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How to return to stock rom

Hello,
I bought a Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 P5100 (3g version), but my carrier installed its own ROM, removed the Phone app and unrooted the device,
Now I want to install back the stock ROM, but I will need to root it first right? but the guides showing how to root are doing it only with stock ROM, so I am afraid to try and root the device on my carrier's non-stock ROM. Is there a guide to root a non-stock device? or it's the same method as rooting stock device?
Is there a link to a guide on how to return to the stock ROM from unrooted non-stock ROM?
Thanks

Any idea? will the method for rooting stock Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 3g be the same as rooting non-stock unrooted Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 3g?

what custom rom are you using?
If your wireless carrier installed their own ROM because you have a data package then that is your official ROM...
do you have jelly bean installed?
Look into cf-autoroot for rooting your tablet, once its rooted you can easily revert back to any/stock ROM you want
Also there many stock ROMs that come pre rooted so that may be something you may want to look into...
We need more info though, what custom ROM do you have? What exact model galaxy tab do you have? How did you install this custom ROM? What version android are you running? Have you ever used Odin/kies?
That info would help us and you greatly...
-droidshadow

droidshadow said:
If your wireless carrier installed their own ROM because you have a data package then that is your official ROM...
do you have jelly bean installed?
Look into cf-autoroot for rooting your tablet, once its rooted you can easily revert back to any/stock ROM you want
Also there many stock ROMs that come pre rooted so that may be something you may want to look into...
We need more info though, what custom ROM do you have? What exact model galaxy tab do you have? How did you install this custom ROM? What version android are you running? Have you ever used Odin/kies?
That info would help us and you greatly...
-droidshadow
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I have 4.0.4 Android version, I did not install this custom ROM, it came preinstalled by carrier, it is not rooted (checked with "Root Checker"),I have used Kies but not Odin but I can learn I guess if there are instructions.
Your method (cf autoroot) and this one I found:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1657056
say that it is going to work on stock ROM, but I do not have stock ROM, I have my carrier's ROM, that's why I am afraid to use it, but maybe you know whether I can use any of these method with my ROM?

okay...
Here is what I recommend...
First you are using ice cream sand which, the new android official going around Samsung is jelly bean android 4.1
You have to ask yourself do you want to upgrade?
If you do want to upgrade to JB dont root your tablet as you will not be able to officially update to JB.
If you want to see if an update is available look in your notifications or go into settings -> about tablet -> and hit software update
I think that is how I am using a custom ROM
If you have an update firmware to download I would do it...
Then root your tablet.
If you upgrade to android 4.1 then use the cf-autoroot exploit
If you want to root your tablet as is with android 4.0.4 then follow this link...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1657056
If that link list your model then you are all good since you do have an official ROM just a different model tablet
Oh...if you root your tablet with android 4.0.4 you can still upgrade to android jelly bean but you will have to use a custom ROM you will not be able to install an official firmware update.
So good luck...and look on YouTube for help on rooting your tablet there are some really great videos out there.

There is no jelly bean update available for my galaxy tab 2 , I think my carrier blocked the update.
the tutorial you gave me on how to root the tab is for 4.0.3 and my is 4.0.4. Also, all of these guides say that it's working on stock ROM, do you think it still going to work on my carrier's non-stock rom (if I will find a guide that can root 4.0.4 and not just 4.0.3)?

[Q] help downgrade from cm11 to official software

Hi, i have galaxy s3 gt-i9300 and i flashed it to cm11 m9 android 4.4.4 and i want to downgrade it to the official android 4.3 so i can receive the official updates in other words i want to make my software just like when i bought it from the store

AhmadTaha221 said:
Hi, i have galaxy s3 gt-i9300 and i flashed it to cm11 m9 android 4.4.4 and i want to downgrade it to the official android 4.3 so i can receive the official updates in other words i want to make my software just like when i bought it from the store
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you need to download a stock rom from sammobile.com or samsungupdates.com and flash it with odin.
google for more deatiled guides and whatnot.

Kobro said:
you need to download a stock rom from sammobile.com or samsungupdates.com and flash it with odin.
google for more deatiled guides and whatnot.
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Thanx man i will try it

[q] which stock rom will i flash???

I had rooted my note 10.1 n8005 3g+wifi and flashed a stock rom android 4.1.1 because of inactivation of phone speciality in my country. It says N8000xxblj9 in the settings. I want to updare to kitkat 4.4.2 and dont know which rom to flash. I want a stock rom because i dont want to wipe. Thanks for help

[Q] Stock KitKat ROM For SM-G355H

Hello,
Can anyone give me the link to the stock (original without touchwiz) kitkat rom for samsung galaxy core 2. I searched everywhere for this but I found only cm 10.2 for galaxy core 1 which is android jelly bean. I only want stock (original) android kitkat with google apps and nothing else.
Please help me.
Thanks,
Pr0Ankit

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Pr0Ankit said:
Hello,
Can anyone give me the link to the stock (original without touchwiz) kitkat rom for samsung galaxy core 2. I searched everywhere for this but I found only cm 10.2 for galaxy core 1 which is android jelly bean. I only want stock (original) android kitkat with google apps and nothing else.
Please help me.
Thanks,
Pr0Ankit
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http://samsung-updates.com/device/?id=SM-G355H
stock (original without touchwiz) kitkat
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:silly:
I can't find stock without it

Pr0Ankit said:
Hello,
Can anyone give me the link to the stock (original without touchwiz) kitkat rom for samsung galaxy core 2. I searched everywhere for this but I found only cm 10.2 for galaxy core 1 which is android jelly bean. I only want stock (original) android kitkat with google apps and nothing else.
Please help me.
Thanks,
Pr0Ankit
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I believe you're confused. Stock ROM for this device has Touchwiz installed. Maybe you mean an AOSP-based ROM (pure Android). As far as I know that doesn't exists.

Yeah I actually meant an original ROM Like Cyanogen or AOKP which have no touchwiz,htcsense,nova launcher installed.
No stratos, It is only Samsung FW I tried installing it through Samsung kies but what it did is only factory reset my phone, reinstall bloatware,etc and nothing more. It did not remove touchwiz. I want classic android touch like LG or Google nexus.
After searching a while I found this one :- http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-core/general/mod-galaxy-core-2-g355h-stock-rom-t3031234
I will try flashing this rom in my core 2 and let you know.
Thanks for the help guys but I think I need to search more

Pr0Ankit said:
Yeah I actually meant an original ROM Like Cyanogen or AOKP which have no touchwiz,htcsense,nova launcher installed.
No stratos, It is only Samsung FW I tried installing it through Samsung kies but what it did is only factory reset my phone, reinstall bloatware,etc and nothing more. It did not remove touchwiz. I want classic android touch like LG or Google nexus.
After searching a while I found this one :- http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-core/general/mod-galaxy-core-2-g355h-stock-rom-t3031234
I will try flashing this rom in my core 2 and let you know.
Thanks for the help guys but I think I need to search more
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EDIT : Did not work for me. The CM 10.2 ALPHA 9 ROM for Samsung Galaxy Core 1 Did not even flash in TWRP and The ROM given above was flashed but it gave me error that Application Installer has stopped working on boot.
Any other idea ?
Thanks,
Pr0Ankit

Updating firmware and kernel

i have a Samsung Galaxy stratosphere 2 and was wondering if there was any way of force updating it from android jelly bean to lollipop. The phone is rooted really want to use this phone as main phone but software is to old for some apps. All links i found about updating it to lollipop are dead.

fatetraitor said:
i have a Samsung Galaxy stratosphere 2 and was wondering if there was any way of force updating it from android jelly bean to lollipop. The phone is rooted really want to use this phone as main phone but software is to old for some apps. All links i found about updating it to lollipop are dead.
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From what I'm finding, or rather, what I'm not finding... There isn't and never was a lollipop custom ROM or any other ROM for your device. The links you found about updating to lollipop aren't "dead", they are fake because lollipop never existed for this device. I think there may have been a CyanogenMod 10.1 custom ROM but that is a Jelly Bean ROM, you already have Jelly Bean.
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