I am getting alot of force closes after i rooted my galaxy s2 XLPQ with CF root kernel...(a compatible one)
as well as when i use wifi with my charger plugged in the phone gets really hot...
i installed spiderman (gameloft) yesterday and its not working too...it hangs just after playing for one minute....
There are someother Rooted kernels available on the XDA...like Siyah..
Try them, if problem still remains, that is not CF-root problem. some other settings on your ROM
Is it just that you did or you also updated to ics from GB. If yes wipe
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I had the same problems with ICS after rooting with CF-Root. That's why I decided to root it without CF-Root. Now, there are no insecure kernels available for ICS yet, so u will have to root it a bit differently.
First of all, get the latest ICS as per your country, if u are in UK, then I would suggest that you get
I9100XWLP7 ICS 4.0.3 (Official UK SIM Free Release, upgradable via Kies)
obviously reset wipe etc..
After that download
CWM Manager and SuperUser Installer package
Copy both the zip files to your External SD Card
Power off your phone and start it in standard recovery mode.
Select apply update from external storage
Select Choose CWM.zip and wait for CWM to load
Once CWM is loaded, Select install zip from internal SD
Then you will see a list of files and folder, Select SU-Installer-signed.zip
This will root your phone and install the SuperUser App.
Once done, reeboot your phone and that it, your phone is rooted.
This will give you permanent root access. The root will stay even after resetting the phone via recovery mode or from the OS itself. This method doesn't install any insecure kernel, so you will not get the infamous yellow triangle neither it will effect the custom binary counter. This root method keeps your phone as close to stock as possible. You will still have your stock recovery, i.e. it will not be replaced by CWM, unlike when you use CF-Root.
So if you have to give your phone for a repair, you can simply unroot by same method, though this time instead of using SU-Installer-Signed.zip, you use SU-Uninstaller-Signed.zip
Hope this helps..
PS: If you wanna reset your custom binary counter without using any patches or using an old bootloader, then flash your phone to an older firmware.
I9100XWKE7 Gingerbread 2.3.3 (Official UK SIM Free Release, upgradable via Kies)
After flashing, use a USB Jig to reset the counter, upgrade to 4.0.3 using the link above or via Kies and follow the step above to root etc.
Cheers
- me!
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I'm rooted with CF-Root and I flashed the old bootloader to use the USB jig and remove the triangle, but I want to flash the stock kernel (keeping root) so I can resolve the SD issue.
Can I also flash the ICS bootloader via Odin? I can't find it here, but I'd like to get as close to stock as possible, while still keeping root.
Does anyone have the ICS bootloader in an Odin flashable version?
Man here is you need:
Thanks.
Flashed the ICS bootloader and stock kernel, then reflashed the CF-Root kernel, per Chainfire's advice, now SD works (yay!) and I have root with no yellow triangle.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=22835415&postcount=2
Just tried that and still not working.
I don't know if you can use the USB jig with ICS. I had to backup my rom, factory wipe and reinstall a stock gingerbread rom. This rom turned out to have the new bootloader which also doesn't support a USB jig, so I then had to flash the old gingerbread bootloader, insert the USB jig and it wiped the data. Then I reinstalled stock ICS, rooted using Rachmat's Simple ICS root method and then restored my rom backup. Bit of a long winded process but every time I flash a new rom now, I don't get any increase in the counter.
Hi there. Let me just start off by saying, despite my efforts, I still have next to no idea as to what I am doing.
My Phone: Galaxy SII i9100T (Australian Telstra variant), ICS 4.03
So today I decided to root my phone and install cyanogenmod 9 following a guide in a magazine (that was written for cyanogenmod 7 if that makes a difference). Initially it told me to root with SuperOneClick, but that wasn't working for my device as the program would eventually not respond.
After snooping around on the internet I eventually ended up rooting my phone (I think) with Odin 1.85 installing an image called CF-Root-SGS2_XW_NEE_LPG-v5.5-CWM5 under the PDA option (as per instructions of one particular website). That worked.
So then I consulted the magazine again, and it said to download the heimdall suite from the cyanogenmod wiki galaxy sII page, and run a program called zadig, list all devices, and change the 'Samsung Android' driver to whatever zadig installs. However, my phone did not come up as that, it came up as two other files, one with a driver called Modem, and the other with a driver that I cannot remember the name of. I can confirm that they were my phone and no other USB devices as they disappeared when I unplugged my phone. I chose the driver that wasn't called Modem. That seemed to work fine.
Next it said to install a clockworkmod image using the heimdall suite. The image was recovery-clockwork-5.5.0.4-galaxys2 ....I eventually got that to work.
However, no matter what I do now, I cannot get into the clockworkmod recovery screen to install cyanogenmod 9. Did I do something wrong? I think I may have made a mistake with zadig, as now it lists my phone as 4 devices: Samsung_Android, Samsung_Android, Samsung, and MTP.
I know this is an absolute mess of a situation, but I desperately need help. If I cant go through with the installation of cyanogenmod, can I at least reset everything back to normal like it was out of the box?
Any help would be very much appreciated.
You could e-mail the editor of the mag and complain
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ultimatebestusername said:
Hi there. Let me just start off by saying, despite my efforts, I still have next to no idea as to what I am doing.
My Phone: Galaxy SII i9100T (Australian Telstra variant), ICS 4.03
So today I decided to root my phone and install cyanogenmod 9 following a guide in a magazine (that was written for cyanogenmod 7 if that makes a difference). Initially it told me to root with SuperOneClick, but that wasn't working for my device as the program would eventually not respond.
After snooping around on the internet I eventually ended up rooting my phone (I think) with Odin 1.85 installing an image called CF-Root-SGS2_XW_NEE_LPG-v5.5-CWM5 under the PDA option (as per instructions of one particular website). That worked.
So then I consulted the magazine again, and it said to download the heimdall suite from the cyanogenmod wiki galaxy sII page, and run a program called zadig, list all devices, and change the 'Samsung Android' driver to whatever zadig installs. However, my phone did not come up as that, it came up as two other files, one with a driver called Modem, and the other with a driver that I cannot remember the name of. I can confirm that they were my phone and no other USB devices as they disappeared when I unplugged my phone. I chose the driver that wasn't called Modem. That seemed to work fine.
Next it said to install a clockworkmod image using the heimdall suite. The image was recovery-clockwork-5.5.0.4-galaxys2 ....I eventually got that to work.
However, no matter what I do now, I cannot get into the clockworkmod recovery screen to install cyanogenmod 9. Did I do something wrong? I think I may have made a mistake with zadig, as now it lists my phone as 4 devices: Samsung_Android, Samsung_Android, Samsung, and MTP.
I know this is an absolute mess of a situation, but I desperately need help. If I cant go through with the installation of cyanogenmod, can I at least reset everything back to normal like it was out of the box?
Any help would be very much appreciated.
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I suggest you restart from scratch following these steps:
1. read everything about flashing and rooting you can find on this site (read stickies first)
2. same as 1.
3. same as 1.
4. flash the latest stock firmware for your phone
5. root your phone
6. finally flash some other ROM
As a general rule, do not forget to take extra precautions when you flash anything: ALWAYS DO A NANDROID BACKUP IN CWM...
Performs a wipe date , factory reset , then follow the guide;
[GUIDE] ROOT/UNROOT Stock ICS Firmware without flashing unsecure kernel
Simple way to root and unroot stock kernel without flashing insecure kernel.
Don't worry about custom counter and yellow triangle, with this method they never appear, because we only rooting, it's a rooting script not a custom kernel.
This rooting script included Busybox installer.
Rooting
Download this File first and put in your SDCARD
- CWM via stock recovery ;( http://dl.dropbox.com/u/34053267/CWM.zip) , or download zip from http://clockworkmod.com/rommanager
- SU-Busybox-Installer.zip ( https://dl.dropbox.com/u/34053267/SU-Busybox-Installer.zip )
Reboot to recovery.
Choose apply update from external storage.
Choose CWM.zip and wait until CWM recovery appear.
Choose install zip from sdcard or external SD
Choose and Install SU-Busybox-Installer.zip
Reboot
You are done and now your device is Rooted
Method 2
CF_Root + stock kernel + [optional] Mobile Odin Free version
Here, you use an older CF_Root kernel, and flash your newer stock kernel
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First, get a CF_Root kernel from CF_Root thread here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1103399. Just get the nearest one to your ROM. You can download any ICS kernel, it will do the job for the root only purpose
Flash the CF_Root kernel with odin
Now, flash again your stock kernel with odin. You can get a stock kernel from lyriquidperfection thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1619525
Do not forget to thank / donate to him
No stock kernels for you? use Mobile Odin free version (see below)
After flashing the stock kernel, root will usually stay and you will be reverted back to your stock recovery instead of CWM recovery
hi guys
i have vodafone's sgs3 i9300 4.0.4 with stock rom.
i flashed package with desktop odin with CF ROOT 6.3 and Hebrew language enabler from - bit ly/QLREa3.
later i updated android from 4.0 to 4.0.4(via built-in update option)
some time after SuperSU updated automatically to 0.96. on opening it said 'the SU binary needs to be updated. Continue?' > 'Instalation failed !'
tried uninstall in play store, in settings reinstall and full unroot.later flashed cf root 6.4 and did wipe clean from recovery mode. still the same.
be happy to find a way to reinstall it somehow.
(btw i intend on install some custom or original JB rom, maybe it can also solve this problem)
First one reset factory reset on recovery mode than without power on flash official ICS or JB rom. After that flash cfroot 6.4. Thats all. Now your phone rooted
Hi,
My phone quits during the update process to JB in recovery at around 32% and then once booted back into android displays a popup saying failed to update software, try again using kies or use a samsung service centre. It doesn't connect to kies (stays stuck at connecting) and pretty sure samsung will just wipe the phone which I'd rather not do.
I originally had the phone rooted with Siyah 1.5.3 but have since reflashed the stock i9300 3e android recovery, reset the flash counter to 0 and official binary with triangle away and fully removed root from within SuperSU. I have also wiped the cache, any ideas on why the update is still not applying? I would like to stick the stock rom and avoid wiping.
Same here,
Stock Rooted S3 with CWM and busybox. Used Mark Skipper's toolbox for that, and also used that to unroot, flash stock recovery and uninstall busybox. JB update also gets an error at 32%. Do I have to uninstall SU too? Really don't want to do a complete reinstall since CMW didn't manage to backup my phone...
Aladdin Sarsippius said:
Same here,
Stock Rooted S3 with CWM and busybox. Used Mark Skipper's toolbox for that, and also used that to unroot, flash stock recovery and uninstall busybox. JB update also gets an error at 32%. Do I have to uninstall SU too? Really don't want to do a complete reinstall since CMW didn't manage to backup my phone...
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Haven't tried to update since I unrooted (ota is only available during a few hours in the afternoon here and hasn't become available yet) but it removed the SuperSU.apk when I unrooted. Stweaks app is still there but doesn't work due to the lack of root. The only other non-stock thing left is the kernel but I don't think that should matter seeing as I've used triangle away and reset the counter and binary to official. I'll post on whether it works next time around
Try removing cwm somehow, many people find that this is a problem, same happens with me, apparently cwm fixed it in newer updates.:good:
CWM is the culprit. I really don't know why people insist on using that. It is utterly useless.
Download the ROM you want from samsung-updates.com or through CheckFUSDownloader, extract the .MD5 file from the downloaded ZIP, copy the .md5 file to the device, and flash using MobileOdin.
Then, if you want, just flash SiyahKernel again using Odin.
I had already removed cwm recovery and replaced it with the stock i9300 3e recovery but still didn't work, I downloaded the ota update manually and found it be a small incremental update which still didn't flash in the stock recovery due to a mount error..
in the end I checked the latest update available from checkfus, downloaded it from samfirmware.com and flashed it using odin.. and now got jelly bean without wiping! Reflashed siyah & su binary and everything is good now. Only issue now is the OS sees the device being modified (even after triangle away reset) so a future ota updates is off the cards.
this worked for me.
viva.fidel said:
I had already removed cwm recovery and replaced it with the stock i9300 3e recovery but still didn't work, I downloaded the ota update manually and found it be a small incremental update which still didn't flash in the stock recovery due to a mount error..
in the end I checked the latest update available from checkfus, downloaded it from samfirmware.com and flashed it using odin.. and now got jelly bean without wiping! Reflashed siyah & su binary and everything is good now. Only issue now is the OS sees the device being modified (even after triangle away reset) so a future ota updates is off the cards.
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in triangle away there is a box that says something like modified workaround, tick that then run triangle away, when it restarts your status will be normal, then go to application manager and remove triangle away. after about 15 minutes go into superSU and unroot.
So I reinstalled the stock GT-I9100T (Vodafone S2) 4.0.3 ICS firmware using Odin, and decided to use a method of rooting I found online which was simply installing "update.zip" using the stock Recovery. A SuperSU app is present and Root Checker says it's rooted. Now I want to install CWM to reflash AOKP, but I'm not sure what method to use, since it's already rooted.
Thanks in advance.
Save yourself hassles & avoid 'temporary' versions of CWM. Just flash the Odin version of the Siyah build which is compatible with the current Android version you're running. Read the first page of the Siyah threads to workout which build you need. You'll have a rooted phone + permanent CWM & you can then flash any rom/other kernel you like quickly/easily.