Stupidly I updated to jelly bean through the Asus ota a while back and have recently decided it is sluggish and terrible. I have root and a custom recovery (TWRP) but it seems flashing an ICS ROM will give me a soft brick.
This isn't urgent, I can restore back to jelly bean using my back ups. But is there anything special that needs to be done to revert back to ICS?
I have been doing what I think is kind of the usual for flashing Roms .
Full wipe
Flash ROM
Flash gapps
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From my limited experience with Tf201, I read that to avoid a brick its important to flash the correct bootloader and recovery first? Not sure which though. You can also install Nvflash for Jellybean TF201 which apparently makes the device ’unbrickable’, theres a thread on this forum how to do it. Also, before you downgrade, try the unofficial cyanogenmod 4.3 jelly bean rom. Its very smooth and fast compared to the ota official Asus official JB, which is terrible as you said.
rust991 said:
Stupidly I updated to jelly bean through the Asus ota a while back and have recently decided it is sluggish and terrible. I have root and a custom recovery (TWRP) but it seems flashing an ICS ROM will give me a soft brick.
This isn't urgent, I can restore back to jelly bean using my back ups. But is there anything special that needs to be done to revert back to ICS?
I have been doing what I think is kind of the usual for flashing Roms .
Full wipe
Flash ROM
Flash gapps
Sent from my SGH-I337 using xda app-developers app
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You cannot go back to ICS unless you have nvflash backups.
You can now create nvflash backups while you are on Jellybean tho which you couldn't do before.
I would advise trying one of the Hairybean Roms which is a big improvement over stock. If you do not want to go to the latest one you can flash Hairybean 1.51 which will flash ok on your bootloader and recovery without you changing anything.
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Hello there, this is my first day with my Samsung Galaxy S III. Coming from the Nexus, x user of S1, S2, Note.
On my Touchwiz rom days, When switching between Touchwiz & AOSP roms, used not to be directly successful. So is it the same case on my S III now ? Like when flashing an AOSP rom, when reverting back, what are the required steps? Thank you. Enjoying this device, the display is just AWESOME
all you have to do is make a factory reset in cwm and flash a zipped custom rom or simply put your mobile in download mode and flash the stock rom via odin.
I just flashed CM10 from Stock 4.0.4 Touchwiz rom. So now basically, if I want to flash a Jelly Bean Touchwiz rom, I just flash in CWM? And when I want to go back from Jelly Bean to AOSP, same thing? - Just trying to avoid bootloops and using Odin or such...TY
Ensifolk said:
I just flashed CM10 from Stock 4.0.4 Touchwiz rom. So now basically, if I want to flash a Jelly Bean Touchwiz rom, I just flash in CWM? And when I want to go back from Jelly Bean to AOSP, same thing? - Just trying to avoid bootloops and using Odin or such...TY
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Yes you can flash back and forth..........just make sure you WIPE WIPE WIPE correctly. so you do NOT have those issues.
believe it or not improper or not fully wiping your phone before flashing a new rom are alot of the reasons why some people have bugs that others do not.
Hey folks-
I'm currently on CM10 nightly, but I'd like to switch over back to the stock update. My device is unlocked, so I know I can't just get the OTA.
I also gather that at this point we don't yet have an image to flash to get the update via other means. But when we do, in theory, what are the steps going to be to get to the OTA version? Is it going to be as simple as flashing a ROM? Will I need to go back to a recovery image via ADB first? Or will there be more involved?
Thanks in advance for the help!
KDLMaj said:
Hey folks-
I'm currently on CM10 nightly, but I'd like to switch over back to the stock update. My device is unlocked, so I know I can't just get the OTA.
I also gather that at this point we don't yet have an image to flash to get the update via other means. But when we do, in theory, what are the steps going to be to get to the OTA version? Is it going to be as simple as flashing a ROM? Will I need to go back to a recovery image via ADB first? Or will there be more involved?
Thanks in advance for the help!
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all your questions are answered here. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1911024
if you are unlocked you will be able to follow op instructions and get the official JB update
Similar situation for me. I put CM10 on a while back but basically hadn't touched the tablet in a couple months. Decided to give the tablet to my wife (an upgrade for her from the TF101). I just flashed the stock .28 zip available from the Asus support site to get back to stock recovery and system files. Not sure if JB would have come OTA or not. I didn't feel like waiting so I rooted it and copied the dlpkgfike to /cache. Have to say stock JB on the TF201 was quite nice.
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I have a rooted unlocked prime with TeamEOS JB rom. In fact the only reason I unlocked the bootloader was to get jellybean in the form of that custom rom. As much of an improvement as this rom was over stock ICS, it has too many problems and my prime often powers off randomly. I would like to have the stock jellybean experience similar to my nexus ..... is it as simple as downloading the official jb rom from the asus website, flashing it, and then flashing twrp? And if it flashes badly (with the prime it seems to be a common problem) will I be able to simply restore via recovery? Please help a poor noob, I just want my prime to be usable!
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I have a rooted unlocked prime with TeamEOS JB rom. In fact the only reason I unlocked the bootloader was to get jellybean in the form of that custom rom. As much of an improvement as this rom was over stock ICS, it has too many problems and my prime often powers off randomly. I would like to have the stock jellybean experience similar to my nexus ..... is it as simple as downloading the official jb rom from the asus website, flashing it, and then flashing twrp? And if it flashes badly (with the prime it seems to be a common problem) will I be able to simply restore via recovery? Please help a poor noob, I just want my prime to be usable!
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looking for the same - still running on 4.0.x (Virtuous Rom) and want to have a full working JB Version. How can I get the stock version on my Prime ?! or does somebody know if the Virtuous Team is already working on an update of ther Prime Series Roms
So any stock Rom (modified or not) will be awesome to get my Prime to JB with a WW Version.
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I have a rooted unlocked prime with TeamEOS JB rom. In fact the only reason I unlocked the bootloader was to get jellybean in the form of that custom rom. As much of an improvement as this rom was over stock ICS, it has too many problems and my prime often powers off randomly. I would like to have the stock jellybean experience similar to my nexus ..... is it as simple as downloading the official jb rom from the asus website, flashing it, and then flashing twrp? And if it flashes badly (with the prime it seems to be a common problem) will I be able to simply restore via recovery? Please help a poor noob, I just want my prime to be usable!
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Me too! I have CWM recovery and a pre-rooted stock rom (.28). I've read on these fora that people have successfully installed the official .zip from Asus using a custom recovery, but I also read that other people are sure that it will brick the Prime. Getting confused
woekje said:
Me too! I have CWM recovery and a pre-rooted stock rom (.28). I've read on these fora that people have successfully installed the official .zip from Asus using a custom recovery, but I also read that other people are sure that it will brick the Prime. Getting confused
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Here's what I did:
I downloaded the latest firmware from ASUS's website. I extracted it to the root of my micro SD. I plugged that Micro SD into my prime and it recognized it as an update.After I selected it in the notification bar, it rebooted me to recovery where I chose the extracted file and flashed it with TWRP.
N.B. Be sure to back up root with Voodoo OTA Rootkeeper.
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Here's what I did:
I downloaded the latest firmware from ASUS's website. I extracted it to the root of my micro SD. I plugged that Micro SD into my prime and it recognized it as an update.After I selected it in the notification bar, it rebooted me to recovery where I chose the extracted file and flashed it with TWRP.
N.B. Be sure to back up root with Voodoo OTA Rootkeeper.
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I would like to add that you get the new TWRP openrecovery-twrp-2.2.2.1-tf201-JB.img from http://teamw.in/project/twrp2/93 so you can have a custom recovery with jelly bean
Also if you flash the full firmware from the Asus website you may lose root but can get it back by doing the following.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=32416674&postcount=7
Hello I am currently running Hairy Bean 2.11 and I just want some info so if I should decide to make a change I do it correctly and do not brick my Prime.
So here goes:
I rooted and unlocked my prime then used HairyBean TWRP updater (normal) to install the TWRP recovery onto my Prime which gave me ver 2.4.1.0. I then made a backup using TWRP of my stock-unlocked-rooted rom. Just in case I ever needed it.
I then used Upgrade Hairybean 4.2.1 Bootloader & Recovery.zip and Hairybean 2.11.zip to install Androwook.
My question now is if I wanted to use that stock rom I would have to use "Downgrade Hairybean 4.1.1 Bootloader & Recovery" first correct?
Can anyone tell me what version TWRP that would put on my Prime? I am aware that I should not upgrade or change my TWRP while on Androwook unless the Dev says it is ok to do so, but I have one last question would a newer version of TWRP be able to flash a ROM made with an earlier version TWRP with no issues? I mean it should but just to be sure I wanted to ask the dumb question anyway.
Thanks to anyone that takes the time to read this noobs posts, and even better to answer!! lol Thanks again. :cyclops:
riven67 said:
Hello I am currently running Hairy Bean 2.11 and I just want some info so if I should decide to make a change I do it correctly and do not brick my Prime.
So here goes:
I rooted and unlocked my prime then used HairyBean TWRP updater (normal) to install the TWRP recovery onto my Prime which gave me ver 2.4.1.0. I then made a backup using TWRP of my stock-unlocked-rooted rom. Just in case I ever needed it.
I then used Upgrade Hairybean 4.2.1 Bootloader & Recovery.zip and Hairybean 2.11.zip to install Androwook.
My question now is if I wanted to use that stock rom I would have to use "Downgrade Hairybean 4.1.1 Bootloader & Recovery" first correct?
Can anyone tell me what version TWRP that would put on my Prime? I am aware that I should not upgrade or change my TWRP while on Androwook unless the Dev says it is ok to do so, but I have one last question would a newer version of TWRP be able to flash a ROM made with an earlier version TWRP with no issues? I mean it should but just to be sure I wanted to ask the dumb question anyway.
Thanks to anyone that takes the time to read this noobs posts, and even better to answer!! lol Thanks again. :cyclops:
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You might be able to restore the stock rom on the 4.2.1 bootloader. I know that hairybean 1.51 will install fine on the 4.2.1 bootloader as long as everything is wiped.
Give it a go. Make a backup of your install now and try restoring the old backup.. You wont break anything that way.
If it doesn't work then use the downgrade zip and restore it.
The upgrade and downgrade zips include compatible TWRP's for the bootloader it is on. If you downgrade you can install official TWRPs from their site but if you are on the upgrade do not install them as you can brick. There's nothing worth upgrading twrp for anyway.. They work fine.
Thanks flumpster i just wanted to know if it could be done, i am still getting used to using HB 2.11 and loving it. But i always like to know i have and can go back to a stock rom if needed.
I did have a couple of those sudden unexpected reboots that i have read about with the 4.2 roms, but not enough to bother me.
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How do you find performance of HB 2.11 compared with 4.1.1 stock?
Performance HB 2.11 vs Stock
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How do you find performance of HB 2.11 compared with 4.1.1 stock?
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Well to be honest it's smooth but the stock 4.1.1 was not bad either, I guess most performance boost and fixes can really be seen if you are coming from an ICS or HC rom. From what I understand those roms were pretty bad performance wise. I like the added tweaks though and look forward to getting the next update and some overclocked kernels. For now I am just enjoying the freedom to choose the apps I want and to loose those I do not.
So, if I got this right, from ICS 9.4.5.30, I can just flash the JB 10.6.1.14.8 bootloader using TWRP 2.5.0.0, and then flash the CROMi-Xenogenesis 4.6.4 DEODEX rom? I don't have to do incremental upgrades, as it were? I'm running on an Infinity (TF700T, US SKU).
To clarify, I'm rooted and unlocked at the moment. I've already installed GOO. Will I lose root if I flash, or does that only apply to stock roms? Am I better of flashing the latest JB stock rom first and then doing a nandroid backup first? In this case, I will lose root if I understand everything correctly...
I know a lot of this is discussed in the CROMi threads, but no one seems to have asked specifically if you can go directly from ICS to CROMi-Xeno, unless I missed it.
Thanks for any help.
Anyone? Would be nice to get an answer prior to bricking my device...Thanks!
Anyone running CROMi Xenogenesis on TF700T?