing. I have the full .tar.md5 file. How would I pull recovery out of there? And in Odin, would I just choose PDA and then pick the recovery file only?
-Edit- Would I need to use mobile Odin? Could I just use the Windows version of Odin?
Drop it on your sdcard, and when you direct mobile Odin to it, it divides it up in to its separate parts, you then clear out the parts you don't need, leaving only the stock recovery. Mobile Odin costs a few bucks, but totally worth it.
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Drop it on your sdcard, and when you direct mobile Odin to it, it divides it up in to its separate parts, you then clear out the parts you don't need, leaving only the stock recovery. Mobile Odin costs a few bucks, but totally worth it.
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Wow, I didn't know this. Thanks for the info.
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Any time. I always keep the tar on my phone in case of emergency.
stevessvt said:
Drop it on your sdcard, and when you direct mobile Odin to it, it divides it up in to its separate parts, you then clear out the parts you don't need, leaving only the stock recovery. Mobile Odin costs a few bucks, but totally worth it.
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Good news is that using this method I am back to stock/official on the phone (well, I guess it is good news, I'll miss doing custom ROM stuff). The bad news is that even though I selected Recovery only in Mobile Odin it did a factory reset. I've only had the phone a few days so no big deal I suppose. I may just go ahead and do a full wipe in case there are files hanging out on the internal card taking up space.
Oh ****, sorry, there is an option to do that in MO, I thought it defaults to not doing that. But Im glad it worked otherwise. Pretty handy app. I would do a full wipe at this point anyways.
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Oh ****, sorry, there is an option to do that in MO, I thought it defaults to not doing that. But Im glad it worked otherwise. Pretty handy app. I would do a full wipe at this point anyways.
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Not a big deal. The app looks great and I was happy to buy it to support the developer. His apps/guides have helped me very many times in the past. I did a full wipe and I'm starting to rebuild now. I appreciate all the advice/feedback.
I decided to do the T-Mobile JUMP program so I figure if I'll only have the phone for 6 months I'll leave it stock. Both to prevent possible bricks and because the phone running stock is pretty nice anyway.
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
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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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