I really need to unroot and reset my phone to factory settings. I want to completely start over so its just like it came out of the box. Too much stuff got messed up and now my phone runs so damn slow and the battery only last like 3 hours if I'm lucky. So can someone give me a detailed step by step instructions of how to go about doing this. I've only ever done it on a Motorola phone using RSDlite bit apparently that doesn't work on non-moto phones.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1337386
That is what you need. Flash the phone with v8. Then power off and do a factory reset by holding power and vol- down until you are prompted.
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Just swap it out from where you purchased it don't tell them what you did just say its not booting anymore they will swap it out
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Or see if you can boot into Recovery Mode, you may be able to do something there.
Yea see if you can boot into recovery and do a hard reset from there bud
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I did a factory reset from recovery but it didn't work.
Where did you get it? You should have 30 days to switch phones
1. To pick a different phone
2. Or to swap from a thrill 4 a thrill
I've alrealy used 2 different phones from bestbuy I'm not sure how many times they allow you to do so I think once so I may be stuck with the thrill which is okay I really want the galaxy 2 tho..
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dincdoes.me said:
Yea see if you can boot into recovery and do a hard reset from there bud
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this didnt recover mine either.
No big deal. Swapped mine out today. I will hold on to the phone til the GS2 comes out, and then im switching.
ADB isn't recognizing the phone either. I believe I left it in USB Debugging mode before this all happened, but maybe that got reset when I did the factory reset and therefore it isn't enabled anymore.
Isn't the SG2 RELEASING ON SEP 16?
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ADB isn't recognizing the phone either. I believe I left it in USB Debugging mode before this all happened, but maybe that got reset when I did the factory reset and therefore it isn't enabled anymore.
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you are correct... any setting you may have altered in your phone is saved in the phone's data partition... the build.prop which im assuming you edited is saved in the system partition.. a factory reset only wipes the data partition, this means the setting you enabled for usb debug is set back to default and the build.prop you edited is left the way you edited it in the system partition completely unaffected... best chance is to wait for a manual CWM
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Isn't the SG2 RELEASING ON SEP 16?
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There are some rumors that it will be releasing that weekend. A friend at samsung claims that is impossible, the phone is in testing.. but some claim that retailers have told them it will release that weekend
How is it resolved?
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I have two bricked thrills and cannot get them in download mode.. I watched the video and am doing everything correct.. Just installs the darn texas instruments USB driver. This suuuucks.
what videos are you talking about. I bricked my thrill as well and it wont cut on at all. I have been looking for some sort of help and cant get any.
How was this solved?What were you doing to brick it?Would like to know incase I get there but it seemed easy enough to flash to few roms Ive tried so far.Thanks
Do you have any info on bricked thrills?
hey
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How did you Brick it? what did you do to fix it? my thrill 4g is bricked, it happend to get bricked while trying to restore a stock rom..
Had some LeWa rom.. the CWM i had was supposed to do an automated Backup of the original OS, But it didn't, and i followed dixtra's flash and it bricked my cell phone.. so im out of a cell phone right now.. which annoys me,
the errors i got.. while trying to do a master reset. were
E; cannot open recovery/log cache,
E; cannot mount recovery/log cache,
i can get to the master recovery menu.. but it just gets a boot loop.
Anyone able to help? Either via Tviewer, or pointing me to a guide that will un brick the piece of crud?
Cyaneyed said:
How did you Brick it? what did you do to fix it? my thrill 4g is bricked, it happend to get bricked while trying to restore a stock rom..
Had some LeWa rom.. the CWM i had was supposed to do an automated Backup of the original OS, But it didn't, and i followed dixtra's flash and it bricked my cell phone.. so im out of a cell phone right now.. which annoys me,
the errors i got.. while trying to do a master reset. were
E; cannot open recovery/log cache,
E; cannot mount recovery/log cache,
i can get to the master recovery menu.. but it just gets a boot loop.
Anyone able to help? Either via Tviewer, or pointing me to a guide that will un brick the piece of crud?
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Reflash kdz then do factory reset it will fix it
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So I was trying to restore back to my stock ROM backup using the boot strap recovery. There weren't any errors during the process of restoring the image but when it was time to boot the phone up it would stay in a bootloop.
I have tried factory reset with the power button and volume buttons but it'd go straight back to the loop.
I am trying really hard to understand this whole adb thing with the sdk program but I have no idea how to use it.
Can anyone please help this noob?
Return to stock - Windows.
FAQ sticky in the Bionic Development forum.
Thanks for the reply. I'll try this out when I come home from work.
Also, I reactivated my droid x until then. Will I need to go to Verizon for a new sim card for my bionic once I can start it up again?
I don't think so, but I am not sure. Have not bootlooped yet myself or had to FXZ.
I believe you may have to go for a new SIM card. The way the Verizon explained it to me when I returned my Charge was when you deactivate from a 4G to 3G only phone, that SIM is lost. However, 4G to 4G is fine.
Wouldn't hurt to try, but a good possibility you will have to.
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idefiler6 said:
I don't think so, but I am not sure. Have not bootlooped yet myself or had to FXZ.
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About 2 hours after I said this, I bootlooped. Good thing this FXZ method works!!
haha yeah with all the new roms u cant help but to explore.
btw after 5 FAILED flashes I tried one more time with rsdlite and it finally worked!
It took about 20-25 minutes for the whole process to fully boot up my phone but I am very happy and thankful for the people on this forum.
The weird thing is that when it booted up... it booted up to an old restore of UNL3ASH3D. confused but im happy its fully functioning.
You won't need a new SIM card. I did an FXZ restore after I rooted my phone, unrooted it (didn't need to have it rooted because there were no ROMs and no CWM yet) and it wouldn't let me root again so I flashed to stock and it rooted just fine. You will need to flash the radio again though (or at least I did after installing DroidTh3ory's ROM because it kept showing 3G in spots I know i had 4G, worked fine after I flashed).
I have a bionic that i system updated to 5.9.902 a couple days after i got it. Then i made the mistake of coming here and messing up my phone because i have no idea what I'm doing
I installed safestrap and did the whole noob step by step guide. Installed eclipse and a couple other roms. For some reason i wiped my internal and external storage. I have no backups of anything.
I've tried releasedroot, petes, rds lite with the 902 xml. I got stuck all the time with what seemed to be a driver issue.
I just want to return this thing to stock and stop messing with it
As of now when I press power i go straight to ap fast boot flash failure screen. I press power to power off and hold vol up and down to boot into recovery but just pick the normal boot option. Phone then boots into what seems to be my stock 902. I dont know if im rooted anymore.
If i could rid my phone of this flash failure and safestrap, i would be stupid happy
Anyone out there willing to help a total noob? If any more info is needed I'd be happy to provide
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What error did you receive using rsdlite?
When you go into your phone settings..can you verify your on 902?
I'm at work now but it was some sort of usb failure. It got stuck on 1/22 mbm something.
Yes as of right now im on 902.
Is there a tutorial on how to completely remove usb drivers? Even though rsdlite says I'm connected, I don't see my phone drivers in device manager. That's where I think I'm going wrong but not really sure.
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Cool. I'm at work too. When would you be available?
About 5pm est ... thanks alot dude
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Send me a PM when your available.
I tried to pm you but xda force closed. I replied to, i believe, your hotmail
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Hey guys,
I'm sending my phone back to Verizon for a Galaxy Nexus replacement. I thought I was unrooted however I recently discovered CWM Recovery is still on my phone--and working. Also, the root folder still shows up in file managers but it is empty. How can I make sure my phone is absolutely and completely stock before I send it back?
8 posts below yours and still on this first page...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1337386
once done boot the phone and do a factory reset on top of it all and the phone will be completely out of box clean.
Haxcid said:
8 posts below yours and still on this first page...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1337386
once done boot the phone and do a factory reset on top of it all and the phone will be completely out of box clean.
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So this deletes CWM Recovery as well?
Yes it will.
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Works perfectly. Never really know why I tried to root this phone. But back to stock for replacement! Thanks Again!
Hey guys. I ran into some trouble trying to root my note 3 and got this message. Now the phone won't turn on our connect to kies to try to repair it. I have the Samsung drivers installed and I believe I followed the directions closely. Can any of you tell me how to get back to factory settings or all the way through the root process. I'm stuck at this screen for now. Any help would be awesome.
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Try using the one click oding to get back to the stock firmware. Put the phone in download mode and flash the first step of the root procedure and then stop and make sure your phone will work in stock form first before you try rooting it again.
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Try using the one click oding to get back to the stock firmware. Put the phone in download mode and flash the first step of the root procedure and then stop and make sure your phone will work in stock form first before you try rooting it again.
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Instead of Pass in a green box, I get Failed in a red box and the progress bar on the phone stops
That's not good, maybe try a new download. Which firmware are you flashing? MI1 or MI9?
That's actually what happened when I tried to root. It would sit forever and fail due to a timeout. What I did is after the failure..I left the phone in dl mode and connected and closed the odin..then relaunched odin and it worked the second time. That's my experience and your mileage may vary..
Same thing!
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That's actually what happened when I tried to root. It would sit forever and fail due to a timeout. What I did is after the failure..I left the phone in dl mode and connected and closed the odin..then relaunched odin and it worked the second time. That's my experience and your mileage may vary..
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The exact same thing happened to me... I tried to install Kies 3 and add the drivers but to no avail. So from there on I just closed everything. Disconnected my note 3, reconnected it, and ran odin once more. It immeadiately passed and rooted my phone.
I have seen that in the past it is the sign of a brick you definitely have to Odin back to stock to fix that
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Yes it happened to me too. I just figured it was my crappy computer so I continued to try and after the 4th try I was able to achieve root status. Like a previous commenter suggested, it's a timed out issue.
Yea. I must have tried a dozen times a dozen different ways and I was stuck. I just said eff it and got a new phone. Debating if I want to try again, but I don't feel like potentially going thru the same heart ache. Really the only reason I care to root this phone is to get rid of those damn bloat ware apps; especially My Magazine.
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Instead of Pass in a green box, I get Failed in a red box and the progress bar on the phone stops
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It was MI9
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alpinesun said:
It was MI9
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Just went thru this on my Note 3 - chances are youre using a vm on a mac arent you?
Make sure you use a dedicated *windows* machine and not a vm (or at lest not a fusion VM) That was my issue, I havent tried parallels. I grabbed a dedicated win 7 machine and it works perfectly.
I was going to return it of that failed, which luckily it didnt.
Cheers