I tried rooting this phone with SuperOneClick, and it didn't work. So then I tried Kingo and it said it worked and I could use the phone right afterwards but I could not see the superuser icon, so I tried resetting it and from then on it's been flashing at the samsung screen. I have been trying to root the phone to unlock it as IMEI was all scrambled on the About Phone screen for some reason and none of the ATT codes would work. I really need to get info off of the phone.
The phone was upgraded via Kies to Gingerbread.
I've been trying to read about this a lot lately, but I am a novice and I am in over my head for my free time right now. In desperate thanks to any help.
**** Also, I have a second Infuse and I rooted it just fine with SuperOneClick and so I just don't know what the **** is wrong with this other phone....it would always get to the mounting stage and become unresponsive.
Also, I upgraded the other phone to gingerbread via keys update and now it won't root either. I guess I have to remove the upgrade? Not sure how to do that without root.
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hey guys,
bought my samsung captivate two days ago and i love it. from reading all the posts about how rooting is awesome i finally took the plunge and rooted my phone with the one click root program. followed the directions to the teeth, everything went fine. even went as far as downloading clockwork and backing up my rom.
few hours later, im totally blown that i rooted my phone. i realized i threw away my warranty.
is there ANY way to unroot the phone and make it totally stock and make it seem like the phone was never altered? i read some answers of "yeah" and some answers of "once your rooted, you can't get back" (i remember reading about an article about how some android phones like the nexus one, once you root theres no going back period). the program i used had a unroot button but im not sure if that would wipe everything away to factory settings and erase all traces of the root.
i know im effing stupid for not thinking it threw. but hey, its good that i came to my senses before i loaded up an os.
to be clear, my phone is just rooted. nothing else. im not running cognitive rom or anything. its running the stock samsung 2.1.
so can anyone PLEASE PLEASE help me solve this problem?
im a total noob when it comes to android.
it took me 20 minutes doing that one click from reading the directions over and over again lol.
i need some step by step directions for stupid people
okay, so i followed the directions to unroot. the programs that were installed when i rooted seemed to have disappear. to be extra sure, i reformatted my sd card and than factory restored the phone (from settings/privacy). quick question though, after i pressed "factory reset" my phone rebooted and than for a quick second i saw the same screen i saw when i rooted (the black screen with the yellow font? looked like a system command prompt i guess). it came on for a sec and than disappeared and it booted regularly. did that happen because i did a factory reset or did that happen because im still rooted?
wtf is wrong with me. i just want my unrooted captivate back (and my warranty lol)
odin to stock with master clear.
There's a thread under android development something with "stock rom" that should restore your phone back to factory.
If you did all of that then you are definitely back to stock now & theres no way of detecting your phone was rooted. You could of gotten away with just using one click to unroot. Thats all I did when I returned mine after a week because my gps never worked at all. I dont think they even did anything to check if it was rooted or anything. Hows your gps on the new one by the way? Mines still bad but at least it sees some satellites now. My old one had a hardware problem where gps wouldn't do anything at all.
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When you use odin to flash back to stock does that restore the AT&T bloatware as well? Or should I use TiB when I first get the phone to get the bloatware back on?
Thanks,
JOe K.
After trying to exchange my phone for another phone (thinking the GPS is a hardware issue) I had rooted and flashed a custom rom. I reverted back using ODIN master clear and ODIN 2.1 rom (Which puts bloatware and everything on it) and there's no way to detect it. The only time it will truly void your warranty (I believe) if you go into the store with a custom rom or if you go into the store with a bricked phone and they figure out you were modifying your phone.
thanks for the answers guys! why is it that you cant "unroot" a nexus one? i heard they'll always be able to tell if your rooted once you do it.
I have a friends MT4G here and something went wrong when trying to get it permarooted, I'm not sure what happened before it got to me but I tried to start from scratch and restored the phone back to factory settings, I tried to use Visionary to gain temp root and then went to try permaroot and visionary kept coming back.
I then installed terminal emu. and tried to root and got as far as rebooting to check S-off and the phone keeps crashing, ( reboots then visionary pops up and shuts down, starts again and weather tries to refresh and crashes.) I'm looking for a way to get this phone back to the day it was bought so I can do this for him the right way. I need to know if A. it's even possible, B. what do I need if so, C. other options.
Hboot is there but tries to update and says update failed, Need a hand on this one.
Thanks in advance....
Edit / Update: OK I was told to try something else but now I have the phone working but no chance to get S-off yet, I did a Factory reset and formatted the SD card and poof I was back up and running, I tried to gain temp root then Perma root but it always goes back to S-On no matter what I try. I still have Hboot Recovery here but I'm having a problem getting any further so I'm hoping some one will have a suggestion or even a glimmer of hope they wanna throw my way, the phone owner is a good kid and helps out alot with my son and I really wanna get him back in action here.
Ok, so it sounds like your issue is a bad eMMC chip. This bad chip does not allow root to stick when using the visionary method. The only way to root is using the g-free method. But, when you have a bad eMMC and use the gfree method, you get corrupted partitions and after a while you get a bunch of errors in clockwork mod and end up with a bricked phone...kind of a lose lose situation.
lowandbehold said:
Ok, so it sounds like your issue is a bad eMMC chip. This bad chip does not allow root to stick when using the visionary method. The only way to root is using the g-free method. But, when you have a bad eMMC and use the gfree method, you get corrupted partitions and after a while you get a bunch of errors in clockwork mod and end up with a bricked phone...kind of a lose lose situation.
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I found a way around the problem and got him back up and running but thanks for the heads up on the gfree, I did find the post on it.
As the title says, I have the Samsung Galaxy SII Sprint's variation. I rooted my phone when it was on the version before Gingerbread EL29. I used the SuperOneClick method to root my phone and after doing that, 'Superuser' was installed on my phone. Everything was going fine until I accidentally updated my phone to Gingerbread 2.3.6 EL29 via Sprint's over-the-air update. I know it sounds dumb from me but I really knew that if I updated my phone I could mess up my root privileges, but that pop up update was showing up each 5 minutes, that in one of them I accidentally pressed 'install'. Now I have tried to unroot my phone with SuperOneClick but 'Superuser' is still there and when I access an app that requires root privileges like 'Wireless Tether' it says that my phone is not rooted. I also tried to do a factory reset and root again with 'SuperOneClick' but it freezes up (I guess it's because 'Superuser' is still there?) I was also thinking on installing a rooted rom but I don't know if I can install custom roms (I don't know if I have CWM and if it will mess up because I'm not rooted?..) Right now I just want to get the latest rooted stable release possible.. Sorry for extending myself but I wanted to give all the important details as possible as I am new in handling root phones and also in this forum. I will appreciate any help, thanks!
-James E.
Btw you might want to ask in the epic forums. You will get slot more help. I would use sfhub el29 oneclick
Sent from my BAD A$$ EPIC TOUCH 4G
follow the online tutorial guide below by qbking77...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7pWjmKCsoc
Thank you PakAttack1994! I watched the video and even though it didn't work at the first time, I was able to ask him my questions and he was able to answer them. If you want to see with the problems that I went through and his replies are on the video comments. I'm the user 'jamesssssss'
lol np, I just pointed you in the right direction. qbking77 deserves a whole heap of credit over me.
Hi all,
Can't quite figure this one out. I've had no trouble rooting my phone and installing different ROMs...up until I soft bricked my phone a few weeks ago and managed to get it back.
After doing this though, even though I was able to install Viper's ROM, apparently now I'm unrooted, even though I still have downloaded SU on my phone. I tried to update it, but it failed.
I'm just really confused, never had this issue before.
Thanks for the help and suggestions.
Depending on how you managed to get it back, you may have unrooted it. Never seen that happen though, I caught a soft brick once, but I still had root afterwards.
It SHOULD be as easy as flashing the superSU ZIP file in Hasoon2000's toolkit to get root back.
I noticed after taking one of the lineage updates I lost root. I tried to reroot with odin and managed to pork my phone quite good. It took me until about now to get it rooted, unlocked and finally TWRP loaded. Recovery was fighting me the most. Refused to install in odin. I finally got a working rom on it so it would boot. Used casual to root and unlock but TWRP failed in that as well. I finally tried a TWRP app (not the official one, I couldn't get that to work) and I may have my phone back now. Waiting to see if my backup is going to work. Welp, it didn't like the restore and I got the ! triangle saying go back to verizon.
While I was looking through my drives I noticed I have a ton of files but don't know exactly what they are. I've had this phone since I pre-ordered it so at one time the files were valid. What files exactly do I need to totally unpork a phone? I have odin 3.07, the VRALEC bootchain, the VRALF one but odin says it's invalid, and a file called combination_I535VRALG1_I535VZWALG1_743127_REV09_user_low_ship. Using them I can get my phone back to seemingly stock.
Is there a better way? Or at least a way to totally start from scratch and hopefully get lineage back on? I know not to take any of the OTAs since they will relock the bootloader. I don't like that it seemed that it was going to automatically install the update but I'll just keep the phone off until I can sort it. I also have a bunch of other files across 3 computers so if there is a file that's needed but isn't posted somewhere there is a chance I might have it already.
I've been searching for the past day and I've found tons of info but some things don't work and some only kinda work. Any help would be much appreciated.
More info: I am on 4.04 so the bootloader should not be locked. The phone is beat up and the USB connector is wonky. Only a few cables will work and I have to make sure it doesn't move or it will disconnect. It does mention that the secureboot is enabled in download.
I've had it rooted, running a stockish rom and managed to get TWRP on it but when I went to restore my lineage backup, it all went to hell.
So I'm now having issues with the bootloader. ON the download screen it says custom binary download yes (5 counts), Current binary samsung official, system status official and secureboot enable. Pretty sure that means casual didn't work. I have root but not bootloader. Is there another option than casual? I've seen ez unlock 1.2 mentioned but the links are dead.
Why am I remembering flashing something in stock recovery? It's been a long, long time since I've gone back this far. I feel like I'm close since I saw the unlocked screen last night but restoring screwed that all up.
This doesn't make sense. I installed TWRP but it still says the same as above leading me to think my bootloader is not unlocked. I don't get the unlocked boot screen either.
How can I install TWRP with a locked bootloader?
Well it's obious that I can get root, install TWRP but for some reason casual will not unlock the bootloader. I can't seem to find the old thread nor any files to just unlock the bootloader. I know somehow I did it last night as I saw the unlocked screen it's just damned if I can do it now. It must have been another file I had at home but don't have here on the laptop.
It's damn frustrating since this time yesterday I had a working phone running nougat and my dumb ass broke it.
I know this forum is a bit dead, as expected for a 5 year old phone but hopefully someone will see this and have some sage like advice.
Turns out It takes almost a week and a mixture of 3-4 guides here. Some Odin, some Casual, some TWRP flashing and luck. FInally I'm back to where I was before I hit the wrong button.