Restore to Factory Settings for Galaxy S5 OC4 - AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5

I have searched all over this site for hours, and all I find are old descriptions to restore S5 to factory default. Most of them I know do not work any more.
The guides that I have found to do this are old, and we need a specific guide. Like some mention to use Samsungs old app, Kies. It is now Smart Switch. And Kies wouldn't install factory settings on certain phones including the Galaxy.
I know that with Super SU, I can remove the root from my device. But if my the OC4 is something I downloaded from here, with "rooted" in the title, then I probably shouldn't just use Smart Switch to restore to factory default.
What do I need to download besides Odin? Or if there is an updated article on here for OC4 that I am somehow missing, please give the link. I used FlashFire for the rooting.
Thank you!

Lets say I want to not void my warrenty. How do I get back to factory settings. I want to wipe everything.
My phone is getting too slow, and most of it has to do with rooting. Apps crash, phone camera is almost unusable, and getting back to the home screen takes some time, and major delays in switching apps. I don't want to do this and find I bricked the phone by unrooting with SuperSU, then doing the regular method of restoring factory settings.
Thanks.

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[Q]Restore Galaxy S4 Active to Stock AT&T Firmware?

Hello! This is my going to be my first post, so please bear with me.
I own a Samsung Galaxy S4 Active (SGH-I537) from AT&T. I've owned the device for about 6 months now and love it. Recently, I encountered a problem with connecting to GApps/Google services and adding a Google Account.
I rooted my S4 Active with this method from geohot I found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2347793
After tooling around with it for a day, I had trouble getting on the Play Store. My screen displayed "No Connection; Retry). After trying various solutions I removed my Google Account from the device.
When I couldn't log back in to my Google Account, I disabled 2-step verification and tried application-specific passwords. No avail.
I performed many factory reset, both from the Settings page and by a hard reset. I've wiped all the user data, so I have no apps or anything.
I keep getting this error message, see attachment below.
TD;LR #1 : I rooted my GS4a and I can't use my Google Account. Period.
My guess is that I need to restore the stock firmware onto my Galaxy S4 Active. I haven't been able to find a safe method of doing this yet. I think that this will "restore" my device as if I was doing this to an iOS device (I'm a convert from the Apple ecosystem )
Does anyone know how to flash the stock TouchWiz firmware onto the Galaxy S4 Active. I'm open to alternative solutions too, such as Cyanogenmod or stock Android 4.4.
TD;LR #2 : I need to flash stock firmware or something on my GS4a!
I appreciate all the help I can get. For now, I'm sitting with the Amazon Appstore and Google Chrome for Facebook, Gmail, Twitter, etc.
-Z3RODay
The method used for rooting shouldn't cause any problems with your phone since it only touches a couple files. I doubt that rooting your phone caused GApps to stop working, I'm guessing that either a root file got deleted or another app is incompatible and causing problems.
You're asking how to return your phone to stock and you're correct in that it will "restore" your device, but in doing so it will completely wipe your device and you will lose everything. It will essentially return your phone to the state of when you first pulled it out of the box. This question has been asked and answered a few times and you could probably find the answer by searching, but I'll post the answer here too. For the i537 below are the only known ways to get stock firmware back on your phone:
Devo7v said:
You can Odin back to a pre-release version and have a fully functioning phone, but you will no longer receive official OTA updates (read more about this option here), or
You can take it to the Samsung Experience Shop at your local Best Buy and have them restore your phone to official stock MF3 (read more about this option here).
Other than that I don't really know what else you can do.
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Devo7v said:
The method used for rooting shouldn't cause any problems with your phone since it only touches a couple files. I doubt that rooting your phone caused GApps to stop working, I'm guessing that either a root file got deleted or another app is incompatible and causing problems.
You're asking how to return your phone to stock and you're correct in that it will "restore" your device, but in doing so it will completely wipe your device and you will lose everything. It will essentially return your phone to the state of when you first pulled it out of the box. This question has been asked and answered a few times and you could probably find the answer by searching, but I'll post the answer here too. For the i537 below are the only known ways to get stock firmware back on your phone:
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Thank you so much! I'm going to take my phone to Best Buy tonight. I backed up everything on my SD card which is still intact (Thank God!).

[Q] note 3 going back locked?

I have a quick question and I think I am right but want to make sure before I do it. I have a note 3n900a version NB4. I rooted it cant remember now what i used, was thinking kies but that could be wrong. I know at the time I checked and I had not tripped the knox count. I froze auto update and left phone alone. At the time i was thinking I would just have to unfreeze auto update and it would update and relock phone when it came time to turn back in. That is my only question, can i still do that and not have any issues? Its about time to return it for upgrade and I do not want to wait till last min to do it and have a dead phone and all. Thanks a bunch
You have 2 options. You can uninstall root, and hope it updates, then factory reset and return.
Or you can just use Odin to flash the latest firmware, factory reset and return.
To do the first painful option unfreeze everything you froze. Restore any deleted system apps. Open superuser and choose "full un-root". Open settings and navigate to software update. Now pray it updates because it failed at 20% for the majority of users here. If it updated, factory reset and return.
If your update fails you need to use Odin and flash the latest firmware. Then you'll be completely stock and up to date. For instructions and firmware files read this thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2703006
thanks a bunch, yea i guess i could use odin i still have all the files. thanks too for the link.
Another question along the same lines. So if i just do a factory reset would that mess up my root in any way? or can i do a factory reset and reinstall super su and be good to go again? thanks a bunch.

[Q] Careless mistake made, want to make sure plan of action is correct

My device and detailed list of what happened: I started with i537 4.4.2 ne3 rooted with towelroot. i proceeded to follow the thread about upgrading to 5.0.1 lp oc6 and keep root. Followed everything precisely, sucessfully upgraded, but when i proceeded to restore from Titanium, I didnt realize until it was too late that i backed up user AND system apps and data. after that i got neverending "process.gapps..." has stopped working and so on. I realize now i should have only restored my user apps and data. Anyways, i managed to freeze play services so that i can flashfire LP again, btw i used the deodexed version. As i was doing that and clicked flash, i had forgotten to set the screen timeout to 10 min. or more. Now, all that happens is the samsung custom screen with padlock boots up, but just goes black from there and nothing else. I can boot into download mode. Unfortunately I dont have a laptop with me at the moment, i am using ps4 to post, but i wanted to make sure what my next plan of action should be. From what i have gathered im assuming i need to recover via odin. Do I need to recover back to ne3, towelroot, and then start the process again, or can i just recover to oc6 ? Am I forgetting something crucial? with my lack of attention, probably. Thank you in advance and if I have offended anyone with my stupidity compelling someone to respond with a condescending and negative remarks, i am sorry.
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My device and detailed list of what happened: I started with i537 4.4.2 ne3 rooted with towelroot. i proceeded to follow the thread about upgrading to 5.0.1 lp oc6 and keep root. Followed everything precisely, sucessfully upgraded, but when i proceeded to restore from Titanium, I didnt realize until it was too late that i backed up user AND system apps and data. after that i got neverending "process.gapps..." has stopped working and so on. I realize now i should have only restored my user apps and data. Anyways, i managed to freeze play services so that i can flashfire LP again, btw i used the deodexed version. As i was doing that and clicked flash, i had forgotten to set the screen timeout to 10 min. or more. Now, all that happens is the samsung custom screen with padlock boots up, but just goes black from there and nothing else. I can boot into download mode. Unfortunately I dont have a laptop with me at the moment, i am using ps4 to post, but i wanted to make sure what my next plan of action should be. From what i have gathered im assuming i need to recover via odin. Do I need to recover back to ne3, towelroot, and then start the process again, or can i just recover to oc6 ? Am I forgetting something crucial? with my lack of attention, probably. Thank you in advance and if I have offended anyone with my stupidity compelling someone to respond with a condescending and negative remarks, i am sorry.
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You're good. Once you flash back to NE3 with Odin it'll be like you're starting from scratch. So just make sure you follow the directions and definitely don't restore system apps. Typically when I'm updating between different versions of Android I'll let my apps install from the Play Store and then restore any missing data from TiBu, this way I can ensure I'm starting fresh.
Good luck.
Devo7v said:
You're good. Once you flash back to NE3 with Odin it'll be like you're starting from scratch. So just make sure you follow the directions and definitely don't restore system apps. Typically when I'm updating between different versions of Android I'll let my apps install from the Play Store and then restore any missing data from TiBu, this way I can ensure I'm starting fresh.
Good luck.
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I figured that was my mistake when i kept getting notifications non-stop. Ive messed around with root since the epic 4g, but this was actually my first time backing up. All other times I preferred starting fresh and having everything wiped. I dont really know why i decided to change that this time, but i did and without really thinking about it i backed up both user and system.
I just got my laptop with me now and ive downloaded odin 3.07, and full package or something 4.4.2 ne3. now I am searching topics to find a guide. its been years since i used odin and I need to make sure im doing this right.
Thanks
This is just great. I was using odin to restore to ne3 and right after it finished the download mode and started to reboot my computer crashes. now I cant do anything. It wont boot into download mode or recovery mode. The only sign of life is if i plug into my laptop it shows the battery icon with a pinwheel that isnt moving. I cant believe this just happened.
*edit* i just left it alone for a few minutes and tried to boot into download mode which was successful.

Need to recover deleted files - NO ROOT

I mistakenly did a factory reset and I need to recover files. My device is not rooted and cannot be rooted (G925VVRU2OAF1), and the recovery tools I've come across while searching the forums require root to work fully. This also renders DiskDigger and Undelete useless to me. Is there ANY WAY possible for me to recover my files? Or I'm done for without root?
Hi
Here is your post(I mistakenly did a factory reset and I need to recover files. My device is not rooted and cannot be rooted (G925VVRU2OAF1), and the recovery tools I've come across while searching the forums require root to work fully. This also renders DiskDigger and Undelete useless to me. Is there ANY WAY possible for me to recover my files? Or I'm done for without root? )
and answer is given below
Many reasons may cause the data loss, such as, mistakenly tapping the “Delete” button when you are exploring the new features of S6.Thats why you should avoid the deleted button. The available backups is far enough to avoid data loss. To get back you can follow this link and i hope you will get your answer(http://www.jihosoft.com/android-recovery/galaxy-s6-data-recovery.html )
I feel like im in the twilight zone and there's all these body snatchers trying to make me pay 50 dollars to recover a ten minute video.
I'm in the same boat as OP. Was in Maintenance Mode and forgot that menu is select and not power. Also on OF1.
I've tried more things than I can count. My solutions thus far has been to just wait until somebody discovers a root method. Preferably something to bypass the locked bootloader altogether but...meh.
In the meantime, my S6 gathers dust as I don't want to chance overwriting anything.
Try some recovery professional app.
My wife's phone is in the similar boat.
Word from the wise- 1) turn OFF the "factory reset after 15 failed screen unlock attempts" security feature, or 2) NEVER let a young relative handle your phone when it's been locked.
My wife had already maxed out her backup storage, so there's a couple months worth of pics that are in danger of being forever lost if she dares use the memory.
And it's been updated to 6.0.1, so root options seem to be nil at this time. So frustrating.

Root 5.1.1 or 6.0.1?

I have a TMobile Note 4 SM-N910T. It's currently on 5.1.1 stock and I just got the OTA Marshmallow update notification. I'd like to try Marshmallow out, but if I allow the OTA update, will I be able to root it later? Or is 6.0.1 unrootable (for now)? If I root it now (before updating to MM) will I still get the OTA update? And will it still be rooted after the update? So many questions!
ota then root
I OTA'ed, now the phone randomly reboots several times a day, and some apps don't work correctly. Great.
factory reset.
*sigh* I was afraid you were going to say that. Now the problem is backing it up. I have a Titanium Backup Pro license, but I only use it on my old rooted GS2. The Note 4 is not rooted so TB won't run on it. All the rooting tutorials say "back up your phone before you root" but you need root to run TB. Chicken or egg? I guess I could try Samsung Kies, don't know if it will back up everything. My photos are backed up to Google Photos, I guess everything else is replaceable, but I would really rather not have to reinstall all my apps one by one after a factory reset.
That brings up another question: when you to go Settings/Backup and Reset, I have "Backup my data" set to On and linked to my Google account, but nowhere can I find documentation of exactly WHAT gets backed up or to WHERE (it says to "Google servers" but what the heck does that mean? I can't find it on my Google Drive or anywhere else on my Google account dashboard.)
I do greatly appreciate your help, by the way.
You could try reinstalling through kies or smart switch. Make sure to clear caches before and after. And see if that works. If it doesnt help, you could flash recovery, root, try to backup as much as you can between reboots and then factory reset. Your apps should automatically download from play store. But without the titbackup files you'll lose settings and data in a lot of apps that Google doesn't backup.
I unlocked your mum's bootloader.
kydar said:
I have a TMobile Note 4 SM-N910T. It's currently on 5.1.1 stock and I just got the OTA Marshmallow update notification. I'd like to try Marshmallow out, but if I allow the OTA update, will I be able to root it later? Or is 6.0.1 unrootable (for now)? If I root it now (before updating to MM) will I still get the OTA update? And will it still be rooted after the update? So many questions!
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Were you able to downgrade back to 5.1.1? My phone also download the MM ota but I haven't installed it. I rooted 5.1.1 first and am trying to locate where exactly the MM ota downloaded to.
Been hearing too much about problems with MM.
Shad0wsabr3 said:
Were you able to downgrade back to 5.1.1? My phone also download the MM ota but I haven't installed it. I rooted 5.1.1 first and am trying to locate where exactly the MM ota downloaded to.
Been hearing too much about problems with MM.
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There aren't that many problems with MM. Just superficial stuff like not having mobile data toggle. The problems you are hearing about a factory reset will fix. Like lag, jankyness, apps loading, phone freezing temporarily. You won't be able to do OTA. It will fail because of root. You need to titanium backup or whatever method you prefer of backing up data and flash through kies, odin or smart switch. Probably easier to go that route unless you only did minor things with root like just block ads, then you can probably get away with flashing stock recovery and then OTA. You still might have to factory reset like I had to even though I flashed whole rom through smart switch. If you have xposed or modified something like swapping recent apps and back key like me, then you'll need to flash marshmallow whole and start over after backing up.
Afaik, you can't downgrade to 5.1.1 unless somebody figured out a workaround or you only flashed everything except bootloader.
I unlocked your mum's bootloader.
@Shad0wsabr3, my phone gave me the choice to delay the upgrade for a while, but eventually just did it without my consent. I suppose you could download stock 5.1.1 from sammobile if you really wanted to downgrade. I just wish I could figure out how to back up my (unrooted) phone so I could then do a factory reset and see if it helps the problems I'm having.
kydar said:
@Shad0wsabr3, my phone gave me the choice to delay the upgrade for a while, but eventually just did it without my consent. I suppose you could download stock 5.1.1 from sammobile if you really wanted to downgrade. I just wish I could figure out how to back up my (unrooted) phone so I could then do a factory reset and see if it helps the problems I'm having.
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Iv never backed up an unrooted device so I wouldn't know. Glad you nrought that up as Iv been meaning to look into that.
Would you happen to know where the downloaded ota file location is? My phone downloaded it and I keep postponing it.
Sorry, idk exactly where in the file system it is. All I can caution you again is, I kept postponing it and postponing it, and then one day the phone just popped up a message saying it was going to reboot and update, whether I liked it or not. Well, it didn't actually SAY whether I liked it or not but it did decide that I had postponed the update long enough and it was going to apply the update, giving me no option to postpone it any longer. That sort of pissed me off.
Please let me know if you come up with a backup solution. I've tried SimpleADB or whatever it is called these days, and another app that claimed to be able to back up an unrooted phone. Neither of them worked as advertised.
Where are the root instructions for completely stock 910T with MM update?
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Where are the root instructions for completely stock 910T with MM update?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/not...overy-n910t-t3-marshmallow-pe3-guide-t3406870
kydar said:
Sorry, idk exactly where in the file system it is. All I can caution you again is, I kept postponing it and postponing it, and then one day the phone just popped up a message saying it was going to reboot and update, whether I liked it or not. Well, it didn't actually SAY whether I liked it or not but it did decide that I had postponed the update long enough and it was going to apply the update, giving me no option to postpone it any longer. That sort of pissed me off.
Please let me know if you come up with a backup solution. I've tried SimpleADB or whatever it is called these days, and another app that claimed to be able to back up an unrooted phone. Neither of them worked as advertised.
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I'm still researching what your dealing with. As for me I found the ota file. For those looking for it this is how and where I found it....
With RomToolbox I went to root browser. Then to data folder and a folder named fota. Within the fota folder is the ota update named update.zip. I erased that and then went into Titanium Backup and chose to freeze both software update files. So far no constant reminders that I have an update ready to be installed.
Hope this may help.

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