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[Q] Rooting...

Hello...
i am thinking of rooting my phone , for any reason if i want to factory default restore the phone is that restoring will disable the rooting or that rooting will be permanent ?
thanks a lot...

The only permanent thing you can do is unlock the bootloader.
Rooting, or any other change can usually be undone...
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so i can unroot the device by factory default of something else?
Thanks alot for your reply

danger-rat said:
The only permanent thing you can do is unlock the bootloader.
Rooting, or any other change can usually be undone...
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so i can unroot the device by factory default of something else?
Thanks alot for your reply

Root will be available after a factory reset, rooting apps mostly come along with unroot functionality.
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Basically, once rooted, you can change the ROM on your phone to any compatible one you can find, including the original one...
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Missing apps

Ok so I decided to unlock my bootloader. Then before rooting I decided to re-lock the bootloader and leave it be. Might root after a while but I want to play with the device at stock for a bit first.
Anyway I seem to have lost some apps. I can't find calculator or torch/flashlight anywhere now. And they were definitely there before I dabbled at all.
Calculator shows under all apps but not in the app drawer and I can't access it through all apps. Torch has gone completely it seems. I'm not sure if any others are missing yet but they could be.
Has anyone else had this and know a fix? I was under the impression that it was only rooting that wiped the data partition?
Thanks
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It's unlocking the bootloader that wipes the data partition, not rooting.
Fix here but requires a custom recovery: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2200628

Ahh balls! I'll have to root it sooner than I wanted now then lol. Gosh darn it haha!
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Just a note. Managed to install the apps one by one via file explorer. No custom recovery or rooting needed.....
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[Q] supersu and superuser on the same phone

I unlocked my bootloader and installed a custom recovery. Then i intalled the supersu zip file and a custom rom. after that i found supersu and super user on my phone. Is it safe to uninstall one of them?

Yes it's safe to uninstall one of them but if you're not bothered which one you keep then I suggest uninstalling SuperSU.
I say that because I flashed back to a stock ROM a while ago and also flashed the provided rooting tools so that I could keep root access. Once I rebooted to stock, I installed SuperSU from the Play Store and decided to uninstall Superuser as I didn't need both of them on there.
Later that day I found out that I only had partial root access. I could use root apps like ROM Toolbox but I couldn't make any changes to /system.
In the end I reflashed the rooting tools so I could get Superuser back and everything worked perfectly again.
I'm not sure whether it was just a temporary problem with SuperSU or not but as long as you don't mind which you keep, that would be my advice
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KidCarter93 said:
Yes it's safe to uninstall one of them but if you're not bothered which one you keep then I suggest uninstalling SuperSU.
I say that because I flashed back to a stock ROM a while ago and also flashed the provided rooting tools so that I could keep root access. Once I rebooted to stock, I installed SuperSU from the Play Store and decided to uninstall Superuser as I didn't need both of them on there.
Later that day I found out that I only had partial root access. I could use root apps like ROM Toolbox but I couldn't make any changes to /system.
In the end I reflashed the rooting tools so I could get Superuser back and everything worked perfectly again.
I'm not sure whether it was just a temporary problem with SuperSU or not but as long as you don't mind which you keep, that would be my advice
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This happened because you flashed a stock ROM, with a stock kernel, which has write protection enabled.
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CoryTallman said:
This happened because you flashed a stock ROM, with a stock kernel, which has write protection enabled.
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I was on stock ROM but had faux kernel installed. I forgot to mention that in my post.
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KidCarter93 said:
I was on stock ROM but had faux kernel installed. I forgot to mention that in my post.
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I've got no answer for that one. Haha
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CoryTallman said:
I've got no answer for that one. Haha
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Haha nor me. See I knew about the write protection on stock kernel right away which is why I figured I'd be fine with faux but it still didn't want to work.
Luckily it all sorted itself out in the end so I'm back using SuperSU again
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What Can we do with a locked bootloader?

Can someone tell me what we will actually be able to download if bootloader remains looked? Can we flash certain types of Rom or mods? Or can we do nothing?
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ekerbuddyeker said:
Can someone tell me what we will actually be able to download if bootloader remains looked? Can we flash certain types of Rom or mods? Or can we do nothing?
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You can flash nothing. you can not flash TWRP or CWM

ekerbuddyeker said:
Can someone tell me what we will actually be able to download if bootloader remains looked? Can we flash certain types of Rom or mods? Or can we do nothing?
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Should work the same as the S4 MF update that locked down the bootloader. You should be able to root but as for custom roms and CWM/TWRP we're out of luck.
Coming from a S4 running CM10.2 I'm not going to like using the standard rom but will get used to it I guess.

So even with the bootlegged locked we should be able to tour so we can use TB to backup and restore?
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I have a locked MF3 firmware S4 and I'm running 3 different ROMs that are hot swappable thanks to Safestrap developed my Hashcode so even with a locked bootloader you can do something. Only thing is for now we are limited to internal storage for the ROM slots can't create them on external SD card but Hashcode has been working on that. Also we can only flash TW ROMs since we can't flash a custom kernel but that is also being worked on, I believe they want to be able flash a kernel with kexec. I have an AT&T S4 and currently swapping between an international Foxhound ROM, Google Play ROM, and well the stock ROM.
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At this point I'd be happy with just root so I can use Titanium Backup.

Would be nice if we could get Loki.
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All I want is Titanium Backup

ekerbuddyeker said:
Can someone tell me what we will actually be able to download if bootloader remains looked? Can we flash certain types of Rom or mods? Or can we do nothing?
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Even tho I don't have any phone that has a bootloader. (i don't live in the USA Neither)
But if your Bootloader is locked you cannot Flash CWM or TWRP or flash custom roms (Because they need CWM or TWRP).
Sorry if I'm wrong. I don't have any phone with locked bootloader. Hope this helps.
regards warface123.

supers2k said:
All I want is Titanium Backup
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Ditto... which is why I am returning my AT&T Note 3 less than 24 hrs after I purchased it.
My fault for not researching the bootlocker issue, but no way am I going to give up Titanium Backup. It has saved my tail more than once.

I'm also coming from an att S4. There has not been a bootloader unlock exploit but they do have some work around exploits like loki & safestrape. Loki is out bc they've already patched that so at this point I just hope we get root bc without that you don't have a fighting chance at custom roms
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All I want to do is remove the AT&T bloat as well as the Samsung bloat. When I took my stock Note 2 and installed Cleanrom on it it felt like the phone got a cpu boost. Everything was smoother and faster.
With root, can we uninstall crap that is blocked from being removed while stock? I can live with a locked bootloader if I can just get as close to a stripped rom as possible. I'm pretty new to this stuff so forgive the newbie question.

What custom recovery I should use?

What custom recovery I should use on AT&T Galaxy Note 3 - 4.4.2 - N900A?

Safe strap in the development section is the only thing you can use

So.. do you think we will ever find a way to unlock to bootloader
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zaptear said:
So.. do you think we will ever find a way to unlock to bootloader
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I read a few months back that an exploit was found that will unlock the bootloader permanently. It is supposed to be released in august some time. If I find the like I will point you to it.
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Yeah I heard about that, lets just hope its true and be able to get Custom Recoveries and be able to install PAC-MAN, CM ROMS, ect.