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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.

[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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@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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Help with my GALAxy S4

My phone is S4 mk2 with 4.3 jelly bean. I used Odin3 v3.07 with CF-Auto-Root-jfltecan-jfltevl-sghi337m.tar.md5 to root my phone. Once its rooted when I restart my phone I see Samsung Custom with a unlock icon. I then install safestrap 3.72 on my phone and restarted into safestrap. I first created the recovery(I dont know where it put the recovery file but I assume my SD card). It shows recovery is installed successfully. I then wiped all the data except SD card. and restarted. I thought it will restart into SafeStrap but it doesnt. now My phone stuck on Samsung Screen with unlock icon or I can still go to Odin downloading mode. Is there a way I can get back to my android OS? please help

Do you have I337 or I337M? With i337, you can replace recovery; safestrap is the working recovery for you. With i337m, you don't need safestrap; you can use custom recovery directly.
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winwin888 said:
My phone is S4 mk2 with 4.3 jelly bean. I used Odin3 v3.07 with CF-Auto-Root-jfltecan-jfltevl-sghi337m.tar.md5 to root my phone. Once its rooted when I restart my phone I see Samsung Custom with a unlock icon. I then install safestrap 3.72 on my phone and restarted into safestrap. I first created the recovery(I dont know where it put the recovery file but I assume my SD card). It shows recovery is installed successfully. I then wiped all the data except SD card. and restarted. I thought it will restart into SafeStrap but it doesnt. now My phone stuck on Samsung Screen with unlock icon or I can still go to Odin downloading mode. Is there a way I can get back to my android OS? please help
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Sounds like you need to Odin back to stock if you wiped everything except SD Card. Here you go.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2621279
Once back on MK2 stock, read the following guide. Please thank the op in the threads that help you. Good luck.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2616221

jmjoyas said:
Do you have I337 or I337M? With i337, you can replace recovery; safestrap is the working recovery for you. With i337m, you don't need safestrap; you can use custom recovery directly.
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I dont know, I think its 1337. Its ATT phone

Thanks
John The Rhino said:
Sounds like you need to Odin back to stock if you wiped everything except SD Card. Here you go.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2621279
Once back on MK2 stock, read the following guide. Please thank the op in the threads that help you. Good luck.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2616221
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IM gonna try it now. Downloading will report back .

You are on MK2. The guide will help you. Take your time and read it throughly. Help is here on XDA if you need it.
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John The Rhino said:
You are on MK2. The guide will help you. Take your time and read it throughly. Help is here on XDA if you need it.
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does Odin version matter? I cant seem to find a Odin from that post. or i can use any Odin?

flashing to Stock MK2. meanwhile I have question, is it possible for S4 to get S5 stock rom with kitkat 4.4? thanks again! for help

John The Rhino said:
You are on MK2. The guide will help you. Take your time and read it throughly. Help is here on XDA if you need it.
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I finally got it back to stock. But when I boot up my phone it still says custom with unlock icon. what does that mean?

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winwin888 said:
flashing to Stock MK2. meanwhile I have question, is it possible for S4 to get S5 stock rom with kitkat 4.4? thanks again! for help
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You do have a ROM that has the look and feel of S5 ROM. Search for "Samy Deluxe ROM S5" in the All things AT&T thread.

[Q] S5 Active Advice required please

Hi Folks
My partner has just got the S5 Active and she loves it..
But now she would like to update from 4.4.2.. Phone says she has latest rom so my questions are this
1)What is the latest official rom for the Active?
2)Whats the BEST root method?
3)What Custom roms are suitable?
3)Finally what is the best route to take to flash a CUSTOM rom?
looking forward to your responses
regards
Lohtse

1) Here you can find the latest TW stock rom:
http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/
Android Lollipop is available for the S5 Active. You can download the latest Firmware and flash it via Odin. You don't need root for that.
2) My preferred root method is flashing CF auto root via Odin. After that I install another recovery like TWRP
3) Nobody can answer that. Try and find it out (perform a full wipe incl cache before you install a custom rom)
4) This steps: root, recovery, full wipe, custom rom, and at least if you want and need that: custom kernel

Solvin said:
1) Here you can find the latest TW stock rom:
http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/
Android Lollipop is available for the S5 Active. You can download the latest Firmware and flash it via Odin. You don't need root for that.
2) My preferred root method is flashing CF auto root via Odin. After that I install another recovery like TWRP
3) Nobody can answer that. Try and find it out (perform a full wipe incl cache before you install a custom rom)
4) This steps: root, recovery, full wipe, custom rom, and at least if you want and need that: custom kernel
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cheers for that but which LP for UK????? its the G870A

Please give me a screenshot from your phone informations in the setting menu.

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Damn. The UK/US Version from the Active is the only model without Android 5

Solvin said:
Damn. The UK/US Version from the Active is the only model without Android 5
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lol yep.... had looked before opening a thread!!!! so no go for LP????

Please read this: http://www.droidviews.com/update-att-galaxy-s5-active-to-lollipop-root-it-and-enable-wifi-tethering/

Solvin said:
Please read this: http://www.droidviews.com/update-att-galaxy-s5-active-to-lollipop-root-it-and-enable-wifi-tethering/
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again thank you....
seems there is an issue with my partners active as will not flash the update file and flashfire just closes LOL

I realize it is very difficult to find something for your G870A.[emoji53]

Solvin said:
I realize it is very difficult to find something for your G870A.[emoji53]
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Thank you for the help...
finally got it sorted after reading around 9-10 different guides... all of which had little bits missing
now she's a happy bunny with LP on her Active and I'm a tired old fart with droopy eyes!!!!!
Just need a custom recovery now!!

Congratulations! How you solved it?
Yeah recovery is the same problem. It exists no recovery for the G870A

Two things that I found that allowed me to sort the Active which was mentioned
firstly to allow Flashfire to work you had too set clock back past 1/15/15
and you had to also set flashfire to boot into download to allow you to flash the G870A_OC5_Bootloader.tar.md5 file via Odin on the pc.. once I did these it worked...
Just depends which guide you read to find a COMPLETE one....

Damn that sounds very tricky

Solvin said:
Damn that sounds very tricky
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Not really just no two guides the same.... soon as I noticed the minor differences it was easy.
1) root with towel root copy stock LP(rooted version)
2) Install and set date to 1/1/15 then open Flashfire
3)Flash Stock rooted LP using flashfire making sure you have flashfire set to boot to download when finished
4) open Odin PC and connect S5Active
5)Point Opins AP slot to location of the G870A_OC5_Bootloader.tar.md5 file
6) Flash and reboot and your done...
MAJOR issue was the flashfire issue once found issue and set it as stated above I was Up and running after 10minutes Just had spent 4 hours failing before I notice and figured out what the issues was...
Simple really.... Well it was in the end lol