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[Q] Lag Fix

hey, i have a samsung vibrant, the t959 or something..
I rooted my phone, and then used the one click lag fix from the market.
Does this mean that i won't be able to get OTA(over the air) updates, or when i DO update it, will it soft brick? because it's soft bricked before and i had to return it to t mobile and get a new one for 10$ shipping fee, and my parents don't wanna deal with the trouble again.
so questions again:
-Will i recieve OTA updates even after lag fix?
-Will my phone soft brick (stuck on vibrant/samsung screen ) when i do update it?
ALSO a quick question...
if you have a samsung vibrant with the latest and newest firmware, and on your phone it doesn't say theres a update...
can you go to settings, scroll to bottom and press SOFTWARE UPDATE, does it say "no firmware"
thanks for the help, and so far these forums are awesome help.

someone please help me

xriderx66 said:
hey, i have a samsung vibrant, the t959 or something..
I rooted my phone, and then used the one click lag fix from the market.
Does this mean that i won't be able to get OTA(over the air) updates, or when i DO update it, will it soft brick? because it's soft bricked before and i had to return it to t mobile and get a new one for 10$ shipping fee, and my parents don't wanna deal with the trouble again.
so questions again:
-Will i recieve OTA updates even after lag fix?
-Will my phone soft brick (stuck on vibrant/samsung screen ) when i do update it?
ALSO a quick question...
if you have a samsung vibrant with the latest and newest firmware, and on your phone it doesn't say theres a update...
can you go to settings, scroll to bottom and press SOFTWARE UPDATE, does it say "no firmware"
thanks for the help, and so far these forums are awesome help.
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You will still get OTA updates, but if you try to install them, you WILL soft brick. That is easy to recover from if you install Odin and flash back to stock software (directions are all over the place around here).
I would warn that even if you undo and uninstall the lag fix, you still risk a soft brick accepting OTA updates (happened to me with the JI6 update). Your best bet is to learn how to recover from a soft brick with Odin rather than returning your phone to T-Mobile, otherwise avoid rooting and all that comes with it.
To answer your last question, yet, you get that message when there are no firmware updates. Pushing the button doesn't get you an OTA update any faster either.

So if i did the lagfix without making the nandroid backup, the better way is to use Odin to flash back to stock?
The factory reset of the phone itself no longer bring me back to stock after lag fix?

Oh my God! Thank you so much. Im VERY protective but can you link me to the place of the guide for Odin of not ill ask someone else no worries thanks so much
Sent from my SGH-T959 using XDA App

[Discuss] Will OTA's brick a rooted Play?

I notice a guy with a rooted Play now has a brick after running an OTA.
There was an OTA available, which I did, before I rooted.
If I had rooted 1st, then initialized the OTA, would this have bricked my device?
Is this something that we should be aware of and should we be disabling auto search for OTA's as a precaution?

Mine bricked before i rooted. but after i unlocked the bootloader.

Offtopic: I think the term brick gets thrown around too much, it's still possible to recover from these kinds of errors, the phone still attempts to boot and you can get to the recovery or bootloader, so "semi-brick" might be more appropriate.
I've had actual "bricks" in the past, like no power, no led, no charge, no way to recover unless you jtag/serial connection the phone... those aren't fun expecially when you know it's you are the one that did it
don't mean to derail thread...

If gingerbreak was used couldn't one just unroot, then update and root again afterwards?
Would this be a safe way to go around it, if OTA 'semi-bricks' a rooted play?
Regards Dousan...

It's very hard to _really_ brick an xperia device
Unlocking, rooting, flashing custom firmware.. none of these messes with your bootloader.
Rule of thumb: If you get the USB flash device on your computer when connecting a USB cable to the device and holding the back key you can ALWAYS recover it. Your best bet would be using Flashtool by Bin4ry and finding a suitable ftf-file for your phone.

hi
my phone are bricked an detected with my pc in semc flash with green led but i flash it with flashtool flashing ok but no boot i test with 3 differents .tft but same problem flash ok no boot
just green led and quick vibrate
thank you

Id like to root my phone but with so many updates possible atm, im holding off... ive seen that post about some guy with the brick/semi brick phone from an ota update and i can do without that hassle.. my phones fast enough and has enough space for now but i will mod it when theres good reason too... if i was u i would turn off auto update just incase and check the forums for others advice when needed.

Back to Stock with Oreo possible?

Hello my friends.
I bought my U Ultra in December 2017.
Now I decided to flash LeeDroid Oreo on my phone.
It works great.
I backed up in TWRP the parititions "System Image" and "System" in case for going back.
Now my question.
Is it possible to go for going to stock when I recover it all?
Can I lock the bootloader after that?
How to use the "System Image" partition? Can I fully flash my phone to stock with it? With Recovery and so on, because there is no RUU available for me?
My System Version was 2.21.401.1 and my region is Europe/Germany.
Regards

inFiniTyz_Z said:
I backed up in TWRP the parititions "System Image" and "System" in case for going back.
Is it possible to go for going to stock when I recover it all?
How to use the "System Image" partition? Can I fully flash my phone to stock with it? With Recovery and so on, because there is no RUU available for me?
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If you have TWRP backup you simply recover the backup, wipe data and you are back to stock-ish. Naturally due to lack of original recovery you won't be able to receive/flash OTA. For HTC you simply do not exist.
inFiniTyz_Z said:
Can I lock the bootloader after that?
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Kind of. You can make OEM lock but it won't be the factory lock. It will be relock. And if you have a custom ROM at that point the phone may not let you boot up.

QDT said:
If you have TWRP backup you simply recover the backup, wipe data and you are back to stock-ish. Naturally due to lack of original recovery you won't be able to receive/flash OTA. For HTC you simply do not exist.
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In case when I flash the stock recovery too?

inFiniTyz_Z said:
In case when I flash the stock recovery too?
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If you restore whole system then you will get the OTAs. (This is how I upgraded to Oreo in the first place).
Problem is with TWRP/custom recovery not being capable of performing the factory update (people are soft-bricking their phones).

QDT said:
If you restore whole system then you will get the OTAs. (This is how I upgraded to Oreo in the first place).
Problem is with TWRP/custom recovery not being capable of performing the factory update (people are soft-bricking their phones).
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When I flash the RUU for my CID from nougat to my phone, and perform an upgrade to oreo, would it result in a hard brick?

inFiniTyz_Z said:
When I flash the RUU for my CID from nougat to my phone, and perform an upgrade to oreo, would it result in a hard brick?
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There is a topic explaining how to recover first to Nougat and then let you phone receive OTA for Oreo.
I don't know from where you can get RUU for your CID. Keep in mind it has to be the version you have or newer if you are not going to unlock the bootloader and use 3rd party tools to trick force update.

QDT said:
There is a topic explaining how to recover first to Nougat and then let you phone receive OTA for Oreo.
I don't know from where you can get RUU for your CID. Keep in mind it has to be the version you have or newer if you are not going to unlock the bootloader and use 3rd party tools to trick force update.
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I have the ROM for my CID.
But I would know if it works without hard brick.
I am little bit afraid from it, because I tried this two years ago on my Motorola Moto G2. For one, two, times it worked, then came marshmallow with a new bootloader, so you bricked this phone like ****.

inFiniTyz_Z said:
I have the ROM for my CID.
But I would know if it works without hard brick.
I am little bit afraid from it, because I tried this two years ago on my Motorola Moto G2. For one, two, times it worked, then came marshmallow with a new bootloader, so you bricked this phone like ****.
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I cannot give you the guarantee. It is for you to decide. The topic explains it really good. I did it several times and no sweat at all. Other ways I don't know.

QDT said:
I cannot give you the guarantee. It is for you to decide. The topic explains it really good. I did it several times and no sweat at all. Other ways I don't know.
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And I can downgrade to nougat and upgrade with OTA to oreo without hard brick? Did you tried that?

inFiniTyz_Z said:
And I can downgrade to nougat and upgrade with OTA to oreo without hard brick? Did you tried that?
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Yes, I did that. I went through the described procedure and restored the phone to pristine Nougat and then let it to update via OTA to Oreo.
If your phone is s-on then there hardly any chance you will hard brick it. Soft bricks can happen, naturally. But then, dependently on the case, you can recover from it by reflash, wipe or making the downgrade again via RUU.
One important key combination you have to keep in mind. By pressing (and holding) power with volume down you will see the buttons flashing. Keeping them pressed for ca. 15 sec (shorter, longer depends) forces the phone to reboot.
Good luck.

QDT said:
Yes, I did that. I went through the described procedure and restored the phone to pristine Nougat and then let it to update via OTA to Oreo.
If your phone is s-on then there hardly any chance you will hard brick it. Soft bricks can happen, naturally. But then, dependently on the case, you can recover from it by reflash, wipe or making the downgrade again via RUU.
One important key combination you have to keep in mind. By pressing (and holding) power with volume down you will see the buttons flashing. Keeping them pressed for ca. 15 sec (shorter, longer depends) forces the phone to reboot.
Good luck.
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It worked. After my question I did the procedure and upgraded to oreo!
Thank you.
No Brick, but I had to erase the data and cache partition again after the first start, because it stucked at the HTC Logo after booting.
But the funfact is: I wanted to do a hard reset after my first try to boot it up, and the phone did a screenshot with the logo!

inFiniTyz_Z said:
It worked. After my question I did the procedure and upgraded to oreo!
Thank you.
No Brick, but I had to erase the data and cache partition again after the first start, because it stucked at the HTC Logo after booting.
But the funfact is: I wanted to do a hard reset after my first try to boot it up, and the phone did a screenshot with the logo!
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Good. Have fun with the phone. It is quite nice piece of hardware. I like it.

QDT said:
Good. Have fun with the phone. It is quite nice piece of hardware. I like it.
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Thanks. You too!
And the software status is currently still on modified. Would it change when I lock the bootloader?

inFiniTyz_Z said:
Thanks. You too!
And the software status is currently still on modified. Would it change when I lock the bootloader?
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What software status? If you restore the original recovery there is no additional message during boot. If you lock the bootloader it will report as "relocked".

QDT said:
What software status? If you restore the original recovery there is no additional message during boot. If you lock the bootloader it will report as "relocked".
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In the bootloader mode you see your software status. And it is still with stock rom and stock recovery on "modified"

inFiniTyz_Z said:
In the bootloader mode you see your software status. And it is still with stock rom and stock recovery on "modified"
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And to my knowledge it will be like that. You have flashed unlocked (from HTC but always) bootloader and this has to be noted. It is not that drastical as KNOX for Samsung, doesn't influence the phone functioning.

inFiniTyz_Z said:
It worked. After my question I did the procedure and upgraded to oreo!
Thank you.
No Brick, but I had to erase the data and cache partition again after the first start, because it stucked at the HTC Logo after booting.
But the funfact is: I wanted to do a hard reset after my first try to boot it up, and the phone did a screenshot with the logo!
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When you say you followed the procedure, which exactly do you mean? Can you please help me by giving me a quick summary of the steps?

I would like to know the procedure as well.

Hi! I've installed a custom ROM, now I would like to go back to the stock ROM, I don't have a nandroid backup, what can I do?

(LS997) - Cannot Boot Into Fastboot Mode

Pretty much what the title says. I've been trying to unlock the bootloader on my sprint v20 to install lineage 16, but I can't seem to get it to fastboot. I tried both using adb commands as well as holding volume down + plugging the cable in, but both ways simply boot the phone without doing anything. Can someone help?

i95swervin said:
Power off the phone, press & hold volume up
( if I'm not mistaken )
and plug in the power cord connected to a PC.
Good luck
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Hey. Doing this sent my phone to a "download" screen with two icons for a few seconds, and then a firmware update screen. Is this what fastboot looks like? Because I hear people describing it as a menu with options.
Thanks.

Anwiday said:
Hey. Doing this sent my phone to a "download" screen with two icons for a few seconds, and then a firmware update screen. Is this what fastboot looks like? Because I hear people describing it as a menu with options.
Thanks.
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Wrong volume key.
But you've got an ls997 mate. If you've taken an ota in about the last 18 months Sprint helpfully eliminated any chance of you unlocking the bootloader and rooting.
The last software version it was possible to revert futher back to an actually rootable version was ZV7, way back in the early-mid nougat versions.
Once updated past ZV7 Sprint helpfully physically burned fuses embedded in the CPU to keep you from going back and rooting. Hail overlord Sprint.

Phoenix591 said:
Wrong volume key.
But you've got an ls997 mate. If you've taken an ota in about the last 18 months Sprint helpfully eliminated any chance of you unlocking the bootloader and rooting.
The last software version it was possible to revert futher back to an actually rootable version was ZV7, way back in the early-mid nougat versions.
Once updated past ZV7 Sprint helpfully physically burned fuses embedded in the CPU to keep you from going back and rooting. Hail overlord Sprint.
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Damn. So there's no way to install a custom ROM then?

Anwiday said:
Damn. So there's no way to install a custom ROM then?
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Nope. Once it's past ZV7 it's never going back and you need to go back to root and install custom roms.

Not receiving software updates

I purchased a pre-owned Galaxy S10+ from Best Buy. It has One UI 3.1 with the September 1st, 2021 security patch on it. I can't get it to update to One UI 4. Every time I check for updates on the phone it says the software is up to date when it isn't. Is this normal? Will I get the One UI 4.0 update eventually? I am on Google Fi if it matters. The phone appears to have previously been on Sprint.

Is it rooted or modified Ina my other way? Is the phoen supposed to get oneui 4?

Arealhooman said:
Is it rooted or modified Ina my other way? Is the phoen supposed to get oneui 4?
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Not that I know of. It does not appear to be rooted. I have not modified it in any way myself. Since it is a pre-owned device I don't know the history of it. I have read in numerous places that the S10 series is supposed to get One UI 4 and it started rolling out around the end of 2021.

Do you get a unlocked bootloader warning when unlocking device?

Arealhooman said:
Do you get a unlocked bootloader warning when unlocking device?
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No, I don't.

sega dude said:
No, I don't.
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reboot into the download mode by turning off the phone, waiting 5 secs, then pressing bixby + volume down button for 6 secs and then connecting the usb cable phone x pc.
after that, check for Know warranty or Warranty Bit or Knox Bit or Knox Trip or anything related. If it says 0, your device has never been rooted and knox isn't tripped. but if it says 1 or 0x003 it is tripped

I es gonna say that, but it’s to complicated for most people, and if BL locked that means they are stock, so ota shoudl work. @sega dude if ur tech savvy, unlock BL, flash latest firmware thru Odin then relock BL (or keep unlocked).