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Hey guys, I have just one quick question.
I can manage unlocking the bootloader and rooting my device but I'm afraid that by doing so, everything on my phone will go back to stock, kinda like doing a factory reset. I have spent literally a week setting up my homescreens and downloading all the apps that I needed so having my phone go back to stock would be highly inconvenient.
Can anyone who has rooted their amaze confirm this? Did unlocking and rooting your device made it go back to stock and you had to set up everything again?
Once you unlock your bootloader your device doe's a factory reset , after that you won't need to factory reset unless u flash a ROM & there are 4 ROMS to choose from now .
Thank you for your answer.
Greatly appreciate it.
No problem , if you need anymore help just hit me up .
Revolution said:
Once you unlock your bootloader your device doe's a factory reset , after that you won't need to factory reset unless u flash a ROM & there are 4 ROMS to choose from now .
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Great reply Rev.
For the OP, use MyBackup Free to backup your apps and settings.
The settings is easy to restore but until you have root... the apps is kind of a pain. But it's easier than going through Market.
I do not have a micro sd card, do i need one when rooting or unlocking my droid?
Felinos11 said:
I do not have a micro sd card, do i need one when rooting or unlocking my droid?
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You do because the current recovery does not mount allow flashing from the internal sdcard.
Hi all,
I'm new android user. I want to root my phone, but not sure about what to do before rooting (I already have some basic idea about how to root). Do I have to back my current firmware? Is it possible to Unroot my phone? (to make it is in the same way as it is now). Sorry for my bad English.
New Android user.
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You need an advanced recovery
What is your phone? Try to check in Google 1 click root method
State your phone? Rooting is easy, you usually need your phone, the root file, a computer, USB cable and a software called Odin. And yes once you get a recovery, you can backup your firmware and reflash a stock ROM to remove the root.
EthericGhost said:
State your phone? Rooting is easy, you usually need your phone, the root file, a computer, USB cable and a software called Odin. And yes once you get a recovery, you can backup your firmware and reflash a stock ROM to remove the root.
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You're assuming that they have a Samsung phone for some reason...? Odin only works on Samsung devices.
OP:
You need to know the phone model as well as the build version of the software - not just the Android version - as different updates typically have different methods. You should backup all of your important data to Google and/or your PC. There are a variety of different ways to do this including many apps in the Play Store that can help. It would be advised to save your pictures, music, etc from your internal storage or sd card to the PC for safe keeping as well. You should also make sure that you can find the original full firmware and guide to reinstall for your phone in case you do want to unroot or if the phone does not work properly due to an error or bad luck.
Because i don't like to wait i use pc companion to upgrade my new z2 (sgp511) to android 4.4.4, there i notice that i lost root. Since i can't root android 4.4.4 i want to downgrade android, but first i have some question to ask.
1) Can i backup my drm key without root?
2) Do i erase them when i unlock the bootloader? (i know i loose every thing but since they are part of the system maybe i won't loose them)
Because if i don't lose them with the unlock, that would make my life easier.
Where i can find my the originals image of android? (although if i can unlock with out loosing the drm i won't need to downgrade)
Any advice that can help me will be apreciate
1) Nope
2) Yes
You have choices. Pc Companion, Flashtool or this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=54527942
So my options are loose my drm o wait that someone find an exploit?
Are the drm key important for what, i couldn't fiand enough information about them
potter3390 said:
So my options are loose my drm o wait that someone find an exploit?
Are the drm key important for what, i couldn't fiand enough information about them
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You can downgrade to root able firmware, root it properly, install dual recovery and flash prerooted firmware via custom recovery. Drm keys might be important for some propiarty stuff working the way Sony think they should like camera, gallery etc.
if i don't care for the key, insted of downgrade the soft , i should install preroot firmware?
potter3390 said:
if i don't care for the key, insted of downgrade the soft , i should install preroot firmware?
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If you want to. With unlocked bootloader you are able to quite easily root it and do what ever you decide. Little warning though. Without TA backup your DRM keys are gone for good. There is no way to get them back and if you need your warranty there is high risk that it is gone too.
i know and i want too backup them but i don't know how t do it without root, which i can't have until i unlock my tablet i e circular problem :laugh:
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i know and i want too backup them but i don't know how t do it without root, which i can't have until i unlock my tablet i e circular problem [emoji23]
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If you don't want to downgrade there is problem yes. Because we have root with locked bootloader I don't think there much activity to find new rooting method to latest firmware versions.
i have no problem with downgrading, but how can i do it without losing my drm?
potter3390 said:
i have no problem with downgrading, but how can i do it without losing my drm?
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Find rootable ftf file for your device for example this: https://mega.co.nz/#!kcxxjaLA!itErjRi2fYPPswal-c7XasF_lAvPKyY4GwEzY3xgHZ0 and just use Flashtool to install it. You don´t need to have root to do it and it don´t have any effect to your DRM keys.
Thanks for the good new, but first 2 more questions, i doesn't affect that the image is for another country? Can i use ota with this image?
PD: how is posible to flash an image without unlock?
PD2: What is the meaning of "Customized NCB"?
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Thanks for the good new, but first 2 more questions, i doesn't affect that the image is for another country? Can i use ota with this image?
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It doesn´t matter much which region firmware you install to SGP511 because it´s wifi only and only differencies are some bloatware. If you are going to root your device and then update with ota it may work or it may failed. Don´t think region matters here either if there is ota for that region. But, by all means use your regions ftf file.
PD: how is posible to flash an image without unlock?
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When you use Flashtool frome here: http://www.flashtool.net/index.php you don´t need to be rooted or unlock your bootloader.
PD2: What is the meaning of "Customized NCB"?
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It is generic nordic firmware without carriers bloatware.
Thanks for your help, but i think i will continue my search, i just bought this tablet and i dont want to chage eerything i just want to root, today i'm going to buy a z1 so i may want some of the blotware for a while. There should be an esay way to revert to 17 for my country but i can't find my image only the last one. Thanks again if you have another advice plese fell free to pass it.
Pd: after ready some previous post, i was thnkins, may the following work?
1) i downgrade qith the image you pass me.
2) as you sugest i root and backup my drm key
3) i restore my stock image (23.0.1.a.4.30) with oc compaion or with the image from argentina in XperiFirm.
4) Unlock and install root.
5) restore my drm key (which if i undestand correctly will lock my device again)
If everything work as i think i will have android 4.4.4 with woor and drm (and my regional ota)
What do you think?
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Thanks for your help, but i think i will continue my search, i just bought this tablet and i dont want to chage eerything i just want to root, today i'm going to buy a z1 so i may want some of the blotware for a while. There should be an esay way to revert to 17 for my country but i can't find my image only the last one. Thanks again if you have another advice plese fell free to pass it.
Pd: after ready some previous post, i was thnkins, may the following work?
1) i downgrade qith the image you pass me.
2) as you sugest i root and backup my drm key
3) i restore my stock image (23.0.1.a.4.30) with oc compaion or with the image from argentina in XperiFirm.
4) Unlock and install root.
5) restore my drm key (which if i undestand correctly will lock my device again)
If everything work as i think i will have android 4.4.4 with woor and drm (and my regional ota)
What do you think?
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I was thinkin more like:
1) downgrade
2) root and install dual recovery
3) flash latest prerooted firmware
4) enjoy
No need to unlock bootloader or anything with kernel. If there isn´t prerooted firmware for your region in xda before and you need any help, please ask.
Ok so I just purchased a Verizon 4G LTE verison 16 GB model and want to to root and unlock bootloader (so I can put CM on it) and am on 4.4.2 build number 17.1.D.0.437. Im used to rooting Nexus devices where its a quick, simple process but this seems a bit more complicated. Considering I still may return this device, what tutorial/steps should I follow and will I be able to relock/unroot and return to stock if I do decide to return this? Thanks so much for any help that can be provided.
Search for easy root tool for experia, is a script for root, after that install from the play su. Back up Your drm a there you can can unlock safety. Of you don't care the drm key you can Just unlock from the page of aony
Enviado desde mi SGP511 mediante Tapatalk
I like to revive this post with the next question, as i'm a little paranid and i like to complicate y life, i like to modigy a ftf a por the root files inside so i can flash with flashtool, but all the info i find show ways to flash using recovery.
So what i already do is:
i download the files with pc companion
decrypt and remake them to ftf with flashtool.
i tried PRFCreator ( but i creat a zip to flash with recovery)
So what i want to do is to make my own root ftf, so i can just flash that and i don't have to do anything else.
pd: i in no hurry, but i like to do it this way so i can learn for future updates (ex lolipop)
pd2: also i want to make al the steps so i can translate to my fellows argentinia users.
potter3390 said:
I like to revive this post with the next question, as i'm a little paranid and i like to complicate y life, i like to modigy a ftf a por the root files inside so i can flash with flashtool, but all the info i find show ways to flash using recovery.
So what i already do is:
i download the files with pc companion
decrypt and remake them to ftf with flashtool.
i tried PRFCreator ( but i creat a zip to flash with recovery)
So what i want to do is to make my own root ftf, so i can just flash that and i don't have to do anything else.
pd: i in no hurry, but i like to do it this way so i can learn for future updates (ex lolipop)
pd2: also i want to make al the steps so i can translate to my fellows argentinia users.
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Sorry to tell you but if you meant that you want to make prerooted ftf file to flash via Flashtool it is not possible. To achieve root with updated Sony´s firmwares your need custom recovery installed or unlocked bootloader.
ok, with that i narrown my option to only one the ones descript before, but i have one doubt, why dual recovery?
1) I always use twrp, why dual?
2) will i lose ota update with dual?
potter3390 said:
ok, with that i narrown my option to only one the ones descript before, but i have one doubt, why dual recovery?
1) I always use twrp, why dual?
2) will i lose ota update with dual?
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1) Because it disable Sony ric.
2) Most likely.
Hi guys,
this is my first thread in a forum ever, so please don't be too mad at me.
So now to my question:
Is it possible to make something like a backup point on android, I mean to extract ALL files (plus the state of the OS) like on Windows.
I haven't found anything on google yet and maybe I opened the thread in the wrong category please move it then (if that is possible, I already said it's my first thread and I'm not used to forums).
I know that you can backup your data on PC and so on and then make a factory reset and load all the data in. But now that Android 7 came out and my phone (Vernee Apollo Light) will get the update soon for safety reason I want to backup my almost new phone with the OS state so that if my phone dies at some point because of the new OS I want to restore it easily with some sort of what I call backup point.
Another question is is this even nessesary or will it also reset the OS, if I do a factory reset, to a further OS (in my case I update to Android 7, the phone crashes, I restore to factory mode and have my Android 6 again)or will it only reset to Android 7 through factory mode reset?
And if I need such restore point could one of you please give me an instruction how to do that.
Thank you for your patience to read and thank you for solving it in advance.
Best regards, n16h70wl aka Lukas Heuschneider
http://bbs.vernee.cc/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=981
You would need TWRP to do a nandroid backup.
n16h70wl said:
Hi guys,
this is my first thread in a forum ever, so please don't be too mad at me.
So now to my question:
Is it possible to make something like a backup point on android, I mean to extract ALL files (plus the state of the OS) like on Windows.
I haven't found anything on google yet and maybe I opened the thread in the wrong category please move it then (if that is possible, I already said it's my first thread and I'm not used to forums).
I know that you can backup your data on PC and so on and then make a factory reset and load all the data in. But now that Android 7 came out and my phone (Vernee Apollo Light) will get the update soon for safety reason I want to backup my almost new phone with the OS state so that if my phone dies at some point because of the new OS I want to restore it easily with some sort of what I call backup point.
Another question is is this even nessesary or will it also reset the OS, if I do a factory reset, to a further OS (in my case I update to Android 7, the phone crashes, I restore to factory mode and have my Android 6 again)or will it only reset to Android 7 through factory mode reset?
And if I need such restore point could one of you please give me an instruction how to do that.
Thank you for your patience to read and thank you for solving it in advance.
Best regards, n16h70wl aka Lukas Heuschneider
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You can use SP flash tool to dump your rom. I don't know it works for you. If your android is rooted then you can backup your whole system via adb to your pc. You can also use custom recovery to get nandroid backup(system backup) of your android to your SD card. You need to flash custom recovery for your android.
There after you need to unroot your android and flash stock recovery again. If OTA update found your android modified then OTA update abort.
It's better to download your stock rom. If android update ruins your android then you can flash your stock rom in fastboot mode
If you update your android to Nougat and factory reset then it's not reset to again marshmallow. Factory reset only reset system and user data. So it's only reset your Nougat to factory state.
Thanks for your reply.
So I probably have to root my Android don't I?
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Thanks for your reply.
So I probably have to root my Android don't I?
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Use SP flash tool to dump rom of your non rooted android in your pc.
You can root to get backup of your full system. But you want to unroot again because if OTA update found that your system is modified then OTA update abort. So don't root your android.
It's better to use SP flash tool to dump rom or download stock rom of your android and keep it in pc.
If update ruins your android then you can flash stock rom in fastboot mode to your non rooted android.
If it helped. Please thank me.
Hello, I just got my Redmi Note 9 pro And i want to root! I've rooted my samsung note 4 and s3 before. I don't want to use a custom recovery i don't want a custom rom. and i want to keep geting updates if possiable.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/redmi-note-9-pro/development/gsi-t4105121
kalehrl said:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/redmi-note-9-pro/development/gsi-t4105121
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I don't want to install a rom i want to keep miui
At the beginning of the instructions there is a short description how to root.
So, I'm Kinda Confused "If you want to root then copy the stock boot from the latest stock rom into internal and use magisk to patch it, then flash the patched boot in bootloader (fastboot flash boot patched_boot.img)"
So i take the miui boot and flash it after i installed this rom and restore a backup without restoring the boot.img ?
and we don't get updates foing that (we don't get updates when we unlock bootloader but why ? ) I Guess we just gotta accept the L here
Cilekcigs said:
and we don't get updates foing that (we don't get updates when we unlock bootloader but why ? ) I Guess we just gotta accept the L here
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With unlocked bootloader and root you will still get OTA Updates with Miui, you just need to root again after installing the update.
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So, I'm Kinda Confused "If you want to root then copy the stock boot from the latest stock rom into internal and use magisk to patch it, then flash the patched boot in bootloader (fastboot flash boot patched_boot.img)"
So i take the miui boot and flash it after i installed this rom and restore a backup without restoring the boot.img ?
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You don't have to install custom ROM to get root. If you are currently on MIUI 11.0.10, you download that exact ROM, unpack it and copy boot.img to your phone. Then you install Magisk manager and use it to patch boot.img. You will get a patched boot.img which you flash in fastboot.
Ok, Is there a way to backup 'cause it says "Unlock will erase user data"
EDIT: OK I found a way to backup using MIAssistant
EDIT 2: MIAssistant is outdated any way to backup ?
I don't know. I didn't have anything important to backup.
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I don't know. I didn't have anything important to backup.
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Ok I found that you can local backup from settings but what I'm worried is losing my efs partition hope it goes right I have joyuse (9 pro)
I have 9s and all went fine.
However, I installed the custom ROM from that thread and root as well.
Now, I have to wait 168 hours (one week) to unlock
That's normal but annoying.
Yea BUT *sniff* BUT *sniff* *sniff* WHY
(ded meme)
EDIT:. BTW what does oem unlocking in developer setting mean ?
And thanks a lot man I couldn't have done this without you.
Enable it to be on the safe side when you apply for unlocking even though I don't think it's necessary for official Xiaomi unlocking. I think it's for unofficial unlocking 'oem-unlock go' which I don't think works.
Is there Twrp For joyuse (9 pro ?) i searched the fornm and i couldn't find it.
The Only One i could find was https://forum.xda-developers.com/re...nt/recovery-unofficial-pbrp-recovery-t4137753
And is this what you exactly mean ? https://forum.xda-developers.com/re.../how-to-unlock-root-redmi-9-9s-9-pro-t4108913
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Ok, Is there a way to backup 'cause it says "Unlock will erase user data"
EDIT: OK I found a way to backup using MIAssistant
EDIT 2: MIAssistant is outdated any way to backup ?
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Just transfer the files you want to backup from your phone to PC and later copy back. Apps, SMS, call log, wifi passwords etc. are backed up to your Google account (if you have enabled backup/restore), you can backup some extra stuff in MiCloud too (I don't use it, don't wanna give em my data lol, it's enough that google has it).
FYI local backup will get wiped after unlocking.
I'd recommend you stay away from TWRP because there is no official version and it's unstable. I've read reports of people bricking their devices and losing widevine L1 after installing it. Just use Xiaomi's recovery and fastboot because they're enough for both rooting and installing custom ROMs.
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Just transfer the files you want to backup from your phone to PC and later copy back. Apps, SMS, call log, wifi passwords etc. are backed up to your Google account (if you have enabled backup/restore), you can backup some extra stuff in MiCloud too (I don't use it, don't wanna give em my data lol, it's enough that google has it).
FYI local backup will get wiped after unlocking.
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No i just want to make sure i don't lose my efs