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[Q] How to root stock Rogers 4.0.4 (UXCLF3) without custom recovery.

Hello,
I've upgraded a Skyrocket to ICS via Kies the day it was released (Rogers 4.0.4), wife's phone. Went very well, nice and fast no issues.
So now she can finally use Apex launcher (bye Go Launcher!), but adding certain widgets and others functions via Apex require to be rooted (root helper).
The only way I found to root this stock ICS ROM so far is to install CWM Recovery, via this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1722506.
I would like to root it without installing a custom recovery. I checked the methods listed here, but seems to be for GB only... I'll keep looking but if anyone knows... It's probably just too early, soon enough methods should pop up.
Thanks

marclabrosse said:
Hello,
I've upgraded a Skyrocket to ICS via Kies the day it was released (Rogers 4.0.4), wife's phone. Went very well, nice and fast no issues.
So now she can finally use Apex launcher (bye Go Launcher!), but adding certain widgets and others functions via Apex require to be rooted (root helper).
The only way I found to root this stock ICS ROM so far is to install CWM Recovery, via this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1722506.
I would like to root it without installing a custom recovery. I checked the methods listed here, but seems to be for GB only... I'll keep looking but if anyone knows... It's probably just too early, soon enough methods should pop up.
Thanks
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no, u need to flash su, gb or ics its still the same process, maybe w/oneclick but i never tried that method
but whats the problem using cwm, its very safe todo and its y we can do so many things with our phones, and if need b u can always flash back to stock ics w/sammobile.com firmware files

afraid to say you'll have to have a cumstom recovery. SuperOneClick wont work. It actuallt will only work on GB 2.3.5. 2.3.6 wont. And I'm pretty certain ICS wont either.

Thanks guys, yeah I tried GB methods or rooting without CWM Recovery before posting, no go...should have rooted before upgrading her phone via Kies...
I just wanted to keep it as stock as possible for warranty reasons, in case something happens when I'm not around and the device has to be brought in to a Rogers store.
I've had mine running CWM recovery from day one, but I can restore it to stock without a problem, she's not technical at all... its her "Facebook" phone...
I guess CWM recovery will be going on there shortly...

marclabrosse said:
I just wanted to keep it as stock as possible for warranty reasons, in case something happens when I'm not around and the device has to be brought in to a Rogers store...I guess CWM recovery will be going on there shortly...
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You can flash back to 3e recovery without losing root. Unrooting is covered in post #10 here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1726445

[Q] SERIOUS HELP freezing

I flashed JB on my gt-n8013, and then i wanted to return back to ICS as Kno doesn't want to run. So i downloaded the GT-N8013 from Sammobile and flashed it in.
But when it's rebooting it's kept hanging on Samsung logo and doesnt want to run. what can i do. Help please

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2080366
try re-flashing.. or re-downloading the file... it might be corrupted

Well you need to boot into recovery and do a comple wipe unfortuantely you will lose all data

I would suggest to you that if you redownload the rom and it still does not work then you should try out a different rom, because it seems like you may have downloaded a rom for a similar tablet and now find yourself running into issues.
Sent from my GT-N7100 using xda premium

I Reflashed again JB UK 4.1.1 and it's working fine, but i can't switch back to ICS GT-N8013. I'm in exams' period and some of my studies on Kno :S and i can't get it working, i contacted them and told me they're still working on a JB version :S
Thanks all

Boot to recovery Factory reset .
Flash stock ICS rom via Odin .
jje

You will loose ALL data on internal card so back up before doing this...

AbdallahSaied said:
I Reflashed again JB UK 4.1.1 and it's working fine, but i can't switch back to ICS GT-N8013. I'm in exams' period and some of my studies on Kno :S and i can't get it working, i contacted them and told me they're still working on a JB version :S
Thanks all
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I'm having the exact same problem could you please post a direct link to the package that finally worked, what flags did you check in odin?

What he did was went from JB to JB for 8010 when JB to ICS did not work so he did not get it to work
Unfortunately there is no workaround when you go from JB to ICS you need to do a complete wipe to make it work

[Q] Skyrocket will not update to ICS

I have ATT i727 Skyrocket that was at 4.1.x and working fine for months.
I rooted the phone about 6 months ago. All OK.
Yesterday phone locked up. I pulled battery to reboot. Phone stopped at Samsung word boot screen.
I got TWRP re-installed, then gingerbread tar 2.3.5 installed. phone now works.
Will not OTA to ICS. Will download, reboot and get to 25% and fail.
ODIN says YES 2 and Custom for ROM.
I can't find a tar image of ICS and would like to reset counter to zero, maybe unroot, go back to orig. firmware and then ICS.
Please, any suggestions? Thank you.
Alan - [email protected]

Go to sammobile.com for the stock firmware
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I957 using xda app-developers app

alanmcbride said:
I have ATT i727 Skyrocket that was at 4.1.x and working fine for months.
I rooted the phone about 6 months ago. All OK.
Yesterday phone locked up. I pulled battery to reboot. Phone stopped at Samsung word boot screen.
I got TWRP re-installed, then gingerbread tar 2.3.5 installed. phone now works.
Will not OTA to ICS. Will download, reboot and get to 25% and fail.
ODIN says YES 2 and Custom for ROM.
I can't find a tar image of ICS and would like to reset counter to zero, maybe unroot, go back to orig. firmware and then ICS.
Please, any suggestions? Thank you.
Alan - [email protected]
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Here are som ICS TARs:
Rogers Canada (imo less bloatware than AT&T):
http://hotfile.com/dl/163303882/02796f1/
AT&T USA:
http://hotfile.com/dl/162903193/644c77d/
Telcel Mexico (someone said it has a sim lock, read here):
http://hotfile.com/dl/182237393/93f6637/

everything u need is in the sticky NEWB GUIDES To: | RESTORE TO STOCK
how did u increase your counter, its been ages since there was a tar file that did that

Downgrading from JB to ICS?

Dear fellow xdas,
I'm considering downgrading my Singaporean JB ROM to my local ICS version. I was wondering whether anyone has any experience with this and how it worked out for you ?
I did try once downgrading without factory resetting/cleaning the memory, which resulted in the tab freezing the first boot. I then reupgraded to JB and it worked completely fine.

Baalzamon said:
Dear fellow xdas,
I'm considering downgrading my Singaporean JB ROM to my local ICS version. I was wondering whether anyone has any experience with this and how it worked out for you ?
I did try once downgrading without factory resetting/cleaning the memory, which resulted in the tab freezing the first boot. I then reupgraded to JB and it worked completely fine.
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hi you dont need to afraid, i did that. jb to ics or honeycomb, and im running honeycomb right now after multi window mod JB,
just use odin and change your rom and the important part is you must wipe data/factory reset, this is very important,
now you can enjoy

rezadentevil said:
hi you dont need to afraid, i did that. jb to ics or honeycomb, and im running honeycomb right now after multi window mod JB,
just use odin and change your rom and the important part is you must wipe data/factory reset, this is very important,
now you can enjoy
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Thanks mate

N8010 4.4.2 Rom on N8013

Anybody tried to flash the 4.4.2 update that just came out for n8010 on n8013. I was wondering what would be the consequences on flashing it on Odin over waiting for an appropriate one for the n8013, which could take months (sighh Samsung). Any one took the risk?
For the ones who don't know, n8010 is an international Wi-Fi only variant, while n8013 has the exact same hardware and is Wi-Fi only as well, but for some strange reason is USA specific.

jimmygzzmtz said:
Anybody tried to flash the 4.4.2 update that just came out for n8010 on n8013. I was wondering what would be the consequences on flashing it on Odin over waiting for an appropriate one for the n8013, which could take months (sighh Samsung). Any one took the risk?
For the ones who don't know, n8010 is an international Wi-Fi only variant, while n8013 has the exact same hardware and is Wi-Fi only as well, but for some strange reason is USA specific.
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Yes, i did flash my N8013 yesterday. I could not do this through ODIN on a PC because it was giving me an error, so i had to do it with Mobile ODIN and it worked. But the big problem now is that the WiFi does not want to turn ON for some reason. Also tried to Reset the device from the OS and still no WiFi. I'll try later to clean the cache and do proper factory reset to see if this will help and will let you know. If anyone know how to fix this please let me know.

what rom did you flash from .
leppermesiah said:
Yes, i did flash my N8013 yesterday. I could not do this through ODIN on a PC because it was giving me an error, so i had to do it with Mobile ODIN and it worked. But the big problem now is that the WiFi does not want to turn ON for some reason. Also tried to Reset the device from the OS and still no WiFi. I'll try later to clean the cache and do proper factory reset to see if this will help and will let you know. If anyone know how to fix this please let me know.
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were you on the n8000 leak or stock firmware. Or did you flash that at anytime?
Do you know if you have the Knox boot loader . Check download mode and see what it says your device is . n8000 n8010 n80xx ..
Or were you on Stock 8013 rom and boot loader .?

My device is N8013 and was with the stock N8013 4.1.2 firmware. I've tried before to flash it with the first leak of N8000 4.4.2 but i got the same issues with the WiFi. I'm not sure about the bootloader. How can i see if its a new version or old one? I suspect something messed up the PIT file during the flash with leaked N8000 but im not sure. I tried to find official N8010 pit file to fix the partition if its bad, but couldnt find any.
And the interesting thing is that since i flashed with N8000 now i cant use PC Odin. It giving me error no matter what firmware i use.

I've found a solution with the WiFi problem in this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=53090185
And it's working just fine following this guide :victory: