I froze some of my apps while I was rooted on 4.4.2, and now that I'm not rooted on 4.4.4 if I factory reset well they still be frozen? I know it should revert back to 4.4.2 when I reset, right?
JoshRoss70 said:
I froze some of my apps while I was rooted on 4.4.2, and now that I'm not rooted on 4.4.4 if I factory reset well they still be frozen? I know it should revert back to 4.4.2 when I reset, right?
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They won't be frozen after the factory reset, and it probably will not go back to 4.4.2. You will have to odin flash back to 4.4.2. Read through this thread first http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-3-sprint/help/upgrade-to-4-4-4-revert-to-4-4-2-t2878402 . Here is another one http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-3-sprint/help/flash-counter-4-4-4-t2885987 . Have a look here to http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-3-sprint/help/4-4-4-worth-t2880895
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How do you completely and totally factory reset the Note 3?
I rooted the device and backed up some files by renaming name. For example the the otacerts.zip file. I rename it to otacerts.zip.bak. When I did a factory reset in the recovery mode it was still there, when I did a factory reset in the software it was still there.
I want to do a factory reset where it erases absolutely everything and completely rewrites the rom and every file.
I thought when you did factory reset you usually see the android guy in the beginning rewriting the rom to the drive, but now it just wipes and resets but leaves all files pretty much the same.
How do I get around this? Do I have to use Kies 3? I thought I read somewhere that even Kies the official app can trip Knox.
Is there another way to reset the rom and rewrite the rom and all the files?
Astrongtower said:
How do you completely and totally factory reset the Note 3?
I rooted the device and backed up some files by renaming name. For example the the otacerts.zip file. I rename it to otacerts.zip.bak. When I did a factory reset in the recovery mode it was still there, when I did a factory reset in the software it was still there.
I want to do a factory reset where it erases absolutely everything and completely rewrites the rom and every file.
I thought when you did factory reset you usually see the android guy in the beginning rewriting the rom to the drive, but now it just wipes and resets but leaves all files pretty much the same.
How do I get around this? Do I have to use Kies 3? I thought I read somewhere that even Kies the official app can trip Knox.
Is there another way to reset the rom and rewrite the rom and all the files?
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You have to use a custom recovery and then you would have to flash a rom if you wipe the system
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You have to use a custom recovery and then you would have to flash a rom if you wipe the system
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So phones now a days no longer have the ROMS saved on to the phones where they do a complete rewrite or copy of the ROM onto the drive? You have to manually flash them now with software?
This process will trip KNOX right? Even if I use KIES or ODIN and only flash exacty factory ROM back on? Or will it not trip KNOX if I use stock ROM to flash like this one?
SPR-N900PVPUBMJ4-20131028151254
Is there anyway to flash that ROM above without tripping KNOX?
I can't believe that ROM is not on the drive already and re-written when you do a Factory Reset.
If I use this ...
andromint-Odin-v3-09
to flash this ...
SPR-N900PVPUBMJ4-20131028151254
Will I trip KNOX?
And if it will is there any way to do a Factory Reset without tripping KNOX. Not a basic reset a complete rewrite of the ROM?
If not I guess I am screwed and I will have to trip KNOX in order to completely reset my phone. That is outrageous.
P.S. Will I trip KNOX if I use this one click method?
SM-N900P MJ4 Full Restore Unrooted (Compressed Archive).exe
In your first post you said you are rooted. Unless you rooted with Kingo, your Knox counter is already tripped. There is no known way to reset Knox once it has been tripped.
JimSmith94 said:
In your first post you said you are rooted. Unless you rooted with Kingo, your Knox counter is already tripped. There is no known way to reset Knox once it has been tripped.
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I rooted with Kingo. So my KNOX is at Zero. I un-rooted with Kingo and when I booted in recovery it said that my system was still official.
My question remains that if I want to do a complete recovery erasing absolutely everything and leaving nothing is there a way to do this without using a custom recovery program like ODIN or Kies?
I do not want to merely erase my Data and do a reset. I want to reload the ROM. Is it just me or did not phones use to do this? If you did a factory reset on an older phone it would reboot and you would see the Android guy at the beginning and everything would be completely fresh with nothing left over. Is this a thing of the past? Do manufactures not keep the Stock Images on the phones any more? What is the point of a factory reset if you can't do that? They should just call it Data Wipe, or "Wipe Your Personal Data" button.
Astrongtower said:
I rooted with Kingo. So my KNOX is at Zero. I un-rooted with Kingo and when I booted in recovery it said that my system was still official.
My question remains that if I want to do a complete recovery erasing absolutely everything and leaving nothing is there a way to do this without using a custom recovery program like ODIN or Kies?
I do not want to merely erase my Data and do a reset. I want to reload the ROM. Is it just me or did not phones use to do this? If you did a factory reset on an older phone it would reboot and you would see the Android guy at the beginning and everything would be completely fresh with nothing left over. Is this a thing of the past? Do manufactures not keep the Stock Images on the phones any more? What is the point of a factory reset if you can't do that? They should just call it Data Wipe, or "Wipe Your Personal Data" button.
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The rom on this phone stock is almost 1.9 gb uncompressed. ... And not really they didn't keep a rom on your phone sort of like a nandroid backup. .. If your still jelly bean and not kit kat yes you can Odin that stock mj4 and be good but if you took a ota and have 4.4.2 you will have to Odin nab or nc5 ... There is no going back to jelly bean if you are on kit kat
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A factory reset will delete your personal data and all apps and reset the phone to the unmodified out of the box ROM or whatever ROM you're running. You can download the same or another ROM and install it with Odin if you want to overwrite what's there. Even if you could erase everything from your phone, I don't know of any tools to load a ROM to a completely empty phone.
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The rom on this phone stock is almost 1.9 gb uncompressed. ... And not really they didn't keep a rom on your phone sort of like a nandroid backup. .. If your still jelly bean and not kit kat yes you can Odin that stock mj4 and be good but if you took a ota and have 4.4.2 you will have to Odin nab or nc5 ... There is no going back to jelly bean if you are on kit kat
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So there is no ROM on my phone to go completely back to? You know like the old Dell Streak or older Android phones. Seemed like they had the ROM somewhere on the phone and it would reload everything. Meaning that like if you change a system file to .bak because you didn't want to checking something every time you booted up. Well if you did a Factory Reset you would have to rename that file again to .bak again because it re-set everything literally.
I am still on 4.3 and I did not upgrade to 4.4.2.
I just want to reset my phone to absolutely stock experience even over writting everything including anything that I might of changed in the system files by renaming something to .bak I should not be able to find anything that I did in the past with my phone when doing a complete factory reset.
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A factory reset will delete your personal data and all apps and reset the phone to the unmodified out of the box ROM or whatever ROM you're running. You can download the same or another ROM and install it with Odin if you want to overwrite what's there. Even if you could erase everything from your phone, I don't know of any tools to load a ROM to a completely empty phone.
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I did a factory reset but like I mention earlier it kept my modified files of OTA update so I cannot receive updates. I did that because I was tired of rececing notifications about the OTA because I do not want to update my phone.
The surprise came in when I did the factory reset my modifications where still there. That is precisely my point. It does not appear that a factory reset is a true reset but just a personal data eraser.
On the old Androids it would take like 10 to 15 minutes to Factory Reset because it was actually rewriting the entire ROM again from an image built into the phone. Now it just seems that it erases personal data and that is it. Well at least on my anyway, unless there is an error or something. I mean do they have the 1.9 GB file on factory ROM on the phone or do they not?
I do not want to erase my phone first. I just want it to take the original stock image that should be on my phone and completely reset it and over write all information on my phone to new leaving nothing except new image.
Is my factory image corrupt? Am I missing something?
If I remember right, Windows phones worked like that but Android doesn't. You were only able to rename system files because you were rooted. You can't expect a restore to undo anything you did when you were rooted, You can either root again and rename them back or Odin the 4.3 stock ROM again to replace/rewrite all files. That will replace the original files but your renamed ones will still be there.
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So there is no ROM on my phone to go completely back to? You know like the old Dell Streak or older Android phones. Seemed like they had the ROM somewhere on the phone and it would reload everything. Meaning that like if you change a system file to .bak because you didn't want to checking something every time you booted up. Well if you did a Factory Reset you would have to rename that file again to .bak again because it re-set everything literally.
I am still on 4.3 and I did not upgrade to 4.4.2.
I just want to reset my phone to absolutely stock experience even over writting everything including anything that I might of changed in the system files by renaming something to .bak I should not be able to find anything that I did in the past with my phone when doing a complete factory reset.
I did a factory reset but like I mention earlier it kept my modified files of OTA update so I cannot receive updates. I did that because I was tired of rececing notifications about the OTA because I do not want to update my phone.
The surprise came in when I did the factory reset my modifications where still there. That is precisely my point. It does not appear that a factory reset is a true reset but just a personal data eraser.
On the old Androids it would take like 10 to 15 minutes to Factory Reset because it was actually rewriting the entire ROM again from an image built into the phone. Now it just seems that it erases personal data and that is it. Well at least on my anyway, unless there is an error or something. I mean do they have the 1.9 GB file on factory ROM on the phone or do they not?
I do not want to erase my phone first. I just want it to take the original stock image that should be on my phone and completely reset it and over write all information on my phone to new leaving nothing except new image.
Is my factory image corrupt? Am I missing something?
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If you take it to sprint they use a tar file and Odin just like this .... That is all you have to do. .. Don't make it so hard
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JimSmith94 said:
If I remember right, Windows phones worked like that but Android doesn't. You were only able to rename system files because you were rooted. You can't expect a restore to undo anything you did when you were rooted, You can either root again and rename them back or Odin the 4.3 stock ROM again to replace/rewrite all files. That will replace the original files but your renamed ones will still be there.
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I remember for a fact that when I would rename some system files to prevent reloading other system files that Android developed a script or something that would replace even what I had renamed so each time I recovered I had to rename the system files again.
That is what I am looking for this time. I complete re-wipe.
Epix4G said:
If you take it to sprint they use a tar file and Odin just like this .... That is all you have to do. .. Don't make it so hard
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I am not that worried about it. I just want to know if I use Odin and a factory image will I trip the KNOX counter.
I actually just reset my phone and reinstalled everything and rooted it with Kingo and KNOX is still not tripped so I am happy. I solved the battery issue that I was having.
I just wanted to know for future use if there was a way to completely wipe a Note 3 with absolutely nothing remaining without tripping KNOW. Not just wipe user data.
Do not mean to sound redundant but if I reset my phone by re flashing the stock ROM on it via ODIN or KIES will I trip KNOX?
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Do not mean to sound redundant but if I reset my phone by re flashing the stock ROM on it via ODIN or KIES will I trip KNOX?
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No it won't trip Knox.
I am a bit of a noob but I have rooted my sprint note 3 which came out successful. I have rooted my galaxy s3 before in the past and flashed many roms without any issues.
Once I rooted my note 3 I ran the stock rom for a week and then decided to kick it up a notch and flashed the bonsai rom, which worked fine until i discovered the camera didn't work. Before I flashed the bonsai rom, I did a backup of the stock rom via cwm. Once I figured out the camera didn't work with the bonsai rom, I reset and wiped the data for my phone and tried to restore the stock rom which i figured it was a boo boo because I got stuck in a bootloop so I reflashed the bonsai rom back on my phone until I got back home to my pc. At that point, I decided to unroot and return the phone back to stock. I used odin and followed unrooting instructions to a tee and I had an official stock firmware, but odin failed and I think I may have soft bricked my phone. In a panic, I downloaded a "rooted stock" rom and flashed that...after a few bootloops, I updated my cwm recovery and superuser app...and my phone has been working fine every since (whew). I really want to unroot, then re-root and just run the stock rom without flashing any more custom roms, however I am afraid of bricking it again.
I have the stock official firmware N900PVPUBMJ4_N900PSPTBMJ4_N900PVPUBMJ4_HOME.tar.md 5 which to my understanding is android 4.3. I do understand that 4.4 is out. I was wondering is it ok to flash the 4.3 using odin to return my phone back to stock?? I've been spooked ever since my soft brick encounter. Any info will be helpful. Btw, sorry for the long story. I figured I should give all the details. That would help me get to the bottom of it all
Thanks in Advance!
LadyDroid81 said:
I am a bit of a noob but I have rooted my sprint note 3 which came out successful. I have rooted my galaxy s3 before in the past and flashed many roms without any issues.
Once I rooted my note 3 I ran the stock rom for a week and then decided to kick it up a notch and flashed the bonsai rom, which worked fine until i discovered the camera didn't work. Before I flashed the bonsai rom, I did a backup of the stock rom via cwm. Once I figured out the camera didn't work with the bonsai rom, I reset and wiped the data for my phone and tried to restore the stock rom which i figured it was a boo boo because I got stuck in a bootloop so I reflashed the bonsai rom back on my phone until I got back home to my pc. At that point, I decided to unroot and return the phone back to stock. I used odin and followed unrooting instructions to a tee and I had an official stock firmware, but odin failed and I think I may have soft bricked my phone. In a panic, I downloaded a "rooted stock" rom and flashed that...after a few bootloops, I updated my cwm recovery and superuser app...and my phone has been working fine every since (whew). I really want to unroot, then re-root and just run the stock rom without flashing any more custom roms, however I am afraid of bricking it again.
I have the stock official firmware N900PVPUBMJ4_N900PSPTBMJ4_N900PVPUBMJ4_HOME.tar.md 5 which to my understanding is android 4.3. I do understand that 4.4 is out. I was wondering is it ok to flash the 4.3 using odin to return my phone back to stock?? I've been spooked ever since my soft brick encounter. Any info will be helpful. Btw, sorry for the long story. I figured I should give all the details. That would help me get to the bottom of it all
Thanks in Advance!
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Depends on what version you are running, but sounds like you are on mj4 still... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2657828 this one is mj4 (4.3), if you are on 4.4 you need to go to the Android development forum and use whatever version you are on, just look for rwilcos one click.
tonyevo52 said:
Depends on what version you are running, but sounds like you are on mj4 still... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2657828 this one is mj4 (4.3), if you are on 4.4 you need to go to the Android development forum and use whatever version you are on, just look for rwilcos one click.
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Yes...I am still on 4.3.
LadyDroid81 said:
Yes...I am still on 4.3.
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Follow the instructions from this thread and you will be fully unrooted http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2657828:good:
Hey everybody,
First time poster here. So I have an AT&T Galaxy S4 I337 that I have been running Cyanogenmod on for quite a while now. Well, after getting bored and wanting to revert to the original firmware, I went through the process of a factory reset to stock through Odin. Everything went smoothly, all that's left is to update to 4.4.2 Kitkat and to root my phone once again. I went into settings and began the OTA update thinking it would install 4.4.2. After about 20 minutes of updating and downloading, my phone finally finished rebooting, but when I checked to see what version of android I was running, it was still 4.2.2. Kies also says that I'm running the latest firmware. Why won't my phone or Kies pick up the new Kitkat update? Does it have something to do with the fact that I flashed a custom ROM before? I could really use some help!
Thanks!
ViridianFlea said:
Hey everybody,
First time poster here. So I have an AT&T Galaxy S4 I337 that I have been running Cyanogenmod on for quite a while now. Well, after getting bored and wanting to revert to the original firmware, I went through the process of a factory reset to stock through Odin. Everything went smoothly, all that's left is to update to 4.4.2 Kitkat and to root my phone once again. I went into settings and began the OTA update thinking it would install 4.4.2. After about 20 minutes of updating and downloading, my phone finally finished rebooting, but when I checked to see what version of android I was running, it was still 4.2.2. Kies also says that I'm running the latest firmware. Why won't my phone or Kies pick up the new Kitkat update? Does it have something to do with the fact that I flashed a custom ROM before? I could really use some help!
Thanks!
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You can't update directly from 4.2.2 to 4.4.2. You're missing out on a couple of updates in between. But, it doesn't look like you've read a head too much. You can't root 4.4.2 directly. The current method for rooting it involves downgrading back to 4.3, rooting, installing the Safestrap recovery, and using that to install a stock rooted rom. Since you are already on 4.2.2 and can use a custom recovery, it is recommended to install a stock or custom rom and the accompanying modem. Once you go past 4.3, there is no return due to the Knox bootloader deal.
Hello,
I'd like to downgrade my SGS3 GT-I9300 international running 4.3 (baseband v. I9300XXUGNA8) to the official 4.1.2 ROM.
I don't have an EFS backup from the days when I ran 4.1.2 previously so I'm thinking I will have to factory reset, flash the ROM up to 4.1.2, root, then restore user apps via Titanium. I don't think KNOX will be an issue; as far as I can tell it's not installed on my device.
My questions are:
Can I factory reset to avoid problems with the IMEI?
Will I be able to just restore apps installed under 4.3 into 4.1 and have them work, or will I have to reinstall each and every one from the Play store?
infraspace said:
Hello,
I'd like to downgrade my SGS3 GT-I9300 international running 4.3 (baseband v. I9300XXUGNA8) to the official 4.1.2 ROM.
I don't have an EFS backup from the days when I ran 4.1.2 previously so I'm thinking I will have to factory reset, flash the ROM up to 4.1.2, root, then restore user apps via Titanium. I don't think KNOX will be an issue; as far as I can tell it's not installed on my device.
My questions are:
Can I factory reset to avoid problems with the IMEI?
Will I be able to just restore apps installed under 4.3 into 4.1 and have them work, or will I have to reinstall each and every one from the Play store?
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You need a efs backup or use a mk6 or newer modem.
Why do you want to downgrade to this sds vulnerable version for?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3/general/ref-imei-efs-stuff-i9300-including-t2393289
Also questions go in the q&a section.
Darke5tShad0w said:
You need a efs backup or use a mk6 or newer modem.
Why do you want to downgrade to this sds vulnerable version for?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3/general/ref-imei-efs-stuff-i9300-including-t2393289
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I mainly want to downgrade because of performance issues with 4.3. When I back out of an app or hit the Home button, I frequently have to wait for several seconds before icons load. I've tried freezing as many useless bloat apps and services as I can but it hasn't helped at all.
I find it hard to believe that a factory reset will leave the device unusable as a phone... shouldn't the factory reset reset everything, including the EFS?
Try searching for just two minutes, you will find hundreds of posts where their imei was lost (permanently) by trying to downgrade -usually so they could unlock for free.
Factory reset only wipes data, nothing else. As above, flash only a firmware compatible with efs v2, EMG4 or later.
Backup your efs first, be prepared to pay for a repair if you get it wrong.
Your problem is a lack of free memory, dumping the launcher. Try one that stays resident.
Hey guys so recently I ROOTED Moto E. I uninstalled Chrome then so I can use a different browser. I couldn't get Chrome Back so I did a Factory Reset. After the Factory Reset I do not have Chrome and I cannot go on Gmail, Google Play etc. Is there any way I can fix this :crying:? Plus in Installed and On SDCard tabs there are no applications!
Thanks in advance!
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you have rooted your phone and messed with the system so factory reset wont work as intended
if you have a nandroid back up via cwm or twrp..restore it..if you dont have..
dont worry ;back up imp data and follow any unbricking procedures for moto e that will revert you to stock with stock recovery and then
you will get 4.4.4 update which will get updated with out any problem:good:
ps:tried it a couple of times and it worked flawlessly.
hit thanks if i helped you.