Can you flash a .tar file through cwm - Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

or can it only be done through ODIN?
Thanks in advance.
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As far as I know, no. I wouldn't even try it myself but I think if the file is not cwm flashable, it will be rejected and no damage.
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Thanks so I guess cm7 is out of the question 4 me
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Hdub said:
Thanks so I guess cm7 is out of the question 4 me
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It has step by step instructions.

You don't like using ODIN??
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ODIN ?????
ODIN is flaky as hell! I used ODIN for many flawless flashes with 0 defects until disaster struck 2 days ago, doing something as simple as a modem swap, trying to improve my data and signal acquisition! On Axura 2.3.1.0
Heimdall's program is supposed to be more reliable, but the true shining star for doing
Tar's is BayWolf's Toolbox 2.5 It not only got my phone back into running form by
restoring it back to Eclair 2.1.1 then re-flashed Axura 2.3.1.0 [I couldn't get back into restore or DL nothing] but it was the only thing that allowed my phone a USB connection, ODIN or Heimdall's would NOT!! Had this program not allowed me a USB connection, I'm not sure how I would've done a restore, JUST saying this program is the ****, and if you have a tar file to do use this program!! Instead of ODIN acting like a mad ***** and making you wish you had never had messed with her!
Ironically though it does use ODIN , but with way more control over it, if you screw up you can go back and redo the phone while its still connected and start over again, as opposed to resetting ODIN and hoping for the best, and risk losing USB connection when doing so!!

I have no pc so that's why I said cm7 is out of the question 4 me
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How Do I Go Back to 2.1?

I forced 2.2 onto the phone with Kies Mini and ever since then battery life has been atrocious and bluetooth will no longer connect to my stereo. Tried every single route to flash a custom ROM on the phone and nothing will get it to work. I just want to go back to the way it was with 2.1 and unroot it. Can anyone point me in the right direction before this phone ends up in a million pieces? Odin? I thought uninstalling Kies Mini might do the trick but I dont see it in my app list
Download AIO : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=954509
PDA: www.justanotherdev.slackdev.com/T959UVJFD.tar
PIT : www.justanotherdev.slackdev.com/s1_odin_20100512.rar
1. Connect your phone with debugging enabled
2. Open Flash to stock
3. Find Pit file
4. Find PDA file
5. Click start
then you're done! Goodluck
Video here :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnY7P14JSWQ
used them last night and all working.
Here, all in one place, files are confirmed working since I used them last week.
Go back to stock:
http://androidspin.com/2010/08/09/how-to-restore-or-recover-your-samsung-vibrant/
Then you root:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=803682
Enjoy!
So the official froyo update isn't worth it?
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No way, it's hell. Go custom 2.2, im with Trigger 2.6.2 and super happy.
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Oh ****. I can't even do the supposed easy task of installing the official version let alone a custom one. Im ****ed.
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Abu-7abash said:
Oh ****. I can't even do the supposed easy task of installing the official version let alone a custom one. Im ****ed.
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What's happening?
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Nothing its just that im a noob in this developing departement TBH, and so limiting an actual upgrade to a custom version means no upgrade at all in my case. Hence me being stuck with this oldie 2.1
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You should do it, it's not that bad. Find the Bible and use it...
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roumenjr said:
No way, it's hell. Go custom 2.2, im with Trigger 2.6.2 and super happy.
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These are my feelings precisely. When a customer comes in my location and asks for us to hook their phone up to Kies and update it I have to resist the urge to root their phone for them.
rjwisniewski said:
These are my feelings precisely. When a customer comes in my location and asks for us to hook their phone up to Kies and update it I have to resist the urge to root their phone for them.
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Lol, that's a good one, I don't think you're supposed to do that.... lol
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Abu-7abash said:
Nothing its just that im a noob in this developing departement TBH, and so limiting an actual upgrade to a custom version means no upgrade at all in my case. Hence me being stuck with this oldie 2.1
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I was scared as hell when doing my first rom flash also, but it is TOTALLY worth it. You'll have a completely different phone depending on what you flash. Just follow all the instructions and there's plenty of help along the way if something goes awry
rjwisniewski said:
These are my feelings precisely. When a customer comes in my location and asks for us to hook their phone up to Kies and update it I have to resist the urge to root their phone for them.
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My buddy works for T-Mo and he refers customers with Vibrants to this website. The Vibrant with the stock firmware is junk.
CrazyCharlie said:
My buddy works for T-Mo and he refers customers with Vibrants to this website. The Vibrant with the stock firmware is junk.
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I refer everyone to this website even if all they have is a rough stretch of a smart phone on a brick. I haven't looked, but I'm sure there's even a forum for that here!
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Droidificator said:
I refer everyone to this website even if all they have is a rough stretch of a smart phone on a brick. I haven't looked, but I'm sure there's even a forum for that here!
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That post made my day. LOL.

Is it safe to Odin from 2.2 back to 2.1

I used the search and couldn't find a clear answer to my question which is why I decided to ask. If the vibrant is updated to official 2.2 is it safe to just use odin to go back to official 2.1 or not? I am wondering this because I'm thinking of getting an extra vibrant of of ebay but most have already been updated to 2.2 which requires a different method to achieve root access and since I have all the necessary files for rooting and moding from 2.1 I just wanted to know.
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i dont see why not...
Yes, you can odin back to stock from any ver. That is actually what everyone does when they run into trouble in order to start over and fresh. Also, you can easily root 2.2 now, you don't have to waste 15-20 min.
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roumenjr said:
Yes, you can odin back to stock from any ver. That is actually what everyone does when they run into trouble in order to start over and fresh. Also, you can easily root 2.2 now, you don't have to waste 15-20 min.
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I've been searching threads for rooting 2.2 but haven't found one as simple as the update.zip file I used to root my vibrant and family members vibrants as well. Could you at least give me the name of the app or link to the thread you are referring to? That would be very much appreciated. But if I do get a used phone I think using Odin to get back to ji6 at least would be a good thing to do anyway since you never know what could have been done to the phone by prior users. I haven't searched for odin files for 2.2, but if they are available and rooting it is as simple as you say I guess that would be an option as well.
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Here you go:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=803682
Worked every time for me.
I used the same as posted above by roumenjr. Worked like a charm.
Cool , thanks for the info!
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aha don't forget to disable voodoo
bisbald said:
aha don't forget to disable voodoo
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Good point I'll have to check for that incase it's been installed.
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If it has been installed than the phone is most likely rooted already.
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roumenjr said:
If it has been installed than the phone is most likely rooted already.
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Hahaha really good point! Duh
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Killed my 3g please help!

So I have a mesmerize but run fascinate roms and radio. I flashed the cm7. Test build then flashed back to stock with odin. And now im stuck on 1x data only. I've tried bout everything. Please help.
Fixed just need to reflash ec10 with pit file and repartoin and efs clear to redo programming.
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Try a battery pull... if not that... then I would flash a different radio.
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tweakymattman said:
So I have a mesmerize but run fascinate roms and radio. I flashed the cm7. Test build then flashed back to stock with odin. And now im stuck on 1x data only. I've tried bout everything. Please help.
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yea, try the battery pull. If that doesn't work, try to odin the EC01 radio (I was told you can do that with the mez, but not sure). Also, this belongs in Q/A not development.
I've tried three different radios. None work. And I had to pull the battery several times for odin. And I posted this in development in hope of knowledgable developers seeing it.
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tweakymattman said:
I've tried three different radios. None work. And I had to pull the battery several times for odin. And I posted this in development in hope of knowledgable developers seeing it.
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Yeah im sorry for ur predicament but that's still not a reason to post in development..otherwise everyone with issues would
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Yeah im sorry for ur predicament but that's still not a reason to post in development..otherwise everyone with issues would
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Not to mention a reason for posting about a mesmerize problem in the fascinate forum - these guys don't use our phone so may not be able to help you
On a side note, this might be worth a shot, if not you'll need to flash a full stock build with odin with re-partition checked to make sure your phone is completely re-formatted;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InN-Z340BO0
Either way, if you need to continue - post this in the mesmerize general forum (and only there).
Before you do all that try doing a simple ESN swap. Do a forum search right here in the Fascinate forums. A lot of people lost their 3G data when flashing ED01 Froyo. If you have the same problem myself and most of us had then flashing other radios and roms won't do a damn thing but make you mad.
Found it. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1051543
3G Signal Loss - Try DMU Rest or ESN Swap
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jamesnmandy said:
Found it. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1051543
3G Signal Loss - Try DMU Rest or ESN Swap
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+1 to this, I've had to do it twice. Works like a charm
"Madness is only the first step to becoming what I am."
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I ran into this same problem, I also have the Mes...here is what I did to fix, In Odin, I flashed the EC10 stock for the Mes, aqnd I checked the boxes "re-partition" and "EFS Clear", when I rebooted, I had signal (no 3g and couldnt make calls" but I used *228 and it re activated my phone, bingo, 3g back.
Basically what I did was remove ALL information on the phone, which included the MIN and MDN so when I re activated it and activated my data again.
You should try to hook your phone, up in qpst service painting and enter your info for the mez in the ppp tab
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bwot75 said:
I ran into this same problem, I also have the Mes...here is what I did to fix, In Odin, I flashed the EC10 stock for the Mes, aqnd I checked the boxes "re-partition" and "EFS Clear", when I rebooted, I had signal (no 3g and couldnt make calls" but I used *228 and it re activated my phone, bingo, 3g back.
Basically what I did was remove ALL information on the phone, which included the MIN and MDN so when I re activated it and activated my data again.
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Haha so your fix made the most sense to me. And also was the easyest. And now I'm stuck on bootloader. Uhg.
Fixed now back to old set up 3g works. Bad odin file.
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How do I make my Fascinate more efficient?

Four words: I hate my Fascinate. Is there any way I can make my Fascinate faster, more responsive, and just work better? I've used Com rom, Cyanogenmod, & MIUI and none of them work for me. Community rom seemed to work best for me but about a month of running com rom, it just started forceclosing everything and I lost everything. Then, I went to Cyanogenmod. It was amazing, but I noticed it deleted things off of my SD card by itself. For MIUI. It was just a little to buggy. I just gave up and went to stock and installed OCLF. For some reason, my phone isn't very responsive, it constantly freezes, crashes all the time, the camera app doesn't want to open sometimes, and just today it started not opening up my apps and showing a black screen. I'm sick of it!!! How do I make my Fascinate work better? I'm stuck with it for 2 years and I can't stand it!? Any suggestions??? Ill do whatever it takes to make this thing work better.
GagesiPad said:
Four words: I hate my Fascinate. Is there any way I can make my Fascinate faster, more responsive, and just work better? I've used Com rom, Cyanogenmod, & MIUI and none of them work for me. Community rom seemed to work best for me but about a month of running com rom, it just started forceclosing everything and I lost everything. Then, I went to Cyanogenmod. It was amazing, but I noticed it deleted things off of my SD card by itself. For MIUI. It was just a little to buggy. I just gave up and went to stock and installed OCLF. For some reason, my phone isn't very responsive, it constantly freezes, crashes all the time, the camera app doesn't want to open sometimes, and just today it started not opening up my apps and showing a black screen. I'm sick of it!!! How do I make my Fascinate work better? I'm stuck with it for 2 years and I can't stand it!? Any suggestions??? Ill do whatever it takes to make this thing work better.
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Im not sure how to respond to this...I mean my fascinate is running cm7.1 w/ glitch v13 and is ****ing AWSOME! Super responsive, gps locks instantly, no lag, no fc's... Im going to go out on a limb and say you must be doing something very wrong or have a bad device.
Suggestion:
back your sd card up, odin dl09 eclair w/ pit and repartition checked, reformat your sd card, then flash rom of your choice. If that dont help, call verizon and have them send you a replacement.
I've never flashed a "pit" thing. I've just flashed the froyo file and called it a "restore." Also, I got a 16gb card withmy phone and it won't flash any CM7 roms, so I bought an 8 from eBay. Did the same thing... I have an old 4 gb that is the only card that will flash a cm7 based rom. Also, if I put my 16/8gb on a cm7 rom, it'll say damaged or unreadable.
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droidstyle said:
Im not sure how to respond to this...I mean my fascinate is running cm7.1 w/ glitch v13 and is ****ing AWSOME! Super responsive, gps locks instantly, no lag, no fc's... Im going to go out on a limb and say you must be doing something very wrong or have a bad device.
Suggestion:
back your sd card up, odin dl09 eclair w/ pit and repartition checked, reformat your sd card, then flash rom of your choice. If that dont help, call verizon and have them send you a replacement.
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But, what does the Pit and restore do to the phone?
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GagesiPad said:
But, what does the Pit and restore do to the phone?
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the atlas 2.2 pitfile w/ repartition checked does a full wipe of the system...which sounds like what you need.
droidstyle said:
the atlas 2.2 pitfile w/ repartition checked does a full wipe of the system...which sounds like what you need.
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OK, so go here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1026746 , download the 2.2 pit file, download Eclair, flash them with partition checked, root/flash cwm, and install CM7 and see how it works? (CM7 is rom if choice)
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GagesiPad said:
OK, so go here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1026746 , download the 2.2 pit file, download Eclair, flash them with partition checked, root/flash cwm, and install CM7 and see how it works? (CM7 is rom if choice)
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yep...but you shouldnt need to root first, atleat I didnt, CM7 is prerooted.
droidstyle said:
yep...but you shouldnt need to root first, atleat I didnt, CM7 is prerooted.
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OK, thanks. Ill try this tomorrow.
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here is dl09 eclair...the link was broken in the link you posted.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/16350373/Android/CI500_VZW_DL09_ECLAIR.tar.md5
droidstyle said:
here is dl09 eclair...the link was broken in the link you posted.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/16350373/Android/CI500_VZW_DL09_ECLAIR.tar.md5
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OK, thanks.
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OK, thanks.
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No problem...if you need some "simplified" instructions, check the mtd install section of my guide here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1238070
I notices you said something about using the factory USB. Well, there's something wrong with that cord. My computer won't reconfbize my phone with that cord. When I try to charge it with my wall adapter, my phone wants me to connect USB storage. I've been using this cord that came with a crappy archos tablet. I've been using that 1 for months. Is that OK?
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GagesiPad said:
I notices you said something about using the factory USB. Well, there's something wrong with that cord. My computer won't reconfbize my phone with that cord. When I try to charge it with my wall adapter, my phone wants me to connect USB storage. I've been using this cord that came with a crappy archos tablet. I've been using that 1 for months. Is that OK?
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yea you can, but the factory cable is best. If you have issues try and score another factory cable.
droidstyle said:
yea you can, but the factory cable is best. If you have issues try and score another factory cable.
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OK, I was going to call Samsung and try to get one about a month ago but just forgot about it. Anywaay, about to download the stuff and brick my phone ahahahaha
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i agree %1000 with Droid...since using his guide, running cm7 now, my device FLIES !!!!!.....this is a sweet phone, just follow guide and you will see.
icemanwbs said:
i agree %1000 with Droid...since using his guide, running cm7 now, my device FLIES !!!!!.....this is a sweet phone, just follow guide and you will see.
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OK. Any major bugs I should be worried about? What's the chance of it frying my SD?
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I would go to Verizon store and get a cable. But no, no bugs or anything. READ READ and READ again through guide so you can Follow steps
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Ok, I need some help. When I click start and all the stuff is selected in Odin, and it says that the eclair thing is unrecognizable... It says it has an unvalid MD5 sum or something like that. HELP?!
And yes, I have retried downloading and using a different browser... Is it OK if I use froyo?
If you read thru Droidstyles guide listed in his reply to you. It says you can use froyo.....you must pay close attention to details and follow guide steps to a " T ". You can do it, I'm sure.
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I am a noob and I need help :(

Hello all,
I am the proud new owner (first time android owner as well) of a Galaxy S3 SGH-1747, and I am still learning the ins and outs of the phone but so far I am loving this thing.
However, I did run into some issues when I did an install of a ROM AOKP Task & KToonsez ROM. The first major problem is that my computer will now not read my phone, whereas before it was able to register it. I know I have the correct drivers installed and I have the android usb debugging thing box checked in my settings. I have tried several different USB ports now thinking it might be that but they all do not read it. As smooth as this ROM is, it is still in the early stages and there are a lot of bugs and kinks that need to be worked out still so I would like to either switch back to the stock ROM or aim for a more stable one. I am not sure how I can do either of this without a copy of the original touchwiz ROM on there.
Please help me figure this problem out lol.
Flash your nandroid. I'm sure you made one like you're supposed to.
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Stock...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1737848
When you're back to stock....do yourself a favor...MAKE A BACKUP.
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I did not make a back up
But ever since I installed this ROM my computer stopped reading my phone, it won't even show up on kies either. I am trying right now a factory reset and wipe but it just keeps going back to the same rom.
Mandroid88 said:
I did not make a back up
But ever since I installed this ROM my computer stopped reading my phone, it won't even show up on kies either. I am trying right now a factory reset and wipe but it just keeps going back to the same rom.
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A factory reset won't make your phone stock man...you need to Odin the stock ROM ...(link I provided) back to your phone.
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could just flash another Rom
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defnow said:
A factory reset won't make your phone stock man...you need to Odin the stock ROM ...(link I provided) back to your phone.
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Ok, one last stupid question for you though. How would I be able to do this if my computer is not reading my phone? I have Odin installed and all that jazz but the phone will not register on the computer. Will Odin still read it even though it's not showing up under my computer?
Mandroid88 said:
Ok, one last stupid question for you though. How would I be able to do this if my computer is not reading my phone? I have Odin installed and all that jazz but the phone will not register on the computer. Will Odin still read it even though it's not showing up under my computer?
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If your phone can enter download mode...yes ODIN will read it.
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Android_Monsters said:
could just flash another Rom
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He can but he wants to make a back up of his stock ROM.
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good lord guy...
you being a n00b should really not be flashing right now, as people are losing IMEI's left and right. if i were you id sit right where you are for the time being. play it safe broseph, we wouldn't want your first foray on android to end badly :highfive:
I'm not flashing roms on my s3 yet so I'm not positive but doesn't aosp roms take the Google drivers, not the Samsung ones? I know with the captivate on cm9 I had to install them.
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If your phone can enter download mode...yes ODIN will read it.
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+1 This
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Make sure that when u connect your phone you have it as a camera.
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