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Can I unroot?

Silly question but I if I root and I need to do a wrranty claim, can I unroot by restoring the phone or is it rooted for good?
Thanks

From what I have heard...all that you need to do is uninstall the apps that show you rooted (Superuser, Titanium backup, ROM Manager, Busy Box, etc) and delete the update.zip from the SD card and you'll be all set.
I'm not completely sure on this but I THINK that's it.
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Does it show the lock on the phone like on the nexus one on boot up if you root it?

the only way to really unroot is to restore your phone using odin3.
this will completely wipe your phone including the os and reinstall it. you'll then have all the att apps if you deleted it. Make sure you keep it connected. I bricked my phone purposely by disconnecting it while it was whipping. There is absolutely no way to get it out of this brick. you'll end up having to get a new phone (all i said to att was i think the usb port went bad lol)

p8ntballsk8ter94 said:
the only way to really unroot is to restore your phone using odin3.
this will completely wipe your phone including the os and reinstall it. you'll then have all the att apps if you deleted it. Make sure you keep it connected. I bricked my phone purposely by disconnecting it while it was whipping. There is absolutely no way to get it out of this brick. you'll end up having to get a new phone (all i said to att was i think the usb port went bad lol)
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Haha that is one hilarious solution to getting a phone replacement. Did AT&T give you any issues?

Check out the one-click Root Tool in the Dev section. I believe the dev just updated the tool to have a one-click UNROOT option as well.

Nope, didn't give me any issues. The phone was completely bricked with no response to outer source power. Plug in the USB, not even the battery thing shows up. the ATT guy tried 3 different chargers and figured it had to be the USB too. Swapped out phones and he grabbed me a new one straight from the box.
I used to do this a lot back with my iPhone 3G. Not that I like to cheat companies out of their money... I'm definitely not for that. But really, the batteries would degrade an hour less capacity a month so i needed to replace a phone without making it seem like it's the users fault nearly every 3 months.

p8ntballsk8ter94 said:
Nope, didn't give me any issues. The phone was completely bricked with no response to outer source power. Plug in the USB, not even the battery thing shows up. the ATT guy tried 3 different chargers and figured it had to be the USB too. Swapped out phones and he grabbed me a new one straight from the box.
I used to do this a lot back with my iPhone 3G. Not that I like to cheat companies out of their money... I'm definitely not for that. But really, the batteries would degrade an hour less capacity a month so i needed to replace a phone without making it seem like it's the users fault nearly every 3 months.
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Sounds exactly what I went through. They had no problems exchanging it either.

How to unroot for repair?

Hi guys
My device spent 15 minutes on a wet patch of grass, embedded in mud though thankfully it had stopped raining. I found it caked in gloop and spent that night cleaning the ports and making it shiny again. It worked fine after until 3 days later (today). Now the USB port appears to have stopped working; it won't charge nor will my PC recognize it. It worked flawlessly before the mud incident.
I have the JellyBelly ROM installed with CWM recovery ... and obviously need to send it in for repair. Good chance Vodafone won't do it under warranty because I'm rooted etc. Plus it's a work phone so I will get told off if I truly voided the warranty!
Can I get the phone back to stock status, either ICS or JB, with a locked bootloader?
Thanks in advance ~ !
Edit: I realise I can unroot and re-lock using USB cable through my Win PC but .... worse case scenario came true & cannot use the USB cable!

tweeny80 said:
Hi guys
My device spent 15 minutes on a wet patch of grass, embedded in mud though thankfully it had stopped raining. I found it caked in gloop and spent that night cleaning the ports and making it shiny again. It worked fine after until 3 days later (today). Now the USB port appears to have stopped working; it won't charge nor will my PC recognize it. It worked flawlessly before the mud incident.
I have the JellyBelly ROM installed with CWM recovery ... and obviously need to send it in for repair. Good chance Vodafone won't do it under warranty because I'm rooted etc. Plus it's a work phone so I will get told off if I truly voided the warranty!
Can I get the phone back to stock status, either ICS or JB, with a locked bootloader?
Thanks in advance ~ !
Edit: I realise I can unroot and re-lock using USB cable through my Win PC but .... worse case scenario came true & cannot use the USB cable!
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I dont think that is possible to do such things without using pc. just try that to another pc cause it might be your phones fault and the pc`s.

nikolas7gr said:
I dont think that is possible to do such things without using pc. just try that to another pc cause it might be your phones fault and the pc`s.
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Hmm I have two cords, a charger and a USB cable. Neither works all of a sudden and yes, I tried another PC with same result. All my reading seems enforces that a PC connectoin is required to lock the device through fastboot / ADB.
Any other ideas, xda? (and thanks for your reply)

Sometimes if you take for a repair shop that they repair phones they can do it without a problem. I'm not sure if they would mind if it was rooted or not and if you have an unlocked bootloader. All they need to do is change the USB port. I haven't checked but with a friend of mine he has jailbroken his iphone and the power button stopped working and the repair shop accepted it. So, just try but I'm sure they would accept it.

UslessSniper001 said:
Sometimes if you take for a repair shop that they repair phones they can do it without a problem. I'm not sure if they would mind if it was rooted or not and if you have an unlocked bootloader. All they need to do is change the USB port. I haven't checked but with a friend of mine he has jailbroken his iphone and the power button stopped working and the repair shop accepted it. So, just try but I'm sure they would accept it.
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Will do thanks.

Happy to help. But remember I'm not 110%sure it would work. Tell me if it did.
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Root w/o usb port (wireless adb maybe?)

so, i've been researching this all night and i want to get a straightforward answer. is there any way i can root my S3 without using the USB port? the port is busted and doesn't detect anything being plugged in (i have 3 batteries and an external charger, since it won't charge)
basically, i'm coming across some posts from the S2 explaining that you could root that one by simply flashing some SU files etc in recovery:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1746794
can any of this be done with the S3? i was looking into wireless ADB as well, but you def. need root for that, despite the fact i also found someone on the S2 forums who apparnetly had wireless ADB working without root:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1371326
i have no idea how he did it, because i def can't.
any thoughts? i'd love to root this thing and just keep it stock (just delete bloatware and make tweaks to stop the launcher redraw) and that's it..not even looking to throw custom roms on it yet.

Honestly I think you are SOL for the time being

well that's not good cmon con, i know you can figure something out lol
Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S3 using Tapatalk 2

I was able to root by flashing an SU zip in CWM. However I was only able to flash CWM thanks to Casual. It wouldn't root me. But did let me install cWM. From there I booted into recovery and was rooted in seconds. With no USB though that makes things tricky. Not sure how you could get CWM on there then. I was able to root my Droid x purely using terminal emulator on the phone and pushing files from the SD card. But that was years ago and i think rooting is a bit different now since it looks like it gets symlinked.
--Sent from GlaDos baked potato

Port death by tit sweat.

jayochs said:
so, i've been researching this all night and i want to get a straightforward answer. is there any way i can root my S3 without using the USB port? the port is busted and doesn't detect anything being plugged in (i have 3 batteries and an external charger, since it won't charge)
basically, i'm coming across some posts from the S2 explaining that you could root that one by simply flashing some SU files etc in recovery:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1746794
can any of this be done with the S3? i was looking into wireless ADB as well, but you def. need root for that, despite the fact i also found someone on the S2 forums who apparnetly had wireless ADB working without root:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1371326
i have no idea how he did it, because i def can't.
any thoughts? i'd love to root this thing and just keep it stock (just delete bloatware and make tweaks to stop the launcher redraw) and that's it..not even looking to throw custom roms on it yet.
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Why don't you just get the phone replace as it is obviously defective?

First remove your battery and you may try to clean your usb plug on your phone by take a toothpick, needle etc.. and wrap a little piece of paper towel around it, soak with Windex or alcohol and scrub all the pins inside of the USB. This works wonder! second recommendation is to try another usb cable. Good luck.

piiman said:
Why don't you just get the phone replace as it is obviously defective?
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I think he got it from a third party.
Synergized GS3

piiman said:
Why don't you just get the phone replace as it is obviously defective?
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Cause it has physical damage.

zetsumeikuro said:
Cause it has physical damage.
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Samsung would still fix it. I wouldn't live with it like that but to each his own

thanks for the responses guys! a few answers:
1.) i literally got this phone for $30 from a customer at my store who ruined it due to said tittysweat. no lie, the woman ran with it in her shirt, and sweat corroded the charge port. i SOMEHWAT fixed it with alch and Deoxit weeks ago, and it would BARELY charge (like maybe half a percent every 3 hours..ridiculous lol) but then after further cleaning, it completely died and doesn't work now.
2.) i've never once had insurance on my lines in all my 16 years with verizon, so i'm not adding it to make a claim, because it's gonna look fishy especially if they see 3 different phones on my acct within weeks
3.) has two TINY cracks in the corners of the phone screen, so i couldn't even get it replaced due to that as well
when i would plug it in when it barely charged, it would go between charging (ac) and just charging. so it was def messed up. i opened up the back to look at it, but i didn't take the entire phone apart yet.
i've got a replacement charge port (was 5 bucks on ebay), problem is i don't have a hot air soldering iron so i can't do it myself and don't have any repair guys near me.
just looking for basic ways to get rooted w/o having the usb port, but it seems to be futile
also for samsung to fix it, the turn around is like 2-4 weeks and i'm sure costs an arm and a leg..whereas i have a few members on here who i could send to and would cost less, and it would take a lot less time than samsung lol

jayochs said:
thanks for the responses guys! a few answers:
1.) i literally got this phone for $30 from a customer at my store who ruined it due to said tittysweat. no lie, the woman ran with it in her shirt, and sweat corroded the charge port. i SOMEHWAT fixed it with alch and Deoxit weeks ago, and it would BARELY charge (like maybe half a percent every 3 hours..ridiculous lol) but then after further cleaning, it completely died and doesn't work now.
2.) i've never once had insurance on my lines in all my 16 years with verizon, so i'm not adding it to make a claim, because it's gonna look fishy especially if they see 3 different phones on my acct within weeks
3.) has two TINY cracks in the corners of the phone screen, so i couldn't even get it replaced due to that as well
when i would plug it in when it barely charged, it would go between charging (ac) and just charging. so it was def messed up. i opened up the back to look at it, but i didn't take the entire phone apart yet.
i've got a replacement charge port (was 5 bucks on ebay), problem is i don't have a hot air soldering iron so i can't do it myself and don't have any repair guys near me.
just looking for basic ways to get rooted w/o having the usb port, but it seems to be futile
also for samsung to fix it, the turn around is like 2-4 weeks and i'm sure costs an arm and a leg..whereas i have a few members on here who i could send to and would cost less, and it would take a lot less time than samsung lol
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These guys offer USB port repairs on the GNex...I would contact them and see if they are planning on offering that service for the S3. Worth a shot.
http://mobiletechvideos.mybigcommerce.com/samsung-galaxy-nexus-usb-port-repair/
they can also JTAG bricked phones, sell Jigs to get into download mode etc. Looks like they also offer an unlock and custom rom service which made me lol.
EDIT** was she hot?? lmao

MFD00M said:
These guys offer USB port repairs on the GNex...I would contact them and see if they are planning on offering that service for the S3. Worth a shot.
http://mobiletechvideos.mybigcommerce.com/samsung-galaxy-nexus-usb-port-repair/
they can also JTAG bricked phones, sell Jigs to get into download mode etc. Looks like they also offer an unlock and custom rom service which made me lol.
EDIT** was she hot?? lmao
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aahaa that was the most asked question..unfortunately not lol

Isn't there like a mobile Odin program you could use to flash the stock rooted system image? I don't know if that would work or not just a thought.

JBO1018 said:
Isn't there like a mobile Odin program you could use to flash the stock rooted system image? I don't know if that would work or not just a thought.
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Yeah I saw that but apparently to even use it you need to be rooted..
Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S3 using Tapatalk 2

It's actually Jay's titty sweat. Man boob corrosion!

zetsumeikuro said:
It's actually Jay's titty sweat. Man boob corrosion!
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listen up, zetsumi mike zero, i can assure you it was feminine t-sweat

[Q] Hard brick from OTG cable

I just hard bricked my second GS3. I bricked the first one a couple of months ago (the day I got it) when used a cheap OTG cable to attach a flash drive to the phone. The phone just shut down. No charge light ever, no response to usb, just nothing.
When I got my second phone, I took a deep breath and tried the OTG cable again and it worked fine. I thought I just got a bad phone.
But today, on a whim, I wanted to see if my phone would run an external USB cd drive. BAM, the phone shuts down and is hard bricked again!!
So, I guess this is a cautionary tale, as well a plea to the community for any recommendations. Someone had a similar problem months ago, but I didn't see a resolution. I will probably end up sending it for JTAG repair, but I don't know if it will do any good since this wasn't caused by borking a ROM install. Anybody have any experience with this?
One thing is for sure. That OTG cable is going in the trash.

I have never heard of this. Very interesting. Sorry to hear this for you. I have been using my cable for awhile now and only ever had one problem with it. I was viewing pictures and looked away from the phone for a few moments. Phone went into sleep mode like normal. Dull screen then screen off. Prob was it wouldnt wake up. Nothin i did woke it up so i had to do a battery pull. Phone was fine after that and havent had the problem since. Gonna keep fingers crossed after reading the OP.
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Yeah, it is a real pain. I found some other people who had the same issue.
http://rootzwiki.com/topic/32816-sgs-3-and-otg-usb-adapter-might-equal-brick/
I just can't imagine what must be happening. I wish one of those uber-smart hackers who were working on the bootloader unlock would see this and give me some idea if it is even fixable. It is almost like it blew a fuse.
Anyway, I have an email out to mobiletechvideos to see if they think it can be jtag-ed. I have a feeling that a $2 cable is going to end up costing me $600.
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I made and tried a usb jig, just for kicks. No luck. Still waiting to see if mobiletechvideos gets back to me.

Another quick follow-up... I got a response from mobiletechvideos.
Unfortunately that has been damaging many people’s phones. It damages the PMIC and the device is not repairable by any of our services or any other shop that I know of.
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If you are too lazy to google PMIC, it is the power management chip. Sounds like there is a problem with the cable where the power is being directed somewhere it shouldn't be.
This weekend, I will carefully cut open the cable and see if I can see the problem.

Bort76 said:
This weekend, I will carefully cut open the cable and see if I can see the problem.
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Don't like resurrecting threads, but was curious for an update. This just happened to my Verizon GS3 as well. Completely unresponsive. I'm still under warranty so am about to go to the store to have it sent back, but came across this thread while trying to hunt down solutions.
Fwiw, it was with this cable: www()amazon()com/gp/product/B00932N46S/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00
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Bricked my maxx. Spare time to help?

I am somewhat of a n00b when it comes to android phones. I have had my maxx for about a month. Installed the leaked JB version and everything was working fine.
Today I decide to go back to 4.0.4 with the utility and something went wrong. I am stuck in a AP Flashboot loop. It sucks. I have tried everything....at least what I think is everything.
I have tried multiple utilities and RSD lite, etc. with no success.
Am I missing something?
Thank you!

Have you had any success yet?

projekt8e said:
Have you had any success yet?
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negative.
same issues?

Fortunately no, but I have been searching around a little because I am new to Motorola (fresh out of samsung) and I have had some issues like this in the past that were rather frustrating, but as far as I can tell, considerably less frustrating than what one might experience with our phone.
so for my own sake, since I can't see it, is your phone essentially just going into fastboot and automatically rebooting or can you access any of the menu options?

projekt8e said:
Fortunately no, but I have been searching around a little because I am new to Motorola (fresh out of samsung) and I have had some issues like this in the past that were rather frustrating, but as far as I can tell, considerably less frustrating than what one might experience with our phone.
so for my own sake, since I can't see it, is your phone essentially just going into fastboot and automatically rebooting or can you access any of the menu options?
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Yes it is extremely frustrating.
Said something about not being able to write to partition. Any option that I pick comes up to the fastboot menu. It seems to fail anytime it attempts to write to the phone.

One thing that I have noticed is that battery level seems to be important. (above 50% specifically)
not that this will fix your problem, but it might be preventative maintenance from further problems. Have you seen this?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1549625
It covers charging in a scenario like yours, because it sounds like it might be nearly impossible to get anything down without a decent charge.

projekt8e said:
One thing that I have noticed is that battery level seems to be important. (above 50% specifically)
not that this will fix your problem, but it might be preventative maintenance from further problems. Have you seen this?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1549625
It covers charging in a scenario like yours, because it sounds like it might be nearly impossible to get anything down without a decent charge.
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Thanks! Ill keep that in mind. I think I was about 40 percent when I did it..... I doubt if that was the issue. I think as long as you dont lose power you should be OK... well what do I know... I will most definetly keep this in mind and make sure I use a full charge. My replacement phone should be here tomorrow morning...

Yeah, I think as long as you have power it should be ok, this was more of a measure to consider if your battery might be getting too low now after trying to fix it. But I guess if you have a replacement phone on the way, that will be easier, but maybe not as much fun! haha. Do you have to return the bricked one right away then?

projekt8e said:
Yeah, I think as long as you have power it should be ok, this was more of a measure to consider if your battery might be getting too low now after trying to fix it. But I guess if you have a replacement phone on the way, that will be easier, but maybe not as much fun! haha. Do you have to return the bricked one right away then?
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Yup has to be returned within 5 days. I am making sure the battery is completely dead before i box it up. So they would have to at least charge it before they see the error.
They said something about being charged 299.00 if I messed with the image, software or something like that.... I think that it would be very hard for them to prove that point though in all actuality. Not much option.... Yeah.. not the way I really wanted to go but it is what it is..

fair enough. Yeah, leave it dead.

projekt8e said:
fair enough. Yeah, leave it dead.
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This is exactly what i needed.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2035131
All is working well. Perfect, perfect, perfect.

right on, so what did you end up doing then, if you don't mind explaining?