....alright, I'll start off by apologizing for not searching on this subject as I am at work and don't quite have the time as I'm hoping to do this before the holiday.
I currently have a rooted phone (unrevoked3?? "one button root") and the "unofficial" 2.2 firmware. I would like to reset my phone back to factory settings and start fresh. I don't believe that if I "restore to factory default" will work so I'm looking for suggestions.
Are you trying to go back to Pre-ROOT or Root with Stock 2.2? Also did you do a NANDROID backup right after you rooted. You can always go back to that, it'll pretty much be stock.
If you do factory settings, it should work. But don't apply the most recent OTA if you want root directly, there is a fix for it but probably won't be here until the weekend or more.
I tried the system restore and its still Android ota 2.2 with baseband 2.05.
I was hoping to get it back to prior OTA 2.2 and go with OFW. I'm not really caring if it's rooted or not when "restored" as I'd like to just put the latest unrevoked on anyways.
So, if what you said that restore to factory would work, I imagine its the option through the bootloader as I don't think it would work through phone settings.
just did factory reset through clockwork recovery and i'm still 2.2/2.05
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I've had my wife running custom roms but I'm tired of her complaining about somethings that seem strange... so I want to put her back 100% stock, including losing root and the latest HBOOT (so she loses NAND unlock as well). I honestly think something is wrong with her phone, which is why I want it back 100% stock so if it keeps doing funky things I can take it to Sprint. Her touchscreen is constantly losing responsiveness and the only way to get it back is to manually turn off the phone (with the power button), then turn it back on... also, her proximity sensor isn't working and she keeps hanging up the phone with her cheek...
Does anyone know where I can get a file for this? Thanks.
Also, if she decides, she hates it, is the latest OTA rootable yet?
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Its been posted a few times in the Dec section
from my phone duh
If I could find it, I would have. All I can find are modified ROMs. Thanks for nothing.
I think you can just go into your phone settings and do an update. (System update >htc software update ) and it'll bring the phone back to stock. It'll probably overwrite everything ....
Wow this was hard
http://shipped-roms.com/index.php?category=android&model=Supersonic
from my phone duh
those will kill root, but they wont turn S-OFF to S-ON. That would be a different thing entirely. Plus, those are the older roms. Would need to take the update after updating to those... just sayin.
Since unrooting it will wipe data anyways, why not try downloading a new rooted stock ROM, wipe your data/cache/dalvik-cache (each twice just to be sure) and then flash the new stock ROM and see if that helps. If not, then you can go ahead and proceed with unrooting and bringing the phone back to Sprint for replacement/repairs. Just thinking this might be easier than unrooting, updating with OTA, and then finding out you want to root it again later....but that's entirely up to you.
Good Luck
Hey my evo doesnt want to update it!!?? why??? it reboots.. then i get the loading thing that is starting to do it. but then i get the TRIANGLE WITH THE EXCLAMATION MARK.. with the little Android bOY.. LOL.. Could it be because its rooted? :/
HOPE ITS NOT BECAUSE OF THAT!! :/ HELP PLEASE
You don't need to install the latest 3.70 release...it is just a maintenance upgrade and has no improved functionality ...I hope you made a nandroid bc you can restore that to get back to your previous state. Good luck
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Im new to all this man.. i dont really know anything.. like whats nandroid?? sorry for a stupid question.. but it says is has the Swype typing thing..
One more question.. what happens if i reset the Whole phone? like with the option it has to reset it to its FACTORY DATA RESET.. WILL IT WORK? OR WILL IT JUST NOT BOOT ANYMORE? OR WILL I STILL BE ROOTED? TH \ANKS
never accept a sprint upgrade with a rooted phone, it will mess your phone up...since you dont know what a nandroid is, im assuming you never made one..you are going to have to restore the phone back to original out of the box and a factory data reset is not the way to do it...
try this ...download the 3.30 release from this site and put in root of sd card http://shipped-roms.com/index.php?category=android&model=Supersonic
EDIT...in order for your phone to see this ..boot into bootloader..when phone is off, hold the volume button down and then hold the power button...the phone will see it and flash and update it...you will be back to stock and not rooted...you will have to re root the phone and then create a nandroid...
read this for more info on nandroid backup http://www.simplemobilereview.com/android-rooted-what-is-nandroid-backup/
to recap..never accept a sprint ota upgrade with a rooted phone, you will mess your phone up (as you already know) and once rooted, always create a nandroid...if you ever mess something up, you can restore that nandroid and restore your phone to working condition
also..once you are rooted and you want to update to the latest sprint over the air updates, search this forums for rooted stock RUU and you can then flash the lastest rom from sprint which is rooted...instead of trying to accept the OTA like you did
good luck
oK.. I WILL DO THAT WHEN I HAVE TIME.. LUCKLY MY PHONE DIDNT MESS UP TRYING IT.. LOL..
oK so installing the ROOTED STOCK RUU.. it will already be rooted, and i can still install sprints updates and upgrades with no problem correct?
THANKS FOR THAT BUD! SOUNDS EASY TO FACTORY RESET THE PHONE THANKS!!
drummer2780 said:
oK.. I WILL DO THAT WHEN I HAVE TIME.. LUCKLY MY PHONE DIDNT MESS UP TRYING IT.. LOL..
oK so installing the ROOTED STOCK RUU.. it will already be rooted, and i can still install sprints updates and upgrades with no problem correct?
THANKS FOR THAT BUD! SOUNDS EASY TO FACTORY RESET THE PHONE THANKS!!
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Once you restore to factory non rooted and then re root...you have install the rooted ruu to get the latest sprint upgrades ...you don't accept any ota updates ever...just flash the most current rooted ruu and you will have the latest sprint updates
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Oooh ok ok.. i think i get it.. THANKS! I APPRECIATED!!
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Once you restore to factory non rooted and then re root...you have install the rooted ruu to get the latest sprint upgrades ...you don't accept any ota updates ever...just flash the most current rooted ruu and you will have the latest sprint updates
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Self confessed complete Android/Evo newbie here... I didn't even know how to access the settings on the phone until about 30 minutes ago. I've been working with iPhones since day one and have jailbroken many releases, so I get the general idea. It's actually my wife's "work" Android, and a co-worker of hers rooted the phone at some point. She tried to install the auto-download 3.70.651.1, it failed, and she gave it to me. Pulling the battery and resetting seemed to get things back to working, but now I'm taking over management of this phone and getting things right.
Here is where the phone is:
Nag screens about updated software seen. Update now selected. Update seemed to fail with a triangle/exclamation point, phone locked.
Pulling battery gets a normal reboot. Still get nag screen about "do you want to update"
Settings/aboutphone/software info shows "Software number 3.29.651.5" after failed update
Here's what I've done so far:
On software update screen, chose to "delete update". Rebooted. No more nag.
Turned off "scheduled check" for system software updates in Settings menu.
Figured out how to boot into the recovery menu. Looks like "Clockwork backup" was already installed. (ClockworkMod Recovery v2.5.0.1)
Created a nandroid backup using clockwork.
Rebooted phone
Mounted the SD card to my Mac, backed up the SD card including hidden files.
Verified creation of clockworkmod nandroid.md5 file
A few questions:
Once you restore to factory non rooted and then re root...you have install the rooted ruu to get the latest sprint upgrades Is this really necessary? Can I not just find a latest/greatest "rooted ruu" and overlay it on top of my current configuration?
I see some threads with titles like "[ROM] joeykrim-SDX-original-5.1 Odex *Stock Rooted 3.70.651.1* Dec 15th 2010". Is this an example of a "rooted ruu"?
This thread says I need to install "unrevoked 3.2.1" and "unrevoked forever". I'm guessing these are different tools than whatever was originally used to root my phone. Any chance installing them will conflict?
If I go back to a stock 3.3 ruu, what happens to all the applications and info already on the phone? Does it just overlay the software, or wipe everything clean?
TIA for helping an Android/Evo newbie out!
Hi,
I'd like to find out why my ME525 Motorola OTA update now fails...it worked from 2.2 to 2.2.1 before, but I might have rooted and/or installed clockworm recovery and a ton of apks since then...
So here's what I get:
the OTA udate is downloaded, I get a notification that my phone will restart for installation, I press OK and after about 1/3rd into the unzipping/installation I get the picture of the Android robot and an exclamation point inside a triangle.
What do I do wrong?
I use TB to freeze the bloatware on my phone (some 40-some apks the last I've checked) so I was suspecting that it was the problem so I 'unfroze' everything in TB, rebooted and tried OTA again: same result.
Should I (or do I HAVE to?) wipe everything i.e: uninstall CWM recovery and TB before OTA? And if I do so, would re-rooting, and recover from a (TB and/or CWM) recovery backup undo the OTA update?
thanks for any help.
Rooting will stop the updates I believe and I am not sure if the recovery mod does.
It might be worth reflashing the firmware (make a backup of sms, settingst, etc)
Then with the moto bootloader format it to standard, clear cache, log back into Blur once rebooted and try the OTA again if available.
i had a similar problem with my htc wildfire. what you need to do is take off all the custom beta roms and put on the original rom. hope this helps
Thanks guys for the replies.
I've tried doing a factory reset and that didn't do it.
So I bit the bullet and finally did reflash my original sbf and as expected, the OTA update then worked.
Quite a job to bring everything on my phone back to the state it was though..
But on the bright side, I've done my first ever Defy RSD flashing and I've learned a thing or two...
And I finally have the v 2.2.2 Frozen Yogurt installed
Like the title says, I went back to stock and unrooted my phone. I got a message from Tmo today that an update for my phone was available, but on trying to update, the phone just sits at the "checking for software updates" screen and nothing happens. Any suggestions on how to fix this?
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Like the title says, I went back to stock and unrooted my phone. I got a message from Tmo today that an update for my phone was available, but on trying to update, the phone just sits at the "checking for software updates" screen and nothing happens. Any suggestions on how to fix this?
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Kies.
Yep use Kies to update. Worked perfectly and then just reroot.
Have your tried going into stock recovery (after unrooting) and doing a factory restore? If the option is present, you may alsi want to wipe your cache. Hope that helps.
I am having the same issue as OP. Was rooted by CF auto root plus triangle away (deleted after use). Always stock ROM/recovery. Got OTA update notice so delayed it so I could unroot first. Checked temporary unroot option in SuperSU, no luck. Chose permanent unroot, no luck. Deleted SuperSU, no luck. Ti Backup confirms not rooted. Kies doesn't show update available and selecting upgrade through Kies tools menu fails as well. Do I need to clear my cache (which I have never done). Don't want to wipe and start over. Need to learn how to do this for future updates. I thought my basic root method would allow updates with little effort. Am I missing something? Thanks in advance.
I wiped cache and still no luck. It tells me update available and when I say install it just sits on checking for updates...
Hey OP, did Kies work for you? I installed the most recent Kies and it wont even finish connecting with my phone. God I hate being a noob at this stuff. I don't have a clue why this update wont happen or Kies wont connect. Im using the OEM USB cable. Everything says official and nothing custom. Somehow, T-mobile update knows I was once rooted or something. WTF
I should of tried OTA rootkeeper but too late now.
Any advice??
Kies finally worked. No idea what was different from previous 10 attempts...
Any suggestions how to go from TWRP back to stock recovery and keep root? I can't use the Toolkit since it's missing the stock recovery Tar file...
Hi everyone.
So a few weeks ago I decided to root my HTC One. I was fairly new to rooting, and I still am. I used the rumrunner tool to get s-off. Then, I used adb to get CWM recovery, and after trying out a few different roms, I decided to stay on stock HTC Sense 5.0. Well, I downloaded Xposed and that's when my problems started. I downloaded Gravity Box, Sense 5 Toolbox, and Tinted Status Bar. After using these all for a while, I started to notice something. First off, all my notifications were expanded automatically, which I didn't like. Then, I started noticing that MMS messages would neither download, or send. I tried uninstalling the Xposed modules, and Xposed itself, but that didn't change anything. These things could've started happening prior to installing Xposed, but I didn't notice them until after I'd installed the other modules. Anyways, I got tired of it, and decided to factory reset my phone, thinking it would fix the problem. Of course, before resetting I made a back up in CWM, in case the reset didn't work. It didn't. And the reset deleted my back up. So now, my phone is factory reset, and still won't receive MMS messages. I've also tried messing with the APN settings, but that didn't help at all. I've tried looking around for some answers but I can't seem to find anything. I'm s-off, stock, and rooted. I'm pretty upset at this point and just want this fixed. Any suggestions? Would unrooting my phone solve the problem?
So you factory reset but didn't actually re-install the rom? Try going into recovery and wiping data/cache/davlik and installing the OTA stock rom from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2485319
I still have the stock 4.2.2, Sense 5 rom. This might sound like a stupid question, but can I install the 4.3 stock rom as an update, without having to wipe everything? I've already started setting everything up again, to the way it was before, and I really don't want to start over again.
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I still have the stock 4.2.2, Sense 5 rom. This might sound like a stupid question, but can I install the 4.3 stock rom as an update, without having to wipe everything? I've already started setting everything up again, to the way it was before, and I really don't want to start over again.
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If you're S-off I believe you can flash the stock recovery and take the OTA then flash TWRP again and the supersu zip to root. What did you set up exactly? If they're apps just use Titanium backup and restore them later
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If you're S-off I believe you can flash the stock recovery and take the OTA then flash TWRP again and the supersu zip to root. What did you set up exactly? If they're apps just use Titanium backup and restore them later
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I set up things like my homescreens, restored my text messages, downloaded all my offline music from Google Play, restored app data, system settings, and I moved all my pictures and things from my computer onto the phone. Anyways, I flashed the 1.10.605.15 stock recovery and tried to install the OTA, but it gets a little under a third of the way through before it fails and gives me a red triangle with an exclamation point.