hi my friend have Samsung galaxy y recently rooted only rooted no custom Rom he uses stock Roms now he gets so much hangs so he decided factory reset it. i want to know is it safe or he will brick it?? please help we both are noobs
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With the information provided i think it is unlikely that you will brick the device by factory reseting it.
thanks.. here someone said me that never factory reset a rooted phone running on custom Rom.. so i little afraid but mine friends one is still on custom Rom so is it safe right?
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Maybe if the custom rom was using somekind of partition , but generally i would say reseting a custom rom won't brick a device.
Reseting a custom rom does not restore the factory rom, but reset the custom rom to its install state.
Its virtually im possible to really BRICK (a real BRICK is something that needs a JTAG device in order to get it working again) a device by reseting it, the worst case scenario is that you have to reflash the rom.
but i have stock Rom so what happened if i factory reset? what i will get after reset a rooted phone or unrooted phone? please help
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shivam1688 said:
but i have stock Rom so what happened if i factory reset? what i will get after reset a rooted phone or unrooted phone? please help
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The device should still remain rooted since the su binary was placed in the system area which factory resetting does not affect (you will just have to re-install the Superuser app). See here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=17348395&postcount=2.
thanks
so in other words you mean we should not to play with system file right?
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by d way where is thanks button? i don't see it in my official app
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Sadly its not in the free version of the xda app.
i have other query! in our unrooted phone apps can't access root.
so if i root it so it is possible that after rooting i make my phone more damageble by malware coz now they can change my system setting also!
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is somebody there for help???
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Theoreticly yes, but the SuperUser app is there to prevent that.
thanks if any malware crashes my system than what should i do? factory reset or anything else?
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Safest would be to flash new ROM / same ROM again.
thanks if i factory reset does it automatically flash ROM Also? please don't angry i.m just a little curious and want to learn something better from a master like you!
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shivam1688 said:
thanks
so in other words you mean we should not to play with system file right?
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Unless you know what you are doing.
shivam1688 said:
i have other query! in our unrooted phone apps can't access root.
so if i root it so it is possible that after rooting i make my phone more damageble by malware coz now they can change my system setting also!
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You could say so, but you have control over what gets root access and what doesn't. Apps can only use root access if you allow it (you have to grant it Superuser permission).
can someone answer my last question?
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Sorry to be a bother...i had someone root my phone and I've decided to take the phone back....can anyone please tell me the easiest way to unroot it and restore all the bloatware? Thanks
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It's unlikely that they would check. Even if they did I doubt that would stop you from returning it. They usually just send it back to have it wiped and reset to factory defaults.
Download bloater from market or get .apk file from the internet and that restores all your bloatware. As for rooting super one click 1.7 if you allready have the drivers on your computer or theres a beta 1.8 I believe allready has then. Select the ragethecage on the top right then plug your phone in and unroot
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can i do factory reset on my rooted samsung dart safely or would it brick my phone? Can someone please help
You can do it via CWM recovery but if you do it in the privacy menu I believe it causes you to get stuck in a recovery bootloop.
Funny because I just did this and I'm trying to pull myself out of this hole.
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Was just about to do this. Glad I read your comment first. thanks
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thanks for the help
Hi all! I'm trying to update my Samsung Galaxy S (GT-I9003L). It's rooted.I get an OTA update but when I try to apply it, it says "Kernel verify fail. Update fail"
My current firmware version is 2.3.6, my baseband is I9003LUBKPD, my kernel version is is 2.6.35.7-CL765780 [email protected] #1 and my compilation number is GINGERBREAD.UBKPE
I think the problem has to do with the phone being rooted. I unrooted it using the clockwork mod recovery menu, but it didn't work either.
Is there anything I could do?
Thanks!!!
Its giving that error because u r rooted.
Rooting changes your kernel.
And even after unrooting ur device from recovery the kernel remains the same.
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crk1995 said:
Its giving that error because u r rooted.
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So, does it mean I'm out of luck?
No.
U may flash stock rom.
And later from settings u may update ur phone.
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Is there a way to just restore the recovery kernel without flashing the whole rom?
crk1995 said:
No.
U may flash stock rom.
And later from settings u may update ur phone.
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(I tried to find the answer before asking but I haven't been able to) Do I need to flash the full stock rom? Or is there a way to just restore the stock recovery kernel? I'm asking because when I rooted I just flashed the PDA file to the phone, but I'm still using the stock rom.
And... is there any guide or tutorial to do this?
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I have one way to help.
Keep the stock fw file on sdcard and then by using mobileOdin, select kernel and choose the rom file.
And dont forget to uncheck the rooting options at bottom.
But be sure you have a backed up ur current rom.
As i m not sure if it will definitely work or not.
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just flash the entire stock firmware if you want to get OTA
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All Done
Please help me.
I used market enabler and it changed my playstore from uk to usa but don't know how to change it back again, even when I tried with samsung apps that had been changed to usa too.
I'd rather have a better way than factory resetting as I don't want to go through the hassle of rooting again.
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Doing a factory reset shouldn't loose root... Unless you re-flash stock using ODIN...
ultramag69 said:
Doing a factory reset shouldn't loose root... Unless you re-flash stock using ODIN...
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Will it put it back to uk playstore?
I'll give it a try as can't have usa cause my apps don't show up.
Used to doing factory resets then flashing back stock roms after trying roms on my s3 and losing root.
Edit: Factory reset worked
Not trying that again
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Please help me.
I used market enabler and it changed my playstore from uk to usa but don't know how to change it back again, even when I tried with samsung apps that had been changed to usa too.
I'd rather have a better way than factory resetting as I don't want to go through the hassle of rooting again.
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You can change it bavk very simple by disaple auto unlock and restart, no need for factory reset, i do this every day
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hoss_n2 said:
You can change it bavk very simple by disaple auto unlock and restart, no need for factory reset, i do this every day
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Didn't know plus my Samsung apps changed to USA too
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Hi all. First off I'd like to apologise if this is in the incorrect place (as a seasoned user of forums like this I understand how irritating it can be) but I've hunted about and this is the most relevant board I can find.
The USB port on my GT-I9300 is broken - I can't charge and can't connect to my PC - so it's looking like I have to send it off to Samsung to get it fixed/replaced however I have rooted my phone. Is there a way I can unroot it without having to connect to a computer?
Any advice is greatly appreciated as I'm in a bit of a panic.
You should be able to pull a clean ROM onto it then reboot in recovery and do a factory reset then install the clean, stock ROM. I don't know if they will even care about that but a good just in case
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natravis said:
You should be able to pull a clean ROM onto it then reboot in recovery and do a factory reset then install the clean, stock ROM. I don't know if they will even care about that but a good just in case
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Thanks for the response. Unfortunately I'm a bit of a luddite so I'm not entirely sure how I would go about doing the above?
There should be an option to unroot in the su app. Idk which su app you are using but super su has a full unroot option.
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Jarredw said:
There should be an option to unroot in the su app. Idk which su app you are using but super su has a full unroot option.
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Thanks! I never noticed that option before. I'll give it a go.
I've seen some talk of needing Triangle Away & Mobile Odin to unroot my phone properly? Is that correct or am I okay just using the option on SuperSU since I've never actually installed a custom rom, I just unrooted the phone?
This is the Verizon forum. Not sure if the advice applies to the international version.
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