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[GUIDE] Installing CWM, Making Backup and Rooting on Galaxy R I9103

Installing CWM, Making a Backup and Rooting on the Galaxy R I9103:
All you need is:
ODIN
CWM
Superuser
Completely Switch off your Galaxy R I9103 (wait for vibration to confirm switch off)
Switch on in Download mode by pressing Vol Down + Home Button + Power button simultaneously
You will see a warning for installing custom firmware, just confirm it by pressing Vol Up and enter in download mode.
Start ODIN software on your PC
Connect your Galaxy R I9103 to your PC via USB cable
Now you should see "Added" in ODIN message box, if not please check and install Samsung USB drivers again.
Click on PDA tab and browse to the ".tar" inside the CWM file
Don`t change any other option in Odin, make sure Re-Partition is not checked
Press start button and you will be done within 2 minutes and Odin will show as Pass.
Now your mobile will reboot automatically
CWM Recovery is installed.
* NOW MAKE A CWM BACKUP OF YOUR DEVICE! *
Completely Switch off your Galaxy R I9103 (wait for vibration to confirm switch off)
Switch on in CWM recovery mode by pressing Power button, waiting for "Galaxy R" splash screen, and then pressing Vol Up + Home Button simultaneously
Make a Backup (Use Vol keys to scroll)
Now its time to root your device by installing Superuser
Completely Switch off your Galaxy R I9103 (wait for vibration to confirm switch off)
Switch on in CWM recovery mode by pressing Power button, waiting for "Galaxy R" splash screen, and then pressing Vol Up + Home Button simultaneously
Click on to “install zip from SD card” (Use Vol keys to scroll)
Select Zip from SD card >> select the superuser ZIP file
After the ZIP is installed, reboot the device by going to main menu
Now your Samsung Galaxy R I9103 is rooted, without yellow triangle.

Thanks Mate For Full Tut

Where have you been before?!
My phone have a yellow triangle on a screen, is there any way to remove that? This is my first android phone and i did not backup and i was complete noob about all this

Nephilim983 said:
Where have you been before?!
My phone have a yellow triangle on a screen, is there any way to remove that? This is my first android phone and i did not backup and i was complete noob about all this
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You can remove the yellow triangle by
1) Flashing back to the original Kernel
2) resetting the binary counter using USB Jig (Check Ebay for "USB Jig Samsung Galaxy S2" and Youtube for instructions)
The yellow triangle is just a warning that you have flashed insecure kernel and i see no danger in that.

Thanks for the reply
as i sad before, i didn't made a backup of stock kernel... where can i find a stock kernel for europe model? i kind a need it... i'll may be returning my phone for service check

Can use CheckFUS to download the European firmware. See this thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1408610

ishafiq said:
Can use CheckFUS to download the European firmware. See this thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1408610
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Dude you are a genius
I found my firmware on it...downloading now
...but what should i do with it? use odin and pda option?

Nephilim983 said:
Dude you are a genius
I found my firmware on it...downloading now
...but what should i do with it? use odin and pda option?
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Yes..Use the ODIN and PDA option to flash the firmware..
You mentioned you will sent phone to service.
Your binary counter will not be reset even though you flash the original firmware.
See if you can buy a USB jig. It might be handy for you always to unbrick you device, in case u brick/semi-brick it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1068522
You can also home make USB jig from a spare micro USB cable. See instructions here. But be careful of the terminals. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rdn5GoRjhn0

ishafiq said:
Yes..Use the ODIN and PDA option to flash the firmware..
You mentioned you will sent phone to service.
Your binary counter will not be reset even though you flash the original firmware.
See if you can buy a USB jig. It might be handy for you always to unbrick you device, in case u brick/semi-brick it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1068522
You can also home make USB jig from a spare micro USB cable. See instructions here. But be careful of the terminals. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rdn5GoRjhn0
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Thank you so much
...will look into the usb jig thing
Thanks again

ishafiq said:
You can remove the yellow triangle by
The yellow triangle is just a warning that you have flashed insecure kernel and i see no danger in that.
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The main function of the Yellow Triangle, is to show to Samsung Service that you did something that violates the warranty.
So Samsung Service can tell you:
"You have to pay to repair this device, you have violated the warranty."

legion1911 said:
Installing CWM, Making a Backup and Rooting on the Galaxy R I9103:
Completely Switch off your Galaxy R I9103 (wait for vibration to confirm switch off)
Switch on in Download mode by pressing Vol Down + Home Button + Power button simultaneously
You will see a warning for installing custom firmware, just confirm it by pressing Vol Up and enter in download mode.
Start ODIN software on your PC
Connect your Galaxy R I9103 to your PC via USB cable
Now you should see "Added" in ODIN message box, if not please check and install Samsung USB drivers again.
Click on PDA tab and browse to the CWM file
Don`t change any other option in Odin, make sure Re-Partition is not checked
Press start button and you will be done within 2 minutes and Odin will show as Pass.
Now your mobile will reboot automatically
CWM Recovery is installed.
* NOW MAKE A CWM BACKUP OF YOUR DEVICE! *
Completely Switch off your Galaxy R I9103 (wait for vibration to confirm switch off)
Switch on in CWM recovery mode by pressing Power button, waiting a second, and then pressing Vol Up + Home Button simultaneously
Make a Backup on you SD Card (Use Vol keys to scroll)
Now its time to root your device by installing Superuser
Completely Switch off your Galaxy R I9103 (wait for vibration to confirm switch off)
Switch on in CWM recovery mode by pressing Power button, waiting a second, and then pressing Vol Up + Home Button simultaneously
Click on to “install zip from SD card” (Use Vol keys to scroll)
Select Zip from SD card >> select the superuser ZIP file
After the ZIP is installed, reboot the device by going to main menu
Now your Samsung Galaxy R I9103 is rooted, without yellow triangle.
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Hi,
I installed the CWM and made a backup of the ROM, but when I try to install the SU file (Superuser-3.0.7-efghi-signed.zip) I get this error (see attached file).
MD5 Mismatch from both locations; the MD5 I get from the files is "fc462fa0630379edbe10006b1d19d9b1"
Thanks a lot

Chapter said:
Hi,
I installed the CWM and made a backup of the ROM, but when I try to install the SU file (Superuser-3.0.7-efghi-signed.zip) I get this error (see attached file).
MD5 Mismatch from both locations; the MD5 I get from the files is "fc462fa0630379edbe10006b1d19d9b1"
Thanks a lot
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Download the file n try again.
Sometimes it may get corrupted during initial download.
Cheers !

I tried few times but the problem don't disappear; Can anybody post the file in another server?
Thanks a lot
Enviado desde mi Galaxy R con tacatá

I've got the same error when flashed superuser over new 2.3.5 today. Surprisingly all still worked perfectly - su is installed and superuser app works.
Maybe because I didn't hard reset and I already had my previous firmware rooted.

Very useful,thanks for all!
Works perfect on my device.

Chapter said:
Hi,
I installed the CWM and made a backup of the ROM, but when I try to install the SU file (Superuser-3.0.7-efghi-signed.zip) I get this error (see attached file).
MD5 Mismatch from both locations; the MD5 I get from the files is "fc462fa0630379edbe10006b1d19d9b1"
Thanks a lot
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astax said:
I've got the same error when flashed superuser over new 2.3.5 today. Surprisingly all still worked perfectly - su is installed and superuser app works.
Maybe because I didn't hard reset and I already had my previous firmware rooted.
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A MD5 mismatch means your file is corrupted.
I think superuser should not be installed over another superuser. It is not clear to me why you do that.
If you have problems with superuser, please contact ChainsDD, the developer of Superuser.

DarknessDragon said:
Very useful,thanks for all!
Works perfect on my device.
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Thank you for the feedback.

Hello.
Quick question/s
1. Will my download count increase if I make a backup of my current android version?
2. Will my warranty be voided when I install CWM in my GSR? I do not have acess to a USB jig so I can not reset the counter....
Thank you.

alister214 said:
Hello.
Quick question/s
1. Will my download count increase if I make a backup of my current android version?
2. Will my warranty be voided when I install CWM in my GSR? I do not have acess to a USB jig so I can not reset the counter....
Thank you.
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Installing CWM with Odin does not increase the counter.
Making a backup with CWM does not increase the counter.
Installing superuser with CWM does not increase the counter.
Installing the "ardatdat custom kernel with root+overclock" with CWM does not increase the counter.
Installing a stock rom does not increase the counter.

Hi,
I installed CWM and and made a backup of the stock-rom. Then I wanted to copy the backup-file to my pc, but i cant find the clockworkmod/backup folder. There is only a clockworkmod folder and that one is empty. Its the same on the pc and in android. The weird thing is, that i can see the folder and the backup-file in CWM. So I can restore in cwm, but I want to make a backup of the backup to my pc.
Who can help?

[q] i don't know what to download to update my samsung galaxy sii to 4.1.2 jellybean

I dont know what is the country of origin of my Samsung galaxy s2
these are my details..
PDA: I9100JLPC
PHONE: I9100XXLPW
CSC: I9100JPLP9
I dont know what will be the file to be download.
please help me
THANKS!

lednar.mii said:
I dont know what is the country of origin of my Samsung galaxy s2
these are my details..
PDA: I9100JLPC
PHONE: I9100XXLPW
CSC: I9100JPLP9
I dont know what will be the file to be download.
please help me
THANKS!
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All the new Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean Firmwares for the Galaxy S II are present in our Firmware Section as well. You can use our Firmware Section to manually update your device if for some reason you can’t officially update your device via Samsung Kies or via OTA as you are using a Custom ROM or if your Country has yet not received the Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean Update. Also, bookmark this page as we will keep this page up to date with the latest information on countries and network providers releasing the Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean Update.
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At this site.
http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/
If not what you wanted, I'll find more solutions.
Pls press thnx button.
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lednar.mii said:
I dont know what is the country of origin of my Samsung galaxy s2
these are my details..
PDA: I9100JLPC
PHONE: I9100XXLPW
CSC: I9100JPLP9
I dont know what will be the file to be download.
please help me
THANKS!
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Or you could use this:
Samsung has begun distributing the Android 4.1.2 update OTA across the globe for a little while now. But if you haven't received your update and are getting a little impatient, you can install it right now using the Flash program "Odin," which is not at all difficult to use.
To snag Android 4.1.2 on your Galaxy S2, first you'll need to install Odin and Samsung's stock ROM (international version). Sammobile offers both as downloads, but because it can be painfully slow to download them from their site, we're offering them to you on our servers as well. Here you can download Samsung's stock ROM.
http://files.androidpit.info/content/I9100XWLS8_I9100FOPLS3_FOP.zip
and here you can download Odin. Obligatory warning: AndroidPIT cannot be held responsible if you follow our instructions incorrectly and end up damaging your phone.
http://files.androidpit.info/content/Odin3-v1.85.zip
Here's How to Install The Update on Your Galaxy S2:
1. Download Odin and the firmware on your PC (links above) and extract the files, placing them in the folder of your choice.
2. Secure your smartphone with Ultimate Backup because you are going to need to return your phone to factory settings and clear all caches. Theoretically, it's possible to install the update without wiping your device, but there's risk that your phone then won't run smoothly.
3. Turn off your device. Then start it in recovery mode by holding the volume up, home button and power button simultaneously until a small green Android appears with a menu above him.
4. Use the volume buttons to choos "wipe data / factory reset" and select it with the power button. Scroll down to "yes" using the volume button and select it with the power button again. Then repeat the procedure with "wipe cache partition."
5. Choose "reboot system now" using the power button.
6. Turn the phone off again.
7. Restart phone in download mode (home + power + volume down).
8. Start Odin on your computer
9. Click PDA and add the unzipped firmware code: I9100XWLS8_I9100XXLS8_I9100FOPLS3_HOME.tar.md5 to PDA
Leave everything else unchanged and make sure that the "repartition" box is not checked.
10. Connect your Galaxy S2 to your PC via USB cable. In the top left of Odin, you should now see a box which reads 0:COM 12 (It may also read a different number besides 12).
11.Click "start" and wait until the green "PASS!" button appears. Wait until your Galaxy S2 has restarted before you disconnect it.
12. THAT'S IT!
If your phone gets stuck during the boot process, do not panic! This often happens during the Flash process. Try pressing the power button down until the Galaxy S2 turns off, then repeat steps 2 through 4..
Hope it helped
Pls press the thnx button.

Streetryders_2000 said:
Here's How to Install The Update on Your Galaxy S2:
1. Download Odin and the firmware on your PC (links above) and extract the files, placing them in the folder of your choice.
2. Secure your smartphone with Ultimate Backup because you are going to need to return your phone to factory settings and clear all caches. Theoretically, it's possible to install the update without wiping your device, but there's risk that your phone then won't run smoothly.
3. Turn off your device. Then start it in recovery mode by holding the volume up, home button and power button simultaneously until a small green Android appears with a menu above him.
4. Use the volume buttons to choos "wipe data / factory reset" and select it with the power button. Scroll down to "yes" using the volume button and select it with the power button again. Then repeat the procedure with "wipe cache partition."
5. Choose "reboot system now" using the power button.
6. Turn the phone off again.
7. Restart phone in download mode (home + power + volume down).
8. Start Odin on your computer
9. Click PDA and add the unzipped firmware code: I9100XWLS8_I9100XXLS8_I9100FOPLS3_HOME.tar.md5 to PDA
Leave everything else unchanged and make sure that the "repartition" box is not checked.
10. Connect your Galaxy S2 to your PC via USB cable. In the top left of Odin, you should now see a box which reads 0:COM 12 (It may also read a different number besides 12).
11.Click "start" and wait until the green "PASS!" button appears. Wait until your Galaxy S2 has restarted before you disconnect it.
12. THAT'S IT!
If your phone gets stuck during the boot process, do not panic! This often happens during the Flash process. Try pressing the power button down until the Galaxy S2 turns off, then repeat steps 2 through 4..
Hope it helped
Pls press the thnx button.
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thanks for the explanation sir, you are the man!

Can I use towel root?

Just got my sprint galaxy s5. Since lots of root method are outdated, I was wondering if I can use towelroot with what I currently have without tripping knox.
My galaxy s5 is currently on android 4.4.4.
The kernel is dated November 2014.

Towelroot only works on pre-June 2014 builds. If I remember right you can Odin to an earlier build and use Towelroot.

Do you know where I can find directions for that? I found some post about this but no specific directions on how to actually do it.

Okay.
Steps:
1. Download odin3.09
2. Download NE5 Kernel and NK4 Kernel onto the computer.
3. Download towelroot to the phone.
4. Power down the phone and go into download mode (hold power + home + down vol button at the same time)
5. Open odin on the computer and connect the phone to the computer. The first square will be blue when connected.
6. Load the NE5 kernel on the AP and check the AP box. Start it and let it reset and remove the usb cable.
7. Power up the phone to the home screen and install towelroot and make it rain. (There will be some force close when it boots up after NE5 kernel is install.)
8. After that, turn off the phone and go into download mode again.
9. Go back into odin and load the NK4 Kernel in the AP slot and check the box. Then start it again.
10. Once done, it'll reset.
11. Go into playstore and get SuperSU app.

Restore to STOCK from MOAR V2.2 NE5

Hi guys.
So, I am running MOAR (android 4.4.2) on my GS5. I terminated with sprint, and need to return my lease.
I have a few APK's on this phone that I can't seem to find in the appstore - I took a helium backup of those and I hope I can restor them to my new Tmobile LG-G5.
But besides that -
I want to wipe/clear the entire phone and restore it to stock.
Tips? hints? walkthroughs?
Help!. Thanks.
:good::good::good:

the most solid way to fully restore to stock is to flash a tarball in Odin. Here is an OK4 based tar.md5 that will fit the bill pretty well. Im not sure how well versed you are in this kind of stuff, so forgive me if im telling you stuff that you already know.
1: download Odin here and the OK4 tarball here
2: run odin as administrator
3: inside odin, on the right hand side, click the button marked "AP" and select the tar.md5 file you downloaded
4: put your phone into download mode (press and hold vol down, home and power until it powers off then release power but continue holding the other 2. If your phones firmware doesnt force reboot with that button combo, then pull the battery out, put it back in, then hold vol down, home and power until it vibrates and release power continuing holding the other two. Both of those scenarios should bring you to a screen that warns you that you could break your phone if you continue)
5: Connect your phone via micro usb
6: let the drivers install on your computer
7: press start in odin
You should see a progress bar going on both odin and the phone and once its done, youll have a "factory fresh" ROM. Only thing left to do at that point is to delete internal storage and you should be good to go.
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oh, those apks that you cant find in the appstore anymore should be in the root of the internal storage under system/app and the apk itself should be in the folder of the app youre looking for for instance google hangouts apk is in /system/app/hangouts/hangouts.apk
also, the odin restore will also flash a stock recovery, so before you do that stuff you should go into whatever recovery you use and wipe internal storage.

Hey thanks.
I'm about to do this. I just used TWRP to 'reset' the phone / wipe system data etc.
On Odin (3.10.7) options tab is a RTN for Sprint option. What's that? Do I need to check it? Auto Restart?

Bigjohn_S said:
Hey thanks.
I'm about to do this. I just used TWRP to 'reset' the phone / wipe system data etc.
On Odin (3.10.7) options tab is a RTN for Sprint option. What's that? Do I need to check it? Auto Restart?
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Damn my impatience.
So I did all this - used TWRP to wipe the phone / reboot into download.
Connected phone in download mode to odin
put the TAR.MD5 file in AP
Odin takes a minute or 3 to check this.
When ready, hit START (Options Auto Reboot and F.Reset Time are checked)
3:40 seconds later - PASS.
Phone, however, sits there with "recovery rebooting" in blue at the top left. 10 minutes now, nothing...

Bigjohn_S said:
Damn my impatience.
So I did all this - used TWRP to wipe the phone / reboot into download.
Connected phone in download mode to odin
put the TAR.MD5 file in AP
Odin takes a minute or 3 to check this.
When ready, hit START (Options Auto Reboot and F.Reset Time are checked)
3:40 seconds later - PASS.
Phone, however, sits there with "recovery rebooting" in blue at the top left. 10 minutes now, nothing...
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Any ideas? I don't want to end up owning this damed lease phone...

You booted to Download using TWRP, thats why it failed. Turn off the phone and do it as supposed. VOL Down + HOME + POWER.
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csmasn said:
You booted to Download using TWRP, thats why it failed. Turn off the phone and do it as supposed. VOL Down + HOME + POWER.
Sent from my SM-G900P using Tapatalk
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Thanks.
I pulled the battery and rebooted to download, applied via ODIN a second time, and it failed.
Rebooted, phone said "update failed - attach phone to KIES and try again" - so I applied via ODIN > WIN!
I'm good to go now!
Thanks for all the help, really. Yes, I thought I booted to download cleanly, but you're right - my impatience I probably had TWRP boot me to download.
John

glad to hear you got it working!

[SOLVED] SM N915R4 root on Android 6.0

Is it possible to root the US Cellular Note edge on android 6.0? If so, what is the procedure?
Edit: I was able to root and install LineageOS with the January security patch on this device.

Mohsin6643 said:
Is it possible to root the US Cellular Note edge on android 6.0? If so, what is the procedure?
Edit: I was able to root and install LineageOS with the January security patch on this device.
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Please make a tutorial on how to root note edge on Android 6.thanks,hopes that you can help me

Luzmikah said:
Please make a tutorial on how to root note edge on Android 6.thanks,hopes that you can help me
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TRY THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK, I WILL NOT BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY SIDE EFFECTS OR ISSUES THAT COME FROM FOLLOWING THESE INSTRUCTIONS
This is what I did:
1. Go to https://autoroot.chainfire.eu/ and pick your variant of the Note edge, download that autoroot file.
2. Go to https://odindownload.com/ and get the latest Odin.
3. Put your phone in download mode by pressing power, home and volume down buttons. Press volume up when shown warning sign. Now plug your phone into your PC.
4. Go into odin, click on AP, and select the autoroot file.
5. Now press on start, and let Odin fail.
6. Unplug the phone and now take out the battery, put it back in and follow the same instructions to get into download mode. Once in download mode, plug the phone in to the computer again.
7. Go to [29/03/17][twrp recovery][v3.1.0] and get the ".tar" for your specific model.
8. Flash that the same way as you flashed the autoroot, it should pass this time.
9. Unplug the phone and take the battery out. Use the power, home and volume up buttons this time to boot into twrp.
10. Now, you can go to the adb sideload section and sideload Magisk. I would also recommend you get some other ROM for this phone as I don't know how much magisk likes Android 6. Most ROMs on the Samsung Note 4 xda page have builds for the Note edge as well.