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Return to stock

I would like to return to full stock but keep my phone rooted.
Is there a stock Rom that's already rooted and that I can flash in recovery 2.5.x
I really don't want to flash the stock image then re root my phone.
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The only way I know of would leave you requiring to re-root again, but i think S stays off, so you only need to run visionary.
put this file on the root of your sd card. Power off the phone. then press the power button and volume down.
let it do its thing, and you'll be stock.

I get a PD15IMG.zip "no image" and a "wrong image"?

Try this one

Much appreciated but the results are the same.

does the PD15IMG file restore everything to stock or just the rom?
does it also restore the recovery to stock?

xs11e said:
Much appreciated but the results are the same.
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Sorry. I've never seen a case where that file wouldn't restore a phone. Maybe someone else will come along with a better idea.

There's not much pleasure in being the first in this case!
See my thread "Is it a brick? Or can I fix it?"
I'm afraid it's a brick.... It boots up and runs but I can't get apps, no Gmail, etc. and I can't go back or flash any other ROM. I sure wish I knew what I'd done...

Start from the beginning. What has been done?

Thanks for the link. I was thinking that I had a brick for a while there. The file on the root took everything back to stock.

Just for future reference I'm pretty sure there is a stock cwr backup somewhere in these forums. Believe its labeled stock nandroid.

Factory Reset when using stock rom, root?

Hey guys,
using the xperia stock ROM (with Rogers), I rooted the phone using gingerbreak. I am planning on bringing back the phone to the store, I therefore want to unroot it and wipe it clean.
Using the stock rom, will doing a factory reset unroot me or do I have to go through some other way? I tried looking for the answer a bit but they seem somewhat divided on the subject.
To return the phone to the state it was in when I bought it, should I just unroot and factory reset or would I be better off flasing the stock rogers rom on it?
thanks

Use SEUS and flash the device , it wil be unrooted and will be on factory defaults.

thanks for the info .. looking this info for backup purpose, after mess up too much.. look like i want to restart all over again .. nice .

[Q] How can I backup oficial Desire Z rom etc.?

I am going to have my new Desire Z in a few days and I want to root it. I have a question, how can I backup all of oficial rom, kernel, radio ets.? Because I am not sure if I will send it to HTC for warranty in a few months or in 2 years. What do I need to do before rooting my device for not to have any warranty problems? Thanks for now...

Deadly Sto(R)m said:
I am going to have my new Desire Z in a few days and I want to root it. I have a question, how can I backup all of oficial rom, kernel, radio ets.? Because I am not sure if I will send it to HTC for warranty in a few months or in 2 years. What do I need to do before rooting my device for not to have any warranty problems? Thanks for now...
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Well you're going to have to downgrade in order to get root, which will wipe the device as far as I know.
After you've downgraded and rooted, you can then use ROM manger to make a 'nandroid' backup of the device. It effectively makes a perfect copy of the entire device, and saves it to your SD card. After you flash a new ROM or anything, you can always go back and restore that nandroid backup, putting you exactly where you were when you made the backup.
It should be noted that when you send it into HTC for repair, you'll want to unroot it anyways, which will wipe the device again and return to stock w/ S-ON (you dont want to send it to HTC with your info on it anyways), so keeping the stock rooted ROM isn't completely necessary (although it is a good idea to have around for troubleshooting reasons).

martonikaj said:
Well you're going to have to downgrade in order to get root, which will wipe the device as far as I know.
After you've downgraded and rooted, you can then use ROM manger to make a 'nandroid' backup of the device. It effectively makes a perfect copy of the entire device, and saves it to your SD card. After you flash a new ROM or anything, you can always go back and restore that nandroid backup, putting you exactly where you were when you made the backup.
It should be noted that when you send it into HTC for repair, you'll want to unroot it anyways, which will wipe the device again and return to stock w/ S-ON (you dont want to send it to HTC with your info on it anyways), so keeping the stock rooted ROM isn't completely necessary (although it is a good idea to have around for troubleshooting reasons).
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First off all thank you for your post...
Second; The things that I understand;
1) I have to downgrade and root my phone
2) I must have a nandroid backup (I will learn what it is and how to do this), so i will have a backup which will help me to restore me device again when i want.)
3) I need to S-ON my device again when sending to HTC.
4) The mst important is saving nandroid backup will save my device
Are these true or will i have to study more?
By the way, I want to try sense 3.0 but i am not sure to have virtuous rom. do you recommend to get it? Which is best; to have a gingerbread rom w/ sense 2.1 or froyo rom w/ sense 3.0? As i know, virtuous rom doesn't have gingerbread now but it might have soon...

Deadly Sto(R)m said:
First off all thank you for your post...
Second; The things that I understand;
1) I have to downgrade and root my phone
2) I must have a nandroid backup (I will learn what it is and how to do this), so i will have a backup which will help me to restore me device again when i want.)
3) I need to S-ON my device again when sending to HTC.
4) The mst important is saving nandroid backup will save my device
Are these true or will i have to study more?
By the way, I want to try sense 3.0 but i am not sure to have virtuous rom. do you recommend to get it? Which is best; to have a gingerbread rom w/ sense 2.1 or froyo rom w/ sense 3.0? As i know, virtuous rom doesn't have gingerbread now but it might have soon...
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Yep you got it. After downgrade/rooting (follow Wiki guide), use ROM manager (download in the market) to flash ClockWorkMod Recovery. Then use that to make a backup. It saves the file to your SD card. Copy that file to your computer for safe keeping (good to have it in 2 places if you really wanna make sure you keep it).
To get S-ON later if you need to send in for repair, follow the Wiki to unroot and that'll be done. It should be noted that unrooting the phone will flash it back to completely stock setup, so the stock nandroid backup isn't necessary to keep in order to send back to HTC. The only real reason to keep that rooted stock backup around is for troubleshooting problems, etc. you can always go back to the stock ROM to try things.
As far as running Virtuous for Sense 3.0 or 2.1, that's all personal preference. I advise just trying different ROMs and seeing which you like. Everyone likes something different. Just remember to nandroid the one you're on before switching so you can go back if need be.

[SOLVED!] How can I backup oficial Desire Z rom etc.?
martonikaj said:
To get S-ON later if you need to send in for repair, follow the Wiki to unroot and that'll be done. It should be noted that unrooting the phone will flash it back to completely stock setup, so the stock nandroid backup isn't necessary to keep in order to send back to HTC. The only real reason to keep that rooted stock backup around is for troubleshooting problems, etc. you can always go back to the stock ROM to try things.
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I quess to have a nandroid backup is necessary to send back to HTC before you told me. Thank you for this. I will try lots of roms and decide which one i want.

I was just going to make a post about the same subject until I saw this. I also too want to back up my G2 stock rom. I'm currently returing my old G2 inplace of a replacement G2. I want to know how I can back up the stock rom without rooting? I downloaded rom manager but need root to continue. My old phone was rooted and had all my backups that way. I wanna try out the new 2.3.4 from OTA when I get the notification to do so, but just incase I don't like it I wanna go back to stock then root. So how can I do a full backup without root or doing a factory data reset? Thanks

Kilroy672 said:
I was just going to make a post about the same subject until I saw this. I also too want to back up my G2 stock rom. I'm currently returing my old G2 inplace of a replacement G2. I want to know how I can back up the stock rom without rooting? I downloaded rom manager but need root to continue. My old phone was rooted and had all my backups that way. I wanna try out the new 2.3.4 from OTA when I get the notification to do so, but just incase I don't like it I wanna go back to stock then root. So how can I do a full backup without root or doing a factory data reset? Thanks
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The only way to do a full backup is to root and use ROM manager to make a nandroid backup. Like I said before, backing up the stock ROM is nice for troubleshooting etc. but in order to un-root you'll have to completely wipe the device and will install the stock ROM again.
If you want to try out 2.3 you can use CM7 (which is stock 2.3 w/ some improvements), or wait for the official OTA to be pre-rooted then you can flash it after you've rooted.

Deadly Sto(R)m said:
I quess to have a nandroid backup is necessary to send back to HTC before you told me. Thank you for this. I will try lots of roms and decide which one i want.
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Yea sorry for the confusion if I made it sound that way. The action of un-rooting the device will put it back to stock, you don't have to save the stock ROM. The only reason to do so is if you like to have the stock rooted ROM around just in case you want to try something on it.

martonikaj said:
Yea sorry for the confusion if I made it sound that way. The action of un-rooting the device will put it back to stock, you don't have to save the stock ROM. The only reason to do so is if you like to have the stock rooted ROM around just in case you want to try something on it.
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I got all you told me. Thank you for all.

Deadly Sto(R)m said:
I got all you told me. Thank you for all.
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Awesome. GL.

Thanks for the info. Finally can get the desire z re-done

Best way to unroot and go back to full stock?

I want to unroot my phone, go back to stock, and reset Knox if possible so I can update without any issue and do a clean install of a new ROM. I'm finding a few different threads with similar topics but they don't quite seem to fit the same thing, though I am looking at this post by @LMMT that looks like it might do the trick.
I just want to make sure I'm not making a colossal mistake since unrooting your phone tends to be more of a PITA than rooting it in the first place. Thanks in advance for your help!! You all rock.
Edit: This was supposed to go into the Sprint Galaxy Note 4 Q&A forum, I don't want to double post... Still any idea on help? Heh ^_^;;

Caffeinatrix said:
I want to unroot my phone, go back to stock, and reset Knox if possible so I can update without any issue and do a clean install of a new ROM. I'm finding a few different threads with similar topics but they don't quite seem to fit the same thing, though I am looking at this post by @LMMT that looks like it might do the trick.
I just want to make sure I'm not making a colossal mistake since unrooting your phone tends to be more of a PITA than rooting it in the first place. Thanks in advance for your help!! You all rock.
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Using Odin to flash that tar, will unroot your phone and return it to stock. For best results, boot into recovery and do a factory reset first (THIS WILL WIPE ALL OF YOUR DATA), then boot into download mode, and flash the tar in the post you referenced. There is no way to reset Knox.
Edit: To be clear, odining the tar will unroot your phone, no additional steps are needed to unroot.
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LMMT said:
Using Odin to flash that tar, will unroot your phone and return it to stock. For best results, boot into recovery and do a factory reset first (THIS WILL WIPE ALL OF YOUR DATA), then boot into download mode, and flash the tar in the post you referenced. There is no way to reset Knox.
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I didn't think so but figured it couldn't hurt to ask, awesome. Thank you much!!!!

Question about going back to stock

Hey im wanting to go back to stock unrooted to get the ota that just dropped here in NZ. Its not on sammobile or anywhere and i hate waiting.
Now my question is this:
If i make a data backup in twrp can i put that back on after i reroot etc?
Also is this the correct procedure to go back to stock (never done it before... never had too)
Flash AP of my stock rom in odin? Nothing else?
That will kill my twrp wont it as it will flash back the stock recovery?
Phone will be able to OTA even though i was previously rooted?
Will i need to wipe my data etc to go back to stock completly if so how?
Think thats all i need to know...
Thanks in advance
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****... so tried to flash stock in odin and it failed. why?

whooo second time it worked. made me pucker up the old bung...

MRDOCA said:
Hey im wanting to go back to stock unrooted to get the ota that just dropped here in NZ. Its not on sammobile or anywhere and i hate waiting.
Now my question is this:
If i make a data backup in twrp can i put that back on after i reroot etc? No idea, I always use Titanium Backup
Also is this the correct procedure to go back to stock (never done it before... never had too) Yes
Flash AP of my stock rom in odin? Nothing else? Correct
That will kill my twrp wont it as it will flash back the stock recovery? Also, correct
Phone will be able to OTA even though i was previously rooted? Based on prior experience with S5, yes.
Will i need to wipe my data etc to go back to stock completly if so how? Nope! I didn't wipe anything and am firmly back to stock.
Think thats all i need to know...
Thanks in advance
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I stumbled on your thread because I had these same questions. I skipped the S6 series & forgot what I'd learned from my S5. I figured, what the hell, lets see what happens.
For anyone else with the same questions, my answers are in red above.

It did wipe it cos i had twrp so it couldnt read my phone on stock. Bit of a pain but oh well thank goodness for smart switch. Now my phone still wont see the OTA. So did this for nothing lol. Rang samsung to see why they are calling me back. It didnt find the OTA before rooting either it always says im on the latest firmware... which im not
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