when i boot up my phone it goes to safestrap, but i want it to go back to stock like none of this rooting BS ever happened.... i rooted the phone, then downloaded safestrap, then i deleted the root and unrooted, and wiped ALL data from my phone, and now my phone wont even boot up to home screen... i think its bricked... please help... im honestly thinking about just giving up and buying a new phone... ive researched how to fix it for 14 STRAIGHT hours... seriously... i wouldn't lie about this... if anyone can help me... i need assistance, like full blown assistance. if you could give me your email or a way to contact you you have no idea how appreciative i would be. i just want my phone back... im seriously diying... im being serious. i WILL PAY YOU SOMEHOW if you get my phone back and help me... i am in dire need for help...
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hey guys,
bought my samsung captivate two days ago and i love it. from reading all the posts about how rooting is awesome i finally took the plunge and rooted my phone with the one click root program. followed the directions to the teeth, everything went fine. even went as far as downloading clockwork and backing up my rom.
few hours later, im totally blown that i rooted my phone. i realized i threw away my warranty.
is there ANY way to unroot the phone and make it totally stock and make it seem like the phone was never altered? i read some answers of "yeah" and some answers of "once your rooted, you can't get back" (i remember reading about an article about how some android phones like the nexus one, once you root theres no going back period). the program i used had a unroot button but im not sure if that would wipe everything away to factory settings and erase all traces of the root.
i know im effing stupid for not thinking it threw. but hey, its good that i came to my senses before i loaded up an os.
to be clear, my phone is just rooted. nothing else. im not running cognitive rom or anything. its running the stock samsung 2.1.
so can anyone PLEASE PLEASE help me solve this problem?
im a total noob when it comes to android.
it took me 20 minutes doing that one click from reading the directions over and over again lol.
i need some step by step directions for stupid people
okay, so i followed the directions to unroot. the programs that were installed when i rooted seemed to have disappear. to be extra sure, i reformatted my sd card and than factory restored the phone (from settings/privacy). quick question though, after i pressed "factory reset" my phone rebooted and than for a quick second i saw the same screen i saw when i rooted (the black screen with the yellow font? looked like a system command prompt i guess). it came on for a sec and than disappeared and it booted regularly. did that happen because i did a factory reset or did that happen because im still rooted?
wtf is wrong with me. i just want my unrooted captivate back (and my warranty lol)
odin to stock with master clear.
There's a thread under android development something with "stock rom" that should restore your phone back to factory.
If you did all of that then you are definitely back to stock now & theres no way of detecting your phone was rooted. You could of gotten away with just using one click to unroot. Thats all I did when I returned mine after a week because my gps never worked at all. I dont think they even did anything to check if it was rooted or anything. Hows your gps on the new one by the way? Mines still bad but at least it sees some satellites now. My old one had a hardware problem where gps wouldn't do anything at all.
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When you use odin to flash back to stock does that restore the AT&T bloatware as well? Or should I use TiB when I first get the phone to get the bloatware back on?
Thanks,
JOe K.
After trying to exchange my phone for another phone (thinking the GPS is a hardware issue) I had rooted and flashed a custom rom. I reverted back using ODIN master clear and ODIN 2.1 rom (Which puts bloatware and everything on it) and there's no way to detect it. The only time it will truly void your warranty (I believe) if you go into the store with a custom rom or if you go into the store with a bricked phone and they figure out you were modifying your phone.
thanks for the answers guys! why is it that you cant "unroot" a nexus one? i heard they'll always be able to tell if your rooted once you do it.
Hey everyone, let me first say that if this isn't in the correct area of the forum, my sincere apologies. Now onto the main question. So, awhile back I rooted my Samsung Replenish because a good friend of mine recommended that I do so. I really enjoyed it at first, but now I'm starting to have the worry of possibly getting caught by my provider. That, or I have to take the phone in for maintenance and they deny me service because it's rooted. So, my basic question really is how do I unroot root my Replenish? I spoke to someone and they told me to flash it back to the stock ROM. But I have no idea how to do that. Thank so much guys, I really appreciate it.
Just flashing back to stock does not actually unroot it. You should probably check under the forum created for your phone for a quide in how to unroot it.
I can't seem to find the thread for the Samsung Replenish.
I'm not sure what it should be but you might need to use a codename of some sort for the thread. If there indeed is no threat there should be a post somewhere around the forums which tells a rooting method also works for your phone. It's not unlikely your phone shares a bootloader with another samsung phone
I'm an extreme noob when it comes to this sort of thing, so if someone could please help guide me through this, it'd be very appreciated. My phone is acting up so I have to take it in. So the sooner it's unrooted, the better.
I had a droid x2 and broke it. Now i just bought a droid charge from a buddy, but he said it's rooted and i need to get a SIM card. but told me not to take the phone with me, so i didn't, but they wont give me a sim card without the phone, I honestly dont know what i'm doing when it comes to rooting and unrooting, so the easiest explanation possible would be greatly appreciated, i looked at other threads, but i can't follow them. i just need this phone to work, and unrooted. help?!
Never mind...sorry
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Hello everyone ,
Im a long time iPhone user and am now getting into android a little bit. I bought a Verizon Galaxy s3 and rooted it. I then downloaded and flashed a custom rom directly from my phone. I installed it and when it rebooted I was stuck on "system software not authorized by verizon wireless" screen. I later found out it was because my bootloader was not unlocked. I have a mac so im trying to use Heimdall to return to stock firmware and retry but I honestly do not know enough about flashing and do not want to brick this phone.
I am hoping someone can help me using heimdall. I have read for 2 days I just am not familiar enough with the lingo yet coming from the apple side. I always help people when jailbreaking so Im hoping that karma is on my side and I can get some guidance lol.
I am also not against paying for this help I just want to learn the right way to do this without bricking my phone.
Thanks guys,
Brandon
I've done a bad thing. A very bad thing. A very stupid thing. I tried rooting a phone without the slightest idea about what I'm doing. I've rooted numerous phones before, but one little slip up is now costing me a lot of grief.
I've tried searching various forums and websites for a fix for what I've done and I have come up empty-handed.
I tried rooting my Galaxy SIII (SCH-S968C) via an external walkthrough
That was only a root for the GT-I9300 model.
I am now stuck with the "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue" error.
It will not restore via Kies.
I did not back up my device like I should have.
I cannot find a stock ROM to flash to it.
I no longer want to unlock it or root it, I just need my phone working again ASAP. I don't care if I have to reformat it and lose everything, as long as it works.
Can anyone out there help? Am I doomed? Sure if I return it to Walmart, where I got it, they won't try to fix it as I have voided the warranty.
Canterlott said:
I've done a bad thing. A very bad thing. A very stupid thing. I tried rooting a phone without the slightest idea about what I'm doing. I've rooted numerous phones before, but one little slip up is now costing me a lot of grief.
I've tried searching various forums and websites for a fix for what I've done and I have come up empty-handed.
I tried rooting my Galaxy SIII (SCH-S968C) via an external walkthrough
That was only a root for the GT-I9300 model.
I am now stuck with the "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue" error.
It will not restore via Kies.
I did not back up my device like I should have.
I cannot find a stock ROM to flash to it.
I no longer want to unlock it or root it, I just need my phone working again ASAP. I don't care if I have to reformat it and lose everything, as long as it works.
Can anyone out there help? Am I doomed? Sure if I return it to Walmart, where I got it, they won't try to fix it as I have voided the warranty.
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Are you able to get in download mode? Volume Down + Home + Power
If so, you should be able to fix it without much trouble using Odin. Let me know.