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NANDROID Restore Stock ICS 4.0.4 Galaxy S III T-Mobile T999for T-Mobile GS3 T999 only!
(This Nandroid restore is not rooted and is using the T-Mobile Stock Kernel.)
Instructions:
1. You must have ROM Manager installed and or ClockworkMod Recovery flashed and an external sdcard installed. Then have the directory and file contents of the "T999-Stock.rar" file parts extracted to your internal SDMemory in the /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup/T999-Stock directory. If the directory does not exist then create it.
There must be a directory called "T999-Stock" in the "/sdcard/clockworkmod/backup" subdirectory and the files must be directly in that directory, not in another nested directory or Nandroid will not find the files. (Note: If you have any spaces in your directory name. You will get a md5 check some error.)
2. Run ROM Manager and choose Reboot into Recovery or boot phone into clockworkmod recovery.
3. In recovery go down to backup and restore, choose restore.
4. Select T999-Stock and choose Yes - Restore.
5. When the restore finishes do not reboot yet. Do a "wipe data/factory reset" from the recovery menu (just to be thorough).
6. When it completes choose Reboot.
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Downloads:
T999-Stock.zip
Enjoy!
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New to this stuff but is there a .far file for Odin? Always used Odin to get back to stock in the past
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Glad to see ya here and thx
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avataranjie said:
New to this stuff but is there a .far file for Odin? Always used Odin to get back to stock in the past
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As far as rar files , well, that's an old school computer thing. As far as what is offered here is a Nandroid restore to get to stock that you restore from ClockworkMod recovery.
1. There is not an oden restore available yet for our phone. And is only needed if you really bone up your phone.
2. Nandroid restore can be done without having to have a PC on hand. You can do it from your phone, anywhere.
Downloading this now then will work with base.
THANK YOU!
This totally saved my behind! I used Titanium Backup to restore too much and it messed up some important system files. Until you posted this, I couldn't send text messages or make calls.
THANK YOU!
-J
http://rootgalaxys3iii.com/root-at-t-galaxy-s3/
Fixboot.tar just in case anything screws up when rooting. Saved some people's lives. Odin if anything happens to phone
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Could i potentially flash this being on sprint, or does it need to be ported? Thanx...
For international s3?
Edit, says for tmobile only, lmao, i take it thats a no... source code, github? Lol, sorry had a few totties, should start a thread on how many people jack their shniz while intoxicated...
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It's not ICS 4.4 it's ICS 4.0
Reviewers said:
It's not ICS 4.4 it's ICS 4.0
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Typo, fixed.
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jr71x said:
Could i potentially flash this being on sprint, or does it need to be ported? Thanx...
For international s3?
Edit, says for tmobile only, lmao, i take it thats a no... source code, github? Lol, sorry had a few totties, should start a thread on how many people jack their shniz while intoxicated...
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I don't have a sprint phone, so it's untested. I put tmo only because it came from a tmo phone. I won't support any other.
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This is a totally n00b question, sorry.
I put this on an sdmicro card as an insurance policy, under /clockworkmod/backups, stuck it into the back of the S3.
But when i boot into clockwork (from clockworkmod.tar), it doesn't see the sdmicro card at all - it sees the internal 32 GB as '/sdcard' and there doesn't seem to be a way to get CWM to find the one on the actual sdcard (even if I mount sd_external). Is there a way to do that on this thing, or just make sure you copy to internal 'sdcard' over usb? Which I've done now.
it seems that the location of the external is different now so that's probably why you can't see it in recovery
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has anyone "pulled" the stock recovery .img file for the T999 (if it's even possible to grab it somehow?)? It would be great to have a .tar to flash back to that... unless the international stock recovery tar works for it?
afbengochea said:
it seems that the location of the external is different now so that's probably why you can't see it in recovery
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yep thats the deal, its even odd to use a file explorer to find stuff on sd.
jntdroid said:
has anyone "pulled" the stock recovery .img file for the T999 (if it's even possible to grab it somehow?)? It would be great to have a .tar to flash back to that... unless the international stock recovery tar works for it?
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Stock recovery.img is the nandroid all you have to is tar it then flash in odin
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will this reset the binary counter to none? because triangle away doesn't work for t999. Is there anyway to reset the counter as of now if this doesn't work?
kodiakice said:
will this reset the binary counter to none? because triangle away doesn't work for t999. Is there anyway to reset the counter as of now if this doesn't work?
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short answer, no
Can someone post all six files combined? I don't have Winrar..
Powered by the SGSIII
ThC23 said:
Can someone post all six files combined? I don't have Winrar..
Powered by the SGSIII
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http://www.7-zip.org/ <--free
So I've been thinking about flashing Paranoid Android 3.6, mostly because of halo and 4.2.2.
What's kept me from root+custom rom for so long is the possibility of a brick, or requiring the warranty and being unable to revert to stock
Had the phone for 6 months now, the longest I've stayed on an official rom on any phone I've had, with the impending release of 4.2.2 in the near future, i'm not sure if now's a good time to root. (Decisions, decisions)
Apart from dropping the phone and have the screen shatter, what could go wrong? Eg. Bricks, sds somehow?
I'm hoping to get a list of things that could go wrong, and the way to get something to go wrong.
Purely so I could avoid just that :good:
Cheers.
csmiler said:
So I've been thinking about flashing Paranoid Android 3.6, mostly because of halo and 4.2.2.
What's kept me from root+custom rom for so long is the possibility of a brick, or requiring the warranty and being unable to revert to stock
Had the phone for 6 months now, the longest I've stayed on an official rom on any phone I've had, with the impending release of 4.2.2 in the near future, i'm not sure if now's a good time to root. (Decisions, decisions)
Apart from dropping the phone and have the screen shatter, what could go wrong? Eg. Bricks, sds somehow?
I'm hoping to get a list of things that could go wrong, and the way to get something to go wrong.
Purely so I could avoid just that :good:
Cheers.
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There is a best toolkit available for rooting and installing Cwm which u can use and will not create any issue out of it
Since note 2 is quite a old and most of the issue which occurs are solved by some or the other user
I would suggest take a proper EFS backup have a nandroid backup safe somewhere on pc etc after rooting and cwm
And after that enjoy flashing ROMS u like the way u want
Most of the thread has a guide to use / install so u won't have any issue I guess
Just follow the guide and u ll just be fine
All the best :thumbup:
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123hiten said:
There is a best toolkit available for rooting and installing Cwm which u can use and will not create any issue out of it
Since note 2 is quite a old and most of the issue which occurs are solved by some or the other user
I would suggest take a proper EFS backup have a nandroid backup safe somewhere on pc etc after rooting and cwm
And after that enjoy flashing ROMS u like the way u want
Most of the thread has a guide to use / install so u won't have any issue I guess
Just follow the guide and u ll just be fine
All the best :thumbup:
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Bangalore ftw, thanks!
What's the toolkit called?
Could I just follow step 2 onthis page ? It's similar to what I've done on my old phone.
Still a bit jittery, if I follow the guide to the letter, what are the chances of a brick?
Cheers :good:
csmiler said:
Bangalore ftw, thanks!
What's the toolkit called?
Could I just follow step 2 onthis page ? It's similar to what I've done on my old phone.
Still a bit jittery, if I follow the guide to the letter, what are the chances of a brick?
Cheers :good:
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Yes u can use Dr ketan guide he is best at what he does and will support also
Dont worry u won't brick it
I have flashed so many rom the second day I get a new phone and all is well as long as I follow it properly
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123hiten said:
Yes u can use Dr ketan guide he is best at what he does and will support also
Dont worry u won't brick it
I have flashed so many rom the second day I get a new phone and all is well as long as I follow it properly
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Assuming I install the custom rom, and then decide to install official 4.2.2 when it releases, what would I do?
Can I install through kies instead of reverting back to stock and having to deal with the system modified issue?
csmiler said:
Assuming I install the custom rom, and then decide to install official 4.2.2 when it releases, what would I do?
Can I install through kies instead of reverting back to stock and having to deal with the system modified issue?
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Incase in the future u wanna come back to normal or stock u have to flash the firmware unroot and then u can get update from kies
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123hiten said:
Incase in the future u wanna come back to normal or stock u have to flash the firmware unroot and then u can get update from kies
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Thanks!
I guess I'll just have to get over the jitters by convincing myself there isn't a risk. :banghead:
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Today took a nandroid back up installed paranoid android halo is not at all amazing infact found irritating and restored the rom to sammy custom my personal view
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The most important thing to do before flashing any rom is to create a backup of the EFS partition. I cannot stress it enough how many threads I keep seeing with people crying about losing their imei number and unable to retrieve them. Very important!
Besides that, don't use any rom released before 4.2.1 to minimize the risk of SDS. There's always a risk with rooting and flashing unofficial rom, however, only thing you can do is minimize the risk as much as possible. Good luck.
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Will do, I'm going to go for it
Is it flashing the Recovery or flashing the rom that carries the risk of erasing the efs?
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csmiler said:
Will do, I'm going to go for it
Is it flashing the Recovery or flashing the rom that carries the risk of erasing the efs?
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That is a risk associated with flashing the rom not the recovery. I have never lost my imei from flashing recovery, it usually happens after flashing a custom rom. Fortunately I always have a permanent spot on my PC for my phone EFS backup.
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bushako said:
That is a risk associated with flashing the rom not the recovery. I have never lost my imei from flashing recovery, it usually happens after flashing a custom rom. Fortunately I always have a permanent spot on my PC for my phone EFS backup.
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This is a frequent occurrence? In the event that it gets wiped, is restoring the EFS a sure thing, it is there a possibility it won't restore?
bushako said:
That is a risk associated with flashing the rom not the recovery. I have never lost my imei from flashing recovery, it usually happens after flashing a custom rom. Fortunately I always have a permanent spot on my PC for my phone EFS backup.
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Also, if i needed to restore a nandroid backup, would I need to flash a stock kernel? Or just a restore?
Edit- I just read the Mobile Odin thread, and saw "While in theory Mobile ODIN can repartition and flash EFS and bootloaders, it will cowardly refuse to do so, for your own safety."
So, is mobile odin better than flashing from recovery?
Sorry for the pestering, after 5 years on these forums from my iMate days, i'd be expected to be less of a frightened noob when it comes to a new phone
How to restore my IMEI on Galaxy note 2 if I don't have a backup of /efs?
george120879 said:
How to restore my IMEI on Galaxy note 2 if I don't have a backup of /efs?
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Do u think it's possible to restore something you don't have???
Only ways flash the stock firmware chances are less but still worth to give a tey or send it for repair.
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@Primokorn_
You're not helping.
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ROM: ARHD 19
KERNEL: Stock
laziafbaito said:
@Primokorn_
You're not helping.
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This question has been posted so many times... and if you lose your IMEI you can't recover it without a backup.
So it was more a consistent response than a lack of help.
Primokorn_ said:
This question has been posted so many times... and if you lose your IMEI you can't recover it without a backup.
So it was more a consistent response than a lack of help.
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Then just say so, you don't have to answer that way, the poor guy just corrupted his efs.
Anyway, sorry stepped on the wrong foot Cheers!
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ROM: ARHD 19
KERNEL: Stock
laziafbaito said:
Then just say so, you don't have to answer that way, the poor guy just corrupted his efs.
Anyway, sorry stepped on the wrong foot Cheers!
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ROM: ARHD 19
KERNEL: Stock
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Thank you
All I asked was guidance since I am clueless with the EFS and how it works.
In This case then do i throw the phone away or what do i do?
george120879 said:
Thank you
All I asked was guidance since I am clueless with the EFS and how it works.
In This case then do i throw the phone away or what do i do?
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Go to Sammobile website or samsung-updates then download a recent firmware for your country and flash the .tar.md5 via Odin.
Here is an useful thread by Dr.Ketan: AIO
Primokorn_ said:
Go to Sammobile website or samsung-updates then download a recent firmware for your country and flash the .tar.md5 via Odin.
Here is an useful thread by Dr.Ketan: AIO
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Thank you ,already tried this with the recent rom for my country,is the one you mentioned here on the list of the link you send.
Problem still persists though.
george120879 said:
Thank you ,already tried this with the recent rom for my country,is the one you mentioned here on the list of the link you send.
Problem still persists though.
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Maybe this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2332913
or this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2333216
good luck ...
hey guys but if i do the backup efs with AROMA installer qhere he go??
luan3232 said:
hey guys but if i do the backup efs with AROMA installer qhere he go??
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Which Aroma Installer are you talking about?
Anyway creating an EFS backup is too late for you, sorry.
well to be safe just flash stock rom and try once with pit file and see if it restore if not just take it to service center before hard bricking it
Samsung will repair it alsong as you tell them that it didnt happen because of rooting or flashing roms. But back to your question, Your pretty much screwed without warranty
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hi all
my imei is also wrong (displays 0049*****)
i dont have efs backup but i do have nandroid backup
would nandroid backup restore my imei and serial number or do i have to do something else?
jreo said:
hi all
my imei is also wrong (displays 0049*****)
i dont have efs backup but i do have nandroid backup
would nandroid backup restore my imei and serial number or do i have to do something else?
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If you had backup with Twrp and also chose the option to backup efs, you will be, if not just will be like above
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yeminswe said:
If you had backup with Twrp and also chose the option to backup efs, you will be, if not just will be like above
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my backup is by CWM. there is no option to backup efs. i just backed it up. is it ok?
jreo said:
my backup is by CWM. there is no option to backup efs. i just backed it up. is it ok?
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If you did not backed up .efs, you don't have, well, an efs backup.
I used this method for backing up my efs and I think is the best: here
L.E.: also..if you lost IMEI or it shows you a fake one, than nothing else will bring your IMEI back. (except, of course, the case in which you have an efs backup)
Primokorn said:
This question has been posted so many times... and if you lose your IMEI you can't recover it without a backup.
So it was more a consistent response than a lack of help.
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you wrong
i lost my imei by flashing a wrong stock rom but as soon as i flash proper stock rom everything recovered
mietens said:
you wrong
i lost my imei by flashing a wrong stock rom but as soon as i flash proper stock rom everything recovered
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So you didn't LOSE your IMEI...
hey
some days ago I put cyanogenmod 10.2 on my loved note II
but I was a bit shocked, that nearly all functions did not work,
so I deleted it, now I'm searching again for a nice rom on android 4.3
which do you prefer?
(can't install my backup right now, think my folder structure is wrong -_-
used rom manager, and it can't find my backup >.> any ideas?)
greetings
Kaito23
ps.: ****in' t-mobile germany won't release an official update to 4.3 >.<
Kaito23 said:
hey
some days ago I put cyanogenmod 10.2 on my loved note II
but I was a bit shocked, that nearly all functions did not work,
so I deleted it, now I'm searching again for a nice rom on android 4.3
which do you prefer?
(can't install my backup right now, think my folder structure is wrong -_-
used rom manager, and it can't find my backup >.> any ideas?)
greetings
Kaito23
ps.: ****in' t-mobile germany won't release an official update to 4.3 >.<
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Backing up and restoring is Done by Cwm, and DittoNote3 for GT-N7105 is really good, give it a try and don't forget to flash the mj5 bootloader for the wifi to work.
With Regards,
Overdub
Smack the thanks if I helped.
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thanks for your reply,
but have another big problem now O_O
the rom deleted my IMEI number, so my simcard can not be mounted.
just went back to the backup i made with rom manager, but it didn't really fix it
any ideas?!
:crying:
Kaito23 said:
thanks for your reply,
but have another big problem now O_O
the rom deleted my IMEI number, so my simcard can not be mounted.
just went back to the backup i made with rom manager, but it didn't really fix it
any ideas?!
:crying:
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Alot of people have encountered your current problem and they fix it by restoring their efs.img backup but since you dont have one [i guess] , try researched z3x, it has solved alot of people's imei problems.
With regards,
Overdub
Smack the thanks if i helped.
OverDub said:
Alot of people have encountered your current problem and they fix it by restoring their efs.img backup but since you dont have one [i guess] , try researched z3x, it has solved alot of people's imei problems.
With regards,
Overdub
Smack the thanks if i helped.
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sad but true I think i don't really have a backup of it >.> :crying:
I found a folder called efs baclup with empty zip files, one dated yesterday, maybe helpful?
Kaito23 said:
sad but true I think i don't really have a backup of it >.> :crying:
I found a folder called efs baclup with empty zip files, one dated yesterday, maybe helpful?
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Same thing happened to me, what i did was download my original firmware from sam mobile and installed it. it solved the problem of no IMEI
Well it worked for me
okay
I will try it
short question:
did you install it with odin, or just put it on your sd card and used install zip from sdcard?
Kaito23 said:
okay
I will try it
short question:
did you install it with odin, or just put it on your sd card and used install zip from sdcard?
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odin rules 8)
everything works fine again
thanks
Kaito23 said:
odin rules 8)
everything works fine again
thanks
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Please back up ur efs now so you won't encounter such problem again , the back should be an .img file and sized about 20 mb.
With regards,
Overdub
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OverDub said:
Please back up ur efs now so you won't encounter such problem again , the back should be an .img file and sized about 20 mb.
With regards,
Overdub
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y I think i learn from my mistakes ^-^
but back to topic:
I still want that ROM
maybe someone has a good toturial
(maybe with all backup things >.>)
for installing that mod and the devil kernel for me rookie
greetings kaito
Kaito23 said:
y I think i learn from my mistakes ^-^
but back to topic:
I still want that ROM
maybe someone has a good toturial
(maybe with all backup things >.>)
for installing that mod and the devil kernel for me rookie
greetings kaito
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Ok so you download DittoNote3 for GT-N7105 and Mj5 boot loader, flash the rom using custom recovery and see if the wifi works, and if it doesn't work (most likely) just flash the Mj5 bootloader through odin, then if you wanna flash a kernel, download the desired one and flash it using custom recovery, before doing all those stuff, make sure that you backed up your efs and your custom recovery back up.
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OverDub said:
Ok so you download DittoNote3 for GT-N7105 and Mj5 boot loader, flash the rom using custom recovery and see if the wifi works, and if it doesn't work (most likely) just flash the Mj5 bootloader through odin, then if you wanna flash a kernel, download the desired one and flash it using custom recovery, before doing all those stuff, make sure that you backed up your efs and your custom recovery back up.
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so if I isntall the rom and the IMEI is killed again, I can just restore the efs and everything is working?
Kaito23 said:
so if I isntall the rom and the IMEI is killed again, I can just restore the efs and everything is working?
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I guess so, if you won't mess up while installing the rom, you won't have trouble.
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I didn't know there was a bootloader file for the n7105, I thought the only way to get the bootloader was to flash stock 4.3 rom
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edit:
it worked
but no wifi like you said
how to flash the mj5 bootloader?
any tutorials for gt-n7105?
did you mean mk5 ?
(sorry I should read more concentrated,
so the chances I get wifi are pretty low? )
edit:
found this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2537372
u think the LionROM N7105 4.3 Stock Kernel will help?
NOOB question.
Is there an easy way to transfer my phone settings to my wife's phone?
I want her to try a new Rom and I have mine set up pretty good.
Thanks, Randy
blakerandy said:
NOOB question.
Is there an easy way to transfer my phone settings to my wife's phone?
I want her to try a new Rom and I have mine set up pretty good.
Thanks, Randy
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If both are EXACTLY the same (make, model, carrier) then use NANDROID backup to make a copy of both devices. Then, ODIN hers with your backup. If she doesn' like it then just ODIN hers with her backup.
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Chris Kurisu said:
If both are EXACTLY the same (make, model, carrier) then use NANDROID backup to make a copy of both devices. Then, ODIN hers with your backup. If she doesn' like it then just ODIN hers with her backup.
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Yep, they are both the same so I will give it a try and see if she likes it.
Thanks for the help
And make sure she's not taken the 4.3 OTA, otherwise trying to flash a custom recovery won't work. And if she has, DO NOT try to downgrade her firmware. If you're not familiar with why, read all about that all over the place in the threads about the 4.3 update.
Good luck!
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