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
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hi basically i took my phone s3 gt-i9305 to a local shop to get it unlocked, after it was unlocked the system updates would fail and say modifiyed, i took phone back to shop today and he did some thing and it worked, only there was a prob it was branded to t mobile and some app where in swedish i think, i took it back and i told him i read a post on orignal pre-root roms on this forum, basically he flash the evr-bvbmf1 to my phone as that was what was orinally on phone, after he done it the device status said normal, i managed to delete the remaining t mobile apps but there is a supersu app on phone, i read i can use OTA with the rom that was used, i have never rooted or flashed anything my self, i just wanted phone unlocked and to be able to OTA, my questions are
1 if i OTA will it update and i will never see the tmobile apps again
2 if i OTA will the supersu be removed
3 if number 2 is a no how on earth can i get rid of the the supersu ?
i just want to be able to have my phone on offical OTA, its unlocked now and working but i havent tryed the OTA yet as i not sure if i will be able to get rid of supersu, desperate for help as it been doing my head in for 2 days and havent actually been able to sit and install apps or even play with my phone
thanks in advance for some advice, ps sorry for the long post
SOLVED now i think, but when i went to update it said i was on latest so i guess i have to wait till it needs update.
i removed supersu and my device now says modified, i have no rooting experience and just want my device to be on offical fimeware, can any one please help me, wish i never went to the shop i did to get it unlocked, could some one please help me when i purchased the phone i was on BVBMF1, i really dont want to mess it up up, it was EE/ORANGE UK orginally.
thanks inadvance
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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I had root my S7 on 8/5,following the steps on TWRP webpage.
Yesterday I tried to update my TWRP to 3.0.2-3 via Flashify,and found out I have already lost my root(but I have no idea why).I'm wonder is it fine to follow the steps on TWRP again to get my root back again?(I can still enter the TWRP 3.0.2-2,which I flashed nearly a month ago)
Thanks for the answer.
Same thing happen to me when i flash different kernels.
Do you allow the security updates? If so, they will remove root and it might be difficult to get root again. You will have to disable a certain security update (don't know which one)
So i think i have completely ****ed up, hopefully you guys can give me some insight
I was on the process of properly rooting a samsung s7 that i got since the root checker said that it was not properly root.
i decide to fallow this guide
https://forum.xda-developers.com/ve...ot-guide-verizon-s7-s7-edge-sm-g930v-t3411015
But i after flashing the ENG using Odin
the phone just keep restarting, over and over, it also does the samething in recovery mode.
Notes:
The phone was displaying Custom unlock login screen (Before Flash)
Also it was 6.0.1 update
and I got the the 7.0 update, to flash the ENG
If there is anything you guys can advice, ill appreciate.
If it can go in downloading mode you can flash stock firmware and try rooting again.
There aren't many new topics on this model so here we go,
My z3 stock came with 5.0.1 and as far as i know never (the 6616) had the 4.4 as an option. SO downgrading didn't work, so i'm stuck trying to root this with 5.0.1 and after two days of browsing this site there really doesn't seem to be a way to do so. Eventually i said $%#* it and rooted it using kingroot but after rooting it, root checker passed the root but would not give proper access when installing root apps such as busybox and the ta backup tool.
So i didn't realize that the keys ive been trying to save are useless anyways if i update android and the main reason for me going through this is i really don't like 5.0.1. Only thing i haven't really looked into doing is seeing if kingroot will let me unlock the bootloader then trying to flash an update. SO has anyone successfully updated a 6616 z3 (to 6) who didn't start off with 4.4?