I have a at&t mega i527. A few days ago. I pressed update and it updated. I eyed to take the battery out before it would compete and now the touch screen is not responsive. I have tried everything. . Kies. Odin. Adb sideload. Nothing had worked. I even replaced the screen. Nothing I try had worked. Does anybody have any ideas thati could try. I feel like I've tried everything. Any ideas or help will be greatly appreciated
Back to stock you go...
Problem is tho, I do not know where the update failed in between 4.2 and 4.4.2. Go to THIS THREAD and try the 4.4.2 (UCUBNE7) BUT BE ADVISED that you cannot root UCUBNE7 at this time per THIS THREAD:crying::crying::crying::crying::crying:
It looks like we may be close, but my girlfriend's Active just installed a post 4.4.2 update that updated security policy manager to remove the root vulnerability that was found recently. Samsung/AT&T seems to have a team dedicated to stamping out root for anything KitKat.
I would personally stay pre kit-kat (UCUAMK2) if at all possible. That firmware is located at THIS THREAD:good:
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Hi, appreciate this is my first post and thus my question will be regarded with a certain amount of skepticism.. am only posting cos I think my issue is unusual and have not been able to find a similar question/answer through my searches on this forum
Basically, the issue is I rooted my Galaxy S3 (GT-I9300) a month or so ago, installed clockwork mod and superuser etc,. however I held off flashing a ROM because I figured my OTA jellybean update was imminent and wanted to see what the touchwiz jellybean looked like before installing Cyanogen or another ROM. wasn't sure if the OTA would come thru once I shed the stock ROM
So I waited for weeks for the OTA (am on Orange, now Everything Everywhere, in the UK) and have not received it.. last week I went onto Kies and saw there was a new firmware update, so I updated thru Kies thinking that might be what was needed to receive the OTA JB update. updated the firmware but still no JB update - however, now when I check my root status on Root Checker, or try to use any app that requires root, I'm told that I don't have "proper" root access.
My question is updating the firmware over Kies, did that mess up my root access.. am I now unrooted? (this doesn't seem correct) It seems to me I am in a limbo of sorts - not properly rooted anymore, but not fully unrooted either. I want to root the thing again so I can install cyanogen or supernexus, and I would appreciate advice on what to do - should I do a factory reset and then root again as before, or will this cause issues.. was just gon soldier ahead and do it but aware that this may cause problems if my phone already has files from the previous attempt on there.. for example the SGS3 toolkit V.6.0.0 I'm using says not to proceed with its root operations on a phone "that's already rooted" so am hesitant to proceed. Any advice would be appreciated. cheers
You've lost root with the update, just root again and it's all good.
I am weary. Every time there is an update, I have to do hours of research to find the latest work-around to carry my rooted phone into the next version. Now with the advent of the ISIS wallet, my phone did not want to allow me to use the app because it detected my phone was rooted. I've had enough; I just want to return my phone to the factory rom, so that future updates are less of a hassle for me.
My Verizon Note II phone is running Android Version 4.1.2. It was rooted using the Team Win Recovery Project rom with ODIN. Yesterday, I unrooted my phone using Chainfire's SuperUser app. My phone appears to be working normally and there are nearly no signs that it was ever rooted in ODIN Mode. The only giveaway is that TWRP bootup is still there. I cannot successfully update my phone to the next version, and I believe the TWRP bootup has something to do with that. I want to return my phone to factory default. I thank you for any assistance you can provide me with this.
butter219 said:
I am weary. Every time there is an update, I have to do hours of research to find the latest work-around to carry my rooted phone into the next version. Now with the advent of the ISIS wallet, my phone did not want to allow me to use the app because it detected my phone was rooted. I've had enough; I just want to return my phone to the factory rom, so that future updates are less of a hassle for me.
My Verizon Note II phone is running Android Version 4.1.2. It was rooted using the Team Win Recovery Project rom with ODIN. Yesterday, I unrooted my phone using Chainfire's SuperUser app. My phone appears to be working normally and there are nearly no signs that it was ever rooted in ODIN Mode. The only giveaway is that TWRP bootup is still there. I cannot successfully update my phone to the next version, and I believe the TWRP bootup has something to do with that. I want to return my phone to factory default. I thank you for any assistance you can provide me with this.
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First thread in the development section -> Return to Stock
I'm going for it.
jcollier said:
First thread in the development section -> Return to Stock
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jcollier, thank you so much for the reply. I visited the thread you mentioned. I'm going to use the information I gathered there to attempt to restore my phone to factory default. The only problem I ran into there is that the link for the 4.1.2 VRAMC3 rom is not working (something about too many downloads and trying again in 24 hours). I really don't want to wait that long just to see if the message will change. I've since gone to the sammobile.com website to see if I can glean something usable from there. Thank you again for your help.
About a month ago I rooted my Samsung Galaxy Grand(the single sim version) with the help of Klingo Root, worked like a charm and had no problems at all. I even uninstalled all the bloatware samsung and the carrier had installed. About 3 weeks ago then an official update poped-up, so I updated my phone through Samsung Kies. Everything went fine, but after the reboot of the phone I noticed that all the bloatware was back, so I just figured, maybe i have to uninstall it again.
But then disaster struck SuperU said there is no SU Binary installed, so I though could have the update unrooted my phone? So I tried rooting it again with Klingo, doesn't work, I tried Framaroot, doesn't work either, I even tried to install Clockworkmod with Odin and it doesn't work. I even repeated the procedure while factory resetting my phone.
Has anyone else encountered this? It seems my phone is somewhere in between being unrooted and rooted? Everything else works fine.
Help! I just want to uninstall the carrier bloatware!
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ne6c said:
About a month ago I rooted my Samsung Galaxy Grand(the single sim version) with the help of Klingo Root, worked like a charm and had no problems at all. I even uninstalled all the bloatware samsung and the carrier had installed. About 3 weeks ago then an official update poped-up, so I updated my phone through Samsung Kies. Everything went fine, but after the reboot of the phone I noticed that all the bloatware was back, so I just figured, maybe i have to uninstall it again.
But then disaster struck SuperU said there is no SU Binary installed, so I though could have the update unrooted my phone? So I tried rooting it again with Klingo, doesn't work, I tried Framaroot, doesn't work either, I even tried to install Clockworkmod with Odin and it doesn't work. I even repeated the procedure while factory resetting my phone.
Has anyone else encountered this? It seems my phone is somewhere in between being unrooted and rooted? Everything else works fine.
Help! I just want to uninstall the carrier bloatware!
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When you update your software it actually update your firmware. So the previous method will not work for this firmware.
1. you need to do it with different method if developers found it for you
2. just installed previous version of android .
3. May be fixed by factory reset..
4. You can even install prerooted custom rom like CM11
As per my experience new update will not that much compactible for all phones..
Hi, I'll start from the beginning, so I have a smart phone vodafone 2 (Alcatel V860) I wanted to upload the new software but accidentally I uploaded a backup of the tablet, after uploading the backup phone can not be connected as the flash mode, or in any way, you can not enter the recovery can not in any way connect the computer, the phone is as if dead. when I connect it to the computer when it is turned off the sound indicating that a new device has been detected, however, this software can not be installed. I hope that there will be a magician who already had a similar problem and knows what to do. Please help as soon as possible, if anyone knows what's going on I can talk about it on skype because it seems to me that it will be hard to even describe.
Thanks in advance.
aditya.kamble said:
When you update your software it actually update your firmware. So the previous method will not work for this firmware.
1. you need to do it with different method if developers found it for you
2. just installed previous version of android .
3. May be fixed by factory reset..
4. You can even install prerooted custom rom like CM11
As per my experience new update will not that much compactible for all phones..
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Can I then "downgrade" through Samsung Kies then?
Flash Firmware through Odin...
ne6c said:
Can I then "downgrade" through Samsung Kies then?
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No... Samsung kies doesnt provide feature to downgrade android.
You need to flash firmware package through odin.
you can google it for your device or search on xda...
All the best..
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Hi, so I tried searching but I couldn't find anyone with the same problem.
So I upgraded Android 4.1.2 to 4.3 a couple of days on my galaxy s3 & I noticed that the root was gone with the update, little did I know that there was this awesome new Knox software (solving problems by creating new ones, heh) which would prevent superSU from starting after rooting. Not to mention this amazing Samsung program also wouldn't start on rooted devices so there was no way I could uninstall it either.
So I realized I had done a mistake and did a hard reset, however, when the phone started again I saw that SuperSU was still there and I was getting the same error as before & Knox (would you believe it) still refused to start. So I heard that my only option now is to flash my Galaxy S3 with 4.3 with Odin to clean it completely, however I'm not able to find a Rom to do it with ever since SAMSUNG released the update in KIES.
I don't really care for Knox and would like it gone completely. I just want my phone to work again with root, my warranty already ran out anyway.
Any help appreciated. Thank you.
Downloading it now at a blistering 200 kb/s as I refuse to pay, lol.
Oh, it's on Kies, too.
Just finished update via Kies, we'll see how this runs.
Welp, Kingroot no longer works....
I'm downloading now. I honestly found that I don't really need root. I have the 4.4.4 firmware saved so assume I can go back to 4.4.4 if I want later. I'm going to grab 5.0 before it loads as well.
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I'm downloading now. I honestly found that I don't really need root. I have the 4.4.4 firmware saved so assume I can go back to 4.4.4 if I want later. I'm going to grab 5.0 before it loads as well.
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Yeah, haven't really found anything nagging that I need root for, either.
5.0.1 is a nice improvement. . Seems to run smoothly with better battery life. Be prepared to completely start fresh as you will basically be installing the new 5.0.1 OS in place of the 4.4.4. Both my phone as well as my wife's required me to run the recovery feature during the upgrade process [deleting all but my ext. SD card].
Yes! Finally! Installed and doing well !!
Any way to force the Software Update? Guess I'm not one of the ones who are eligible to download it as of yet.. just got the first preliminary software update
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Welp, Kingroot no longer works....
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Just to confirm, KingRoot doesn't work?
Do you know if we can revert back to Kitkat?
wanb1i said:
Just to confirm, KingRoot doesn't work?
Do you know if we can revert back to Kitkat?
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Correct, I even tried the updated 4.1 version from the Xperia board and it was a no go.
I would assume we could downgrade via odin if you have the old firmware saved or downloaded, but I haven't tried,
jbzcar said:
Correct, I even tried the updated 4.1 version from the Xperia board and it was a no go.
I would assume we could downgrade via odin if you have the old firmware saved or downloaded, but I haven't tried,
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I can also confirm KingRoot doesn't work. I tried the 4.5 version with no luck. :crying:
I will download the kitkat firmware and see if I can revert.
I'll keep you posted.
****ing unusable.
Snapchat freezes *THE ENTIRE PHONE* all while making it unbearably hot to touch.
Swiftkey hangs and has to be force closed.
wanb1i said:
I can also confirm KingRoot doesn't work. I tried the 4.5 version with no luck. :crying:
I will download the kitkat firmware and see if I can revert.
I'll keep you posted.
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Im also curious to know if you can flash back to an earlier firmware. If you can go back to ANL1 OR AOC1, that would be awesome. Im getting mine in about 2 weeks, so this is a must-know.
I have been running 5.0.1 since this post went up. Phone has been running terrible. Guess the whole memory leak issues with lollipop is just a thing across the board. Everything takes forever to happen, and I have to restart a LOT.
Let it be noted I just updated to 5.0.1 without a factory reset. I might do a reset this weekend and see if it performs better starting from scratch on 5.0.1, instead of running previous apps on new OS.
I have all three available firmwares for the VZW Edge. I can upload them to my server tonight. Would be faster downloading then trying to fight SamMobile for them. Let me know if that would help anyone here.
it'd hep me greatly. after waiting months for lollipop for months, it arrives with a gigantic letdown. overheating, horrible battery life, lag and force crashes/apps freezing. virtually none of these problems before lollipop came about. going to back things up with Helium first, then do a factory reset and see if that improves anything before i try to see about reverting back to lollipop or just using my note 4 instead.
I get it fixed. Hang on.
Link works but site wants username and password for access
Links fixed. Sorry about that.
N915VVRU1ANL1_N915VVZW1ANL1_VZW.zip
N915VVRU1AOC2_N915VVZW1AOC2_VZW.zip
N915VVRU2BOF2_N915VVZW2BOF2_VZW.zip
Has anyone had any luck downgrading? I want to go back to KitKat, but can't seem to flash AOC2 with Odin.