I am sending my Vibrant into Samsung USA for repair because it is hardware recovery locked. I am thinking it is a good idea to get it as close as possible to stock before I send it in.
Ideally I would flash the stock image with ODIN while repartitioning the phone but the risk of bricking without hardware recovery is unacceptable for me.
I am running the stock rom, rooted with rom manager installed and have a few mods flashed (captivate camera, t-mobile boot logo removed, % battery notification mod and the stock android mobile access point). I also have it carrier unlocked
I copied the stock nandroid img from the dev forum into my clockwork folder on the phone and I'll be unrooting it before I send it in. What else should/can I do to make it more stock before I send it in.
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hi there i have been flashing roms on my atrix for a while now but i came along a rom called honey rom which made me use a special version of clock work mod recovery .after using the rom it would keep crashing so i decide to sbf it back to original which it did but then found the clock widget didnt work when plugged into the dock.and when i put clockwork mod recovery on it from the market and tried booting into it ,it would reboot and say fail to boot 2?so i have been trying to flash the original stock tmobile sbf on it and now rsd lite gets 100% of creating the image then says fail to process can anyone help or have got a properly bricked atrix and if so any suggestions on how to get it fixed .im on contract so worried on how to approach tmobile with the said problem
i am on att and i got this same error when i rooted and installed cwm... i had to flash back to a stock sbf then root then unlock my bootloader then recovery worked... not exactly how it works on a tmobile version. but maybe try it again. if not.... you still may be able to get warranty... a few people have been able to use warranty through carrier or motorola... even with root and unlocked bootloader. never hurts to try all options.. good luck!
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i have read your comments about you flashing stock rom through rsd lite. just a little suggestion that might help, maybe your battery is to low to flash any rom because i know that atrix has a cap for flashing rom when battery is low. Meaning if your in a certain batter percentage you are not able to flash any rom whether rsd or cwm.
so ive been reading and looking around a lot, eventually decided to go with the overcome experience and everything is running great, xcept for the ebooks app not working on it for the 3G rogers tab
but what ive been trying to find now is the stock Rogers kernel and recovery files in case something does go wrong with the tab and i need to get it back to stock to submit it back for warranty work
the best ive been able to find is this...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1405324
which is a stock 3.2, and in the thread people are claiming that it is a Rogers version and has the unnecessary Rogers apps on it
i downloaded it and tried it out, and its not a stock Rogers version, doesn't come with the Rogers apps, and when plugged in to Kies it states its not a version that supports updates through Kies, therefore it definetly isn't a stock Rogers version
Just wondering if anyone knows where i can get the files to be able to get my Tab back to Rogers stock version in case something does happen, or do these files simply not exist and since i already flashed over them it's too late to ever go back to stock?
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That RUXKK2 is exactly the rom I have right now on my Rogers Tab.
I simply assume it has to be flashed through Odin only;
Kies is for "legit" updates only (and sync) ; it is not a dev nor a recovery tool. Maybe it stated updates were not supported because you are rooted.
Doesnt matter anyway; you will receive updates through Samsung Updates anyway directly on your tablet; you'll simply loose root.
i did use odin to flash that stock rom, and no i wasn't rooted, as the rom itself doesn't come with root by default
all i did was flash with odin, it rebooted, then i completed a factory reset/wipe
and then plugged it in to Kies to see if it was in fact a retail stock version and could get the updates through Kies
i dont really care for updating through Kies as im perfectly happy with overcome mod atm, but i would like to have all the stock rogers files (recovery,kernel and rom or w/e else i need) just in case i ever need to revert back to stock to bring the tablet in for warranty issues
the RUXKK2 rom may be stock, but it definitely doesn't include the stock rogers kernel version
any ideas where those could be found? or if it could be extracted from a nandroid backup? i completed a nandroid backup of my stock device before i flashed overcome
Flashing your Nandroid will get you back to stock no? Thats the purpose of it I thought to get you back to your previous state in case something goes wrong. Nandroid backups are flashed through CWM though not Odin, under Backup and restore options.
Nandroid does not backup the kernel.
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i did use odin to flash that stock rom, and no i wasn't rooted, as the rom itself doesn't come with root by default
all i did was flash with odin, it rebooted, then i completed a factory reset/wipe
and then plugged it in to Kies to see if it was in fact a retail stock version and could get the updates through Kies
i dont really care for updating through Kies as im perfectly happy with overcome mod atm, but i would like to have all the stock rogers files (recovery,kernel and rom or w/e else i need) just in case i ever need to revert back to stock to bring the tablet in for warranty issues
the RUXKK2 rom may be stock, but it definitely doesn't include the stock rogers kernel version
any ideas where those could be found? or if it could be extracted from a nandroid backup? i completed a nandroid backup of my stock device before i flashed overcome
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yea, nandroid doesnt back up everything :/
i think the stock kernel and stock recovery files to flash through odin is what would be needed, and judging by the replies im getting i don't think those exist out there for the rogers tablet :/
i even checked http://www.samfirmware.com and couldn't really find a rogers or Canadian version, but sure did find ppl on the forums asking about it
if any1 knows how to maybe get those files off a stock tablet, i do have a 2nd GT 10.1 Rogers that has not been changed or modded in any way that i could attempt to extract the kernel and recovery file from if i knew how
I also am looking for a stock rogers rom. I currently run overcome with no issues, but should I need work done under warranty, I need to flash back to stock before I send it in. The link above was what I also found during a forum search, which kies does NOT recognize. Has anyone been able to find or extract the stock rom that comes with a Rogers 10.1 out of the box?
Ooops mistaken threads..
Hey guys, I know it isn't possible to bring your phone to being entirely stock without odin but the big question is:
Can I flash the stock Rogers rom without ODIN? My phone is no longer detectible by any computer because it won't fully connect properly.
I know I can't get rid of CMW but am I able to flash the stock modem and then use the .zip from this link to go back to the stock Rogers rom? I am having two issues with my phone and the guys at the store said if I can at the very least get the phone to look like it is stock from the settings menu then I'm good to get another one haha.
I'm currently rooted on stock 2.3.6. I'm trying to sell the phone today and the guy wants me to update to ICS. I just have one problem... Whenever I flash back to stock everything, Kies keeps giving me the error that I'm not eligible. I assume it's because I tripped the flash counter going back to stock. How can I avoid this? Can I use Kies with a custom recovery installed to flash the flash counter wipe, and then it'll just remove the recovery?
Edit - Trying with a custom recovery and it said I was eligible.
I am no expert on here but lurk these forums, but I think I'll throw my 2 cents in here. I received a warranty replacement from ATT in the mail after the manager of the ATT repair center told his lackey to allow my warranty exchange. You see, I had mine rooted (on 2.3.6) and loaded with a custom rom (ICS 4.0.4) and the lackey could see the counter incremented and all. He gave me the script of not being able to warranty it due to the rooting but the manager could see that I knew what I was doing and that the issue (no sim error) was a hardware issue so he said he'd take the hit if it came back due to the flash counter. He had the lackey try to reflash it with official rom with their samsung tools just incase the sim issue could be fixed with a flash, but no cigar. All that did was leave me with an official ICS rom that was unrooted with a counter showing 1. A couple days later the replacement came in and I transferred all my info to the new phone.
Now just to be on the safe side, even though the manager of the corporate repair center ok'd it, I decided to return the defective Gnote back to stock unrooted condition with it's counter reset.
What I did was,
Flash the GB stock unrooted rom 2.3.6 using odin.
Then flashed CWM using odin.
Copied the ATT stock recovery zip and the flash counter reset zip to the internal memory. Reason being is that you will flash the counter reset with the custom CWM and then flash the stock recovery after to replace the CWM with the stock ATT recovery.
Afterwards I checked in download mode and the flash count was :no which means I'm in the clear and the underneath it said Samsung Official.
I haven't used kies, but I do know that using odin was painless. I'd suggest browse these forums for a while until you feel comfortable enough and then take care of the problem without Kies. Could be done in less than an hour after hitting a few links in the stickies of these forums.
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I'm currently rooted on stock 2.3.6. I'm trying to sell the phone today and the guy wants me to update to ICS. I just have one problem... Whenever I flash back to stock everything, Kies keeps giving me the error that I'm not eligible. I assume it's because I tripped the flash counter going back to stock. How can I avoid this? Can I use Kies with a custom recovery installed to flash the flash counter wipe, and then it'll just remove the recovery?
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Its got nothing to do with the flash counter. Unless your phone is completely stock, Kies rejects it.
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Its got nothing to do with the flash counter. Unless your phone is completely stock, Kies rejects it.
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It actually was the flash counter. I wiped the counter and then tried, rooted and with a custom recovery, and it worked. Stock with a 1 on the flash counter and nothing.
Here's the deal, my S3 has become faulty through no fault of my own. In the past I've run off custom ROM's, recovers, kernels but for a few month's I've been running on stock. A week ago (updated to 4.1.2 when it arrived for O2 UK punters) it started randomly freezing and the only way to fix it was to battery pull. It's been getting worse to the point I was doing a battery pull a hundred times a day. Believing the issue was with 4.1.2 I decided to reflash a custom ROM via CWM which made no difference.
So... It needs to be sent away for repair. I've done an emergency firmware recovery via KIES to get back to stock ROM. I used the S3 toolkit V7 to flash insecure boot, root, TriangleAway. Flashed stock boot, run TriangleAway and then done a factory reset via stock recovery.
I'm at the following stage:
Stock download mode shows official binary and basically the way a brand new never modified S3 would look... No counters.
Settings > About > Device Status shows as 'Normal' and not 'Modified'
The only thing is that I still have SuperSU installed and root apps are working... I want to get rid of this as easily as I can because quite honestly I've given myself a headache with all the back and forth. Can I simply uninstall SuperSU and I'm root-free in a way the repair center can't tell (at least easily anyway)?
Try to flash stock ROM with odin