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Hey im new to the forum and love the work you guys do here. I rooted my Photon so far have wifi tether and all the goodies like that up and running, however im interested in flashing a rom now.. BUT with Ice Cream Sandwhich (hopefully) coming soon to the Photon im a bit unsure.. Can i somehow restore my phone back to stock and do an ota or however they send (if they do) the ICS update for the photon? Assuming i do end up flashing a rom, and if i can restore it, how difficult would it be..? Also what would you guys advise for battery life, the Homebase or Alien rom? Its the biggest thing im looking for from flashing a rom really. I just dont want to go through and flash a rom on my phone then a few weeks later see ICS get sent out and i somehow cant update until a dev creates a rom of it. Thanks and sorry for nooby questions but ive been digging here for a while trying to find the answer to these. Thanks!!
You can restore to stock with an SBF flash/RSD Lite - easy enough.
The roms, you should try both and see which best suits your need and use.
Don't accept an OTA - it may ruin out root exploit.
I'm on home base ROM.v1.5 with update 4.2. Not much difference in battery life between the two ROM's and not much improvement that I have seen from stock.
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Kcarpenter said:
You can restore to stock with an SBF flash/RSD Lite - easy enough.
The roms, you should try both and see which best suits your need and use.
Don't accept an OTA - it may ruin out root exploit.
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+1 to this!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1216143 - you'll need to go here if you haven't unlocked the bootloader and flashed a custom recovery. It'll also answer your question about returning back to stock.
On a side note, has anyone tried the Star Wars ROM, i think people have forgotten about that one.
I never did try that one. Does it have any support still?
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Looked at the thread. Looks like it hasn't gotten a lot of love in a while. It seems to be decent though.
I may have to look through the forum again.
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Kcarpenter said:
You can restore to stock with an SBF flash/RSD Lite - easy enough.
The roms, you should try both and see which best suits your need and use.
Don't accept an OTA - it may ruin out root exploit.
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Agreed... Make sure you follow the steps carefully because this phone is much easier to soft brick than others. I have done it a couple times.
Also, I agree with the other posters, unless you really just wanna try it it's not all that worth it yet. No real big gains in performance or battery life yet
I rooted my SGS2 i777 that was running Gingerbread. After rooting I used Titanium Backup for complete backup. Then I flashed leaked ICS 4.0.3 Build # IML74K.117 thinking it was the full blown ICS operating system, which it wasn't. That process also un-rooted my SGS2 so now I'm unable to access my Titanium Backup. Tried rooting again using same process as first time but was unsuccessful. Got the dreaded "yellow triangle". Was able to flash same ICS firmware as before. So I currently have above mentiond OS & Build and am not rooted. Questions...is there a root for the 4.0.3? If so, if I were to root again is there a better "leaked" ICS or should I wait for the "anticipated" official release? Main concern is that my Titanium Backup is still intact and I will be able to access it when rooted again. End result is that I'd like to be rooted and have ICS OS.
Please advise!
You didn't even bother searching did you? Try it it works wonders.
FYI the ATT leak IS ICS. What part isn't "full blown"? Its a leak which probably means its not even complete yet (there's already been 3 leaks so far). If it wasn't ICS it wouldn't say Android 4.0.3.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1286432
Always read the stickies before posting.
OP, if I were you, I would follow the link posted above by mattdm. Then do return to stock with root, and then get cm9. Quit Touchwiz altogether, it ruins the taste of ice cream sandwich.
If people not wanting to read 500 different pages in a forum bothers you, forums probably aren't the best thing for you to be involved with
Geez people are ruid on this site.
Slavestate said:
You didn't even bother searching did you? Try it it works wonders.
FYI the ATT leak IS ICS. What part isn't "full blown"? Its a leak which probably means its not even complete yet (there's already been 3 leaks so far). If it wasn't ICS it wouldn't say Android 4.0.3.
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It gets highly annoying seeing the same crap asked day after day when you could just READ THE STICKIES and have your questions answered. Btw, I believe "rude" is the word you were looking for.
OP: Flash back to stock KH7 2.3.4, root using superoneclick 2.3.3, flash entropy's daily driver kernel (the .tar one) with mobile odin to give you clockworkmod recovery, flash this. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1568080
Rooted, basically stock Samsung ICS.
mgd76 said:
OP, if I were you, I would follow the link posted above by mattdm. Then do return to stock with root, and then get cm9. Quit Touchwiz altogether, it ruins the taste of ice cream sandwich.
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It gets highly annoying seeing the same crap asked day after day when you could just READ THE STICKIES and have your questions answered. Btw, I believe "rude" is the word you were looking for.
OP: Flash back to stock KH7 2.3.4, root using superoneclick 2.3.3, flash entropy's daily driver kernel (the .tar one) with mobile odin to give you clockworkmod recovery, flash this. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1568080
Rooted, basically stock Samsung ICS.
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Yup... do what they said. When I got my GS2, first thing I did was read; must've read for like about 2 hours.. lol. Point is it may seem daunting because there's so much information, but it's worth it in the long run. In no time you'll have your device rooted correctly and be a happy flasher. And it saves you from turning your device into an expensive brick.
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If people not wanting to read 500 different pages in a forum bothers you, forums probably aren't the best thing for you to be involved with
Geez people are ruid on this site.
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If people not wanting to do research before asking already-asked or already-answered questions bothers you, then I'd say that busy forums like this are probably not the best place for *you* or them.
This site is for developers, who do an incredible job of providing top-notch material for our devices. Getting software, instructions and advice here is a privilege, not a right.
Before I rooted and flashed my phone, I read and researched here for several days. That time likely would have been shortened if I hadn't also had to plow through useless pages of people asking questions about things that had already been explained in the first post of a thread, a sticky or answered within the thread (which a simple forum search would have found).
Point taken, but, I am a senior member of a lot of forums I have knowledge in and I am never rude when answering questions that someone new to the topic has. What you don't think about they may have searched and not realize they asked the same question over in different terms. You guys know all the terminology and other people may not. Some people on this site have very short fuses instead of using their knowledge to help people.
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It gets highly annoying seeing the same crap asked day after day when you could just READ THE STICKIES and have your questions answered. Btw, I believe "rude" is the word you were looking for.
OP: Flash back to stock KH7 2.3.4, root using superoneclick 2.3.3, flash entropy's daily driver kernel (the .tar one) with mobile odin to give you clockworkmod recovery, flash this. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1568080
Rooted, basically stock Samsung ICS.
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deatley30 said:
Point taken, but, I am a senior member of a lot of forums I have knowledge in and I am never rude when answering questions that someone new to the topic has. What you don't think about they may have searched and not realize they asked the same question over in different terms. You guys know all the terminology and other people may not. Some people on this site have very short fuses instead of using their knowledge to help people.
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Sorry, I'm just grumpy today
I am to my bad. There is just so much for newbies to learn about these phones.
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Sorry, I'm just grumpy today
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The main thing is that you don't want to update using one-click installers (which it sounds like you did) as they will more than likely contain bootloaders. The newer ICS leaks are a full featured ICS with some bugs (known or unknown). They are loaded with TouchWiz which is Samsung's launcher of choice. If you want a launcher more like the one in ICS you can easily install either Trebuchet, Apex, or Nova. They are all built from the original ICS launcher and serve to enhance it in some form. I personally use Nova.
Task650 has been releasing CWM flashable versions of the leak that do not have bootloaders, contain the version matching kernel with CWM already included, and are pre-rooted.
The main bit you might need to do is get the restore to stock (that you install with odin/heimdall) and start over. Once you load that root, install a cwm enabled kernel, then try updating again but this time use the CWM flashable package instead.
What to Flash after you root again.
I would suggest getting on Task650's rom you can find it here. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1574718. This rom lets you make a ton of modifications to your phone. If you want the ICS experience with speed and stability you can go with Phone-Brickers rom its good too. These are specifically made for the I-777. I use both of these dual booting with siyah kernal for SGS2.
Hi all,
I'm thinking about whether or not to root my phone and get ICS. Having answers to these two questions would really help me make my decision:
1. My phone is an unlocked G-Note i717 from the Bell network. I'm currently using it on Fido. Is there any way for me to get the 'official' ICS update? For example, will the update get pushed to my phone even if I'm not with the original carrier?
2. Which ICS custom ROMs have the S Pen (and S memo) fully working?
Looking forward to your 2 cents. Thanks very much!
I am not a developer but here is my opinion based on years of rooting and flashing roms on android devices:
1. As long as you are running stock Bell firmware and stock recovery, you should still get the official OTA from Bell, even if it's unlocked and running on Fido. You will lose root, though. Or you can wait for a dev to post a rooted stock ROM.
2. Presumably all ICS ROMs that are posted after the official build is released will support s-pen apps, unless the dev makes a conscious choice to not include them.
Hope this helps. Like I said, I'm not a developer by any means, just an experienced user.
I would say, go ahead and root and play around with some ICS roms in the meantime. You can always go back to stock. Just make sure you read, read, read to avoid any problems. The members of this forum provide alot of great guidance.
I got a question for you, I bought my note at Rogers and I'm on Fido. I didn't had to unlock the phone, is the Canadian Note sim-unlocked by default or it is just because I bought it from the same company?
Oh and also, don't worry about getting the ICS update, usualy there's a rom running on the new leaks that appears in the next day right after the official update.
Also, I tried DaGr8 Hybrid ROM on ICS and The Official ROM, both have a fully working s-pen and can be a daily rom.
Because Fido uses the rogers network. Its not unlocked.
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Because Fido uses the rogers network. Its not unlocked.
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Wanna know something funny? I had a Nokia 2720 sim-locked on Fido that wouldn't reconize a Rogers sim-card. I can tell you that I've been very happy when the Note just worked on first boot with my fido sim card.
Now I'm waiting for LTE :/
jt15 said:
Hi all,
I'm thinking about whether or not to root my phone and get ICS. Having answers to these two questions would really help me make my decision:
1. My phone is an unlocked G-Note i717 from the Bell network. I'm currently using it on Fido. Is there any way for me to get the 'official' ICS update? For example, will the update get pushed to my phone even if I'm not with the original carrier?
2. Which ICS custom ROMs have the S Pen (and S memo) fully working?
Looking forward to your 2 cents. Thanks very much!
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1. Yes the update will get pushed to your phone irrespective of the carrier, as long as you haven't rooted it.
2. There hasn't been an official upgrade to ICS from Samsung for G-Note. However, there are wonderful ICS Custom ROMs that have been developed built on the chinese ICS that was leaked in April.
If you haven't had any experience with rooting and flashing of roms and kernels, and are apprehensive of doing so, I suggest you wait for some more time as an official upgrade is round the corner.
Nevertheless, if you are even moderately experienced, you can flash one of these ROMs. My personal favorite is the ICS Stunner by Team Passion (only for the International version)
They have listed wonderfully clear guides on how to carry out the process on the official threads. And you can always go back to the stock ROMs if required.
Hope this helps. Press Thank You if it does.
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tmcquake said:
I am not a developer but here is my opinion based on years of rooting and flashing roms on android devices:
1. As long as you are running stock Bell firmware and stock recovery, you should still get the official OTA from Bell, even if it's unlocked and running on Fido. You will lose root, though. Or you can wait for a dev to post a rooted stock ROM.
2. Presumably all ICS ROMs that are posted after the official build is released will support s-pen apps, unless the dev makes a conscious choice to not include them.
Hope this helps. Like I said, I'm not a developer by any means, just an experienced user.
I would say, go ahead and root and play around with some ICS roms in the meantime. You can always go back to stock. Just make sure you read, read, read to avoid any problems. The members of this forum provide alot of great guidance.
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Yes, @tmcquake is right.
However, the S-Pen features being a part of Samsung's propriety TouchWiz interface, you won't get the active-pen technology related features in these custom roms.
mark1s said:
Also, I tried DaGr8 Hybrid ROM on ICS and The Official ROM, both have a fully working s-pen and can be a daily rom.
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Oooooh, interesting... I was under the impression that the only ICS ROMs were for the N7000 and the AT&T I717 specifically, not the variant sold by Bell, TELUS or Rogers in Canada. So the Hybrid ICS will work on a TELUS SGH-I717D Note? I've rooted mine, but was going to wait patiently for the official ICS update from Samsung, but now I'm itching to try a third-party ROM...
The current roms are built on top of the touchwiz framework. Some run custom launchers, however they still keep s pen features due to them being coded into the most basic structures of the rom. When the official release comes the developers will ask Samsung for the source. After that devs can make "vanilla" versions of android. In these we will loose the s pen button functionality but it can still be used like your finger..
sent from me TouchPad. ICS of course.
taob said:
Oooooh, interesting... I was under the impression that the only ICS ROMs were for the N7000 and the AT&T I717 specifically, not the variant sold by Bell, TELUS or Rogers in Canada. So the Hybrid ICS will work on a TELUS SGH-I717D Note? I've rooted mine, but was going to wait patiently for the official ICS update from Samsung, but now I'm itching to try a third-party ROM...
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The leak is based on the i717 (AT&T) without any doubt but I'm running it on my i717R without any issue so it should be the same for the Telus Note.
As you saw a new leaks have been release today, give our good devs just a fews days and we'll be able to flash it via cmw instead of via odin.
And I'll tell you, once you taste ICS you won't wanna downgrade to Gingerbread so do it as soon as you can!
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And I'll tell you, once you taste ICS you won't wanna downgrade to Gingerbread so do it as soon as you can!
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I'm in no particular rush to reflash my Note, since it is pretty awesome as it is. I've had CM9 on my Touchpad since January, so I'm more interested in seeing how well an AOSP ROM will run. I am seeing some UI lag on the Note compared to CM9 on the Touchpad and CM7 on the Desire Z, and the Note should beat both of those. If I can also get ICS on the Note, even better.
taob said:
I'm in no particular rush to reflash my Note, since it is pretty awesome as it is. I've had CM9 on my Touchpad since January, so I'm more interested in seeing how well an AOSP ROM will run. I am seeing some UI lag on the Note compared to CM9 on the Touchpad and CM7 on the Desire Z, and the Note should beat both of those. If I can also get ICS on the Note, even better.
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Yes I had a GNex before the Note, no lag at all on the small 1.2 Gh/z then I bought the Note with the 1.5 Gh/h and noticed lot of lag with adw launcher. Now with ICS everything is just as smooth as the GNex. still need more tweaks hehe
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The leak is based on the i717 (AT&T) without any doubt but I'm running it on my i717R without any issue so it should be the same for the Telus Note.
As you saw a new leaks have been release today, give our good devs just a fews days and we'll be able to flash it via cmw instead of via odin.
And I'll tell you, once you taste ICS you won't wanna downgrade to Gingerbread so do it as soon as you can!
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how did you flash it on your i717R? I have the same as you and i've never been able to flash the leaked ics rom... I tought it was only for att.
Flash cmw via odin then download the rom in zip forma (ex : the Hybrid) then flash it via recovery mode. Follow the devs instructions before a flash!
I just updated my vibrant from stock froyo to stock gb via kies factory upgrade.
Here are specifics as is: firmware 2.3.6 baseband t959VUVKJ6 kernel 2.6.35.7-t959VUVKJ6-CL694130 build GINGERBREAD.VUVKJ6
I went through hell today to root and unlock the sim of this phone as its my first day ever messing with android phones.
I was looking at the wiki for the t-959 roms, the "stable" one is barebones and the "cutting edge" one is CyanogenMod 7.2. Barebones pretty much hints you lose functionality and though the other is apparently great, it isn't "stable" and here and there you read a post here and there of someone having some kind of trouble with a feature that just might have worked with the factory rom.
I don't want to sacrifice factory functionality for a phone that looks good or is too modern for the vibrant to handle, I want a rom where I will have no issues whatsoever with things like mms, camera, ics, gps, wifi / 3g sip w & w/o bluetooth (w sipdroid), tethering, installing to sd, that has a promise of performing well for a good while and ideally for the rest of the life of the phone without having to possibly upgrade again.
It seems my best bet is to either just leave my phone as is or go with barebones and install apps as NEEDED, please help, you learn alot in the forum but also you run across soo many contradictions, alternatives and options that its too confusing and time consuming, really, I just want to do this once, quick and get it over with, bam bam bam, done and hopefully never have to mess with it again until it gets smashed or I loose it.
oh another thing, though this phone is rooted unless I insert an SD I can't browse ANY files, either via its ui or via usb... I have a captivate where I can see both sd internal and external via both ui and usb, I'm assuming its a rom issue that once I upgrade to any rom that will be solved.
Well cm7.2 is based on gingerbread which you said you have. It is pretty stable except for possible GPS and 911 issues. Cm9 is based on ICS, its also pretty stable but same possible issues. CM10 is based on jellybean, its in alpha build but considering its fairly stable except for same two issues. As far as looking at files, you need root browser or root explore. Just DL from market. I'm running Der Teufel's Hellybean cm10 ROM. Its really nice. But you said you want to set and forget....ICZen is a good ICS ROM. Its pretty stable and a lot more up to date than gingerbread.
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mikeo1313 said:
I just updated my vibrant from stock froyo to stock gb via kies factory upgrade.
Here are specifics as is: firmware 2.3.6 baseband t959VUVKJ6 kernel 2.6.35.7-t959VUVKJ6-CL694130 build GINGERBREAD.VUVKJ6
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Seeing that this is your first experience with Android, I would say that you need to make sure that you know what you are doing first before you start flashing anything. I am going to save you some serious heartache in just one minute.
First, Kies is notorious for HardBricking phones. Don't use it. You can use Odin or Heimdall to flash back to "stock" whenever you need to. Always good to do when flashing ROMs to have a clean base to start with. Google them and you will find what you need.
And now, here is where I am going to save you tons of trouble and the painstaking issues that WILL lie in your future. When I say that you need to know what you are doing before you start flashing, here is why. YOU DO NOT HAVE A VIBRANT, so don't flash any Vibrant ROMs to your phone. First we never got an official GB ROM, only Froyo. Second the builds that you put up there are to the SHG-T959V. That is the 4g version. Those ROMs won't work in the Vibrant and our ROMs won't work on theirs. Fortunately there is a forum for those and you will find whatever you need in there.
Good luck and be careful and above all read, read, read.
Hey wood, this is the second person I have seen stating they had stock GB on a vibrant. I thought it was weird. I figure if you are not sure what phone you have or what OS your running you shouldn't try to install custom ROM! Thanks for saving that guy!
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You survived kies. That is awesome. But hellybean is awesome.
Sent from my Jellied out Vibrant sandwich.
Check out the Hellybean nightlies Here and here and the Devil Kernel for ICS here and Jelly Bean here for the Galaxy S and variants.
oh noes!
Woody said:
Seeing that this is your first experience with Android, I would say that you need to make sure that you know what you are doing first before you start flashing anything. I am going to save you some serious heartache in just one minute.
First, Kies is notorious for HardBricking phones. Don't use it. You can use Odin or Heimdall to flash back to "stock" whenever you need to. Always good to do when flashing ROMs to have a clean base to start with. Google them and you will find what you need.
And now, here is where I am going to save you tons of trouble and the painstaking issues that WILL lie in your future. When I say that you need to know what you are doing before you start flashing, here is why. YOU DO NOT HAVE A VIBRANT, so don't flash any Vibrant ROMs to your phone. First we never got an official GB ROM, only Froyo. Second the builds that you put up there are to the SHG-T959V. That is the 4g version. Those ROMs won't work in the Vibrant and our ROMs won't work on theirs. Fortunately there is a forum for those and you will find whatever you need in there.
Good luck and be careful and above all read, read, read.
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THe wiki for this with files neded seems to be mostly dead.
I took my tmo g s 4g and upated it with kies mini. it now has t959vuvkj6-cl694130 and I cannot find how to root but have been reading for daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaays
Searching forums is cumbersome at best.
Does anyone know where accurate and fresh data is on how to root and use cm10 or any other help for non experts?
I guess I have to use a pc because there is crap info for mac
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You are in the wrong section, this is for t959 not t959v. Here is a thread with all your answers and I believe you can use your Mac http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=21953587
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samsgun357 said:
You are in the wrong section, this is for t959 not t959v. Here is a thread with all your answers and I believe you can use your Mac http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=21953587
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Thanks, unfortunately super one click is reported as a virus and also doesn't work on mac.
Personally, I would skip any ICS roms entirely. The risk of getting the EU bug (dead internal memory) isn't worth it. Go straight to JB.
First of all thank you for being such and amazing community. So I had my note 2 for a month and I loved it I had bought it out right at best buy. A friend of mine had one too and he was switching to att so he convinced me to return mine and buy his, it was a good deal, his was already unlocked and rooted.
This might sound strange but I have really gone to love stock, which is really weird since I;m coming from a nexus and flashed like twice a day, I have been trying to a find a flashable zip thats pure stock. I dont want any tweaks, just stock plus root, thats it. im running mean bean which is very close but I lost the stock quick toggles, I have read that I cant do an ODIN flash because im unlocked, I just need to know where a fully stock rom is, hopefully 4.1.2 also, thanks so much
Try scotts deodexed stock rom, thats what I've been running for the past month.
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You can Odin. There is a guide stickied in development section. In that guide the are also 2 options on the file to use, a stock with locked boot loader and an unlocked version.
I believe you'll lose root with both but from that same guide get the exynos exploit app and root it again. Then download voodoo root keeper and take the ota.
Or finally in the development section again there is a stock rooted and deodexed flashable. Or like the other guy said try clean ROM.
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