Ok, I want to Get MY sprint Galaxy tab back to stock, UnRooted, and without a custom recovery, How can I do this? I am currently running SpaceMoose's Honeycomb Alpha 2.5
search for the EA24 stock flasher. Get Odin and flash the file from there. Complete stock 2.2, then you can go through the OTA updates to 2.3.4.
Can you please give me links? also will this restore the bootloader?
here's the thread you want (all the info for Sprint Tab's)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1133053
When I flash back to stock EA24, my old apps are still there. I get prompted to use Dolphine Browers and Launcher Pro. They are even still listed in the Installed App.
Timanator said:
When I flash back to stock EA24, my old apps are still there. I get prompted to use Dolphine Browers and Launcher Pro. They are even still listed in the Installed App.
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The stock flash (I always use Odin instead of the SWUdater) always wipes everything out, if your old apps are still there, you can always do a wipe from settings or recovery, then do the stock flash.
How do you do a recovery? I tried returning to stock and that did not work.
Timanator said:
How do you do a recovery? I tried returning to stock and that did not work.
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you can do it from settings > privacy and do a factory data wipe, or you can power off your device and then hold vol. up and power to get into recovery and wipe data and cache from there.
Ahh, i tried both already and the installed software comes back. Even after I flash it with EA24.
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So my friend wanted to root his captivate and wanted to flash the spaceman ROM so heres what hes done so far
1.He used Z4root and perma rooted his phone.
2. Downloaded ROM manager and flashed clock work recovery
3. He did a backup and downloaded the ROM
4. He went into recovery and cleared cache factory and data.
5. Tryed to flash the ROM
6. It didnt work....
7. Restored the Backup
8. His phone wont download anything
9. He unroots with Z4root
10. Still nothing phone wont download stuff from market so he re roots with Z4
11. I Write up this thread
SO heres the ?s
What went wrong ?
Did we miss something?
If possible can we get a link to step by step instructions on how to root and flash ROMs
This does not belong in Development.
Moved to Q&A.
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So my friend wanted to root his captivate and wanted to flash the spaceman ROM so heres what hes done so far
1.He used Z4root and perma rooted his phone.
2. Downloaded ROM manager and flashed clock work recovery
3. He did a backup and downloaded the ROM
4. He went into recovery and cleared cache factory and data.
5. Tryed to flash the ROM
6. It didnt work....
7. Restored the Backup
8. His phone wont download anything
9. He unroots with Z4root
10. Still nothing phone wont download stuff from market so he re roots with Z4
11. I Write up this thread
SO heres the ?s
What went wrong ?
Did we miss something?
If possible can we get a link to step by step instructions on how to root and flash ROMs
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After rooting, did the SuperUser App appear in the app drawer?, if so, the phone was rooted and the steps you took appear fine to flash the ROM. Don't know what you mean by it didn't work (error msgs or what?) Also, don't know what or how you're trying to download something. Perhaps if you can provide more information, we can help
I'd suggest reading this post here.
Also I would have him Odin 1-click back to stock and start over.
Plus in the future please post what the error was as it would help determine your next troubleshooting steps better.
Yes superuser did appear in the app drawer.
When we tryed to flash it said operation aborted i dont know why.
And he is trying to download apps. from the market and its not working lol
Yup.. I'd flash back to stock then re-root. Sounds like something went screwy when you attempted to flash the ROM.
We restored the back up before attempting to flash the rom so would that be okay instead of flashing back to stock?
Also is there a way to back up all the apps so if do flash back to stock we can get them back instead of re downloading everything again?
IIDIncII said:
We restored the back up before attempting to flash the rom so would that be okay instead of flashing back to stock?
Also is there a way to back up all the apps so if do flash back to stock we can get them back instead of re downloading everything again?
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Download Titanium Back-up from the market (if you can)
I created a Nandroid backup of the stock Nexus S Rom. This includes the latest OTA GRH78 that just got pushed out today 12/22/10. This is 100% stock.
Link: http://www.mediafire.com/?ontvvh8z9h9lb7a
WARNING: This will wipe everything on your phone
Requirements:
-Clockwork recovery or other custom recovery
-The nandroid backup from here http://www.mediafire.com/?ontvvh8z9h9lb7a
-Transfer cable, to transfer contents of downloaded file to phone's internal memory
Instructions:
1. Download nandroid file from link provided above
2. Extract the .zip file on your computer
3. Move the folder "2010-12-22.21.06.07" to the clockworkmod/backup/ directory of your phones internal storage
Note: if you have never used nandroid you wont have the directory clockworkmod/backup on your phones internal storage, so you will have to manually create those folders, then put the folder "2010-12-22.21.06.07" in the new folders you created
4. Now go into your clockwork recovery manager, you can do this by typing in "adb reboot recovery" if you have adb setup on your computer, and the phone is connected. Or while the phone is turned off hold the volume up+power to get into bootloader mode, then go down to "recovery" by using the volume up/volume down keys to scroll up or down, then press the power button to launch it, and this will launch the recovery manager
5. Once your in clockwork mod recovery select "backup and restore"
6. Then click "restore"
7. Now you should be able to choose and select "2010-12-22.21.06.07"
8. Clockwork will now restore this nandroid backup
9. Reboot system
Note: This version of android build "GRH78" will make sure you have the stock recovery manager everytime you reboot the phone. So after doing this, after you reboot you will no longer have clockwork mod.
Edit: According to xda member Luxferro the new update introduced /etc/install-recovery which may have not been in 2.3, but anyways, it runs this on bootup, and if the MD5 of the recovery doesn't match what is expected, it reflashes the stock recovery back over, so if you dont want the stock recovery to be flashed everytime you boot if your on clockwork or another non stock rom, just rename it to prevent it from running on boot. And for those of you who want to return your phone back to stock this nandroid will do that for you since it also flashes the stock recovery.
Video on how to unroot the nexus s and return to stock
http://theunlockr.com/2011/01/20/how-to-unroot-the-nexus-s/
Video via xda member dcogen
will this method rest the phone and erase phone info?
yungfresh said:
will this method rest the phone and erase phone info?
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yes this will erase everything, this is meant for people who want to go back to stock.
I unlocked the bootloader and flashed clockword mod only. I didn't flash any custom roms. If I do this method, will it lock the bootloader and remove clockword mod?
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I unlocked the bootloader and flashed clockword mod only. I didn't flash any custom roms. If I do this method, will it lock the bootloader and remove clockword mod?
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No, this will not touch the bootloader, or the recovery. The phone bootloader will stay unlocked, and the recovery manager will stay in tact.
Hi there, your "stock" nandroid is screwed up.
I just tried it right now and TONS of apps are missing from the market with your nandroid.
PayPal, NYTimes, aFile, Fios Mobile Remote, TONS of stuff that I had are gone from the Market.
I pulled out my SIM card, and still all missing.
I restored my Nandroid of my current system, and they're all back in the Market.
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Hi there, your "stock" nandroid is screwed up.
I just tried it right now and TONS of apps are missing from the market with your nandroid.
PayPal, NYTimes, aFile, Fios Mobile Remote, TONS of stuff that I had are gone from the Market.
I pulled out my SIM card, and still all missing.
I restored my Nandroid of my current system, and they're all back in the Market.
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Hmm, very odd. Anyone else having this issue?
Sent from my Nexus S using XDA App
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No, this will not touch the bootloader, or the recovery. The phone bootloader will stay unlocked, and the recovery manager will stay in tact.
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so... for people that want to fully return to stock:
apply this update. go to fastboot mode and then do a fastboot oem lock. this will reset the phone and recovery partition to full stock.
you can check this by rebooting into recovery and now the recovery will be stock.
I don't think his nandroid file is messed up, there's a different market version its now 2.13 not 2.12 like on the previous build. I think that has something to do with it
Now I'm having a problem with everytime I reboot the phone I lose clockworkmod recovery an I got to reflash it with rom manager. I don't lose root tho but I lost it when I did his nandroid an had to reroot
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Hmm, very odd. Anyone else having this issue?
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Yup. I tried it, and I'm missing those apps as well.
Yes, me too. I lost many of the apps available in the market and the ability to go into recovery.
*Facepalm
These apps were missing from the Nexus S originally on day 1... Lol.
It's how Android market works. New builds don't get full market support. You need to wait for Google to update their system to allow the new build to get copy protected apps from the market.
Will this wipe my sd card?
I just checked and I don't have those apps either in market, and I'm on stock.
Sent from my Nexus S using XDA App
Sigh! You're not supposed to have those apps.
It's not an issue with this nandroid, it's an issue with every single new version / update to android on any phone. You will always have missing apps until Google adds the build number to its servers.
Other than that, thanks a lot for posting this OP! Saved me a huge pain in the ass getting updated -_-
Yes, maybe the apps issue is an issue with the server not updating yet, but have you noticed any problem with the clockwork recovery not functioning after reboot?
My recovery reverted to 3e recovery after flashing this. Clockwork is gone. No problem though, I wanted clockwork gone.
Now how do we root without flashing clockwork ?
I will try to investigate the recovery issue. But some people wanted to go back to stock recovery, and were not able to with the stock recoveries floating around, so that's pretty odd that this nandroid takes you back to stock recovery.
Sent from my Nexus S using XDA App
bogdi1988 said:
so... for people that want to fully return to stock:
apply this update. go to fastboot mode and then do a fastboot oem lock. this will reset the phone and recovery partition to full stock.
you can check this by rebooting into recovery and now the recovery will be stock.
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Really? That's interesting. Has anyone actually done this and confirmed it restores stock recovery? Easy fix for something that's been vexing quite a few people the last few days.
How long till the Market "fixes" itself and updates to 2.1.2 so the missing apps appear on the market?
Ok..... I just rooted my replacement LG Revo then installed the RevoToolKit by theCubed. I did "3" back-ups of the stock ROM before I flashed to Revoltrom1.2. Now when I try to restore to the stock factory rom I get a "md5 mismatch" while in recovery boot thru RevoToolKit and cannot restore the factory rom. Any ideas????
LG Revo
2.2.2 Froyo
Kernal: Stock
ROM: Revolt 1.2
Baseband Version: ZV4
Installed CWM Recovery: v4.0.0.2-pr1:
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Ok..... I just rooted my replacement LG Revo then installed the RevoToolKit by theCubed. I did "3" back-ups of the stock ROM before I flashed to Revoltrom1.2. Now when I try to restore to the stock factory rom I get a "md5 mismatch" while in recovery boot thru RevoToolKit and cannot restore the factory rom. Any ideas????
LG Revo
2.2.2 Froyo
Kernal: Stock
ROM: Revolt 1.2
Baseband Version: ZV4
Installed CWM Recovery: v4.0.0.2-pr1:
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which method are you restoring using?
I go into Revotoolkit, boot into recovery mode, select backup/restore, advanced restore, then pick one of the three stock back ups i did before I flashed to Revolt, restore system and it keeps giving me the md5 mismatch.
I should add that I did the back ups thru the RevoToolKit, menu, boot recovery, back-up/restore, back-up.I even get the same md5 mismatch when I try to flash revo de-crap no matter which method I use and no matter how many times I redownload it. Thanks for all of your input and hardwork. Noobs like myself GREATLY, GREATLY appreciate it!!!!
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I go into Revotoolkit, boot into recovery mode, select backup/restore, advanced restore, then pick one of the three stock back ups i did before I flashed to Revolt, restore system and it keeps giving me the md5 mismatch.
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When you restore a stock back up, just use restore, not advanced.
I'm Revolting and Home-Less, how about you?
I did that and still get the same thing
Alright, if you are on Revolt, just hold the power button and recovery should be an option. I don't see why that would make a difference, but one less step lol. For DeCrap, Revolt, or Home-Less once in recovery go to backup/restore, advanced, system restore, and pick which rom you want (DeCrap, Revolt, or Home-Less). If flashing a stock back up once in recovery go to backup/restore, restore, and choose from factory one. If still having problems, you may try reinstalling stock recovery with revotoolkit, then reinstalling cwm. Good luck!!!
Tbanks!!!! I am a noob so how would I reinstall cwm ? Reroot??
How did you install it the first time? Did you use revotoolkit?
Yes. I rooted using one click and got recovery using revotool
ok you can install stock recovery with revotoolkit, then use it again to reinstall cwm
Should I reboot afterwards and/or clear the caches??
As you can tell, I am a noob to all things root and rom and have very, very, very little to no experiance with programming. This phone is a replacement to one that was new and rooted with revolt and somehow it lost all recoveries and would not leave the boot recovery screen. The insurance sent me a BRAND NEW one which I have now. I rooted with one click, then installed RevoToolKit, booted into recovery, backup/restore, then backup. Did this three times before loading any new roms. i then tried to install revo decrap and got the md5 mismatch, so I installed Revolt1.2 and all worked fine. Basically, I want to have the option to go back to the stock shipping rom(LG and VZW apps just like the phone was never touched).
When I try to restore the shipping rom I get the md5 mismatch. No matter if I go thru boot recovery, backup/restore, backup and pick one of the three, and I have tried doing it through the advanced and get the same thing. I rooted to have the ability to freeze/remove bloat then decided to change roms. Everything works great except some features like the voicemail button or voice search buttons give me errors that state: process was stopped unexpectedly. I went into revotoolkit and changed the recovery from cwm to stock revo and back and still no luck. What are my options? If I take it to Verizon will they reinstall the stock shipping rom, and if so, since the warranty is void since rooted, any idea on what they charge to do that? Thanks so much for the help, knowledge and patience that ALL of you have had.
Apologies, but since I am a new user, I was not allowed to post in the thread in developer section.
I had bought a pre owned phone, on Rocket ROM (GB based), however as S-Pen apps were not working I decided to go on the stock ICS rooted way.
I followed the instructions here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1424997
I had downloaded the stock INdian ROM
N7000XXKK3 ------ 2.3.5 2011 November------ N7000ODDKK1 ------------------------India -------------------------Download
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I followed the steps, downloaded Odin, and put the TAR file in PDA section, and flashed. All goes fine without error, on the phone it says everything is installed successfully. However after the process the phone just keeps restarting after the Samsung logo.
Have I done anything wrong here? How do I rectify the mistake and get my phone working
Did you clear cache/dalvik or do a wipe in recovery menu ? Looks like it's stuck because of leftover data from previous rom
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Did you clear cache/dalvik or do a wipe in recovery menu ? Looks like it's stuck because of leftover data from previous rom
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Umm, pardon my ignorance as I am migrating from an ancient Nokia device.
No, I had done no such thing, no backups too as I just had it for a few days and no data so to speak of.
Should I be doing a wipe in recovery menu? And doesn't flashing the device, formats the memory too?
I think it should, but for some reasons it does not. To get rid of boot loop, go into recovery and clear cache. Should boot properly then
Also, avoid doing a factory reset on stock ics. If clearing cache wont help, i'd suggest flashing gb stock rom, doing a wipe and then upgrading to ics as wiping under ics has caused people a lot of troubles.
Yes you should do a wipe of cache memory and dalvik cache. That is availible from recovery menu. And no they arent allways formatted when flashing a new rom.
To go into recovery, do this.
Device off > vol-up+home+power. And now you are in recovery mode.
Also, avoid doing a factory reset on stock ics. If clearing cache wont help, i'd suggest flashing gb stock rom, doing a wipe and then upgrading to ics as wiping under ics has caused people a lot of troubles.
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Thanks, I had read up how much ever I could, and am pretty wary of the emmc bug. Thats the reason I am flashing to a GB based stock rom, and then the ICS stock rom.
The error I got earlier is by flashing to a Indian GB Stock ROM, should I yet clear cache memory in the recovery mode?
A little bit of googling tells me I should be flashing to a ROM with multiple files (different ones for PDA, Modem, CSC etc) hence I am also downloading the stock Europe based ROM. Now the query is would the stock Europe GB ROM, cause any issues to a Note bought in India?
Edit: I wiped the cache partition in recovery mode, but the bootloop persists. I will try flashing to the Europe GB ROM and update.
Thanks, folks was able to install the Europe stock GB ROM, which I later flashed to an Indian stock ICS ROM. I have rooted the phone by a very helpful guide by Dr Ketan, however I miss some of the functions available to me on the rocket GB based ROM. Especially an option to have a data on/off option in quick notifications.
What is the purpose of rooting the stock ROM? Can I delete the bloatware that comes pre-installed on the stock ROM, once the phone is rooted? If yes how?
Any safe custom ICS ROM's you guys recommend? If I am right the correct way right now seems to be to flash a safe GB based ROM everytime before you flash an ICS ROM? Correct?
Last but not the least, thanks to the folks who replied and guided me in the thread, XDA is a very resourceful place, if you search it thoroughly.
About notification toggles - they are available in some roms, in others - not.
As far as rooting is concerned - yes, you can delete almost all the bloatware. There is a thread with APKs that are safe to remove - check it out and feel free to delete everything you won't be using. How ? Simple file explorer with root capabilities will do. Here's the list, thanks to pulser_g2:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/spr...1gdDJRekl4QmkyNmIzUmRvX2h3UDVkQXc&output=html
Safe custom ICS ROMs - I'd say go for CM9. For me, AOSP is the only way to go with Android. If you want TouchWiz based roms, however, can't really help cause i've never used them - there are plenty in development section though.
Nope, you don't need to flash GB ROM everytime. The problem with wipe affects only stock ICS roms ( so with stock-kernel based roms from Samsung, yeah, that's recommended ). But if you're going to flash/change/update roms like CM9, Criskelo etc. there is no need to go back to GB everytime.
Hi i was on ICS stunner and flash via PC Odin Stock GB rom.
everything goes ok but now i'm stuck on Samsung logo (bootloop)
i have to do cache/dalvik wip but i have only stock recovery.
Is there any way to do that on stock recovery or i have to flash a CWM instead ?
And if i have to so how to do that ?
help guys
arturutrata91 said:
Hi i was on ICS stunner and flash via PC Odin Stock GB rom.
everything goes ok but now i'm stuck on Samsung logo (bootloop)
i have to do cache/dalvik wip but i have only stock recovery.
Is there any way to do that on stock recovery or i have to flash a CWM instead ?
And if i have to so how to do that ?
help guys
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Download abyss from the following site:
http://downloadandroidrom.com/file/...rnel/AbyssNotekernel42CWTouchOriginalLogo.tar
Flash the file with PC odin then reboot into abyss recovery. You can then do the wipe.
If you need more information, go to this website:
http://rootgalaxynote.com/galaxy-note-root/how-to-root-galaxy-note-gt-n7000-method-2odinheimdall/
Phone is a rooted SGH-T679
I removed a bunch of programs after which I couldn't get back to home screen, only contacts.
Rebooted phone but couldn't get past Samsung splash
Got into Safe Mode, but the Factory Settings option is gone.
I'm thinking that if I can determine why that option is no longer available, it might help me figure out what to do next.
If I have to flash ROM, fine, but I wanted to investigate this question first.
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Phone is a rooted SGH-T679
I removed a bunch of programs after which I couldn't get back to home screen, only contacts.
Rebooted phone but couldn't get past Samsung splash
Got into Safe Mode, but the Factory Settings option is gone.
I'm thinking that if I can determine why that option is no longer available, it might help me figure out what to do next.
If I have to flash ROM, fine, but I wanted to investigate this question first.
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are you on the recovery or download mode?
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are you on the recovery or download mode?
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in recovery.
service_elevator said:
in recovery.
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download any rom of choice onto your external sd and then wipe (factory reset) and flash rom and proper gapps. you should be fine. if you want to go to stock then just flash the stock rom
Team win recovery : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2249222
flash to stock no root: http://d-h.st/yJd
flash to stock root : http://d-h.st/s9X