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How to delete andriod OS

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agentili

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Hello,

Is there any way i can delete andriod OS?, I need to install or unistall something so the Samsung Galaxy Note wont run if you power it on, i want to show some kind of setup screen, is this possible?

Thanks
 
Yes, but then you'd have a very expensive placemat. If you could be specific about what you are attempting, perhaps we can help you out.
 
i really dont get it,.... u want a galaxy note ...blank?

you could just flash a rom from a different device and it wont even boot but why ruin a good G-note?
 
It sounds like the OP wants some sort of boot menu, rather than booting straight into Android. But what would be wanted on this setup screen? A grub-type loader is no use when you only have one OS on the machine.

I imagine that there is a key combination can be used to boot a GNote into a bootloader menu, as you can on my device, but you don't get to choose the options it presents and there's still only one OS, so chances are that doesn't do what is wanted.
 
Hello everyone! I'm here to say about something that happening on Samsung Galaxy S5 (if it is real cause it is from China not from Samsung). This Samsung Galaxy s5 got a viruse that install every time many apps and enable WiFi when I disable it! I trying to factory reset it but it is not working!! This viruse install apps, get me in not good websites and something like that at all!! I wanna remove the Android os and reinstall it again (how to do that?) so as to find a solution! It will be fine with that (the device)
 
You don't remove android and reinstall it as separate steps. Flashing a new firmware image will simply overwrite the old one (including any nasties that have been added to it).

The most important thing is knowing precisely what model you have, because the software is not generic, it has to be built for the particular model. If it's a real S5 then with that information you can locate the official firmware and someone who knows Samsung devices better than me can tell you how to install it. If it's a fake then it will be much harder: there's almost no chance of finding the correct firmware for one of those, assuming that the malware isn't actually part of the device's original firmware (not impossible with fakes). And you cannot install Samsung firmware on a fake phone - the fakes only look like the real thing, internally they have very little in common.

So, can you tell us the exact model number? You should have this on the packaging or via the system settings (possibly bootloader - I'm not so familiar with Samsung bootloaders). And if you are in any way unsure as to whether it's a real S5, the full software information, especially the baseband version, would help (the good fakes disguise a lot of this stuff, but the baseband is usually a give-away).

(BTW what the original poster was asking was something different - talk of not booting but showing a setup screen on power up is not the same as just replacing the OS).
 
Hadron said:
You don't remove android and reinstall it as separate steps. Flashing a new firmware image will simply overwrite the old one (including any nasties that have been added to it).

The most important thing is knowing precisely what model you have, because the software is not generic, it has to be built for the particular model. If it's a real S5 then with that information you can locate the official firmware and someone who knows Samsung devices better than me can tell you how to install it. If it's a fake then it will be much harder: there's almost no chance of finding the correct firmware for one of those, assuming that the malware isn't actually part of the device's original firmware (not impossible with fakes). And you cannot install Samsung firmware on a fake phone - the fakes only look like the real thing, internally they have very little in common.

So, can you tell us the exact model number? You should have this on the packaging or via the system settings (possibly bootloader - I'm not so familiar with Samsung bootloaders). And if you are in any way unsure as to whether it's a real S5, the full software information, especially the baseband version, would help (the good fakes disguise a lot of this stuff, but the baseband is usually a give-away).

(BTW what the original poster was asking was something different - talk of not booting but showing a setup screen on power up is not the same as just replacing the OS).
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The usual way you do this with Samsung phones is to get your ROM file from the link above, then you'll also need drivers for your phone and a version of the Odin utility.

Put your phone into Odin mode or Download mode (same thing, it just might appear on the screen either way). Then you plug into your PC and use Odin to flash the ROM file. That's the super condensed version of what happens. You can read the full instructions here.

 
PaulEngineer said:
Uuuuum how to delete the android os because I can't do the factory reset idk why!! But how to do delete the android os and reinstall it again clear and new?
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A factory reset only erases stuff added by the owner, doesn't touch the system software at all. So if the malware is part of the system a reset makes no difference. But if not then sure: you need to enter recovery mode (boot while pressing some combination of buttons, cant remember what for a Samsung) and the reset from there. No Android malware can prevent that, because recovery is separate from Android. If you still have the malware after that then it is part of the system software.
 
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