[Q] Managed to successfully root But... Some Q's - Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hello, I have a S3 I9300. Came with 4.3 Pre Installed.
Now I have JUST Rooted it and removed some useless apps.
Now my questions is: IF I want to do a factory re set.
A) Would it work?
B) Would it work and go back to Unrooted or stay as Root?
I am looking for a Simple Stable/FAST/Smooth/Stock Like ROM. Any recommendations.

Krisshp said:
Hello, I have a S3 I9300. Came with 4.3 Pre Installed.
Now I have JUST Rooted it and removed some useless apps.
Now my questions is: IF I want to do a factory re set.
A) Would it work?
B) Would it work and go back to Unrooted or stay as Root?
I am looking for a Simple Stable/FAST/Smooth/Stock Like ROM. Any recommendations.
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Yes the factory reset will work and after that you will lose your root access, but you can easily gain it again with https://towelroot.com.

Tkkg1994 said:
Yes the factory reset will work and after that you will lose your root access, but you can easily gain it again with https://towelroot.com.
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Thanks
Also I tried Towerroot but no luck I had to do via Odin and CF thingy
Can i ask, What ROM you use or etc on your S3 I9300

Krisshp said:
Thanks
Also I tried Towerroot but no luck I had to do via Odin and CF thingy
Can i ask, What ROM you use or etc on your S3 I9300
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I rerooted my phone with the custom recovery (philz rouch recovery) I got the stock rom, but i removed all useless stuff from samsung

Tkkg1994 said:
I rerooted my phone with the custom recovery (philz rouch recovery) I got the stock rom, but i removed all useless stuff from samsung
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Okay, Thank!
I also wanted to ask,
How much RAM do you have now?
and whats your Screen time for your whole battery
I deleted lots of Samsung rubbish and I have much more free RAM, and phone feels slighlty smoothly.

Krisshp said:
Okay, Thank!
I also wanted to ask,
How much RAM do you have now?
and whats your Screen time for your whole battery
I deleted lots of Samsung rubbish and I have much more free RAM, and phone feels slighlty smoothly.
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Ditch touchwiz and try a different launcher and it will be even better.
Also be warned asking which roms/kernels are best etc are against the rules.

Darke5tShad0w said:
Ditch touchwiz and try a different launcher and it will be even better.
Also be warned asking which roms/kernels are best etc are against the rules.
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Yeah I use Nova
oh I see I am sorry.

Related

Un-Root Samsung Galaxy S2? Can this be done please?

Hi all,
Not sure whether to root or not, as I fear for my warranty :/ does it affect warranty ? and can it be reversed?
Thanks
James
Just want to know if it can be easily reversed please
Also what are the main advantages and disadvantages ? ...
I wanna remove some samsung apps, install droidwall and install LCD Density
Root can be reversed, and we can reset the flash count for unsigned kernels too
So yeah it should be undoable fine by flashing a stock rom and resetting download counter.
How do you go about removing a root? And is data lost?
You could re-flash back to the stock rom....but that will erase your data.
does the stock rom also update the kernel back to a secure one??
Sorry to bump this old thread but can Samsung or others detect if the phone has been rooted and then unrooted it it were for example to sent back for repair under warranty?
Lone_Star said:
You could re-flash back to the stock rom....but that will erase your data.
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No it doesn't if you flash it properly.
theinstagator said:
Sorry to bump this old thread but can Samsung or others detect if the phone has been rooted and then unrooted it it were for example to sent back for repair under warranty?
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No if you reset the counter and flash the stock firmware for the device.
Thanks, I purchase one of those jigs just in case The amount of tegra only games coming out is beginning to bug me, I'm hoping the possibility that the two best selling android phones of the year (Galaxy S2 and Sensation) not being tegra will swing developers back our direction.
theinstagator said:
Thanks, I purchase one of those jigs just in case The amount of tegra only games coming out is beginning to bug me, I'm hoping the possibility that the two best selling android phones of the year (Galaxy S2 and Sensation) not being tegra will swing developers back our direction.
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Just use the Chainfire3D application for the market to destroy nVidia's BS.
That was my plan cheers
theinstagator said:
Thanks, I purchase one of those jigs just in case The amount of tegra only games coming out is beginning to bug me, I'm hoping the possibility that the two best selling android phones of the year (Galaxy S2 and Sensation) not being tegra will swing developers back our direction.
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can you link me to where you purchased your jig? Also have u tried to see if the jig works? or you havent rooted your phone yet?
Would it be possible to unroot just using Superoneclick?
I tried once and it worked. However, does it completely remove all traces of root?
porkchop8 said:
can you link me to where you purchased your jig? Also have u tried to see if the jig works? or you havent rooted your phone yet?
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I haven't got one yet but there is a how 2 vid up on you tube and apparently you can get them off of ebay (item no: 250824932406)
I flashed Gs2 with lightening ROm v5 ... Now I want to get back to stock rom and kernel ... Although I managed to flashed my kernel with stock kernel after flashed my GS2 with lightning ROM. But now when I flash my lighting room to get back to stock rom, my phone reboots and keeps animating galaxy S sign and nothing further happens. did I do something wrong?
4iedemon said:
Would it be possible to unroot just using Superoneclick?
I tried once and it worked. However, does it completely remove all traces of root?
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As far as I know. Yes it does
porkchop8 said:
can you link me to where you purchased your jig? Also have u tried to see if the jig works? or you havent rooted your phone yet?
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I got this jig for $8, it will reset the flash counter and get rid of yellow triangle also.
danijaan said:
I flashed Gs2 with lightening ROm v5 ... Now I want to get back to stock rom and kernel ... Although I managed to flashed my kernel with stock kernel after flashed my GS2 with lightning ROM. But now when I flash my lighting room to get back to stock rom, my phone reboots and keeps animating galaxy S sign and nothing further happens. did I do something wrong?
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I am a newbie as well here but I thought I will share my experience.
I did have a bootloop and someone in the forum advised me to clear the cache and data using recovery mode. It worked.
give it a try
4iedemon said:
Would it be possible to unroot just using Superoneclick?
I tried once and it worked. However, does it completely remove all traces of root?
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the easiest and safer method to unroot is to flash the stock kernal

Getting Root without deleting data. Possible?

Hello. Is it possible to get root on Samsung Galaxy S3 with no data deleting and no flashing new ROM. I just want to save current pre-installed stock ROM?
No because most Rom's these days require a full wipe unless stated....follow the procedure in the S3 Android Development section in order to root your device....new process is available, easier and quicker
Sent from my GT-I9300 using xda premium
Thanks. And one more question... Do OTA updates available for rooted phones?
galaktiker said:
Thanks. And one more question... Do OTA updates available for rooted phones?
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Root using this -CF-Root- method. I'm quite sure this method won't wipe your data. OTA updates are not available on rooted phones.
I followed this guide
http://www.androidnz.net/2012/06/at-your-own-risk-how-to-root-your.html
and rooted my GS3 without loss of any data at all. Everything exactly where I left it when I rebooted..... it was still a bit scary messing with £500 worth of phone, so that's why I did it within the 7 day period where I could take it back to the shop for an instant replacement
I see.. And how to get new stock updates on Rooted phone? What will you say about http://www.sammobile.com? They offer paid services...
Mate, any new firmware will be picked apart and put back together about 1000000 times better by our devs here on XDA... Look at all the phones we play with.. I have been using this site to hack my phone for years and I can tell you that the roms the devs cook up here are light years ahead of what most companies do...
Anything that appears in the zoo will make it out here to the wild sooner or later....
galaktiker said:
Hello. Is it possible to get root on Samsung Galaxy S3 with no data deleting and no flashing new ROM. I just want to save current pre-installed stock ROM?
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you can get root without loosing any kind of data or config with the stock rom!
just follow this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1684535
and do exactly what is written in the sections "Instructions - Long" and "Manually rooting" - you will than have root with the stock rom - no need do change firmware, rom or kernel and no need to do a factory reset! I've done that yesterday, and didn't loose any configuration!
cheers Gerald
Thanks Gerald. Guys, what about getting new versions of stock firmware after rooting the phone? Is it possible without deleting data (something like OTA)?
speedyjay said:
No because most Rom's these days require a full wipe unless stated....follow the procedure in the S3 Android Development section in order to root your device....new process is available, easier and quicker
Sent from my GT-I9300 using xda premium
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What the hell are you talking about? ofcourse it's possible.. I did it..
You flash the insecure kernel with Odin, then you push superuser via adb.. it's as easy as that.
It doesn't touch the data partition.
bortak said:
What the hell are you talking about? ofcourse it's possible.. I did it..
You flash the insecure kernel with Odin, then you push superuser via adb.. it's as easy as that.
It doesn't touch the data partition.
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Thanks. And what about getting updates for the ROM without wiping data?
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galaktiker said:
Thanks. And what about getting updates for the ROM without wiping data?
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You can't get official updates from Samsung with root, but you can flash the updated software via recovery (and I'm guessing odin - haven't got much experience with that since its my first samsung) without wiping data, thus only updating the system.

ICS Issue

I've just upgraded my Xperia Mini to ICS, and also rooted it, thanks to this tutorial:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1695514
And it worked, but now I realized that all of the phone menus are becoming slow. Apps work perfectly and normally, but some phone menus (out of the apps) aren't as smooth as they should. Also, the games I recovered using Titanium Backup work slow either, some of them don't even work...
So I wondered, why is that? what should I do now or what did I do wrong? Help will be really appreciated, thanks
well ics is a little slower than gb and also gb is much better than ics in playing games and performance
usman_fareed said:
well ics is a little slower than gb and also gb is much better than ics in playing games and performance
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umm fine, actually I didn't know that...
But the weird thing is that, before trying to root ICS, I installed normally (without root) just to see what it was, and then it worked properly, I mean, fluid and smooth in every aspect. It became slow and even laggy after I rooted it. So I don't understand exactly what happened.
Maximo22 said:
umm fine, actually I didn't know that...
But the weird thing is that, before trying to root ICS, I installed normally (without root) just to see what it was, and then it worked properly, I mean, fluid and smooth in every aspect. It became slow and even laggy after I rooted it. So I don't understand exactly what happened.
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Make a factory reset & then install all mods, games & apps:good:
Factory Reset and all will be done
Not All game Work on ICS
Sent From My Xperia Mini ST15i
Thanks piousheart & singgih4050. I just had to follow that tutorial all over again... I did a factory reset but root disappeared, so I had to re-flash the Rom. Thanks anyway
Maximo22 said:
Thanks piousheart & singgih4050. I just had to follow that tutorial all over again... I did a factory reset but root disappeared, so I had to re-flash the Rom. Thanks anyway
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How could it be? Losing the root? I didn't Lose my Root when doing Factory Reset?
Did you Use the Script Inject Method? You can Factory Reset your Phone after you Inject Script 2
Sent From My Xperia Mini ST15i
Maximo22 said:
Thanks piousheart & singgih4050. I just had to follow that tutorial all over again... I did a factory reset but root disappeared, so I had to re-flash the Rom. Thanks anyway
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Why not unlock your bootloader and flash a custom kernel based on stock, that has cwm and prerooted already in kernel. then you can factory reset as much as you like and wont lose root. And you probably lost root because you factory reset and that would delete superuser.apk so all you had to do was redownload that from the market and you would have root again. But anyway think about unlocking your bootloader but read up about it first.
Singgih4050 said:
How could it be? Losing the root? I didn't Lose my Root when doing Factory Reset?
Did you Use the Script Inject Method? You can Factory Reset your Phone after you Inject Script 2
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I don't know, maybe root wasn't correctly installed. I re-flashed my phone and now it isn't slow at all. Actually all I know is that it now works as it should :d
Maximo22 said:
I don't know, maybe root wasn't correctly installed. I re-flashed my phone and now it isn't slow at all. Actually all I know is that it now works as it should :d
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Well atleast you got it sorted, goodluck and happy flashing haha.
try using custom rom and kernel i'm using real ics v5.1 with mesa 1.6 kernel and every thing is better than stock
evilbarcode said:
Why not unlock your bootloader and flash a custom kernel based on stock, that has cwm and prerooted already in kernel. then you can factory reset as much as you like and wont lose root. And you probably lost root because you factory reset and that would delete superuser.apk so all you had to do was redownload that from the market and you would have root again. But anyway think about unlocking your bootloader but read up about it first.
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doctor.loka said:
try using custom rom and kernel i'm using real ics v5.1 with mesa 1.6 kernel and every thing is better than stock
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Believe me... I would LOVE to unlock my bootloader, but my phone's bootloader status says "no". And as far as I know, that means that I have to pay to unlock it, or am I wrong? It's just that right now I can't pay for that.
Maximo22 said:
Believe me... I would LOVE to unlock my bootloader, but my phone's bootloader status says "no". And as far as I know, that means that I have to pay to unlock it, or am I wrong? It's just that right now I can't pay for that.
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If it says "NO" That mean you cannot unlock your bootloader even you wanna paid for that,The Only ways is to Buy yourself a new Phone dude
Sent From My Xperia Mini ST15i
hmm it's ok, I can live with that, I have no other choice anyway...
But still I can install some custom roms as long as they don't require to flash kernel, right? I don't know too much about that but I got specially interested in Real ICS...
Thanks to all for your answers and help!
Maximo22 said:
hmm it's ok, I can live with that, I have no other choice anyway...
But still I can install some custom roms as long as they don't require to flash kernel, right? I don't know too much about that but I got specially interested in Real ICS...
Thanks to all for your answers and help!
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Yes you can install CostumROM as Long it can support Locked Bootloader
Sent From My Xperia Mini ST15i

[Q] ROM with standard camera?

I am completetly new in this with rooting and everything but I thought I would take a shot at it. Now, practically my only need is for the standard camera app to remain, the samsung regular one. What types of ROMs have that built in? I know that the CM10 does not have it, or is there a way to sideload it?
Only Samsung ROMs have the stock Samsung camera app, it'll never work on anything else. If you like the look of pure Google though your best bet is chamelion rom (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1847600) however its only android v 4.0.4 (edit its beta 4.1.2). Its stock Samsung but has aokp features
Hmm, I was rather hoping that the CM10 would work. Then I have a second question. Can I root the standard rom I have and add tweaks, mods, remove useless apps etc?
2oo2 said:
Hmm, I was rather hoping that the CM10 would work. Then I have a second question. Can I root the standard rom I have and add tweaks, mods, remove useless apps etc?
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Yes. Flash Siyah kernel, and search (or try for yourself) for extra settings in Stweaks you can use. To remove apps you can use Titanium Back up.
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Hmm. Well that seems quite good. In what steps do I root and apply the kernel and what is this CWM that everyone is talking about. And everyone suggest that you back up everything with Titanium. Can I do that even without being rooted?
2oo2 said:
Hmm. Well that seems quite good. In what steps do I root and apply the kernel and what is this CWM that everyone is talking about. And everyone suggest that you back up everything with Titanium. Can I do that even without being rooted?
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First read the threads/stickies here and find out the answers to these questions for yourself. Already asked a million times.
And no, you can't use TB without root.
Sent from the Matrix
So what programs are best to use to backup before the whole rooting thing?
2oo2 said:
So what programs are best to use to backup before the whole rooting thing?
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I actually don't think there is any app that workes like TB. If there is (which I doubt), I wouldn't know as I always use TB.
But why would you want such a 'serious' back up if you're not going to flash new roms?
Sent from the Matrix
As I said I'm completely new on this and I've read a few threads and articles about it. I don't know what things will wipe my phone and what won't. I'm still deciding between getting CM10 or SlimBean and use another camera app from Android Market or if I just root the phone...
I will need to compare ProCapture and the Stock Camera app firstly and then decide I think.
2oo2 said:
As I said I'm completely new on this and I've read a few threads and articles about it. I don't know what things will wipe my phone and what won't. I'm still deciding between getting CM10 or SlimBean and use another camera app from Android Market or if I just root the phone...
I will need to compare ProCapture and the Stock Camera app firstly and then decide I think.
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Especially then it's important you search and read a bit more, so you understand what you are doing.
Why not root your phone and flash a Samsung based rom? In that case you have your stock camera, and you can add a lot of tweaks, mods etc. to your phone.
Sent from the Matrix
This will help you (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vw_za0mQorw) Also the rom I linked to (chameleon) the 4.1.2 will have cyanogenmod features, built on stock Samsung base.

[Q] Unrooting Galaxy s2 help

Hello there.
Well a fair few months ago I rooted my device using doomlord 1click rooting kit and now i'm just wondering how I unroot my device again. So if anyone could pinpoint be a thread that'd be brilliant.
Thanks for all your help.
Aaron
ABuzz92 said:
Hello there.
Well a fair few months ago I rooted my device using doomslayers 1click rooting kit and now i'm just wondering how I unroot my device again. So if anyone could pinpoint be a thread that'd be brilliant.
Thanks for all your help.
Aaron
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I assume you are now on ICS.
Try ExynosAbuse, it's one-click.
gastonw said:
I assume you are now on ICS.
Try ExynosAbuse, it's one-click.
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No I didn't update it I believe it still to be gingerbread. Wasn't sure whether it would brick my phone, updating it whilst rooted.
This guide might help you. It has a separate section for Gingerbread.
ABuzz92 said:
No I didn't update it I believe it still to be gingerbread. Wasn't sure whether it would brick my phone, updating it whilst rooted.
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Sorry, I thought you wanted to ROOT. My bad.
If you update via OTA/Kies you'll get unrooted. In case you don't wanna "touch" your device in anyway.
gastonw said:
Sorry, I thought you wanted to ROOT. My bad.
If you update via OTA/Kies you'll get unrooted. In case you don't wanna "touch" your device in anyway.
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I uupdated my phone using Kies and it didn't unroot it. What can I do? I Still have superuser etc.
Flash a stock rom. There's CWM flashable versions floating around here somewhere (look in General/search), or you can get Odin flashable ones from the usual places (Samfirmware, AndroidFirmwares.net). Ordinary stock kernel in rom package will overwrite your rooted kernel.
MistahBungle said:
Flash a stock rom. There's CWM flashable versions floating around here somewhere (look in General/search), or you can get Odin flashable ones from the usual places (Samfirmware, AndroidFirmwares.net). Ordinary stock kernel in rom package will overwrite your rooted kernel.
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I'm not sure how to flash roms. Reason I want to unroot it is because I want to send it back to samsung. Do you think resetting it to factory settings would work?

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