Hello,
I used S4 mini till now, what a wonderfull small phone. I am moving to S5 mini because it has better camera, wish it would be smaller but ok, i will get used to it.
I rooted my device. I am using android 6.0.1 with security patch level january 1, 2017. When i try to update the device firmware through about device/update, it downloads, restarts, installs, but says it fails when phone comes back. Am i missing something important ?
This phone is from phone provider so it has lots of bloatware on it. I am wondering, is it worth downloading stock rom and installing it ? And rooting afterwards ?
Any other recomendation for this phone ? Btw, i rooted it and tried uninstalling email, since i will be using gmail app. And i can only turn it off, cant uninstall it. Isnt root supposed to give me more rights as far as uninstalling goes ?
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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!
My Samsung galaxy S3 mini was getting to "freeze" after the latest update - 4.1.2
It would also restart whenever it feel like it.
When the batty is almost new, I was trying to put an newer system version on it all by myself with the programme "Odin". What a stupid thing to do. I couldn't make it work, so I figured out that a hard root might do it - But there is no version to do the root from when I follow the instructions. Now I only can make the phone react if I put it to download mode.
Help!
Wrong thread, sorry.
I just purchased back after selling 2 years ago this great gadget . It has been one of my extremely rare changes of mind as i underestimated its capabilities...
I have some basic questions in case someone can give me a tip :
I now own a motorola e and have no Samsung device to pair it with , what should i do?
the watch is updated to last tizen fw via kies and is on factory reset form so i have no access to its settings
I need to make it work independantly if this is possible or via the moto e...
I also managed to flash the last tizen rom based here via the instructions
http://forum.xda-developers.com/gal...evelopment/rom-tizenmod-3-0-skin1980-t2850353
my moto e is not rooted running 4.4.4..
thx for any help
On 4.4 you can still make just about everything work properly without a Samsung phone. Never tried without root tho. Your best option without rooting would be simply trying to install gear manager apps the normal way, download and install.
I have best luck with 502 version of gear manager personally, the later versions I never get to work properly. Go to this thread and grab the 502 version as well as gearmanager stub, install both and reboot. Enable bluetooth if you havent, dont connect tho, just enable then run gear manager and it should install whats needed. If it gets stuck saying connecting for longer then 30 seconds or so cancel it and it will finish installing, if not restart gear manager and it will.
On a rooted device you manually drop the files in place, set permissions and reboot then continue. It should work the same. Here is a tutorial on doing it but I don't want the un-needed crap from Samsung running on my phone so I do it the way I posted above and just download the apps I want from here. More maybe available from the galaxy store but honestly, that's enough for me and my needs.
Your other alternative is running null rom on your watch, thats based on Android, more info here. Any needed files can be found on my copy.
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.
I used to have a rooted Lollipop stock rom and then got the gearvr and it didnt work until I re-flashed the un-rooted firmware again , this caused me to reinstall everything from scratch , now a friend suggested i should try un-rooting option found in KingUser or SuperUser whenever I needed to use Gearvr (untested , just a thought).
so anybody tried this ?
I just dont want to have to reinstall everything once more , its pretty much annoying
Thanks in advance
Gear VR is only usable with MM and up. My S7 is rooted and it works wonderfully
I use it on Lollipop without any trouble , it gives me 3 hours of un-interrupted game play. when i upgraded to MarshMallow i could hardly make it to 40 minutes and it heated up like crazy . so my problem was last time i rooted it got stuck at splash screen .
I couldnt get the oculus software to install on my Note 5 with the first firmware (OI6 maybe?) I was able to use Cardboard etc.
I'm using a MOAR custom MM 6.0.1 ROM (which your phone has to be rooted since it's custom, for people that don't know) and it hasn't stopped me from installing the oculus software and using it. BUT I am having issues with it freezing after calibration, videos not starting etc.
Not sure if it's related to custom ROM or MM, other people seem to be having the same problems. I think I'm having more problems with the USB connectivity, I turned off "USB debugging" and that solved a lot.