I recently bought this tablet, and stupidly, upgraded to Lollipop right away. How do I revert this tablet back to it's original state?
I have downloaded a Kit-Kat image from Nvidia's website but I can't seem to get anything from the instructions to work. It appears as though my bootloader is locked, but the instructions on their website don't work for me.
https://developer.nvidia.com/sites/...eld/SHIELD_tab/HowTo-Flash-Recovery-Image.txt
Any help would be appreciated. I am not interested in rooting, as this tablet does what I need it to without root.
Thanks!
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So, I've done this before, and I've never bricked a device until now.
I tried installing a custom rom for my Galaxy S3 on Verizon, but when I restarted, it says this:
System software not authorized by Verizon Wireless has been found on your phone. Please turn off your phone and go to the nearest Verizon Wireless store for help.
I can't get into clockwork, or any bootloader. Any attempt to do anything brings this screen up.
Now, I can get into the Odin downloader. (Power, volume down and home). But, I can't figure out how to get a Rom to load. This is where I am stuck. I have downloaded a few roms, all stock, but none of them want to be recognized. I have no idea where to go. I've been downloading stuff for 5 hrs and nothing has worked, so now Im going to the forumns. Any help is appreciated.
I have the Verizon i-535 Galaxy SIII.
You did not brick your phone you failed to unlock your bootloader. There are 2 guides in the android dev section for rooting.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1974114
Odin back to stock and next time after rooting make sure to use EZUnlock 1.2 to unlock the bootloader BEFORE loading a ROM
Hello, my roommate has a Verizon Galaxy S3. He recently took the 4.4 update, and it apparently screwed up his phone pretty bad. He gets terrible battery life and force closes and freezing. He came into my room knowing that I'm an android nerd and he asked me to root and rom his phone. Cool.
So, now I'm trying to catch up on the current state of the GS3.
He has never rooted or installed recovery. I was under the impression that the Verizon GS3 had an unlocked bootloader, but now I'm reading that the bootloader might be locked since he updated?
1: Is it possible to ODIN back to an earlier version and then unlock his bootloader?
2: What's JTAG?
3: Is there an easy way to install recovery on 4.4 that I'm missing?
Any links or advice you guys could give me would be really helpful... I'm currently reading and jumping between links, but It's hard to figure out where the phone currently stands with all the conflicting information out there and the new update that just pushed.
9kracing said:
Hello, my roommate has a Verizon Galaxy S3. He recently took the 4.4 update, and it apparently screwed up his phone pretty bad. He gets terrible battery life and force closes and freezing. He came into my room knowing that I'm an android nerd and he asked me to root and rom his phone. Cool.
So, now I'm trying to catch up on the current state of the GS3.
He has never rooted or installed recovery. I was under the impression that the Verizon GS3 had an unlocked bootloader, but now I'm reading that the bootloader might be locked since he updated?
1: Is it possible to ODIN back to an earlier version and then unlock his bootloader?
2: What's JTAG?
3: Is there an easy way to install recovery on 4.4 that I'm missing?
Any links or advice you guys could give me would be really helpful... I'm currently reading and jumping between links, but It's hard to figure out where the phone currently stands with all the conflicting information out there and the new update that just pushed.
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1: No, it is not possible to ODIN back to unlock the bootloader. Your friend is stuck on 4.4.2.
2: JTAG is a service you can send your phone off for and pay for to unbrick a hard bricked phone. As long as you or your friend do not hard brick his phone, you won't need a JTAG.
3: You cannot install any kind of standard recovery on 4.3.1 or 4.4.2 on the Verizon Galaxy S3. There is an unofficial safestrap you may be able to use on 4.4.2 found here -> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2797314 But there are no ROMs to flash using safestrap, so for the moment it is kind of pointless.
There really isn't conflicting information in these threads unless you are looking at old, outdated threads on rooting. All of the information anyone needs to know about the current state of the Verizon Galaxy S3 can be found in just a few threads:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2575661
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2653030
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2784249
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2639337
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Good afternoon all if anyone could please help I'd greatly appreciate it!
So I just bought a Sprint Galaxy S5 from ebay with the assumption that with some customizing I'd be able to get the phone domestically unlocked. I got the phone and it was already updated to 5.0 Lollipop so I followed this tutorial to get the SSU.apk to actually work
http://forum.xda-developers.com/spr...locking-sprint-galaxy-s5-g900p-t3085624/page2
After a lot of time I was successful at rooting the phone and was able to downgrade to 4.4.4 but the tutorial calls for 4.4.2 but it seems that 4.4.4 was the only fw that would successfully install.
But now here's the problem I was able to obtain the domestic unlock code through Sprint but now the activation/update app doesn't work and doesn't open automatically the way that the reps said it would,. I've tried to reset stock through Kies but Kies doesn't recognize the phone. I've also tried to use Odin through out this process not only to reset back to stock but also downgrade the fw and the modem. The really annoying part is that small PDA/AP updates and installs work fine but when I try to Odin the original tars it always fails 100% getting a "sw rev check fail aboot fused 2 binary 1 " error on my phone.
I really don't know what to do at this point, and it seems the error is associated with a soft brick but the device still powers on and boots.
I thought this would be a pretty straight forward process but I've hit the wall and am losing my mind, I need help!
P.s. I flashed 4.4.4 fw with CWM and the device is still rooted
Thanks
My knowledge on all this phone rooting and stuff is quite minimal, infact I haven't done any of this since around 3 years ago when I rooted my S5, but I just upgraded to the google pixel today and I REALLY want root, sad thing is I'm with verizon. Anyways, I upgraded my phone's OTA while in the store, being stupid and all, and when I got home, I began my search for rooting. I unlocked the bootloader, and flashed the superSU image boot-to-root.img, but got stuck in a bootloop. I followed someones instructions on sideloading the NDE3DX image, and got back into my phone. SuperSU is installed, but no root. I tride the boot-to-root.img thing again, and got stuck again on the dots thing... I fixed it yet again with sideloading, however I discovered from others that NDE3DX simply wont root, and that you must downgrade to NDE3DP...
I went ahead and downloaded the NDE3DP file from: https://developers.google.com/android/images, but I'm a bit nervous with continue to flash it since i have the verizon version of the pixel (not the XL either), and on the download page, it only shows verizon in parenthesis for the NDE3DX version... Would someone PLEASE help me on how to downgrade this (if possible) and obtain root on this phone? Thanks so much!
No need to downgrade... Go to the twrp thread and follow the guide there... After you follow that guide, then you can flash root... Really easy to do my friend
I'm feeling like an idiot at the moment. I acquired an S8 today and was planning on giving my old optus acquired S6 to a friend. Not properly following any guides I managed to do a factory reset on my device. Only now it seems to be stuck on the Samsung boot up logo. Not sure what to do from here. Original plan was to root it and have a clean slate.
Any guidance or help would be more than appreciated.
Disregard this.
I managed to get my phone into a download screen and acquire new firmware which I installed via Odin3. Phone is now functioning again, minus all the forced software from my original carrier. Feeling good, even though I probably just lucked out.
Thanks anyway.