Been searching for a way to unroot my samsung galaxy s 4g. Tried the superclick method and the universal galaxy s tool wit no luck. Can anyone help, or guide me towards the right direction please?
you can odin a rom that is prerooted. or you can odin bali and flash from there. i would suggest odining ravers KC1 first and then bali and you should be good to go. let me know if you cant find it in the bible or through search and i'll help you out
He's trying to unroot. Are you unrooting on Froyo or GB? Froyo should really be as easy as SuperOneClick > unroot. GB would probably require a new flash of GB.
I'm curious though, why unroot?
thanks jagger, but bkoon is right... I bought this phone for my girl as a gift. It was already rooted by unknown source and was loaded with froyo 2.2.1. Tried hookn her up with GB through odin but got a lil confused, roms werent being flashed and was stuck with bootloops. So than i tried flashing thru CWM, with the vodoo lagfix, and once i got them to flash phone was pretty unstable. so I tried reverting back to froyo using odin. Got it flashed back but now her phone goes thru some serious glitches. I figured if i can unroot, i can start all over from scratch. Im no professional but have experience on other phones, but this phone has been a serious beeeeotch from day 1. Any ideas bro?
my bad. misread that. it sounds to me like you messed up the bootloaders. search for ravers kc1 and flash all 4 or so files in odin and that should give you a fresh start. once there, format the sd card on the phone and reboot. then reinstall your drivers (uninstall, reboot computer, reinstall) and then try superoneclickroot and try unrooting again.
fatal27 said:
thanks jagger, but bkoon is right... I bought this phone for my girl as a gift. It was already rooted by unknown source and was loaded with froyo 2.2.1. Tried hookn her up with GB through odin but got a lil confused, roms werent being flashed and was stuck with bootloops. So than i tried flashing thru CWM, with the vodoo lagfix, and once i got them to flash phone was pretty unstable. so I tried reverting back to froyo using odin. Got it flashed back but now her phone goes thru some serious glitches. I figured if i can unroot, i can start all over from scratch. Im no professional but have experience on other phones, but this phone has been a serious beeeeotch from day 1. Any ideas bro?
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I hope that phone was purchased from a credible source and it wasn't stolen. That would suck if someone reported it and her phone got blacklisted.
Unrooting the phone won't help make much of a difference though. Odin'ing RaverX3X's KC1 will already remove your root and give you the cleanest slate you can possibly get on this forum. From there, you can work on getting GB on the phone. I hope you have experience flashing with this device though. Reading is VERY important for this phone. Unfortunately, it's not as easy as other phones out there.
Follow what jager555 said. He's got his stuff down, lol.
lol. Thanks!
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flash kc1 itll do the trick
Thanks jagger and bkoon, going to work on it tonight. Hopefully all goes well.
Let me introduce myself, I am @CallipH on Twitter, I wrote a bunch of guides for the original Vibrant... I really try and make an effort to make things as streamlined as possible, but I avoid apps for one-click rooting.
I lead a social media campaign against Samsung.. made some contacts there.. and when my Vibrant had issues, they replaced it for me, but with the 4G version so I am very new to this phone.
I was shocked that it lost 15GB of internal memory.... really shocked. Do you guys have any internal memory issues - needing ext partitions on the external sd?
I also wanted to find a guide similar to some of mine... how to root... how to odin.. how to flash...
It seems there are a plethora, almost too many. Only being here 12 hours, it may be too early to be posting this... but, is there a guide for someone who just got the phone, is on stock froyo and wants to root?
The one guide that is stickied, and looked great, confused me because it stated it assumed you already had root.. but then in the steps it noted you got root. This and the amount of threads just got me wondering... it does not seem like someone new to the 4G has ONE go to thread.
Am I wrong? I'm probably posting this too soon... just my initial reaction to what I have seen.
Here is a common scenerio:
If a person has froyo and just wants to root.... do they simply odin drhonks bali kernel via odin... which willl give root. What if they then want to flash a GB rom? I saw that Rom Manager does not work.... Bali must come with a recovery. Seems to me you could flash a GB rom from this, but that is not where the reading led me to believe.
No offense should be taken from this post, all I want to do is see if I can help in any way.
Check out my signature for my OG Vibrant guides to get an idea of what I would like to create here.
We have a bible that is a sticky, it has guides in it.
If you want to root froyo use this guide.
https://plus.google.com/i/OIAUS_l9JgM:M2QJ0AvEQ-M
Than you will have to get CMW from here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1099374
Than you can get this kernel.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1080871
If you don't want the stock ROM there are different froyo ROMs in the bible, my favorites on froyo was Black Ice and ICBINB.
If you want GB use this one.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1223765
Everything you want to know is in the bible.
^ absolutely... I looked over the Bible, and I appreciate your time for a detailed response.
I guess I was just asking, do people find that is good enough for noobs? There are about 10+ guides in the bible... and none seemed like a defnitivie, go here to root and flash.
If people are not asking the same questions over and over, i guess it is ample...
EDIT: Oh, and as a fan of Whitehawx, I am likely to go to Valhalla... that guy was a beast for the Vibrant. Anyone have experience with it - are there more stable GB roms?
I don't know, when I first got my phone, before the bible, I just looked at what we had, granted there are more now than there was, but the originals are still there and IMO if people would read they shouldn't have problems. If I can do it than anybody should be able, all it takes is reading till you understand and patience, which IMO is what causes most of the problems for people, they don't have patience.
haha.. sounds good man. Curious what others have to add, but everything you've said makes perfect sense.
I am very familiar with ODIN, but on the OG Vibrant we had a file to flash from stock recovery to root... and CWR/Rom Mgr worked.
Why does it not work on the 4g? I sent Koush a tweet for clarification on this also.
The Valhalla ROM is the best GB ROM out so far IMO but the launcher causes random reboots and freezing, you'll have to use a different launcher.
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haha.. sounds good man. Curious what others have to add, but everything you've said makes perfect sense.
I am very familiar with ODIN, but on the OG Vibrant we had a file to flash from stock recovery to root... and CWR/Rom Mgr worked.
Why does it not work on the 4g? I sent Koush a tweet for clarification on this also.
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I actually have two guides for what you needed.
If you want to root and add cwm to you froyo rom you can Odin this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1195860
It's a lot easier than pushing a file through root explorer, especially if you already have Odin and are familiar with it.
If you want to get a GB rom with good bootloaders, root, cwm and all internal partitions formatted to ext4 you can follow my other guide:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1223765
Sadly my guides never got stickied. Not sure why. I do think they're some of the most straightforward out there since I made the Odin files myself for ease of use. Really hard to mistake which file goes into which slot (csc.tar.md5 into csc, pda.tar.md5 into pda instead of some really long names for leaks.
FBis251 said:
I actually have two guides for what you needed.
If you want to root and add cwm to you froyo rom you can Odin this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1195860
It's a lot easier than pushing a file through root explorer, especially if you already have Odin and are familiar with it.
If you want to get a GB rom with good bootloaders, root, cwm and all internal partitions formatted to ext4 you can follow my other guide:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1223765
Sadly my guides never got stickied. Not sure why. I do think they're some of the most straightforward out there since I made the Odin files myself for ease of use. Really hard to mistake which file goes into which slot (csc.tar.md5 into csc, pda.tar.md5 into pda instead of some really long names for leaks.
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interesting. I did see the first link you mentioned in several posts last night researching, but somehow I missed the second. I'll go over those now.
Obvious initial question... why cant one root froyo, and then just flash a GB rom? Are the GB bootloaders required? They were not on the OG Vibrant.
I assume the GB roms suffer from similar bugs as the OG? Poor/No GPS being and battery drain?
oh, and the xda user quote you have in the 2ng guide is HYSTERICAL.
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interesting. I did see the first link you mentioned in several posts last night researching, but somehow I missed the second. I'll go over those now.
Obvious initial question... why cant one root froyo, and then just flash a GB rom? Are the GB bootloaders required? They were not on the OG Vibrant.
I assume the GB roms suffer from similar bugs as the OG? Poor/No GPS being and battery drain?
oh, and the xda user quote you have in the 2ng guide is HYSTERICAL.
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The GPS works, great battery life, people have problems with wifi, I don't it works good enough for me.
You need proper GB bootloaders.
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FB's Gingerbread guides are the only ones that worked for me. With froyo, it was easy. Superoneclick if you just want to root, and ODIN in a kernel if you want CWM. Then flash any froyo ROM you want till your heart's content.
With GB, you need to have GB bootloaders, so that's why the guides always have you flash a samsung GB leaked ROM first (only the leaks have boot loaders). Form there, follow the guides to get CWM and ext4. Once you are on GB, it's nearly just as easy to flash any GB ROM on the forum.
Great info... I can tell this community is just as good the OG Vibrant. A sincere thank you.
I'll stay in the shadows for awhile and see if I can help in any way with guides - they are something I really enjoy making.
If you want, I can make a guide for beginners.
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That is exactly what I intended to do... of course I have a lot of catching up to do. Amazed at how different things are for the Vibrant and 4G.
A new beginner's guide may be in order. A lot has changed with this phone over the last few months, so some things are outdated and have been superceded by better methods.
^ so far FBs seems easy enough how it is packaged, but the steps guide seems very misleading.... here is what I posted on it:
LINK
Just seems out of order or something.
Seems to me (and let me know why i am wrong), you could just:
flash a GB rom with odin
flash drhonks voodoo kernel
flash a rom that converts to ext4
I'm trying to figure out why the guides are not that simple though.
Not all GB roms have the bootloaders. You can corrupt your system partition. You can have disappearing apps. you can break certain features if you install out of order. Not all GB roms are stable (leaks).
I've flashed and troubleshooted every ROM in this forum. Its a bit more complicated, but its getting easier.
This is not every other phone out there, but in all honesty, its not any more difficult. It's just different.
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^ okay, so clearly there is one that is... can't that be flashed, then the voodoo kernel?
Please know I appreciate your answers, really trying to learn the methods, not to be annoying.
EDIT, also, any comments on the steps seeming out of order?
The way I see it, after the SECOND odin to GB (odd), I need to go into cwr, partition, and then reboot... let it bootup... then move the rom/busybox to my sd... go back into cwr... flash.
EDIT 2, yeah... I agree, nothing confusing about odin or what's going on... while I was on my break from the vibrant someone mailed me an HD2 to use... so, in the past 3 weeks, this is my third toy to learn/play with.
Nah, you're not annoying. It's tough to grasp coming from other phones. I actually had a tough time flashing stuff on my mt3g and vibrant after this phone. To me, the other phones are so much harder to flash. Its all perspective.
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Yea, that's the smarter way. Because you need the partition to convert to ext4 (not on Valhalla). Moving the files after us a safety precaution. Partitioning can wipe the sd card. Flashing the Froyo boot loaders followed by the GB bootloaders ensures a clean install. You haven't been around this specific forum, but we had an issue with people flashing with corrupt partitions and bootloaders. This step fixes that before it is a problem
Hd2 is a fun phone. Dual boot windows and Android!
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^ so far FBs seems easy enough how it is packaged, but the steps guide seems very misleading.... here is what I posted on it:
LINK
Just seems out of order or something.
Seems to me (and let me know why i am wrong), you could just:
flash a GB rom with odin
flash drhonks voodoo kernel
flash a rom that converts to ext4
I'm trying to figure out why the guides are not that simple though.
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I did this and my phone just hangs at samsung Galaxy s with no changes.
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I have search the infuse threads and cant find anything on this subject. I just got a infuse and im coming from a captivate. My question is, if im on stock froyo do i have to have gingerbread bootloaders to odin flash one of leaked gingerbread builds or can i just odin flash a build straight from froyo? I would appreciate the help.
the last 4 leaks contain bootloaders. also the Rogers based custom kernels have a rainbow fix and work with the froyo bootloaders.
Thanks for the help. I did a little more research and got everything i need. Im used to flashing the hell out of my captivate and i didn't want to jump right in with the infuse and brick it. I was just trying to be cautious. I bricked my captivate the first week i had it and didnt want a repeat of that.
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Thanks for the help. I did a little more research and got everything i need. Im used to flashing the hell out of my captivate and i didn't want to jump right in with the infuse and brick it. I was just trying to be cautious. I bricked my captivate the first week i had it and didnt want a repeat of that.
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you wont brick it. maybe get boot loops but this phone is practically unbrickable. the captivate had bricking issues because people like deisgngears thought it was a good idea do flash sbl.bin through cwm and not package it with boot.bin(3button fix). samsung is also responsible because many of the firmwares they leaked contained sbl.bin and not boot.bin(i9010 armani captivate). they also had several bootloader builds that for no apparent reason were not compatible. the infuse doesnt have those factors. also the bootloaders seem to be signed to the device which prevented us from flashing rogers bootloaders. from what i gathered from threads by gtg there may be a bootloader backup system on a spare partition that prevents bad flashes and restores the last bootloaders if the wrong bootloaders get flashed.
That is extremely helpful. I have read that there alot of issues with all of the leaks so i dont know if I will do anything with it or not. I like to flash roms but i also like a stable phone. The way i am ill end up flashing something anyway and just deal with whatever the problem is. Thanks again
Alright, well today I finally decided to make the switch from the Atrix to a Skyrocket. I heavily modded the atrix and I'm used to having absolutely no freedom with my phone, so I have to hack my way through everything. With a bit or trial and error, I succeded. Anyway, to avoid soft-bricking my phone in less than 12 hours, I want to know everything I need to do in order to flash ROMs, kernals, and all that other good stuff. So far, all I've done s root and flash CWM. Am I done?
Thanks. Oh and before I leave, has anyone tested out that 1.89ghz OC kernal?
Hello fellow atrix user. I to came from the atrix . But have had samsung galaxy then sgs2 now sgs2 skyrocket. You rooted and installed cwm so your done. You can flash roms and kernels with cwm totally different world.then that pita atrix. For now best bet is to stay on stock rooted. People were havong some problems with alien rom. I have used the oc kernel. Up to 1.83ghz and got over 4200 quadrant with that ( not that quadrant really matters) but my phone did heat up alot while over clocking, and anything over 1.83 i got instant shutdown so i flashed stock rooted back. And im happy with it. And with sammy odin is your friend if u run into problems keep this thread handy it has easy to use directions how to odin back to stock and how to use odin to flash the tar and fix a soft brick http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1342348
Perfect! thats exactly what I needed... a heck of a lot easier to do too! And i've already done my research for the crash course I take it the TAR/ODIN stuff is the Skyrockets equivalent of RSD Lite? Looks easy (enough) to use and I have everything I need incase something bad happens. Anyway thanks again for the help! I guess I'll wait it out before flashing alien. Oh and one more question (yeah I do that a lot), whenever I flashed themes on my atrix, it NEVER worked, but I never found out what was wrong with it. Is there anything special I need to do aside from rooting/CWM? Or once I have that, I have the power to do ANYTHING posted in the dev section (that applies to my phone model and all that)?
Nothing special you need to do after root and recovery. But some themes cause problems on some roms as im sure you know. Some work some dont .
Just got an Infuse a few days ago. It was running froyo 2.2.1 I believe. It was on AT&T, but I wanted to unlock to use with StraightTalk on AT&T. I did get the unlock code and rooted it. I then upgraded it thru Samsung's site to the 2.3.6 Gingerbread. In the process of this, I managed to lock up my laptop when installing Kies and had all kinds of issues. Needless to say, my persistance paid off after spending several hours reading here. Got it all up and working on ST.
Since today was my day off, I decided I wanted to remove the AT&T bloatware from it so off to googleville again and ended up here. Started reading and then found that when I did the Gingerbread update, my phone was unrooted again. Needless to say, after reading around here all day, I decided I wanted to give ICS a try and have been reading about ParanoidAndroid. I am now on pg 31 of 62 and am getting nowhere fast.
I don't want to ask for spoonfeeding, but I am confused about alot of this coding stuff. I have had some flashing experience years ago in ....well, don't guess I want to mention that, but anyhow, it seemed overwhelming until I got my feet wet in it. I have to say, this GB bootloaders, Aroma, non-Aroma, cm7, cm9, red CWM, and blue CWM has me more confused than a fat kid in a candy shop in some foreign country.
In all honesty, I think I could read here for a week and still not be sure on which way I need to go. As I said, I am interested in ICS (ParanoidAndroid) but don't know if I have the GB bootloaders or not and not sure where to start at. The firmware version os showing 2.3.6, Baseband I997UCLB3, Kernal version 2.6.35.7-I997UCLB3-CL977492, and finally a Build of Gingerbread.UCLB3. Yesterday, I was using SuperOneClick and 010 editor. Now I am reading about Odin, Heimdall, and several other programs that I don't know which to start with.
Could somebody please help out this fat kid in a foreign candy shop? I don't even think I can find a Hershey bar. Thanks.
How did you get to gb?
Kies?
Odin?
Cwm?
Which package did you use?
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qkster said:
How did you get to gb?
Kies?
Odin?
Cwm?
Which package did you use?
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I used Kies mini. I d/l Kies and the file and followed the instructions at Samsung's own website. samsung.com/us/support/SupportOwnersFAQPopup.do?faq_id=FAQ00045587&fm_seq=46249
Be patient... there are a lot of helpful people here and qkster is among the best.
boatboy63 said:
I used Kies mini. I d/l Kies and the file and followed the instructions at Samsung's own website. samsung.com/us/support/SupportOwnersFAQPopup.do?faq_id=FAQ00045587&fm_seq=46249
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This method will give you the gb boot loaders.
Your next step is to flash a custom kernel.
Follow my signature links to the heimdall method of kernel flashing.
If you are more comfortable with odin, jscott has made some great packages also.
Once you have flash the kernel, just boot into cwm and go from there. If you wanted paranoid, then flash the ROM in cwm.
If you use a gb kernel, for now, it will be red letter.
If you use heimdall jt ics kernel, you will see blue letter.
I rec the jt kernel as you are planning to go ics
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this is the ics kernel I was referring to:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=25526654&postcount=3
flash in download mode.
boot into cwm -3 fingers technique - flash the ics rom you want - follow the OP instructions