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[Q] S4 stuck on Downloading mode..pls help

Hi guys, Last night I accidently unplugged my phone while installing ClockWORKMOD recovery. Now when I boot my device it is stuck on the Downloading screen. I tried everything including the posts here but the Odin software doesn't see my phone and removing the battery and reinstalling does nothing. I even wiped the phone and factory reset via the clockwork... No Luck. It will not install the Crash ROM either. I get error 7.
It seems like I bricked the phone but I know there is always a way back to life. At least I hope. Any help guys would be great.
thxs
Carlo

shpack said:
Hi guys, Last night I accidently unplugged my phone while installing ClockWORKMOD recovery. Now when I boot my device it is stuck on the Downloading screen. I tried everything including the posts here but the Odin software doesn't see my phone and removing the battery and reinstalling does nothing. I even wiped the phone and factory reset via the clockwork... No Luck. It will not install the Crash ROM either. I get error 7.
It seems like I bricked the phone but I know there is always a way back to life. At least I hope. Any help guys would be great.
thxs
Carlo
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You need to properly install the correct drivers on your PC. There should be no reason that ODIN doesn't see your phone if they are installed correctly. A quick search of the forums should get you the proper drivers to install. You can also try Kies emergency recovery, but it is hit and miss. Good luck.

+1 if you can get into download you can Odin. Use the usb ports in the back of the pc. You might have to use a different computer also. For the life of me I can't get Odin on my pc to recognize the device but I have no problem with my laptop.
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Wow, didn't we just fix this problem like 2-3 threads ago, IN THIS FORUM?

TheAxman said:
Wow, didn't we just fix this problem like 2-3 threads ago, IN THIS FORUM?
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That's the thing, these exact same types of threads just keep rolling through one after the other...people don't search and they don't read. That's the reason they are in the situation they are in to begin with and it seems they just don't learn.
Fortunately, the AT&T S4 forum has come far enough along that the sticky threads and the threads like your guide can be linked for these people to put a little time into finding a solution for themselves. Most of them don't like it (they want it done for them), but if it is all they get, they will finally have to do something the right way on their own.
Actually, a few people are thankful for being pointed in the right direction, but most are still pissed because it means they have to do what they should have done in the first place...follow XDA rules, use the search function, and read. If you don't do everything for them and hand it to them on a plate they call you names and say you are a ****, unhelpful, etc... I just laugh about it because it becomes clear why their phone is F'ed up in the first place. The thing is, sometimes you just can't help people. Just every now and then, someone comes along that needs help and is willing to do things the right way.

You can NOT have kies drivers and samsung drivers loading at the same time, I do not use kies at all, and my pc has NEVER gave me a issue yet using odin, including in my G3 days. uninstall that worthless kies and proceed. If you have to use kies, load it as needed then remove it.
And as always with the lovely microsoft windows, after you un-install anything you have to reboot, for it to work properly.
Linux is my BUD!

[Q] need help with my newly rooted i9505

alright i literally rooted my phone 1 hour ago and as much of an idiot i am i proceeded to delete supposingly useless system apps, inclusing internet ,basically everything that said knox, s health and story album..
well that didnt go so well, google playstore stopped working and internet in general in the phone isnt connecting correctly, i tried to reset factory settings and wipe the chache but that didnt really do anything, do i really have to flash a stock rom again, can i even flash a stock rom now that my phone is rooted...?
i looked everywhere for the apks for s4 system apps and i couldnt find them, please help this poor little s4, he shouldn't suffer because of my mistakes...

F_julius said:
alright i literally rooted my phone 1 hour ago and as much of an idiot i am i proceeded to delete supposingly useless system apps, inclusing internet ,basically everything that said knox, s health and story album..
well that didnt go so well, google playstore stopped working and internet in general in the phone isnt connecting correctly, i tried to reset factory settings and wipe the chache but that didnt really do anything, do i really have to flash a stock rom again, can i even flash a stock rom now that my phone is rooted...?
i looked everywhere for the apks for s4 system apps and i couldnt find them, please help this poor little s4, he shouldn't suffer because of my mistakes...
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Hi ,
welcome to the wonderful world of flashing...
Easy way out would be after you backup everything important in your phone ( pics , music , contacts , video....) to flash and stock rom again ( same you had) with Odin and start all over again....
Option 2 but i would trip knox bit would be flash a custom recovery and flash a custom rom....

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Hi ,
welcome to the wonderful world of flashing...
Easy way out would be after you backup everything important in your phone ( pics , music , contacts , video....) to flash and stock rom again ( same you had) with Odin and start all over again....
Option 2 but i would trip knox bit would be flash a custom recovery and flash a custom rom....
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thank you for the quick replay!
while you're here is it possible to send the apps from another phone to mine, my roommates' got an unrooted note 3 with kitkat 4.2.2 just like my s4, is there any way to simply send an apk of those apps to my phone or is flashing the only way...?
because my cable is really horrible and to flash i have to walk a couple of miles to my friends house to use his cable and its REALLY HOT outside

F_julius said:
thank you for the quick replay!
while you're here is it possible to send the apps from another phone to mine, my roommates' got an unrooted note 3 with kitkat 4.2.2 just like my s4, is there any way to simply send an apk of those apps to my phone or is flashing the only way...?
because my cable is really horrible and to flash i have to walk a couple of miles to my friends house to use his cable and its REALLY HOT outside
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Hi ,
they are supposed to be compatible but i would not know for sure , if you are going to try that..... first back up all important thing , just in case you get into a bootloop and have to reflash......

MAX 404 said:
Hi ,
they are supposed to be compatible but i would not know for sure , if you are going to try that..... first back up all important thing , just in case you get into a bootloop and have to reflash......
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alright ill not risk it ill just re flash the rom, luckily i still have it saved on my hard-drive
so for anyone who might read this in the future who've done the same stupid mistake i have done ill just leave this here
wish iv'e seen your signature sooner...

F_julius said:
alright ill not risk it ill just re flash the rom, luckily i still have it saved on my hard-drive
so for anyone who might read this in the future who've done the same stupid mistake i have done ill just leave this here
wish iv'e seen your signature sooner...
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We all been there....
Easiest way out is reflashing and start all over ......you can try reinstalling from your friend also but you may get into a bootloop and you would have to reinstall firmware again.....
another option would be to download a custom rom for you phone and extract from the zip the missing apps and re install them in you rom again ( with the right permissions usually rw r r) that would possible save you re installing every thing .
Advice get an app like galaxysim unlock
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spocky.galaxsimunlock&hl=en
Make an EFS backup and save it in a safe place....( all your imei info is there) sometimes flashing gets unfriendly

Bricked? No custom or stock rom?

ive had my note 3 for awhile and have avoided rooting or modding it in any way for quite sometime, but i rooted the stock firmware i believe it was 4.4.2???? im not 100% with towelroot and i was able to install safestrap thats where my success ended I didnt make any backups for whatever dumb reason and also it has been quite sometime since modding any phones, now my phone wont boot into any rom ive tried i have tried two so far and i cant get the factory one back, half the time i cant install roms and the rest of the time they work but they wont boot ive tried creating rom slots but those dont work, read somewhere they arent supported in 4.4.2 ???? and when i tried overwriting the factory it still didnt work, now my phone wont boot into anything anymore and im not quite sure what i did wrong and if there is any way to fix it, i would have like to install knoxraid on this phone since it supposedely fixes the gps issues lots of people have when i try to install that particular rom i get a successful message but then when i wipe cache/dalvik it work and then i hit reboot nothing happens, all i get is a black screen oh and its says that safestrap is disabled
can anyone help i could really use some help here

ecuadorche said:
ive had my note 3 for awhile and have avoided rooting or modding it in any way for quite sometime, but i rooted the stock firmware i believe it was 4.4.2???? im not 100% with towelroot and i was able to install safestrap thats where my success ended I didnt make any backups for whatever dumb reason and also it has been quite sometime since modding any phones, now my phone wont boot into any rom ive tried i have tried two so far and i cant get the factory one back, half the time i cant install roms and the rest of the time they work but they wont boot ive tried creating rom slots but those dont work, read somewhere they arent supported in 4.4.2 ???? and when i tried overwriting the factory it still didnt work, now my phone wont boot into anything anymore and im not quite sure what i did wrong and if there is any way to fix it, i would have like to install knoxraid on this phone since it supposedely fixes the gps issues lots of people have when i try to install that particular rom i get a successful message but then when i wipe cache/dalvik it work and then i hit reboot nothing happens, all i get is a black screen oh and its says that safestrap is disabled
can anyone help i could really use some help here
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May I know which variant on Note3 you are using.
and what's the OS version? 4.3? or 4.4.2 or 4.4.4
what's your region (CSC).??
I would suggest you to go into download mode and download appropriate stock firmware from SamMobile or from Samsung Updates (Link for N9005) and flash Stock ROM using ODIN.
Thanks.

Recovery for SM-S550TL

if anyone has a custom recovery for this phone please send me a download link i need it badly. This phone is a samsung galaxy on5 Sm-s550TL simple mobile.

Heyabhay1127 said:
if anyone has a custom recovery for this phone please send me a download link i need it badly. This phone is a samsung galaxy on5 Sm-s550TL simple mobile.
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how can i get this for you ? i have the same phone .

rein013 said:
how can i get this for you ? i have the same phone .
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If you have a custom recovery already installed, can you please give me the download link for the one you used?
thanks

Heyabhay1127 said:
If you have a custom recovery already installed, can you please give me the download link for the one you used?
thanks
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Dude so I was scared to install TWRP backup because it wasn't for this exact phone carrier and I saw a lot of people were screwing up their phones doing the process so do you know of a process which I could get TWRP on this phone whileist not screwing it up like everyone else ?
Phone is brand new and I would have backed up and and installed debloated rom already but again with everyone having issues im kind of hesitant .
So I'm probably going to do it anyway ( my phone is my phone damn-it! ) but I need to read more throughout the forums and see exactly what's causing these issues because I do not want to brick mine and any insight you have as to what happened to yours during the process could be beneficial .

I already tried
rob.e.rein said:
Dude so I was scared to install TWRP backup because it wasn't for this exact phone carrier and I saw a lot of people were screwing up their phones doing the process so do you know of a process which I could get TWRP on this phone whileist not screwing it up like everyone else ?
Phone is brand new and I would have backed up and and installed debloated rom already but again with everyone having issues im kind of hesitant .
So I'm probably going to do it anyway ( my phone is my phone damn-it! ) but I need to read more throughout the forums and see exactly what's causing these issues because I do not want to brick mine and any insight you have as to what happened to yours during the process could be beneficial .
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For samsung devices, the only method to flash a recovery seems to be odin. I did not find a recovery for my variant
I ended up returning the phone anyway since there is no recovery, its best you do the same. It was a good phone for $30 though. I ended up getting super desperate, and i tried to flash all the recoveries available for this phone, none of them worked. It did not brick my phone however. If you still want to give it a try you can. If it does brick you should be able to restore using power, vol UP and home. Just wait a bit and an android recovery comes up where you can reset to factory. Im not entirely sure about this process. Best of luck to you!

Heyabhay1127 said:
For samsung devices, the only method to flash a recovery seems to be odin. I did not find a recovery for my variant
I ended up returning the phone anyway since there is no recovery, its best you do the same. It was a good phone for $30 though. I ended up getting super desperate, and i tried to flash all the recoveries available for this phone, none of them worked. It did not brick my phone however. If you still want to give it a try you can. If it does brick you should be able to restore using power, vol UP and home. Just wait a bit and an android recovery comes up where you can reset to factory. Im not entirely sure about this process. Best of luck to you!
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yeah i tried and failed as well . all i want is to be able to use the memory card as storage for apps and whatnot so that i don't run out of 8gb of space after installing only a few programs . what a shame because the phone is not too bad but by samsung removing this feature that's built into the android ecosystem , what a bunch of dicks .
much luck back to you my friend .

Same crap just happened to me sobi flashed a stock firmware thru Odin. Now whwnbi power I n the phonebir foes thru a factory binary loading screen and then all this factory crap. Anyvone know how to get it back to normal?

rein013 said:
how can i get this for you ? i have the same phone .
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Me too! No cup. Help

Bootloader repeating constantly

Hello everyone. The think is that I have read a lot with similar things but I can't fix my problem. I wanted to flash TWRP and root my phone. First day Odin couldn't do it. I had that blue bar but no reaction. Finally Odin works I can flash recovery but that's it. When I'm trying to reset the device after one second Samsung logo disappearing and its starting to reset and reset and reset. Doesn't matter which buttons I'm holding except the ones for download mode.
Samsung galaxy s8 SM-G955F_2017-12-10_08 Exynos dreamltee
And that's all information about my phone because I can't even turn it on.
Is it bricked or I have a chance to solve it?

slageroth said:
Hello everyone. The think is that I have read a lot with similar things but I can't fix my problem. I wanted to flash TWRP and root my phone. First day Odin couldn't do it. I had that blue bar but no reaction. Finally Odin works I can flash recovery but that's it. When I'm trying to reset the device after one second Samsung logo disappearing and its starting to reset and reset and reset. Doesn't matter which buttons I'm holding except the ones for download mode.
Samsung galaxy s8 SM-G955F_2017-12-10_08 Exynos dreamltee
And that's all information about my phone because I can't even turn it on.
Is it bricked or I have a chance to solve it?
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Ya really be messing up these expensive phones check your flash counter in download Mode if it's zero still you can get a warrant exchange if you had it less then a year from the way you talking it you can't access download Mode to flash stock firmware to regain functionality your phone just might be bricked sadly
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PoochyX said:
Ya really be messing up these expensive phones check your flash counter in download Mode if it's zero still you can get a warrant exchange if you had it less then a year from the way you talking it you can't access download Mode to flash stock firmware to regain functionality your phone just might be bricked sadly
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I was hoping anyway that I can do something. Counter going down. As I good remember I had two last attempts. I have a new notification "an error occurred while updating the device software. Use the emergency recovery function in the smart switch pc software. But I don't have recovery key for smart switch. I'm out of it. If you guys have any ideas, please share. I'm off.

slageroth said:
I was hoping anyway that I can do something. Counter going down. As I good remember I had two last attempts. I have a new notification "an error occurred while updating the device software. Use the emergency recovery function in the smart switch pc software. But I don't have recovery key for smart switch. I'm out of it. If you guys have any ideas, please share. I'm off.
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Try to get your latest software up date from Sam mobile and if you can get into recovery mode wipe if not plug into download mode hope Odin accepts and pray for the best we all been there trying to modifiy are pulen and getting caught out there
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PoochyX said:
Try to get your latest software up date from Sam mobile and if you can get into recovery mode wipe if not plug into download mode hope Odin accepts and pray for the best we all been there trying to modifiy are pulen and getting caught out there
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I'll leave that for now. Need to wake up at morning. But the problem is anyway with that software. I don't know which ones latest. For now I can't even turt it of to read numbers. I don't know. My brain is not working now. I've tired with I thought latest software but bootloader failed so then I've tried separately with parts of it via odin but same thing has happened...

slageroth said:
I'll leave that for now. Need to wake up at morning. But the problem is anyway with that software. I don't know which ones latest. For now I can't even turt it of to read numbers. I don't know. My brain is not working now. I've tired with I thought latest software but bootloader failed so then I've tried separately with parts of it via odin but same thing has happened...
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It happens tomorrow you will get your head together and save that phone
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It happens tomorrow you will get your head together and save that phone
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So basically my phote is sudden death so far because i didnt had a time to think about his ressurection. But what I have just realised... I was struggling with my device because of his not turning on i cant even read any numbers, version, nothing about him at all. But suddenly, I have remind that i was register on my samsung. So there should be everything about my phone.
Ok, can now someone advise me how should I act with that knowledge?
which number I might need to find which rom for example??

Ok, It looks like i have sorted it out. I have lost one hour of my life contacting samsung support team. it doesn't matter what i've asked her - the answer was "we not recomend rooting your device". Yes, indeed
Anyway - based on info I had, I've only remembered that is was sm-g950f dreamlte exynos. But that knowlegde was useless at this time. Basically I hade to read about CSC (Country Specific Code), and then I've just choose first from top. I have download SamFirm_v0.3.6 After filling that csc number and model of my device I just had to wait for firmware to download to my PC.
After that simpli extract to desired folder and we all know what to do next using Odin. Thanks for anyone who read and who's gonna read that post. I hope my lack of developing skills, will be helpfully for your futured adventures.
Thank you @PoochyX for your faith. you believed in me when even I've stop believe. Cheers bro
Thread can be closed now. Thank you.

Ok, It looks like i have sorted it out. I have lost one hour of my life contacting samsung support team. it doesn't matter what i've asked her - the answer was "we not recomend rooting your device". Yes, indeed
Anyway - based on info I had, I've only remembered that is was sm-g950f dreamlte exynos. But that knowlegde was useless at this time. Basically I hade to read about CSC (Country Specific Code), and then I've just choose first from top. I have download SamFirm_v0.3.6 After filling that csc number and model of my device I just had to wait for firmware to download to my PC.
After that simpli extract to desired folder and we all know what to do next using Odin. Thanks for anyone who read and who's gonna read that post. I hope my lack of developing skills, will be helpfully for your futured adventures.
Thank you @PoochyX for your faith. you believed in me when even I've stop believe. Cheers bro
Thread can be closed now. Thank you.

slageroth said:
So basically my phote is sudden death so far because i didnt had a time to think about his ressurection. But what I have just realised... I was struggling with my device because of his not turning on i cant even read any numbers, version, nothing about him at all. But suddenly, I have remind that i was register on my samsung. So there should be everything about my phone.
Ok, can now someone advise me how should I act with that knowledge?
which number I might need to find which rom for example??
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You can use the imei number to identify the model number with Samsung find out which device model it is exactly and get the stock rom for it on sammobie however how if the phone doesn't turn on how you getting it into download mode to flash the stock rom with Odin
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Ohhhh you fixed it that's good to hear you got to be careful when you modify these phones the benefits are great if you do it right however if your not doing it properly you could mess up your device best of luck to you on your adventures of modifying your device

PoochyX said:
You can use the imei number to identify the model number with Samsung find out which device model it is exactly and get the stock rom for it on sammobie however how if the phone doesn't turn on how you getting it into download mode to flash the stock rom with Odin
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Ohhhh you fixed it that's good to hear you got to be careful when you modify these phones the benefits are great if you do it right however if your not doing it properly you could mess up your device best of luck to you on your adventures of modifying your device
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It's all done mate, now just downloading million of app updates to get back to norm. It is still not rooted but I'm glad that I was able to fix it. Maybe I'm not posting much , but reading a lot of threads on XDA. It is the best developing school I've ever seen. And I'll try to root it tomorrow

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It's all done mate, now just downloading million of app updates to get back to norm. It is still not rooted but I'm glad that I was able to fix it. Maybe I'm not posting much , but reading a lot of threads on XDA. It is the best developing school I've ever seen. And I'll try to root it tomorrow
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You have to get twrp installed first once you get that done you got to remove device encryption so you can access the data partition of twrp to be able to do a nanodroid then you flash magisk and you good to go... Then do a backup and flash xposed and you then open up your device to many more possibilities
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Everything is ok now. I've spend 30 minutes maybe. My device is rooted thanks to @dr.ketan and his guide
https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s8/samsung-galaxy-s8--s8-cross-device-development/fix-data-mount-fix-s8-twrp-oreo-t3769254.
I've made backup efs and big asking for easy explanation what to do next. Do I need to uninstal magisk for example? disable some updates?
Please guys, I have never been so far, that I dont want to screw anything because of not turning something left or right.

slageroth said:
Everything is ok now. I've spend 30 minutes maybe. My device is rooted thanks to @dr.ketan and his guide
https://forum.xda-developers.com/ga...ment/fix-data-mount-fix-s8-twrp-oreo-t3769254.
I've made backup efs and big asking for easy explanation what to do next. Do I need to uninstal magisk for example? disable some updates?
Please guys, I have never been so far, that I dont want to screw anything because of not turning something left or right.
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Do you have twrp installed or you have a phone with a locked bootloader and you reached root threw flashing a modfied boot img threw Odin... (Last time I had a Dr Ketan rom was when I had my galaxy 7 edge)
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Well, first I've flashed twrp via odin, I've reboot phone in recovery at first attempt what really surprised me. Then in recovery I've flashed pie root for OEM. And after that I've stuck for a while didn't known which option to choose. But I've just click Next, yes, next and five minutes later phone was rooted. I've check results with root checker but it wasn't rooted. Till next restart. And of course I've download and install magisk and flashed recovery. I've made all backups and titan backup just in case. And I've turned off Google play updates. I've just followed instructions carefully I'm still confused about, what next? I was tying to find what is after root. But I couldn't find anything bout that. All atemps finishing differently based on devices and software versions. No, I'm sure that I have did that root correctly, there was no leaf clover, you know ?
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slageroth said:
Well, first I've flashed twrp via odin, I've reboot phone in recovery at first attempt what really surprised me. Then in recovery I've flashed pie root for OEM. And after that I've stuck for a while didn't known which option to choose. But I've just click Next, yes, next and five minutes later phone was rooted. I've check results with root checker but it wasn't rooted. Till next restart. And of course I've download and install magisk and flashed recovery. I've made all backups and titan backup just in case. And I've turned off Google play updates. I've just followed instructions carefully I'm still confused about, what next? I was tying to find what is after root. But I couldn't find anything bout that. All atemps finishing differently based on devices and software versions. No, I'm sure that I have did that root correctly, there was no leaf clover, you know [emoji6]
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Well after rooting you start building up your daily driver the way you like it with the apps you want...
And the customizations yuu want for your phone.... You should install a adblocker for your phone so you won't get any ads since you rooted you can go with adaway use a host file and have ads blocked don't have to worry about a background service to block ads which utlizies memory that could be going somewhere else and battery life like non rooted people have to deal with... Even tho if your phone has alot or memory to spare you can use adguard which has a mode for root users also but it's always running in the background
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Before root I couldn't wait when I'll start doing all those things, you know what I mean, that's what I call personalisation. Something totally by me. For me. But now I'm afraid to not broke it.
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slageroth said:
Before root I couldn't wait when I'll start doing all those things, you know what I mean, that's what I call personalisation. Something totally by me. For me. But now I'm afraid to not broke it.
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Just periodically do backups in twrp so if you mess up you can always revert the backup and you be exactly where you wore before the error so you wouldn't have to factory restore and if you do modifications to the system partition as well then in that case a rom reflash cause a factory restore doesn't fix system partition errors cause that partition is read only can only be accessed via root permissons or threw twrps file manager which you would have to mount system partition in twrp first then twrp file manager can access it
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