Do I lose root with factory reset
If so is there a way to not lose root.
Wife phone is really acting up lately :crying:
hoping reset will help.
Rooted stock JZO54K.I535VRBMF1
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all the root files are in /system, so you should't loose root. Why is just rooted stock and not unlocked with a custom ROM. Just curious really. Why root and not install a custom ROM.
Thanks for the reply.
Wife's phone this is all
she will let me do.
She just wanted some bloat froze
If it's being quirky I would recommend odin back to stock and then reroot with casual or Odin. That way you are starting fresh.
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I've rooted my phone, installed CWM, installed a custom ROM. Now my phone is still buggy, freezing a lot, rebooting a lot no matter what i try, now I want to make sure I do the correct steps to be able to return with no problem.
1. Flash stock ROM
2. Flash stock recovery
3. Unroot the phone
Am I missing something?
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Step 3 is unnecessary as the stock ROM is not rooted
I doubt they'd look for root before accepting the return but if u wana be safe..
They wouldnt even know better. Unless you install CM7 where your boot screen is custom.
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Yah unless you have a complete unrooted nandroid back up of the stock rom then unrooting it isn't necessary.
If you don't have a unrooted stock rom then you will need to download a stock rom rooted or unrooted somewhere and flash it.
i have returned g2x's with root on it. Mainly with Eagleblood on it. whoever receives it as a refurbished unit will be lucky. i saved them some adb commands. T-Mobile prolly wont even boot the device up in front of you. They just check for water damage and physical damage. I seen it plenty of times. but if u dont want to risk it.
download/install the stock root rom
use superoneclick to unroot
take batt out and hold vol up/down at the same time plug cable in
use one click recovery flash stock recovery
reboot into recovery and reset
i don't know about you all but i always unroot before i send any phone back to t-mobile, they'll sneak you when you think they're not.
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Step 3 is unnecessary as the stock ROM is not rooted
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where is this unrooted stock rom? flashable via cwm? i must be missing something. all i have seen are the bin files which proved to be to much of a pain to flash.
I have the stock T-Mobile simply rooted.
What is the best procedure for me to retain root once ICS drops AND be able to use titanium to restore all my apps and settings?
Eg
If I download ICS, I will lose root but retain my apps and settings.
When ICS is eventually rooted I can then root my Nexus S but that wipes all my data. I won't be able to backup first, because that required the root I lost when I updated a while before. Assuming a week or month until root is released, this means my pre update backup will be outdated.
So should I wait until a root is discovered before even accepting the OTA update? Then I can backup, update, root, restore, all in one day?
Or will there be a root that doesn't wipe the device?
Any better ideas? Thanks!
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Wait for a stock rooted ROM..
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Then just flash it and I will keep all my settings and apps?
No, if you flash a new rom, you will have to use Titanium to restore app and data. As far as settings, I think you'll have to reset.
How come? Flashing an updated ROM OTA doesn't usually wipe apps and settings. Why would flashing a stock rooted ROM to an already rooted device behave differently and wipe them?
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Because while an ota is built to deliberately avoid a wipe, most roms require a good old wipe to run well because ur coming off a possibly very different rom whereas ota is coming from a cleanly stock rom or it wouldn't accept update. Make sense?
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Currently I'm on 4.1.2 stock rooted with twrp recovery. I want to sell my phone and was wondering if I could just update via kies to 4.3? Would this work since I have a custom recovery and I would assume it would reset the device back to normal?
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Currently I'm on 4.1.2 stock rooted with twrp recovery. I want to sell my phone and was wondering if I could just update via kies to 4.3? Would this work since I have a custom recovery and I would assume it would reset the device back to normal?
Thanks
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It would, but you might get more money with it still being on 4.1.2. I'd Odin a 4.1.2 image, make sure it works, and shut it off preventing it from updating.
Then the buyer can deal with the update if they wish to upgrade it. Or you could make a root user very happy by not upgrading.
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Can I do a factory reset with out screwing my phone up? Like from the actual settings?
I don't want to loose root or nothing I just want a clean start the easy Way lol anybody can help?
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dunn816 said:
Can I do a factory reset with out screwing my phone up? Like from the actual settings?
I don't want to loose root or nothing I just want a clean start the easy Way lol anybody can help?
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Not sure if you will lose root. Since you are already rooted the best way to go is use a custom recovery and factory wipe in recovery.
Once you have a custom recovery installed, why would you even want to use the Factory Reset function in the stock rom? You can do everything you need to do with much more flexbility in TWRP.
No idea what happens on the M8 if you do this, but I can tell you that on the Transformer tablets a factory reset from settings wiith CWM or TWRP installed left you in a nasty forced reboot to recovery loop.
Don't do it!
Oh - and no, any kind of wipe of data/cache/dalvik will not affect root. If you wipe /system it will, but then you wouldn't have a rom installed anyway!
Just do the factory wipe in TWRP. That'll wipe everything but /system and /data/media/ where your personal files (pics, videos, docs) live. If you want to get rid of those too format data in TWRP.
Edit: Sorry, didn't read your post correctly. Did you only root with Weaksauce? No S-off, no permanent root, no custom recovery?
In that case it depends where Weaksauce is installed to. I can't remember - Weaksauce didn't survive for long after using firewater, but my guess is, it would be installed to /data. And yes - a factory reset would wipe the app and you would have to install it again.
I bricked my samsung s6 (verizon) 5.0.2 which was rooted by trying to install TWRP through the playstore. I was not aware that it required an unlocked bootloader.
Anyways, I would like to go back to stock without losing all my files (videos, pics, texts). If I flash to stock using Odin, from what I understand, I will be a factory reset so i lose everything.
Does anyone have a tutorial or advice for getting these files back before flashing back to stock?
Thanks in advance!
Not sure about every Odin file but every one I used left the data partition alone.
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