I've had a new custom ROM for a few week and everything is working fine, but out of no where I seem to have lost my root access. Nothing else is wrong with the phone and the custom ROM is all I have changed on the phone. I've tried to reroot it with various methods to no success. Does anyone have any solutions?
DFTBA7 said:
I've had a new custom ROM for a few week and everything is working fine, but out of no where I seem to have lost my root access. Nothing else is wrong with the phone and the custom ROM is all I have changed on the phone. I've tried to reroot it with various methods to no success. Does anyone have any solutions?
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More info... What rom? Are you mdk or Safestrap?
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Mightycaptain said:
More info... What rom? Are you mdk or Safestrap?
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I'm using the PAC rom. Neither. Using TWRP.
Try a 10 minute battery pull yet?
-Lawless said:
Try a 10 minute battery pull yet?
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I just tried it and it didn't help.
DFTBA7 said:
I'm using the PAC rom. Neither. Using TWRP.
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flash the zip in recovery
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=23427715
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hexitnow said:
flash the zip in recovery
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=23427715
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It didn't work.
Should I try a full reset?
DFTBA7 said:
Should I try a full reset?
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Thats not going to make a difference. The recovery flashable zip should have worked which leads me to believe something else is up.
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hexitnow said:
Thats not going to make a difference. The recovery flashable zip should have worked which leads me to believe something else is up.
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Hmm, okay. Any ideas?
DFTBA7 said:
Hmm, okay. Any ideas?
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Its hard to say but you could always flash the mdk stock image reroot then re rom. The motochopper method didnt work for you?
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When asked if you were running MDK or Safestrap, you answered "Neither". But you're using TWRP.
Is this a Developer edition S4? What build number shows up in Settings/More/About phone?
hexitnow said:
flash the zip in recovery
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=23427715
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This worked for me, Thanks for the help. I had root until I flashed pac man rom.
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When asked if you were running MDK or Safestrap, you answered "Neither". But you're using TWRP.
Is this a Developer edition S4? What build number shows up in Settings/More/About phone?
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Sorry I misunderstood you, I'm running safestrap.
Build number is I545VRUAMDK
DFTBA7 said:
Sorry I misunderstood you, I'm running safestrap.
Build number is I545VRUAMDK
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If you have MDK build, you're one of the very lucky people who can run arbitrary custom ROMs and don't need to use Safestrap. Please avoid upgrading beyond that as it will limit what you can do.
hexitnow said:
Its hard to say but you could always flash the mdk stock image reroot then re rom. The motochopper method didnt work for you?
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No, motochopper didn't work. I was going to try that but is there any way I wouldn't have to lose all my information? I use Titanium Backup, but since my root isn't working, I can't use it.
k1mu said:
If you have MDK build, you're one of the very lucky people who can run arbitrary custom ROMs and don't need to use Safestrap. Please avoid upgrading beyond that as it will limit what you can do.
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Okay. Thanks for the help.
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i am new to verizon coming from s3 sprint. so i guess im a verizon root noob...
i have root access but i cant fix permissions or flash roms.. should i redo the root process? any help or tips would be much appreciated!
im on twerp recovery.
im going to try root process again
Yes, do it again, it did not take the root, then install a recovery..
good luck
Just wipe cache and data. It will reset all what you have done. Hope it will help you.
TheAxman said:
Yes, do it again, it did not take the root, then install a recovery..
good luck
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established root and finally flashed a rom..
i cant seem to get hyperdrive to work. it fails everytime in recovery while flashing then soft bricks my phone.
then 30 min of my life are waisted to have to oden to stock.. re root.. flash recovery.. flash rom... fail
REPEAT. lol fml
qs504792 said:
established root and finally flashed a rom..
i cant seem to get hyperdrive to work. it fails everytime in recovery while flashing then soft bricks my phone.
then 30 min of my life are waisted to have to oden to stock.. re root.. flash recovery.. flash rom... fail
REPEAT. lol fml
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Are you on MDK or ME7 build? You can't flash ROMs on ME7 yet, only root.
Billabonged said:
Are you on MDK or ME7 build? You can't flash ROMs on ME7 yet, only root.
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mdk.
i am on Clean rom. but half of the others wont flash.
qs504792 said:
mdk.
i am on Clean rom. but half of the others wont flash.
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Are you making sure to check and compare the md5 from what you've downloaded to what the dev has for each ROM to make sure they did indeed download without any error?
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davehasninjas said:
Are you making sure to check and compare the md5 from what you've downloaded to what the dev has for each ROM to make sure they did indeed download without any error?
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of course. i dl it twice just to make sure. and yes i did check. im no virgin rooter lol
qs504792 said:
of course. i dl it twice just to make sure. and yes i did check. im no virgin rooter lol
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Haha, fair enough. I figure it's always best to start with the easy questions, don't want to replace a motor when all you needed was an oil change, you know?
What recovery are you using? TWRP, or CWM, and have you tried flashing with another recovery other than the one your currently using?
I know it seems dumb, but sometimes some ROMs don't like to play nice with certain recoveries.
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Haha, fair enough. I figure it's always best to start with the easy questions, don't want to replace a motor when all you needed was an oil change, you know?
What recovery are you using? TWRP, or CWM, and have you tried flashing with another recovery other than the one your currently using?
I know it seems dumb, but sometimes some ROMs don't like to play nice with certain recoveries.
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i finally got it!!! getting some good battery life!
Hey guys, I am trying to get recovery and root off of my phone so I can get the phone back into un-voided warrenty state. I know the safestrap apk. does not fully remove it itself, and that there is an alternative way by using adb. Which I have never used but have it downloaded. I am just asking for some guidance here so I can do this properly, thanks in advance!
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Hey guys, I am trying to get recovery and root off of my phone so I can get the phone back into un-voided warrenty state. I know the safestrap apk. does not fully remove it itself, and that there is an alternative way by using adb. Which I have never used but have it downloaded. I am just asking for some guidance here so I can do this properly, thanks in advance!
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I think you would need to search for "Odin back to stock" I have run across threads on it occasionally.
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wtherrell said:
I think you would need to search for "Odin back to stock" I have run across threads on it occasionally.
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I was thinking the same thing. I have the stock .tar file and odin. My question then is, by doing this it will remove all of the recovery and root on my phone?
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I was thinking the same thing. I have the stock .tar file and odin. My question then is, by doing this it will remove all of the recovery and root on my phone?
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As I understand it, yes.
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Jvodietz said:
I was thinking the same thing. I have the stock .tar file and odin. My question then is, by doing this it will remove all of the recovery and root on my phone?
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Yes, it will. It'll put the stock recovery on your phone.
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Yes, it will. It'll put the stock recovery on your phone.
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Root will be removed as well, correct?
Jvodietz said:
Root will be removed as well, correct?
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Yea your phone will have out of the box software
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Just received my note 3 from sprint with mj4, i then updated to NAB and on to NC5, but what i noticed is I dont have a hot spot option toggle in settings- connections, is this something new ?
Sprint has disabled it until you pay for the service. The flashable hot spot mod is deff the way to go. I don't even get LAN errors through Xbox live with 4G. Someone more helpful will chime in with a link soon.
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Sprint has disabled it until you pay for the service. The flashable hot spot mod is deff the way to go. I don't even get LAN errors through Xbox live with 4G. Someone more helpful will chime in with a link soon.
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Thanks for the reply, thought this dang phone was jacked up new out the box, guess its off to tripping knox now!:good:
treo4life said:
Thanks for the reply, thought this dang phone was jacked up new out the box, guess its off to tripping knox now!:good
ya knox is a jokethis is what you were looking for.http://kitkatkiller.eu/Files/SPRINT... FILES/MODS/NABD/NABD Deodexed HotspotMod.zip
but if your out the box you have a short road but a lot of reading to do . i suggest updating to latest stock if you havent tripped knox yet. .. then you can odin flash a recovery and install compatible rom. the nab hotspot mod is known to work with nc5 and d. good luck any questions please ask away.
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treo4life said:
Thanks for the reply, thought this dang phone was jacked up new out the box, guess its off to tripping knox now!:good
ya knox is a jokethis is what you were looking for.http://kitkatkiller.eu/Files/SPRINT... FILES/MODS/NABD/NABD Deodexed HotspotMod.zip
but if your out the box you have a short road but a lot of reading to do . i suggest updating to latest stock if you havent tripped knox yet. .. then you can odin flash a recovery and install compatible rom. the nab hotspot mod is known to work with nc5 and d. good luck any questions please ask away.
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Hey kaos, im updated. went from MJ4 to NAB then NC5, im not rooted yet..but that is going to change quickly, looks like CF root is the method to use on this beast right now.
Are you the same kaos from SPJ days?
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kaos420 said:
Hey kaos, im updated. went from MJ4 to NAB then NC5, im not rooted yet..but that is going to change quickly, looks like CF root is the method to use on this beast right now.
Are you the same kaos from SPJ days?
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yes yes i am. and you dont need to use cf auto root if you already tripped knox...
what i did was after updating to nc5D. i odined recovery...then flashed latest super user zip via recovery. upon booting it will say supersu detected knox do you wish to disable. hit yes it should reboot and upon rebooting your good to go. im running lean kernel with my setupof stock rooted nc5D. everything works. froze what i didnt want in titanium backup.
http://download.chainfire.eu/396/SuperSU/UPDATE-SuperSU-v1.94.zip?retrieve_file=1
p.s ah the spj days. i something miss the development end. but now married and working like mad....sadly just time to help how i can.
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treo4life said:
yes yes i am. and you dont need to use cf auto root if you already tripped knox...
what i did was after updating to nc5D. i odined recovery...then flashed latest super user zip via recovery. upon booting it will say supersu detected knox do you wish to disable. hit yes it should reboot and upon rebooting your good to go. im running lean kernel with my setupof stock rooted nc5D. everything works. froze what i didnt want in titanium backup.
p.s ah the spj days. i something miss the development end. but now married and working like mad....sadly just time to help how i can.
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Ahh cool!, i haven't rooted yet, so knox isn't tripped.how would you suggest i start this, I'm not new to the rooting seen.
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kaos420 said:
Ahh cool!, i haven't rooted yet, so knox isn't tripped.how would you suggest i start this, I'm not new to the rooting seen.
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really depends on if you care about knox being flagged. if you do i dont think there is any option to root as of yet. i believe cf auto root trips knox. of you dont care you hae a world of options. keep in mind any recovery cwm philz or twrp will trip knox....as well as any custom kernels. so let me know what way you wanna go.
p.s. am i the only one noticing something wrong here with the quotation system?
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kaos420 said:
treo4life said:
really depends on if you care about knox being flagged. if you do i dont think there is any option to root as of yet. i believe cf auto root trips knox. of you dont care you hae a world of options. keep in mind any recovery cwm philz or twrp will trip knox....as well as any custom kernels. so let me know what way you wanna go.
p.s. am i the only one noticing something wrong here with the quotation system?
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To hell with knox! Im rooting my new phone! lol...Im guessing the easiest way is CF auto root?
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treo4life said:
kaos420 said:
To hell with knox! Im rooting my new phone! lol...Im guessing the easiest way is CF auto root?
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no give me a sec ill edit this post ill get you a list. you prefer twrp or philz which is based of cwm....what i use........
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kaos420 said:
treo4life said:
no give me a sec ill edit this post ill get you a list. you prefer twrp or philz which is based of cwm....what i use........
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Philz is cool..CWM is what i used for years.
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kaos420 said:
Philz is cool..CWM is what i used for years.
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download these
http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23329332407584102
http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23329332407584104
http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23329332407584103
run odin on pc boot to odin modehold power button down and volume down down from power off state. should ask to press volume up when it reboots. do it. thats odin. plug in to pc.flash philz tar from ap slot. leave the ap and ftiming bot checked. hit start. let phone reboot. now place su zip on external sd. boot to recovery power down and volume up. flash su zip your golden wipe cache and reboot.
at this point you can stick with what you got rooted. or flash a custom rom and kernel.
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kaos420 said:
treo4life said:
download these
http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23329332407584102
http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23329332407584104
http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23329332407584103
run odin on pc boot to odin modehold power button down and volume down down from power off state. should ask to press volume up when it reboots. do it. thats odin. plug in to pc.flash philz tar from ap slot. leave the ap and ftiming bot checked. hit start. let phone reboot. now place su zip on external sd. boot to recovery power down and volume up. flash su zip your golden wipe cache and reboot.
at this point you can stick with what you got rooted. or flash a custom rom and kernel.
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about to start this now.
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Im on that ROM as well, but that hotspot mod breaks your prl and profile update, so I had to remove it.. Maybe they will update it to run on the NC5
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treo4life said:
Im on that ROM as well, but that hotspot mod breaks your prl and profile update, so I had to remove it.. Maybe they will update it to run on the NC5
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Check your pm.
bonniedarby said:
Check your pm.
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Thanks, i own that all ready.. just like the native one..
I have an SCH-i545 and It was recently on NK1, I downgraded to NC5 and used towelroot. Did a factory wipe from the recovery, but now I cant get either TWRP or CWM to load? It only uses the stock samsung/verizon recovery, and this is not letting me flash any custom rom. Did I miss a step somewhere? I've got SuperSU installed aswell.
krimd00t said:
I have an SCH-i545 and It was recently on NK1, I downgraded to NC5 and used towelroot. Did a factory wipe from the recovery, but now I cant get either TWRP or CWM to load? It only uses the stock samsung/verizon recovery, and this is not letting me flash any custom rom. Did I miss a step somewhere? I've got SuperSU installed aswell.
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Any firmware THAT IS NOT MDK doesn't have a bootloader unlock. TWRP, CWM, Phillz will not work. Only Safestrap does.
XxD34THxX said:
Any firmware THAT IS NOT MDK doesn't have a bootloader unlock. TWRP, CWM, Phillz will not work. Only Safestrap does.
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Thank you! I guess its also possible to downgrade even further to say MDK?
krimd00t said:
Thank you! I guess its also possible to downgrade even further to say MDK?
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No it is not. Verizon implemented a downgrade block. You can't go back to MDK, there is no way..
Right on, good to know! Appreciate your knowledge!!
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You can flash stock based Roms with safestrap still. You just can't flash a non stock kernel. Which means stock Roms only.
I ended up going with the cleaned stock nk1 and I'm digging it, once I get on my pc and can search better I'll go with eclipse perhaps. The Wi-Fi won't turn on though, gonna head over to that post and figure it out. =) thanks again
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krimd00t said:
I ended up going with the cleaned stock nk1 and I'm digging it, once I get on my pc and can search better I'll go with eclipse perhaps. The Wi-Fi won't turn on though, gonna head over to that post and figure it out. =) thanks again
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I believe there is a WiFi module to flash. Eclipse has it built in. WiFi working perfect here.
Travisdroidx2 said:
You can flash stock based Roms with safestrap still. You just can't flash a non stock kernel. Which means stock Roms only.
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That's not entirely true. See here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s4-verizon/development/rom-kitpop-v1-0-t3019132
AOSP Safestrap-compatible ROMS are starting to pop up. I'm not sure how they work/how well they work, but there it is.
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That's not entirely true. See here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s4-verizon/development/rom-kitpop-v1-0-t3019132
AOSP Safestrap-compatible ROMS are starting to pop up. I'm not sure how they work/how well they work, but there it is.
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Good to know. I have moved on a while ago and my wife has the s4. So I am a little outdated for this device it seems
I'm rooted on ZVA and I'm wondering if there's a way to have a custom recovery without getting the security boot error and not being able to get back to stock ROM? Not sure if I'm ready to go to a custom ROM with the only way of returning to stock being LGflashtool.
You can have the stock rooted ZVA ROM downloaded and flash that after you flash the recovery but i would recommend to have it saved to an external sd card so it doesnt get deleted when you wipe your phone first thats why i like having a 64gb sd card for my phone
Ok, I had thought about that but really wanted to be able so use the original. Wish LG didn't make it so difficult now, makes me miss my Optimus G sometimes.
drewss02 said:
Ok, I had thought about that but really wanted to be able so use the original. Wish LG didn't make it so difficult now, makes me miss my Optimus G sometimes.
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I'm not really sure if you can get custom recovery for ZVA.
If you look here, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=55225699 it'll give you links to what you need.
Most of us go the ZV4 way, as that's what most things are based from.
Just download flashify from play store. Open it, click yes to give it root access, click recovery image, click download twrp...follow on-screen instructions. Easy peasy. Twrp on rooted ZVA.
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I'm not really sure if you can get custom recovery for ZVA.
If you look here, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=55225699 it'll give you links to what you need.
Most of us go the ZV4 way, as that's what most things are based from.
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I know people have done it with AutoRec, it seems like it's not getting the recovery thats the problem but the booting back to stock ROM.
Decepticaons said:
Just download flashify from play store. Open it, click yes to give it root access, click recovery image, click download twrp...follow on-screen instructions. Easy peasy. Twrp on rooted ZVA.
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Have you done it this way?
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I know people have done it with AutoRec, it seems like it's not getting the recovery thats the problem but the booting back to stock ROM.
Have you done it this way?
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Yup just did it yesterday.
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Decepticaons said:
Yup just did it yesterday.
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TWRP 2.8.7.0?
drewss02 said:
TWRP 2.8.7.0?
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Yessir
Ok I'll give it a shot
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Ok I'll give it a shot
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Success?
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Success?
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Actually about to do it now, did you boot back into the stock ROM afterwards or go right to a custom ROM?
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Actually about to do it now, did you boot back into the stock ROM afterwards or go right to a custom ROM?
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I don't think it matters either way, but i personally just rebooted to the stock rom.
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Worked like a charm, thanks! Booted into TWRP, made a backup, booted back into system, everything good. Hopefully it goes as smooth when going to a custom ROM.