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My Goal: set everything back to stock for warranty. (charging system is *%$#ed)
my problem: I am stuck at the unrooting part.
I have read everything I can over and over and yet I still find myself in a predicament. I have restored everything back to stock (I rooted and unlocked my SGS2, but I never used a custom ROM).
I have relocked the device, I have reset everything back to stock. I used the jig to reset the flash counter. I re flashed my secure kernel. Everything checks out, except my Superuser access.
Now here is the part where I am stuck. So essentially from what I read I have 3 options that I can recall:
1 - just re flash my stock ROM to remove root (seems pointless as I have never had to flash a ROM, seeing as I am still on my stock ROM)
2 - unroot using SOC (which failed to work, stuck on step 6)
3 - use Samsung Kies to update. (this also failed, won't detect my phone, and yes it is in Kies mode, no debug)
I am at a loss. I am on the Bell network in Canada, and I am on UGKG2 firmware.
Please let me know if you need more information. Also, I apologize if the answer is in one of the threads. I have been reading everything whenever I can, and just can't figure this one out. thanks for your patience in advance
alex8642 said:
My Goal: set everything back to stock for warranty. (charging system is *%$#ed)
my problem: I am stuck at the unrooting part.
I have read everything I can over and over and yet I still find myself in a predicament. I have restored everything back to stock (I rooted and unlocked my SGS2, but I never used a custom ROM).
I have relocked the device, I have reset everything back to stock. I used the jig to reset the flash counter. I re flashed my secure kernel. Everything checks out, except my Superuser access.
Now here is the part where I am stuck. So essentially from what I read I have 3 options that I can recall:
1 - just re flash my stock ROM to remove root (seems pointless as I have never had to flash a ROM, seeing as I am still on my stock ROM)
2 - unroot using SOC (which failed to work, stuck on step 6)
3 - use Samsung Kies to update. (this also failed, won't detect my phone, and yes it is in Kies mode, no debug)
I am at a loss. I am on the Bell network in Canada, and I am on UGKG2 firmware.
Please let me know if you need more information. Also, I apologize if the answer is in one of the threads. I have been reading everything whenever I can, and just can't figure this one out. thanks for your patience in advance
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you have to flash an original firmware if you want to get rid of root and cwm.
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Is there a way you can tell that your phone isn't rooted anymore?
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chaosreign said:
Is there a way you can tell that your phone isn't rooted anymore?
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Well, there is a market app (rootcheck) but it's easy to check yourself, if you dont have superuser in your app drawer you are not rooted.
Let's say, you dont have superuser app and you cannot access cwm recovery = you are not rooted
If I may ask, why exactly is it that you cannot unroot without flashing an original firmware? Why does SOC even give you the option if it doesn't work? Thanks for the timely replies though
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alex8642 said:
If I may ask, why exactly is it that you cannot unroot without flashing an original firmware? Why does SOC even give you the option if it doesn't work? Thanks for the timely replies though
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soc does work but a lot of people screw up 3 Simple steps and end up with a semi bricked phone.
Flash a stock firmware is probably the more "safe" system. Also allows you to flash latest version that some countries will never receive or receive very late.
Sry my English sux even more today lol
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Ok... So let's troubleshoot why I can't get the unroot to work for SOC... I have tried both in and out of download mode. Debugging on and debugging off. Yet the unroot stops at step 6 and does nothing...
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I read in another post it is as simple as removing superuser.apk and the su folder on system...
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I just flashed the stock rom back. Seems to look quite 100% like it did when it came in the box. Jigged to kill flash counter. I think I am set to send it in Thanks a lot guys.
Following that, looks like for root you just need to download superuser app from market and you are good to go....
Its not so easy as you know.
Removing the superuser apk just removes the superuse app, but then you end up with a semi rooted phone with cwm recovery (that you dont want if you want to go back to stock)
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Good im glad you managed to "restock" the phone as you see it is fast and easy with flash of a stock rom
hey guys im really scared so i wanted to ask and see if anyone knows for sure but i flashed codeworks kernal for cwm and then rooted with superoneclick and was wondering would i brick my phone if i do a factory reset from phone options or will it work as normal or what will happen if i do that? plz some1 help me thx
A factory reset where? In ClockWork Mod recovery? If you for it there it will not harm your phone, but it will wipe all the apps you installed and reset your settings. You will not lose the contents of your internal SD memory, and you will not lose root. It does not actually revert to stock, its just like you freshly installed the ROM again.
Edit: Nevermind, I see you said phone settings. I would assume you get the same behavior as I desribed, but I've never tried it so I don't know for sure.
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Correct. it will refresh you to the rom you have installed. I just recently posted a link to another forum on how to get back to the stock rom if you want to.
ok well i will give it a shot and see what happens im crossing my fingers but i will let u know thx
edit: wait i forgot to ask this also my phone is unlocked with helroz app will i lose the unlock? do i have to do it again? if everything resets to normal?
praramis said:
ok well i will give it a shot and see what happens im crossing my fingers but i will let u know thx
edit: wait i forgot to ask this also my phone is unlocked with helroz app will i lose the unlock? do i have to do it again? if everything resets to normal?
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Assuming you're talking about SIM Unlock, then you will retain it. Even completely reverting back to stock still retains a sim unlock state, which is a good thing. =)
But I want it...
OK, I am using my rooted - CWM CM7 I777 phone - AT&T has just agreed to up me to the skyrocket because I am still in my 30 day grace period. I need to get this phone back to absolute day one no monkey business stock..
How?
Skyrocket is not an upgrade. You'll be limiting your choices severely from a development standpoint.
As to your request. There already is a write up by creepyncrawly in the general section that details every step. And yes you can go from cyanogenmod straight to stock with no issues.
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Hi,
I am rooted on my S3 and all is good. However, my Father also has an S3 and last week he was talked into rooting it by his Grandson. All went well but long story short he was not happy with having a rooted phone so has decided to remove root. He has now done so by following various guides. He used Triangle away which he says went successfully and has used Odin to put the latest stock firmware on the phone which again he says went successfully. I was not there when he did all this but phone seems all good.
Except one thing. He has tried to install a couple of apps he had before rooting. Barclays bank app and Sky Go app. After installation these apps are saying they will not work on a rooted phone, but it's not rooted any more. I have booted into recovery using Volume down, power and home buttons and it says custom firmware / rom, I can't remember exact wording, but it says no. Also in the phone menu where a rooted phone says modified in device status it says normal or whatever it should say. Again can't remember exactly but all looks like no root present.
Anyone got any ideas on this? As I am rooted on my S3 and never un-rooted it yet, I do not know if he should have done something else. Will he have to root again to run triangle away or anything else. Or can this be fixed as the phone is at present?
Thanks for any help guys.
Cheers, Rich
Three6ty said:
Hi,
I am rooted on my S3 and all is good. However, my Father also has an S3 and last week he was talked into rooting it by his Grandson. All went well but long story short he was not happy with having a rooted phone so has decided to remove root. He has now done so by following various guides. He used Triangle away which he says went successfully and has used Odin to put the latest stock firmware on the phone which again he says went successfully. I was not there when he did all this but phone seems all good.
Except one thing. He has tried to install a couple of apps he had before rooting. Barclays bank app and Sky Go app. After installation these apps are saying they will not work on a rooted phone, but it's not rooted any more. I have booted into recovery using Volume down, power and home buttons and it says custom firmware / rom, I can't remember exact wording, but it says no. Also in the phone menu where a rooted phone says modified in device status it says normal or whatever it should say. Again can't remember exactly but all looks like no root present.
Anyone got any ideas on this? As I am rooted on my S3 and never un-rooted it yet, I do not know if he should have done something else. Will he have to root again to run triangle away or anything else. Or can this be fixed as the phone is at present?
Thanks for any help guys.
Cheers, Rich
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try doing a factory reset
Has it got a custom ROM or stock ROM? could be due to a custom ROM maybe?
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slaphead20 said:
try doing a factory reset
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Hi,
Good idea. Just so I can warn him, I'm guessing this will wipe the phone and he will have to re-run setup etc?
Three6ty said:
Hi,
Good idea. Just so I can warn him, I'm guessing this will wipe the phone and he will have to re-run setup etc?
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Sorry, just looked on mine and confirmed my question above. It will wipe the lot.
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Has it got a custom ROM or stock ROM? could be due to a custom ROM maybe?
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It's a stock rom. Downloaded from the official rom thread on here
Three6ty said:
Sorry, just looked on mine and confirmed my question above. It will wipe the lot.
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yup, it wipes all user data and apps, let us know if it works after doing this
Hi,
My father did the factory reset today and it wiped his phone and he went through the new set up. However he still can't install some apps as they are still saying they do not support rooted devices. I just can't figure it out. Any ideas please guys. Thanks
Cheers, Rich
Three6ty said:
Hi,
My father did the factory reset today and it wiped his phone and he went through the new set up. However he still can't install some apps as they are still saying they do not support rooted devices. I just can't figure it out. Any ideas please guys. Thanks
Cheers, Rich
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One basic question..are you still able to go into recovery..vol up+power+home..if yes you are still rooted...you need to find your stock firmware and flash it via odin
check if it was a stock firmware your father flashed orcustom ROM o.follow this guide to do it again
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1710613
zoot1 said:
One basic question..are you still able to go into recovery..vol up+power+home..if yes you are still rooted...you need to find your stock firmware and flash it via odin
check if it was a stock firmware your father flashed orcustom ROM o.follow this guide to do it again
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1710613
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Hi,
Just tried that and the S3 will not go into recovery via volume up, power and home. Tried several times and it just powers up as normal. He has just tried his banking app and it's telling him the phone is rooted. I'm stumped on what to do.
Cheers, Rich
Sounds like maybe triangle away didnt properly remove the count, was the firmware he downloaded the official one for his phone? Was it previously branded or anything like that?
go supersu and click remove root
Three6ty said:
Hi,
Just tried that and the S3 will not go into recovery via volume up, power and home. Tried several times and it just powers up as normal. He has just tried his banking app and it's telling him the phone is rooted. I'm stumped on what to do.
Cheers, Rich
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Did you try redoing the steps mentioned in the thread??
Also clear data from that app..just a mention
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Hi,
He has superSu on the phone. Presumably it has downloaded from the play store when restoring the phone. However, he tried to uninstall it which just removed the updates. Couldn't go any further. It is now asking for updates which he has done. But when he tries to launch Super SU it says no apps configured and won't go any further. I think the fact that super su is on the phone, the apps are thinking it is rooted. I am doing this all over the phone so can't see what's happening.
I'm wondering if the way to go now would be another factory reset and when restoring everything, try not to let play store instal super su. Would this be the way to go, or can we get super su off the phone without a reset?
Cheers, Rich
Try uninstalling super su with titanium backup. Then factory reset. Are you sure you have flashed a stock ROM and not a rooted one. This doesnt sound right.
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Why not try reflashing again with original firmware via odin.
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zoot1 said:
One basic question..are you still able to go into recovery..vol up+power+home..if yes you are still rooted...
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Didn't know there was something like that. Now I am on stock and un-rooted. I can still go into the recovery by pressing vol up+power+home keys.
Hi,
Trying to do these things with him over the phone ain't easy. I may just go and get the phone and do it myself.
He does have supersu on the phone and it is working, well it's installed anyway but obviously does not do the root things as the phone is un-rooted. There is an option in supersu settings to remove root but will this work as the phone is not rooted? Question is how on earth do I remove supersu. Do i need to re-root and remove it that way?
Cheers, Rich
yldlj said:
Try uninstalling super su with titanium backup. Then factory reset. Are you sure you have flashed a stock ROM and not a rooted one. This doesnt sound right.
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Can't uninstall via Titanium backup as he is no longer rooted unless he roots the phone again. It is a stock rom. It was downloaded via the official rom thread on here.
http://www.unlimitedtips.com/2012/06/how-to-unroot-samsung-galaxy-s-3.html
This works very well for me
I use an old Samsung Galaxy S1 (i500) for reading, music, and internet. I can't hook it up to a phone service due to the area I live in not supporting nTelos phones.
What I want to do is flash a tablet ROM to my phone, thus getting rid of the svc and phone functions, since I don't use them whatsoever.
What I would like to know is...while this brick my phone? Has anyone else done this? I would just do it...but...I really don't want to brick it for nothing. I also don't want to have to completely redo everything I have on my phone.
Any advice or suggestions for ROMs would be appreciated if it is a viable option.
chaoticist said:
I use an old Samsung Galaxy S1 (i500) for reading, music, and internet. I can't hook it up to a phone service due to the area I live in not supporting nTelos phones.
What I want to do is flash a tablet ROM to my phone, thus getting rid of the svc and phone functions, since I don't use them whatsoever.
What I would like to know is...while this brick my phone? Has anyone else done this? I would just do it...but...I really don't want to brick it for nothing. I also don't want to have to completely redo everything I have on my phone.
Any advice or suggestions for ROMs would be appreciated if it is a viable option.
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Flashing a different devices ROM won't work. But you can just use titanium backup or root uninstaller to Delete the phone apps
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abdel12345 said:
Flashing a different devices ROM won't work. But you can just use titanium backup or root uninstaller to Delete the phone apps
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The last time I tried something like that...it didn't brick, but I did have to reflash to prevent continuous force-close. I do have titanium, but...yeah.
chaoticist said:
The last time I tried something like that...it didn't brick, but I did have to reflash to prevent continuous force-close. I do have titanium, but...yeah.
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Look in the development section for the geewiz media edition rom (there's two versions)... It's wifi only 4.2.2 goodness :thumbup:
Also remember it's based on stock Verizon bml (touchwiz)stuff not cayanogenmod mtd (aosp)stuff,,, certain things install/work different...
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Look in the development section for the geewiz media edition rom (there's two versions)... It's wifi only 4.2.2 goodness :thumbup:
Also remember it's based on stock Verizon bml (touchwiz)stuff not cayanogenmod mtd (aosp)stuff,,, certain things install/work different...
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I'm using CM7 right now. I had some trouble with it corrupting my SD cards before, because I made the mistake of not re-flashing and re-rooting the stock rom first. I did that and hopefully that fixed it. I made a backup just in case, though.
chaoticist said:
I'm using CM7 right now. I had some trouble with it corrupting my SD cards before, because I made the mistake of not re-flashing and re-rooting the stock rom first. I did that and hopefully that fixed it. I made a backup just in case, though.
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You shouldn't have to reflash stock or reroot you just flash the Odin full flash.
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bbrad said:
You shouldn't have to reflash stock or reroot you just flash the Odin full flash.
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Perhaps that was my problem. I flash with cwm. I use heimdall, because for some reason, odin no longer detects my phone.
Although I'm using CM10 now, and I'm not sure it can be flashed with heimdall because it uses a different filesystem...
Hey all,
I had a quick question about the reset function on the phone.
I'm having problems with a few apps just crashing outright and not working. I figured I'd just like to start from scratch but I don't want to have to root again if I can avoid it...
Plan of action so far is use HTC's own factory default reset, install HD Revolution 41 (Kit Kat) and then restore app data from Titanium Backup.
Is there a way to do all of this without having to reroot the device?
Flashing custom roms never requires root, they come rooted. Read the stickies
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xcrazydx said:
Flashing custom roms never requires root, they come rooted. Read the stickies
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Thanks for the reply... I never said however that they do require rooting. I'm saying that my device is already rooted and would like to reset without unrooting...
It wouldn't matter. Custom roms come rooted.
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