I apologize if these have been asked already but I'm new to this process and I have a few questions.
I'm just trying to update to a (relatively) stock Jellybean build early. (VRBLK1)
I plan on following just Step 1 on this guide here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1974114
Will I need to be concerned about blocking OTA updates or can I receive them since it's a stock build?
Am I at risk for voiding my warranty/phone insurance from Verizon?
Can you point me in a direction towards how to backup my phone in case I'd like to reverse what I've done?
I suggest following section 1 of my guide. This way you can root your stock ics rom, flash a recvery, make a nandroid backup, then flash the VRBLK1 stock rooted rom scrosler has posted in the dev section from recovery.
Anytime you mod your device you voud the warranty. However thanks to section 5 of my guide you can get back to pure stock and verizon will never know you did anything.
Ok thank you. For some reason I was hesitant to install a custom recovery because I perceived it as making more changes to the phone and getting further from stock, but now I realize that it's the much smarter safer thing to do.
I'm in the process of installing CWM through EZ recovery right now. As per your guide. I like your guide because it allows me to make a recovery before installing Jelly bean which seems like the more reasonable thing to do. I can make a nandroid of my OS before doing anything odd. This brings me to my next question.
1. Can I install the No wipe Jelly bean rom leak VRBLK1 (from the original guide I posted) with this method?
2. What's this backing up the IMEI/EFS that I hear about? Should I follow this guide before installing the Rom? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1852255
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Several months ago I purchased a NS4G on Craigslist. I wanted to use it as an iPod touch without the data. It came rooted with SuperUser. The phone keeps prompting me to OTA to 2.3.7 (it's currently on 2.3.5) I used Gingerbreak to unroot and it worked, SuperUser is now gone. However, ClockWorkMod Recovery is still present and 2.3.7 won't install. The phone reboots, goes to about 1/3 of the progress bar, and then fails. I just want to get the phone on completely stock 2.3.7, in preparation for the coming 4.0 OTA.
Hopefully the solution doesn't involve flashing a custom ROM, I've never done that before. Thanks!!
No need to get it OTA, you can just flash the stock ICS ROM found in the stickies of the development forum of this phone. Of course follow instructions closely.
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But I'm selling it and need it to be completely 100% original and stock, which is what the buyer requested..
You want to use fastboot to flash a stock recovery. Peter Alfonso has them all listed on his site.
Thanks. I'm really not familiar with fastboot, and is there any way you could give me a link with instructions or the files I need? My build number is GRJ90.
And if there's anyway for me to avoid a rooted stock ROM, that'd be great. Just pure stock 2.3.7.
The stock image on Rom manager has the recovery bootloader included.
Flash a stock gb rom from cwm. You will find a list of them in either general or android development threads, not sure which. Completely stock, unrooted and as far as I remember the stock recovery is included. If not then the person will never know anyway as if someone doesn't want any non stock features then they won't know how to get to recovery anyway.
Actually I don't think they have stock recovery. Just flash the stock rom and then fastboot flash the stock recovery like was mentioned above. All you need to type is:
Fastboot flash recovery xxxxx.img
Xxxxx.img is the name of the image file you download.
Don't cheat the buyer...Tell him exactly what he's buying...And that you returned thedevice back to stock again.It's just not worth it.
Noobiesque question(s)
Been on JB nightlies after rooting and unlocking. Missing NFC and find the nightlies a bit too unstable right now. So can I flash a stock ROM via CWM or do I have to Odin back to stock ? Flashing both the ROM and the Kernel ?
Adam in the unlock thread indicated that any ROM up to I535VRALG7B is unlockable so I'm assuming I535VRALF2 is older as it is by my figuring alphabetically earlier ?
Thanks in advance......
If you want stock rooted, you can flash with CWM. If you want to unroot and return to 100% stock and bloated, go the Odin route.
You'll either need a ROM/kernel combo or you'll have to flash a TW kernel right after flashing the ROM.
If nighlies are too unstable for you, but you like root, I'd highly recommend going with Beans, Clean, or Synergy. They are all stable for most people and are super fast.
For more info and step by step instructions, see droidstyles sticky in develop.
Im following the guide in the development section in regard to flashing back to stock. However Im running both custom rom and a custom kernal. Is there anything special I have to do with regards to the kernal or will flashing the stock image in odin do everything I need it to do to run the "stock rom"?
Thank you.
Problem Solved. Following the instructions found in the Development Section (Section 6) by DroidStyle will flash you back to stock regardless or what kernals, modems, or roms you have flashed onto the phone.
Thanks to Slim and Droid for answering my question.
There is something else you need to do. If you're following DroidStyle's guide then he states everything you need to do to return to stock in section 6 of his guide.
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Yep thats the one Im going by. It doesnt mention any caveats in regard to somone who is running a custom kernel. Just one at the top if you want to relock the bootloader, which I dont want to do.
I just want the stock image on the phone while retaining root and an unlocked bootloader.
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Yep thats the one Im going by. It doesnt mention any caveats in regard to somone who is running a custom kernel. Just one at the top if you want to relock the bootloader, which I dont want to do.
I just want the stock image on the phone while retaining root and an unlocked bootloader.
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I believe the title states "Using Odin to flash back to Stock from any rom/ recover from a soft brick, so yea your covered :good:
There are no caveats mentioned because there is no need...flashing back to stock replaces the rom and boot.img all back to stock, so follow the guide and your good to go.
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I believe the title states "Using Odin to flash back to Stock from any rom/ recover from a soft brick, so yea your covered :good:
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=) Thanks and sorry I just wasnt sure if the custom kernal was a seperate element from the custom rom. I installed it seperately so I just wanted to make sure that using odin to flash the stock image would cover both bases.
Again sorry if I butchered the verbage, some of the techincal details are beyond me. :laugh:
Hey all,
So I have been reading around a bit now and was wondering if someone could help me understand some general concepts.
my goal: I am trying to remove all the bloatware from a Huawei y300 (no carrier) and put stock android on it.
From what I have been reading, it sounds like I need to first unlock the device, then root it to get access to superuser. Then what? Can I just use the superuser to remove the bloatware? Or do I need to flash it all and install a custom ROM?
Also, I should prob back the whole device up first so that if I mess it all up I can still restore the phone to the way it was when I got it from the distributor. Is that easily possible, or are there risks associated with that? If I mess up the phone real bad is there a big chance I will not be able to get back to its original state?
Now the details of how to do all this are burried in the forums, and I will figure all that out. I am just confused about the order of things a bit. So if anyone could give a high level explanation on the order of steps and the need for each that would be awesome!
Much appreciated, and thanks
The basic process is unlock the device, root the device, flash a custom recovery, flash a custom rom. Flashing a new rom is what will remove the bloatware for you, and you can find a stock android rom that will literally be the barebones version of android. Rooting the device allows you access to flash the custom recovery, which is needed to flash custom roms.
Everything as said above, with a nandroid backup added as soon as u flash the custom recovery is recommended.
BTW there are chances that u can brick ur phone if u don't follow the custom rom flashing instructions properly.
Anyway the nandroid backup will help u in this case.
In case if the nandroid backup even fails, which means there is a heavy mistake also there are very less chances of it to happen, u can try flashing the stock firmware.
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Got it thanks!
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Everything as said above, with a nandroid backup added as soon as u flash the custom recovery is recommended.
BTW there are chances that u can brick ur phone if u don't follow the custom rom flashing instructions properly.
Anyway the nandroid backup will help u in this case.
In case if the nandroid backup even fails, which means there is a heavy mistake also there are very less chances of it to happen, u can try flashing the stock firmware.
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OK so I unlocked, rooted, installed TRWP recovery, and then used that to back up my phone. From what I read online it looks like backing up with TRWP is the same as backing up with Nandroid. I'm prob just not getting it, so wanted to ask what is the significance of Nandroid? Why do both TRWP and Nandroid?
I currently have S-Off and have it rooted through Weaksauce and SuperSu I believe. I have flashed ROMs through TWRP but did not like them, so I recovered back into my 4.4.2 stock. If I update to 4.4.4 by Verizon's OTA, will I lose my root and S-Off?
kinda a noob but...
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I currently have S-Off and have it rooted through Weaksauce and SuperSu I believe. I have flashed ROMs through TWRP but did not like them, so I recovered back into my 4.4.2 stock. If I update to 4.4.4 by Verizon's OTA, will I lose my root and S-Off?
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I'm not a hundred percent but I think the only way you lose it is if it upgrades the boot.img search for tigers posts because from the way it sounded to me if you flashed back to stock you'd have all ready lost your s-off.... Unless you've flashed one of the stock with the boot.img and recovery img removed. If so I'm pretty sure your good for the firmware upgrade if it'll ota without stock (or forged) boot.img file... Anyway man I'm slightly baked and never been accused of being smart enough to remember **** I read two weeks ago so search "tigerstown" posts and threads and read man and when you understand all a bit better than me then come message me and we'll discuss it a bit so it'll stick to my head a lil longer than last time man. Hope my rambleing might have shed some light on the subject or at least pointed you to the posts that know lol goodluck
The only way to "lose" s-off is to issue the fastboot command to set that flag which many smart people would never advise you do anyway. Nothing we are talking about here will do that automatically.
If you're s-off and on a custom Rom of any sort, I would recommend updating the firmware through tigerstown's method the previous poster referred to. If you're going to the trouble to flash everything necessary to take the ota, you may as well just flash his file and be done.
If you prefer stock, I would recommend you flash a stock-based Rom like CleanRom or NuSense. They come pre-rooted with some bloat removed and just a few tweaks added like write-protection removed, init-d support, etc.
If you really insist on running pure stock with root then you should at least root properly by uninstalling weak sauce and flashing the su binaries in recovery.
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The only way to "lose" s-off is to issue the fastboot command to set that flag which many smart people would never advise you do anyway. Nothing we are talking about here will do that automatically.
If you're s-off and on a custom Rom of any sort, I would recommend updating the firmware through tigerstown's method the previous poster referred to. If you're going to the trouble to flash everything necessary to take the ota, you may as well just flash his file and be done.
If you prefer stock, I would recommend you flash a stock-based Rom like CleanRom or NuSense. They come pre-rooted with some bloat removed and just a few tweaks added like write-protection removed, init-d support, etc.
If you really insist on running pure stock with root then you should at least root properly by uninstalling weak sauce and flashing the su binaries in recovery.
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Thanks for all help, I'll start readin up. Just one question: let's say I update my firmware to 4.4.4 from Verizon's OTA, will I be able to flash this clean rom via TWRP? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2732877
The only reason I ask is because it says the user must be running 4.4.4 firmware to flash the rom and the only way I know how to get 4.4.4 is from Verizon's OTA
You can get everything you need from Verizon's 4.4.4 release by flashing the no boot no recovery file from the tigerstown thread mentioned earlier. It's the first file listed in his op. The rest of the ota contains the recovery (which you don't want since you need your custom recovery to flash custom ROMs) and the boot.img/kernel (which you don't need since every room comes with a kernel). It's not wrong till go back to stock to take an ota, it's just unnecessarily difficult when people like tigerstown make it so easy for us to accomplish the same thing.