Hello,
I'm new on this forum and rooting is all new to me. Please don't simply delete, at least indicate where I can find my answer.
So I found a CFA that's supposed to come with SuperSU and I flashed it with Odin. The first time, I could boot, but TouchWiz constantly displaying a bug pop-up without letting me access the tablet had me flash the stock firmware back. It was unusable.
I tried again and it worked but my Tab wouldn't boot. After several attempts, I cleared partition and did a factory reset. It seems like I can only boot as in a stock firmware. I had to redo basic questions/settings as if I opened the tablet for the first time, but it doesn't seem like I have access to delete bloatware apps or anything.
1) Did I cancel my CFA flash with the factory reset?
2) I still have stock firmware and do not care about datas or anything since it's an old tablet I don't really use. Is it better to do the factory reset, then try to flash back the CFA file?
3) Did I simply miss something when I flashed and got TouchWiz bugs?
Again, please consider the fact that I'm new and I'm just trying to learn here. I can understand If I have to post this in another category, but XDA seems to be the only place where I can finally get to root, delete unnecessary apps, play with a custom ROM, etc.
KingQuinoa said:
Hello,
I'm new on this forum and rooting is all new to me. Please don't simply delete, at least indicate where I can find my answer.
So I found a CFA that's supposed to come with SuperSU and I flashed it with Odin. The first time, I could boot, but TouchWiz constantly displaying a bug pop-up without letting me access the tablet had me flash the stock firmware back. It was unusable.
I tried again and it worked but my Tab wouldn't boot. After several attempts, I cleared partition and did a factory reset. It seems like I can only boot as in a stock firmware. I had to redo basic questions/settings as if I opened the tablet for the first time, but it doesn't seem like I have access to delete bloatware apps or anything.
1) Did I cancel my CFA flash with the factory reset?
2) I still have stock firmware and do not care about datas or anything since it's an old tablet I don't really use. Is it better to do the factory reset, then try to flash back the CFA file?
3) Did I simply miss something when I flashed and got TouchWiz bugs?
Again, please consider the fact that I'm new and I'm just trying to learn here. I can understand If I have to post this in another category, but XDA seems to be the only place where I can finally get to root, delete unnecessary apps, play with a custom ROM, etc.
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Checkout Tab 4 Discussion Groups on XDA. Lots of info available on Rooting and NEW ROMS.
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To start off, I apologize for the lengthy post, but I figure if you have all the info, you could help me begin to troubleshoot. If there is a forum and I've missed it, please let me know where it is.
I have rooted using Unrevoked 3 and flashed CyanogenMod 7 a little while ago. Over the weekend, I was low on space and battery life, trying to use my Evo as a hotspot and taking pictures, etc. Well, it froze and I pulled the battery. When I went to reboot, it only showed the CyanogenMod splash screen. I didn't have internet access at the time, but really needed my phone. I had a PC36IMG.zip on my sdcard and flashed that. I was able to get back up and running, but I lost the ability to receive text messages. I could send texts and IMs, call, use data, etc. but not receive texts.
When I got internet access, I saw that I could download a Sense ROM, flash it up, update the PRL and should be okay. I flashed Fresh Sense ROM, updated, used the MSL code reader and did the ##????# thing, reset it, but still nothing.
Today, I tried re-flashing CyangogenMod and then lost the Market, Dialer and Contacts along with the ability to edit the CyanogenMod settings along with a bunch of other little things that I haven't fully explored.
I've tried unrooting it using the unrevoked forever s-on.zip, but it stuck and the system info message (and I downloaded it 3 times). I tried just flashing the PC36IMG.zip from xda and it wouldn't flash, either.
I'm at my wits end and need some direction because I know I've missed steps and made missteps. I have to have my phone for work and if I need to take it back to Sprint that's fine, I just need to unroot it! Any and all suggestions are welcome. Thanks.
Are you flashing the new ROM's right over the top?
I've never had the problems you've mentioned but anytime i've read the forums and seen others with these problems i've often seen people recommend doing a factory/data wipe from recovery. Have you tried that before flashing the new ROM.
What I would do...
1. DL CM7/Google apps and save it to the SD Card.
2. Boot to recovery
3. Factory/Data wipe
4. Flash CM7
5. flash Google Apps
6. Boot to CM7
Give it a go.
Hope this may have helped.
What I want to do is install a stock non rooted rom, kernel, and recovery. I am not sure how to change recovery to stock either is it like flashing a rom? Please give me some links for these I can't seem to find them, besides the stock kernel I found that.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------The reason I want the above is bellow, if it matters.-----------------------------------------------------
My phone is about 95% broken.
Before, every rom/kernel combination would randomly restart, it was my phone it self I believe.
I went to a stock rooted rom, but then it restarted, and my lock screen worked, yet my home screen was black all i could do was slide my status bar down.
After that i restarted my self and then it got stock forever on the screen where it says Samsung galaxy s4.
The 5% working part is my recovery, for the most part.
I keep having to do a full wipe, not just system wipe otherwise it says error unable to mount preload or i/o or a few other things, I have to system wipe before every rom attempt.
I tried several popular roms such as sacs and triforce and a few other roms and all the kernels also.
The phone will turn on, work for a little normally, then crash again and go into the infinite loading screen where is simply says galaxy s4.
This phone is only 3 months old, so I want to take it back to sprint being completely stock so they give me a new phone.
I need links to files I need, and if i am forgetting to change anything back to stock please let me know. Thank you.
I replied to you in the newbie thread, but to return to complete stock download the latest firmware from here: http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/ and install it with odin. Do a factory reset before and after install to make sure you have cleared out what ever is causing your problems. After this process you will be completely stock and unrooted. If you are still having problems after this it is probably hardware related.
Hi, I think that I have done something to my new phone and it is not working right now. I was trying to root it, and followed the directions and it went into the rebooting phase. But now it does not want to get out of the rebooting phase. It keeps on turning off and on. I need help. I have looked all over to see if there is ways to root a gs5 sport and have come across a site that said do not try to root it. Now I am in trouble and would like to fix this problem. How do I factory reset this phone, root it if possible.
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Hi, I think that I have done something to my new phone and it is not working right now. I was trying to root it, and followed the directions and it went into the rebooting phase. But now it does not want to get out of the rebooting phase. It keeps on turning off and on. I need help. I have looked all over to see if there is ways to root a gs5 sport and have come across a site that said do not try to root it. Now I am in trouble and would like to fix this problem. How do I factory reset this phone, root it if possible.
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If you're stuck in a bootloop, pull the battery and boot to recovery, hold home, vol up and power until it boots to recovery, then select wipe cache then wipe data factory reset.
nate2mars said:
Now I am in trouble and would like to fix this problem. How do I factory reset this phone, root it if possible.
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You can try the advice above, but it may not be sufficient. The poster there isn't very attentive to details.
Your phone is in a bootloop. If you are lucky and it's just due to a minor conflict then the above advice will prevail. But if your root was incomplete or any errors were written then it won't be sufficient. In that case you will need to use Odin to write a full factory firmware image to your phone to revert it to a proper working condition.
You should be able to root your phone. But we need to know the details of both your phone (model, firmware, baseband versions, etc) and a detailed description of how you tried to root it. In particular what file you tried to write and the Odin log that shows if any errors occurred during the root. Without those critical details we don't know what happened. If that information isn't available for some reason, then your best course would be to back up any files that are important to you. Then write a full stock firmware image to your phone and start over.
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"Bland".... lol
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Luckily I don't have to listen to no more of it, s5 is gone. Note 4 is here. Laters
Well this is my 1st post so first of all hey everyone
I just spent a week in Amsterdam and my phone restarted twice, different times different days and I dont remember what I was doing with it back then.
But as I landed back home I put the phone back from "Airplane Mode" and went on to toggle "Cellular Data" on.
The second I pressed the cellular data shortcut on my the phone restarted itself but this time whenever it would finish the screen would be on but fully black and sometimes it'll show battery precentage at the top but then will restart again in an infinite loop.
Sometimes it'll pop up the "Optimizing Apps" window and will go through all 24, upon finishing it will restart once more and do the same.
I tried using the bootloader and it worked (the bootloader that is) but the phone would do the same thing even after Rebooting from there or shutting down from there and then turning back on.
I contacted tech support on chat but they couldnt help past telling me to go to bootloader and reboot, said I should factory wipe when it failed.
Also tried wiping cache but to no avail.
I have no backup of my phone (wanted to do one before the flight but got lazy and I suck for not doing one sooner) since probably October and google doesnt backup my contacts properly for some unknown reason.
I already downloaded Android Studio with everything included for me to try using adb to sideload stock without wiping but its my first time and I couldnt get it to do anything at all...
I already got the official stock .gz file from the motorola website.
Anyway here are the specs to my phone:
XT1575
Everything is stock. didn't root or change recovery once in my life.
Was fully updated and had plenty of drive space (I have almost 128GB with the 64GB version + 64GB SD)
I'm really lost here so help will be very appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
-Noam
Start with a full wipe and if that doesn't work flash the stock image. Not sure what your question is though as you never really say. Once fixed I would unlock and make a backup so you don't have to deal with this again.
lafester said:
Start with a full wipe and if that doesn't work flash the stock image. Not sure what your question is though as you never really say. Once fixed I would unlock and make a backup so you don't have to deal with this again.
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The thing I pretty much want to know is if theres a way to either backup the phone now with it connected to the computer while in bootloader or recovery. or a way to flash the stock rom without wiping which I read someone did with his tablet. I cant post source normally because I'm a new user so here it is but change spaces to dots: schnouki net/posts/2014/08/13/flashing-a-stock-android-image-without-wiping-user-data/
Also while in recovery I noticed 2 options under wipe: 1. userdata only. 2. userdata+(insert something I dont remember here) and I was wondering what gets deleted in both? if I delete only userdata what data will remain? something helpful?
Sure you can try flashing without wiping data but being locked I personally wouldn't risk it. No idea about backing up in your state... somewhere I remember a thread on backing up without root try searching in q&a.
lafester said:
Sure you can try flashing without wiping data but being locked I personally wouldn't risk it. No idea about backing up in your state... somewhere I remember a thread on backing up without root try searching in q&a.
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Out of curiosity why shouldnt I try flashing with no wipe if ill lose the data anyway? worst case wont I just have to wipe after it fails and flash again?
And I will try thank you
Do you have any knowledge about the 2 wipe options?
Thanks in advance
Well I tried turning the phone on and it took a couple of minutes before loading to a fresh start. It apparently wiped itself on its own. Managed to restore almost everything.
Anyhow the phone takes too long to boot now. Was even stuck at boot and I had to restart it.
Anyway to fix my software? Or at least check for corruption?
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Hi everyone, just tried to root my i9507 S4 for the first time. Went really awful. I used the Chainfire Auto Root from his website for Android Lollipop (this one to be precise) and attempted to get it up and running through the included Samsung Odin. It booted in successfully and I could reach the home screen. I had SuperSU and could open it - but I think something stopped working along the way and everything crashed at once after just a few moments (whether I opened SuperSU or not). Google Play didn't open. I attempted to do a full-install from SuperSU, which got rid of SuperSU but the problems remained, awesome. Rebooting now changed nothing. So I went to Sammobile and downloaded the correct firmware (this one), and I attempted to restore with Odin using the same method as I did rooting. Everything seemed to be going to plan with Android "updating" and the like, and SuperSU is still gone, but the same problem remains. As expected all of my data remained. I'm tempted to do a full-reset at this point but I'd like you guys' opinion first. I'm new to all this - as you have probably guessed! - so please be nice-ish (I deserve some of the flack I'm sure). Thanks guys
Just attempted clearing cache thru recovery (stock) - no changes.
Full wipe then install firmware with Odin.
Through recovery I presume?
Do this: open Odin, uncheck everything except f reset time. Flash ROM. When you see the word reset in the Odin status window, remove USB cable from the phone, remove battery, replace battery, boot into stock recovery, perform a data/factory reset, reboot.
This method will wipe all of your data.
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When you see the word reset in the Odin status window, remove USB cable from the phone...
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Would this not brick the device? Thanks though.
You only see the word reset if the firmware was flashed. I do this for the note 1, note 2, note 3, s2, s3, and s4.