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[Q] Software update and Team Win Recovery?

Sprint is pushing out a minor update and 3 times now I've tried to accept it and when the phone restarts the TWR screen comes up with all its options.
I don't know what the heck to do from there! So, I just reboot the phone but don't get the update.
How do I accept the update on that TWR screen?

slthree said:
Sprint is pushing out a minor update and 3 times now I've tried to accept it and when the phone restarts the TWR screen comes up with all its options.
I don't know what the heck to do from there! So, I just reboot the phone but don't get the update.
How do I accept the update on that TWR screen?
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You have to be on a stock recovery to be able to flash OTA updates. You're going to have to reflash the stock recovery for your device. Try doing it through mobile odin and tell it to flash only the recovery partition.
Cheers!

vladeco said:
You have to be on a stock recovery to be able to flash OTA updates. You're going to have to reflash the stock recovery for your device. Try doing it through mobile odin and tell it to flash only the recovery partition.
Cheers!
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I greatly appreciate your reply but I'm afraid I don't know how to do what you've directed.
What is mobile odin?

You have the stock rom ?
If yes then open it with 7zip. Extract the recovery. Img
And flash it via mobile odin.
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UtkarshGupta said:
You have the stock rom ?
If yes then open it with 7zip. Extract the recovery. Img
And flash it via mobile odin.
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Apologies for my questions but I have stared at your post for days, weeks even and I still don't understand. I was embarrassed to ask but I have to because the notification to install the update comes multiple times a day now.
Where, and HOW, do I open the ROM?
Is this all done on the phone itself?
Do I install 7zipon my phone?

Do you have the stock rom? If yes flash it.
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UtkarshGupta said:
Do you have the stock rom? If yes flash it.
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Than You for even offering help. You are Kind.
Yes my friend. I am rooted and I have the stock ROM.
I've flashed ROMs before but have never flashed a ROM that was already active.
How would I do that?
So sorry to ask.

Just flash the rom as a normal one.
Then update via ota.
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[Q] Stock rom without a computer

Is there any way to unroot this phone or flash the stock rom, rooted or unrooted, without a computer. The mini usb does not function so anything involving a computer is not an option. I just bought this phone and it came rooted but I need to activate it on my account and the ## codes aren't working

Mobile Odin
Lite:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1347899
Pro:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.chainfire.mobileodin.pro&hl=en
Read instructions carefully
EDIT:
I almost forgot
http://www.rwilco12.com/downloads.p...710)/Stock ROMs/JB/GB27/Full Restore/Unrooted
2nd file. Flash with Mobile Odin

Flash the modem in cwm first. Mobile odin wont flash them.
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Flashing the modem isn't necessary as the .tar contains the rom, kernel, and modem.
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patrao_n said:
Flash the modem in cwm first. Mobile odin wont flash them.
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Dypraxxx said:
Flashing the modem isn't necessary as the .tar contains the rom, kernel, and modem.
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Using Mobile Odin will not flash the modem, that is why patrao said to flash the modem with CWM then use Mobile Odin to flash the tar.
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*scratches head*
Ah, that's what he meant. I was confused by his post.

The modem and tar files
liwwil_1 said:
Is there any way to unroot this phone or flash the stock rom, rooted or unrooted, without a computer. The mini usb does not function so anything involving a computer is not an option. I just bought this phone and it came rooted but I need to activate it on my account and the ## codes aren't working
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Sorry but I haven't had an android phone in a while so I'm a little confused. There are two files when I click on the link do I flash just the tar file or both the exe and tar file? Also where do I find the modem file? Thanks for any replies I have managed to restore the phone to stock and get it working and I am still rooted as well

If you are going to use mobile odin then use the tar. The exe is for your computer. Thr modems can be found in rwilcos website just got to look.
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Thanks a lot

[SOLVED] Bootloop Problem

I was testing new roms and kernels on my SGH - T999L. I flashed LiquidSmooth and Ktoonsez kernel and I think I forgot to wipe cache and dalvik cache before rebooting. When I rebooted, my phone went into a bootloop. I cleared cache, cleared dalvik cache, fixed permissions, and flashed stock rom, but my phone is still in a bootloop. I have tried to restore my phone from nandroid backups, but apparently, clockwordmod recovery is unable to access any backups. I have heard people using abd(no idea what that is) or using odin to fix bootloop. Any suggestions? Am I most likely able to fix this?
I am able to reach the Samsung logo and the SGH - T999L logo before it boots again. It does not bootloop when I am in clockworkmod recovery.

Try a factory reset.
Otherwise can you boot into download mode? If so, flash the root66 firmware in Odin.
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DocHoliday77 said:
Try a factory reset.
Otherwise can you boot into download mode? If so, flash the root66 firmware in Odin.
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I tried a factory reset. What is the root66 firmware and where can I find it? Yes, I can boot into download mode.

Everything is in my sig. Firmware thread has links to the root66 firmware and thread.
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DocHoliday77 said:
Everything is in my sig. Firmware thread has links to the root66 firmware and thread.
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It is a .7z file, how do I download it through odin? I only know how to download tar files through odin. Sorry, I am quite inexperienced.
Edit: nvm

.7z is a 7zip extension. Go to 7zip.org if you don't have it. Extract it and you'll have a .tar.md5 file.
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DocHoliday77 said:
.7z is a 7zip extension. Go to 7zip.org if you don't have it. Extract it and you'll have a .tar.md5 file.
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Yeah I looked it up on google and found out. Thanks for replying to my post.

I tried to flash the root66 file through odin but I got a fail error. Is there anything that I'm supposed to do before flashing it?

Update: After flashing the fully prerooted stock rom/kernel (I realized I only flashed the stock kernel previously, not the rom as well) I got it to boot up again. Thanks DocHoliday for your help truly appreciate it.

Bootlooped into CWM

My phone keeps restarting into CWM no matter what I do. I already had it factory reset beforehand and now I'm wondering how to get it back to normal.
I don't have USB Debugging Enabled either (I remember turning it off for no apparent reason) so I don't know how to activate that either... when my phone only loops into CWM.
So.. what I remember doing accidentally was that I said yes to the following: "Root access possibly lost. Fix?" forgetting that I had a UN-ROOTED phone to begin with. So now that it fixed that Root access or whatever, I'm stuck into reloading this forever-loop-into-CWM.
Is there any possible solution to get me back on track..?

Reinstall the tar file
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danchoi704 said:
Reinstall the tar file
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Great!
...now.. how do I do that exactly? (I'm still a complete newbie at this)
and I forgot to mention this but I cannot transfer any file to my phone whatsoever. My computer will not recognize my phone as an 'external storage' because it's stuck in CWM.
So in other words, ODIN will not recognize my phone ever.

Can u able to get to Download Mode?
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danchoi704 said:
Can u able to get to Download Mode?
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Yes.
And I think I fixed my driver problem. My ODIN is now able to recognize my S3.
What tar do I get?

Samfirmware.com or sammobile.com
Also you forgot to mention what kinda phone u have
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danchoi704 said:
Samfirmware.com or sammobile.com
Also you forgot to mention what kinda phone u have
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I have SGH-I747 (Bell) I believe.
So, I'm at this website and I'm wondering where to find this tar file exactly??
(Is it the firmware or the stock recovery tar?)

Have u fix it yet?
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TTT, mine just went into bootloop as well, after trying to install leankernel.

You need to flash the firmware you can find bell firmware at sammobile.com
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Failed at Odin

Hey gang, I'm stuck. I wanted to start my phone up back from stock to sell it to my friend and he wanted it not rooted. So I went to Odin and did all the steps correctly but it keeps failing. Ok last night I was able to use it and I did all the set up and even installed the update on my phone and now its on 4.3 over the air.
I wanted to put the S3Rx rom to show my friend what you can do with the phone but I can't install it because Odin keeps failing. The only thing I've noticed different was that the phone has now this "knox" app. I don't know if samsung made it harder to root your phone or what with this 4.3 upgrade.
Can someone help me solve this? what I want to do is just root my phone again. Any clues?

What are you trying to do in Odin?
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serio22 said:
What are you trying to do in Odin?
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I'm trying to root my phone with Odin. I've used this method many times and never had these issues

And what method is it? Use cf-auto root
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serio22 said:
And what method is it? Use cf-auto root
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I don't know what you mean about cf-auto root. I even tried the other method up the installing the twrp.tar file and using Odin trying to flash the Knox removal zip, and nothing seems to work.
I don't understand I used to do this all the time and it never gave me problems. I used to do this to clean out my phone with so much junk that it was chewing up my storage space.

If all you want to do is remove Knox then flash a recovery with Odin, and flash a stock ROM like stockmod 4.3, its also pre-roooted.. You cannot do that with Odin
Edit: also if you ever want to restore to stock or use root66 you need to flash the 4.3 tar versions, nothing below or it will fail everytime.. Things changed with the 4.3 official update
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serio22 said:
If all you want to do is remove Knox then flash a recovery with Odin, and flash a stock ROM like stockmod 4.3, its also pre-roooted.. You cannot do that with Odin
Edit: also if you ever want to restore to stock or use root66 you need to flash the 4.3 tar versions, nothing below or it will fail everytime.. Things changed with the 4.3 official update
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Thats what I'm trying to do, is to flash a 4.3 rom but I keep getting "Failed" when I try to run a odin, I hit "pda" and pick a stock rom

johnny quest said:
Thats what I'm trying to do, is to flash a 4.3 rom but I keep getting "Failed" when I try to run a odin, I hit "pda" and pick a stock rom
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You can't flash ROMs in Odin, only firmware.. If you want to flash a ROM you need to flash it with a custom recovery
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serio22 said:
You can't flash ROMs in Odin, only firmware.. If you want to flash a ROM you need to flash it with a custom recovery
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oh ok, so do I get the stock firmware and then put that through odin? then after reboot run a recovery to flash a rom. The hard part is trying to find a up to date firmware. I don't know where

The firmware is already installed on your phone, you don't need to flash it again.. now just flash a recovery with Odin and then flash your rom
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serio22 said:
The firmware is already installed on your phone, you don't need to flash it again.. now just flash a recovery with Odin and then flash your rom
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ok, I give it a shot, thanks again.
I'm using rom manager and I keep getting "an error occurred while flashing your recovery" but then I was looking into TWRP and it says that I must root my phone. I thought I was rooted after using a recovery in Odin

If you already flashed a recovery in Odin then just flash your ROM in recovery.. If you haven't flashed a custom recovery, flash it in Odin, then reboot to recovery and flash your rom
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serio22 said:
If you already flashed a recovery in Odin then just flash your ROM in recovery.. If you haven't flashed a custom recovery, flash it in Odin, then reboot to recovery and flash your rom
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I'm down loading a custom recovery now, I'll give it a try.
keep trying to upgrade my rom manager app but keep getting that error. but I'm going to try to flash a rom

johnny quest said:
I'm down loading a custom recovery now, I'll give it a try.
keep trying to upgrade my rom manager app but keep getting that error. but I'm going to try to flash a rom
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Because you need root to flash a recovery with those apps
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Ok, I am trying hard to get this and all I'm getting is frustrated with x amount of attempts. This is where I am: I'm on 4.3 Device status: Custom
Build: JSS15J.T999UVUEMJC
with this I can't get to flash a rom. I was trying to flash the S3Rx 3.0 aroma but whenever but it just won't and whenever I try to go to recovery through Rom Manager theres an era.
I guess I'm stuck with this so called stock 4.3 without any special features. I'm going to give it another try with another rom and see.

serio22 said:
Because you need root to flash a recovery with those apps
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Thats the thing I can't root, I keep getting failed in Odin

What error did you get in twrp?
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serio22 said:
What error did you get in twrp?
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I've never used TWRP. I don't even know how to get it. If I do go to Rom Manager it says "you must root your phone for Rom Manager to function. Superuser was not found at "/system/bin/su" or "/system/xbin/su".
thats what I get when I go into Rom Manager.
when I pick ClockworkMod Recovery it asks for either 2.x or 3.x+ I pick either one and it says that it has been set up to use your existing recovery installation. then I tap OK and when I get out of app and go back into it, it says there is an update available for CWM I click at it and then it does the installation at 100% then I get "an error occurred while trying to flash your recovery"
So basically I have no recovery that can flash any roms. I really appreciate your help and patience. I'm just going insane here I honestly believe its that upgrade I got OTA to 4.3 because all along before I had 4.1.2 and gave me no problems. I think what it was is that when I used Odin to unroot my phone I did all the installation to get back to stock, then I was wondering about updates so I went to the menu and tapped on the Software upgrade and then it was upgrading (500 and something megabytes) then it reboot and it was 4.3

You need to download the recovery from http://techerrata.com/browse/twrp2/d2tmo and flash it with Odin.. Keep in mind that this will trip the warranty counter just to let you know, and you cannot reset it.. After that you can flash the ROM
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serio22 said:
You need to download the recovery from http://techerrata.com/browse/twrp2/d2tmo and flash it with Odin.. Keep in mind that this will trip the warranty counter just to let you know, and you cannot reset it.. After that you can flash the ROM
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thank you so much, I don't mind about the trip counter. I give this a go and see, thanks.