Is it possible to root it? I have unlocked the bootloader already. It's my understanding that falshing a custom recovery wipes my phone but I see no stock roms available. How can I root it with out wiping and if it must wipe, how do I back up my rom?
fmedrano1977 said:
Is it possible to root it? I have unlocked the bootloader already. It's my understanding that falshing a custom recovery wipes my phone but I see no stock roms available. How can I root it with out wiping and if it must wipe, how do I back up my rom?
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i dont think you'll wipe your phone with a custom recovery..i have rooted mine without wiping data..you can back up your phone using the custom recover first..
Follow the steps in the dev section in the unroot thread
you can use MyBackUp Pro before you root. But you can't keep all thru this process. Although not wiped, I would still bu sdcard before rooting.
flashing a recovery will not wipe phone--i recommend twrp
if easier to follow thread to unroot and flash cwr. do that. you can always flash twrp later
do a lot reading on all this first, so you have an idea of what/why of flashing steps
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I just got my Nexus S. Before rooting it I wanted to take a back up of the stock rom. All the tutorials I have read for rooting use fastboot oem unlock which wipes it clean.
I did find another tutorial that roots the phone without wiping it, but in reality it still wipes the phone and just leaves the bootloader locked. Totally not what I want.
How do I back up the rom without rooting it...or how do I root the phone without wiping it so I can do a rom backup?
Distortedloops guide does not wipe anything.
I've been playing around with a Nexus S 4G that I have lying around and never used, and I've ran into a few problems, but you've all been helpful. I rooted all my old EVO 4G's without any problem, but the other day I rooted my NS4G using a one click/simple root and downloaded ClockWorkMod etc. But now for some reason It seems like I've almost lost my root? Is that possible? I still have the little unlocked symbol when booting up.
I've searched this forum and Google and haven't found anything, which could possibly be because I don't know what to look for. I've never had this happen :/
Currently running the stock 2.3.7
Nobody? I just need a little help.
Did you flash a superuser.zip after you installed clockworkmod?
SeeNah said:
Did you flash a superuser.zip after you installed clockworkmod?
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I thought I had... But no lol
Thank you. Sorry for pretty much making a useless thread :/
Its the Q&A forum ask away! Lol
Did flashing it work for you though?
SeeNah said:
Its the Q&A forum ask away! Lol
Did flashing it work for you though?
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Yes, it did. Thank you!
Now I just need to re figure out how to backup my stock rom on rom manager. I need to do that if I'm going to flash a custom rom onto my NS4G correct? I've never actually gone that far with my phones lol.
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Yes, it did. Thank you!
Now I just need to re figure out how to backup my stock rom on rom manager. I need to do that if I'm going to flash a custom rom onto my NS4G correct? I've never actually gone that far with my phones lol.
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Okay lol hold on so just go make sure you
1. Unlocked the bootloader right?
2. Flashed a custom recovery (clockworkmod)?
3. Flashed superuser for root access?
4. Now you have a stock rooted ROM?
If you have/did all that then yeah you could backup your stock rooted ROM, you don't need to back it up but its helpful just incase you mess something you could always restore it to start all over
And you could backup any ROM you install incase you didn't know, just remember when you install different ROMS make sure to do a proper full wipe which includes data/factory reset/wiping DALVIK cache, and formatting system and boot in the "mount" option in CWM. And now I think your good lol
SeeNah said:
Okay lol hold on so just go make sure you
1. Unlocked the bootloader right?
2. Flashed a custom recovery (clockworkmod)?
3. Flashed superuser for root access?
4. Now you have a stock rooted ROM?
If you have/did all that then yeah you could backup your stock rooted ROM, you don't need to back it up but its helpful just incase you mess something you could always restore it to start all over
And you could backup any ROM you install incase you didn't know, just remember when you install different ROMS make sure to do a proper full wipe which includes data/factory reset/wiping DALVIK cache, and formatting system and boot in the "mount" option in CWM. And now I think your good lol
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Unlocked Bootloader? If I boot in fastboot it says Unlocked. Is this what you mean?
I have ClockWorkMod, but I haven't done anything with it.
I have superuser from the root
and I was working with a stock ROM the whole time....
I think I'm ok lol
So I'll back up my ROM, and flash a Nightly CM9? And back that up as well? Just perform a factory data reset before doing so, right?
Slap-Yourself :) said:
Unlocked Bootloader? If I boot in fastboot it says Unlocked. Is this what you mean?
I have ClockWorkMod, but I haven't done anything with it.
I have superuser from the root
and I was working with a stock ROM the whole time....
I think I'm ok lol
So I'll back up my ROM, and flash a Nightly CM9? And back that up as well? Just perform a factory data reset before doing so, right?
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Yeah if it says unlocked your good to go. The super user.zip you first flashed won't be needed once you flash different ROMS, it was only needed for stock because you didn't install a ROM you just unlocked the boot loader and super user just gave you root access that didn't come with stock.
Yeah backup your stock ROM JUST in case you encounter a boot loop so you can just restore and start over, you don't need to back up CM9 that's completely your choice if you want . Its convenient though if you like CM9 but still like to flash other ROMS that way you can just go back if you miss CM9 without doing the whole setup process.
And a full wipe is
Data/factory reset
Then wipe dalvik under "advanced"
Then wipe system and boot under the "mount" option in CWM
stellar said:
Yeah if it says unlocked your good to go. The super user.zip you first flashed won't be needed once you flash different ROMS, it was only needed for stock because you didn't install a ROM you just unlocked the boot loader and super user just gave you root access that didn't come with stock.
Yeah backup your stock ROM JUST in case you encounter a boot loop so you can just restore and start over, you don't need to back up CM9 that's completely your choice if you want . Its convenient though if you like CM9 but still like to flash other ROMS that way you can just go back if you miss CM9 without doing the whole setup process.
And a full wipe is
Data/factory reset
Then wipe dalvik under "advanced"
Then wipe system and boot under the "mount" option in CWM
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I'm not sure if I'm supposed to post links to videos or not. But I'm in love with some of the features this guy has on his NS4G
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKdyAm3CgHc
He said it was a nightly etc.
The hidden status bar and bottom menu hidden is amazing. I also like the inverted G-Mail and Facebook. Is this all separate from the Nightly ROM?
Hey guys, its my first post and I tried searching the forums and google for the answer but didn't seem to find any.
I have the s3 SCHi535-VRLHE firmware and rooted my phone with through Noxious Ninja's walkthrough. During the process (Win7 4bit) after installing the drivers I let windows update update my drivers and cause a conflict with the 1.4.6 drivers. Should of stopped there but went through with rooting anyway (I know I'm a noob).
I have not flashed any custom ROMs after I rooted so my question is what's the difference between a factory reset vs. flashing the stock rom back onto my phone now?
Looking forward to reading and hopefully learning something from your responses!
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A factory reset will just clear out your user data. You should probably put a stock ROM on your exSDcard, boot into recovery, wipe data, then flash the ROM. That will put you back to stock. Though you'll still be rooted and unlocked.
e90driver said:
A factory reset will just clear out your user data. You should probably put a stock ROM on your exSDcard, boot into recovery, wipe data, then flash the ROM. That will put you back to stock. Though you'll still be rooted and unlocked.
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If I already did a factory wipe/reset is it safe to flash the stock rom onto that or do I have to root again?
first time flash, neea a detailed steps?
Well you need to unlock your bootloader and flash TWRP first. Then you need to root with SuperSu and create a nandriod backup. Then follow the steps on flashing Paranoid Andriod. Use Wug Fresh Nexus root toolkit is the easiest. You need go be on the latest bootloader version for this to work.
After flashing twrp, you can use twrp to create a nandroid backup without rooting.
After creating the backup, flash the custom ROM zip from twrp. Be sure to perform a system, cache, and data wipe before flashing the ROM.
itzyas said:
first time flash, neea a detailed steps?
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Detailed Steps before you could flash AOSPA.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/go...ide-nexus-5-how-to-unlock-bootloader-t2507905
I am running stock 9.0.3 ROM rooted with magisk and bootloader unlocked. Since i don't use root functionality that much so i have decided to unroot and relock bootloader.
Do i still need to flash stock ROM again? Or just uninstalling magisk will be enough? Any guide about this?
Thanks
Relocking the bootloader means you're going to wipe everything, so flashing oos is not your biggest problem, so wipe everything, flash oos(i guess you'll get the stock recovery back too), and then lock your bootloader again
https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-6/how-to/tool-msmdownloadtool-v4-0-international-t3903272 this will do the job. It will wipe everything and restore your phone tho, so relocking, unroot etc.
whizeguy said:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-6/how-to/tool-msmdownloadtool-v4-0-international-t3903272 this will do the job. It will wipe everything and restore your phone tho, so relocking, unroot etc.
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That's right. It will look like just what your device is when you bought it.