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I have a Samsung Transform Ultra (rooted), I am using the stock ROM that came with the phone, recently I have corrupted something and need to attempt a factory reset, however some people have said that doing a factory reset on a rooted phone could brick it, so this brings a couple of questions:
1.- How would I un-root my phone, or, if un-rooting is not necessary, what steps should I take to factory reset it safely? My data is safely backed up already.
2.- Has anyone done a factory reset on a rooted Transform Ultra?
Any help would be most appreciated.
The4thDoctor said:
I have a Samsung Transform Ultra (rooted), I am using the stock ROM that came with the phone, recently I have corrupted something and need to attempt a factory reset, however some people have said that doing a factory reset on a rooted phone could brick it, so this brings a couple of questions:
1.- How would I un-root my phone, or, if un-rooting is not necessary, what steps should I take to factory reset it safely? My data is safely backed up already.
2.- Has anyone done a factory reset on a rooted Transform Ultra?
Any help would be most appreciated.
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Don't you have a custom Recovery installed? I don't know about this device specifically, but there should be a factory reset option you can utilize within your Recovery image. You'll need a ROM to flash afterwards also, otherwise you'll have no OS on your device. Or simply flash a NANDroid backup.
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Since my (rooted) phone has the stock factory ROM only, and I never changed it, do I still need a ROM? My original ROM was never removed or changed.
The4thDoctor said:
Since my (rooted) phone has the stock factory ROM only, and I never changed it, do I still need a ROM? My original ROM was never removed or changed.
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Well that's the thing, when you factory reset a rooted phone it wipes everything, including the OS. So after a factory reset there will be no ROM to boot into. Even though you've never changed it and you're running stock, you'd still need a copy of that stock ROM (if you wanted to continue running stock). But if you've made a nandroid backup (complete snapshot of your entire system) at some point before you noticed the current problem you're having, it might be easier to simply restore that particular backup via Recovery.
I never flashed any roms or recovery, just rooted.
Unfortunately, I never made a nandroid backup before I had this problem, however, my daughter has an identical phone, could I make such a backup from hers, and use it on my phone, then just delete her settings etc?
I had no idea that just rooting would kill the stock ROM image, making the phone un-recoverable, I thought that rooting only gave me superuser permissions.
The4thDoctor said:
I never flashed any roms or recovery, just rooted.
Unfortunately, I never made a nandroid backup before I had this problem, however, my daughter has an identical phone, could I make such a backup from hers, and use it on my phone, then just delete her settings etc?
I had no idea that just rooting would kill the stock ROM image, making the phone un-recoverable, I thought that rooting only gave me superuser permissions.
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Looks like Clockworkmod doesn't support your device.... not sure what custom Recoveries are available for your phone... but rooting doesn't mess up the stock ROM, we (the users) mess up our ROMs. You're right when you said that rooting gives you superuser privileges, and with those privileges come the unfortunate ability to screws stuff up. In my case I have tons of backups and a custom Recovery whereby I can wipe the phone and restore if need be. I also have ADB installed and can use Fastboot commands if things go sideways. Basically if you're gonna root have a backup plan.
Can you perhaps follow an unrooting method? Then you could safely factory reset without losing the OS... you know...the more I think about this, the more I wonder if you could just use the factory reset option from within the phone's settings... on a custom ROM you'd never do it, but in your situation (no custom recovery or ROM) who knows, maybe it would work with a problem.... I'll ask a friend of mine and post back.
Edit: Never heard back, but in your case on the stock ROM without a custom Recovery you *should* be able to factory reset through the Privacy setting section of your settings. If you do lose root, simply re root and you're good to go.
Thanks, Well I am going to give it a try and see what happens, worst case, I will have to buy another phone.
EDIT: I had no problems with factory reset, thank you!
I previously had the S2, I've just got the S3 and I've managed to somehow restore it to factory settings; in this case, factory settings meant nearly no system apps.
I managed to push Play and TiBu to the phone, then restored Swiftkey (the default keyboard was wiped) and then... well, a few hours later, here I am. Play doesn't entirely work, it throws "Server error" whenever I try to use it. I've managed to set up my Google account, though. I'm sure I can restore the remainder of my apps using TiBu, but it'd still be useful to be able to get these apps updated, for example.
I've tried searching and all I can turn up are posts/threads/articles about restoring to factory settings, but this was the problem.
I'd be extremely grateful to someone that could tell me how to:
Get the phone working in the current state (I'll gladly supply any further information required), or;
Restore it to the original, stock, out-of-the-box I9300 ROM and apps
Of course, if another post already does instruct on one or more of the above, I apologise, and I'll gladly look at those if someone could point me in the right direction.
jamess362 said:
I previously had the S2, I've just got the S3 and I've managed to somehow restore it to factory settings; in this case, factory settings meant nearly no system apps.
Thats wrong all system apps should be restored .
Suggest one factory reset phone via recovery menu .
Fails then match your current rom details to one in stock rom/branded rom thread .
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1671969
jje
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Suggest one factory reset phone via recovery menu .
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I've tried this - multiple times - and it doesn't seem to help. Seems like CM doesn't actually install the stock apps? Unusual, or perhaps I'm doing something wrong.
Fails then match your current rom details to one in stock rom/branded rom thread .
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I'm currently downloading stock, and will post back when something more has happened.
Hey, so I've tried the above; it seems to work except that the phone gets stuck on the Samsung logo screen while booting.
I'm not sure whether I just need to wait longer for it, but it's been a while now and I'm not sure that this has worked.
Is there any way for me to find out whether I just need to wait, or whether there's something else that's gone wrong here?
Something is going wrong .
Factory restore just reinstalls the last flashed firmware file including all its apps .
Stuck at boot loop pull battery replace and see if it boots if not flash stock firmware again following the instructions .
jje
So perhaps something is seriously wrong.
I've removed then replaced the battery, then I've re-flashed stock firmware, and still stuck on logo screen - the glowing Samsung logo, mind, not the Samsung I9300 screen. But still no luck.
I've rooted my S2 plenty of times with no such problem, I have no idea what to do next, though.
Any more ideas?
Fixen (somehow)
So at some point after one of the backups I've done this morning, it's started working. Not sure why, but hurrah! :laugh:
Hi,
I have an lg c800 -- mytouch q by lg
I rooted it yesterday and removed all the bloat. I also installed several root only apps to optimize the phone.
It ran smoother than even right out of the box.
So, I figured it be a good idea to backup the rom, and maybe later try cyanogenmod... So I installed Rom Manager by clockworkmod
It said i needed to install clockwork recovery rom. I went in there but it said my device was unsupported (only like 12 were) so I backed out,
and stupidly hit TWRP listed under "Recovery Already Installed". (thinking that meant what options I had to SETUP a recovery/backup)
I hit backup rom. almost instantly the phone restarted. After the bios, but before android it went to a screen with a box, and an arrow pointing from the inside of the box to the little android man. Then went to the regular android boot screen.
It does this every reboot now. The SuperSU is still there, whenever Rom Manager (which I have to reinstall each reboot) asks for root access I get that dialog box, so it hasn't actually hard reset the phone I don't think. But all the user data, contacts, apps, wifi passwords, google id "(to access Play) get wiped out.
I understand what I did wrong. I think I understand what its doing (booting to the factory rom as it was, and I can't set it to stop doing it each reboot)
What I need help with is getting back, if possible, to what I had previously, among other things, I had a bunch of tasker profiles and notes that will be time consuming to replace.
Thank you for your help.
EDIT: SuperSU is now listed among the factory installed apps. This is unchanged each reboot.
Question: If I unroot the phone what that invalidate Rom Managers ability to run before android boots?
where the people at?
dosmastr said:
where the people at?
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going off of this page:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1752704
for cwm recovery
drivers are all installed (I was able to root phone)
but the adb devices command comes up empty.
what gives?
dosmastr said:
going off of this page:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1752704
for cwm recovery
drivers are all installed (I was able to root phone)
but the adb devices command comes up empty.
what gives?
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OK so its not in the guide, but one is to exit the shell BEFORE keying adb devices. it does show.
but sadly I don't think this gets me closer to fixing what is broken.
Can anybody at least tell me if my stuff is still there or gone?
I have the impression that the boot loader is grabbing the stock rom and just expanding it and running it each boot, but that the old functional rom is still there but being unused --- like a dual boot type thing.
Am I off in left field here or?
dosmastr said:
Can anybody at least tell me if my stuff is still there or gone?
I have the impression that the boot loader is grabbing the stock rom and just expanding it and running it each boot, but that the old functional rom is still there but being unused --- like a dual boot type thing.
Am I off in left field here or?
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more info: the bloat from the original rom is still gone, and SuperSU is intact and functional
Chui says its some flag in CWM that isn't getting cleared when the device boots.
I'm just trying to get the data my apps help at this point.
cmon phone nerds i still need some help!
no help.
The original ROM of your phone got modified after you rooted, hence no bloat and SuperSU intact even after many wipes.
I suggest re installing the factory ROM again, including the bootloader, radio and other stuff. That ought to fix the issue.
What phone do you have ?
So when it was modifying the rom that was running at the time, also the recovery rom was modified?
how do you reinstall factory rom if the phone never enters fastboot?
I'm all about wiping the bootloader (so it STOPS running recovery) but I have only made a little progress in finding how to do that without fastboot.
What I can do is run a root viewing file manager. I even found the log for the recovery it keeps running. But not what to kill so that it STOPS recovering.
Phone is LG C800DG
The LG rom update software has a recovery option but that didn't work.
One youtube video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDFO6H1XObI
Says I can get around this by using a flash utility the installs as an apk. I doubt I'll find one compatible with this phone though as support is very limited.
looks like everything out there says I need a 3rd party recovery already flashed...so that I can flash a stock rom.
sounds like the damn chicken and egg to me, to get stock fixed you need 3rd party but since you have stock you cant get 3rd party
It seems to be a general problem with your set as many others too have posted the same issue.
For stock ROM this should work.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1825818
And a flashing guide
http://blog.androidia.net/8/how-to-flash-stock-lg-rom/
You can also see these for CM9
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/C800_Info
and
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1801622
Dumb e3 recovery. There been any updates on the cwm recovery? Thing takes forever to backup and restore rom
OK I've got a tablet here Mach Speed Trio Stealth Pro. Not main stream I know. I want to flash a rom to it. I've got the rom cm9_nightly_20120721 a file called gapps-ics-20120429-signed and lyf1_compatability_1.2.0 From what I've read I'm to intstall the rom first then gapps then compatability. I'm just not sure how to deploy it. I can put this tablet in recovery mode but only from within the OS. I've tried the button combo that's suppose to do it but all I get is a blue light but nothing on the screen. So hopefully this can be done in one swoop.
So should I put everything on the SDcard and then tell it update from sdcard and then choose the rom? I've never flashed a custom rom before so please forgive my noobness and my lowly tablet. After the rom is installed I'll have to be able to do the other 2 files before I boot because without them nothing will work. If this goes right I'll have a lot more functions when it's finished. Most notably bluetooth support.
Also I'd like to backup the factory rom first. Not sure how to do that either. I have the full version titanium backup and backed up all of the system files but I'm not sure that will get me back to stock if this goes wrong. I believe CWM is device specific so unless there's a generic version I'm out of luck there.
Thanks to all who bless this noob with knowledge.
Hi everyone!
Got my second P780 from China after wetting the first one, and again struggling with the same thing; my plan is to flash AOSP or similar to get a clean UI with minimal additional crap. The first phone I couldn't even root, now I can't succesfully install a custom recovery. Tried both CWM and TWRP several times with the same outcome; when booting to recovery, all it does is a bootloop on blank screen and have to use the reset button and wait for a while to even get Android to boot normally. Actually the first time I tried I did get to CWM recovery and after choosing to boot normally I got the bootloop.
The build in this phone is something special; VIBEROM_P780_www_sjrom_cn, runs on Android 4.2.2 and the baseband version states P780.V52, 2013/11/06 11:17 if all that matters...
I used Mobile Uncle for recovery updates, is there another way, or something I could try out?
If you think I should just give up on this, maybe someone could address me to a good tutorial on how to clean up Android; what are the things that I can delete safely, how to get the phone to run as battery efficient as possible etc.
There's two app launchers, the stock Lenovo Launcher and something called Apus, both with their own apps for battery/RAM saving, system cleaning, security etc., multiple web browsers, music players, market apps and even a dating app built in, so something needs to be done.
Sorry for a long thread and thanks in advance for any help!
Valtteri