I had bionix fusion 1.1, and i tried to restore using my nandroid backup image. But it didnt work, the phone would get stuck at the vibrant boot up screen. So i decided to just flash bionix's new obsidian rom over the fusion. It worked, but now im wondering what i should do if i ever want to go back to stock. Should i use odin? And if i odin to stock i will get OTA's right? just trying to get answers straight.
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Hey everyone-
I'm not sure if this has been asked before, but if it has go ahead and send me a link to the proper page (I have searched myself). Now that's out of the way, here's my problem...After having bionix 1.6 installed on my vibrant, I decided that I would flash back to stock via odin and then flash eugene's vibrant_r3 rom. I forgot to disable voodoo before using odin, and I got an error reading (unable to clear data) after trying to flash the stock rom on my vibrant. So fast-forward a bit...I know have a phone that won't seem to flash successfully through odin, and the best I've been able to do so far is reinstall clockwork on my vibrant and flash an old bionix 1.2 rom, which keeps freezing, forceclosing, and just generally bugging-out. So basically it seems like my vibrant is a mess of a bunch of different unsuccesful flashes and reflashes, so what I want is a surefire way to odin back to stock and wipe any and all data currently on my phone (excluding my sim contacts of course)?
-much ablidged , bobofosho123
So i factory reset my phone (on stock), made a nandroid backup, then flashed one of bionix's roms. a couple days later i want to try another rom so i went into rom manager and chose to restore and picked the backup that i made earlier while on stock. It completed the restore process and went back to the clockworkmod recovery screen, then i chose reboot. now the phone sticks at the vibrant screen, but makes the bootup sound. weird huh? do i have to use odin? or is there somehow i can still restore using clockworkmod. i am able to still get into recovery btw . if the only way to fix is thru odin, can someone link a current post with instructions? thanks peeps.
BTW i was on JI6 when backing up, and i read fusion 1.1 runs on JI2 so......help?
Feel free anyone to correct me since I'm also fairly new at this, but it sounds like you may have soft bricked your phone. The way I understand it is that you needed to flash back to a stock kernel before restoring your stock ROM backup.
Getting back to a stock kernel can be done by either flashing a ROM that uses/applies it (they usually state what kernel they're using), or just flashing the stock kernel yourself, which can be downloaded here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=733792
Anyway, here is a thread that explains ODIN: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=810130
Good luck! I fear I'll be in your shoes at some point, so hopefully I helped a little.
im running bionix 1.1 fusion, and before i flashed that i made a nandroid. Now i want to go back to stock. But everytime i restore the image using clockworkmod recovery, i get a problem. The restore will complete, then ill reboot phone. but phone will sit stuck at vibrant screen for a long time. i waited more than 40 minutes...So i reflashed bionix fusion and am waiting for an answer on how to revert to stock. I think the problem might be that fusion 1.1 is based on the JI2 modem, and my backup is the JI6 modem. Someone help, i just want to restore my phone to stock.
roguly said:
im running bionix 1.1 fusion, and before i flashed that i made a nandroid. Now i want to go back to stock. But everytime i restore the image using clockworkmod recovery, i get a problem. The restore will complete, then ill reboot phone. but phone will sit stuck at vibrant screen for a long time. i waited more than 40 minutes...So i reflashed bionix fusion and am waiting for an answer on how to revert to stock. I think the problem might be that fusion 1.1 is based on the JI2 modem, and my backup is the JI6 modem. Someone help, i just want to restore my phone to stock.
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You could flash the JI6 modem from TeamWhiskey's website, then revert to your nandroid.
I had the same exact problem Bionix final R1. Try the above or Odin back to stock JI6, root it then restore. I had to do this, well.. not sure if I had to but it worked for me.
This is my second time trying to restore a backup using clockwork and it just hangs on the vibrant screen. The first time I forgot to disable voodoo so that was the problem then, but this time I was on obsidian froyo rom and had issues where I was not able to get any data reception (3g/edge) so I figured to try and got back to stock to see if that solved the issue but no I'm stuck on vibrant screen. It went through the process of restoring then rebooting but it got suck. I am very frustrated because I can't never get it to work so what is the point of backing up stuff. I will be using odin again to restore and not use backups anymore. Just wanted to vent as I am very frustrated about this. If there is some out there that could shed some light as to why I keep getting stuck on the vibrant screen I would appreciate it.
Will be getting a replacement phone from my date issue, and yes my voice still works just not data part.
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Froyo has a differnt kernel than eclair. You were trying to restore an eclair build, but you did not flash the stock eclair kernel first.
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Froyo has a differnt kernel than eclair. You were trying to restore an eclair build, but you did not flash the stock eclair kernel first.
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what eclair kernel can i use for the future???
i odin back to JFD and my 3g/edge is working again i wonder why i lost it?
Probably the easiest thing to do would have been to flash a new custom rom with the kernel included, like Fusion/Bionix.
You could have flashed the stock kernel and then restored a JI6 nandroid too though I imagine. I've not tried yet. The stock kernel can be found in my signature or in the development section. I have a copy on my internal memory just in case.
So i'm pretty noob with all this stuff but i finally decided to try flashing my phone and, in the end, ended up with a "bricked" (or the extent a vibrant can be bricked) phone. Thanks in advance for the advice.
what i did
I followed the flashing guide in the sticky post "** GUIDE - TIPS - TRICKS ** Last Update 12/03/10 ** READ BEFORE ASKING" and everything worked great. I downloaded Rom manager, made a nandroid backup of my stock rom, flashed it with bionix fusion and everything worked great. I didn't do the titanium backup and there was an app that i needed to use the next day so on the way to work, i decided to restore back to the stock thinking that i could go back for the day, use the apps that i needed and when i got home got home, back up my apps with titanium back up and restore again back to the bionix fusion. So i did that. I went to rom manager and I first backed up my bionix fusion rom and then tried to recover my stock rom. When the phone restarted, it didn't go past the vibrant/samsung screen.
The question...
what went wrong? based on some reading i think it has something to do with the kernel but i'm not really sure.
but the real question is, how do i avoid from this happening again? did i do the recovery wrong? what's the best way to unbrick my phone back to stock without losing any data on the phone. is it possible????
at this point, i can go into download mode. what should be my next move?
Thank you again if you can provide any insight.
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So looking at some posts, I looks like I need to flash the stock kernel. can anyone tell me how to flash just the kernel using odin? I've never used it and I can't seem to find anything on flashing just the kernel. Thank you.
Problem SOLVED!
ok. not completely solved T_T.
What i've done.
I've flashed back to stock vibrant firmware and that works fine. When i try to restore my nandroid backup, and it reboots, I get stuck back to the same place i was. I made two nandroid backups and tried them both but neither of them work. am i doing it wrong? I have even re-rooted my vibrant and downloaded rom manager again and tried it through there and still get the problem. have tried it about 4 times now with no luck.
Again, any help is appreciated.
Nandroid doesnt replace the kernal
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Exactly, nandroid doesn't replace the kernel. If you want to run a nandroid restore, you have to either flash the rom the nandroid was created on, then restore (safest imho), or flash a compatible kernel for the rom from which your nandroid was created, then run your nandroid restore.
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Pretty sure this was in the sticky too