RTH: need to remove root. - Galaxy S 4 Active Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi guys, need help asap.
i have stock rom and recovery. but i need to remove root access. how do i do this? couldnt find any direct hits when i searched...

buljo said:
Hi guys, need help asap.
i have stock rom and recovery. but i need to remove root access. how do i do this? couldnt find any direct hits when i searched...
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Have you tried - SuperUser - Settings - Full Unroot
Should remove the SU binaries and remove root from your phone

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hi, sorry for posting in wrong forum.
tried to do full unroot from superuser. it removed itself but still i get the message "cannot update, phone is ......" when i try to check for OTA. in recovery mode it is stated as official.

buljo said:
hi, sorry for posting in wrong forum.
tried to do full unroot from superuser. it removed itself but still i get the message "cannot update, phone is ......" when i try to check for OTA. in recovery mode it is stated as official.
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You need to use TriangleAway to update while rooted, and then re-root after updating. Try searching for further instructions on updating rather than unrooting - unrooting is NOT the right way to update.

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[Q] Cannot install null rom

Hi everyone.
First of all, i am sorry if my question has been answered somewhere. i have searched thoughout this and other sites and have asked in several threads, with no reply.
I have rooted my Gear (impactor) but my SU binary update just fails installation every time. Someone told me this is not fatal, so after 2 days, i tried the next steps and am able to load the null zip file, install it, but at the very end, with no error message, it reboots to download mode. everytime. at this point i have to use odin to load the stock recovery and start again.
No guide or comment in any thread suggests anyone has had this problem. As you can probably tell, this is all quite new to me, so I do understand that it could just be me doing something wrong, that others may take for granted.
Also, my null installation says i am installing onto a i9300 - is this normal?
1)How can i manually update the su binary (tried superuser, superuser fixer. busybox), and is that related to the rom not working?
2)Why does the installation get to the very end but then just reboot into download mode...?
I just want to be able to use this rom but nothing i try is letting me get past this stage. Any help would be appreciated massively.
udotbdot5 said:
Hi everyone.
First of all, i am sorry if my question has been answered somewhere. i have searched thoughout this and other sites and have asked in several threads, with no reply.
I have rooted my Gear (impactor) but my SU binary update just fails installation every time. Someone told me this is not fatal, so after 2 days, i tried the next steps and am able to load the null zip file, install it, but at the very end, with no error message, it reboots to download mode. everytime. at this point i have to use odin to load the stock recovery and start again.
No guide or comment in any thread suggests anyone has had this problem. As you can probably tell, this is all quite new to me, so I do understand that it could just be me doing something wrong, that others may take for granted.
Also, my null installation says i am installing onto a i9300 - is this normal?
1)How can i manually update the su binary (tried superuser, superuser fixer. busybox), and is that related to the rom not working?
2)Why does the installation get to the very end but then just reboot into download mode...?
I just want to be able to use this rom but nothing i try is letting me get past this stage. Any help would be appreciated massively.
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Have you read the instructions ?
You need to flash the recovery first, then flash the rom. The rom is for THE GEAR, not your phone.
Right !!
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fOmey said:
Have you read the instructions ?
You need to flash the recovery first, then flash the rom. The rom is for THE GEAR, not your phone.
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Thanks for your reply.
I did read it, and i did follow it. Ive done almost nothing on my phone, and flashed the recovery(odin), moved the rom zip to the watch (adb or wondershare) - and then gone into recovery mode to install it.
Was this wrong? Or have i missed something important?
udotbdot5 said:
Thanks for your reply.
I did read it, and i did follow it. Ive done almost nothing on my phone, and flashed the recovery(odin), moved the rom zip to the watch (adb or wondershare) - and then gone into recovery mode to install it.
Was this wrong? Or have i missed something important?
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Read them again please.
fOmey said:
Read them again please.
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Thanks for your help.
Having read and reread them, i still can not understand what you are referring to when you mention that the rom is not for my phone and that i need to flash recovery first.
Thank you for replying, i will start from the beginning again
udotbdot5 said:
Thanks for your help.
Having read and reread them, i still can not understand what you are referring to when you mention that the rom is not for my phone and that i need to flash recovery first.
Thank you for replying, i will start from the beginning again
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Try checking out my tutorial and see if that helps ya.
Follow these instructions TO THE LETTER then flash the SuperSu.zip when you're done.

[Q] My phone keeps losing root access

Hi, my phone keeps losing root access. I've done everthing correctly i'm sure but after a few hours root access is denied. I've tried re-rooting and flashing different recoveries and different roms but it keeps happening. I've searched through the forums but can't find any answers. Does anyone know any fixes? Thanks.
r3dal3x said:
Hi, my phone keeps losing root access. I've done everthing correctly i'm sure but after a few hours root access is denied. I've tried re-rooting and flashing different recoveries and different roms but it keeps happening. I've searched through the forums but can't find any answers. Does anyone know any fixes? Thanks.
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which root package are you flashing?
kamilmirza said:
which root package are you flashing?
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Hi. I did it with hasoon2000's HTC One all in one toolkit trying both CWM & TWRP and then perm root with Chainfire supersu. Thanks.
r3dal3x said:
Hi, my phone keeps losing root access. I've done everthing correctly i'm sure but after a few hours root access is denied. I've tried re-rooting and flashing different recoveries and different roms but it keeps happening. I've searched through the forums but can't find any answers. Does anyone know any fixes? Thanks.
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First:
DON'T use CWM! It always ****ed up my system partition and I had to restore a backup because I was unable to reroot again!
Then secondly:
Try to flash everything manually. Use this supersu zip file from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1538053 and also flash the recovery(TWRP) manually.
Maybe you need to reinstall your system.
LibertyMarine said:
First:
DON'T use CWM! It always ****ed up my system partition and I had to restore a backup because I was unable to reroot again!
Then secondly:
Try to flash everything manually. Use this supersu zip file from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1538053 and also flash the recovery(TWRP) manually.
Maybe you need to reinstall your system.
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Thanks, I'll try that and let you know how it goes. :good:
r3dal3x said:
Thanks, I'll try that and let you know how it goes. :good:
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ok, just send a pm or quote again that I get notified.. maybe I'll answer later because I am in a different time zone and I'll go to bed soon..

[Q] How to remove Super SU on UnRooted KitKat?

i had to do some finagling to get KitKat to update on my Note 3. because of this, i know have an unrooted device with SuperSU installed. i try to open it and it says that the binary is not installed and it is incapable of installing it. i also cannot uninstall it through the normal process. how can i remove it? thanks!
kminatta said:
i had to do some finagling to get KitKat to update on my Note 3. because of this, i know have an unrooted device with SuperSU installed. i try to open it and it says that the binary is not installed and it is incapable of installing it. i also cannot uninstall it through the normal process. how can i remove it? thanks!
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I see your not a newbie, you should know better! This is the general section, your questions belong in the Q&A section. Please try to search for your question before posting. There has been a thread started on this already. Please follow there because it has not currently been resolved.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2700586
440bro said:
I see your not a newbie, you should know better! This is the general section, your questions belong in the Q&A section. Please try to search for your question before posting. There has been a thread started on this already. Please follow there because it has not currently been resolved.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2700586
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i forgot which section i was in when i posted the question. my apologies.
and i did do a search. my search did not pull up that link. thanks for your help though.
Man I wish our bootloader wasn't locked. I'm also on same boat as OP. We'll have to wait until NC2 gets rooted. I wish AT&T or Samsung just release a full system NC2 image for Odin so we can just use Odin to re-flash to factory clean state.
In the meantime, please sign the petition to unlock our bootloader if you haven't yet.
https://www.change.org/petitions/at-t-unlock-our-samsung-galaxy-note-3-bootloader
When I had AT&T HTC One (M7), after getting S-OFF, I could flash to Google edition or any edition, and even get stock OTA updates. I hated the build quality of that phone though.

Stock update and rooy

Will installing the stock update kill root, or worse yet brick my phone?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3076803
Can I let the phone do the update on its own with no problems?
If you take the ota you won't be able to root. If you want to root use the thread i posted
dirtydodge said:
If you take the ota you won't be able to root. If you want to root use the thread i posted
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.....and you won't be able to downgrade either!
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Not having any luck taking the ota, keeps telling me" device storage to full please move or delete stuff......."
bigslimoid said:
Not having any luck taking the ota, keeps telling me" device storage to full please move or delete stuff......."
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Go to the thread i posted and read in the notes section. Download the nce file and flash in odin. This will put you phone back to factory settings. Then you should be able to take the ota. If you take the ota you won't be able to root. If you want root on lollipop then follow the instructions in that same op and it'll tell you how to get to rooted Lollipop.

[Q] Can't boot into TWRP and my phone got unrooted

Hello!
I have a Huawei Mate 9 (MHA-L29C432B190). Yesterday I tried to root my Phone to play Pokemon Go with fake gps. After I managed to root my phone, I couldn't boot into TWRP Recovery Mode anymore.
Because I still had some files I needed to flash I installed Flashfire from the PlayStore. I think after I flashed the newest Magisk version(The flash failed because of Error:1), my device got unrooted. But I think my device is still partly rooted because I can't get into Pokemon Go. Everytime I try to start it I get stuck the loading screen. So right now I can't flash anything to get my root back and I don't have the root to use alternative flash applications. I also tried to start return my phone to stock back with a update.app But it can't be installed. I also can't use "fastboot flash recovery twrp.img" I always get " Writing 'recovery'...FAILED (remote:command can't be used/allowed)". And also after some reboots my oem unlock got turned off and I can't turn it on anymore.
I don't have any ideas anymore what to do. I thought I could root my device, so I could unroot properly with superuser. I tried some other application like KingRoot oder OneClickRoot but both of them don't have a rooting method for the Huawei Mate 9 yet. Btw I don't have a backup because of my naivety.
I hope you guys can help me . I appreciate any ideas
Thanks in advance
In summary what do u want???
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abuk91 said:
In summary what do u want???
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Either way I want a method to root my phone without some flash application or I want a way to return my phone to stock. Or a method to fix TWRP would be fine too.
Kyranix said:
Either way I want a method to root my phone without some flash application or I want a way to return my phone to stock. Or a method to fix TWRP would be fine too.
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Do a Google search for:
"Return to stock (your model number)"
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Do a Google search for:
"Return to stock (your model number)"
I already did and everything I found didn't work
Kyranix said:
Do a Google search for:
"Return to stock (your model number)"
I already did and everything I found didn't work
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What did you find? What have you tried?
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What did you find? What have you tried?
I tried to do Upgrades with many different stock firmwares for my model
Kyranix said:
What did you find? What have you tried?
I tried to do Upgrades with many different stock firmwares for my model
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That doesn't tell me anything. That just tells me that you tried flashing.
It doesn't tell me anything about exactly what you tried to flash or what errors you got when you flashed. I need more precise information to help you. Your simple answers aren't helping me understand anything about what you have going on with your device.
What tools have you used? What guide/instructions did you use? What files have you used? What errors did you get? What results did you get. What do mean "didn't work"? "Didn't work" can mean many things.
I might be able to help you fix your device but I can't fix ignorance.
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That doesn't tell me anything. That just tells me that you tried flashing.
It doesn't tell me anything about exactly what you tried to flash or what errors you got when you flashed. I need more precise information to help you. Your simple answers aren't helping me understand anything about what you have going on with your device.
What tools have you used? What guide/instructions did you use? What files have you used? What errors did you get? What results did you get. What do mean "didn't work"? "Didn't work" can mean many things.
I might be able to help you fix your device but I can't fix ignorance.
First I tried to do a force upgrade with a "dload" folder with a update.app file on my sdcard . After booting into this upgrade mode by pressing vol up + vol down + power button my device starts to install the stock firmware, but after it reaches 5% I get the message "Error with installing" and a Link to the same site when you boot into twrp. This always happens no matter which file I use. Next I tried to do a normal upgrade by calling this number "*#*#2846579#*#*" (The dload folder is still on my sdcard). But when I start the software upgrade I get booted into twrp and like I said in my post, always when I try to get into twrp I get stuck on the "Your device is booting screen". This is what I tried and basicly every site on google is saying I should try to do one of these two methods
(Here a guide for example: https://www.getdroidtips.com/full-guide-install-stock-firmware-huawei-smartphone/)
(My file in my last try: https://www.getdroidtips.com/huawei-mate-9-stock-firmware-collections/)
Kyranix said:
That doesn't tell me anything. That just tells me that you tried flashing.
It doesn't tell me anything about exactly what you tried to flash or what errors you got when you flashed. I need more precise information to help you. Your simple answers aren't helping me understand anything about what you have going on with your device.
What tools have you used? What guide/instructions did you use? What files have you used? What errors did you get? What results did you get. What do mean "didn't work"? "Didn't work" can mean many things.
I might be able to help you fix your device but I can't fix ignorance.
First I tried to do a force upgrade with a "dload" folder with a update.app file on my sdcard . After booting into this upgrade mode by pressing vol up + vol down + power button my device starts to install the stock firmware, but after it reaches 5% I get the message "Error with installing" and a Link to the same site when you boot into twrp. This always happens no matter which file I use. Next I tried to do a normal upgrade by calling this number "*#*#2846579#*#*" (The dload folder is still on my sdcard). But when I start the software upgrade I get booted into twrp and like I said in my post, always when I try to get into twrp I get stuck on the "Your device is booting screen". This is what I tried and basicly every site on google is saying I should try to do one of these two methods
(Here a guide for example: https://www.getdroidtips.com/full-guide-install-stock-firmware-huawei-smartphone/)
(My file in my last try: https://www.getdroidtips.com/huawei-mate-9-stock-firmware-collections/)
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Stock upgrades are not going to work if you are rooted and have TWRP.
Stock updates require stock recovery and an unmodified system partition(no root).
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Droidriven said:
Stock upgrades are not going to work if you are rooted and have TWRP.
Stock updates require stock recovery and an unmodified system partition(no root).
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Yeah I have already seen, but I can't find an other method to return my Huawei Mate 9 to stock and I don't really have an root.
Kyranix said:
Yeah I have already seen, but I can't find an other method to return my Huawei Mate 9 to stock and I don't really have an root.
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But you have TWRP, that won't work. You need stock recovery, custom recovery can't flash stock updates.
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Droidriven said:
But you have TWRP, that won't work. You need stock recovery, custom recovery can't flash stock updates.
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And can you please tell me how to do it then. You can also send me a guide
Kyranix said:
And can you please tell me how to do it then. You can also send me a guide
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I am not sure why you are not doing this in your device forum?
https://forum.xda-developers.com/mate-9
It seems that there would be more assistance specific to your device.
or did I miss something?
Moscow Desire said:
I am not sure why you are not doing this in your device forum?
https://forum.xda-developers.com/mate-9
It seems that there would be more assistance specific to your device.
or did I miss something?
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Well thats because I already had problems to post this thread because I am new to xda
Moscow Desire said:
I am not sure why you are not doing this in your device forum?
https://forum.xda-developers.com/mate-9
It seems that there would be more assistance specific to your device.
or did I miss something?
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Well thats because I already had problems to post this thread because I am new to xda But thanks for pointing it out, I will probably try it there again. Maybe there I will have more luck
Kyranix said:
Well thats because I already had problems to post this thread because I am new to xda [emoji14] But thanks for pointing it out, I will probably try it there again. Maybe there I will have more luck
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Even new members(less than 10 posts) can post in device specific Q&A fora, new members are only blocked from posting in "development" fora and threads.
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