Am I ok to update on a rooted note 2? Or do I have to unroot first. I'm kinda a noob.
I would never take a ota ever. From verizon it is usually something to screw us again. Read how to stop it here. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2112221
Yah don't do it if you plan on having a Unlocked Bootloader
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I traded for a i-605 from a iPhone 5. I have been on Android many times before, but never had a rooted device. I just want this thing back to stock. I have searched and searched. Looked on youtube, but can't find anything. Does anyone know where a straight forward run down is that I can take it back to stock? I have already backed my files up, just want it stock again. Thank you to anyone that can help me.
randyschwimmer7 said:
HELP.
I traded for a i-605 from a iPhone 5. I have been on Android many times before, but never had a rooted device. I just want this thing back to stock. I have searched and searched. Looked on youtube, but can't find anything. Does anyone know where a straight forward run down is that I can take it back to stock? I have already backed my files up, just want it stock again. Thank you to anyone that can help me.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=34891181
Follow section 1b it is very simple and straight forward
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Hey ive flashed he new rooted update to my note 2 on verizon but im still getting a message from verizon saying i need to update. Is this normal or did i do something wrong? Sorry I'm newb to android. I traded from an Iphone 5 to the Galazy Note 2.
Thank you sir
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Well I bought this HTC Rezound on craigslist, the guy i bought it from said it was rooted and blah blah. To begin with I didnt want the phone rooted, because to be honest I have no use for it or know what it really is used for, I have never rooted a phone or attempted. Well anyways, just today I restarted the phone because it was acting real slow, so i restarted it and when it powered back on it got stuck on the 4g screen. I left it like that for like 10 min and nothing. Please if anyone can help me on trying to fix this, it would gladly be appreciated. I dont want it rooted anymore just normal. If you can help please make this an easy experience, I dont ever plan on ever rooting or dealing with this stuff..thanks!!
Download the gb ruu from the sticky in the dev thread and run it. You'll be back to stock like it came out of the box http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=19189145
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Or this one, its newer http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=25664508
But he's right your going to have to flash the RUU to fix it. Also rooting is not a bad thing, it's actually a good thing. It allows you to load custom ROMs on your phone so you don't have to live with the standard Verizon / HTC crap. Like mine for example, I am running Android 4.0.3 Ice Cream Sandwich, with Sense 4.0.
I couldn't find that thread so I directed him to football's original one. Thanks for the other link
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I couldn't find that thread so I directed him to football's original one. Thanks for the other link
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Not a problem, just trying to help out. I know all to well the feeling of a bricked phone....
I had this issue, sounds like dude didn't flash the right boot image to the rom.
Yes, start from the latest ruu and go from there.
Hello all, I was walking my friend through rooting his phone over Google talk. He rooted all went well a few days later he wanted to Rom it. He made a mistake and flashed the international omega Rom on his US ATT samsungi747. His phone is now dead. No way to get into recovery or download mode. Just dead. Bricked. What can I do to help him? As I am partially responsible cause I was helping him. I did not know much about the Rom he was flashing.
I was reading about a possible fix with a jig but can not find a jig for.the Samsung i747.
Please any and all advice would be greatly appreciated.
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Sorry but looks like its gone. Have seen a few ppl able to recover with mskips fix but only if theyre able to turn phone on.
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Hello all, I was walking my friend through rooting his phone over Google talk. He rooted all went well a few days later he wanted to Rom it. He made a mistake and flashed the international omega Rom on his US ATT samsungi747. His phone is now dead. No way to get into recovery or download mode. Just dead. Bricked. What can I do to help him? As I am partially responsible cause I was helping him. I did not know about the Rom he was flashing.
I was reading about a possible fix with a jig but can not find a jig for.the Samsung i747.
Please any and all advice would be greatly appreciated.
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A compatible jig may be your only solution if you can't get into download mode manually. A jig would force the phone into download mode, once in download mode you'd be able to flash the stock AT&T firmware through Odin.
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Has anyone ever tried just returning it and saying it randomly died? If they can't turn it on then there's no way to tell it's rooted
Only joking
"All this knowledge is giving me a major brainer!"
In the blacked Screen try flash with Odin.
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In the blacked Screen try flash with Odin.
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he's in oregon and I'm in california. I think he is freaking out. But he did say ODin was not recognizing the device.
ADB? ^^
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Error 1. Not reading
Error2. Wrong section... not reading
If he cant get cwm or screen to show something who knows what he did...fix: there is none get another device and read before u do stupid stuff.... u can't expect us to fix lack of reading or not knowing what ur flashing....
im on my phone. expect terrible typos.
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oh no. Its his first android phone. He only had it about a week. I can't believe this. I feel so bad for him.
Thanks for the reply
I have been looking for a jig that is compatible with the att samsung galaxy s3 sgh-i747 and had no luck. Do they exist?
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A jig is a jig the one I bought for my captivate works 100% on gs3, get the jig put into phone if don't boot into download mode, hold down power button with jig still in if that don't work ur screwed .... your better off trying make ur own jig ( YouTube it ) cause if the phone runs out of battery and won't charge then u have another issue...
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Moh_Jay said:
Has anyone ever tried just returning it and saying it randomly died? If they can't turn it on then there's no way to tell it's rooted
"All this knowledge is giving me a major brainer!"
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Just cause "we " can't turn it on don't mean they eventually can't ..
Btw you maybe able to save your friend
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1743757
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Moh_Jay said:
Btw you maybe able to save your friend
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1743757
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Thanks man! I ordered him one. Hopefully it will work. He's also going to make one tomorrow.
A huge thank you to all the people that provided helpful information and friendly advice.
I was actually expecting more ridicule, but it was minimal. . I know we messed up, but I never knew you could "brick" a phone from flashing a Rom.
Anyway thanks again guys! I will keep you posted on if the jig works or not.
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Moh_Jay said:
Has anyone ever tried just returning it and saying it randomly died? If they can't turn it on then there's no way to tell it's rooted
Only joking
"All this knowledge is giving me a major brainer!"
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The morning I was picking up my phone...a dude walks in and says that his phone doesn't turn on anymore after having it a week. I thought to myself..."he flashed an international ROM...what a douche".
Some people actually have there phones just stop working. Happened to my friend that had a Samsung galaxy nexus, stock unrooted. Just died. There was nothing I could do to fix it.
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Thanks man! I ordered him one. Hopefully it will work. He's also going to make one tomorrow.
A huge thank you to all the people that provided helpful information and friendly advice.
I was actually expecting more ridicule, but it was minimal. . I know we messed up, but I never knew you could "brick" a phone from flashing a Rom.
Anyway thanks again guys! I will keep you posted on if the jig works or not.
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If you didnt know a rom could brick a phone you shouldnt be flashing period. Theres always ALWAYS bold letters that says this may brick your phone an or we are not responsible if this breaks your phone... no one with there first android should be flashing till they know android smoothly... *sigh*
Usually 90% of the time your always able to get into recovery mode. From what I've read this only happens when flashing the omega Rom. People make mistakes.
I've rooted and rom'd 100s of phones, and never not been able to get back to recovery.
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SiNJiN76 said:
The morning I was picking up my phone...a dude walks in and says that his phone doesn't turn on anymore after having it a week. I thought to myself..."he flashed an international ROM...what a douche".
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The good and bad of brand new phone on the market. Some people do not like reading and want to be handed the solution.
Noobs....read.....read...read some more....go to bed....get up...read some more...have cookies for snack time....read some more... and then read some more... and for the love of GOD....read some more before flashing anything!
I mean that in the nicest way, becasue I have questions on a semi-regular basis also.
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The good and bad of brand new phone on the market. Some people do not like reading and want to be handed the solution.
Noobs....read.....read...read some more....go to bed....get up...read some more...have cookies for snack time....read some more... and then read some more... and for the love of GOD....read some more before flashing anything!
I mean that in the nicest way, becasue I have questions on a semi-regular basis also.
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If ppl read things 95% of there questions would be answered. The other 5% could be found by google
I understand telling him to read. And he did so for about a week. He succesfully used odin to root his phone. A few days later he said he wanted to Rom, and asked me how to do a proper back up with titanium backup. I ran him through the backup procedure.
I mean I totally thought that if he made it through the rooting procedure that he was good to go. Rom'ing has always been to me something fairly easy, and if something went haywire, just boot to recovery.
I've had people ask for help that flashed an incomplete or corrupted download, but have always been able to at least power the phone on, or at the very least have it recongnized in adb.
I have been reading and googling about a fix, but information seems minimal on this current circumstance. So I reached out to the community for advice.
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I understand telling him to read. And he did so for about a week. He succesfully used odin to root his phone. A few days later he said he wanted to Rom, and asked me how to do a proper back up with titanium backup. I ran him through the backup procedure.
I mean I totally thought that if he made it through the rooting procedure that he was good to go. Rom'ing has always been to me something fairly easy, and if something went haywire, just boot to recovery.
I've had people ask for help that flashed an incomplete or corrupted download, but have always been able to at least power the phone on, or at the very least have it recongnized in adb.
I have been reading and googling about a fix, but information seems minimal on this current circumstance. So I reached out to the community for advice.
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Personally i wait a bit to root rom a brand new phone... however ive never had a issue untill i fried my gs mesmerize so im a lil hesitant
Yeah, this is the first serious issue I have ran into in almost 3 years of mod'ing android phones.
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So, I tried meddling with ROMS using the Rom Manager and installed the Clockwork Mod thingie through the program and when it rebooted, Verizon keeps telling me I'm running unauthorized software. I went to
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2040264 and used odin 4 times with the stock firmware, but it still keeps telling me the same darn thing. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm coming from iOS and am loving what I've found so far on android, but Verizon is ... yeah.
I did the same thing. I had to take my phone back to Verizon to get a new phone. Sucks
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I did the same thing. I had to take my phone back to Verizon to get a new phone. Sucks
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And your one of the reasons why we have locked bootloaders. Take responsibility for your actions you created the problem.
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agnewton said:
I did the same thing. I had to take my phone back to Verizon to get a new phone. Sucks
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You should probably just keep your phone stock.
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So, I tried meddling with ROMS using the Rom Manager and installed the Clockwork Mod thingie through the program and when it rebooted, Verizon keeps telling me I'm running unauthorized software. I went to
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2040264 and used odin 4 times with the stock firmware, but it still keeps telling me the same darn thing. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm coming from iOS and am loving what I've found so far on android, but Verizon is ... yeah.
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the same thing happened to me also, using ROM Manager on 01/10/13. i used the section "Section 1: How to Root/ Return to Stock 4.1.1 Jelly Bean with Odin" info found at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2024207, to get mine back to normal.
If you were me, what would you do in this situation? I had to get a replacement Note 2 and the replacement thankfully came with the VRALJB software installed. I deferred the update to L4 for 5 days.
Would you just root and unlock the bootloader now the easy way, or take the L4 update and do it the harder way? Would either way be beneficial or does it not really matter?
Thanks!
Go ahead and unlock/root. You don't have to do anything further if you don't want to and you never know how difficult it would be to unlock in the future.
When I purchased mine outright it had the older software. I used the jailbreak method and that worked like a charm.
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Either way. Just do it on the current software and save a step. Same end result.
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As others said doesn't matter. Once you flash aROM you could just flash the LL4 radio and it would be the same as the OTA.
So I guess Odin didn't fix your last one?
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kintwofan said:
As others said doesn't matter. Once you flash aROM you could just flash the LL4 radio and it would be the same as the OTA.
So I guess Odin didn't fix your last one?
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im guessing it had a emmc failure that some have reported.
Well if you were me you wouldnt think about it and just root when I got my phone I didnt even sign into google first I skipped all that and was rooted within half an hour of owning my phone...Lol so root away mang
mine came with the ota last Saturday night, i waited til Monday to root just because I've always had htc phones, had to get familiar with touchwiz. took me 10mins to root after i couldn't take all the bloatware anymore
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im guessing it had a emmc failure that some have reported.
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Good idea. I thought with that failure it went black with no signs of life, but haven't read up on it. It was a strange that Odin of stock didn't fix it for him.... That's usually a guarantee unbrick
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Yeah guys, odin didn't fix it. I consider myself somewhat of a veteran with phones, rooting, etc. This time it stumped the hell out of me. Absolutely nothing that I did worked.
I want to thank you all for the help, info, etc. I will be back in business soon!
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Yeah guys, odin didn't fix it. I consider myself somewhat of a veteran with phones, rooting, etc. This time it stumped the hell out of me. Absolutely nothing that I did worked.
I want to thank you all for the help, info, etc. I will be back in business soon!
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Ya man I've seen you around, I think from the s3 also. I knew you actually knew what you were doing that's why it was so strange Odin didn't fix it. Guess with this beast of a phone we get beast of bugs
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kintwofan said:
Ya man I've seen you around, I think from the s3 also. I knew you actually knew what you were doing that's why it was so strange Odin didn't fix it. Guess with this beast of a phone we get beast of bugs
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Yup, I had the S3 for a while and was over there. Yeah man, I was chatting to the developer of the Jedi ROM and I sent him the meta folder of the ROM that I flashed for beta testing and he saw some problems. He said it was touching some partitions that it shouldn't be touching.
Anyhow, I guess I learned the hard way to be careful of testing ROMs from devs that I don't really recognize.
Time to root this bad boy and get back in business lol.
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kintwofan said:
Good idea. I thought with that failure it went black with no signs of life, but haven't read up on it. It was a strange that Odin of stock didn't fix it for him.... That's usually a guarantee unbrick
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normally yes...i was just throwing that out there. something was corrupted since recovery was borked.
Hi guys, I am very new to the Note 2. I just unlocked and rooted the latest ota using Casual. Thanks to Adam Outler and everyone else involved. So my question is which ROMs are compatible with this ota? Basic question I'm sure. I came from the Razr and the kernel had to match so I assume its the same here? Anyone willing to shed some light on this for me would be greatly appreciated.
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Any rom you want as long as it is in the VZW Note 2 threads can be flashed ours arent locked down by what update we are on because our bootloader is unlocked where it isnt on Moto phones. AOSP roms require AOSP kernels as TW roms require TW kernels. The roms come with kernels though so that isnt something tk worry about unless you I want to.
The only thing to remember is if you go to a 4.2 rom and want t I go back to 4.1 you have to flash a downgrade zip so your SD card doesnt become corrupted. You can find the downgrade zip in the Official CM 10.1 thread in the OP.
Check out Droidstyles guide in Android Development, its a sticky, it explains quite a bit and would ne helpful to you I think.
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Thanks for the info. Exactly the answers and info I was looking for. I just flashed CleanROM and went through the flashing process. When it got to the end and said finish to reboot it just turned off and wouldnt turn back on. Couldn't get to recovery or download mode. I had to pull the battery and then turn it on. It went straight to the new ROM though without a hitch. Is that a normal part of the flashing procedure on the N2? The battery pull I mean, or did I miss something?
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Thanks for the info. Exactly the answers and info I was looking for. I just flashed CleanROM and went through the flashing process. When it got to the end and said finish to reboot it just turned off and wouldnt turn back on. Couldn't get to recovery or download mode. I had to pull the battery and then turn it on. It went straight to the new ROM though without a hitch. Is that a normal part of the flashing procedure on the N2? The battery pull I mean, or did I miss something?
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Thats not a normal thing to happen, but it does happen occasionally. As long as it boots up after the battery pull I wouldnt be too worried by it. I have had it happen to me before and after the battery pull I experienced no issues whatsoever.
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CleanROM's good. It was the first ROM I flashed when I got my Note II too.
Eventually though, you may want to switch to something more feature-rich like Jelly Beans, which is what I'm rocking now. The features it adds are pretty awesome and you get full touchwiz functionality (S-Pen and the like) with the look of AOSP.
DL'ing Jelly Beans now. Gotta make a new TiBu before flashing though. Will give it a go shortly. My wife fusses at me sometimes cause on my old phone (Razr) and on this one I am always flashing different ROMs. She especially hates it when she calls and my phone goes directly to voicemail cause I am in recovery flashing a ROM or kernel.
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mikelikesbikes said:
Hi guys, I am very new to the Note 2.
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Hi all, I'm feeling like a n00b on the Note too, and really appreciate the help all of you seem to be willing to share with each other. I'm not new to modding phones, recently I've been through an S3, DNA, RAZR HD and M, and even another Note 2. I made the mistake of swapping the Note 2 for an iPhone 5, and regretted it about thirty seconds later. Now that's my wife's phone, and due to the grace of another (local) xda member, I'm back rockin' the Note 2. This time around in looking forward to getting into some serious flashing and tweaking to get the most from the hardware. I've decided this is Verizon's best phone at the moment, with everything I need.
Don't worry, you're not alone in having a wife who gets annoyed at flashing and tweaking. Happens to me all the time, but I use the excuse it's one of the few hobbies that I have which doesn't involve the rest of the family and I need a bit of alone time. It kind of works as an excuse until the point where I need to use it again.
I'm looking forward to being part of this community and wanted to say hello.
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I like jedi X rom...I got 3 days off my battery with just the right settings...my recommendation is to not mess with the per app dpi for the settings app because now I'm stuck without a settings app and about to switch roms...just about any rom will work as long as it's for your carrier... Best of luck!
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DL'ing Jelly Beans now. Gotta make a new TiBu before flashing though. Will give it a go shortly. My wife fusses at me sometimes cause on my old phone (Razr) and on this one I am always flashing different ROMs. She especially hates it when she calls and my phone goes directly to voicemail cause I am in recovery flashing a ROM or kernel.
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Beans is the best! photosphere camera (page 1 of forum) works great with build 16! Check it out! Also, I agree about Jedi: definitely magic battery settings. Enjoy your new hobby! My wife is the same way.