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[Q] Not sure what to do next after rooting Galaxy Note 10.1, help unroot?

My device: Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 - 16GB
I'm pretty much very new to modding and everything but I did the rooting from this link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1831152 I used the first method and once I rebooted my device it was freezing and every few seconds it would say "Unfortunately, S Note has stopped working". I restarted my device and the same thing kept happening. Next, I tried using the second method of rooting but nothing seemed to be working still, so I did a factory reset. Everything seems fine now but I think I just want to unroot eveything altogether. Is that possible?

Luiza12340 said:
My device: Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 - 16GB
I'm pretty much very new to modding and everything but I did the rooting from this link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1831152 I used the first method and once I rebooted my device it was freezing and every few seconds it would say "Unfortunately, S Note has stopped working". I restarted my device and the same thing kept happening. Next, I tried using the second method of rooting but nothing seemed to be working still, so I did a factory reset. Everything seems fine now but I think I just want to unroot eveything altogether. Is that possible?
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Flash a stock Rom with Odin and don't root.
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If everything's working fine now and it's rooted why do you want to get rid of root?
Also, as you used ODIN to flash cf-root you will need to run the triangle-away app to reset the flash counter before flashing a stock rom otherwise your flash counter will be more than the "0" it's supposed to be and you may have trouble if you need to return under warranty...

ultramag69 said:
If everything's working fine now and it's rooted why do you want to get rid of root?
Also, as you used ODIN to flash cf-root you will need to run the triangle-away app to reset the flash counter before flashing a stock rom otherwise your flash counter will be more than the "0" it's supposed to be and you may have trouble if you need to return under warranty...
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Well I'd actually would just want to get rid of the clockworkmod root because it increases binary count and doesn't let updates through, as least thats what I read.

You need to use triangle away to reset the flash counter. You can flash the stock recovery after to get stock recovery back but you won't be able to flash a new custom rom using this. You will retain root access though if you want to use TB or change system files....
If you have the cf-root though you can flash when the devs release the update.
You can also go to sammobile and download the update too to flash through ODIN though you will loose root after doing so and will have to have reset the flash counter 1st anyway...

I used the same method to root that you mentioned as the first try. What did after that was to download mobile odin (can be purchased on the play store) download my original firmware from sammobile. Use mobile odin to flash my original firmware, injecting rooting by using everroot in mobile odin.
So I end up on my original firmware rooted. No need to triangle away since still on stock recovery.
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Yes but what you don't seem to understand is that the 1st flash you did into CWM raised the flash counter by 1.... If you return under warranty you may be refused and have to pay for it to be repaired fully...
Go into download mode to check, hold volume down and power together, when the samsung logo appears release the power button. When prompted press up volume and you should see if the flash counter reads 0 or 1... Hold down power button until tab turns off to get out of download mode...

ultramag69 said:
Yes but what you don't seem to understand is that the 1st flash you did into CWM raised the flash counter by 1.... If you return under warranty you may be refused and have to pay for it to be repaired fully...
Go into download mode to check, hold volume down and power together, when the samsung logo appears release the power button. When prompted press up volume and you should see if the flash counter reads 0 or 1... Hold down power button until tab turns off to get out of download mode...
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Didn't realise he had used the cwm method to root. If that is the case, it may be in your best interest to reset the flash counter.
I used the pre injected stock firmware, so was no need for cwm.
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I also have a question about that, if I have used clockworkrecovery to root my device and want to update it with ota ,but keep root. How to do that the easiest way ?
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fischerben said:
I also have a question about that, if I have used clockworkrecovery to root my device and want to update it with ota ,but keep root. How to do that the easiest way ?
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You can flash OTA through mobile odin, and still can keep root.

lsherif said:
You can flash OTA through mobile odin, and still can keep root.
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Thanks, what zip do I have to flash can you paste a link. and when there is an update and I update it are the root removed then?
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[Q] Binary Counts

Hi i am returning my phone to Samsung for warranty purposes and i was wondering since i want to get rid of all binary counts which i already did with the app Triangle Away all i need to do is unroot my phone and then ill be all clean, SO my question is while unrooting my phone through oding by flashing the Stock rom to make my phone unrooted will that still add a binary count to my phone? or will i have to go through Triangle Away again to reset after i unrooted my device? Replies are MUCH appreciated and sorry for the long question xD.

No it will not. Just odin it back to stock and it wont count as a count
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vabeachfc3s said:
No it will not. Just odin it back to stock and it wont count as a count
Thank you so much
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Once you odin to stock you can boot into download mode and verify, but as people already said it wont add a count.

[Q] Unrooting

My US 8013 is rooted using Chain Fire. I am running stock 4.1.2, no custom ROM. Is there a way to un-root and reset the CSC? I am noob but I follow directions real well.
Thanks

tarheels55 said:
My US 8013 is rooted using Chain Fire. I am running stock 4.1.2, no custom ROM. Is there a way to un-root and reset the CSC? I am noob but I follow directions real well.
Thanks
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i don't know what you mean by reset csc but if you want both to be done in one swoop then flash a new stock rom via odin..
do a factory data reset then flash the stock rom with the right csc for you.. and done..

Root remove or change CSC ?????which one or both .
Unroot is flash stock rom .
jje

I misspoke. Will flashing back to stock clear the count? I have read about a count that changes with rooting and running Roms but the count needs to bezero for warranty work. I am not seeing the yellow triangle, which is good. But it stills says I am "custom" and not "official" in device status.

tarheels55 said:
I misspoke. Will flashing back to stock clear the count? I have read about a count that changes with rooting and running Roms but the count needs to bezero for warranty work. I am not seeing the yellow triangle, which is good. But it stills says I am "custom" and not "official" in device status.
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even if you flash a stock rom it'll still raise your binary counter.. download triangle away it's free on chainfire's thread.. you need to be rooted to do that then your binary count will be erased and your warranty will not be void.. :thumbup:
here's the link to triangle away - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1494114
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told you never doubt chainfire..
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Prepping for warranty

I need to send my Blaze in for warranty work. This is what I've done so far.
Reset the flash counter http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1955273
Used Odin to return to stock http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1591601
Reset to delete data
Right now my Blaze is back to running 2.3.6. I have already told the warranty department that I updated to 4.0 using KIES. Samsung is obviously expecting me to do a reset before sending it in, but I assume that if I was running 4.0 and did a reset it would still be on 4.0.
Should I update to 4.0 before sending the phone to Samsung or should I leave it at 2.3.6? If so, how? Right now I'm getting a message from KIES which says Your device's current firmware version is not supported to update firmware via KIES
Should I use Odin to update to a different version that I can download from Sammobile.com? If so, does anyone know which version I should use?
Any help that anyone can offer would be great. I don't want to raise any red flags when I sent it in to Samsung. Thanks.

d73805 said:
I need to send my Blaze in for warranty work. This is what I've done so far.
Reset the flash counter http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1955273
Used Odin to return to stock http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1591601
Reset to delete data
Right now my Blaze is back to running 2.3.6. I have already told the warranty department that I updated to 4.0 using KIES. Samsung is obviously expecting me to do a reset before sending it in, but I assume that if I was running 4.0 and did a reset it would still be on 4.0.
Should I update to 4.0 before sending the phone to Samsung or should I leave it at 2.3.6? If so, how? Right now I'm getting a message from KIES which says Your device's current firmware version is not supported to update firmware via KIES
Should I use Odin to update to a different version that I can download from Sammobile.com? If so, does anyone know which version I should use?
Any help that anyone can offer would be great. I don't want to raise any red flags when I sent it in to Samsung. Thanks.
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Do whatever you want... All they do is a root check and boot it once. If even that. They are looking for cracks and other things you may have left out.
I've sent back 4 phones now, all were rooted and customized. Only 1 did I do what you did. The rest I said F it. They didn't care because nothing was wrong with it hardware wise. ||
they just Re-flash their stock on it and go from there. Keep in mind they can always check. Just is super rare. You are good. They don't care what version it is as long as it's stock.
(also that count reseter doesn't reset the custom binary, they still will know you installed a custom recovery)

That's good to hear. I ended up using the August 2012 from sammobile.com then used KIES to update to 4.0. Hopefully everything works out.
chjema said:
Do whatever you want... All they do is a root check and boot it once. If even that. They are looking for cracks and other things you may have left out.
I've sent back 4 phones now, all were rooted and customized. Only 1 did I do what you did. The rest I said F it. They didn't care because nothing was wrong with it hardware wise. ||
they just Re-flash their stock on it and go from there. Keep in mind they can always check. Just is super rare. You are good. They don't care what version it is as long as it's stock.
(also that count reseter doesn't reset the custom binary, they still will know you installed a custom recovery)
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chjema said:
(also that count reseter doesn't reset the custom binary, they still will know you installed a custom recovery)
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Reset counter doesn't reset the custom binary, but Odin flashing a stock firmware will.
Also this belongs in General.
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Or General section when no Q&A exists
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I have reset flash counter and I have gotten it to say IM running Samsung official but I still have a custom recovery...will they care?
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Jserrano56 said:
I have reset flash counter and I have gotten it to say IM running Samsung official but I still have a custom recovery...will they care?
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from what I've heard (and take that with a grain of salt, because I have no personal experience, dont hit me if I'm wrong), they dont care if you have a customer recovery, as long as you have Samsung Official binary with 0 flash count (and often times the flash count is ignored).

Well IM also running a stock ROM... You can't tell the difference only way I could get it to ICS to use triangle away since kies wouldn't recognize my device
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How I unlocked a Bell Galaxy S4 on 4.4.2

My brother gave me his Bell locked Galaxy S4 today, so I've spent the day trying to unlock it to use on Rogers. After much reading of posts here, I managed to get it unlocked as follows:
I am no expert, though I am experienced with rooting and such. The following steps describe what I did to unlock my phone. I am not sure if all of these steps are necessary but they did work. Since I am not an expert, there is no point asking me questions if you have any problems, since I will not be able to help. Of course, some of these steps can void warranty, and could brick your phone if done improperly. I am not responsible for anything bad that happens.
1) Download and flash stock Columbia 4.2.2 rom with Odin (i used 3.09)
2) Root with CF-Auto Root
3) Flash Clockwork Mod (I use Caboomi's img2tar for this)
4) Get rid of KNOX by "installing" DE-KNOX zip in CWM (DE-SAMSUNGNIZER_KNOX_REMOVAL_SCRIPT_V2.0)
5) Download Chainfire's RegionLock Away, install and run
6) Restart and success!
7) Finally, I flashed the current (4.4.2) firmware of the provider I switched to (Rogers), as I was having problems with the phone and some other things. This seems to be operating properly now.
Note: I was able to install 4.2.2 rom even though I was unable to downgrade to 4.3. (Fail to flash aboot like many people get) I assume this is because the 4.2.2 rom does not modify aboot. Also, Chainfire states the RegionLock Away only works for the Note 3, however many people have used it successfully on the S4 as well. It did not work for me on 4.4.2, so I'm guessing either installing 4.2.2, or removing KNOX, or both got it to work.
I hope this helps some people. If it does, thank the developers who made everything above!

What firmware where you on when u began? 4.4.2? Or earlier?
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I don't think KNOX affects the sim locking and unlocking. I know for sure that RegionLockAway works in 4.2.2 because I downgraded my phone to that rom and unlocked it...without doing any of the KNOX related stuff.
I think this method you are using trips the KNOX fuse when you downgrade from KitKat.

OK but how did u downgrade? I don't care about the Knox flag mine is tripped I just want to get back to 4.2 so I can use real custom Roms. Everything I have seen suggests you cannot downgrade
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Psykologikal said:
OK but how did u downgrade? I don't care about the Knox flag mine is tripped I just want to get back to 4.2 so I can use real custom Roms. Everything I have seen suggests you cannot downgrade
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I downgraded to 4.2.2 by simply using ODIN. This process will trip the fuse. The trick in getting it to work is to clear all of the leftover files from 4.4.2 after the flash. You can't boot directly into the system after the flash. You have to go into recovery mode and do a factory reset. If you don't do this, the system wouldn't boot as what everyone is finding.

So do I need to do a nand erase or something? Or just regular flash then boot into recovery factory reset then flash again? Cuz I would love to get back to 4.2 and start flashing custom Roms agaib
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Psykologikal said:
So do I need to do a nand erase or something? Or just regular flash then boot into recovery factory reset then flash again? Cuz I would love to get back to 4.2 and start flashing custom Roms agaib
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Just a simple factory reset should do.

So nothing for 4.4.2 directly? We have to downgrade? Thanks