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Although I only had the phone for a day now, I've been reading the forum for a month trying to get the info I needed so that when it arrived, I'd be able to load up froyo, wifi calling and be done quickly. I set it all up and downloaded ryan's OCLF, ran it, rooted, installed the ext files, then the v2 lag fix it said to. Everything was great.
Later I downloaded a few apps and titanium backup, but didn't back up yet. I ran the battery down low. Went into the clockwork app that I downloaded and did a backup restore.
About an hour later the battery finally died. I read that you should turn it on until it won't anymore before finally plugging in to charge and wiping the battery settings. Problem is it wouldn't boot up again. Hung on the Galaxy S screen with the shining S.
I could still reboot into recovery and into download. Was going to ODIN back, but my PC was giving me trouble. I pulled the micro sim and thre the ASOP 2.2 rom on it from another laptop dragged it to card removed and popped it back in. I tried to reboot to recovery which worked, then reinstall, nothing. Tried to get to the SD card, but it doesn't find it.
Finally gave up and went back into recovery and did a factory data wipe reset or whatever it is called. When the phone rebooted it all booted fine, no problems at all however I lost every setting account etc..
So here's where I'm at now, i mounted it as USB and looked at the phone from the PC, in the clockwork folder is my backup I just can't get it to load.
I went back to the market and redownloaded the ryan OCLF and removed the lag, ext and root and I'm back to stock. Phone will turn off and back on.
What now? Where did I go wrong, it doesn't make any sense, I followed every instruction exactly as it was written.
I'm a little concerned to root again, but I want to backup settings, accounts etc.. in case this happens again.
first...welcome to XDA...the baddest forum on the planet...
second....this is the wrong section for this topic....should be in Q & A section...but a Mod will take care of that....
third....read this.....http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=849028
the author worked hard on this to become a sticky so noobs will see it first...if u need more info....there is another sticky in the general section...good luck!!
Thanks, I'll read through it now. I thought I had a good idea to drag the new rom to the sd card and fire it up from there, but it failed. Happy I didn't brick the phone. I saw a lot of posts saying ODIN was the only way back, guess I got lucky with the data wipe.
I've had iphones for 2 years and when this happened it would be a conflict with programs, is there a list like that for android like there was for cydia in the iphone info?
I don't know.... but make sure you read carefully before you flash... in a nutshell the steps for ROM flashing is.
1. Root
2. Download and install ROM Manager from market
3. Flask clockwordmod recovery
4. Nandroid (backup)
5. Backup SD card to pc(just in case)
6. Flash your ROM from clockworkmod recovery.
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Here's a question I don't think is answered after reading the post. So rooting via OCLF without installing the lag fix v2 is exactly the same as rooting by dragging and dropping.
Rooting in itself can't cause the phone to not reboot, but if you flash incorrectly or apply lag fix and flash over them you could run into trouble. I just can't seem to figure out where the error was. I didn't delete the update zip after rooting, thats the only error I see.
Other issue I noticed is that on mounting to USB after booted I can see the backups, but I can't locate the ROM zip I put on the SD card or the SD card at all.
So let me get this straight... you rooted via OCLF.. but did not apply the lagfix?
Edit: oh I see... u tried to flash a froyo Rom then go back to stock?...
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No I rooted then applied the lag fix it had available which was version two I believe
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Ok... try ODIN back to stock...make sure you have the correct drivers
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Let me correct what I'm saying, the phone went into the stuck glowing S screen when trying to turn it back on after I ran the battery down to nothing. It wouldn't boot past that point. I tried reinstall, reboot, etc..from the menu in clockwork recov in recov screen as that was all i could get to. When that failed I tried just loading a 2.2 ROM to the sd card direct from my laptop, thought I could just flash from that screen right over everything, didn't work either. Thats when I tried delete all info as a last effort, but then it magically booted back 100% stock, but still rooted. So i reloaded OCLF and unrooted because I don't know what caused the phone to be stuck in the S screen, I didn't flash anything, just did the root and oclf all from ryan's OCLF app
I tried to reroot manual, didn't work, lots of issues, wouldnt root. Went back for OCLF gone. Went for the z4 gone. Found links for both, tried the z4 didnt' work, superuser continiously popping up for permissions, went back removed that and reloaded oclf from web, ran and fixed boot and rerooted, all good. Went back and downloaded and flashed Vibrant AOSP ish JK2 1.1 Official FROYO. Absolutely love it so far. I've been waiting for wifi calling for a long time, it actually works. Problem is I'm not really sure if I rebackup everything now or leave the backups I have from clockwork for stock. I keep reading everything and feel like I'm missing something. I have Vibrant AOSP ish JK2 1.1 Official FROYO saved so I guess if it crashes I just reflash that and don't need a backup, but should titanium backup the whole thing instead now? Sorry if no one replies i get it. Two years of iphone jailbreaking is a waste, nothing like this at all! I will say I never bricked an iphone, feel like i'm gonna brick this thing.
I want to run the OCLF v2, but concerned it's going to cause issues as it's running so smooth right now.
It works fine
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version 2 isn't an option, i'm running lag fix one, seems ok I'm having some other issues, but its running
If your still having problems odin back to stock and start over it always safer and will cause less problems
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All my issues were because busy box was messed up, all good now
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Just to throw it in there... you should always backup your current ROM and all apps using both ROM Manager AND Titanium Backup. It makes it THAT much easier if you do, by chance, have to use ODIN or run a recover, to get your settings, apps, saved data, etc. back without much hassle.
I run a Titanium backup on all of my apps I have loaded (NOT SYSTEM APPS as they are backed up by ROM manager I believe) once a month or so, just to keep fairly recent. It makes it to where, if it does need to be restored, the apps all get re-installed at once including saved data within the app (saved game progress, etc.). This is handy because you don't have to remember what all you had installed and you don't have to go searching through marketplace to get those apps back.
If you are running a custom homescreen (Launcher Pro, etc.), you should also use their backup option to save your homescreen settings.
In short, backup everything you can... it makes 3 hours worth of reloading things condense into a nice little 10-15min "install", "ok" button pressing fiesta!
And, to let you know, I've (as just about 100% of XDA users) flashed, and ODIN'd nearly a thousand times and have yet to brick a phone. These things are crazy indestructible. There's 3 or 4 different ways to get into Download Mode if you get the computer!phone screen... so don't worry about it. The only thing you really lose is time spent getting things back to normal if you screw up. But read up on everything, which it sounds like you already do, before you even attempt anything that could kill the phone. I don't post much on here because just about everything is already answered... you just have to search a little bit.
I've saved a couple i9000 Odin flashed Fascinates with this method so it should work.
First, grab my DI01 All in One. You need an all inclusive package.
http://adrynalyne.us/files/kernels/DI01package3.tar.md5
You will need odin3 v 1.30. Google for it.
You also need Heimdall.
Heimdall – Glass Echidna There is a readme in the windows version zip if you get stuck. Drivers must be installed for it as well.
You also need a copy of the samsung galaxy s usb drivers, because Heimdall will remove them when you use it.
[Drivers] MS Windows x86 and x64 USB Drivers for Samsung Galaxy S - xda-developers
You will also need a PIT file from me:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2056318/atlas_v2.2.pit
Steps:
1. Install Heimdall and drivers.
2. Put phone in download mode and plug it in to usb cable.
3. Unzip the Odin file. 7zip can do this, but will give an EOF error. Ignore the error.
4. Choose each section in Heimdall and add the appropriate file, including PIT. Check repartition. Primary boot loader is boot.bin and secondary boot loader is sbl.bin.
5. Start. Boot once, check for problems. If problems persist, continue.
6. Reinstall Samsung USB drivers for Odin. This may require a PC reboot.
7. Put phone back in download Mode and start Odin, making sure its detected.
8. Load the entire Odin package, not extracted into the pda section of Odin. Include the PIT file. CHECK repartition.
9. Run the process.
If all goes well, you should be back to stock, crappy Eclair 2.1 without force close errors.
On a whim last night I flashed cm7 from kaoscinate. It wasnt what I wanted (nothing worked except calls data and sms), so I tried to go nack to sc 2.4. And of course I was bricked. But I just odined the eb01 radio and voila, I was ok.
Not sure if that helps.
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i went to cm7 from sc 2.4 aswell, and to get back to sc 2.4 i just flashed cwmfroyo edition through cwm, rebooted the recovery then wiped data, re-installed sc 2.4 and bam! i was back.
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On a whim last night I flashed cm7 from kaoscinate. It wasnt what I wanted (nothing worked except calls data and sms), so I tried to go nack to sc 2.4. And of course I was bricked. But I just odined the eb01 radio and voila, I was ok.
Not sure if that helps.
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I wouldn't say you were bricked. Bricked means the phone no longer functions period, no matter what you do to it. But I'm glad this helped you. I'll probably use the DL09 All in One and then flash SuperClean back over that.
When you flash an All In One, you are taking your kernel and your radio (modem) back to that version as well. When you want to go back to Froyo or whatever, make sure you flash the radio along with whatever else your flashing.
Boot looped. Wouldn't get past Samsung logo. Not an uncommon problem for me. I have become very comfortable with Odin.
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I have become very comfortable with Odin.
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haha yeah. It's saved me but a couple times mostly anytime voodoo is involved. Tried restoring a nandroid backup of EB01 after flashing CM7 and got force closes from hell. Odin'd back using the EB01 unbloated/deodexed.tar and everything booted fine. Tried to restore the nandroid and couldn't do anything because of the force closes. Think I have corrupt data somewhere though. I also made a backup of the apps and data in MyBackupPro and ended up in the same force close situation upon reboot after restoring all. Selectively restoring a couple apps worked fine. Oh well.
Basically, I can't sustain a data connection for longer than about a minute before my fascinate disconnects. It takes about a minute to reconnect, then it disconnects again. Over and over and over. It never affects phone calls because it's not losing signal, it's just dropping the data connection.
I've been poking around my phone a bit, and in the past week, but I can't pinpoint what I did that made this start happening. I was hoping this thread would save me, but it didn't. I went back to DI01 using heimdall, booted up, still had the same problem. Reflashed with Odin, same thing. Went back to SCv2.4 with EB01 modem, same thing.
I ask this in this thread because I'm wondering what part of the phone remains untouched even with the full DI01 flash? Like some kind of low-level device mode that I triggered?
If there is nothing then it must be hardware related, and I will get a replacement.
@gizmo, maybe its time to start all over again with adryn's full di01 odin restore. i have had to do that twice now. and it has saved my butt.
i have become pretty familiar now with rebuilding my entire phone. it only takes about an hour now to go from a rom i like, to soft bricking it and then back to the rom i liked before i soft bricked with another alpha i just couldn't seem to wait to try.
Why does the movinand.bin fail when using Odin?
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@gizmo, maybe its time to start all over again with adryn's full di01 odin restore. i have had to do that twice now. and it has saved my butt.
i have become pretty familiar now with rebuilding my entire phone. it only takes about an hour now to go from a rom i like, to soft bricking it and then back to the rom i liked before i soft bricked with another alpha i just couldn't seem to wait to try.
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Sounds pretty familiar . I always have to be breaking my stuff to be happy.
I've done the full heimdall DI01, followed by full Odin, to no avail. I think I messed up something with the service programming on the phone, but reactivating it doesn't help. None of the factory reset options I've tried have cleared the activation settings back to stock. Anyone know how to accomplish this?
I suppose I should move to my own thread now.
I'm a longtime reader, don't post too much.
I'm in desperate need of help. If you're just going to flame me, please save that for a little bit so I don't have to sift through it to find some help.
I have the ROM addiction--I've flashed just about everything available for the Fascinate. I am a novice at best (i've fumbled my way through ADB before), but have never had any serious issues. Tried to flash EB01 modem through Odin (was at DI01 still somehow), and Odin froze. After 20 minutes I closed and disconnected my phone. It wouldn't boot after that. I was running the EC10 Rom and kernel (v2, before it became nameless). And I accidentally flashed the 3.0 clockwork, so I couldn't do anything through recovery.
I was trying Odin 1.3 from a Vista machine (not mine, I run Ubuntu) to begin with. Finally got my hands on a Windows 7 machine and Odin worked great. Restored to DI01, then flashed Superclean 2.9.2, and had the correct Clockwork. Less than a day later, Zeam (which I had as my default launcher) started force closing. Somehow Clockwork reverted back to 3.0, so all i could do was try fix permissions. Tried to odin restore again, and odin froze again, from the Windows 7 machine this time.
I've tried different USB cables and ports on three different computers (Windows 7 and two XP's. I can't get heimdall to recognize it in Ubuntu (might not have the drivers loaded properly there). Odin at least recognized the phone earlier, and it would start to flash. After 4 or 5 minutes the screen on my phone would go black and the flash would just freeze. Restarted the computer, reinstalled the drivers. Kept trying to flash. Then the screen started to change colors when it froze--always a solid color, but changed with different flash attempts. White once, pink once, and i think blue once.
I've been on IRC and received some tips, but it's hard to get sustained attention there. Especially since i'm a n00b. I've read every post I can find.
I NEED my phone. My girlfriend is out of the country right now, and that's how we communicate. Skype, chat, etc. It's killing me not to have my phone right now.
Can someone please help me out? And if you must flame me, how about wait until my phone is working please
Thanks in advance
Well i'm a noob too but... I have read you should use oem cables. I guess people have issues with non-oem ones. I don't know why odin shouldn't run though. Just try flashing the right cwm. You can either try odin or just flash it in cwm itself.
I was hacing the same problem with odin 1.3, i have been using odin 1.7 for months with no problems. Here is a link for the one i use, hope it helps. http://www.mediafire.com/?t093btu771q0bgi
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thanks Dale, i'll try that now.
Exzackly--i was able to flash the correct CWM at one point but couldn't install a ROM through it. and now I can't connect to Odin at all.
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thanks Dale, i'll try that now.
Exzackly--i was able to flash the correct CWM at one point but couldn't install a ROM through it. and now I can't connect to Odin at all.
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Because this kind of question has been popping up all over the place, i put together a post with instructions, and links for everything you will need just to help everyone out. hope it helps you. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1026746
I gained root access through superoneclick gingerbreak. It gave me the superuser app and i downloaded rom manager but whenever i try to get to clockwork recovery mode it keeps going to samsung recovery. No matter how many times I hit re-install packages it goes back to the samsung recovery. What did I do wrong? Should I have gained root another way? Should I try to flash back to 2.1? Please help I'm so frustrated.
first off dont use gingerbreak. Just odin back to stock and then root by installing the update package twice and after twice ur recovery should turn blue to green.
here follow this, use the eclair root guide:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=9375927
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I gained root access through superoneclick gingerbreak. It gave me the superuser app and i downloaded rom manager but whenever i try to get to clockwork recovery mode it keeps going to samsung recovery. No matter how many times I hit re-install packages it goes back to the samsung recovery. What did I do wrong? Should I have gained root another way? Should I try to flash back to 2.1? Please help I'm so frustrated.
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no modded 3e recovery..so it will keep going to Stock recovery. You need to do what movie said or flash a voodoo kernel or flash a modded 3e recovery.
Interestingly enough I have the same problem, 100% rooted, super user access no issue, busy box installed, root manager installed.
I upgraded the 2.1 to 2.2 from the kies mini software.
I have been doing a ton of reading and would like to start flashing roms, etc etc.
Through titanium backup, I have un-installed a large mount of apps and have not suffered any problems as of yet, but would like to try some custom roms.
My question is, since I uninstalled alot of things, only apps that are bloatware, and since I can't get my clockwork recovery console to take affect, do I have to follow post #2?
Is this link the right one taken out of the link from post #2
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1047087
Is this the final and correct link, since I do not store data on my phone, and all contacts are on my sim card, and really haven't done any customizations to anything really, can I just odin back and not back anything up? All I use my phone for is calls, txt's and internet, I don't bookmark anything, I don't save txts and call logs mean nothing to me?
I assume I will have to re-root my phone again and do the same procedures, etc etc.
Also as a side note, I am a minimalist type of person, that's why I use linux at home, no windows of any kind (I'll do this procedure at work). Any roms out there that can handle my needs of simply calls, txt'ing and internet without all the other stuff? I don't use GPS, I don't facebook or social network, I don't play games on my phone. I do need however, the use of the camera and video recorder.
Thanks.
I would just follow my advice and odin back to stock its really easy and safe to do. Well if the only apps u have left are bloatware and u dont save anything else i guess u wont need to back anything up before odin. Well the thing its alot easier to root 2.1 then 2.2.
Once ur at 2.1 just do the root process of installing update package twice and after twice ur recovery will turn from blue to green.
follow this guide
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=9375927
the eclair guide
heres the steps for download mode just in case:
power off phone
pull out battery
turn on odin
attach phone to pc with usb cable
now while holding down both volume buttons put battery back in.
now you should be in download mode and go back to stock with odin from here!
make sure u put the proper .pit and .pda file in there proper places on odin and ur set to go.
Enjoy and also make sure u have the proper samsung drivers
So, is this the right link from the guide you posted, it's amazing, I read so many things today that It's easy to get a little well, brain farty, ya know.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1047087
Also, I have the kies mini drivers installed, that's how I updated from 2.1 to 2.2 so I assume those will work fine?
BTW, this is the coolest community, props to all involved!!!
Now, I edited my post I think while you were replying, any rom suggestions for a simple user who likes minimal applications but just a well running phone that's not clogged to the gills with stuff?
good noob friendly rom is bionix 1.3.1!
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good noob friendly rom is bionix 1.3.1!
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Yep, that seems to be the consensus, thank you
Guys,
A huge thanks, odin'd back to 2.1, rooted, removed the bloatware I didn't want, gonna make a nandroid back, then proceed on to bionix.
I can understand how first time users can get nervous but once done, the process really is not that hard, just takes patience and making sure everything is prep'd before doing so.
I hope I can now help others if you guys don't beat me to it first
My only question is this: when I create my nandroid backup, where does it go and do I need to save it somewhere just in case like a usb key or something along those lines or does it reside on the phone. Only asking cause I have not yet done this step
U can always make a extra backup and store them on ur ext sd
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Okay, so I assume the backup, made from rom manager "backup current rom" gets stored to the internal memory on the phone?
Any special settings or it just does it's thing, should be smaller than normal as I removed quite a bit of junk and stuff.
i did what you said and i still cant get into clockwork recovery screen! i went back to stock rom, reinstalled packages twice and i still have samsung recovery. i know i have root because i get the super user asking me to give clockwork root access!
So I assume you odin'd back to 2.1, rooted have installed titanimum backup and busy box, rom manager, tapped the flash clockworkmod recovery, then "reboot in recovery" choose update. I rebooted via the rom manager menu, not via the phone itself. I had to update twice immediately, didn't reboot and do it again. I saw it installing and it kinda hung, then used the volume down to update again, and was completed.
Also after installing titanium there was an update for super user, which I also installed as well. Did you do this? Not sure if it has any bearing but thought it was worth mentioning.
It worked seamlessly for me, I had to update twice, then purple turned to green and all is well.
Can you post your steps you took to get back to 2.1, how you rooted, etc etc?
It's kinda fresh in my mind as I only did it about 2 hours ago.
my screw up after i flashed clockwork and rebooted i didnt apply package. all is good now. thx for all the info!
Anytime, I found the process to be quite interesting and taught me alot and also removed my fear of installing new roms and such.
Make sure to create your backup through rom manager. When you do, it will reboot into clockwordrecovery and show you the progress, didn't take that long for mine but I removed alot of nonesense from 2.1. This will be your emergency fall back, you might know this already but just making sure, as I am quite a noob at this point ROFL!
Enjoy
ps - I still can't decide on a new rom, I'm so fussy about stuff, ugh.
I rooted my phone and was wanting to do tethering. So when I changed my services.jar and services.odex files, I did a reboot and now it gets stuck on the sprint start up screen. I did do a back up with titanium. But im not worried about losing everything just need to get it working.
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I rooted my phone and was wanting to do tethering. So when I changed my services.jar and services.odex files, I did a reboot and now it gets stuck on the sprint start up screen. I did do a back up with titanium. But im not worried about losing everything just need to get it working.
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Do you have custom recovery?
A sd card?
Any roms saved on your sd card?
A pc and access to Odin?
You might need to just wipe the phone clean and start over.
You stated that you made a back up with T.B.
IMO you shouldn't mod anything without a backing up with custom recovery first. But thats
just me.
So give me the run down of what you have to work it in the way of android tools.
I have access to any pc tools, i currently have odin and kies, Something happened and my recovery is gone... I have loaded a stock firmware onto it and it is still doing the samething.
I fixed it, I reloaded the stock firmware on it and let it sit a few minutes on the sprint screen and that fixed. I guess it was loading system data and it just took a minute lol.