Just as easy to unroot... just flash a stock ROM via Odin. takes 5 minutes instead of 2-3 ;-P
Keep in mind you'll need to reset your flash counter with triangle away if you need to make a warranty claim. It's easy enough to do, it's just one extra step you'll need to do before flashing stock and removing root.
Just as easy to unroot... just flash a stock ROM via Odin. takes 5 minutes instead of 2-3 ;-P
Keep in mind you'll need to reset your flash counter with triangle away if you need to make a warranty claim. It's easy enough to do, it's just one extra step you'll need to do before flashing stock and removing root.
Yeah true was gonna do that haha
Guessing thats also this?
where it says
CURRENT BINARY: CUSTOM SYSTEM STATUS: CUSTOM CSB-OEM_CONFIG_LSB:0x30 WRITE PROTECTION: Enable
By that i mean the custom part. Did it used to say original? I cant remember
Yup, used to say original, but even if you run triangle away, bootloader will say original, but phone will say custom until you factory reset. Not worth stressing about until you have a warranty issue. My S3 died with rooted stock, but because it was "sudden death syndrome", they couldn't tell anyway.
^Correct, flashing a stock rom doesn't increase the flash counter. Assuming you have rooted, the process to revert to stock would be to use triangle away first (because it needs root to operate), and then flash stock afterwards. Then do a factory reset etc and make sure you wipe the internal SD too (can't remember if a factory reset does this on the S4, earlier models don't by default).
You will need to make sure you are running a rom with the same CSC that was originally on the phone (not just any stock rom), as Samsung can tell what the original firmware was by querying the IMEI and serial number of the phone. In other words, if it was a Telecom phone, flash the Telecom rom, if it was Vodafone, flash the Vodafone rom etc.
You can actually restore the correct firmware through Kies, however you will likely need to unroot first. This would only be necessary if you don't know/can't access the original rom details.
Assuming you know what the original firmware was, just download from sammobile.com.
uglyb0b: ^Correct, flashing a stock rom doesn't increase the flash counter. Assuming you have rooted, the process to revert to stock would be to use triangle away first (because it needs root to operate), and then flash stock afterwards. Then do a factory reset etc and make sure you wipe the internal SD too (can't remember if a factory reset does this on the S4, earlier models don't by default).
You will need to make sure you are running a rom with the same CSC that was originally on the phone (not just any stock rom), as Samsung can tell what the original firmware was by querying the IMEI and serial number of the phone. In other words, if it was a Telecom phone, flash the Telecom rom, if it was Vodafone, flash the Vodafone rom etc.
You can actually restore the correct firmware through Kies, however you will likely need to unroot first. This would only be necessary if you don't know/can't access the original rom details.
Assuming you know what the original firmware was, just download from sammobile.com.
I've already downloaded the TNZ firmware from sammobile, and did triangle away, just incase i needed to do anything
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