Hey guys,
Just wanted to leave this here in case you get in a bootloop like me after flashing the original firmware when reverting to stock: wipe all data!!
So go to stock recovery and wipe it all, reflash the fw and it will boot just fine.
It makes sense now of course but somehow I thought flashing full stock firmware would do this
Anyways, maybe no brainers for most of you but it took me a while and couldnt find much on it.
Thanks for all S6 support and development, leaving Android for now.
Later.
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Hey guys, its my first post and I tried searching the forums and google for the answer but didn't seem to find any.
I have the s3 SCHi535-VRLHE firmware and rooted my phone with through Noxious Ninja's walkthrough. During the process (Win7 4bit) after installing the drivers I let windows update update my drivers and cause a conflict with the 1.4.6 drivers. Should of stopped there but went through with rooting anyway (I know I'm a noob).
I have not flashed any custom ROMs after I rooted so my question is what's the difference between a factory reset vs. flashing the stock rom back onto my phone now?
Looking forward to reading and hopefully learning something from your responses!
Malik
A factory reset will just clear out your user data. You should probably put a stock ROM on your exSDcard, boot into recovery, wipe data, then flash the ROM. That will put you back to stock. Though you'll still be rooted and unlocked.
e90driver said:
A factory reset will just clear out your user data. You should probably put a stock ROM on your exSDcard, boot into recovery, wipe data, then flash the ROM. That will put you back to stock. Though you'll still be rooted and unlocked.
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If I already did a factory wipe/reset is it safe to flash the stock rom onto that or do I have to root again?
So I have gotten my S3 back from my brother and it is currently on Beans Build 8 and on 4.1.1 with the custom recovery. I have been away from the S3 forums for a while now and I just want clarification. Am I going to have to flash back to stock to update to 4.1.2 and reroot and flash all over or can I just do the wipe davlike and cache and flash from that point like I normally would have? Meaning download some of the newer ROMs and just flash away since I already have root access and all. Any help is greatly appreciated.
You will want to wipe data also ( factory reset). Should be good to go after that.
Howdy.
I've been using custom firmware since I got my phone over a year ago, but I'm now having big issues.
I tried to install a 4.2.2 ROM and couldn't boot, even after trying bunch of times, clearing cache, all that jazz..
So.. usually I would just put on another ROM or just restore from a backup, but I'm stuck in a weird situation.
I have a bunch of ROM backups (Clockwork Mod Recovery) going back to April last year, the 1st one is standard AT&T, then various custom ROMS (last one I used was Cynogen 10).
But I can only restore the first AT&T ROM, nothing else will restore. I also cannot even install any ROM the only way I can get a working phone is to go back to the horrible original AT&T ROM..
Clockwork mod recovery also crashes when I try to wipe cache, so think that maybe a clue....
Help!! I don't want to be stuck on AT&T ROM forever.... I miss Android 4.1 features
Thanks
eckythump said:
Help!! I don't want to be stuck on AT&T ROM forever.... I miss Android 4.1 features
Thanks
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What version of CWM are you on?
You can always restore to your AT&T backup, transfer all of your other backups to your external SD or computer, ODIN to stock, do a complete wipe of the phone, flash the most recent CWM from Sk8 and try again. I'd say that's your best case scenario.
mrfeuss said:
What version of CWM are you on?
I'm on 6.0.1.4 which I believe is latest. I can't even get the original ROM to restore now either. Ughhhh hope I'm not bricked.
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Try Odin back to stock before u do brick it that should fix any problems
Hi.
Im a noob on XDA but have enjoyed the freedom of custom roms for some time now on my note 4 (N910C). So far it has only been stock based touchwiz roms. A few days ago i decided to give CM13 a go and since then i have been unable to revert back. Every touchwiz rom (stock and custom) i have tried just ends in a bootloop but when i flash CM13 again it boots up just fine.
I have tried flashing numerous android 6.0.1 stock roms through odin, even from different regions but still for the same version. Its always stuck in a bootloop.
Tried flashing stock and then immediately flashing custom stock based rom (both clean install after wiping and trying to dirty flash over stock rom)
I have done all the suggestions of factory resetting, wiping caches and you name it after clean flashes and even tried them with dirty flashes. Whatever i do i cannot get any stock or stock based rom to boot up.
A few months ago i tried out cm12.1 and had no problem going back to a stock based rom, but after CM13 my phone absolutely refuses to boot anything stock or stock based.
I would appreciate any advice and suggestions. Please ask if theres any more info needed of my device or roms i already tried.
JackalJC said:
Hi.
Im a noob on XDA but have enjoyed the freedom of custom roms for some time now on my note 4 (N910C). So far it has only been stock based touchwiz roms. A few days ago i decided to give CM13 a go and since then i have been unable to revert back. Every touchwiz rom (stock and custom) i have tried just ends in a bootloop but when i flash CM13 again it boots up just fine.
I have tried flashing numerous android 6.0.1 stock roms through odin, even from different regions but still for the same version. Its always stuck in a bootloop.
Tried flashing stock and then immediately flashing custom stock based rom (both clean install after wiping and trying to dirty flash over stock rom)
I have done all the suggestions of factory resetting, wiping caches and you name it after clean flashes and even tried them with dirty flashes. Whatever i do i cannot get any stock or stock based rom to boot up.
A few months ago i tried out cm12.1 and had no problem going back to a stock based rom, but after CM13 my phone absolutely refuses to boot anything stock or stock based.
I would appreciate any advice and suggestions. Please ask if theres any more info needed of my device or roms i already tried.
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You might be having kernel issues. If the stock you're flashing is a flashable zip then it might not include the stock kernel, if it doesn't include the stock kernel then its leaving the custom kernel from CM13. If that's the case it won't work because stock won't work with a CM kernel.
You said you did the wipes when you flashed, did you mean that you did factory reset, wipe cache and wipe dalvik cache? Or did you mean that you did the advanced wipe options to wipe system partition and data partition before flashing?
If you didn't do the advanced wipe before flashing then it might help if you did them before flashing. Wipe system and wipe data then factory reset then flash ROM then wipe cache and dalvik after flashing then reboot.
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You might be having kernel issues. If the stock you're flashing is a flashable zip then it might not include the stock kernel, if it doesn't include the stock kernel then its leaving the custom kernel from CM13. If that's the case it won't work because stock won't work with a CM kernel.
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I flash stock roms through Odin with the .tar.md5 file.
JackalJC said:
Hi.
Im a noob on XDA but have enjoyed the freedom of custom roms for some time now on my note 4 (N910C). So far it has only been stock based touchwiz roms. A few days ago i decided to give CM13 a go and since then i have been unable to revert back. Every touchwiz rom (stock and custom) i have tried just ends in a bootloop but when i flash CM13 again it boots up just fine.
I have tried flashing numerous android 6.0.1 stock roms through odin, even from different regions but still for the same version. Its always stuck in a bootloop.
Tried flashing stock and then immediately flashing custom stock based rom (both clean install after wiping and trying to dirty flash over stock rom)
I have done all the suggestions of factory resetting, wiping caches and you name it after clean flashes and even tried them with dirty flashes. Whatever i do i cannot get any stock or stock based rom to boot up.
A few months ago i tried out cm12.1 and had no problem going back to a stock based rom, but after CM13 my phone absolutely refuses to boot anything stock or stock based.
I would appreciate any advice and suggestions. Please ask if theres any more info needed of my device or roms i already tried.
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Usually if it bootloops after flashing with Odin, you boot to stock recovery and factory reset/wipe cache and it should boot after that.
The times that you tried stock and then went back to CM13, are you rooting and reflashing TWRP again so you can flash back to CM13? Or is it leaving custom recovery on the device even after flashing with Odin? If its leaving TWRP on the device then Odin isn't flashing correctly.
Are you flashing the full stock firmware in Odin? Or are you flashing a modified stock .tar?
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Droidriven said:
Usually if it bootloops after flashing with Odin, you boot to stock recovery and factory reset/wipe cache and it should boot after that.
The times that you tried stock and then went back to CM13, are you rooting and reflashing TWRP again so you can flash back to CM13? Or is it leaving custom recovery on the device even after flashing with Odin? If its leaving TWRP on the device then Odin isn't flashing correctly.
Are you flashing the full stock firmware in Odin? Or are you flashing a modified stock .tar?
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I have tried all the factory reset/wipe cache suggested on other threads and websites i have found regarding bootloops.
When going back to CM13 after trying methods to get stock back i flash TWRP again as flashing stock through Odin replaces TWRP with stock recovery again and then do a restore of CM13 through TWRP with all my necessary apps on, much easier than installing everything again after each try (a fresh install of CM13 also works fine with no problems). I also tried various versions of Odin just in case it was a problem with the version i used but every time i get the same same results.
I am flashing full pure stock from sammobile.
Hello guys,
I had rooted my phone (Samsung note 3 SM-N9005) rooted, but afterall decided to go back to stock. The main problem is after flashing it becomes pretty annoying. It works like ice untill I add some apps like facebook, messenger and other. It was pretty great and not laggy before rooting, so it is strange that after flashing stock rom it becomes sluggish.
Could it be that I do something wrong to flash it?
What did I do?
I boot into TWRP recovery and wipe Data, Dalvic cache, system and cache.
Using Odin I flash the stock firmware (1 File) downloaded from samsung -updates page. In the meniu of Odin I choose only F.RESET and REBOOT.
After that I boot the stock and wipe data and factory reset once more.
I read others do have issues when writing stock ROM on top of old one. But I do wipe everything. System files take up to 5.73Gb when fresh installed.
What could be wrong? Anyone had same issues? Help needed. Thank you.
I don't think you did anything wrong. My first rom was the official 6.0 rom. When I put it in, two buttons stopped working... and so I had to jump to Lineage OS to get back an "undamaged" phone. I don't think there is any going back.