I've scoured through this and every other forum to no avail. Seems like this question has been asked multiple times but the answer is lost in the details. I have a Milestone with Alltel(basically the Droid 1). I'm still in my 30 day window and want to return the phone. I rooted with universal androot and so I was able to unroot very easily. I no longer have superuser permissions and my phone shows no signs of ever being rooted except when I boot into recovery, it still has clockworkmod recovery. How do I clear this last hurdle and remove the custom recovery? Is it possible without the sbf? If anyone knows anything, please advise.
Thanks in advance,
CRS
As usual, I post and then go on to figure it out. I found the Milestone A854 sbf and loaded it and everything is back to stock.
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Here's the story:
A while back, I rooted my Nexus One without unlocking using the bait and switch method, and had been using various custom ROMs.
Recently, the power button hasn't been working well, so I called HTC to get a swap. Obviously, before sending my phone back, I need to unroot it.
I tried to restore my phone using the method in the XDA guides, but it hung on each step, and it didn't actually do anything. So, I flashed the non-rooted stock ERE27 through ROM Manager (this, I suspect was a huge mistake.)
Now, I have an rooted phone, that fails on any update attempt and so is stuck on 2.1, and worse, Clockwork Recovery is still on there. I've tried to unroot my phone again using both the bait and switch method, and the freenexus method, but both have run into errors. I've also tried installing Universal Androot and clicking Unroot, but it just tells me my phone isn't rooted.
So, I can't root my phone to attempt to flash the recovery, and I can't find a way to remove Clockwork Recovery, but I need to send this phone back to HTC within the next 7 days, or else I'm gonna be out $530.
Any ideas?
First: hate to be a douche, but someone's gotta say it: this is the wrong subforum for a question thread. Take a quick glance over the rules stickied at the top of the forum. There's a Q&A forum for things like this.
Second: HTC has typically honored the warranty for known hardware problems (of which the power button is probably the biggest) even for unlocked/rooted devices. They find for me, no problems. So relax.
Last, try using ClockworkMod recovery to flash CM 6 stable, then from that ROM, try flashing back to stock recovery. After that you should be able to flash a stock OTA ROM. You can't change recovery without root access, which you can't get on a stock ROM. So you have to change recovery first. And on your new phone, you should really just fastboot OEM unlock. Trying to deceive HTC makes them not want to give us this option anymore.
Yup no worries I had to send mine in because the trackball got stuck and they got it under warranty ... I had my phone running a custom recovery and rom and they didn't even ask about it.
A few weeks ago I rooted my X and ran the manual deodex method posted on the site. Phone ran great, I installed clockwork recovery and made a few backups. after installing a rom and not being able to get back into the recovery, I had to flash the phone with the 2.2 full SBF. This leads to my questions
1. After I SBF'd I was able to recover my applications and my data was all on the SD card. however I have a few applications that when run will close and give me an error message stating that the "application unexpectedly quit" I can duplicate the issue most when attempting to search the a forum through the XDA application. I am sure I failed to wipe data and cache before I recovered the stock OS, could this be the cause, any ideas?
2. I have re-rooted my phone but I have a question about deodexing again. I understand that motorola is in the early stages of working on an update to fix reported issues with 2.2, I also believe that they will use this opportunity to update the bootloader version. is there a way to disable the OTA updates? I am concerned about bricking my phone if an update is release and I am deodexed, what is the worst that could happen?
Sorry for the post, I am technically inclined but am still learning the android OS, any help is very much appreciated.
If you run a rom either aosp or blur you can avoid the ota that's end only way I know to avoid it
Sent from my DROIDX using XDA App
thanks for the response, I read a few places that clockwork recovery blocks OTA updates from installing, but I am having a hard time nailing down a definitive answer.
From what I understand Droid X SBF files do not wipe data like other phones. I recently had to SBF but kept getting stuck looping at the droid eye. I booted into recovery and did a factory reset and all worked out just fine. I know it's not your exact problem but it still might be worth it to try.
As for not getting OTA updates other than doing a custom ROM I can't help you there, sorry.
Hello All,
I'm starting a new thread, because I am in a situation where I want to get my girlfriends phone back to stock so I can warranty it, and hopefully someone here will have the answer and people will have one place to look for putting their Roger's Samsung Captivate back to stock.
I'm hoping someone can tell everyone why we can't seem to get back to stock on these ROM's, here are the things I've tried:
Originally cleared everything rooted the phone through an update.zip, then put on the Clockworkmod Recovery and flashed Cognition v2.3b8, Trying to fix, battery life and lagging issues on her phone, (had a couple of random restarts the day before I flashed, so I was hoping it would fix that).
Then she started noticing the random restarts more often, so I tried:
clearing everything again through the recovery and tried restore from my backup to put things back, it looks like it extracted (or Installed) successfully then when it boots, it gets to the black, "Swipe" screen, then it freezes.
I tried to flash the Rogers_Stock.zip, same thing. Then I extracted the zip, and put it into the backup folder, hoping it will restore it like a normal restore, same thing.
So right now I'm stuck with a phone that says AT&T when it boots (I read one post on how to remove that) and cognition boot up.
Basically, I want to get this to look enough like stock to return.
I was thinking I can try to get rid of that AT&T popup, then flash the stock ROM, and say it just stopped booting for some reason. But then I still need to get rid of the Clockworkmod Recovery.
Wow that was a mouthful.
Thanks in advance for any help anyone can provide for use Roger's users (or their significant others).
AZ
try this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=867617
There are others like it too. Just don't try flashing the bootloader or sbl !
AbsoluteZero said:
Hello All,
I'm starting a new thread, because I am in a situation where I want to get my girlfriends phone back to stock so I can warranty it, and hopefully someone here will have the answer and people will have one place to look for putting their Roger's Samsung Captivate back to stock.
I'm hoping someone can tell everyone why we can't seem to get back to stock on these ROM's, here are the things I've tried:
Originally cleared everything rooted the phone through an update.zip, then put on the Clockworkmod Recovery and flashed Cognition v2.3b8, Trying to fix, battery life and lagging issues on her phone, (had a couple of random restarts the day before I flashed, so I was hoping it would fix that).
Then she started noticing the random restarts more often, so I tried:
clearing everything again through the recovery and tried restore from my backup to put things back, it looks like it extracted (or Installed) successfully then when it boots, it gets to the black, "Swipe" screen, then it freezes.
I tried to flash the Rogers_Stock.zip, same thing. Then I extracted the zip, and put it into the backup folder, hoping it will restore it like a normal restore, same thing.
So right now I'm stuck with a phone that says AT&T when it boots (I read one post on how to remove that) and cognition boot up.
Basically, I want to get this to look enough like stock to return.
I was thinking I can try to get rid of that AT&T popup, then flash the stock ROM, and say it just stopped booting for some reason. But then I still need to get rid of the Clockworkmod Recovery.
Wow that was a mouthful.
Thanks in advance for any help anyone can provide for use Roger's users (or their significant others).
AZ
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Gin's got you on the right path for sure. A couple more items for you:
This post should help with removing the AT&T bootup logo: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=849789
If you use Heimdall to flash the Rogers stock firmware that is in the post the Gin linked to then you will absolutely need to follow the instructions to use the Heimdall drivers for your captivate when it's connected or it won't see the device when you tell it to start. Like gin said, don't touch primary or secondary bootloader, leave those out and don't try to repartition it.
Restoring the stock firmware will remove the custom kernel that is installed with Cognition (at least it should) and so the Clockwork recovery should no longer be installed once the restore to stock is done. You can double-check once you are back to stock by powering off the phone and then hold both up and down volume + power, let the power button go after it restarts once and you see the I896 for the 2nd time. It should take you to the stock 2e recovery screen. If it does, you should be golden.
HTH
Wow, thanks all,
I used that method without the PIT file,
I just want to say thanks to everyone that offered help,
Goina try to send it for warranty now.
thanks again,
Joe / AZ
Sorry guys, I've been piecing together different posts/threads to try & find my answer without much success, but I haven't had too much luck
We bought somebody at our office a rooted Droid 4, using Safestrap 3.11 recovery, which appears to be running CM10.1 in it's slot 1. For some reason, unclear to me exactly, she wants to remove the root, if possible & just run the phone the way it comes. My initial thought was to just run a rooted stock RUU on the phone & give it back, but I've had difficulties finding one for this phone so I decided I might as well just do as she'd initially asked.
From reading other posts, it appears as if I'm supposed to disable Safestrap from the recovery, allow the phone to boot into the stock rom, then remove the safestrap app. However, I'm at a loss for finding the option that would allow me to disable safestrack out of the recovery, as everything I've seen/read doesn't seem to be an option anywhere that I can find.
There's an option for Stock ROM, but after attempting to switch it to that rom, the phone just reboots over & over. After I've selected the stock, it appears as it it's wanting me to Install the rom from somewhere, & the previous owner does have a stock maserati ROM listed in his downloads, but I'd like to confirm that selecting this option is what I'm supposed to do before I run with it, as previously mentioned, it's not my phone to get to enjoy fixing if I mess something up.
I'm not a complete NOOB, as I'd rooted all of the HTC EVO branded phones I'd owned, but I'm typically a little braver at trying first & fixing later, when it's my phones than when it's somebody elses.
Thanks for any & all advice.
Ok. So I am brand spanking new to rooting and flashing on the Turbo. I did it for a few years on the HTC Thunderbolt and the One. I followed the directions in the How To in the General subforum, used Sunshine, and then since I am on a Mac, I used Kingroot to root and then Flashify to install TWRP. I then did a full wipe in TWRP, installed the Brazilian ROM in the development forum, and then rebooted.
Then my troubles began.
It boots all the way to the "Select your language" screen, freezes, then reboots. Repeatedly. I can get into the stock recovery, but I can't find TWRP, so I figured that I had to install the linked kernel in the Brazilian forum. I installed it in the stock recovery, since I couldn't figure out how to boot into TWRP, but it didn't make a difference. Still freezes and bootloops. I've factory reset in the stock recovery, but nothing. I made a newb mistake and failed to make a backup of my original stock rom, and now I don't know what to do. I have a feeling I have to figure out how to connect to the phone storage via the Mac and load something else to install, but I don't know what. Help! Also, since I factory reset, I no longer have the Brazilian ROM on my phone. What the hell do I do?
Not a Mac person...
I'd find a Windows machine and flash the original firmware and start over. ... Never used it myself
But I believe the software is called rsd lite.
I figured it out!
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Do tell?
I expect the OP followed the wrong instructions? They mentioned using Kingroot, which is NOT recommended for rooting these phones. Sunshine is all you need... I figure he had issues because Kingroot has issues....
The joke response I was going to give was: "I screwed up and I'm on a Mac"... yeah, I agree... that's one hell of a screwup.
You have to use King root if you want to install flashify. Sunshine no longer allows temproot outside of sunshine.
This might help future mac users:
http://www.bestandroidblog.com/how-to-setup-adb-and-fastboot-on-a-mac/