Root [Boost Mobile] help! boost s3 return to stock

[jesse1160]

Hello everyone, I rooted my boost s3 using twrp and Odin (I am a noob so please don't attack me) and I want to return it to stock so I can update it.

Please help, I have no idea what to do here and I can't afford to mess up my phone.

Thank you so much for your help.

 

[Rukbat]

1) TWRP replaces the recovery firmware, it doesn't root the phone.

2) Odin is a technician's tool and, like most technician's tools it has no safeguards built into it and relies on the knowledge and the experience of the technician to prevent errors. You can use Odin to do anything to the phone, except damage the actual hardware. But you can totally wipe out all the firmware.

And it's not the way to root a phone.

3) "Return to stock" really doesn't mean anything in the way you're using it, because there's nothing to return to. It's not like turning the page of the book back to return to the words on the last page. You made permanent changes to the phone - you can't "unmake" them. You'll have to find a flashable ROM of the stock firmware and flash it. (I'm afraid that any more fooling around trying to fix things, even if you think you're following the directions carefully, will just result in more damage.)

 

[wetbiker7]

There are stock ROMs you can flash that are 4.3.. No sense trying to go back to complete stock (recovery and all) to take the update when you can easily flash a 4.3 rooted ROM. Just my opinion.

 

[jesse1160]

All I want to do is get the 4.3 update. Do I need to install a diff 4.2 to do that? When I select install now it restarts to twrp and I can't find the upgrade from there. What should I do?

 

[jesse1160]

There are stock ROMs you can flash that are 4.3.. No sense trying to go back to complete stock (recovery and all) to take the update when you can easily flash a 4.3 rooted ROM. Just my opinion.

Thank you so much! Do you have any idea where I can get a boost 4.3 firmware ROM? I appreciate your help so much!

 

[kevindroid]

http://androidforums.com/boost-mobi...ng-roms-mods-kernels-modems-ect-boost-s3.html

this has 4.3 roms and links you can thank biker for the one stop shop

 

[jdsingle76]

1) TWRP replaces the recovery firmware, it doesn't root the phone.

2) Odin is a technician's tool and, like most technician's tools it has no safeguards built into it and relies on the knowledge and the experience of the technician to prevent errors. You can use Odin to do anything to the phone, except damage the actual hardware. But you can totally wipe out all the firmware.

And it's not the way to root a phone.

3) "Return to stock" really doesn't mean anything in the way you're using it, because there's nothing to return to. It's not like turning the page of the book back to return to the words on the last page. You made permanent changes to the phone - you can't "unmake" them. You'll have to find a flashable ROM of the stock firmware and flash it. (I'm afraid that any more fooling around trying to fix things, even if you think you're following the directions carefully, will just result in more damage.)

What you are saying is not entirely correct. If the gentleman rooted by flashing twrp with Odin and then flashing Supersu with twrp, then he certainly is rooted, which is an acceptable method. Additionally, he did not make permanent changes to his phone. Anything you do short of hard-bricking beyond repair can be undone, except getting rid of the Knox bootloader(for now). OP, if you want the official update, which I advise against, then simply flash the MG2 tar that's floating around on here(or even MD7), using Odin, and you will have undone everything you did. Then just let Samsung update you. My suggestion is you use twrp to flash PhilZ recovery and flash the Knox free 4.3 update for your carrier.
MG2 Tar
http://androidforums.com/virgin-mob...114-mg2-kies-recovery-file-virgin-mobile.html

MK5 Flashable 4.3 Knox free
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2546505

Just read the instructions carefully and you'll be fine. Good luck

 

[Rukbat]

Additionally, he did not make permanent changes to his phone.

Permanent, as opposed to "just flip the switch and it "reverts to" the older <whatever you flashed>. People don't understand that flashing a recovery or a ROM wipes out the original - there's no "returning to", you have to repeat the same process with what you want to "return" to. (I try to fit my answer to the apparent experience level of the person asking the question. More experienced and knowledgeable readers, such as yourself, may notice a simplification that makes the answer technically correct, but a hex dump of the code to fix his problem would be useless to him.)

Anything you do short of hard-bricking beyond repair can be undone

Even that can be, if there's no hardware damage. (Not always with software - it sometimes takes hardware to stuff firmware into a totally hard-bricked device. At very worst, even a 2 byte tight loop can be fixed with a CPU emulator.)

except getting rid of the Knox bootloader(for now).

Yeah, well ... The more stupid the idea, the longer it takes to figure out how to get rid of it. But you CAN flash ROMs to the AT&T and VM GN3s now. And Samsung has admitted that Knox has a security hole you can drive their building through.