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Please Help Me! :( I'm Scared.

Hi there.
I have rooted my Galaxy S2 and have decided I want to unroot it and remove Superuser and ClockworkMod and everything that I gained when I rooted it. I have tried superoneclick, flashing the default kernel onto the phone and I dont know how to remove superuser.
I would like to restore the phone to factory settings, and I'm scared and dont know what to do.
Please help me I will be eternally greatful.
Benjamin.

flashing stock kernel should have done it download the corresponding stock rom from samfirmware (follow instructions closely) and then should have to correct stock, unrooted software on your s2 just make sure 100% its for the correct region, why do you want to flash back can i ask? cant see any benefit other than you warrenty

Flash one stock rom or flash only a kernel the stock rom

please make it simple for me.

Isn't Superuser just an application you can uninstall if you just don't want it anymore? And SuperOneClick has an option to unroot the phone again (although I have never done that because I never needed it but I suppose it works if you just click on the big button for it).

fattail95 said:
please make it simple for me.
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Ok.
Sell SGS2
Buy iPhone
If you are scared of freedom, lock yourself up

fattail95 said:
Hi there.
I have rooted my Galaxy S2 and have decided I want to unroot it and remove Superuser and ClockworkMod and everything that I gained when I rooted it. I have tried superoneclick, flashing the default kernel onto the phone and I dont know how to remove superuser.
I would like to restore the phone to factory settings, and I'm scared and dont know what to do.
Please help me I will be eternally greatful.
Benjamin.
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As far as I'm aware you have to flash a stock rom. Someone correct me if I'm wrong on that.
Also flashing stock kernel will not remove root.
Stock roms:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1075278
Or here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1113928

Flashing stock kernel won't remove susperuser.. Flashing whole ROM does.. One way of removinf the triangle in boot up is Flash CF-Root then flash stock kernel then through CWM manager flash the zimage of CF-Root.. As you can see when CF-Root was flashed over with stock kernel superuser and cwm manager still remains.. So better off flashing whole firmware rather than just stock kernel..
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What are you scared of?
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I'm mean I don't know what you are scared of, may be you are new to rooting and feel something is going to happen to the phone.
Just make sure you know what you are flashing, read change logs, flash from trusted sites like xda, verify md5 sum, don't simply flash anything you find on the net.
If you are still not comfortable, download what ever stock firmware version you want, flash thru Odin and you will be good.
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Harden up.
Search the forums & find an original complete ROM/firmware for your provider & download it.
Use Odin to flash it.
Intratechs thread has the links, and the instructions.
Done.

knightnz said:
Harden up.
Search the forums & find an original complete ROM/firmware for your provider & download it.
Use Odin to flash it.
Intratechs thread has the links, and the instructions.
Done.
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Hahaha good one. Love it.
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TS should never have rooted in the first place then..

fattail95 said:
Hi there.
I have rooted my Galaxy S2 and have decided I want to unroot it and remove Superuser and ClockworkMod and everything that I gained when I rooted it. I have tried superoneclick, flashing the default kernel onto the phone and I dont know how to remove superuser.
I would like to restore the phone to factory settings, and I'm scared and dont know what to do.
Please help me I will be eternally greatful.
Benjamin.
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Hi Benjamin. Don't be scared. It's quite easy really. Follow the instructions in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1075278.
Download the firmware nearest to your original firmware. Read the thread in the link above carefully and you'll be able to restore it to a factory state.

android is definitely not suited for everyone...

HELP!

I rooted my S4 SGH-1337 AT&T and then put safestrap on to flash custom ROMS. it was working good until i decided to flash another rom. We'll i flashed a bad one and it bricked my phone. I tried ging to the stock rom using safestrap but it just stops at the AT&T logo. I need help with this. do i need to unroot my phone to fix this or is there another method. Im a noob here so please help guys!

skateman274 said:
I rooted my S4 SGH-1337 AT&T and then put safestrap on to flash custom ROMS. it was working good until i decided to flash another rom. We'll i flashed a bad one and it bricked my phone. I tried ging to the stock rom using safestrap but it just stops at the AT&T logo. I need help with this. do i need to unroot my phone to fix this or is there another method. Im a noob here so please help guys!
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Your best bet is to start over by flashing the stock MF3 files using ODIN. From there, re-root your phone, reinstall SafeStrap, and try again. You most likely flashed a non-TW based ROM... remember only TW roms work with SS right now.
If you have any other questions, I'll try to explain it in more detail.

NighthawkXL said:
Your best bet is to start over by flashing the stock MF3 files using ODIN. From there, re-root your phone, reinstall SafeStrap, and try again. You most likely flashed a non-TW based ROM... remember only TW roms work with SS right now.
If you have any other questions, I'll try to explain it in more detail.
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Can you take me through the steps to flash the files in ODIN?

skateman274 said:
Can you take me through the steps to flash the files in ODIN?
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First off, download ODIN 1.85 it seems to be the one that most people have the best luck with.
Grab the MF3 TAR files
Extract the MF3 files to a folder, say on your desktop. ie. MF3
Open ODIN and refer to this picture...
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For more information about how to use ODIN you can refer to here, and here.
I've personally never had to use it, so my steps are only from general observation. You might want to double check yourself. So if anyone has has any other info to help him feel free to post.

NighthawkXL said:
First off, download ODIN 1.85 it seems to be the one that most people have the best luck with.
Grab the MF3 TAR files
Extract the MF3 files to a folder, say on your desktop. ie. MF3
Open ODIN and refer to this picture...
For more information about how to use ODIN you can refer to here, and here.
I've personally never had to use it, so my steps are only from general observation. You might want to double check yourself. So if anyone has has any other info to help him feel free to post.
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What you have here looks good. I use Odin every once in awhile just so I remember how to use it.

NighthawkXL said:
First off, download ODIN 1.85 it seems to be the one that most people have the best luck with.
Grab the MF3 TAR files
Extract the MF3 files to a folder, say on your desktop. ie. MF3
Open ODIN and refer to this picture...
For more information about how to use ODIN you can refer to here, and here.
I've personally never had to use it, so my steps are only from general observation. You might want to double check yourself. So if anyone has has any other info to help him feel free to post.
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ODIN becomes unresponsive when I hit start. I read you have to disable kies? do you know how to do that? thanks for the resposes though!

skateman274 said:
ODIN becomes unresponsive when I hit start. I read you have to disable kies? do you know how to do that? thanks for the resposes though!
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Uninstall it. You'll find kies is pretty useless anyway.

I got it thanks a bench man!!
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skateman274 said:
I got it thanks a bench man!!
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Glad to be of a service, here's to your future endeavors with your S4.

NighthawkXL said:
Glad to be of a service, here's to your future endeavors with your S4.
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you da man, Nighthawk.....good job sir...more patience than me for sure, nice of you to help.

Struggling to unroot my galaxy s4 AT&T

I rooted my galaxy s4 with Kingo but now I need to unroot it. Kingo isn't giving me an option to unroot either. Any suggestions?

Have you tried the unroot option in the suoeruser app?
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I'm also enquiring about this. I found an older thread while googling unroot, the thread discussed unrooting MF3 with the SU app...after 5 or so successful unroots the op was going to post an official "how to". Does anyone know if the how to got created? I couldn't find it.
brought to you by my not so sexy GS4 MF3

I also am mf3 and rooted with kingo. I was able to unroot via the unroot option in the Super su app.
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bschemmel said:
I also am mf3 and rooted with kingo. I was able to unroot via the unroot option in the Super su app.
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I read about that method. Can you tell me/us the steps you did? I read that after you hit unroot within su you get placed in a boot loop. Battery pull, enter download mode than reboot. I also read about deleting files...
brought to you by my not so sexy GS4 MF3

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jball said:
Have you tried the unroot option in the suoeruser app?
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I did notice that feature in superuser but will it erase all of the root so i can reclaim my warranty with att?

unroot
jball said:
Have you tried the unroot option in the suoeruser app?
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i did see that option in superuser but will it delete all traces of the root? my co-worker said that some unroot methods still leave the "root binary" which may still be visible to ATT. I need to exchange this phone which i why i want to make sure all traces of the root are gone.

Not sure bud I've never used it cause I've never needed to.maybe unroot with it and if you still have your stock recovery do a factory reset after the unroot
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jball said:
Have you tried the unroot option in the suoeruser app?
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I did notice the superuser unroot but will it erase all traces of the root? my co worker said that some unroot methods will still leave the "root binary". I need to exchange this phone so i want to make sure all traces of root activity are gone

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sour...x4GQCA&usg=AFQjCNFx-DfVw8L0I-ZJd5UNRphoPUBnVQ
Did a search and came up with this link.read up and give it a go
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jball said:
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sour...x4GQCA&usg=AFQjCNFx-DfVw8L0I-ZJd5UNRphoPUBnVQ
Did a search and came up with this link.read up and give it a go
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I came across that as well. The op mentioned creating an official how to thread but I'm to find it.
brought to you by my not so sexy GS4 MF3
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It was mentioned to me in a separate thread to use the MF3 .tar file with Odin...they said this will remove all root etc.
brought to you by my not so sexy GS4 MF3

found this thread hope it helps MF3 tar. file [url]https://mega.co.nz/#!WEEzSA7Z!aB46
I had another thread for this, but I figured it would be good to repost it since I didn't know what I had stumbled upon at first.
For all of those who have soft bricked their phones, I present to you to the MF3 TAR files to flash it back to stock via ODIN.
And for those that aren't sure as to where to put the files when flashing via ODIN, while it should be obvious, I have attached a picture that @xrandallx posted to help those that need it.
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Jamez3000 said:
I rooted my galaxy s4 with Kingo but now I need to unroot it. Kingo isn't giving me an option to unroot either. Any suggestions?
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I had another thread for this, but I figured it would be good to repost it since I didn't know what I had stumbled upon at first.
For all of those who have soft bricked their phones, I present to you to the MF3 TAR files to flash it back to stock via ODIN.
And for those that aren't sure as to where to put the files when flashing via ODIN, while it should be obvious, I have attached a picture that @xrandallx posted to help those that need it.

[Q] Is there a way to root MK2 yet?

Like the title says. Also if there is, what ROMs would work. Because I remember that when I was rooted on MF3 that not all ROMs worked with it. Sorry if it's a stupid question. I appreciate all helpful and/or useful answers!

Nannos1412 said:
Like the title says. Also if there is, what ROMs would work. Because I remember that when I was rooted on MF3 that not all ROMs worked with it. Sorry if it's a stupid question. I appreciate all helpful and/or useful answers!
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Yes, you can root. Take a look at this thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2565758
Very easy.
No ROMs at this point because safestrap doesn't work with MK2.

Think so? Hmmmm. Wonder how I'm on mk2 running darthstalker X 4.3 then?
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Check it....
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Check it....
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@DevilDog512 I stand corrected. What did you have to do to get that working?

Safestrap 3.70 in the android development section. Have only flashed this rom so far but have 0 issues. There's a kernelmodules.zip in that thread too that you flash just like you've been doing on 3.65. Can't adjust the system partition size but I don't use more than rom slot 1 anyway so no big deal to me. I'm sure it'll be fixed when it becomes official. Maybe today or tomorrow, but it's damn close to being ready.
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Thanks!
Thanks everyone! I appreciate it very much! But I have one more question. (I know this is sort of a noob question and I apologize in advanced) How does one flash a kernel? I have never needed to do it before. Do you use Odin?

Nannos1412 said:
Thanks everyone! I appreciate it very much! But I have one more question. (I know this is sort of a noob question and I apologize in advanced) How does one flash a kernel? I have never needed to do it before. Do you use Odin?
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You flash a kernel through recovery (not stock recovery) either cwm or safestrap.
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Nannos1412 said:
Thanks everyone! I appreciate it very much! But I have one more question. (I know this is sort of a noob question and I apologize in advanced) How does one flash a kernel? I have never needed to do it before. Do you use Odin?
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Read up on the forums or you'll be using Odin all right. I would not flash any 4.3 roms if you don't know what you're doing. Use Xposed with wanam till safe strap can be perfected.
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DevilDog512 said:
Read up on the forums or you'll be using Odin all right. I would not flash any 4.3 roms if you don't know what you're doing. Use Xposed with wanam till safe strap can be perfected.
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I just used Odin today. I'm on mk2 but I installed safestrap 3.70 and had darthstalker but decided I didn't really like it much.. Installed the modules and went back to stock ROM but it felt like my 4g download speeds were slow less than 1mb. So I odin the mf3 recovery files than side loaded back to mk2 because I tried factory resetting and 4g wasn't working that good.
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I used the update.zip in Stock recovery to go from mf3 to mk2. Not sure how that'll work out if i screw something up. I have the mf3 stock tar files and hash has said he has mk2 tars. I figure there's enough out there to get me back up. I tried flashing every ge rom i could find to no avail. Apparently it's pretty hit or miss right now. I read that they may have found a way to flash some custom kernels on mf3. The same day i upgrade. Hopefully they can get that sorted out and we can pretend like we own our $500 phones.
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[Q] Galaxy S5 Straight Talk variant SM-S902L

You guys are my last hope!
Got the Galaxy S5 from Straight Talk, after being fed up with a lousy upgrade experience with Virgin Mobile. Although the phone functions great, I have a real issue with ST not rolling out firmware updates like every. single. other. carrier.
First off, is there really no hope of a stable firmware update to Android 5.0?
Second, is it possible to root? Towelroot fails, and I can't find any straight answers anywhere else. Has anybody had any luck rooting?

maybe tell us model numbers etc?

-PiLoT- said:
maybe tell us model numbers etc?
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I suppose that would be helpful...
Model SM-S902L
Android version 4.4.2 (boo!)
Kernel version 3.4.0-4647767
Build number KOT49H.S902LUDUAOD3

Easy root for SM-S902L
apsavarese said:
I suppose that would be helpful...
Model SM-S902L
Android version 4.4.2 (boo!)
Kernel version 3.4.0-4647767
Build number KOT49H.S902LUDUAOD3
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Use CF-Auto-Root
Just google it

HELP PLS!!!
Looking for firmware for my SM-S902L Straight talk S5... I'm rooted and romed but when i did a nandroid backup with TWRP i never tested it before i wiped it out to install roms...tried to restore and it gets stuck on the TracFone blue screen ......
I also figured out how to fix the REACTIVATION LOCK boot loop.........
Thanks everyone

nefight70 said:
Use CF-Auto-Root
Just google it
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Not sure if I'm navigating the site correctly, but the 902l isn't listed on there.

Sm-s902l
Ok so I'm about to try to root an s5 tracfone model# sm-s902l and this is the only place I can even find anyone else looking for help with this particular model BUT it seams that no one could help this person. I also looked at the list and didn't see my model# does this mean that it can't be done. I don't want to end up with a brick. Any help would be appreciated.
P.S. I've never rooted a phone before.

brekstar69 said:
Looking for firmware for my SM-S902L Straight talk S5... I'm rooted and romed but when i did a nandroid backup with TWRP i never tested it before i wiped it out to install roms...tried to restore and it gets stuck on the TracFone blue screen ......
I also figured out how to fix the REACTIVATION LOCK boot loop.........
Thanks everyone
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Wait what?
How'd you pull off root I've been looking everywhere on the net since I got this phone...nobody has this variant. Towel root doesn't work haven't tried cf auto root yet I was planing 2 try.
And what roms are u using? I mean damn dude youve solved alot of my and other peoples problems i wish you had elaborated. @apsavarese did you ever give it a go?

Seriously, you guys who say you have root, what did you use to gain root access??? What was your process? And roms?? What kind of roms? And which version of cf auto root are you saying works with the s902l?

Correct me if I'm wrong (PLEASE!) I think sm-s902l is a klte. So klte roms work on this model?

Sm-s902l rooted
I've rooted this phone it has an unlocked bootloader so it's pretty easy use odin v3.07 and flash twrp problem solved i used the latest s5 klte .tar file and its working fine with full root enjoy
Thanks to @ddjr for pointing me in the right direction
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Not at all, not at all, it was all you. I'm fumbling in bumbling around here trying not to Bork my phone. You da man!

Ive done lots of fumbiling lol but thanks again man. Now that i have root ill see if i can get some recovery files made for this phone unbrick.img's and the like so when people screw up these phones flashing roms they have a way out, but itll be this weekend i got alota hours to put in at work

I cannot wait to flash different roms to this phone. but I WILLwait until I see some unbrick imgs. it's just too expensive of a phone to Bork.

Ive extracted the system and boot partition with adb im pretty sure that someone can make a flashable firmware zip out of them with the andriod kitchen ill upload them when i get a chance i dont have wifi right now and the system file is pretty large.
Ill screw with cooking em myself aswell but its gonna be awhile i dont even have linux install, ill probly set up a virtual os.

Careful on messing up this phone to the point where it cannot be revived with out flashing via odin. There is currently no official firmware files on www.sammobile.com and www.samsung-updates.com.

Can we just take a backup from rom manager and turn it into a file that can be installed via odin?
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Also, anyone know if the miui7 available for the s5 on the miui official site will work on our phones?

ddjr said:
Can we just take a backup from rom manager and turn it into a file that can be installed via odin?
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Also, anyone know if the miui7 available for the s5 on the miui official site will work on our phones?
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The stock firmware can be extracted from this phone and set up as a flashable odin file, im working on it sort of.....as in i dont really know what im doing but i like to dabble. Ill post the needed files tonight just in case someone good at this wants to take a whack @ it. Im finding it hard to get any time but i do have android kitchen up and running.
Ill edit this post with the file links
Boot image:
http://www.filehosting.org/file/details/510266/boot.rar
System image:
http://www.filehosting.org/file/details/510279/system.rar
these were pulled with adb

Just a little update for u guys ive done alot of digging and cant find/or make stock firmware for this device so if you brick and cant get into recovery your screwed.
That being said if you make a full backup with twrp you should be ok to flash roms for the verizon s5 but you would still be taking a moderate risk something could allways go wrong. And youd be ok if you could still get into your recovery and use your backups.
Now with that out of the way i know theres people out there that can unbrick these phones with the right tools and files if anyone with the ability wants the files needed (if i havnt provided the right ones all ready) please pm me and ill give any stock files u need.
That goes for anyone else 2 i have twrp backups of system, modem, ect. If you need files to restore your phone. I also have the PIT file
Ill keep tinkering because its fun and ill post any success or failures here in the future

I'm hopeful for success for you. Waiting with fingers crossed!