Greetings everyone! I just got the phone and it is great, but I have bit of an issue. I know that we need the stock recovery for the software updates, so I attempted to extract it yesterday. I could not do that since we need root to do it, and the only way to get root is by flashing TWRP. So I took the plunge, flashed TWRP, have root, but no stock recovery available.
Today I got an update notification that I cannot apply without the stock recovery IMG. Has anyone been able to extract it or get it from stock firmware files? I have searched the Internet quite a bit and I cannot seem to find the Stock files of this phone. Thanks for the help!
There is no Full Firmware Package-no Stock recovery.
You can test it from AL10 China Version,in Firmwarefinder found the full Firmware,does this not work,install Twrp back and wait for full Firmware
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Hi
I'm desperately looking for any Bell mobility stock 1.34.666.5 or Over.
The camera button is not working so I sent my phone to repair but they send it back because I do not have the right rom that was provided with my phone. I was able to unroot and put back 1.34.666.1 (the only one that is available it seems) but the technical support told me that my phone shipped with 1.34.666.5 and that they can't do anything unless I'm putting back this rom.
I tried getting OTA updates for 1.34.666.1 but it's not available. Minimum rom # to get OTA updates have to be 1.34.666.5
I'm screwed.
Regards
I have a nandroid backup of the stock ROM...it's rooted though.
Will I be able to flash using Clockwork Recovery? I can manage to remove root after flashing, I think.
Yes, flashable via Clockwork.
I'll let you know when I have it uploaded.
...and it's up.
https://xda:[email protected]/_xda/Bell.DZ.Stock.ROOTED.7z
Some notes:
- I only included the system and boot portions of the nandroid backup due to privacy concerns
- As such, you should do a system and boot restore (after a full wipe, of course) under "Advanced Restore"
- As mentioned earlier, this is rooted (so you'll need to unroot)
Hope this helps. Let us know how it goes.
Good news, I have been able to return to stock 1.34.666.5. Thank you very much for your backup.
I was thinking going unrooted was to be easy but i'm a little bit stuck.
How can I unroot and put back stock bootloader without flashing a new rom.
If I have to flash a new rom, is there a way to build one based on the backup you provided?
I've look at software update and there's an OTA update available for my phone. I tried to install but because I do not have the right bootloader (I think that's the problem) I'm unable to do the OTA update.
Thanks.
Tonkadan said:
Good news, I have been able to return to stock 1.34.666.5. Thank you very much for your backup.
I was thinking going unrooted was to be easy but i'm a little bit stuck.
How can I unroot and put back stock bootloader without flashing a new rom.
If I have to flash a new rom, is there a way to build one based on the backup you provided?
I've look at software update and there's an OTA update available for my phone. I tried to install but because I do not have the right bootloader (I think that's the problem) I'm unable to do the OTA update.
Thanks.
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That's good to hear. I'd recommend making your own nandroid backup immediately.
As for the bootloader, you're sure you flashed the ENG HBOOT during the rooting process? If that's the case, I'm not sure where you can find the stock HBOOT...
Yes, I installed the Eng HBoot.
I'm trying now renaming the OTA update.zip, put on the root of sdcard and make recovery to install that update but I got an error about getprop CID?? and the update failed...
Still looking for a solution.
How did you make out Tonkadan? I'm in the same boat. I heard that if you did apply this update that you would not be able to root your phone anymore.
I' still rooted. I'm unable to go back to stock. I'm using cyanogenmod 7 for now but would really want to go back to stock if somone have the official Bell rom over 1.34.666.5.
... Or any way to get OTA updates for RUU 1.34.666.1 that is available on shippedroms.com
I suppose I should know this, but I don't
I had root with 4.1.2, and updated to 4.2.2 leaked FW - I knew I would loose root, but I thought I could re-root but that does not seem to be the case. Is this so?
If I want to go back to 4.1.2, how do I do this becauseI don't seem to be able to get into TWRP recovery. I thought this was supposed to stay on after upgrading?
why dont u just flash stock 4.1.2 rom via odin for revert?
Good idea, thanks. I was just thinking that myself. Getting the file from sammobile (uk version)
Will it be obvious where each file should go in Odin, will there be three files to select (pda, csc and modem, or just PDA?)
Are there any instructions on XDA?
EDIT
I managed to do it, got into a boot loop though, but was able to restore
I have been reading through many threads last night and today trying to figure out the best way to get rooted stock back on my AT&T S3 i747. I had hoped to figure it out myself, but have come to the realization that I need a little guidance.
In light of that, I'll try to give concise information. First of all, I am simply looking to end up with stock.
Series of events:
*Have had stock since given this phone in August; it was kept up to date with OTA and it was current (4.4.2) as of yesterday morning when att pushed the newest update to the phone.
*I rooted the phone in September using CF root and Supersu to both root and block Knox and it had been working very well until the attempted update yesterday.
*I no longer have a custom recovery backup
*yesterday my phone went through the update (download and install), but when it rebooted, it only made it through the Samsung splash screen and then went black.
*I am able to boot up both stock recovery and into download mode
*Using the stock recovery to reset the phone has not fixed the problem
Having never used Odin or installed a custom ROM, I am hesitant to flash anything to the phone until I verify that the new bootloader (that is now possibly there due to the OTA update) and anything I try to install won't conflict and make my problem worse.
It seems to me that I should use Odin to load a custom recovery, make a backup, and then flash a ROM. If that is correct, would the recovery ROM found in this thread be the correct one: http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3-att/general/ucufne4-to-ucufnj1-update-t2941792
If it is not the correct ROM, what would be the correct one?
Thank you,
M
For a custom recovery, flash the most recent tar.md5 file from here using Odin: https://goo.im/devs/philz_touch/CWM_Advanced_Edition/d2lte/
Boot into recovery, create a backup, and flash a custom ROM. I recommend the most recent CM10.2 so you can determine the bootloader currently installed on your phone. Once you determine the bootloader, you can decide how you want to proceed.
Thank you so much for your response.
I did as you suggested and I do indeed have the UCUFNJ1 bootloader. That does help me determine which direction I can take. Although, now having tried out a non-Samsung ROM, I may have changed my mind about keeping stock on the phone. If I decide to go back to stock, I'll just keep my eyes open for a stock ROM that states it requires that bootloader, correct?
Again, thank you so much for your help!
I finally managed to find out where my phone downloaded the Sprint Nougat OTA file, and copied it to my SDcard.
My phone is a Sprint HTC 10. The bootloader is unlocked and my recovery is TWRP, but other than that I am stock and unrooted.
Everyone says you need to be on stock everything to install an OTA update (though I had no issues installing previous OTA updates directly, but all of those were small), so I was reading up on flashing stock recovery.... but several people commented that flashing a stock recovery on their phone wiped it. I really don't want to take that risk, and with TWRP I can make a backup of my entire phone. So I wanted to know, if flashing an OTA update fails from TWRP, could that brick my phone bad enough that I wouldn't be able to flash the TWRP backup to restore it? Or can I recover as long as I can boot into... well, recovery. Would the OTA update overwrite the recovery too? Especially if I try to install it from within that recovery?
I was told to extract the "update.zip" file from the OTA.... but there is none in there, is the OTA zip file itself what they meant by "update.zip"?
flashing an ota with twrp won't work...at least it won't update the firmware bits.
So I found my old M83 the other day. It's running:
S-ON, UNLOCKED BOOTLOADER (NOW RELOCKED) ON TMOBILE.
I decided to try and flash the latest firmware via the sd card method, didn't work. Then tried flashing the firmware via fastboot. Fastboot didn't work either.
Now the phone only boots to the bootloader/hboot screen.
Any attempt at trying to flash firmware, or a recover, customer or otherwise fails.
I'm really hoping I can find a tmobile ruu zip to bring it back to life, however I can't seem to find a tmobile ruu zip anywhere anymore. I don't have a PC so downloading the *exe files doesn't do me much good.
Is there anyone that can please offer some assistance?
Much appreciated in advance!
What I did was to use TWRP and restore my original copy of the ROM (hopefully you still have that), if not you will need to find a TWRP backup of the ROM for the version of firmware you have and then restore the recovery for that same version (it get rid of TWRP). Then let the OTA fix update your phone. This is the route I took. Since Android 6 (MM) is the last release once you get to that stock, you can then replace the recovery (you could backup the recovery also) with TWRP, take a backup and then root or flash a new ROM.
Good luck