Hey guys, I need to send my phone back for a replacement and wanted to know if there was any other steps that needed to be done other than odin back to stock and use Triangle Away to reset flash counter.
Thanks!
Reneg4d3 said:
Hey guys I just needed to know how to un root the device and set the flash counter to zero and any other steps in order for me to send the phone back for a replacement. I saw on Google where to do some of this - however is there anything else I need to do so that they won't know I have been rooted?
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If you read you'll find the unroot instructions that you use Odin for. As far as if they can find out if it's been unrooted, i'm not sure. I have insurance so if i ever need a replacement i am just gonna destroy it enough that they can never find out if i rooted it or not.
Flash the stock factory image via Odin. Install "Triangle Away" app from the play store and run it to reset the flash counter. One quick factory reset and you should be good to go. That's the quickest & easiest method I know of.
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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
Hi,
Today I decided to root my device and tried out AOKP build 3, i decided that it was good but I just prefered the feel of stock and I wanted to unroot and lock the bootloader back up. So i did but installing it through mobile Odin because when I tried to install the firmware though the computer it would just keep freezing and failing basically. When I was following this guide (http://galaxys3root.com/galaxy-s3-unroot/how-to-unroot-galaxy-s3-i9300/) I did everything but the triangleaway bit. I decided to skip it because i wasn't sure if my firmware was supported. So I thought I would just live with it till I got to the software updater thing and was told that it can't update because the device is modified. So now it appears I will have to re root and install this tool then flash the firmware and factory reset it. My question is, will it be safe use triangle away on the JRO03C.I9300XXDLIB firmware. Or even better, has anyone actually tried it. Yes i know, I am pretty weird but I am more of a stock man myself.
Thanks,
Yes, go ahead with triangle away.
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From what i read with triangle away disclaimer its pretty risky but i havent actually seen anyone horror stories. Also, i dont know how well kies isbit supposed to work but for me its useless. Never finds the device and has all my data backed up on it.
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Yet to read of actual problem with TA despite the warnings .
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Triangle Away will reset the counter, but won't set status to Normal. If you are not comfortable with using Triangle Away, you may simply do a factory reset which should set the status back to Normal (but not the counter though).
BTW I have used Triangle Away many times without any problem.
Ok Thanks. Will try later today. My only thought isbit when i previously wioed all data and dud the factory reset frim the bootloader it loaded into a stock JB rom like a factory reset but its still says modified. Is that because i have not run triangle away yet?
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and so of course Kies won't connect for me. Any tips on getting it to work. Tired restarting phone, troubleshoot guide, everything. Just want it so I can restore all my data to my phone.
Precondition: rooted phone
You need to follow these steps:
- get stock firmware from samfirmware.com
- use Triangle Away to reset the counter
- flash firmware downloaded earlier
- factory-reset the device (this includes internal sdcard on stock recovery!!!)
- done
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Hey guys!
Is there a proper way of restoring the s3 so that I can send it back for a replacement?
I know I can flash the stock rom, but what about the flash counter? Or anything else?
Thank you!
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EDIT: ok, i;ve tried triangle away app, and it works, I now have 0 counter and official status. But is this and flashing the stock rom enough?
b0gd4n said:
Hey guys!
Is there a proper way of restoring the s3 so that I can send it back for a replacement?
I know I can flash the stock rom, but what about the flash counter? Or anything else?
Thank you!
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EDIT: ok, i;ve tried triangle away app, and it works, I now have 0 counter and official status. But is this and flashing the stock rom enough?
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As far as I remember from other threats you have to have "original status" and the flash counter "0". In addition double check if you got any "root" apps on your S3 or sdcard just in case.
chrismast said:
As far as I remember from other threats you have to have "original status" and the flash counter "0". In addition double check if you got any "root" apps on your S3 or sdcard just in case.
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Well yeah. I am going to flash the stock rom, reset the counter and reset to factory settings and format everything before sending it back.
But besides that, do I need to do anything else? Is there a chance that the replacement might get refused?
Thanks!
Yes. These are enough.
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run triangle away
Flash stock Rom
Factory reset
All should be normal after those three steps
cool.
thanks guys!
Hello,
during the last weeks I had so many problems with my S3 and now I want to send it in to Amazon so that they check it what the problem is, I'm still in my warranty time so I have all rights to do this.
So my question is I have rooted my phone so that I can use several programs better but I still have the stock rom. So is rooting is a violation of the warranty? Is it better to unroot the phone first? And if yes, how do I do this?
Anything else I have to check?
Thanks a lot for your help!
Basicly yes, it's better to delete everything before. However it depends on the method.
If you've used CF-AutoRoot then it should have such function, in SuperSU app called unrooting or cleaning. Then you just delete SuperSU (if it won't get deleted for whatever reason) and you're ready to go. If you've used CF-Root then you should flash original stock rom, kernel and recovery, with formatting of /system /data /preload and /cache. Or just using unrooting by SuperSU app and flashing original recovery.
However watch your flash counter, don't forget to set it to 0 before sending .
Depending on where you are from (I see Germany) rooting is not a violation of warranty (defined in EU law) and Samsung would have to proof that you rooting the phone did the damage whereas I would not bet on this.
Hence I would unroot, install stock rom, reset counter etc. as it is quite an easy process.
Good question, I really don't know how I rooted. The thing is I already did a factory reset last week. It looks like that my Phone now isn't rooted anymore. SuperSU was installed when I factory reseted the phone but now I tried to install Triangle Away to reset my counter, it said that my phone isn't rooted, same message appeared with Titantium Backup.
So I have to root it now so that the programs work and then I can unroot everything and reset everything? Or is it fine as it is? I just checked my Cutom Rom counter which is at 3. I guess these are my root attempts? Because I always used stock rom.
TheSKYY said:
Good question, I really don't know how I rooted. The thing is I already did a factory reset last week. It looks like that my Phone now isn't rooted anymore. SuperSU was installed when I factory reseted the phone but now I tried to install Triangle Away to reset my counter, it said that my phone isn't rooted, same message appeared with Titantium Backup.
So I have to root it now so that the programs work and then I can unroot everything and reset everything? Or is it fine as it is? I just checked my Cutom Rom counter which is at 3. I guess these are my root attempts? Because I always used stock rom.
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if your counter is 3, and to be very save, root, reset the counter, un-root following the guides here on XDA, doing the process now for 20min saves you time to argue with Amazon or whoever later on
Which root should I do now to use Triangle? CF-Autoroot oder CF-Root?
Thanks a lot for your help!
TheSKYY said:
Which root should I do now to use Triangle? CF-Autoroot oder CF-Root?
Thanks a lot for your help!
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Does not really matter a alot, CF-Root will include a custom recovery (which will be overwirtten with stock rom flash if I am not wrong?), CF-Autoroot will not include it, hence I would go with autoroot
One last question, do I have to factory reset when I Autoroot with Odin? If possible I would like to keep my data at the moment and then I'd like to use Titanium Backup to backup at least some app savings. After that Odin and other can delete whatever they want.
Thanks again.
TheSKYY said:
One last question, do I have to factory reset when I Autoroot with Odin? If possible I would like to keep my data at the moment and then I'd like to use Titanium Backup to backup at least some app savings. After that Odin and other can delete whatever they want.
Thanks again.
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No you don't
Check out the cf auto root thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1957273
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blackhand64 said:
No you don't
Check out the cf auto root thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1957273
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If he wants original rom state for warranty I guess he has to or not?
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So as the title says, I am unrooting my s4 to send back to Verizon. Now I saw a video on youtube that said I need to reset my binary counter. I have not flashed any custom roms or did anything else other than rooted it. I am unrooting a putting the factory firmware on my phone, do I need to reset my binary counter or is the factory firmware going to trip the counter? basically I am trying to avoid Verizon seeing I messed with the phone and make me pay 600 or so dollars for the new phone they are sending me.
Should just be able to Odin back to any of the builds on these forums and be good if all you did was root it
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When I did mine Odin worked fine like jwendt said...
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CParker1987 said:
So as the title says, I am unrooting my s4 to send back to Verizon. Now I saw a video on youtube that said I need to reset my binary counter. I have not flashed any custom roms or did anything else other than rooted it. I am unrooting a putting the factory firmware on my phone, do I need to reset my binary counter or is the factory firmware going to trip the counter? basically I am trying to avoid Verizon seeing I messed with the phone and make me pay 600 or so dollars for the new phone they are sending me.
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Boot into download mode and check the counter, if firmware=official and counter=0 then you all set to return,
With my rooted m7 all I had to do was full reset from within phone settings then let it reboot. After it was done I pulled battery, put it back in and turned it on to see no more custom screen.
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jhasty01 said:
With my rooted m7 all I had to do was full reset from within phone settings then let it reboot. After it was done I pulled battery, put it back in and turned it on to see no more custom screen.
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Yea I tried that the first time I was going to unroot... funny thing was when I tried to reset, it sent me to the downloading screen and got stuck there for as long as id let it stay there. but just to update... put the stock firmware on it through Odin and worked just fine. Just in case anyone else ran into this problem.
try these
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2578569
http://galaxys4root.com/galaxy-s4-tutorials/how-to-unroot-galaxy-s4-and-remove-root-completely/