Im wanting to know if there is a way I can unroot without having to delete everything on my phone. I have tried the update twice already and it goes all the way to the little android guy and loads about half way and then restarts the phone and nothing changes im still on ZVA. I think the issue is that I'm rooted. I have stock everything aside from that even recovery Is stock. I really hope there is a way to unroot without having to reset my phone.
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Try opening the superuser app and there is an full unroot under settings. Do not know if it resets the phone or not, I have never done the unroot but I would think it would not.
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Try opening the superuser app and there is an full unroot under settings. Do not know if it resets the phone or not, I have never done the unroot but I would think it would not.
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It doesnt reset, you dont even have to restart.
Team work! Gotta love it.
Even unrooting didnt help. When I try the OTA it only goes 1/3 of the way and then it reboots. Is there anyway I can update manually?
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Did you download over wifi? Might not have gotten the full download.
Did you also alter the files for free tether? If so, did you change them back before try to unroot and update?
I did dowoad over wifi and over LTE and still cant seem to get the update to go through all the way. And no I didnt do the tether hack.
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Hi, I DONT GET IT, I have ROOTED my EPIC, i upgraded to FROYO, I have Titanium backup for a few weeks now, and all of a sudden ive lost my root. Im not sure what could have done it but i cant get Titanium backup to start, and even when i try to get the new clockwork root, i cant even get the runbat to work, keeps saying my phone is not connected to the laptop that i rooted my phone with weeks before. HELP!!
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Hi, I DONT GET IT, I have ROOTED my EPIC, i upgraded to FROYO, I have Titanium backup for a few weeks now, and all of a sudden ive lost my root. Im not sure what could have done it but i cant get Titanium backup to start, and even when i try to get the new clockwork root, i cant even get the runbat to work, keeps saying my phone is not connected to the laptop that i rooted my phone with weeks before. HELP!!
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Make sure USB Debugging is enabled on the phone, and then if that doesn't work try using a different MicroUSB cable. The stock one is crap. Try this and run the run.bat again. Also make sure you are using v2.5.5 of the one click root/recovery.
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yeh but i dont have anothr cable and this is the same cable i used to root it in the 1st place.
not sure what the prob was but i was able to reroot it with the clockwork root, now to figure out how to make do what the root is made for,
Sounds like you odined to stock froyo which doesn't come pre-rooted. My advise is to re-odin the one with root/clockwork one found in the dev section
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nah that wasnt the case, i was rooted and used the upload.zip to get froyo, and was rooted til tonite for some reason. i rerooted with clockwork but now am trying to find the thread on how to do it.
urirx98 said:
nah that wasnt the case, i was rooted and used the upload.zip to get froyo, and was rooted til tonite for some reason. i rerooted with clockwork but now am trying to find the thread on how to do it.
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No offense, but that was completely nonsensical. Read up before posting next time.
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It is possible you got rid of super user. I removed it once then I lost my root it was sad :-(
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It is possible you got rid of super user. I removed it once then I lost my root it was sad :-(
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I didn't think of that, could be the culprit. Try going into a terminal or adb shell and typing the su command. Let me know what happens.
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Hi guys,
Anyone using GFE on there rooted samsung epic? My company checks for root and was wondering if the Supercurio root keeper will work to do a temp unroot and have access to GFE. Any idea if I need to rename or remove superuser.apk if I use the Supercurio root keeper?
Thanks..
Why not just make a backup via cwm and have a stock non rooted rom running? Do they check for just SU or the 9 yards? If so you could odin in the stock el30 package by toadlife, odin a recovery , make a backup and flash whatever rom then if your company decides to check restore the back up and you'll be find
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The whole 9 yards I'm afraid . That is an idea but was hoping not to flip back and forth from stock to rooted. But if there is no other way it's probably the route I'm going to have to take.
Also it makes sense that it should work but since I never went back and forth from stock to rooted from CWM. The question is coming to my mind will it work? Or do I need to Odin to switch back and forth.
What is GFE?
Edit: why would it even care about root...
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I use GFE and I am rooted using mostly stock ei22 rom from xbtx. I thought GFE app had some sort of checking for rooted devices not that the company checked for rooted phone. How would the company check to see that your phone was rooted ?
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What is GFE?
Edit: why would it even care about root...
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Good For Enterprise, it's an app to get your corporate email on your phone.
I use it, and we don't check for root.... I seem to recall from my GFE training that they can check for it, we don't.
I use GFE and I also have it deployed to hundreds of users at my company. I'm not sure if I'm somehow using a different version of the Good management console, but I don't remember having an option to check for rooted devices? I'll double check tomorrow, but I feel like I would remember seeing that option.
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GFE the app has a check. From what I read it looks for superuser.apk and whatever else is root related. Coworker of mine has the same phone and rooted rom and got a message that the phone won't provision with gfe because against company policy i.e. phone is rooted.
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the donate version of superuser has ghost mode, the apk hides and you can only access it through a dialer code you select. you can set it to refuse and superuser requests while in ghost mode or to allow based of your settings.
can you check for superuser without superuser permissions?
i'm sure you need something more but a chance to plug elite, i couldn't refuse.
Thanks. I'll give the ghost superuser a try. Maybe a combination of SuperCurio rootkeeper and this will work.
Well I got the superuser elite but it looks like ghost mode just hides the icon. Not sure if this will work. As GFE will still find superuser in both the /sbin and /xbin.
Update- Still not in compliance tried both rootkeeper and super user elite.
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Why not just make a backup via cwm and have a stock non rooted rom running? Do they check for just SU or the 9 yards? If so you could odin in the stock el30 package by toadlife, odin a recovery , make a backup and flash whatever rom then if your company decides to check restore the back up and you'll be find
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Unfortunately, this will not work. I'm not sure what doesn't match up, but each time you flash, even from a backup, it will want you to reactivate with the Good server. Fortunately, I work in IT and can get a PIN in about 4 seconds, but for someone who is at the mercy of their IT department...flashing then begging them for a new PIN isn't a good option
Weird. I backup with MyBackup Pro, and I don't have to reset my PIN every time.....
From what i gather as long as you backup good in offline mode. It wont require a pin everytime you flash. I haven't tested this my self but have read people having success using this method.
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That could be, I only turn mine on when I'm oncall.
Can you set your PIN to never expire? Last job we had that, so the handful of users who had it didn't have to get a new PIN every time.
I've been looking for Jailbreak/Root detection, but haven't found it yet. Saw it in a manual but it didn't say where to set it.
Ae these companies you guys are talking about using exchange email servers or what?? What is so different that you are using this gfe app rather than stock email app? I run corporate exchange from stock email app and no issues with being rooted however I am the network admin too though lol.
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Supposedly, GFE allows for better data protection. We pay for it because of the potential for PHI* on the device. We do have OMA here, but until we upgrade our servers to Exchange2010 we don't have as much control over the device and can't remotely wipe it if it goes missing.
Or so I'm told. /shrug
* - Protected Health Information
So I went ahead and tried to unroot my rom. By just deleting superuser.apk and su by using adb. Only issue I'm seeing is that everytime I reboot su and superuser.apk come back and the phone is rooted again. Any ideas why? Surely GFE will not work if root returns after reboot .
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So I went ahead and tried to unroot my rom. By just deleting superuser.apk and su by using adb. Only issue I'm seeing is that everytime I reboot su and superuser.apk come back and the phone is rooted again. Any ideas why?
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You're using a rooted kernel.
Thanks k0nane! That makes sense.
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I use a combo of renaming superuser.apk and installing supersu and freezing gfe to bypass the checks.... pm me if u need info.
Has anyone tried a factory reset after being rooted? I was wanting to do a factory reset but don't want to lose root!
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Yes you lose root and don't use factory reset. Kies is better.... And root takes like 30 seconds... come on!
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Yes you lose root and don't use factory reset. Kies is better.... And root takes like 30 seconds... come on!
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Lol.... Yes Root is easily obtained but I'm on the road and am trying to rid myself of this lag and don't have my laptop handy! If factory reset doesn't help I think I will exchange my s4!
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A factory reset would leave your device status as official still?
I'm sure a using kies would be a better choice.
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Lol.... Yes Root is easily obtained but I'm on the road and am trying to rid myself of this lag and don't have my laptop handy! If factory reset doesn't help I think I will exchange my s4!
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Don't do a factory reset on the road. It still has the Samsung with the unlock logo if you do factory reset.
Also you might run into the initial setup crashing which eventually you will need to use Kies method...
Just saying there is a possibility. I created a lag guide in the General Section... See if any of those tips help.
Factory reset does not unroot. You just have to redownload superuser from market place.
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Ok I really screwed the pooch on this one. I'm not sure how I did it but I used the cf auto root and cw recovery and flashed the wanalite rom and everything was fine. Then I wanted to try out a new rom so I flashed a cm 10 rom and had no data except wifi. When I turn wifi off there's no little 3g icon and also I can't make calls anymore. There's no little bars at the top only a little circle with a line through it. Ive tried factory reset, flashing the original firmware, messing with the apn settings and so on. Anyone help please?
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A little more info. I flashed twrp recovery and used that to make a back up. Then I wiped all the stuff you're supposed to before flashing a new ROM. Now here's where I screwed up. I then wiped the data. The one on the right that makes you type in the word yes to wipe it. I didn't realize it would wipe out all my back up s and everything. So now I can't get my phone to work. If I have to end up taking it in for an insurance claim what should I do. Unroot and use triangle away. Then tell them my problems. I really don't know what to do here. I need your help as I'm not very good at this stuff. Anyone have any fixes?
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A little more info. I flashed twrp recovery and used that to make a back up. Then I wiped all the stuff you're supposed to before flashing a new ROM. Now here's where I screwed up. I then wiped the data. The one on the right that makes you type in the word yes to wipe it. I didn't realize it would wipe out all my back up s and everything. So now I can't get my phone to work. If I have to end up taking it in for an insurance claim what should I do. Unroot and use triangle away. Then tell them my problems. I really don't know what to do here. I need your help as I'm not very good at this stuff. Anyone have any fixes?
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Best I can tell ya is download a pre rooted rom, should be a mega thread of them and install via odin.
Real simple instructions there.
That should get you back to normal.
Gd luck
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Sorry , you're unlucky man. You just wipe all partitions including EFS (IMEI/baseband lost). Only thing is sending the phone to Samsung service and maybe they will change the motherboard or reflash it. No ROM/firmware contains those hidden partitions so flashing your own will not help .
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What does your phone display if you call the following?
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*#06#
It should display a valid IMEI then.
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What does your phone display if you call the following?
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*#06#
It should display a valid IMEI then.
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Yeah it gives me the IMEI number.
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Yeah it gives me the IMEI number.
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I think that your phone is quite messed up, from the installation point of view.
You have to try to get totally back to stock.
Get your FW from sammobile (the one that matches country, operator, etc). Get stock recovery. Install both, then do (several) factory resets. It should work....
I would not go on very high level workarounds (reinstall PIT< etc), as you might totally brick your phone.
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Ok I really screwed the pooch on this one. I'm not sure how I did it but I used the cf auto root and cw recovery and flashed the wanalite rom and everything was fine. Then I wanted to try out a new rom so I flashed a cm 10 rom and had no data except wifi. When I turn wifi off there's no little 3g icon and also I can't make calls anymore. There's no little bars at the top only a little circle with a line through it. Ive tried factory reset, flashing the original firmware, messing with the apn settings and so on. Anyone help please?
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Mate. I have exactly the same problem!!!!! I have gone to stock rom like 4
Times and factory reset, my phone still cannot make any calls!! Does it show the circle with a line in the middle where the signal bar should be?
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Ok I really screwed the pooch on this one. I'm not sure how I did it but I used the cf auto root and cw recovery and flashed the wanalite rom and everything was fine. Then I wanted to try out a new rom so I flashed a cm 10 rom and had no data except wifi. When I turn wifi off there's no little 3g icon and also I can't make calls anymore. There's no little bars at the top only a little circle with a line through it. Ive tried factory reset, flashing the original firmware, messing with the apn settings and so on. Anyone help please?
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bro, go to this link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2250824 and download the correct stock kernel for your phone (go to about device and check which "xxuam--" it is), for me it was xxuame2 gti-9505, after downloading the kernel, switch phone off, REMOVE sim card, then flash the stock kernel, after flash, factory reset, then insert sim card. now it should work. get back to me if it does...
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bro, go to this link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2250824 and download the correct stock kernel for your phone (go to about device and check which "xxuam--" it is), for me it was xxuame2 gti-9505, after downloading the kernel, switch phone off, REMOVE sim card, then flash the stock kernel, after flash, factory reset, then insert sim card. now it should work. get back to me if it does...
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Yeah it's got the little circle with the line trough it and I tried your link and nothing but I've been seeing some things about not using the front usb port on your computer so I'm going to switch to the back one and try everything again. I'll report back when I'm done.
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Yeah it's got the little circle with the line trough it and I tried your link and nothing but I've been seeing some things about not using the front usb port on your computer so I'm going to switch to the back one and try everything again. I'll report back when I'm done.
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i doubt the usb port will change anything mate...i still have the circle with the line, not sure what to do right now. i have flashed everything to stock, rom, kernel and recovery still same ****
I had same issue on mine but mine is all stock (for now). I had to go back to the settings and pick network operator again in order for it to pick up the network again.
Well I got it fixed. I had to fully unroot then run triangle away and then take it to the sprint store. All they did was a hard reset (not a factory reset but something with their computer) and everything was back to normal. Whew thought I was going to have to get a new phone.
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hi, did you check first in your apn list if the settings were present (connexions - more networks - mobile networks - access point names )? If not present check on your operator website to get the information needed. Normally It should have helped you with this problem
Yeah I messed with that for hours. In many different roms. I think I did every thing I possibly could except for hard reset.
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I am on version UCUAMDL on a rooted AT&T S4. Tried to install the update. It failed and now when I try to install the update it says my firmware is current. I'm fairly new to android, am I missing something? Thanks.
Best regards,
Mike
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I had a problem when my device was rooted. If you want to update you will need to reset the flash counter remove root then do a factory reset. Well at least I had to, to get mine to update. Now when u update u will not be able to root your device, the boot loader will be locked and you will not be able to downgrade back to a previous version. Also programs the trick the phone and make the hotspot work will also not work. So if you like a rooted phone DO NOT UPDATE. I made that mistake.
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I had a problem when my device was rooted. If you want to update you will need to reset the flash counter remove root then do a factory reset. Well at least I had to, to get mine to update. Now when u update u will not be able to root your device, the boot loader will be locked and you will not be able to downgrade back to a previous version. Also programs the trick the phone and make the hotspot work will also not work. So if you like a rooted phone DO NOT UPDATE. I made that mistake.
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Thanks Nicholas...advice well taken.