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[Q] Lost root after OTA update.

This is my situation...
I recently rooted for my Wildfire using Unrevoked3, have no installed any custom roms whatsoever.
To install the new firmware (Update 1.25.405.1) i followed a guide which involved renaming it to update.zip and used clockmodrecovery to install update.zip from the SD card.
Update was successful however i lost the root (as expected)
I tried to rerun unrevoked 3 to reroot but all it does is reboot my device and it remains unrooted.
On the HBOOT recovery menu i now get a red triangle with an exclamation mark against a black background. i do power + volume up and it says android system recovery and in yellow 'E: Cant open/cache/recovery command'
How can i reroot my phone so i can use apps such as titanium backup once again? (and yes ive tried to install busybox and i get a failed error message)
I have looked around the forums and made lots of searches some of which address this question but i am yet to find a solution which works... Im sorry if this question is redundant as i am new to this sorta thing.
Thanks.

Did you follow this guide?
Update: What I did to succesfully install the update on a rooted phone
- unplug phone from USB, let it download update (it's about 13 Mb in size)
- phone will ask to reboot -> update will fail, you will be dumped in clockworkmod
- As always, do a Nandroid backup before doing anything that might possibly render your phone unusable.
- Select update from zip/sdcard (or similar), navigate to zip in downloads folder
- the update process will start
- reboot (this can be a longer boot than usual, took 10 minutes on my phone)
- phone will notify you that the update has succeeded! If you've upgraded from your stock ROM (like I did), the phone info screen should look similar to that in the attached image.
- (reflash needed for root)
It doesn't say to rename the file though.
I'm going to do this now (im guessing youre on TM too?)

thanks for the info, i'm just about to do the same thing, after trying [ROM][04/10] WildPuzzleROM v8.0.5; until i realised there are still problems, got scared and restroed nandroid backup Couldn't get marketplace to load?
when phone reboots after downloading the update, i guess its supposed to be installed by the recovery program, but i have clockworkmod, I tried apply sdcard:update; get error back with failed to open update.zip and sig veri failed.
Not sure what to do? Will try booting normally, checking sd theres a file called 'OTA_Buzz_TMO_UK_1.25.110.1_R-1.14.110.1_R_release31o90ome6fwgje76.zip' on the sd card under download folder. will try renaming to update.zip and placing in \sdcard root folder
otherwise i'm thinking rom manager to install, but mobilism is down it seems and can't get hold of it
EDIT: Just rename the update put it in the \sdroot. Boot into recovery and install update.zip. works fine, takes ages, very scarey process.
Will try going back to puzzle when i have more time! Lets hope 1.25 don't crash as frequently!

Yes, i did follow all those instructions and it still didnt work. However i have managed to reroot my wildfire haha so problem is resolved. It was a stupid problem, after i rooted the first time, i reinstalled htc sync to sync some stuff but forgot to uninstall. After uninstalling it again i was able to reroot.
Sorry guys... very silly mistake by me.

[HELP]After attempting to install UB phone bootloops and loaded stock recovery

THIS IS A SPRINT INTERCEPT!!!!
So I loaded UB droid onto my intercept now for whatever reason it decided to load stock recovery and hang at UB load screen. Now the phone wont boot to android and is stuck and bootloops. Heres what i have at my disposal.....
1. A copy of SW Update, but its the copy for the moment......I tried to connect to my intercept but it searches and cant find it.
2. The ability to get to stock recovery and download mode.....So its a soft brick if i had a signed update pack that worked i could load that over it. or a way to turn of the check for signed zips? I tried loading the update.zip file that they gave us when the first one bricked our phones but it didnt work said (status 7)????
3. A computer with ADB fully loaded...if i need to i can use that to help unbrick the phone.
4. I also have the following files DLO5 completely stock.zip (unsigned), UB4, the update.zip file for the intercept (signed), the mr which is in a tar.md5 file.
Heres what ive tried....
1. Using SWupdate to load the ship MR:
Problem with this method is that the SWupdate cant find my phone..and the intercept is coming up as a unknown device.
2. Loading a stock update.zip file... Comes back with installation aborted....see above.
Any suggestions?

http://intercept-root.googlecode.com/files/interceptRoot.apk this is how i did it over the phone to a friend i had him download and install the intercept root and cmwflsher then install the almost stock rom" then just wipe davic and install ud6 then the super kernal package it works well and has support for teathering ! should be set!
unlocked bootloader att. atrix. honeycomb rom. faux oc kernal

The same thing happened to me, and this was the perfect solution. Just download the almost stock, apply it in CM01, then after that wipe EVERYTHING!!
But unless you can charge your phone every couple hours, i wouldnt suggest UB6. It destroyed my battery life... I redid that almost stock and my phone hasnt needed to be charged for almost 2 days... UB6 is a battery raper, but its a sweet ROM

I ended up getting in download and flashed a stock image from there I rooted it loaded recovery etc.
Sent from my MB855

i screwed my phone too cuz im a noob ofcourse. i tried rooting my phone using inxane0381intercept.tar with SWUpgrade and then i put a custom recovery on it, and it wont boot
i can get into the custom recovery and the SWU download mode.
please help me

its all good if no one feels like helpin, i shoulda never messed around

New bootloader Image file

First off my build is 4.53.651.1. I did the update thru sprint and followed all the unrooting procedures on here and re-rooted. I tried using the existing pc36img file on it to bring back to stock and it says wrong bootloader and skips it.
The problem i am running into at this point is that my wallpaper will not change and after i had an alarm set that is now my ringtone. I cannot get anything to change. I need to see if someone has the img file of the new bootloader so i can just flash it and be done with it. I would bring it back to bone stock and go from there. does anyone have this file or does it even exist? thanks

mishap while flashing back to stock.how/where to get original fw. is it bricked?

i had root per odin + cwm + x-note v5.1 rom. had mj1, but knoxed it 01.
since i wanted to return the device, i wanted to get the original branded firmware. instead of reading a lot of pages (took me quite some
reading to flash a different rom as a noob), i thought i take a short cut and went ahead and pressed reset on the regular settings menu
(thinking, that somewhere on the device the original fw should be stored). i wiped everything off. so after that, while booting up only the
x-logo appeared and nothing else happend. i had to take the battery away to stop it spinning perpetually. i have no clue, but i suppose i
took root away while erasing everything and that's why i can't start the device or pass the booting process.
so here's my question: how to get root again? how to start the device w/o it beeing in this perpetual x-note 5.1 cross? and where to get
the original fw? how to proceed to get back to the original fw? is it definitely bricked? things are getting over my head and i have till tomorrow to fix this problem.
hadn't made a backup. the only backup i have is an efs backup (14mb file). how do i proceed to get back to a branded firmware ? and where
to get it.
any help is appreciated. thx

zenorth said:
i had root per odin + cwm + x-note v5.1 rom. had mj1, but knoxed it 01.
since i wanted to return the device, i wanted to get the original branded firmware. instead of reading a lot of pages (took me quite some
reading to flash a different rom as a noob), i thought i take a short cut and went ahead and pressed reset on the regular settings menu
(thinking, that somewhere on the device the original fw should be stored). i wiped everything off. so after that, while booting up only the
x-logo appeared and nothing else happend. i had to take the battery away to stop it spinning perpetually. i have no clue, but i suppose i
took root away while erasing everything and that's why i can't start the device or pass the booting process.
so here's my question: how to get root again? how to start the device w/o it beeing in this perpetual x-note 5.1 cross? and where to get
the original fw? how to proceed to get back to the original fw? is it definitely bricked? things are getting over my head and i have till tomorrow to fix this problem.
hadn't made a backup. the only backup i have is an efs backup (14mb file). how do i proceed to get back to a branded firmware ? and where
to get it.
any help is appreciated. thx
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get it from www.sammobile.com
the problem is the download links there are down have a look and see if it works you might be lucky

hi jaythenut,
thanx for your answer, i heard of sammobile. is there another place? and i'm still not aware how to solve my prob> reinstall cwm + the rom
or bypass that and go directly to the other original rom? as of right now, there's just a constant boot. any ideas? in case i would be able
to install a new rom and the device is not bricked, how to unroot after installing the original fw? via supersu? it says permanently
unroot. how permanently is that?

zenorth said:
hi jaythenut,
thanx for your answer, i heard of sammobile. is there another place? and i'm still not aware how to solve my prob> reinstall cwm + the rom
or bypass that and go directly to the other original rom? as of right now, there's just a constant boot. any ideas? in case i would be able
to install a new rom and the device is not bricked, how to unroot after installing the original fw? via supersu? it says permanently
unroot. how permanently is that?
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It's not permanently unroot you can root it any time you want
Have you got Cwm on the phone if so just flash a new rom if you want stock this one is stock http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2461929

hi jaythenut, i hit the thx button this time.
i've got the fw now. not via sammobile since they had a rapidgator link and it wasn't free. i went into cwm recovery mode and re-installed the x-note 5.1 rom, so now the device is alive and running. good. now, that i got the branded mj1 fw, do i install it via odin or via cwm recovery? as a zip or extracted? and afterwards, when the fw branded rom is back on, how do i unroot the device? with supersu? and how do i delete the cwm itself as i don't want to leave a trace or obvious trace when i go into the shop and try to return it? thx for any input

[Q] help in re-rooting phone

Can anyone please help?
I have a Samsung Note 3 SM- n9005 Jellybean 4.3
I successfully rooted the phone about 7 months ago with odin
I tried to run game-cheats I think it was called about 2 months ago and it said it didnt have root privileges and wouldnt find or change the coin values in some games i wanted to play around with. I know i can use modded games and I know how to find "coin/RP etc. value" and change the number that way.
I talked to a technician in a local phone shop and he advised me that the root had not been installed properly. To un-root phone and then re-root it.
I think it was superSU? I had and I pressed the permanent un-root.
I tried to use the same tar file to re-root phone and it boot-looped (SE-android not enforcing caper). which I fixed after searching through the forums for answers
I was very careful to get the correct 4.3 tar file and not the 4.4 file. I have downloaded the file 2 or 3 times and it still bootloops but says PASS.
I have installed CWM.
I have tried to re root phone with Kingo (making sure KIES is turned off), which says phone rooted successfully(but root checker says its not rooted), I then tried framaroot apk, Vroot, rootgenius and another program. (all saying its a tough phone and it cant be rooted)
Why cant the phone be re-rooted?
Has the permanent unroot with superSU done exactly that?
Will getting rid of the bootloop with a recovery tar unroot the phone?
why is odin bootlooping the phone? (I have used the latest odin and I have also tried earlier versions as suggested in some forums)
If I do a factory reset will that be sufficient to allow me to root the phone again?
If I get the official 4.3 quallcom firmware and install that will it let me root the phone again?
if I update to KitKat 4.4 will that let me re-root?
Could I be having troubles because Knox has been tripped?
Im not really worried if I hardbrick the phone, ill just get another one, but im stubborn and I dont really want to let it beat me.
If possible could the reply not be to technical all I really want to do is understand whats happening/what I have done
Then What can I do to re-root the phone? because if what has to be done is to technical it would be easier to get a new phone and start again

mickeyjack01 said:
Can anyone please help?
I have a Samsung Note 3 SM- n9005 Jellybean 4.3
I successfully rooted the phone about 7 months ago with odin
I tried to run game-cheats I think it was called about 2 months ago and it said it didnt have root privileges and wouldnt find or change the coin values in some games i wanted to play around with. I know i can use modded games and I know how to find "coin/RP etc. value" and change the number that way.
I talked to a technician in a local phone shop and he advised me that the root had not been installed properly. To un-root phone and then re-root it.
I think it was superSU? I had and I pressed the permanent un-root.
I tried to use the same tar file to re-root phone and it boot-looped (SE-android not enforcing caper). which I fixed after searching through the forums for answers
I was very careful to get the correct 4.3 tar file and not the 4.4 file. I have downloaded the file 2 or 3 times and it still bootloops but says PASS.
I have installed CWM.
I have tried to re root phone with Kingo (making sure KIES is turned off), which says phone rooted successfully(but root checker says its not rooted), I then tried framaroot apk, Vroot, rootgenius and another program. (all saying its a tough phone and it cant be rooted)
Why cant the phone be re-rooted?
Has the permanent unroot with superSU done exactly that?
Will getting rid of the bootloop with a recovery tar unroot the phone?
why is odin bootlooping the phone? (I have used the latest odin and I have also tried earlier versions as suggested in some forums)
If I do a factory reset will that be sufficient to allow me to root the phone again?
If I get the official 4.3 quallcom firmware and install that will it let me root the phone again?
if I update to KitKat 4.4 will that let me re-root?
Could I be having troubles because Knox has been tripped?
Im not really worried if I hardbrick the phone, ill just get another one, but im stubborn and I dont really want to let it beat me.
If possible could the reply not be to technical all I really want to do is understand whats happening/what I have done
Then What can I do to re-root the phone? because if what has to be done is to technical it would be easier to get a new phone and start again
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just choose a firmware from sammobile.com
download it
flash it using Odin
boot it normally
flash CF-Autoroot

mickeyjack01 said:
Can anyone please help?
I have a Samsung Note 3 SM- n9005 Jellybean 4.3
I successfully rooted the phone about 7 months ago with odin
I tried to run game-cheats I think it was called about 2 months ago and it said it didnt have root privileges and wouldnt find or change the coin values in some games i wanted to play around with. I know i can use modded games and I know how to find "coin/RP etc. value" and change the number that way.
I talked to a technician in a local phone shop and he advised me that the root had not been installed properly. To un-root phone and then re-root it.
I think it was superSU? I had and I pressed the permanent un-root.
I tried to use the same tar file to re-root phone and it boot-looped (SE-android not enforcing caper). which I fixed after searching through the forums for answers
I was very careful to get the correct 4.3 tar file and not the 4.4 file. I have downloaded the file 2 or 3 times and it still bootloops but says PASS.
I have installed CWM.
I have tried to re root phone with Kingo (making sure KIES is turned off), which says phone rooted successfully(but root checker says its not rooted), I then tried framaroot apk, Vroot, rootgenius and another program. (all saying its a tough phone and it cant be rooted)
Why cant the phone be re-rooted?
Has the permanent unroot with superSU done exactly that?
Will getting rid of the bootloop with a recovery tar unroot the phone?
why is odin bootlooping the phone? (I have used the latest odin and I have also tried earlier versions as suggested in some forums)
If I do a factory reset will that be sufficient to allow me to root the phone again?
If I get the official 4.3 quallcom firmware and install that will it let me root the phone again?
if I update to KitKat 4.4 will that let me re-root?
Could I be having troubles because Knox has been tripped?
Im not really worried if I hardbrick the phone, ill just get another one, but im stubborn and I dont really want to let it beat me.
If possible could the reply not be to technical all I really want to do is understand whats happening/what I have done
Then What can I do to re-root the phone? because if what has to be done is to technical it would be easier to get a new phone and start again
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Have u tried to update supersu from playstore?
if yes and it is still not rooted, try to flash stock firmware as advise, boot into stock recovery after that and do full wipe/factory reset.
after that u shld be able to root.
pls note wiping in srock recovery will erase all ur internal storage.
Sent from somewhere under the sky, at the corner of this rounded earth.

sammobile seems a ?
hi thanks.
I have tried about 10 times now after opening up an account, to download file from sammobile going to firmware and typing model getting to note 3LTE Telstra model the file wont unzip. What have you got to pay to get a zip that will unzip??? I have just downloaded another zip program both saying errors inside zip
is there any other place that would likely have the telstra file i need?
yes i tried updating SuperSU and it wont update. Reading up on the problem which seems common the answer requires me to copy zip files to sd card and then unzip them inside CWM its now starting to get too technical for me which is why I have started asking you guys questions. I have tried SU update fixer, nothing. and the equivalent for Superuser ,they wont update. Over the last month I have tried uninstalling ,deleting and wiping cache and wiping delvek cache with CWM.
some where inside CWM it said something about press this to root phone what is that for ? or has that to do more with zip files?
and yes I know i can do a factory reset and yesterday i bought an sd card to transfer the game data etc to.
how come using APPMGR111 and APP2sdand they say apps can be transferred to sd card(My sim card) which is much to small to accommodate all the apps but cant be transfered to External card (32 gb card bought yesterday morning) so do I need to do something silly like formatting external SD
Oh, If its important I am only interested in using the phone as a media and game playing device and as such i have turned off the sim card but left it in the phone and transfered the phone number to another simcard and given it to my wife for her S2 which uses a larger card. I just access google play etc through wifi.
also, i have tried using different cables as well as different USB ports, but do you think another computer??? completely. I go back to work next week so anything like that has to be done over the next couple of days while I am home.
And I was told in the shop yesterday when I bought the sd card to tap android version several times because sometimes what you can see (4.3) is different for some reason but it just has a picture of a Jellybean and says 4.3 (the man said here it might say 4.2.1)
will I have to flash stock firmware first? or can i just go strait to factory reset, if I have to go down that road. If so then I wont need to worry about Sammobile and the unzippable file????? I can just do the factory reset strait from CWM?? Or doesnt it work like that??

mickeyjack01 said:
hi thanks.
I have tried about 10 times now after opening up an account, to download file from sammobile going to firmware and typing model getting to note 3LTE Telstra model the file wont unzip. What have you got to pay to get a zip that will unzip??? I have just downloaded another zip program both saying errors inside zip
is there any other place that would likely have the telstra file i need?
yes i tried updating SuperSU and it wont update. Reading up on the problem which seems common the answer requires me to copy zip files to sd card and then unzip them inside CWM its now starting to get too technical for me which is why I have started asking you guys questions. I have tried SU update fixer, nothing. and the equivalent for Superuser ,they wont update. Over the last month I have tried uninstalling ,deleting and wiping cache and wiping delvek cache with CWM.
some where inside CWM it said something about press this to root phone what is that for ? or has that to do more with zip files?
and yes I know i can do a factory reset and yesterday i bought an sd card to transfer the game data etc to.
how come using APPMGR111 and APP2sdand they say apps can be transferred to sd card(My sim card) which is much to small to accommodate all the apps but cant be transfered to External card (32 gb card bought yesterday morning) so do I need to do something silly like formatting external SD
Oh, If its important I am only interested in using the phone as a media and game playing device and as such i have turned off the sim card but left it in the phone and transfered the phone number to another simcard and given it to my wife for her S2 which uses a larger card. I just access google play etc through wifi.
also, i have tried using different cables as well as different USB ports, but do you think another computer??? completely. I go back to work next week so anything like that has to be done over the next couple of days while I am home.
And I was told in the shop yesterday when I bought the sd card to tap android version several times because sometimes what you can see (4.3) is different for some reason but it just has a picture of a Jellybean and says 4.3 (the man said here it might say 4.2.1)
will I have to flash stock firmware first? or can i just go strait to factory reset, if I have to go down that road. If so then I wont need to worry about Sammobile and the unzippable file????? I can just do the factory reset strait from CWM?? Or doesnt it work like that??
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the zip file from samfirmware.com is not flashable by cwm.
u have to unzip using any of the zip program, till u got the tar or md5 (i forgot ), then flash it from odin. there's instructions on the download page as well.
u can't unzip from cwm.
If u have tried to unzip from any pc software and still can't unzip, means u got a corrupted download.
the factory reset in cwm is different from the stock recovery.
Sent from somewhere under the sky, at the corner of this rounded earth.

sorry missunderstanding
didnt try to use CWM for flashing am using Odin but zip file wont open to access tar file for odin.
That is what I thought the file I am trying to open is corrupted.My question was, seeing as how the file is corrupted is there anywhere else that I can get the file other than sammobile?
mmmm ok thanks then please just for interest what is the root button for inside CWM?
Sorry my questions do jump around a bit
I also read that nobody has found a way to access the built in recovery mode of note smn9005
that is why we have to use programs like CWM-recovery??
the other coment about factory reset. So georgesmh comment about flashing cf-autoroot. Seeing as how file is corrupted and if I cant get a copy from another source. all I have to do to factory reset is hit that particular button inside CWM? is that correct?
and i think I have an answer for my other question about the sd card the answer is No I cant save the games to the sd card I have lost them if I do a fActory reset. The only way to seems to be is to have a phone that is already rooted to use titanium something or other.
Thats alright really I had fun with the games before and it would be fun to do it again.
doing a factory reset is there any chance I can brick the phone?

mickeyjack01 said:
sorry missunderstanding
didnt try to use CWM for flashing am using Odin but zip file wont open to access tar file for odin.
That is what I thought the file I am trying to open is corrupted.My question was, seeing as how the file is corrupted is there anywhere else that I can get the file other than sammobile?
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you can try from here. but I don't think the thread is updated to the latest one.
mickeyjack01 said:
mmmm ok thanks then please just for interest what is the root button for inside CWM?
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this one I don't understand
but, to root with CF-autoroot, you don't need CWM. you only need the correct file for your device and for your firmware from CF-autoroot thread, and flash it through ODIN PC at PDA / AP tab in device download mode.
mickeyjack01 said:
Sorry my questions do jump around a bit
I also read that nobody has found a way to access the built in recovery mode of note smn9005
that is why we have to use programs like CWM-recovery??
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this one also I'm not quite understand your question
what do you mean by access the built in recovery ?
in N9005, stock (built in) recovery is used for doing factory reset (mainly and mostly), to have a clean internal storage, you have to do factory reset (full wiping - system/data/cache) from stock recovery.
Stock recovery can be used to flash zip files as well, BUT, only those are being digitally signed by Samsung can be flashed here. Otherwise, it won't flash.
Most of custom-ROM, custom-Kernel, custom-MOD, custom-Themes are not digitally signed by Samsung, because this is a 3rd party developers' products (here in XDA, and maybe from other forums). Therefore, to flash these type of zip files, you will need a custom recovery (CWM, Philz touch CWM, or TWRP).
mickeyjack01 said:
the other coment about factory reset. So georgesmh comment about flashing cf-autoroot. Seeing as how file is corrupted and if I cant get a copy from another source. all I have to do to factory reset is hit that particular button inside CWM? is that correct?
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sorry, this one i don't understand what you mean at all
mickeyjack01 said:
and i think I have an answer for my other question about the sd card the answer is No I cant save the games to the sd card I have lost them if I do a fActory reset. The only way to seems to be is to have a phone that is already rooted to use titanium something or other.
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Factory reset, in builtin (stock) recovery, WON'T delete anything on your external SD card. ONLY your internal storage
So if you need a backup of anything, do the one you store inside internal storage.
mickeyjack01 said:
Thats alright really I had fun with the games before and it would be fun to do it again.
doing a factory reset is there any chance I can brick the phone?
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If you flashed a correct firmware for your device, and doin the factory reset from inside stock recovery, I never heard got ppl can brick the phone by doing this.
This brick thing only happen earlier on Note 1 (due to emmc brick bugs), but not on Note 2 and note 3.
I might be misunderstood of your questions
Sorry if I ever did that