So I sold my S4 but want to get them fully back to stock. I was under the impression that if I remove root then format it should remove the splash screen showing custom. It did not and now I need to figure out how to fix this. Any suggestions? Should I flash, via odin, a stock image?
oconnell84 said:
So I sold my S4 but want to get them fully back to stock. I was under the impression that if I remove root then format it should remove the splash screen showing custom. It did not and now I need to figure out how to fix this. Any suggestions? Should I flash, via odin, a stock image?
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You've got to revert any changes you made, unroot, then boot it and wait 10 minutes or so. The scanner will see that it's stock and reset the "Custom" flag.
It's far more reliable to just flash a stock ROM.
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How to unroot and put stock back on. I mean set it back to factory with factory recovery ? Way too many brick cases. I installed that stock rooted jrom and was stuck in boot screen but I got it to go into CW and restored it.
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How to unroot and put stock back on. I mean set it back to factory with factory recovery ? Way too many brick cases. I installed that stock rooted jrom and was stuck in boot screen but I got it to go into CW and restored it.
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Did you download stock ICS from asus? http://support.asus.com/Download.aspx?SLanguage=en&m=Eee+Pad+Transformer+Prime+TF201&p=20&s=16
There is no downgrade though. To do that you have to use the unlocker tool on that site to downgrade
I'm trying to get the official OTA update to actually work on my phone. The problem is, everytime I hit "install now", it loads the bootloader and does nothing else.
Another issue I'm having is when I hit factory reset from bootloader, the htc logo pops up and a brown loading bar on the right side comes on. It loads but does nothing else.
Any idea why this is happening?
My guess would be that you are not very stock. If you are on the stock rom, maybe you have deleted bloatware or added a custom recovery. To take the ota, you need to be on the stock recovery and pretty much have everything else stock as well.
If you have changed some things you could either flash the stock rooted rom and then flash the stock recovery.
Or you could run an ruu which would return you to stock and remove root. You would have to root again if you went thats route.
I'm just speculating on what's wrong... Without more details that's all I can do.
Last night I softbricked installing a rom. The device was being very weird and would not boot correctly. The device started showing the big GALAXY S4 splash screen instead of the usuall plain SAMSUNG sometimes says custom unlock sometimes not depending on the rom/kernal being used. Now even with Kernals that used to say SAMSUNG custom all it says is the big only GALAXY S4 splash screen. The device seems to take alot longer to get past this screen as well. Any suggestions on this??
Recovery would flash roms and device would boot once but would not boot after reset. SO F-it just Odin back to stock, root, recovery, done.
everything is working now except I still have the GALAXY S4 splash scren instead of the SAMSUNG and takes forever to boot/load past splash screen.
Is this stored in the kernal? Ive tired different kernals and all have stayed the same. I have completly ODIN back to stock wiped any and everything on this device.
QUESTION Summary::: Whats up with this splash screen VS the other one, why cant i get it to go back to the way it was before even after ODIN stock img, and why does it take longer to load and 1/2 the time not load at all.
Is there a BIOS that is not wiped... I think I broke it.
EDIT: Just sat on the SAMSUNG GALAXY S4 for 20 minutes before starting after fresh rom install... what a pain.
mrlaigle said:
Last night I softbricked installing a rom. The device was being very weird and would not boot correctly. The device started showing the big GALAXY S4 splash screen instead of the usuall plain SAMSUNG sometimes says custom unlock sometimes not depending on the rom/kernal being used. Now even with Kernals that used to say SAMSUNG custom all it says is the big only GALAXY S4 splash screen. The device seems to take alot longer to get past this screen as well. Any suggestions on this??
Recovery would flash roms and device would boot once but would not boot after reset. SO F-it just Odin back to stock, root, recovery, done.
everything is working now except I still have the GALAXY S4 splash scren instead of the SAMSUNG and takes forever to boot/load past splash screen.
Is this stored in the kernal? Ive tired different kernals and all have stayed the same. I have completly ODIN back to stock wiped any and everything on this device.
QUESTION Summary::: Whats up with this splash screen VS the other one, why cant i get it to go back to the way it was before even after ODIN stock img, and why does it take longer to load and 1/2 the time not load at all.
Is there a BIOS that is not wiped... I think I broke it.
EDIT: Just sat on the SAMSUNG GALAXY S4 for 20 minutes before starting after fresh rom install... what a pain.
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yes the boot.img is held in the kernel....flash back to stock and reroot your device dont take any chances...hopefully you have some backups on an external sd card....this happened to me as well and i could only get to download mode so i flashed back to stock and rerooted my device everything is peachy....dont dont dont take any chances with this phone the security measures in this phone are insane and if you keep messing around with having the device "sometimes boot with custom samsung screen and sometimes not" there is something wrong with the partition....youre best bet is to flash stock and reroot....if you have a backup on an external sd card then youre set otherwise start over or you will have a $700 paper weight....let me know if you have any questions reverting back to stock or anything else good luck dude
Yeah I restored started from Odin stock last night. I thought that would take out anything that I flashed that caused the issue. But it didn't fix it.
I odin'ed back installed root recovery and still having issues where it will not boot after 2 or 3 resets. Hangs on thats galaxy s4 splash screen for more than 30 and never boots.
I would think that when it was odin'ed it would have over written the boot IMG and any thing else it might be but its not.
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Yeah I restored started from Odin stock last night. I thought that would take out anything that I flashed that caused the issue. But it didn't fix it.
I odin'ed back installed root recovery and still having issues where it will not boot after 2 or 3 resets. Hangs on thats galaxy s4 splash screen for more than 30 and never boots.
I would think that when it was odin'ed it would have over written the boot IMG and any thing else it might be but its not.
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when you did odin back to stock did you do a factory reset...NOT FROM RECOVERY....from settings>>backup and restore>>factory data reset? ......theres a couple of things to look for here....Odin back to stock and boot in the STOCK recovery....try wiping the cache and dalvik partitions...if they fail then the partitions are corrupted....boot normally and go to settings>>backup and restore>>factory data reset....try that...if that doesnt work then try a factory reset from the stock recovery...if all of that STILL doesnt work then the partitions are corrupted I would ask for a replacement device
I installed Safestrap on my MJ9 build but onto one of the rom slots. Didn't realize this wasn't what you do as it's not listed anywhere in the OP. Now I'm getting to the recovery/continue screen but both options just take me to a black screen where I have to pull my battery. What are my options at this point? Is there anyway to recover my backup I made through recovery? Just getting back to stock 4.3 at this point would be a start.
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I installed Safestrap on my MJ9 build but onto one of the rom slots. Didn't realize this wasn't what you do as it's not listed anywhere in the OP. Now I'm getting to the recovery/continue screen but both options just take me to a black screen where I have to pull my battery. What are my options at this point? Is there anyway to recover my backup I made through recovery? Just getting back to stock 4.3 at this point would be a start.
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You need to re-image with ODIN more than likely. If you put your backup on an SD card you may be able to go back to it once you ODIN, root, install safestrap and install the recovery again. Good luck!
I tried to do the Kingo root process. when i turn on the tablet it gets as far as the red screen with the verizon logo. I can get to the factory reset. seems to only clear the data. is there away to re-load the old firmware/OS or a custom ROM. I have another SM-T337 that works perfect can i cloane that one to the other on......what are my options.......thanks
I just leave this here just in case I need to remember this site again .
https://samfrew.com/search?query=SM-T337V
what is this supposed to mean ?
As I said...don't you worry about it.
And while not worrying it, you might as well just flash it with the stock...
(good site, somehow hard to remember for me)
how would i go about re-flashing the tablet?
LA1IMPALA said:
how would i go about re-flashing the tablet?
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1. Use SamFirm to get the Stock ROM for your phone
2. Use Odin to flash the Stock ROM found