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Hello,
I recently bought a nexus one from Craigslist. I thought it hadn't been tampered with but it turns out that it is rooted. I read you can tell its rooted when theres an open lock underneath the nexus sign when loading it. I don't know how he rooted but its preventing me from updating to the pinch and zoom capabilities. Always get (status 7) error. So I want to unroot the phone, update it then perhaps later root it. Is there a way I can unroot it with a Mac?
Thanks for the help!
Extra info about my phone (if it makes a difference)
Firmware version
2.1
Baseband version
32.19.00.16U_4.02.02.14
Kernel version
2.6.29-gad36b87
[email protected] #1
Build Number
ERD79
It's rooted without an unlocked bootloader? I doubt that, or maybe you have the only one in existence.
You can always just flash this:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/hy2yj42my3i/gapps-passion-ERE36B-2-signed.zip
in recovery and you'll get the multitouch update.
mortzz said:
It's rooted without an unlocked bootloader? I doubt that, or maybe you have the only one in existence.
You can always just flash this:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/hy2yj42my3i/gapps-passion-ERE36B-2-signed.zip
in recovery and you'll get the multitouch update.
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Dude did you not read his first post? It has an OPEN lock. There is a way you can get the update. Man
Extra info about my phone (if it makes a difference)
Firmware version
2.1
Baseband version
32.19.00.16U_4.02.02.14
Kernel version
2.6.29-gad36b87
[email protected] #1
Build Number
ERD79
change your thread title. Its seriously misleading....[HOW TO] is for threads TEACHING how and not for questions or requests.
shonanthebarbarianTP2 said:
Dude did you not read his first post? It has an OPEN lock. There is a way you can get the update. Man
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How do I update it then? I have always gotten (status 7) error. Better yet how do I unroot it? Any ideas?
As of right now, theres no way to unroot a phone. But if I were you, id consider upgrading it to CyanogenMod (search in nexus one development for it) that enables the multi-touch capabilities.
Its not possible
The best you could do is this, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=614850
But anyway, why unroot, a rooted phone is much better
How about you look around the site and see wah u can actually do with your phone now
Just look for modaco's 1.7 , download it. Put your phone into recovery by powering down then hold volume down, down while holding that down press n hold power button. A white screen should come up. Leave it be until the green lettering disappears. Then press volume down to navigate to "recovery". Once in recovery use trackball to navigate to USB toggle . Click on it via trackball. Now plug ur phone into your comp via micro USB cable. Go to "my computer" on ur comp. Double click removable disk to open ur SD card. Delete everything from ur SD. Go to where u saved modacos 1.7 drag it to your empty SD card. Now click ur track ball to disable USB connection. Unplug your phone. Go to wipe. Click on it with ur track ball. Now click wipe data. Let it do its thing. Then wipe dalvik cache. Let it do its thing. After that push volume down to get back to ur menu. Go to flash update. Click on it and click on the zip you just put on ur Sd card. Let it do its thing and you're done.
1. Download a ROM of your choice, and then load it on to your SD card in the root directory.
2. Shut the phone off.
3. Hold down the volume down button, and hit + hold the power button at the same time.
4. Continue holding until the phone boots up
5. Scroll down to recovery by hitting the volume down button once.
6. Press the power button once.
7. Scroll down with the scrollball to Wipe
8. Wipe device/factory reset
9. Wipe cache
10. Click the volume down again
11. Scroll to Flash update/zip
12. Scroll to the ROM you downloaded and loaded to your zip, and then click
13. Click the trackball again to accept.
Now, you really just have to make sure the ROM you downloaded has the pinch to zoom, which most have. I don't believe you'll lose root, but you should at least gain the features you're looking for.
Your Nexus One is unlocked, not rooted. There is difference.
Thanks everyone for the help! I ended up needing to install the Amon RA recovery image and then installed the MoDaCo ROM. Works good but I read that Cyanogen is better with better features. I think I will now install the Cyanogen ROM. Not sure what he means by updating the radio if needed though. My radio is RADIO-4.02.02.14
If anyone knows if this is ok then I would appreciate it, I will try to research and see if it's ok too.
Thanks again!
Remember to do a nandroid backup in case you either screws something up or you wish to go back to your previous Rom (saves time and headache).
As far as i know updating the radio is optional, you just download it, nandroid backup, update like a rom, and reboot, IMPORTANT ON REBOOT IT WILL GO TO A LOADING SCREEN WHERE IT UPDATES THE RADIO DO NOT TOUCH ANYTHING OR PULL BATTERY OR YOU MAY BRICK YOUR PHONE-FOR REAL. With that said after the radio loads it will take you back to recovery, then nandroid again if you want(never hurts), wipe and flash cyanogens rom then the gapps add on and then reboot and youre good to go.
I just download all the files but I noticed that the radio is a .img file
Not sure how I can install it... any suggestions?
Model# SM-N900T
Android Version# 4.4.2
Baseband# N900TUVUENK3
Kernel# 3.4.0-2587359
Build# K0T49H.N900TUVUENK3
Security Software# MDF v1.0 Release 3
I'm kinda new to this whole XDA developers website (don’t let when I joined fool you) I’ve always heard that the XDA community are very helpful and I am in need of some serious help. I've had my Samsung Galaxy Note 3 for quite some time now, but now it has started to crash and slow down I was wondering if rooting it might fix this problem.
If so then how and where do I even begin? Do I even need to root it?
Also if and when I root I want to get rid of all of the bloat ware apps how do I do this?
Please someone teach me I’m willing to learn, so be detailed and dumb it down as much as possible.
I want to say thank ahead of time to anyone that responds! :highfive:
First off, rooting is nothing to be scared off. As long as you have a little bit of knowledge and some common sense it's pretty straight forward.
To root you just need a couple of things, and this will trip knox too if I remember rightly, but if your phone is out of warranty then it doesn't really matter to much.
Firstly you will want odin - this will put the files onto the phone using a PC and USB cable.
Secondly you'll need the .tar file that contains the "root" files. I used CF-Auto-Root by Chain fire.
Head to http://autoroot.chainfire.eu and find the right file for your phone model.
This also contains Odin too.
So unzip the CF-Auto-Root zip file on your PC, and you'll find odin.exe and the CF-Auto-Root.tar.md5 files along with a couple of dll files and an ini file.
Open the odin.exe and you'll have a screen pop up which may look pretty daunting but fear not, it's not bad, it's actually really easy and you'll love it.
Now turn off your phone and once it's completely powered off, hold volume down button, the home button together and then hold the power button. The phone will boot into download mode... You'll see a screen saying to press volume up to continue or cancel by pressing volume down. You'll need to continue so hit volume UP.
Now plug the phone into the PC and wait a few minutes while the drivers are installed. You will notice on the odin program that at the top, a bar has lit up saying "comxxx" (where xxx is will be a number. This is the com port your phone is connected to)
Now comes the bit you need to get right....
Click the PDA or AP button (depending on version of odin) on the right side of odin and then select the CF-Auto-Root.tar.md5 file. It will load it into odin ready to flash across to the phone.... Make sure auto reboot and f reset time are the only boxes checked on the left side.
Now comes the really difficult bit, you need to pay attention here...
Click the "START" button.
Thats pretty much it. The phone will reboot and once it's rebooted, go into your apps and see if supersu is there. If it is just open it up and update the binaries if it asks you to.
Congratulations, your phone is now rooted.
I recommend using a custom recovery like philz or TWRP and make nandroid backups before you do anything else, so if something goes wrong you can always go back and restore.
You can also flash custom roms which may help your phone go fast again. I recommend audax roms or echoe roms.
OMG!! Thank you!!! so simple!!!!! Just a few more questions before I start.
1. What is a "custom recovery" and how do I use it?
2. What are "Custom Roms" for and how do I flash them?
3. What is supersu for? (I've been reading that everywhere)[/B]
4. Do you recommend buying titanium backup?
EstradaKing said:
OMG!! Thank you!!! so simple!!!!! Just a few more questions before I start.
1. What is a "custom recovery" and how do I use it?
2. What are "Custom Roms" for and how do I flash them?
3. What is supersu for? (I've been reading that everywhere)[/B]
4. Do you recommend buying titanium backup?
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1. Custom Recovery is a recovery where you can a lot of stuffs which are not supported in stock recovery. Like flashing a zip package to be able to install it, be it a ROM or a small mod or whatever. Then you can take Nandroid backups too from it, along with so many other options.
2. Custom ROMs, same. ROMs which have a lot of customisation ability unlike stock ROMs, some custom ROMs come with some more pre bundled.
3. SuperSU is an app which is a must for rooted devices. It gives administrative level permission to apps, without it you won't be able to run some apps which needs root access. It can be found on Play Store, but better way to install it from a custom recovery after downloading the latest zip package of SuperSU.
4. Yes, very much, that is one of those apps which is a must have for Android.
Also one thing about XDA, when you are thanking someone, just use the Thanks button. I could not care less about it but believe me a lot of people prefer that.
Hi all, new to Android and Samsung, so sorry for the noob question.. and sorry if its been answered before, Ive done a HEAP of reading and Im still confused...
I recently bought an S4 GT-I9505, thinking that getting into Android and maybe tweaking it a bit would be fun..
This phone was a Warranty replacement for a Telstra "POST Paid" service and has been sitting in a cupboard for a few years, It is NOT network locked. The phone had never been used before I bought it but has since ran out of warranty,,
I can't remember what ver of Android was on the phone when I got it but Its now updated to 5.0.1 and ofcourse has KNOX.. I obviously dont care about KNOX Warranty tripping to 0x1 as its ran out anyway...
My question is though....
Every guide or thread I read about installing custom ROMs and such says "phone must have an UNLOCKED bootloader" ... So how do I "UNLOCK" the bootloader or is this something that happens when flashing a custom ROM? ... What am I missing here guys?
Thanks in advance
kingsdene
Only few devices have a locked bootloader.
Verizon and AT&T devices have a locked bootloaders.
If you're device is none of the above then you're good to go.
GDReaper said:
Only few devices have a locked bootloader.
Verizon and AT&T devices have a locked bootloaders.
If you're device is none of the above then you're good to go.
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Hi thanks for your reply,,
That clrears things up a bit,,
I read somewhere that the international versions weren't locked.. and in another thread I read they said the I9505 is international but on that same thread someone else said that it wasn't international, only the i9500 was,, so that confused me a little...
but on wikipedia the I9505 and I9506 are listed as international.... so if thats the case I definitely should be right hey???
Also because Im from AUS and not much is listed in terms of Australian Service providers.. would it be worth me trying to contact Telstra because its a Telstra "POST Paid" phone and asking if there would be any restrictions on it???
kingsdene said:
Hi thanks for your reply,,
That clrears things up a bit,,
I read somewhere that the international versions weren't locked.. and in another thread I read they said the I9505 is international but on that same thread someone else said that it wasn't international, only the i9500 was,, so that confused me a little...
but on wikipedia the I9505 and I9506 are listed as international.... so if thats the case I definitely should be right hey???
Also because Im from AUS and not much is listed in terms of Australian Service providers.. would it be worth me trying to contact Telstra because its a Telstra "POST Paid" phone and asking if there would be any restrictions on it???
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It might at worst have a network/carrier lock on it, but that would be it, no other locks.
See here for info/fees: https://whirlpool.net.au/wiki/phone_unlocking
I believe post paid phones are unlocked from the word go, but you may want to check...easiest way is to grab a sim from a family member/friend on another carrier and put it in and see if it registers on the network...prolly quicker than waiting on the phone to telstra...only to be told its not locked .
Here you go, more info:
http://www.acma.gov.au/theACMA/engage-blogs/engage-blogs/Telco/The-key-to-unlocking-your-mobile
Me im in Aus too, i bought my S5 i9505, a former Telstra S4, a few days back knowing it was unlocked fortunately....took it home and rooted it, debloated it and living happily on the stock 5.01 TouchWiz ROM with TWRP Recovery and Xposed , ill prolly chuck a custom one on at some point....
stylemessiah said:
It might at worst have a network/carrier lock on it, but that would be it, no other locks.
I believe post paid phones are unlocked from the word go, but you may want to check...easiest way is to grab a sim from a family member/friend on another carrier and put it in and see if it registers on the network...prolly quicker than waiting on the phone to telstra...only to be told its not locked .
Me im in Aus too, i bought my S5 i9505, a former Telstra S4, a few days back knowing it was unlocked fortunately....took it home and rooted it, debloated it and living happily on the stock 5.01 TouchWiz ROM with TWRP Recovery and Xposed , ill prolly chuck a custom one on at some point....
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Hi mate, Thanks very much for the reply/info
Thats really good to know.. Looks like Im all set then,, I knew it wasn't networked locked, I tested with an Optus sim..
Would you mind sharing your process on how you rooted it and installed TWRP? Did you use apps or flash from Odin/Heimdal etc,, I know theres heaps of guides and different ways of doing so.... Im just curious on different peoples experiences
Oh and just thaught id let you know I noticed in your sig you've listed you device as S4 I9095
kingsdene said:
Hi mate, Thanks very much for the reply/info
Thats really good to know.. Looks like Im all set then,, I knew it wasn't networked locked, I tested with an Optus sim..
Would you mind sharing your process on how you rooted it and installed TWRP? Did you use apps or flash from Odin/Heimdal etc,, I know theres heaps of guides and different ways of doing so.... Im just curious on different peoples experiences
Oh and just thaught id let you know I noticed in your sig you've listed you device as S4 I9095
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Nice pickup on the sig
Im the king of typos...i have a wonky brain, and it doesnt always connect my hand with the right keys Sig corrected
Heres what i did on mine, and how i remember doing it, though if some steps dont match up, let me know via PM or email, in my profile:
Required utils/files (assuming you have a standard i9505):
Odin: http://dl.sammobile.com/Odin3-v3.11.1.zip
CF Auto Root: https://download.chainfire.eu/316/CF-Root/CF-Auto-Root/CF-Auto-Root-jflte-jfltexx-gti9505.zip
TWRP: https://dl.twrp.me/jfltexx/twrp-3.0.2-0-jfltexx.img.tar.html
1) Rooting
a) Put phone into download mode - Power + Home + Vol Down, then Vol Up
b) Connect to PC via cable
c) Run Odin
d) Tick next AP
e) Press AP and browse to locate and select the CF Auto file downloaded
f) Press Start
g) It should upload to phone and phone should reboot into recovery and do its thing and then reboot
h) Unplug the phone form the cable
i) You may get, i did, a Google Play update to update SuperSU. I did this and rebooted, you may also get a prompt to update the su binary, do this using the Normal method, and reboot
2) TWRP
a) Put phone into download mode - Power + Home + Vol Down, then Vol Up
b) Connect to PC
c) Run Odin
d) Tick next AP
e) Press AP and browse to locate and select the TWRP file downloaded
f) Click options, and untick Auto Reboot - if you dont manage to catch the device using the recovery boot keys as it reboots, it may boot normally and over-write the recovery, and you'll have flash it again, so i turned this off
f) Press Start
g) When its uploaded, unplug phone,and hold down Power + Home + Vol Up until it reboots and you see the recovery boot text appear in the top left (lines of blue, yellow, red text), let go at this point, a
the device should boot to recovery and install recovery
h) Unplug the phone form the cable
i) Power down the phone (i got a cache mounting issue - discovered when i was flashing Xposed, that you may need to fix...best to do it anyways, and do it now to fix the issue before you try and flash a custom ROM in the future etc)
j) Boot to recovery again - Power + Home + Vol Up until it reboots and you see the recovery boot text appear in the top left, let go at this point, the device should boot to recovery
k) Go into Mount and see if Cache is mounted, if it is, youre fine, if it isnt, try mounting it by ticking Cache. If it wont mount:
i) Click Wipe,
ii) Click Advanced Wipe
iii) Tick Cache
iiii) Click Repair or Change File System
iv) Click Change Filesystem
v) Click Ext4
vi) Swipe to change
It may take some time to fix....
l)Reboot when done
3) Debloating (highly recommended on the stock ROM)
Theres a few pages on which apps and files to remove using a root uninstaller app, or you can Install this and tick the items you want removed: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.adamioan.s4lollipopdebloater&hl=en
Please dont ask me what to tick or leave ticked Theres descriptions in the app, or more info on the forums. Personally i tend to decimate ROM's from all non-essential apps, but what works for me may not work for you, you may use things i dont.
When done, reboot
Optional though recommended: Boot into recovery and wipe your dalvik & cache (note: once Dalvik is wiped your next reboot will be long due to app optimising - it will be shorter than normal with less apps though)
Hope this helps
stylemessiah said:
Nice pickup on the sig
Im the king of typos...i have a wonky brain, and it doesnt always connect my hand with the right keys Sig corrected
Heres what i did on mine, and how i remember doing it, though if some steps dont match up, let me know via PM or email, in my profile:
1) Rooting
a) Put phone into download mode - Power + Home + Vol Down, then Vol Up
b) Connect to PC via cable
c) Run Odin
d) Tick next AP
e) Press AP and browse to locate and select the CF Auto file downloaded
f) Press Start
g) It should upload to phone and phone should reboot into recovery and do its thing and then reboot
h) Unplug the phone form the cable
i) You may get, i did, a Google Play update to update SuperSU. I did this and rebooted, you may also get a prompt to update the su binary, do this using the Normal method, and reboot
2) TWRP
a) Put phone into download mode - Power + Home + Vol Down, then Vol Up
b) Connect to PC
c) Run Odin
d) Tick next AP
e) Press AP and browse to locate and select the TWRP file downloaded
f) Click options, and untick Auto Reboot - if you dont manage to catch the device using the recovery boot keys as it reboots, it may boot normally and over-write the recovery, and you'll have flash it again, so i turned this off
f) Press Start
g) When its uploaded, unplug phone,and hold down Power + Home + Vol Up until it reboots and you see the recovery boot text appear in the top left (lines of blue, yellow, red text), let go at this point, a
the device should boot to recovery and install recovery
h) Unplug the phone form the cable
i) Power down the phone (i got a cache mounting issue - discovered when i was flashing Xposed, that you may need to fix...best to do it anyways, and do it now to fix the issue before you try and flash a custom ROM in the future etc)
j) Boot to recovery again - Power + Home + Vol Up until it reboots and you see the recovery boot text appear in the top left, let go at this point, the device should boot to recovery
k) Go into Mount and see if Cache is mounted, if it is, youre fine, if it isnt, try mounting it by ticking Cache. If it wont mount:
i) Click Wipe,
ii) Click Advanced Wipe
iii) Tick Cache
iiii) Click Repair or Change File System
iv) Click Change Filesystem
v) Click Ext4
vi) Swipe to change
It may take some time to fix....
l)Reboot when done
3) Debloating (highly recommended on the stock ROM)
Theres a few pages on which apps and files to remove using a root uninstaller app, or you can Install this and tick the items you want removed: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.adamioan.s4lollipopdebloater&hl=en
Please dont ask me what to tick or leave ticked Theres descriptions in the app, or more info on the forums. Personally i tend to decimate ROM's from all non-essential apps, but what works for me may not work for you, you may use things i dont.
When done, reboot
Optional though recommended: Boot into recovery and wipe your dalvik & cache (note: once Dalvik is wiped your next reboot will be long due to app optimising - it will be shorter than normal with less apps though)
Hope this helps
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Haha your not the only one with a wonky brain bro.....
And WOW wasn't expecting all that... Thanks very much man, your a legend.
I really appreciate your help
Ill give it a crack and see how I go..
Cheers mate
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Heres what i did on mine, and how i remember doing it
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Hi mate,, just thaught I'd let you know I followed your guide and all was sucsessful, thanks again, I had it running for a while and I really like the stock ROM when unbloated.
Since then I've flashed a Resurrection Remix Marshmallow ROM -ver 5.6.7 and its running well except for a few glitches but nothing serious.
I have a question for you though, if you dont mind... I am planning on getting the latest RR ROM and upgrading to that to see how it runs...
But if I were to downgrade to a Lollipop version of RR, would I be ok flashing it from my current state? I have read somewhere that flashing to an earlier version of Android (Marshmallow to Lollipop) is a bit of a different process?
And also if this were true.... Than when I made a TWRP Backup of my rooted stock 5.0.1 Lollipop before I flashed RR 6.0.1 Marshmallow.. If I were to try now to restore from my backup it wouldn't work? because of the different Android versions?
I have done heaps of reading and can't seem to find a great deal on this... only when it comes to stock ROMs
Cheers
kingsdene
kingsdene said:
Hi mate,, just thaught I'd let you know I followed your guide and all was sucsessful, thanks again, I had it running for a while and I really like the stock ROM when unbloated.
Since then I've flashed a Resurrection Remix Marshmallow ROM -ver 5.6.7 and its running well except for a few glitches but nothing serious.
I have a question for you though, if you dont mind... I am planning on getting the latest RR ROM and upgrading to that to see how it runs...
But if I were to downgrade to a Lollipop version of RR, would I be ok flashing it from my current state? I have read somewhere that flashing to an earlier version of Android (Marshmallow to Lollipop) is a bit of a different process?
And also if this were true.... Than when I made a TWRP Backup of my rooted stock 5.0.1 Lollipop before I flashed RR 6.0.1 Marshmallow.. If I were to try now to restore from my backup it wouldn't work? because of the different Android versions?
I have done heaps of reading and can't seem to find a great deal on this... only when it comes to stock ROMs
Cheers
kingsdene
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Im glad that my wonky memories of rooting/twrp and debloating worked out for you. The stock 5.01 ROM is great without the bloat. Ive since moved onto Optimised CM13, which is going well.
Im afraid i cant help you on downgrading from LP to MM, as ive never done it on this device, but i cant see how that would in any way be an issue as you have a custom recovery installed...afaik thats all thats needed...at least on the S2 it was as easy as flash what the hell you want to on it as long as you had at least a KK recovery installed..
Cant help on backups, as i literally never use them, i never carry over stuff from one ROM to the next, i clean install everything
kingsdene said:
Hi mate,, just thaught I'd let you know I followed your guide and all was sucsessful, thanks again, I had it running for a while and I really like the stock ROM when unbloated.
Since then I've flashed a Resurrection Remix Marshmallow ROM -ver 5.6.7 and its running well except for a few glitches but nothing serious.
I have a question for you though, if you dont mind... I am planning on getting the latest RR ROM and upgrading to that to see how it runs...
But if I were to downgrade to a Lollipop version of RR, would I be ok flashing it from my current state? I have read somewhere that flashing to an earlier version of Android (Marshmallow to Lollipop) is a bit of a different process?
And also if this were true.... Than when I made a TWRP Backup of my rooted stock 5.0.1 Lollipop before I flashed RR 6.0.1 Marshmallow.. If I were to try now to restore from my backup it wouldn't work? because of the different Android versions?
I have done heaps of reading and can't seem to find a great deal on this... only when it comes to stock ROMs
Cheers
kingsdene
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The downgrading is only a problem on stock to stock ROMs. Any combination of custom to stock should work.
And TWRP has a problem with TouchWiz ROM backups. So your backup might not work either.
I mean, it will work, but you get errors.
Ok guys, new here and I've done a bit of reading on this already. From what I gather, the S7 Edge is difficult if not impossible to unlock without a factory reset. Here's the issue.
This phone belongs to my friend's husband who was severely injured in an accident at work. He's in a coma and probably won't survive. He was severely burned over 90% of his body with chemicals and he has no fingerprints to unlock the fingerprint scanner. In addition, his wife doesn't know his password, so I figured I'd see if I could do anything for her. I tried the Dr. Fone program, but it's apparently incompatible with the S7 Edge. He keeps getting texts and messages and we can't check them. The phone is also set for a daily alarm at 1:30 AM, and apparently you can't power it down without the lock code either. Ideally, I'd like to either gain access for her or at least extract what data we can from the thing before factory resetting it. It would also be nice to power it down so that it doesn't keep putting out an alarm every night in the middle of the night. All his contacts with his family are inconveniently stored in the phone as well. It's kind of a worst case scenario.
Any assistance or recommendations for a course of action for this situation would be fantastic. I don't have any other information on the device itself other than that it's running on Freedom Mobile's network in Ontario, Canada. They've said they can factory reset it for her, but we were trying to avoid that and get any contacts or messages from his phone if possible.
Thanks in advance for any help! I know it's a long shot!
Edit: I managed to power down the phone with the Power Button/Volume Down trick after about 9 tries, so at least the alarm won't go off. Other than that, no luck.
Unique situation? More like fked up situation.
Anyways I am assuming its a completely stock phone with USB debugging turned off. Hope its not carrier locked, if yes then here are the steps:
1. Flash Custom Recovery on the Phone using Odin
2. Use aroma file manager from the Recovery, you need to download it separately, put it on its SD card.
3. Now using aroma file manager navigate to Data Folder and then; System Folder and find “gesture.key” or “password.key” for pattern lock or password lock respectively.
4. Delete those any password related file and reboot. It should be unlocked now.
Thanks VERY much, UnNaMeD__!!!
I'm looking at Odin and the Recovery firmware right now. Is there a recommended version? I see TWRP and CWM, but primarily TWRP mentioned, and it looks like the .tar files are easy to find. I'm pretty new to this type of mod and I don't want to brick the phone, I know it's a risk. I'm looking at faqs on theandroidsoul and the cyanogenmods forum which seem quite thorough. Apparently I can't post the links as I'm a new user here....seems fair I suppose, especially considering the forum content.
My friend's husband didn't have a microSD card in (just checked), but I can toss a spare one of mine in for Aroma, which I found. I probably need for format it for FAT32, not NTFS though? Is there any way to tell if it's carrier locked? It's from a small phone company, not one of the bigger guys. I'm going to wait until I hear back to get started on this, as I'm decent with Windows based systems, but unfamiliar with the nuances of modding Android. I use a stock Sony XZ Premium myself.
Again, thanks very much! I've got some hope we can get in touch with his family now!
UnNaMeD__ said:
Unique situation? More like fked up situation.
Anyways I am assuming its a completely stock phone with USB debugging turned off. Hope its not carrier locked, if yes then here are the steps:
1. Flash Custom Recovery on the Phone using Odin
2. Use aroma file manager from the Recovery, you need to download it separately, put it on its SD card.
3. Now using aroma file manager navigate to Data Folder and then; System Folder and find “gesture.key” or “password.key” for pattern lock or password lock respectively.
4. Delete those any password related file and reboot. It should be unlocked now.
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maxlords said:
Thanks VERY much, UnNaMeD__!!!
I'm looking at Odin and the Recovery firmware right now. Is there a recommended version? I see TWRP and CWM, but primarily TWRP mentioned, and it looks like the .tar files are easy to find. I'm pretty new to this type of mod and I don't want to brick the phone, I know it's a risk. I'm looking at faqs on theandroidsoul and the cyanogenmods forum which seem quite thorough. Apparently I can't post the links as I'm a new user here....seems fair I suppose, especially considering the forum content.
My friend's husband didn't have a microSD card in (just checked), but I can toss a spare one of mine in for Aroma, which I found. I probably need for format it for FAT32, not NTFS though? Is there any way to tell if it's carrier locked? It's from a small phone company, not one of the bigger guys. I'm going to wait until I hear back to get started on this, as I'm decent with Windows based systems, but unfamiliar with the nuances of modding Android. I use a stock Sony XZ Premium myself.
Again, thanks very much! I've got some hope we can get in touch with his family now!
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Use odin 3.13 the latest
Then download twrp recovery 3.2.2.0 tar file for hero2lte the latest.
Boot your phone into odin mode by restarting your phone while holding power home button and vol down. When your reach the confirmation screen press OK.
Open odin and put the tar file in the ap slot and click the ap box and hit start to begin flashing.
Now restart ur phone by holding power home and vol down then immediately hold power home vol up to reach custom recovery.
Edit I just tested this myself
Flash the zip file from this thread no need to go looking for files in system.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2780696
Should remove password pin or pattern.
To check if it's network locked just look at the back of your phone if it says 935u or Verizon wireless or 935W8 then the phone is unlocked for different networks.
maxlords said:
Thanks VERY much, UnNaMeD__!!!
I'm looking at Odin and the Recovery firmware right now. Is there a recommended version? I see TWRP and CWM, but primarily TWRP mentioned, and it looks like the .tar files are easy to find. I'm pretty new to this type of mod and I don't want to brick the phone, I know it's a risk. I'm looking at faqs on theandroidsoul and the cyanogenmods forum which seem quite thorough. Apparently I can't post the links as I'm a new user here....seems fair I suppose, especially considering the forum content.
My friend's husband didn't have a microSD card in (just checked), but I can toss a spare one of mine in for Aroma, which I found. I probably need for format it for FAT32, not NTFS though? Is there any way to tell if it's carrier locked? It's from a small phone company, not one of the bigger guys. I'm going to wait until I hear back to get started on this, as I'm decent with Windows based systems, but unfamiliar with the nuances of modding Android. I use a stock Sony XZ Premium myself.
Again, thanks very much! I've got some hope we can get in touch with his family now!
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Just look at back of your phone and tell me its model, Like G935F. I will give you the correct recovery file. And recoveries have option to enable storage too so you can access data from computer. But to be honest it never worked for me. You could also give it a try before doing other steps.
You could contact on PM, or even better I could also help you over whatsapp if you wish.
And I never heard that you could brick phone by flashing recovery, maybe only if you flash incorrectly. A bad recovery will make recovery useless, but phone would still boot. Thats my experience.
I have broken password before of a Mediatek device. If you want I could try it on my own S7 Edge too to be 100% sure.
I'll send you a PM as well, but I just checked and it's a G935W8. Sorry for the delay, I work shift work and I'm pretty busy. I'm going to work on the phone on the weekend. I don't have Whatsapp currently, but I can get it. Thanks again for your kindly assistance!
UnNaMeD__ said:
Just look at back of your phone and tell me its model, Like G935F. I will give you the correct recovery file. And recoveries have option to enable storage too so you can access data from computer. But to be honest it never worked for me. You could also give it a try before doing other steps.
You could contact on PM, or even better I could also help you over whatsapp if you wish.
And I never heard that you could brick phone by flashing recovery, maybe only if you flash incorrectly. A bad recovery will make recovery useless, but phone would still boot. Thats my experience.
I have broken password before of a Mediatek device. If you want I could try it on my own S7 Edge too to be 100% sure.
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I'll send you a PM as well, but I just checked and it's a G935W8. Sorry for the delay, I work shift work and I'm pretty busy. I'm going to work on the phone on the weekend. I don't have Whatsapp currently, but I can get it. Thanks again for your kindly assistance!
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Hey alright no problem.
Download TWRP for G935W8 from official TWRP website:
https://teamw.in/samsung/samsunggalaxys7edge.html
You can follow some instructions from this thread regarding flashing:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/s7...overy-official-twrp-hero2lte-3-0-0-0-t3334084
Flashing TWRP might cause your phone to not boot. You will need to download dm-verity disabler from the thread above.
So download TWRP, Aroma file manager, dm-verity bypass, and zip file to disable pass that the other user posted: https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2780696
Download all these files and put aroma file manager, dm-verity bypass and that password zip file bypass on your SD.
Make sure auto reboot is disabled in odin, follow instruction in thread about how to install twrp. If the auto reboot is disabled, phone will just remain at the same screen, so after the flashing is done from odin. You need to force reboot on your phone (volume down + power button for few seconds), just when the screen goes off, you need to immediately press recovery button combination (vol up + home + power). Here once you enter TWRP recovery see if you can enable MTP and trasnfer data to PC, if not, goto install zip and try password bypass zip file. If it works file then ok and proceed to install dm-verity bypass file and reboot your phone. If that zip doesn't works. You need to go to same install zip file option and now install aroma file manager. From there delete the password files that I told you about earlier, flash dm-verity and reboot again.
Thats it, if get confused about a step, tell me.
Well, I attempted to install TWRP through the latest version of Odin, but it didn't work. The error message I got in Recovery/Download mode was:
"Custom Binary (RECOVERY) Blocked By FRP Lock."
I looked that up online and apparently to install TWRP, I need to remove the FRP lock. I found a program called RealTerm which can supposedly bypass the FRP lock, but it doesn't seem to be connecting to the locked phone and it's not exactly user friendly.
Am I missing something here? Or is there no way to bypass the FRP lock on the unit?
Hello all,
After 5 hours searching and almost done, it seems like the phone won against me...
I have a friend who has his device under Android5, latest version, and need at least Android 6 to update his bank app, which required this update to work normally.
The worst part here, is that the device has the down volume button not working anymore (at all)
I wa a little rusty because I moved two years ago to iOS, but I have some memories with my old samsung and Nexus 6 flashing.
So here's what I've tried so far, I can forgot to mention some stuff because it's been a long work lol
So I have a 1GB SD Card and my indows 10 computer.
- I started to download and install all ADB and fastboot drivers.
- I've activated Debugged mod and OEM Unlock. I couldn't find if the bootloader is allowed for unlock or not, because the command didn't work. So I supposed that yes, it is. The device is the J3 SM-J320FN bought in France, new.
ADB work perfectly, but I didnt manage to get the device recognsied with the Fastboot mode. "ADB Devices" list the phone, but fastboot devices command does not show anything, it goes back to another line.
My friend didn't mentionned that he has installed a recovery. I don't know how, but the recovery is very basic. Here's a photo of the recovery screen. It appear when i press Vol+, home and power button, but I can't move anywehre because of the low volume button not working. Vol-, home and power doesn't work for the Download mode.
I finally managed to enter in download mode by using the command ADB REBOOT DOWNLOAD. With that, I honestly don't remember how I did it, but I think I've flashed a file which allow me to root the device from ODIN. With this, I've got confirmation of Root Checker app that the device is now rooted.
I've passed many hours to make some tests here and there, but nothing gave me a real result. Then I found two apps : ROM Manager and Flashfire.
ROM Manager : The app says that it doesn't find Superuser in System/bin/su. So it's like the device is not rooted. Nothing seems to work on the app too.
Flashfire : It seems like this app can do the job, but I can't finalize the process. So I've changed the year of the phone to 2013 to get the app running, I've tried a wipe, and here... Yahoooo ! A big Loading screen with many line codes, and then... nothing. My computer make the sound to say that it recognised the device, and a full blackscreen for 10mn. Exactly same process if I try to flash a ROM, or whatever action (even doing a backup).
I suppose it's because the app wasnt granted the root permissions. Not sure, because even if the phone seems to have the root status, I never get any pop up to ask if I allow to get the permission or not. I've tried to dwnload the APK for SuperSU app or something, and nothing seems to work.
So now, It looks like i'm close, but I also think that there is nothing more to do.
The device is powering on, with all its data, and seems rooted, but I can't do anything. It seems like the recovery is the only option to go trough the install.
So you guys, do you have any ideas of what can I do ?
I'd like to install LineageOS, but any ROM with Android 6.0 min. will be fine for me.
Also, pardon my english. I'm french lol
Thank you for your help..!
Alerion13 said:
Hello all,
After 5 hours searching and almost done, it seems like the phone won against me...
I have a friend who has his device under Android5, latest version, and need at least Android 6 to update his bank app, which required this update to work normally.
The worst part here, is that the device has the down volume button not working anymore (at all)
I wa a little rusty because I moved two years ago to iOS, but I have some memories with my old samsung and Nexus 6 flashing.
So here's what I've tried so far, I can forgot to mention some stuff because it's been a long work lol
So I have a 1GB SD Card and my indows 10 computer.
- I started to download and install all ADB and fastboot drivers.
- I've activated Debugged mod and OEM Unlock. I couldn't find if the bootloader is allowed for unlock or not, because the command didn't work. So I supposed that yes, it is. The device is the J3 SM-J320FN bought in France, new.
ADB work perfectly, but I didnt manage to get the device recognsied with the Fastboot mode. "ADB Devices" list the phone, but fastboot devices command does not show anything, it goes back to another line.
My friend didn't mentionned that he has installed a recovery. I don't know how, but the recovery is very basic. Here's a photo of the recovery screen. It appear when i press Vol+, home and power button, but I can't move anywehre because of the low volume button not working. Vol-, home and power doesn't work for the Download mode.
I finally managed to enter in download mode by using the command ADB REBOOT DOWNLOAD. With that, I honestly don't remember how I did it, but I think I've flashed a file which allow me to root the device from ODIN. With this, I've got confirmation of Root Checker app that the device is now rooted.
I've passed many hours to make some tests here and there, but nothing gave me a real result. Then I found two apps : ROM Manager and Flashfire.
ROM Manager : The app says that it doesn't find Superuser in System/bin/su. So it's like the device is not rooted. Nothing seems to work on the app too.
Flashfire : It seems like this app can do the job, but I can't finalize the process. So I've changed the year of the phone to 2013 to get the app running, I've tried a wipe, and here... Yahoooo ! A big Loading screen with many line codes, and then... nothing. My computer make the sound to say that it recognised the device, and a full blackscreen for 10mn. Exactly same process if I try to flash a ROM, or whatever action (even doing a backup).
I suppose it's because the app wasnt granted the root permissions. Not sure, because even if the phone seems to have the root status, I never get any pop up to ask if I allow to get the permission or not. I've tried to dwnload the APK for SuperSU app or something, and nothing seems to work.
So now, It looks like i'm close, but I also think that there is nothing more to do.
The device is powering on, with all its data, and seems rooted, but I can't do anything. It seems like the recovery is the only option to go trough the install.
So you guys, do you have any ideas of what can I do ?
I'd like to install LineageOS, but any ROM with Android 6.0 min. will be fine for me.
Also, pardon my english. I'm french lol
Thank you for your help..!
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So why not just install Marshmallow with Odin?
After that install TWRP the same way?
Is it possible ?
I though that only installing custom rom will allow the phone to go beyond 5.1. Because the phone can’t find any update on OTA.
So if I download the correct file, flashing it should work ?
Thanks for the answer
Alerion13 said:
Is it possible ?
I though that only installing custom rom will allow the phone to go beyond 5.1. Because the phone can’t find any update on OTA.
So if I download the correct file, flashing it should work ?
Thanks for the answer
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I assumed the J320 had received the MM update. However it seems not.
In that case custom is the only way. For that you will need to install twrp with Odin.
Exactly what I though yesterday. I will call him to see what can I do.
So the latest versions of TWRP are compatible with the touch screen, and then the volume down button isn’t required to process ? After the recovery installed, I will be able to find the zip of the custom rom and install it right ?
Thank you again
Alerion13 said:
Exactly what I though yesterday. I will call him to see what can I do.
So the latest versions of TWRP are compatible with the touch screen, and then the volume down button isn’t required to process ? After the recovery installed, I will be able to find the zip of the custom rom and install it right ?
Thank you again
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Twrp is touch driven so no need for hard keys.
The only issue is that you need to reboot immediately into recovery mode after flashing twrp.
As down isn't working you will need to leave auto reboot enabled and catch it at the right moment to boot to recovery as it reboots.
Excellent. I will try that and will let you know. Thank you