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How do you make sure there's no evidence that you ever rooted your G1?

So earlier today I decided I wanted to take my phone off root because it had become really buggy so I followed these instructions from another thread:
"download this http://koushikdutta.blurryfox.com/G1/DREAIMG-RC29.zip unzip it and load it to the root of your sd card and reboot the phone holding down the camera and power key then follow the instructions in screen then reboot and wait for the update. how many more times must i type this? can you people not see the search button."
SOURCE: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=478856&highlight=original+firmware
After doing this, my phone was working fine. Everything worked. For some reason like 2 hours later, my threaded txt messages started showing up in the wrong order. I called T-Mo and they had no solution so they're going to sen me a new one. I wanna make sure there is no evidence on the phone that it was ever rooted. How do I make sure? Thank you so much!

just make sure you updated to original firmware after you changed your fastboot images... that is... if you changed the fastboot images... then you are good to go.

I never messed with fast boot and all that, after I rooted it, I updated JF1.41 with auto rotate and multi touch. thats it. when I went to original firmware, literally I did exatly what he said with the DREAIMG.nbh file, and rebooted. ( Copied the DREAIMG.nbh file to root of SD, restarted with camera+power, ran the update, rebooted) Was there a step I missed?
The problem now is, I dont wanna change much at this point bc if it fixes the threaded txt issue, then theyll prob charge me for the new phone if the txt problem is fixed.

find the SPL thread(sticky) and make sure that your bootloader screen looks like the stock one and you should be fine as well, RC29 already wipes everything else

my threaded txt messages were going in a crazy order last night. but i assumed it was cuz of daylight savings time lol. my g1 to g1 messages would show up in correct order. but everyone else' messages were in screwy order.

yeah its because of DST. T-mobile changed the clocks to early lol. Either that or the g1 screwed something up.

we will see what happens
I posted this in another thread so ill be brief ...
due to a hardware error I returned a white g1 which I had rooted and tricked out with JF's RC33 a theme and the dev BL... I was feeling lazy so I just wiped it and made sure it was back to the stock theme and sent it off with a flat battery, I dont think they will scrutinize them much, we will see, most of the time you play stoopid say you took it to a store and they did some stuff, whatever, PROVE IT, pry my replacement from my cold dead hand.
ill post if I get some response to my tricked out g1 returned due to a bad bt radio
bhang

No SPL image file

I've had a LOT of trouble with my XPERIA today. 20 hours worth in fact. Now, at the start of a whole new day it needs formatting because PimBAckup of all things broke Outlook which has in turn broken everything. Anyway there's "no image file". I can put one back, but what may have gone wrong here? I've restored from the image twice today already. Earlier the phone randomly rebooted and formatted itself and now it's lost the image that it used to do it. Something bad going on?

settings.db and settings.db.backup. . . .i screwed up.

I searched for anything similar before I posted here, however I doubt anyone else was dumb enough to do what I did.
Long story short I got a replacement phone because of the random lockup issues. I agreed to keep this one at stock JF6 for a couple of weeks to appease the manager at my local AT&T store. He said nothing about me rooting it though
Everything works fine, great even. I still love this phone even without Froyo, but I stupidly deleted settings.db and settings.db.backup.
How the heck am I to sideload if I don't have the file to edit?! Again, the phone works fine without the files there at all. . .
Thank you in advance.

It works fine? Have you rebooted the phone at all? There is a lot more than just side loading settings in that db file. If you haven't rebooted, my guess is that everything was saved in memory and being run that way. However, you may be in for a serious problem should a reboot occur.
Anyone have some thoughts on a solution? Would posting another settings.db work for him or are they very device specific?

Settings DB has some device specific settings. The only recourse is to do a Flash back to stock if you deleted system files.
Rooting the phone is not keeping it stock as rooting is making changes to files. Deleting and or modding settings.db is also not keeping it stock... so you really didn't honor the managers request.
You can always sideload a non-rooted phone using ADB or side load wonder machine.

Yeah, I went ahead and bit the bullet and rebooted it. It's fine, absolutely fine, strangely.
The manager only asked that I not replace the O.S. with say, 2.2 so I can have flash and other specs I bought this phone for. Regardless of the issues with AT&T and Samsung, I want what I paid full price for as a consumer.
That being said, rooting for one click lag fix is all that was done to this phone other than deleting a little bloatware. All of this went fine.
The problem lies in my dumbness being allowed to have two identical phones in each hand and trying to clear off the old phones files before sending it back to AT&T. I had a memory lapse and when I snapped to I was deleting on the wrong phone. Nothing suspicious, no mal intent. Just stupid human error.
I, like trekie, have been wondering if I can just use a stock setting.db and edit it to match whatever it needs to match on my phone. I do not remember what all lies in the file.
Because the phone is ok, my guess is it reads from settings.db for changes. If there are no changes, the programs that relied on settings.db just go on as they are. If there is no settings.db, the program just continues on with the values last obtained from said database.
Thoughts?

My guess. Slap on the odin and get that thing back to its out-of-the-box configuration. Good luck!

Thanks, I'm deffinately not waiting around for my froyo update from AT&T just because the Vibrant is getting it lol!

How to get the "unknown sources" option without rooting

This morning while trying to install calleridfaker.apk onto my phone i accidentally was able to unhide the "unknown sources" option on my HTC Inspire 4G.
Here is exactly what happened:
1.> I downloaded the .apk from 4shared.com and put it onto my sdcard using a USB connection.
2.> Then I opened astro file manager (you can download this from the market for free), went into the "sdcard" folder, found the .apk file and hit install. A message popped up saying installation of 3rd party apps has been disabled for security reasons, please go to settings to change this.
3.> I hit the settings button on the pop up and it took me to 'settings->applications', and there it was right on top, "Unkown sources: Allow installation of non-Market applications". I hit the check mark and everything was good to go . I have rebooted my phone twice since then and the Unknown Sources option is still there.
P.S. This is my first post on xda-developers. Sorry if this was already known but I felt like I needed to share this with the world. Just trying to help .

KingVaroon said:
This morning while trying to install calleridfaker.apk onto my phone i accidentally was able to unhide the "unknown sources" option on my HTC Inspire 4G.
Here is exactly what happened:
1.> I downloaded the .apk from 4shared.com and put it onto my sdcard using a USB connection.
2.> Then I opened astro file manager (you can download this from the market for free), went into the "sdcard" folder, found the .apk file and hit install. A message popped up saying installation of 3rd party apps has been disabled for security reasons, please go to settings to change this.
3.> I hit the settings button on the pop up and it took me to 'settings->applications', and there it was right on top, "Unkown sources: Allow installation of non-Market applications". I hit the check mark and everything was good to go . I have rebooted my phone twice since then and the Unknown Sources option is still there.
P.S. This is my first post on xda-developers. Sorry if this was already known but I felt like I needed to share this with the world. Just trying to help .
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First, welcome to XDA.
What probably happened is your unrooted phone got the "silent" update from ATT that enables sideloading.
In any case, go root your phone anyway...

Yep, ATT has allowed/opened this option and has pushed this update to the inspire approx a month or so ago. So enjoy the new feature and welcome to xda.

I still do not have it (North Florida) - so annoyed as I install from Dropbox...

swatcop1 said:
Yep, ATT has allowed/opened this option and has pushed this update to the inspire approx a month or so ago.
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I didn't get it until last night. Better late than never.

DPLOY said:
I still do not have it (North Florida) - so annoyed as I install from Dropbox...
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You're going to have to take matters into your own hands, probably, if you're tired of waiting... Call up ATT and have them push it on the spot to your phone.
...or root.

Good luck! I have been trying to get this pushed to my phone for a week, Att tech support has been completely useless. Will be rooting phone this weekend.

devind4207 said:
Good luck! I have been trying to get this pushed to my phone for a week, Att tech support has been completely useless. Will be rooting phone this weekend.
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Hmmm. That's interesting. Others have reported it as being no longer than a 10 minute process. I guess it just depends on who you get on the phone or something.

Damn, I thought I had discovered something cool . Thanks guys for telling me before I went around making a fool out of myself, telling everybody I had "discovered" something. Lol .
Also, to everyone who hasn't gotten the 'silent update' yet, I usually tend to get updates whenever I hook up my phone to my PC as a 'Disk drive'. Would explain how I got it trying to sideload. Might wanna try that out.

KingVaroon said:
Damn, I thought I had discovered something cool . Thanks guys for telling me before I went around making a fool out of myself, telling everybody I had "discovered" something. Lol .
Also, to everyone who hasn't gotten the 'silent update' yet, I usually tend to get updates whenever I hook up my phone to my PC as a 'Disk drive'. Would explain how I got it trying to sideload. Might wanna try that out.
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Well, I don't think hooking it up to your pc was anything more than a coincidence, as that silent update was OTA. There's nothing that physically connecting the phone to a pc would do to initiate an OTA update via ATT.

yeah , i haven't gotten he update either...i'll be rooting this weekend

I know ATT used to push the updates out for all phones when you rebooted your phone. So if you never turn your phone off and on, that might be the reason for not getting the update yet.

Thanks i was looking for calleridfaker for long time couldnt remrmber name of it. Thanks
htc desire hd/inspire

[Q] Samsung r720, removed system file, forgot to replace it and restart splat

I need to start this by saying I'm not a noob. I may be new to android and I don't spend much time (any) with linux, but dammit! I know... stuff! And I'm terribly embarrassed b'c i'm pretty sure I broke my own damn phone.
I rooted my SCH-r720 last week. Everything was fine until yesterday. I restarted the phone, got thru the MetroPCS animation, then the SAMSUNG black screen and then.... that's it.
So either something I installed yesterday is preventing it from booting, I installed lots of security apps and ProLauncher. Or it was the stupid stupid thing I did yesterday.
I deleted poweron.wav from /system/etc and forgot to replace it, then restarted my phone and consequently broke my own damn phone.
Got the phone into recovery wiped data. Nada. Still won't boot.
I poked around with QtADP a bit. Got ADP and tried replacing the file, I get permissions denied. I tried to remount, denied.
Help?

surely if its just a blank screen and not rebooting its not a soft brick, so should be recoverable. chances are its apk related, or problems with the micro sd card is causing it to freeze up.
i wouldnt have thought something as little as a missing wav file would stop it in its tracks.
if there aren't even any errors being thrown up though id blame any security apps you may have installed, especially if you 'installed lots'.
how many apps can you install that run on startup, each taking up a part of the cpu and ram, before the phone freezes up?
have you tried leaving it for any length of time to see if anything happens?
other than that i cant really be much help, but at least i tried

Try removing SD card and rebooting phone.