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So I'm relatively new to the flashing, rooting, hacking android scene, but I've done some reading.
I accidentally installed Google Voice and now I simply can't uninstall it. I am offered the option of uninstalling the updates, but if I do that I can no longer 'Open' or 'Uninstall'. If I uninstall the updates I can no longer open the app and the icon disappears from the app menu.
Whilst I don't want to root my phone, yet, I would like to restore it to a completely stock image.
The "Settings > Privacy > Factory data reset" doesn't do what I want. After doing this, Google Voice is still shown as installed in the marketplace - even though it isn't.
So, can I completely reset my entire phone?
Would I be correct in thinking that if I booted into the skateboarding android screen (via volume down and power) and I applied the 'update-nexusone-ERE27-signed.zip' update from 'android.modaco.com' - this would completely wipe my phone and put it back to a stock, unrooted factory setting?
Do I need to 'wipe' my phone before I apply the zip mentioned above? If so, how do I wipe?
If anyone could tell me how to get rid of Google Voice in another way, I would also appreciate that - without being rooted.
Thanks in advance for the help.
You can pick up a complete stock ERD79 from MoDaCo, the ERE27 update wont do as it's an update not a complete ROM.
Hi,
Thanks for taking the time to reply, and so quickly!
If I go and get the stock ERE27 ROM from MoDaCo, will I be able to apply this without rooting?
To apply the ROM, do I boot into the skateboarding androids screen? Which options would I choose to perform a wipe and then apply the update?
My understanding is that I will need to rename the ROM to update.zip?
Apologies for the noob questions.
Hang on a minute, I've mis-understood what's going on here
So you've not unlocked your boot loader, which makes everything I previously said invalid
Can you find Google Voice in the list of installed apps in the Application Manager (under settings) and filter it to all?
When I got the phone I made the mistake of installing Google Voice from the marketplace - no point as I'm in the UK.
Somehow, it no longer appears in the app menu but does still show as installed in marketplace. The only options marketplace offers 'open' and 'uninstall' are both greyed out.
If I browse the file structure of the phone with Astro to '/system/app' I can see a googlevoice.apk entry, with the google voice icon. There isn't a googlevoice.odex file however.
The phone still works, and works normally - it just annoys me that it is on my system and shows in marketplace and I can't get rid of it.
I was therefore looking for a way to completely restore the phone to a factory state (like you could do with the iPhone with a restore).
I am not rooted and would like to stay that way.
I hope that clarifies, and thanks for your continued replies.
Oh, and it doesn't show under manage applications in settings.
Out of interest, are you on a vodafone contract, SIM only or PAYG? I'm looking to switch from O2 but I want to ensure that I can still get full HSDPA speeds on a SIM only deal - I tried out T-Mobile SIM Only but I needed to have the £5 extra for W&W plus as their standard internet doesn't give full HSDPA speeds.
Hmm that's a bit odd then, must admit all I can think of is boot into recovery and perform the 2 wipes that are available, or... just ignore it
As for Voda, it's a SIM only 12 month contract that I got from retentions... 300mins, unlimited texts & web for £15p/m, however 11 of those months are discounted by 50%.
Thanks for bearing with me. Unfortunately I can't ignore it... what can I say, I'm just one of those people
I'm guessing that it simply isn't possible for me to do a complete restore to stock without first being rooted?
So, the last few stupid questions:
If I do the two wipes that are available, will that leave me with a completely blank phone that I will then need to flash a ROM to?
What are the two types of wipe, how do I get to them and what is each supposed to achieve?
No it wont leave you with a blank phone, it will be as if you'd just switched it on when you got it.
You need to get into fastboot (trackball and power on as you know) then into the bootloader, then recovery. At the picture of the Android and the exclamation point, you hold down the power button, the hit vol up.
Here you can use the trackball to select what you want.
What does each one do? **** knows, I can't even remember what they're called at the moment lmao
Much appreciated.
I'll give it a go this evening and let you know how I get on.
Please refer to this link for restoring to original shipping, thread closed.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=614850
Hi there, new guy here. Last week I bought an evo from a guy and that same guy flashed over the evo to metro for me. So just like a lot of people here I am having some problems and I'm also looking for some advice.
First of all I don't know what rom he used... I know that I have superuser on the phone. The version of phone I have I believe I have is 2.2 (?)
Is superuser a flash, root, or rom? How would I find out which root I have? He didn't mention it to me. All he said was don't download any apps that require "superuser permissions"
Here is what is working-sms, youtube app, wifi, internet w/ and w/o wifi, market, email, gmail and yahoo, receive photos
And here is what is not - voicemail notification, mms, can't send photos, gps forces the phone to reset many times, so navigator/ maps causes reset. Not to mention that the phone will reset several times throughout every other day. Also getting the data error.
Called the guy and he said that he would reflash the evo for free this time. He also suggested doing a factory reset, that might fix the constant resetting I am having. I read online that some task manager apps can cause the phone to reset when gps is on.
Any help in all of the above is appreciated. Should I have him reflash it? Should I attempt this myself? Not knowing what rom I have right now is the hardest part for me right now.
Again thanks for the help.
ROM info is in the settings/about phone/software
To factory reset: settings/sd & phone storage
Superuser just let you give an app permission to access root or block it.
I would do the factory reset if your having reboots. More ROM info would probably help us out with your problem.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=795182
Im not 100% sure of.metro.pcs hack or wtv that they do for the Evo but that rom.has everything working download the metrodroid (latest version ) , put it in your sd card , go to recovery mode and wipe , data, dalvik, cache (this will erase all your data ) and then go to.choose flash zip, look for the zip flash and hopefully the works, root ia only one it should be fully root to run it in metro pcs and I recommend you to read different topics about what root is, have fun
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ROM info is in the settings/about phone/software
To factory reset: settings/sd & phone storage
Superuser just let you give an app permission to access root or block it.
I would do the factory reset if your having reboots. More ROM info would probably help us out with your problem.
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ok thank you. I just did what you stated and found out that my rom is bugless beast to0Mod V0.1
Any other info is appreciated, I am thinking about installing the metrodroid rom like jgalan suggested however I am plum terrified about bricking my phone. As I have never done anything like this on a phone. Only xboxs etc.
Does anyone out there know about this romthat I have If it's truly V0.1 I'm assuming its hellllla old, but I dunno. Thanks again for all of the input.
One last question how full proof is the metrodroid rom? I was doing some reading about people still having issue with stuff that I already have working currently (sms, web etc). I just don't want to open another can of worms if I can avoid it. Thanks again.
So I have the Atrix (rooted on 1.26, the used a script before upgrading to keep root on 1.57). I am thinking of returning it to the store (I am within my 30 day time limit). So I am just looking to wipe my data off of it. Should I unroot the device first? Think the store will care / be able to tell? Just mainly concerned about my personal data being wiped.
A [Settings - Privacy - Factory Data Reset] should suffice right?
Yeah you could unroot and they might not know/care. If you want to be absolutely sure they won't know, you could flash it with rsdlite. That will wipe everything.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=991072
First off I'm new here and I rarely ever use forums or ask for help so I apologize. I was in IT for a year and plan on going into a computer related field so I don't want to be treated like I'm stupid, I'm just ignorant. That being said I NEED HELP
I have a Motorola Droid Razr M running the dreaded Android 4.1.2 OTA update. I recently rooted it and tried to use App2SD because I was running out of space and that was a nightmare because you need 4.2.2 Froyo and I'm ignorant, but anyways I rooted my phone just fine and was trying to unlock the bootloader but appearantly you can't on 4.1.2. So I decided to use Safestrap and I didn't have enough space to download anymore apps so I deleted a bunch and it still said (insufficient storage available) and wouldn't let me download it. I said fine and factory reset my phone after using titanium backup to back everything up. Everything was wiped and as I tried restoring using my titanium backup from the SD card it said insufficient storage for some of the apps even though I had plenty of space. (it lets me download like titanium backup and a few other apps, but mostly none of my paid ones or important ones which is even weirder) I've looked at other forums and can't download lucky patcher, titanium backup gives me a message when I open it that asks to restore my old android user id because of the factory reset and I figured that could be the issue but you need the paid version of titanium backup for that and it gives me the insufficient storage error message when I try to install the paid version idk what to do? maybe I can completely wipe it somehow and just start all over? or there's a special way to change the android user id back? or maybe I should unroot the phone because it's rooted but superuser isn't downloaded anymore and won't install. I have no idea what to do. I apologize for the inconvenience but I need some help. Any educated information on the subject or help would be SOOO appreciated. Thank you!
Somehow I have received malware on my stock, untouched G5 plus. I've performed a wipe of user data and performed factory reset from the boot option (power and volume key at startup) Still, the malware exists and redirects webpages to pop-ups even with fresh install.
Does anyone have an untouched factory ROM, that will receive all OTA updates ? Lenovo will not provide! Help very much appreciated.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/g5-plus/how-to/stock-firmware-npn25-137-67-5-fastboot-t3694738 here
vantastic415 said:
Somehow I have received malware on my stock, untouched G5 plus. I've performed a wipe of user data and performed factory reset from the boot option (power and volume key at startup) Still, the malware exists and redirects webpages to pop-ups even with fresh install.
Does anyone have an untouched factory ROM, that will receive all OTA updates ? Lenovo will not provide! Help very much appreciated.
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If you have a stock, untouched Moto G5 then there is something else going on... It is not possible for malware to infect the system after a factory reset, unless it is coming from an app you are reinstalling or your SD card.
acejavelin said:
If you have a stock, untouched Moto G5 then there is something else going on... It is not possible for malware to infect the system after a factory reset, unless it is coming from an app you are reinstalling or your SD card.
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That's not quite true. There have been a number of vulnerabilities (like the Dirty Cow one) that can be used to get root, and then cause havoc on your system. In general, if you just get regular apps from the Play Store you'll be fine, but if you get external sources, who the hell knows.
You might want to contact Motorola support and see if they have steps. I would think flashing the stock rom would solve it.
I also didn't believe this to be possible, but unfortunately that's the situation.
I barely even install apps on my phone, or use my phone for much. I'm one of those weird people that stay largely disconnected from tech. I have whatsapp, color note, good budget, swype, and Amazon music. That's it. All from the play store.
The virus had to originate from the web. Occasionally I click on ads or "news" with interesting looking content. You know, the sort with 20 pages to click through and ads everywhere. I know better, but that's where it came from.
First virus in 31 years of computing. I guess now I get to learn about rooting Android and flashing ROMs. :good:
Thank you for the replies and link to a clean ROM. Very appreciated!
Edit: No SD card in the phone, and I've factory reset from within Android, and during boot. Erase cache, data, everything. Virus persists. =( oh well, no biggie now.
You have not got the dodgy whatsapp, should be removed from playstore now, but that was a advertising machine.
Perhaps I'm not understanding. In the provided link I don't see many ROM, just 4.
I have the standard G5 Plus (non Amazon) on T-Mobile. Model: XT1687. Build number NPN25.137-83. Any idea where I could get a stock ROM for this and get my phone back to virus free?
I've searched but can only come up with a TWRP flashable ROM, and I've no idea what TWRP means, but I see that for some reason it doesn't receive OTA updates, so that's unfortunately a no-go.
Thanks so much for the help! You all rock.
vantastic415 said:
Perhaps I'm not understanding. In the provided link I don't see many ROM, just 4.
I have the standard G5 Plus (non Amazon) on T-Mobile. Model: XT1687. Build number NPN25.137-83. Any idea where I could get a stock ROM for this and get my phone back to virus free?
I've searched but can only come up with a TWRP flashable ROM, and I've no idea what TWRP means, but I see that for some reason it doesn't receive OTA updates, so that's unfortunately a no-go.
Thanks so much for the help! You all rock.
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If your phone is stock and with a locked bootloader, you need to contact Lenovo/Moto customer support and send it in for repair or replacement.
If your bootloader is unlocked, your warranty is void and you might as well learn about TWRP, root, and flashing ROMs.
The possibility of someone to code a virus that persists through complete flashing of the stock rom is not very likely... When you flash stock rom (correctly, via fastboot) you are completely wiping your phone and either erasing (formatting) each partition or flashing that partition back to its original factory image. If you are experiencing webpage redirects after flashing, it is far more likely that you are connecting to a network that has been in some way compromised. It is not uncommon for malware to redirect traffic in a network, and trivial to implement such redirections if you have privileged access. Think about how a business/hotel WiFi network redirects all traffic to their login page when you try to connect to a website. Just my 2 cents, but it's highly unlikely that someone targeted you with such a specific, sophisticated virus that it somehow found a way to survive when the entire phone is flashed, only to redirect you to ad sites.
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As for flashing, if you really want to return to stock you should relash stock images with fastboot instead of Twrp images. This will COMPLETELY wipe your device (user data, etc). When I read your first post I had thought you had already done this. If not, it should fix your problem. Here is a guide with links to firmware images: https://forum.xda-developers.com/g5-plus/how-to/stock-firmware-npn25-137-67-5-fastboot-t3694738