[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note5] jerry43812:
I'm so mad that i've got flames shooting out my ears. Why? A few reasons. First, Snapchat doesn't let you log in on a rooted phone so I wanted to go back to stock for 5 minutes to log in then root again. Sounds simple, right?

I was already on 7.0, it was installed from an OTA update a couple weeks ago when I found out it was being pushed. I rolled from rooted stock MM to unrooted stock MM via ODIN. Downloaded and installed the OTA without a hitch. Forgot to log into snapchat on that day, instead I jumped straight to rooting. Tether is a necessity in my business.

Fast forward to last night. I wanted to roll from 7.0 rooted back to 7.0 stock, log into snapchat, then reroot. Couldn't find the simple tar.md5 of 7.0 that you drop into the AP slot in ODIN. I found a 7.0 that used all 4 slots in ODIN but I didn't like that it was different than what I was used to, so I tried to roll back to 6.0.1 using ODIN. It flashed fine but when it booted, the screen resolution was set to such a large dimension that the sprint splash screen, which normally only consumed the middle 1/3rd of the screen, was taking up the whole screen and bleeding off the edge. I tried a few times to get it to run but all the system apps would just repeatedly force close so that flash was a dud. Art this point i'm a but annoyed because a simple flash, boot, log in, flash, boot, done is turning into a longer process.

So, last resort (in my mind) I decided to go through with flashing that 7.0 that I'd found. I read through the thread, didn't see any current issues to stop me. I downloaded it, which took freaking forever because apparently the site hosting it throttles downloads to 12mbps. Finally got it downloaded, check md5, unzip, throw the 4 parts into the slots in ODIN, and flash. EVerything was successful.

Reboot into system, let it do its thing, log into snapchat, then throw her back into download mode and flash recovery then finish up and go to bed. Seems easy enough. Riiiight??

I unplug the phone, reboot it. Samsung splash screen appears, then an odd screen. A teal screen. With the word Erasing... at the bottom left. "Hmm, strange" I thought. I set the phone down and waited.

A few minutes later I start hearing a voice saying something. I realize its my phone. Behaving oddly. As if I just bought it and turned it on for the first time. I look at the screen in absolute horror.

The damn flash I's just performed deleted every freaking thing on my phone. all apps. all app data. all files. all contacta. all texts. everything. GONE. WTF.

Nowhere in that stupid thread did it say it wiped the phone. Nowhere, not anywhere, ever, did I see that this damn flash would've wiped my phone. Now I am livid. All this just so I can log into some stupid app, because my wife wanted me to use it with her. Everything. Gone.

I set up my account details, logged into my samsung account, did all the restore options, then went to bed because it was taking an awfully long time to restore, so I figured I had a fighting chance.

Woke up this morning to the phone still stuck trying to restore. It had made no progress since last night. So I decided to reboot it. It refused to finish the restore process, so I did a factory reset and tried again. Everything restored this time, all of my apps, contacts, texts, home screen etc. Except, none of the data that my apps had produced, restored. Game progress for a game I play: gone. 6 years of data produced by an app to log vehicle expenses: gone.

SO I tried a third time to restore everything to no avail.

It's almost time for me to leave home (I'm a truck driver, home on weekends), so I decide I will jsut re-root the phone since I am pretty sure I can try to restore the apps form my samsung account again, sometime this week. Re-rooting went fine, I made sure tether worked and then I hit the road.

Turned on my bluetooth headset so I could talk to my wife. The damn thing won't pair to my phone. No matter what I try, the headset won't pair.

I try again to hit the restore option from my samsung account. it wnts me to log in again because my session expired. I enter my password, it logs in then instantly expires my session, demanding login again. Endless cycle. I cannot log into my samsung account. I boot into recovery and clear cache and dalvik in hopes that it fixes it. Reboot, only to find the same problem exists. I do some research and find out that since I am rooted (as I've always been!) I can no longer log into my samsung account on my samsung phone that I OWN! WTF!! Since I rooted, my data is now being held hostage.

All of this crap, because everybody in the whole freaking universe is against people rooting their damn phones. This is ridiculous, pathetic, and unacceptable.

I now know that Google does not sync/backup any data, nor any app, other than its own. And I now know that Samsung backs up... god only knows what the hell they backup from your phone... then they'll hold your own data hostage form you if you choose to root your phone for whatever reason.

BIG THANKS to the person who uploaded the 4-part 7.0, called it an update, and did not disclaim that it is guaranteed to wipe everything you ever had, right off your phone.

All I wish I could recover is the 6 year old cumulative data from one app. But nope that's gone too. This has me the most distraught.

yes I know I should've made a nandroid. it wouldve avoided this whole thing. noob idiot dumbass mistake. I also know that I cnnot trust tht just because it doesn't specifically say itll wipe everything, doesnt mean it wont.

the end.

FML.