So last night I unlocked bootloader and rooted. Before I continue to flashing roms I would like to learn how to go back to stock. I also yesterday removed bloat, if I did a factory reset would that be safe.
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Have you installed a recovery? That would be the next step from here. A factory reset should be safe, yes.
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Hey guys, my question is how can I fully wipe my phone. I want to erase everything on it including the root I have on it and gingerblur. I want to start out as if I just received it from att and want to reroot it myself then update. Thanks guys
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Someone correct me if I'm wrong because I've never actually done it but flashing back to SBF should take you back to stock.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=991072
I thought I may have to do that along with a factory reset/wipe. Just wanted to confirm, thanks!
Ok, I've been having some weird issues lately. Phone freezing, responding very slow, and a few other issues. I want to keep root but do a factory reset. What's the best way to perform a factory reset and not lose root? ##786# then menu and reset? What will happen if I used revolutionary to get s-off? After will I still have s-off and just need to reflash SU?
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Ok, I've been having some weird issues lately. Phone freezing, responding very slow, and a few other issues. I want to keep root but do a factory reset. What's the best way to perform a factory reset and not lose root? ##786# then menu and reset? What will happen if I used revolutionary to get s-off? After will I still have s-off and just need to reflash SU?
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I'm assuming since you used revolutionary you have either twrp recovery or cwm. In both of these there is a factory wipe/reset feature. Using it will clear out everything but you'll still have root, no worries. Get back at me if you have more questions.
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Jus factory reset....i did it the other day thru the settings menu and flashed a new rom and still had root and s-off.........hope i was helpful....
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I'm assuming since you used revolutionary you have either twrp recovery or cwm. In both of these there is a factory wipe/reset feature. Using it will clear out everything but you'll still have root, no worries. Get back at me if you have more questions.
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I do have TWRP. What's the difference from the factory wipe/reset feature thru recovery and the ##786# way? Ultimately I want to go back to stock with s-off and keep the SU app.
splink7007 said:
I do have TWRP. What's the difference from the factory wipe/reset feature thru recovery and the ##786# way? Ultimately I want to go back to stock with s-off and keep the SU app.
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Look for the bare stock Rom in the development section. It says its a base for development, but its the stock Rom.
Factory resetting will not mess around with your root or S OFF. it just cleares data and apps. stuff like that.
Go for it man, im the same way when i feel my phone get a bit slow. i learned 1 thing, DONT DOWNLOAD **** YOU DON'T NEED lol
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I do have TWRP. What's the difference from the factory wipe/reset feature thru recovery and the ##786# way? Ultimately I want to go back to stock with s-off and keep the SU app.
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There probably is no difference between the two, but the wipe through recovery is there to make sure everything is wiped pre-rom-flash, so I like that way better. No real logic behind it I guess.
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Hey guys, I've got a hopefully simple question. I'm gonna be going to Vegas soon, and I'm running on an ICS rom, but I want to be able to use the good camera and my 4G for while I'm there. However, I don't want to have to set everything back up once I come back one by one since I'll only be gone for 4 days.
So can I do a Nandroid backup, save the file, re-lock my phone and put it back to root, then once I come back unlock my phone and then restore said backup so everything will be the way it was? Sorry if this is a mouthful, but that would be my ideal way of doing things. If not, are there some good alternatives?
Thanks guys!
As far as I can tell, that should work. Just make sure you remove your custom recovery before you relock.
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brain what do you mean by "custom recovery before you relock" how do you do that?
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brain what do you mean by "custom recovery before you relock" how do you do that?
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If you have cwm installed and you try to relock it, your phone won't boot (iirc). If you sbf back to stock, it will reinstall the Android stock recovery and relock your phone, and you'll be all set. Otherwise, you'll have to find the Android recovery somewhere to download, then use Fastboot to install it, then relock (and to be honest, I can't remember how to do that. I think I remember people having problems flashing the relock file.) Easiest is to sbf after making your backup, then when you get home, unlock again, flash cwm, and restore your nandroid.
Hope that made sense.
And if you sbf and your phone bootloops, boot into the stock recovery and factory reset.
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Headed to Vegas today for the race this weekend!
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if rooted useing the galaxy sIII toolkit, how can i unroot so i can reset device to out of box state??? i know i would go to CWM and wipe the system, but how would i go about flashing the original recovery???
Daviddc1144 said:
if rooted useing the galaxy sIII toolkit, how can i unroot so i can reset device to out of box state??? i know i would go to CWM and wipe the system, but how would i go about flashing the original recovery???
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when you restore cwm will be gone and wrong forum
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when you restore cwm will be gone and wrong forum
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Lol
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where do i get the original recovery to flash???
so i flash it in clockwork recovery, and when phone reboots it is back to OEM????
what i mean is the stock GS3 software.. when i am in clockwork recovery, i wipe the system and i flash the stock software, where do i download it from?? thanks..
So you don't want to unroot you just want to use the stock rom?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1726558
see if this helps. i know when i had to unroot it worked and kept all my data but if you are taking it back to the store for warranty you may want to try the app called "triangle away". the app makes it so they cannot tell if you have flashed any ROMs.
check out the development section for how to go back to stock. once i got it back up and running..i also went to settings, privacy to do a system reset as i didnt want them to see superuser app when i took my phone in to the store.
I am still running the stock Rom, I just rooted the phone and flashed clockwork recovery.. I'm trying to do a factory data reset. To reset the phone back to the out of box state. I am under the assumption that when a phone is rooted and a custom recovery is flashed you can not just go into settings and factory reset your phone or you will brick it. Am I correct in this assumption? And if I am corect what I think I have to do is flash the original recovery, then I can reset the phone to factory settings which will wipe it back to stock and remove the root.. correct? I am just not sure where to get the factory recovery. Doesn't clockwork recovery replace the factory recovery?
Yes factory reset after having cwma will not restore back to stock. You''ll have to flash stock via computer or mobile Odin. The link provided above should be helpful
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If you just want to unroot - removing Superuser.apk, su and busybox works.
CWM will stay though.
Then do factory reset and format internal sdcard. That will remove all user data.
So.. if you have clockwork recovery, and you factory reset the phone, it will put the factory recovery back?
I thought trying to reset while having a recovery flashed would lock up the phone...
Daviddc1144 said:
if rooted useing the galaxy sIII toolkit, how can i unroot so i can reset device to out of box state??? i know i would go to CWM and wipe the system, but how would i go about flashing the original recovery???
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If your still having trouble here, the answer this question & alot of others is at galaxys3root.com. It's one of Zedomax's sites that will give you clearly labeled & very easy to follow instructions to unroot for warranty return. He also includes a video where he will walk you step by step through the process. This is a great Site & you can find some great tutorials on the gs3, as well as rom reviews, so be sure to bookmark it! I hope I've helped
no no, i dont want to just follow instructions.. i am trying to understand CWM. i know how to use it, but every phone i ever rooted i was never able to reset back to factory settings because i was never sure if it would screw my phone up and i am trying to learn if it is safe t do. Does CWM replace the factory hboot or just install along with it? if i am rooted and i have CWM flashed, can i still reset to factory settings like normal? and if i do what will happen? will i still have root and CWM?? can i reset back to factory in ANY rom i flash safely? all that resetting back to factory does is remove accounts and .data files correct?? when you do a wipe in CWM it removes the entire OS, then you flash whatever rom you want.. when you reflash the factory ROM, unroot and remove CWM, hboot is still there correct? you dont have to reinstall hboot, right? you just have to make sure you reflashed the original ROM and uninstall root and CWM and then your back to original right?? i am just trying to understand it all thats all.. i know i can follow directions, but i am trying to learn. any site i find explaining CWM, it just explains what it does, i am trying to learn HOW it works so i can feel safe and i dont have to worry about bricking my phone. i was always too afraid to reset any phone i ever rooted because i never fully understood how CWM worked.. i always thought of our phones as a PC, where as a PC has a recovery partition with the software backed up in it, and i always think CWM wiped it clear, so if i try to reset the phone it will be looking for a partition that's not there. but now i think my PC analogy is wrong, and all a factory reset does is remove the .data files, not re install the software.. im trying to figure which one is true..
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Guess were all in the same boat lol
after flashing stock back to the device, it also goes back to stock recovery. after boot, you still have all apps ex. titanium but once u open it will say no root access. u can then go to settings, privacy, and factory reset to get rid of titanium, etc so it is complete stock. no one would be able to tell of your past..lol. i was rooted earlier in week and made mistake of resetting to factory reset before unrooting. nothing bad happened and i unrooted and factory reset to take it to the store hope this clears up stuff.
if you are returning to a store flashing a stock Rom was all I needed to do a warranty exchange.
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This will answers all your questions I would hope.
galaxys3root dot com
Hello, really hoping someone can help me with this. I have the locked bootloader 2.3.5 on my photon 4g. I rooted the device and installed bootstrap and tried flashing RockoDev's locked ROM. Before I did this, I did a nandroid backup of my stock ROM onto my SD card. I did a factory reset, wiped the cache and wiped the delvic cache all from the recovery menu before trying to flash the ROM. It said it was successful, however, I'm stuck at the Dual Core screen. Is there anyway I can get back into recovery to reload my nandroid backup I did?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=35489339
see posts 2 and 3
then flash this rom instead
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=30331925
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jrebo said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=35489339
see posts 2 and 3
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The link to the solution you provided is for someone who is able to unlock their photon. The problem is I'm on the dreaded 2.3.5 that cannot be unlocked. I can get to the regular Android Recovery with the robot and triangle, I have tried wiping the cache partition and factory reset. I can access the apply update from sdcard option, but if I try to navigate to the clockworkmod/backup location, I see the nandroid backup I made, but it won't let me select the image. I'm assuming it's because I need a zip file. Is there anyway I can get the phone to boot up into CWM recovery using fastboot maybe?
I thought you were in a bootloop. Since factory reset didn't help, I had to follow this thread when I was in your same situation. I'm on the locked. 2.3.5 ota.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=29366503
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jrebo said:
I thought you were in a bootloop. Since factory reset didn't help, I had to follow this thread when I was in your same situation. I'm on the locked. 2.3.5 ota.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=29366503
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Thank you sir! I'm giving this a shot right now. Hopefully this will do the trick, will let you know.