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Hi Ive searched for ages but cant find an answer to this seemingly simple question.
I just purchased a i9305 which I'm trying to return to stock ROM. Problem is I've no idea what the original ROM was. The phone came with a modified rom and even though I can reset the flash counter and get it to say Samsung official ROM in ODIN, however it always says "sytem status:Modified."
Also in About>status it always says modifed-even with stock rom.
Cant get hold of the seller atm so I'm asking if theres a way to tell what the inherent stock rom of the phone is-not just the rom version I have installed now??
Thanks for your help, I hope i made myself somewhat clear.
Hey,
no way. I don't think there is a history.
Tell more about your phone, and maybe someone has the same and can tell you.
Btw. to get the modified status away, you have to install stock rom (kernel, boot, recovery and so on) and reset the flash counter. The device will check on every boot for custom things and set the counter to 1, if something were found.
baduncle said:
Hey,
no way. I don't think there is a history.
Tell more about your phone, and maybe someone has the same and can tell you.
Btw. to get the modified status away, you have to install stock rom (kernel, boot, recovery and so on) and reset the flash counter. The device will check on every boot for custom things and set the counter to 1, if something were found.
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You mean the phone doesn't really know what original factory version it was?
I installed a stock rom, reset the counter with triangle away and it even updated through Samsung kies after that. But still says modified.
Maybe I didn't install all the parts of stock rom? You said kernel etc so what exact elements do I have to make sure to install?
Thanks
Maybe. I know the csc will be stored, if it's a branded one. Thats all i know.
A complete stock rom contains system, hidden, recovery, data, modem. boot images.
So install with "mobile odin" (or odin from a pc) the recovery and boot image, restart, reset counter, restart. And check. If you install an original boot image, the kernel will also be stock.
Have you read other help threads? Some users have these issues also with stock roms, they had it from the beginning.
If you think, all is done and all went good without errors, you are maybe one of these users.
thanks.
By 'the recovery and boot image' do you mean PDA and bootloader options?
This is the current status info in 'About':
Model no: GT-i9305
Android version 4.1.2
Baseband version: i9305XXBLL5
KERNEL VERSION: 3.0.31-746327
[email protected] #1
SMP PREEMPT Wed Dec 26 etc...
2012
Build number: JZ054K.I9305XXBLL5
Then in Status:
Serial number: R31C914MNNK
Do I have stock kernel and recovery?
Thanks!
baduncle said:
Some users have these issues also with stock roms, they had it from the beginning.
If you think, all is done and all went good without errors, you are maybe one of these users.
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But isnt my warranty void if it still says 'SYSTEM STATUS: MODIFIED'??
Just wanted to let you know I sorted it.
I did the folowing, not sure which part or all bits helped.
Installed older stock kernel.
Installed old stock recovery.
In recovery mode did cache wipe AND full factory rest.
Then phone showed Status:Normal
and in ODIN showed No flash count and official and official!!!
Cheers. Great News.
Your warranty is void, if the status is modified.
i9305 bootloader
Is it possible to flash an older bootloader from ICS or 4.1.1 on my i9305?
I got the new bootloader when I flashed the 4.1.2 and now Triangle Away don't work anymore and I reaaly need it to root my phone and flash a new kernel and CWM...
Is it possible? I didn't found any answer about this... :S
fabiocpinto said:
Is it possible to flash an older bootloader from ICS or 4.1.1 on my i9305?
I got the new bootloader when I flashed the 4.1.2 and now Triangle Away don't work anymore and I reaaly need it to root my phone and flash a new kernel and CWM...
Is it possible? I didn't found any answer about this... :S
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TA still works if you use everything stock. And if you don't, then what's the point in resetting the counter? They'll deny warranty anyway
Glebun said:
TA still works if you use everything stock. And if you don't, then what's the point in resetting the counter? They'll deny warranty anyway
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It won't reset the counter neither change the status with this new bootloaders.
But if I have my phone with everything stock why the hell will they deny the waranty, if the counter is 0 and the status is normal?
On 4.1.1 I had root on my phone and TA reseted the counter and put the status normal, and I needed to send it to warranty and they don't deny it, although I was with a custom rom...
I don't get what you are trying to tell me.
Same thing here
dnalevy said:
Just wanted to let you know I sorted it.
I did the folowing, not sure which part or all bits helped.
Installed older stock kernel.
Installed old stock recovery.
In recovery mode did cache wipe AND full factory rest.
Then phone showed Status:Normal
and in ODIN showed No flash count and official and official!!!
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please let me know w/c stock kernel & recovery did you use?im having the same issue.
Thanks!
fabiocpinto said:
It won't reset the counter neither change the status with this new bootloaders.
But if I have my phone with everything stock why the hell will they deny the waranty, if the counter is 0 and the status is normal?
On 4.1.1 I had root on my phone and TA reseted the counter and put the status normal, and I needed to send it to warranty and they don't deny it, although I was with a custom rom...
I don't get what you are trying to tell me.
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You are wrong. TA works perfectly with the latest bootloader, as long as you're absolutely stock. As in, stock unrooted ROM, stock recovery. And if you're not using stock, then you don't need TA because they will deny you warranty if you're on a custom ROM or not completely stock. That's what I meant
Hi guys,
I'm selling my s3 mini, currently running maclaw's CM 10.2, but I'm wondering how to reset my phone to the default software so the warranty will work. Could you tell me where I can download that? I'm from Croatia, name of the carrier is VIP.
Thanks!
Very difficult
Calculating Infinity said:
Hi guys,
I'm selling my s3 mini, currently running maclaw's CM 10.2, but I'm wondering how to reset my phone to the default software so the warranty will work. Could you tell me where I can download that? I'm from Croatia, name of the carrier is VIP.
Thanks!
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I think it would be very difficult to do that, because if you want the warranty back, you must reset the flash counter. There are how to threads for that, but its very, very risky! Also difficult would be to find the original brandet firmware from VIP, I think this is nearly unpossible.
Use triangle away to reset the flash counter.
Use Odin and firmware for your phone to restore to stock, don't forget to replace custom recovery with stock recovery.
Then do a wipe and reboot phone.
There are posts that explain this process in greater detail so I would suggest using the search function.
Hey guys,
i recently bought an GT-I8190 off eBay. Problem is, it won't connect to any provider's network. It doesn't even find the correct network. It's not a SIM problem, SIM in different phone will find and connect to the right provider.
IMEI is correct though. I flashed cyanogenmod 11 (goldennova) and I8190XXANI4 Baseband. Still not able to connect. I already backed up EFS.
Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!
Hi,
Install by Odin latest stock rom, after restart turn off phone and go to recovery and do factory reset. After this check working connection.
Or here you find solution
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=45527911
Sent from my GT-I8190 using XDA Free mobile app
eqal said:
Hi,
Install by Odin latest stock rom, after restart turn off phone and go to recovery and do factory reset. After this check working connection.
Or here you find solution
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=45527911
Sent from my GT-I8190 using XDA Free mobile app
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Thanks for your help. But i think you got me wrong, the problem existed even before i flashed cm. I don't think it has anything to do with cm.
I am on Linux, so i used Heimdall to flash latest Stock ROM. Did a factory reset, from within android and another one from recovery. Didn't help. At least the right provider is shown now, but i still can't connect. Now i am back to where i started, before i flashed cm.
Do you think it would help, if i flash modemFS?
I also checked if my IMEI is stolen here: http://www.amta.org.au/pages/amta/Check.the.Status.of.your.Handset
but I'm in germany, i don't know if their IMEI check is valid for me.
I also tried to repartition during flash, to wipe out all corrupted remainings, but heimdall fails to initialise protocol if i try to repartition. I downloaded my phone's .pit file and used that one.
Thanks in advance!
Still no success.
I tried different ROMs, Stock and Custom, even with repartitioning enabled.
I don't know what to do... must be a problem in one of the files/partitions that aren't touch by a full flash with repart, right?
Please help
Halp
Moootze said:
Halp
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are you sure is it software or rom problem? maybe its Hardware problem and you should check it in a shop or something? maybe just something inside phone broken during carrier or something.
I'm in the same boat. Have a Swiss factory unlocked phone that I was given by a friend. I decided to flash it to CM11.
I tried initially to do it via the stock recovery but when that failed to due a lack of root I did it via Android Toolkit 1.3.4 which I found through the forum. It loaded the TWRP 2.6.3 recovery and then completed the flash of novafusion CM11 no which I had had already on SD card all by itself pretty much. Before first boot I went in and flashed google apps mini and the "original logo" file that novafusion had under extras.
Upon first boot, there was no cell signal and I've been trying ever since to fix it.
Tried flashing modemfs.zip
Tried flashing versions of stock roms via odin.
Tried the latest I8190N stock rom.
Tried repartitioning via .pit method in odin.
Tried various basebands.
Tried basebands + modemfs
Tried flashing the param/logo file
I'm basically out of ideas...
Hi guys, i have an s4 active i9295 with a bootloop, so i decided to flash stock rom via odin as i always did with samsung phones with this problem but every time i flash a rom (i tried different ones) the phone restarts as normal but when the samsung logo appears then it says on the top left with blue letters revocery booting, then it does something with a progress bar and an android logo above and restarts. When it boots again its back at the bootloop, im an absolute noob in this but what i understand is happening is that the phone is reverting the flash i did with odin and i want to know what am i doing wrong, is this supposed to happen? Any help will be much appreciated
Hello,
Welcome to XDA.
To better assist you, your thread will be moved to your device Q&A forum linked below.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s4-active/help
The experts there may be able to help. Good luck.
I need help, its quite an expensive phone to just give up and throw it away
nexware said:
Hi guys, i have an s4 active i9295 with a bootloop, so i decided to flash stock rom via odin as i always did with samsung phones with this problem but every time i flash a rom (i tried different ones) the phone restarts as normal but when the samsung logo appears then it says on the top left with blue letters revocery booting, then it does something with a progress bar and an android logo above and restarts. When it boots again its back at the bootloop, im an absolute noob in this but what i understand is happening is that the phone is reverting the flash i did with odin and i want to know what am i doing wrong, is this supposed to happen? Any help will be much appreciated
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C'mon guys you may know what is going on with my s4, no matter what i do it bootloops, tried everithing
pit + firmware on odin, still bootloops, wipe data/cache after and before flashing, still bootloops, i researched a lot and tried almost everithing with the same result, please help me, i'll personally bake a cake to the first nice guy to help me get out of the bootloop
nexware said:
C'mon guys you may know what is going on with my s4, no matter what i do it bootloops, tried everithing
pit + firmware on odin, still bootloops, wipe data/cache after and before flashing, still bootloops, i researched a lot and tried almost everithing with the same result, please help me, i'll personally bake a cake to the first nice guy to help me get out of the bootloop
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I'll try to help you, what did you install or modify that caused the bootloop in the first place? Was your device rooted? Did you have custom recovery? What recovery? Did you have a custom ROM? What ROM?
Droidriven said:
I'll try to help you, what did you install or modify that caused the bootloop in the first place? Was your device rooted? Did you have custom recovery? What recovery? Did you have a custom ROM? What ROM?
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I received the phone as it is with the bootloop, don't know much of its state before but i was told that it was a bad flashing procedure the cause of the problem. It had stock recoverys from the different roms i flashed in odin: I9295XXUDOB4
I9295XXUCNE5
I9295VJUDOF1
There was one time i managed to make it boot flashing CWM and installing cyanogenmod 12.1 but on restart it kept bootlooping again and i was unable to get it to boot again even repeating exactly the same steps i did before.
I want to make an absolute clean firmware flash with the original rom that this phone came in my country (VJUBMK4) but from what i understand once im on newer versions (im not sure if 4.3 or 5.0) i cant downgrade.
I really don't know what is it causing the bootloop, how can i get the pone to factory firmware? Am i doing something wrong?
nexware said:
I received the phone as it is with the bootloop, don't know much of its state before but i was told that it was a bad flashing procedure the cause of the problem. It had stock recoverys from the different roms i flashed in odin: I9295XXUDOB4
I9295XXUCNE5
I9295VJUDOF1
There was one time i managed to make it boot flashing CWM and installing cyanogenmod 12.1 but on restart it kept bootlooping again and i was unable to get it to boot again even repeating exactly the same steps i did before.
I want to make an absolute clean firmware flash with the original rom that this phone came in my country (VJUBMK4) but from what i understand once im on newer versions (im not sure if 4.3 or 5.0) i cant downgrade.
I really don't know what is it causing the bootloop, how can i get the pone to factory firmware? Am i doing something wrong?
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Ah, it sounds like you have one of the devices with locked bootloaders then if you can't downgrade, if that is the case you can't use CWM, TWRP, CM or AOSP custom ROMs, those devices have to use Safestrap and modified Stock ROMs. Or you may can unlock the bootloader. I'm not sure that is your problem but you can check it out.
You can flash the newest stock firmware and just be done with it, you may not be able to root and flash custom but the device will at least work.
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Droidriven said:
Ah, it sounds like you have one of the devices with locked bootloaders then if you can't downgrade, if that is the case you can't use CWM, TWRP, CM or AOSP custom ROMs, those devices have to use Safestrap and modified Stock ROMs. Or you may can unlock the bootloader. I'm not sure that is your problem but you can check it out.
You can flash the newest stock firmware and just be done with it, you may not be able to root and flash custom but the device will at least work.
Sent from my SCH-I535 using Tapatalk
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How can i be sure that the device has a locked bootloader? If that's the case, what can i do to make it to just work as stock? I need a special kind of stock firmware?
nexware said:
How can i be sure that the device has a locked bootloader? If that's the case, what can i do to make it to just work as stock? I need a special kind of stock firmware?
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Boot into download mode by holding the volume down + power button and see what is the device name listed there
nexware said:
How can i be sure that the device has a locked bootloader? If that's the case, what can i do to make it to just work as stock? I need a special kind of stock firmware?
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Take the cover off and pull the battery, the label under the battery should have the model number for the phone.
If the model is GT-i9295, then you have an unlocked bootloader and should be able to flash any firmware.
If the model is SGH-i537, then you have a locked bootloader and can only flash firmware meant for that phone.
Once we know which phone you have we can help you.
JASONRR said:
Boot into download mode by holding the volume down + power button and see what is the device name listed there
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It says this:
PRODUCT NAME: GT-I9295
CURRENT BINARY: Custom
SYSTEM STATUS: Official
CSB-CONFIG-LSB: 0x30
SECURE DOWNLOAD : ENABLE
WRITE PROTECTION: ENABLE
eMMC BURST MODE enabled
Devo7v said:
Take the cover off and pull the battery, the label under the battery should have the model number for the phone.
If the model is GT-i9295, then you have an unlocked bootloader and should be able to flash any firmware.
If the model is SGH-i537, then you have a locked bootloader and can only flash firmware meant for that phone.
Once we know which phone you have we can help you.
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Its GT-i9295
Can you flash VJUCNI1 or VJUDOF1?
Hello I've recently moved from iphones to my first Samsung. A Galaxy S10 which I bought off the internet.
The instruction booklet that came with it was in foreign which I didnt think anything of as it accepted my sim card and everything seemed to be working ok. However when i came to set up samsung pay I realised the phone was set up for the united arab emirates, which samsung pay wants me to register to.
Can I reflash the phone to a Uk rom, or am I stuck with the phone as it is? If I can reflash is it done using Smart Switch?
Thanks in advance for any help
You can reflash the stock rom you're on, yes. Try a data factory reset first in recovery.
StoneyJSG said:
You can reflash the stock rom you're on, yes. Try a data factory reset first in recovery.
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Thanks, I'll try a factory reset first. Can I just ask a couple of questions in case it doesn't work so I don't end up with a paperweight. I've jailbroken iphones in the past, but never owned an Android, so I don't know what I can/cant do.
1) I'm on O2. I assume its firmware G973FXXS7CTG1 I need. Will the CSC be correct after the reflash? From what I can make out from other posts, if I reflash with my simcard inserted, this will change automatically.
2) Will the reflash trigger Knox? As far as I know the phone is unrooted currently and I'd rather keep it intact if possible.
3) Will I still receive OTA updates, or will I need to do them manually?
4) Is the reflash done through Odin not SmartSwitch?
5) My Smartswitch backup will be restorable after the firmware change? (It's not backed up for one specific firmware only)
Thanks
Djwysiwyg said:
Thanks, I'll try a factory reset first. Can I just ask a couple of questions in case it doesn't work so I don't end up with a paperweight. I've jailbroken iphones in the past, but never owned an Android, so I don't know what I can/cant do.
1) I'm on O2. I assume its firmware G973FXXS7CTG1 I need. Will the CSC be correct after the reflash? From what I can make out from other posts, if I reflash with my simcard inserted, this will change automatically.
2) Will the reflash trigger Knox? As far as I know the phone is unrooted currently and I'd rather keep it intact if possible.
3) Will I still receive OTA updates, or will I need to do them manually?
4) Is the reflash done through Odin not SmartSwitch?
5) My Smartswitch backup will be restorable after the firmware change? (It's not backed up for one specific firmware only)
Thanks
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1: Get Frija to d/l your firmware as it is the fastest way to d/l. Input your model no. and CSC (in your case: O2U), check Auto and Frija will give you the latest firmware for O2. Never heard ones simcard should have any influence when flashing???
2: No. Knox is only triggered if you flash TWRP/ custom ROM/ Magisk aka root your phone. It is completely safe to flash stock ROM using Odin.
3: Not sure - am rooted myself. My experience upgrading via Odin is safe/fast/reliable.
4: Odin. Most important: use HOME_CSC in the CSC-slot. This will keep/restore all your data/apps.
5: Never used Smartswitch???
Cheers. I had a trial run using my galaxy tab a. All went well so going to do my phone next. Thanks for the help.
Update:
Tried my phone but something's not working. I've extracted the firmware from Frija, selected home_csc as well as the ap,bl and cp.
The flash starts, but for some reason though after about 3 seconds I get Odin saying Pass, the phone restarts and nothing seems to have changed on the phone.
Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? The phone was in download mode