Dear all.
I recently installed some tweaks onto my Z and I went to turn on the NFC function and it doesn't seem to be working anymore. The last time I turned it on was maybe about 3 weeks ago and it was working fine then.
If I restore from a nand backup, will it restore any system changes I have made within this 2-3 weeks period?
Also, any suggestions on what else I could try?
Thanks :good:
Did you recently rooted your device?
You made a nand backup 3 weeks ago, so when restored, you'll lose all changes done after the 3 weeks.
I rooted it around a month ago. But I used an updated root method which kept the NFC function.
I haven't found any root method that keeps NFC functional - Have you tried the fix here?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=39030221#post39030221
-Soen
If it matters that much, repair and root again (doomlords thread) and get nfc back with that method.
Try this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ts8rbhZpQOQ
(which is the same advice as a post above, with a visual how to)
I actually tried to restore from my nand backup and it failed to mount and resulted in a soft brick. Once I reflashed with a stock rom the problem still persisted i.e. no NFC functionality. I decided to leave it as it's not much of a problem that I didn't have NFC.
But when I rebooted the phone, NFC mysteriously started working again. Dunno what the problem was though
Just re-root with the newest rooting tool of Bin4ry (v28 now), it'll fix NFC bug and reboot bug :good:
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I have a new (2weeks) samsung GT-I9003 which kies report a new firmware update & before doing that want me to take backup but it will only backup my contacts/sms etc. how do I backup my installed apps as I have not yet rooted my phone, I searched the forums & found a way to root but got to know that even rooting will loose my apps/data so what should I do first?
I need the following things
I am testing various apps to find the best ones which I will using long term so as of now lot of install/uninstall hapening, after few days once I settle I want to update new firmware but should I root before that or after updating to new firmware.
Does rooting remains rooted after new FW updates in future?
Once rooted I can install apps like Titanium, unrooted I can't use Titanium yet to back up my apps & its data so its a catch 22 situation for me & atleast once I will have to loose my apps data but this time I should do it once for all so I can streamline future updates.
Hope some one can answer this.
If you update with kies you wont loose anything, if you update custom roms(for the first time) you will loose your apps and data.
Thats a good news for me, so should I 1st update the firmware via kies then root it as 2nd step?
I took backup & then started the firmware update, it downloaded a small file showed 100% complete & then strangely it opened another windows & its now downloading a huge file of 400-500Mb...........is the firmware that big?
The downloading is going on past 10 mins on 1mbps connection.
Finally it gave error in mid way I assume that something happened & made the usb connection loss, I got these screen shots & the phone is now hung displaying "downloading do not turn off the target"
What should I do, need help?
Since i did not get any answer i took the battery out & then plugged in again the phone booted fine.
I now have rooted my phone, if i update the firmware will I need to root it again?
sgsI9003 said:
Since i did not get any answer i took the battery out & then plugged in again the phone booted fine.
I now have rooted my phone, if i update the firmware will I need to root it again?
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depends on the firmware, most custom roms have root already build in
Hi guys, thanks for the forum and i hope to become a part of it. I've been under so much stress since yesterday, my galaxy s3 (on EE in the UK) for the first time decided it's data was corrupted yesterday after my battery died, never done this or anything like it before, and it wouldn't let me access the phone itself unless the data was reset.
I had a lot of very precious pictures in my gallery from the weekend, which unfortunately chose not to backup to google+ for the last few days, even though it always has up until recently. All night/day i've been trying to figure out and get software to recover these photos, which i think is possible as i did it a long time ago on a blackberry, but not android yet. I'm just hoping it can be done so the photos aren't forever lost, the other stuff gone doesn't bother me so much.
The guide i'm following (here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/gal...de-internal-memory-data-recovery-yes-t1994705) says it needs to be rooted first, and i can't even get past step 1. I've only ever rooted my old galaxy S1 (which worked back then) but i can't seem to get the S3 to do it. And now my phone also believes there's no sim card in and i get no signal now.
this is the guide i followed: http://www.ibtimes.com/how-root-sam...-jelly-bean-official-firmware-tutorial-975812
though i think i need a newer PDA file to flash my i9305 with. I'm on the EE network running 4.3 jelly. It installed Super SU but root checker says it still isn't rooted.
So have i messed this up? And is there any hope for me getting these pictures back?
Thanks in advance for any help, it's much appreciated.
if you are running on 4.3 then you are not following the right guide to root...
use THIS ONE instead... if it fails to root use the workaround part, i used it and worked....used the workaround to install custom recovery and then flashed chainfire zip from his website and updated SU and worked.
are you still able to boot the phone?
Thanks for the response, tried that guide and still getting no signal on my phone (no mobile connection at all, sim card isn't recognised as being there) and i don't think it's rooted right. Still saying SuperSU has stopped working when i try to open it.
I put the Root_SuperSU.1.02-Busybox.1.21.0.zip on the internal SD and tried that too.
Which is the chainfire zip you're talking about, could you possibly link it? I don't really get what you mean by custom recovery, do you mean it's the same as flashing the Busybox thing from recovery mode?
And yeah it still boots up normally...
use that tutorial to install a custom recovery...then install this SuperSU - http://download.chainfire.eu/396/SuperSU/UPDATE-SuperSU-v1.94.zip?retrieve_file=1 - flash it in custom recovery....after that update app with playstore and should work.
but i suggest you get it to a specialized shop to get your photos back...
In the past, I have had updated a few times on root without facing a single problem, until yesterday, when I received the Lollipop update which weighs 776.73mb and stops updating in the very beginning before running into some error 0x11110000.
So, question is that is it possible to update ON ROOT ?
I know using SuperSU unroot one can't change the LG RCT check, but what's interesting is that after making a second attempt to update, IT STARTS ALL OVER AGAIN. I mean, downloading 776.73mb multiple times isn't going to reduce your data bills
Any ideas ?
Rooted. Stock ROM.
EDIT
Fixed it by performing a full 'unroot' inside of SuperSU and then using the LG PC Tool to update to Lollipop Well, I'm rather surprised that it worked when the same didn't work on the phone itself. So I'm guessing that the process used by the tool overrides all problems as long as the firmware remains stock.
Oh and I really didn't want to mess up that bad by taking the route suggested in that thread, @lfom, because I don't have an extra phone to fall back on, in case my current one fails to work
Modern SU tools also modify other system files, primarily to try to resist to updates... My bet that what is causing the problem is the same as this other thread (it offers a solution too):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=44913304&postcount=8
Actually , i updated my phone with root using LG tool, after update i lost my root but all apps where there, which means there is no need for unroot os something like that.
So, I acquired my GT P1000L quite recently (like, 4 days ago), and I started to look for methods on how to upgrade it from 2.3.6 to kitkat 4.4.4. And after hundreds of forums and threads, I finally found one that worked for me. Managed to install CwM recovery, CF root (A big problem that I'll explain later), and proceeded to install everything.
After a lot of cold sweat, since it was my first time doing this kind of upgrade, finally the Cyanogemod logo showed up, took 2 minutes to load everything, and it asked me to choose the language...And my sadness started when I discovered my touch screen stopped working.
So, after crying on the corner like a little kid, I found a tutorial on how to go "restock", I guess that's what is called, rolling all the way back to 2.3.6, Which didn't take that long, everything good and dandy, when I discovered 2 major reasons why it didn't work for me.
1: The CF Root that I used, only works with P1000, not P1000L (at least is what some people in the cf thread said), and CF was the reason why my touch screen stopped working.
So I decided to go back and see if I missed something, and saw a small warning saying that I should at least have CM 10.2 before upgrading to CW 11 (the one for kitkat 4.4.4). And that led me to my second problem, find a ROOT and instal CWM mod and go to 10.2.
So I searched, and found demonlord V4 (I think that's it), root, and tried it...And boom. The Root failed, and I was like WTF?
And when I decided to check the root's log, it said that some folders were protected, read only files (Something that never happened before). So I decided to try another root, Kingo root, and to my surprise, ROOT Failed again.
Tried ADB, Qatbd, none of them seem to work.
How can I root my device again? Or at least remove the read only protection?
The same happened to me! I still working to make my root work again! Anybody that can help us?????!!!!!!!
Take kingo root app on ur pc and root ur phones
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Ummmmm,,,
I think that i can help u...
i am now rooting gt-p1000l with kingo root and i think it's working...
better try with that though
p.s. it is computer version. i already tried with apk and it didn't work
Hey, I have a moto X 2014 (xt1097)(brazil), unlocked bootloader,previously had root.
I updated to marshmallow about a month ago and had no problems whatsoever with it aside from the fact that root didn't already work for it.So yesterday I saw a post about a user that flashed the "SuperSU 2.62 v3" and got root, so I did the same but without flashing twrp(I just booted it)... It worked (sort of) but it was having some problem about a super su binary not working(I lost the screenshot).
With that I started searching for a way to make it work correctly, until I saw someone in a post saying that they wiped the phone and re-flashed the root file and it worked correctly, and that was what I did.. with one little difference I flashed the latest superSU file released (SuperSU-v2.64),but it didn't work, it initiated but there were notifications all the time about something not working(a lot of things).
With that in mind I started the same process I had done to flash the first superSU,wiped the data and cache, turned it on so that I could enable debug mode to start flashing the superSU but this time the phone didn't get out of the big `M` (powered by android) logo.
I seached a fix for it, on other posts people said that wiping everything(except system) and rebooting worked for them, but for me it didn't.
So I need help with this, if anyone can help please do so, thank you.
UPDATE: I just remembered that before that I didn't use the "unroot" function in the superSU version that didn't work, so I think that I got bootloop because of that, but I still don't know what to do.