hello guys,
here's a list of questions I have compiled which were bothering me since i bought my SGS, hope you take your time and answer these:
What is "root"-ing. How different is it from flashing a firmware on motherboard and installing an OS on to a hard drive?
Does rooting an android device kill its warranty?
Which way is the best and reliable way to root my SGS?
How do I bring back my SGS to Factory state after I root my phone?
Is there a way that I can download the AOSP off the android site and install it on my phone.
I'm with O2 (UK) and I'm required to send blank text to a number. My SGS doesnt allow me to send blank texts. How do I send blank texts? :/
How do I integrate my contacts with the ones from Facebook/Google, when I dont want all the contacts from other sources to be shown in my contacts?
regards,
emc
Quick answers:
1. Root = full control of os ( linux superuser capability) it has nothing to do with flashing firmwares
2. YES
3. search the forum or google for Galaxy s rooting (very easy 10 min max)
4. firmware reflash or
*#*#7780#*#*
This code can be used for a factory data reset. It'll remove following things:
Google account settings stored in your phone
System and application data and settings
Downloaded
5. no. that is vanilla android with no drivers. look for vanilla custom rom for SGS on forum
6. I work for a carrier in Romania so i know : IT DOESN'T MATTER IS YOU PUT TEXT IN IT (just put a letter in it and send)
7.CONTACTS->Menu-> Display options
Hope it helps. Good luck.
thanks, your answers were helpful, but raised a few more question now.
if rooting has nothing to do with flashing firmwares, why does one have to reflash fimware to return to factory state? (can you explain technically?)
I still need to figure out how to setup friends in contacts, I've already enabled contacts from facebook/google.. What I wanted to know is how do I filter people from the list so that I can see only selected of them in my contacts and not all?
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edit:
just saw that my Kies asked me to upgrade to JM1. should I do it?
If I do it will *#*#7780#*#* bring my phone back to JF3 (default)? or will it bring to JM1
emclondon said:
if rooting has nothing to do with flashing firmwares, why does one have to reflash fimware to return to factory state?
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You don't HAVE to reflash the firmware technically, rooting basically just overwrites a few files (generally, the kernel). Technically, it should be possible to simply revert the files to unroot the phone. But the only reason you would probably want to unroot anyway is to send the phone in for service, and first thing they'll do is reflash your phone with a firmware which is known to work anyway.. So you might as well.
In regards to the warranty status after rooting, it's actually a grey area as to whether it affects the warranty. If you flash with the I9000M rom, yes, Samsung probably wont be impressed. It is always better to reflash with clean firmware before returning it to service, but unless there is evidence that rooting messed up the hardware on your phone, it's probably unlikely they would reject warranty. But better to be safe.
I don't think Samsung encrypted the bootloader sequence, and had they been concerned, they would have probably disabled USB debugging within the firmware.
ok thanks ^_^
now a few more questions:
whats a clockworkmod recovery?
whats a samset?
whats an odin?
do you suggest me to upgrade my firmware?
how do i backup my current firmware?
If it ain't broke, don't fix it is my moto . Do you experience any problems with your handset ? Like lags , lockups or anything of that sort? If you don't, then I think its better if you leave it as it is. Just apply the lagFix if you want to, but I see no reason to flash your phone to a different version right now.
I have flashed many phones before (where it was much riskier than Galaxy flashing) But I still didn't flash my Galaxy S , because I simply dont see the need to change to another 2.1. I'm waiting for Samsung to release official froyo 2.2. I suggest you wait for that too.
my phone lags a lot
I share phonix view and motto. If you do experience problems post symptoms before doing something like reflash or factory reset.
Sent from my GT-I9000 using XDA App
Lag can be easely fixed with a patch. You get root and lag patch in one pack. Will try to post a link.
http://***forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=7587405&postcount=417
Delete the 3 stars in front of forum
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emclondon said:
just saw that my Kies asked me to upgrade to JM1. should I do it?
If I do it will *#*#7780#*#* bring my phone back to JF3 (default)? or will it bring to JM1
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updgraded my phone and did a factory reset, phone DOES NOT GOES BACK TO JF3!
just for your info
that's because u upgraded/flashed a complete new rom which replaced the old one there for factory reset will give u the latest firmware/upgrade that u have installed.
Dear XDA forum users and administrators
I have an Xperia X10i who had some problems, it was rebooting sometimes by itself (android 1.6) and also the network interception was bad so I decided to upgrade to 2.1.
Backup sms's and contacts done.
Upgrade started with the SE pc companion, but the bar of installation to phone progress filled till "almost" to the end and it stopped with, upgrade failed, check battery min 50% and retry or contact support SE.
Battery check ok
Retried several times but no success.
(and not rooted)
Now the x10i doesnt boot anymore and I receive a yellow exlamation mark with a litlle phone icon.
Now I searched for a while in the forum and tried different things, to flash towards shipped rom (but i dont know which it is actually stupid of me that i didnt check that) also on youtube from people mentioning the forum xda developpers etc, no success.
Also tried with repair using SEUS, at the end of the progress bar, just to be finished but no it stops with same error.
Still receiving the yellow triangle exlamation mark and phone icon.
Has anyone any idea how to solve this please?
I know I need to install the firmware by flashing but I dont succeed, has anyone suggestions tips who had this also?
I know there are a lot of threads where this flashing solved it but in my case this doesnt goes the way it should do.
I had also some problems when trying to flash, it says cannot find the specified file or path, this i received also (wanted to mention it)
Is there a way to take an image (backup with firmware) of another xperia and "restore" it on this one?
Thanx in advance to all of you who wants to help me out.
Regards,
Ok; as a disclaimer, I am a long-time Rooter. For the record, I have not rooted since I had my Note 3; since then I have had a Note 4 and now an S7 Edge. This Sunday, after I had taken Sprint's newest security release (Sprint = PF2) I noticed that my WiFi would not enable. If you enabled it, it would say it was connecting, but then it would just switch back off. I started to dig into what was going on. I then rebooted into recovery...only to see that my binary was CUSTOM....Knox was/is not tripped. I then restart the phone to find in settings that my phone is no longer listed as official, it is now CUSTOM. Now I irritatedly factory reset my phone from settings. All is now clean and OFFICIAL. I try to enable Wifi, nope, it will not turn on. I then restart into recovery to find my device is now CUSTOM again....Rinse and repeat. I then do a factory reset from recovery...same failed result after a restart of the phone. Sprint failed to resolve (I have a replacement coming) and the Samsung REP at Best Buy was flabbergasted. The Samsung REP worked his magic only to realize that his magic did not resolve the issue either. I do not have HummingBad; scans have proven negative, in addition to a factory restart resolving that virus (even if I had it).
Now I find out that a friend of mine's--Sister-in-Law has an S7 with T-Mobile having the same CUSTOM Rom issue; although she is not having the WiFi issue.
This has got to do with the phone/version of Android.
What are everyone's thoughts?
Thank you for reading;
Nick
bigbad614 said:
Ok; as a disclaimer, I am a long-time Rooter. For the record, I have not rooted since I had my Note 3; since then I have had a Note 4 and now an S7 Edge. This Sunday, after I had taken Sprint's newest security release (Sprint = PF2) I noticed that my WiFi would not enable. If you enabled it, it would say it was connecting, but then it would just switch back off. I started to dig into what was going on. I then rebooted into recovery...only to see that my binary was CUSTOM....Knox was/is not tripped. I then restart the phone to find in settings that my phone is no longer listed as official, it is now CUSTOM. Now I irritatedly factory reset my phone from settings. All is now clean and OFFICIAL. I try to enable Wifi, nope, it will not turn on. I then restart into recovery to find my device is now CUSTOM again....Rinse and repeat. I then do a factory reset from recovery...same failed result after a restart of the phone. Sprint failed to resolve (I have a replacement coming) and the Samsung REP at Best Buy was flabbergasted. The Samsung REP worked his magic only to realize that his magic did not resolve the issue either. I do not have HummingBad; scans have proven negative, in addition to a factory restart resolving that virus (even if I had it).
Now I find out that a friend of mine's--Sister-in-Law has an S7 with T-Mobile having the same CUSTOM Rom issue; although she is not having the WiFi issue.
This has got to do with the phone/version of Android.
What are everyone's thoughts?
Thank you for reading;
Nick
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That's strange, I've never seen or experienced that before in all my time of owning samsung devices. Did you try wiping everything from the recovery menu and then reflashing your stock firmware with odin?
I am with you on the "never seen or experienced that before in all my time owning Android devices." I have been running Android since the Evo. I wiped with recovery and let it rebuild on its own, I wiped from settings and let it rebuild, I flashed in Odin, Sprint did their magic wipe, Samsung did their magic wipe...in all of the cases, the phone boots up as Official and recovery shows Official. Once the phone restarts, the loop of CUSTOM starts....
I am totally baffled. It bothers me that my replacement might be refurbished...on top of that, I think it could happen again.
S7 Edge is custom after Samsung update
My phone just got an update yesterday and I let it update overnight/reboot.
After the update my stock/never rooted device is now also custom and I'm blocked from checking for system updates. I do not have the wifi issues, this is the T-Mobile variant.
I have emailed Samsung as I purposely avoided modifying this phone and now I don't want their accidental triggering of 'custom' to block my ability to have the phone maintained.
Samsung's terrible online chat team is of no use, I reached them after the email above received a "we don't support custom roms" when I clearly stated it was not rooted and not modified. So went to online chat and I'm told "it's rooted, because it says custom" - thanks for calling me a liar cheap front line support.
Then I'm told it's a custom rom because the baseband is not matching their database! That's funny I found the baseband as a release from July 10th as official.
http://pdadb.net/index.php?m=reposi..._s7_edge_android_6.0.1_system_update_uvu3apg1
Not a happy consumer right now.
wowwashington said:
"we don't support custom roms" .
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If your S7E came from Sprint and has a Sprint ROM, AFAIK Samsung generally doesn't support "customized" (by operators) models directly.
As the ROM has been customized by Sprint, the baseband version is not present in the Samsung own database.
Therefore IMHO only the Sprint customer service could help you.
bigbad614 said:
Ok; as a disclaimer, I am a long-time Rooter. For the record, I have not rooted since I had my Note 3; since then I have had a Note 4 and now an S7 Edge. This Sunday, after I had taken Sprint's newest security release (Sprint = PF2) I noticed that my WiFi would not enable. If you enabled it, it would say it was connecting, but then it would just switch back off. I started to dig into what was going on. I then rebooted into recovery...only to see that my binary was CUSTOM....Knox was/is not tripped. I then restart the phone to find in settings that my phone is no longer listed as official, it is now CUSTOM. Now I irritatedly factory reset my phone from settings. All is now clean and OFFICIAL. I try to enable Wifi, nope, it will not turn on. I then restart into recovery to find my device is now CUSTOM again....Rinse and repeat. I then do a factory reset from recovery...same failed result after a restart of the phone. Sprint failed to resolve (I have a replacement coming) and the Samsung REP at Best Buy was flabbergasted. The Samsung REP worked his magic only to realize that his magic did not resolve the issue either. I do not have HummingBad; scans have proven negative, in addition to a factory restart resolving that virus (even if I had it).
Now I find out that a friend of mine's--Sister-in-Law has an S7 with T-Mobile having the same CUSTOM Rom issue; although she is not having the WiFi issue.
This has got to do with the phone/version of Android.
What are everyone's thoughts?
Thank you for reading;
Nick
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Hi Nick. I have an s7edge. I am having the exact same issues. Exactly the same. My carrier is T-Mobile. I was wondering if you or if anyone has had any resolutions for this problem. I am totally Blown Away by what has been going on the last couple weeks for me with this issue. Thanks Keith G
That's really crazy ut seems new to me anyways I've learnt here
What happens when you search for OTA updates?
Do you get a message saying something like "Your device has been modified, no updates available"?
themissionimpossible said:
What happens when you search for OTA updates?
Do you get a message saying something like "Your device has been modified, no updates available"?
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Here's what you get when you go to check for OTA - note, on my phone no other odd behavior is seen - other than device status = custom.
In this situation you'll likely never get new OTA updates...
I suspect that something went wrong during the latest T-Mobile OTA update...
If you are able to find the original T-Mobile ROM you might try to reflash your phone and start over.
themissionimpossible said:
In this situation you'll likely never get new OTA updates...
I suspect that something went wrong during the latest T-Mobile OTA update...
If you are able to find the original T-Mobile ROM you might try to reflash your phone and start over.
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Samsung recommends that I take my phone to a Best Buy Samsung Experience location and have them flash over the OS - leaving the apps/data in place. I've yet to find a location that can do this.
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bigbad614 said:
Ok; as a disclaimer, I am a long-time Rooter. For the record, I have not rooted since I had my Note 3; since then I have had a Note 4 and now an S7 Edge. This Sunday, after I had taken Sprint's newest security release (Sprint = PF2) I noticed that my WiFi would not enable. If you enabled it, it would say it was connecting, but then it would just switch back off. I started to dig into what was going on. I then rebooted into recovery...only to see that my binary was CUSTOM....Knox was/is not tripped. I then restart the phone to find in settings that my phone is no longer listed as official, it is now CUSTOM. Now I irritatedly factory reset my phone from settings. All is now clean and OFFICIAL. I try to enable Wifi, nope, it will not turn on. I then restart into recovery to find my device is now CUSTOM again....Rinse and repeat. I then do a factory reset from recovery...same failed result after a restart of the phone. Sprint failed to resolve (I have a replacement coming) and the Samsung REP at Best Buy was flabbergasted. The Samsung REP worked his magic only to realize that his magic did not resolve the issue either. I do not have HummingBad; scans have proven negative, in addition to a factory restart resolving that virus (even if I had it).
Now I find out that a friend of mine's--Sister-in-Law has an S7 with T-Mobile having the same CUSTOM Rom issue; although she is not having the WiFi issue.
This has got to do with the phone/version of Android.
What are everyone's thoughts?
Thank you for reading;
Nick
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Wow, after some wasted time with Samsung and trying to get help from their people at Best Buy. I stumbled across a potential fix!
Using old examples of the same 'suddenly custom' I found that the following put my S7 Edge back to 'Offical" after being custom for 3 days.
1) Power Off for 5+ seconds
2) Press and hold Volume Up and hit Power
3) Unlock icon/custom should be gone!
4) Release both buttons
5) Sign in
6) Settings/status/device status, this may be set at scanning for 45 seconds
themissionimpossible said:
What happens when you search for OTA updates?
Do you get a message saying something like "Your device has been modified, no updates available"?
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My S7edge says that my device has been modified in an unauthorized way. Try using Smart Switch with your PC to manually download updates. ..... Keith G
Keith G said:
Try using Smart Switch with your PC to manually download updates. .....
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It's always worth a try...
Keith G said:
My S7edge says that my device has been modified in an unauthorized way. Try using Smart Switch with your PC to manually download updates. ..... Keith G
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Try what fixed my phone
1) Power Off for 5+ seconds
2) Press and hold Volume Up and hit/hold Power
3) Unlock icon/custom should be gone!
4) Release both buttons
5) Sign in
6) Settings/status/device status, this may be set at scanning for 45 seconds
Sprint has since replaced my phone and I updated straight to current and have had no issues for 8 days.
I had tried everything....this has been the only solution that stuck...
wowwashington said:
Try what fixed my phone
1) Power Off for 5+ seconds
2) Press and hold Volume Up and hit/hold Power
3) Unlock icon/custom should be gone!
4) Release both buttons
5) Sign in
6) Settings/status/device status, this may be set at scanning for 45 seconds
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Could you explain those steps in a little more detail... Should I go into recovery for that... Thank you... Keith G
Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge using XDA Labs
wowwashington said:
Try what fixed my phone
1) Power Off for 5+ seconds
2) Press and hold Volume Up and hit/hold Power
3) Unlock icon/custom should be gone!
4) Release both buttons
5) Sign in
6) Settings/status/device status, this may be set at scanning for 45 seconds
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Thnx this has set my device status from custom to official.
I bought this s7 edge second handed en it came with a t-mobile boot logo. I flashed the BTU 7.0 update and it was set to custom.
Thank you because now i can install OTA updates again.
wowwashington said:
Wow, after some wasted time with Samsung and trying to get help from their people at Best Buy. I stumbled across a potential fix!
Using old examples of the same 'suddenly custom' I found that the following put my S7 Edge back to 'Offical" after being custom for 3 days.
1) Power Off for 5+ seconds
2) Press and hold Volume Up and hit Power
3) Unlock icon/custom should be gone!
4) Release both buttons
5) Sign in
6) Settings/status/device status, this may be set at scanning for 45 seconds
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Click to collapse
Thanks for this. These steps fixed my T-Mobile S7 Edge that was showing as custom. I have now installed the latest updates.
bigbad614 said:
Ok; as a disclaimer, I am a long-time Rooter. For the record, I have not rooted since I had my Note 3; since then I have had a Note 4 and now an S7 Edge. This Sunday, after I had taken Sprint's newest security release (Sprint = PF2) I noticed that my WiFi would not enable. If you enabled it, it would say it was connecting, but then it would just switch back off. I started to dig into what was going on. I then rebooted into recovery...only to see that my binary was CUSTOM....Knox was/is not tripped. I then restart the phone to find in settings that my phone is no longer listed as official, it is now CUSTOM. Now I irritatedly factory reset my phone from settings. All is now clean and OFFICIAL. I try to enable Wifi, nope, it will not turn on. I then restart into recovery to find my device is now CUSTOM again....Rinse and repeat. I then do a factory reset from recovery...same failed result after a restart of the phone. Sprint failed to resolve (I have a replacement coming) and the Samsung REP at Best Buy was flabbergasted. The Samsung REP worked his magic only to realize that his magic did not resolve the issue either. I do not have HummingBad; scans have proven negative, in addition to a factory restart resolving that virus (even if I had it).
Now I find out that a friend of mine's--Sister-in-Law has an S7 with T-Mobile having the same CUSTOM Rom issue; although she is not having the WiFi issue.
This has got to do with the phone/version of Android.
What are everyone's thoughts?
Thank you for reading;
Nick
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My exact problem came from having something disabled in Packers Disabler Pro. I had the exact same issue with my device saying "custom" when in actuality it was Official. I'm with Tmobile as well. I took all the same steps to address the issue but nothing helped until I enabled all the apps that were disabled in Package Disabler Pro then restarted device. All was well. I carefully watched what I disabled in the future. I still do not know which app caused this but I take my time and check my device's status(official/custom) after disabling any apps.. Thank you... Keith G
Goodnight, i'm new on this page so this is my first post, i hope all of you can help me to fix this problem: I want to install the version of Nougat or Oreo on my cell phone, but every time I flash my cellphone I always run out of signal, I do not know what to do sincerely, I have searched and tried many things. I do not know if I'm doing the procedures wrong, I've seen that it can be for the modem and the bootloader, thanks.
Which firmware have you started with? Next be sure to use the roms from the unified section..
1)Odin the latest stock firmware for your S5.
2) Once done, skip the set up wizard, skip everything until you reach the finish.
3) Open dialer and ##72786#. This will reset your parameters and activate the device again.
4) Odin TWRP recover, be sure to uncheck reboot, and reset in the options in Odin.
5) If your going to flash a AOSP rom, flash rom, then gapps, then Su in recover, reboot.
6) Run set up wizard at the home screen
7) Go to settings more networks, and set network LTE?Cdma
This should help with your signal issue.. I assume also your on the Sprint S5 and no one else...
Go here https://forum.xda-developers.com/sp...rmware-sprint-s5-factory-odin-images-t3585129 Choose Firmware link from post 1. Then 4 item from top CDQ1.
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