Hi Guys,
I rooted my Samsung S4 (GT-9505) using motochopper, but since discovered some of my apps don't work with a rooted device.
I would like to unroot it back to factory settings.
What do I need to do? Is it a case of downloading an official ROM and using ODIN to flash the official bios back on?
I have reset the counter with TRIANGLE but my device status is still 'custom' and not official.
Is there a simple way of removing the root that motochopper adds or is an official ROM the only way?
Im in the UK and would like to flash to the latest Vodafone ROM and unrooted as new.
Many thanks
First of all, there's no app that would stop working because of a rooted device. Rooting just gains you administrator privileges, nothing more, nothing less. And yes, the best way to unroot and get the official status back is to download and flash an official rom through Odin.
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techfreakgag said:
First of all, there's no app that would stop working because of a rooted device. Rooting just gains you administrator privileges, nothing more, nothing less. And yes, the best way to unroot and get the official status back is to download and flash an official rom through Odin.
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Many thanks for your reply,
Unfortunatly your wrong there, Barclays PingIt (my bank account) knows when a phone has been rooted and displays an error page saying its breaching security and stops the app from working!! Crazy I know.
You can uninstall super su then reboot the phone.
You can get instructions from the Exynos Abuse thread by chainfire. It's at the bottom.
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Hello there
I found that flixster wouldn't stream ultraviolet movies with root. I did find that using voodoo ota root keeper from play store helps that. Click on temp unroot, then when you've finished using that app that doesn't allow root, restore root. Unsure that this will work for you, but no harm in trying.
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I used this guide and it worked quite well. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2265477
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Looks like updates have been blocked for rooted Note 8.0 devices. I get a message when I check for software updates under the about section in settings.
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Bonisaur said:
Looks like updates have been blocked for rooted Note 8.0 devices. I get a message when I check for software updates under the about section in settings.
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If yournusing the framaroot app, just unroot, update then reroot, works for me.
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Sounds good. Thanks!
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Is there a new update beside the one pushed a week or so ago?
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Is there a new update beside the one pushed a week or so ago?
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I don't believe so.
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This was discussed in detail here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2247243
Unrooting using Framaroot, or use OTA Rootkeeper. Either way works, but be sure to reboot after unrooting. Otherwise you will just get the same error message about the system being modified. Also, if there any any bloat apps frozen or uninstalled, you will have to undo that (in addition to unroot) for the system to come up as not being modified.
This is a rather stupid move on Samsung's part.
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Kies will still work for the update though, even modified, at least for me. I did however set Kies up with it stock & then selected the "Auto download updates" feature in Tools / firmware upgrade settings, so if there is an update, whenever I plug the N8 into my laptop, it tells me an update is available & then gives me the option to install it now or wait.
Even stranger though is that even modified, I can select to reprovision & install factory firmware (Upgrade & Initialization) on the Note 8, but now on the Note 10.1 once it says "modified" status, you lose the ability to provision & reset with Kies & you get the "N8013 does not support initialization" error, even though both are now running the MD3 firmware. Go figure.
Framaroot from the play store works to temporary unroot for purposes of updates. Just install it abd choose the option to temporarily unroot, then reboot and check for updates. It will download and install the update. I recommend another reboot when its finished. Then load up framaroot and restore root. All in all with a fast internet connection the whole process may take 10 minutes.
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jdub1981 said:
Framaroot from the play store works to temporary unroot for purposes of updates. Just install it abd choose the option to temporarily unroot, then reboot and check for updates. It will download and install the update. I recommend another reboot when its finished. Then load up framaroot and restore root. All in all with a fast internet connection the whole process may take 10 minutes.
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I tried using Framaroot to unroot my rooted N5100. I then checked for updates and it told me that they are not available to modified devices. I then even tried uninstalling everything and doing a factory reset and im still not able to check for updates. Any idea how to get my device back to the way it was out the box so i can check for updates?
melvill said:
I tried using Framaroot to unroot my rooted N5100. I then checked for updates and it told me that they are not available to modified devices. I then even tried uninstalling everything and doing a factory reset and im still not able to check for updates. Any idea how to get my device back to the way it was out the box so i can check for updates?
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OK used Kies to restore original firmware and this fixed it.
melvill said:
I tried using Framaroot to unroot my rooted N5100. I then checked for updates and it told me that they are not available to modified devices. I then even tried uninstalling everything and doing a factory reset and im still not able to check for updates. Any idea how to get my device back to the way it was out the box so i can check for updates?
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I'm having the same issue so it's not just you
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theraker007 said:
I'm having the same issue so it's not just you
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Like i said, u need to install kies on ur computer and then restore original firmware, this then made my status "original". And i was then able to update again. No new updates tho so rooted again.
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melvill said:
Like i said, u need to install kies on ur computer and then restore original firmware, this then made my status "original". And i was then able to update again. No new updates tho so rooted again.
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Can you just hide root using Chainfire SuperSU?
I have never used it before, will try and find out
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fbueller said:
Can you just hide root using Chainfire SuperSU?
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No. The new boot loader checks the system partition for changes. So if you even have the SU binary or any other modified or new files in the System folder or any subfolder, it will not work for updates.
On other devices, like the Note 10.1, you have to revert to an older boot.img to be able to keep the status as unchanged. Unfortunately, that doesn't exist for the Note 8 as far as I know.
I have modified my multiwindow to work with all apps. When I used rootkeeper I was still able to update so I giess it works with some mods but not all.
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melvill said:
Like i said, u need to install kies on ur computer and then restore original firmware, this then made my status "original". And i was then able to update again. No new updates tho so rooted again.
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Will this wipe everything if I do this?
theraker007 said:
Will this wipe everything if I do this?
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I believe so but u can make backups
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I bought my Note 8 on June 11th and it received an immediate update. I rooted with Framaroot and a few days later I received another OTA update. But now, after that, it says it can't update and I can't get it to unroot...
Hey guys. I know 3 different methods of rooting i9505(motochoper, cf auto root and pre-rooted roms). But apparently all of them makes your phone turns to a custom status and showing a custom padlock on boot. Does anyone knows a root method that keeps the phone official? Cause I remember that on my old galaxy s2, I rooted my phone using a very simple method, flashing a temporary cwm from external SD card and flashing a busy box that gived me root. Anyone knows if is it possible on s4? Thanks guys
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renanrolim said:
Hey guys. I know 3 different methods of rooting i9505(motochoper, cf auto root and pre-rooted roms). But apparently all of them makes your phone turns to a custom status and showing a custom padlock on boot. Does anyone knows a root method that keeps the phone official? Cause I remember that on my old galaxy s2, I rooted my phone using a very simple method, flashing a temporary cwm from external SD card and flashing a busy box that gived me root. Anyone knows if is it possible on s4? Thanks guys
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Hi,
Using these Pre-rooted ROMS , it keeps the phone "Official" as long as you do not install anything custom.
malybru said:
Hi,
Using these Pre-rooted ROMS , it keeps the phone "Official" as long as you do not install anything custom.
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Thanks a lot. Do you know if using those pre rooted roms OTA updates still works? And if it is, update will unroot the device? Again, thank you so much
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renanrolim said:
Thanks a lot. Do you know if using those pre rooted roms OTA updates still works? And if it is, update will unroot the device? Again, thank you so much
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Hi,
Yes, you can still get OTA.
But I am not sure why you would do that when the [OP] will keep the ROMS up-to-date anyway.
And yes , you would lose root if you updated.
So I saw an update for "performance improvements" (~200MB) on my rooted 900F. I unrooted and updated. No problem. Once I reboot there is a second update ~1.2MB. I installed that and rebooted, tried to run towelroot and it says device not supported. Tried a few different modstring values including the temp root and none of them work.
Moral of the story; don't update if you want to towelroot.
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alias_neo said:
So I saw an update for "performance improvements" (~200MB) on my rooted 900F. I unrooted and updated. No problem. Once I reboot there is a second update ~1.2MB. I installed that and rebooted, tried to run towelroot and it says device not supported. Tried a few different modstring values including the temp root and none of them work.
Moral of the story; don't update if you want to towelroot.
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That's a bummer...seeing any performance improvements though?
devoidx said:
That's a bummer...seeing any performance improvements though?
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Hard to say, it doesn't seem much different but I've only had it installed a couple of hours and not used the phone too much yet.
I can tell you, however that it adds more bloat! There is at least one new app I noticed called "My Galaxy"
EDIT: Also, they've changed the animation for fingerprint unlock failure to some horrible alarming flashing red/white thing instead of the subtle one it was before.
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So I saw an update for "performance improvements" (~200MB) on my rooted 900F. I unrooted and updated. No problem. Once I reboot there is a second update ~1.2MB. I installed that and rebooted, tried to run towelroot and it says device not supported. Tried a few different modstring values including the temp root and none of them work.
Moral of the story; don't update if you want to towelroot.
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A kernel patch for Towelroot was te be expected. Use CF Auto Root or wait for Geohot for an possible updated version of TR to get root again..
gee2012 said:
A kernel patch for Towelroot was te be expected. Use CF Auto Root or wait for Geohot for an possible updated version of TR to get root again..
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I'll wait. The reason I used towel root in the first place was not to trip knox.
It was just a headsup for those who might care more than I do.
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i don't understand why people wants to avoid knox trip. You made the choice to root...so no more warranty, and if you got bad luck and have to repair your phone, just pay for it
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FrenchSparda said:
i don't understand why people wants to avoid knox trip. You made the choice to root...so no more warranty, and if you got bad luck and have to repair your phone, just pay for it
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Because I'm an software engineer and I know exactly what I'm doing by rooting.
Denying root with this knox and other bull***, locked bootloaders, etc, is totally unacceptable to me.
I refuse to lose warranty for some hardware fault that might occur (and I've had many issues over the years and dozens of phones) on something I own because I got "root" access.
I dare someone to tell me that I've lost warranty on my laptop because I installed CentOS, logged in as root and twiddled with my bootloader.
It's entirely and utterly a matter of principle.
Don't expect you to agree, just helping you to "understand".
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alias_neo said:
So I saw an update for "performance improvements" (~200MB) on my rooted 900F. I unrooted and updated. No problem. Once I reboot there is a second update ~1.2MB. I installed that and rebooted, tried to run towelroot and it says device not supported. Tried a few different modstring values including the temp root and none of them work.
Moral of the story; don't update if you want to towelroot.
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i already experience this after update. we'll wait for the Next update of Towelroot.
when?
alias_neo said:
So I saw an update for "performance improvements" (~200MB) on my rooted 900F. I unrooted and updated. No problem. Once I reboot there is a second update ~1.2MB. I installed that and rebooted, tried to run towelroot and it says device not supported. Tried a few different modstring values including the temp root and none of them work.
Moral of the story; don't update if you want to towelroot.
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When is the New update for Towelroot?
I've recieved this update too, what would happen if I update without unrooting? I've deleted a few pre-installed apps, when updating, I won't have a problem with that will I?
Thanks!
alias_neo said:
So I saw an update for "performance improvements" (~200MB) on my rooted 900F. I unrooted and updated. No problem. Once I reboot there is a second update ~1.2MB. I installed that and rebooted, tried to run towelroot and it says device not supported. Tried a few different modstring values including the temp root and none of them work.
Moral of the story; don't update if you want to towelroot.
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Can you describe step by step how to unroot and receive the OTA? Thanks in advance
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*elmo* said:
Can you describe step by step how to unroot and receive the OTA? Thanks in advance
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Quite simple, when you see the ota, remove ALL changes yiu nade to system (e.g. adblock hosts file)unroot from within SuperSU, then reboot then accept the OTA.
Bare in mind if you do this, there is currently no way to root again without knox trip
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Quite simple, when you see the ota, remove ALL changes yiu nade to system (e.g. adblock hosts file)unroot from within SuperSU, then reboot then accept the OTA.
Bare in mind if you do this, there is currently no way to root again without knox trip
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And what happens when you don't remove changes and accept the OTA?
Thanks in advance
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Quite simple, when you see the ota, remove ALL changes yiu nade to system (e.g. adblock hosts file)unroot from within SuperSU, then reboot then accept the OTA.
Bare in mind if you do this, there is currently no way to root again without knox trip
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So I will receive OTA even when I'm rooted? Sorry for noob question...
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*elmo* said:
So I will receive OTA even when I'm rooted? Sorry for noob question...
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No. You will recieve ota, but you can't update via ota.. you will be able to update using kies.
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No. You will recieve ota, but you can't update via ota.. you will be able to update using kies.
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only you can upgrade July 26][G900FXXU1ANG2][4.4.2][Knox 0x0] and keep root is manually via mobile odin pro from market by chain fire
download samsung s5 firmware http://live.samsung-updates.com/index.php?device=SM-G
extract rom to sd card on phone
open mobile odin pro and go to open file select the rom from sd card
flash rom
FrenchSparda said:
i don't understand why people wants to avoid knox trip. You made the choice to root...so no more warranty, and if you got bad luck and have to repair your phone, just pay for it
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Thank god for some consumer laws in many countries makeing sure samsung can't take away the warranty for for rooting, not even tripping knox
Thanks!
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only you can upgrade July 26][G900FXXU1ANG2][4.4.2][Knox 0x0] and keep root is manually via mobile odin pro from market by chain fire
download samsung s5 firmware http://live.samsung-updates.com/index.php?device=SM-G
extract rom to sd card on phone
open mobile odin pro and go to open file select the rom from sd card
flash rom
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Thanks dude! Hey in order to do this, you have to tick the "Everroot" option, don't you?
Thanks a lot dude!
aguarello said:
Thanks dude! Hey in order to do this, you have to tick the "Everroot" option, don't you?
Thanks a lot dude!
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Yes you need to tick everoot option ticked as default on mobile odin pro
also tick wipe dav cache and/ wipe data and cache (optional)
also chose option to reboot to download mode on after flash option
then on your pc open odin an flash the following files modem and bootlaoder
Bootloader ANG2: BL_G900FXXU1ANG2.tar.md5 https://www.dropbox.com/s/tdiu7rc3tbr02j9/BL_G900FXXU1ANG2.tar.md5
Modem ANG2: CP_G900FXXU1ANG2.tar.md5 https://www.dropbox.com/s/rl3gh2ppvi4c9ty/CP_G900FXXU1ANG2.tar.md5
on odin place the bootlaoder on BL
AND modem on CP
AFTER FLASH WITH ODIN IT SHOULD REBOOT OK
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Thank god for some consumer laws in many countries makeing sure samsung can't take away the warranty for for rooting, not even tripping knox
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great news! Do you know which countrys ?
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I have the att note 3 that was 4.4.2 and I am ready to sell it but my phone was rooted and I uninstalled some of the stock programs that came with it. I tried to flash what I thought was a stock rom through Odin but it failed and now I just see firmware encountered an issue please select recovery mode in kies. When I go to kies it just tells me that I cannot recover the device. If anyone can help me that would be awesome and thanks in advance.
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Root it and flash it again with odin
The phone doesn't even boy anymore and I'm pretty sure that you don't need to be rooted in order to flash with Odin. Also I don't want to just try and root and hope it works because as of now Knox is not tripped
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dragon2777 said:
The phone doesn't even boy anymore and I'm pretty sure that you don't need to be rooted in order to flash with Odin. Also I don't want to just try and root and hope it works because as of now Knox is not tripped
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You root one time and your Knox is modified even if you flash stock after...
Start again in dl mode and flash again but check md5 before
The method I used did not trip Knox see the picture. And I have used Odin before a lot of times before I have tried to reflash many times if you Google it you will see that a lot of people are having this issue but nothing has worked for me so far figured I'd ask here. It is also very hard to even find the att stock rom
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Hi guys!
My first post so go steady on me!
I rooted my s4 and all was great and knox is still 0x0.
However, I recently updated and lost root as expected and have been having issues trying to root.
I don't want to use cf root as I don't want to trip knox.
I have ran root checker pro and it seems my phone is semi rooted if that makes any sense.
How can I execute the file it mentions in my screen shot? Or how do I repair this?
I have sent ages looking online but keep finding myself stuck.
Any help is appreciated greatly.
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Try downloading and installing the latest supersu från play store!
I tried that but to no avail.
I have now sorted it. I had to flash a lower kernel, root with towelroot and then flash with the correct one for my rom. Knox is 0x0 but has shown system status "custom". No big deal.
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