I was sick of having a stock phone, and after tons of flashing on WM, I decided to take a dive into rooting my new fascinate..
I found some good roms, but it seems as though Evil Fascination is the one I want.
Is this all I have to do? (my phone is completely stock, and 2 days brand new)
Download Odin onto my computer.
Download Recovery onto my computer.
Install Samsung Drivers for your pc onto my phone after enabling debugging.
Remove battery from the phone
Connect the phone up through USB and hold volume down during the connection
Your phone will be in download mode
Open up Odin and click on the pda button and select the recovery file
Click Start on Odin - phone will reset when flashed
Hold volume up and down and insert battery back into the phone and boot it up. Hold volume up and down while it boots up and it will boot into CWM recovery. If it has boot up to the startup animation you will need to start over and reflash recovery through odin
Boot into CWM recovery
Select Wipe data/factory reset
Select Install zip from sdcard and select where you stored the rom
Screen will flash during install
Reboot phone after installation
Is that all? Do I just download odin / recovery onto my computer and go from there? And also. Once I have done this, if I want to flash a new rom, do I just repeat the entire process above but open the new rom I want from my SD card? Is there anything else I have to do once I've followed these steps on my phone? Just download / install a theme and I'm good to go!?
Also, this process is 100% reversible, correct?
sorry if this sounds so stupid, but I always thought flashing roms was crazy difficult, but it doesn't seem that bad at all. Most of the responses I see overcomplicate things and make it so that I can't understand, and this guide seems very straight forward so please let me know if I forgot anything or if I'm missing any steps since I'll be doing this on a mac. I just really don't want to mess anything up.
Thanks so much in advance!
Thatd basically it. Ibwould add one thing though, and thats to always use the PDA button in Odin, never anything else. Other than that, your all set.
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worshipNtribute said:
I was sick of having a stock phone, and after tons of flashing on WM, I decided to take a dive into rooting my new fascinate..
I found some good roms, but it seems as though Evil Fascination is the one I want.
Is this all I have to do? (my phone is completely stock, and 2 days brand new)
Download Odin onto my computer.
Download Recovery onto my computer.
Install Samsung Drivers for your pc onto my phone after enabling debugging.
Remove battery from the phone
Connect the phone up through USB and hold volume down during the connection
Your phone will be in download mode
Open up Odin and click on the pda button and select the recovery file
Click Start on Odin - phone will reset when flashed
Hold volume up and down and insert battery back into the phone and boot it up. Hold volume up and down while it boots up and it will boot into CWM recovery. If it has boot up to the startup animation you will need to start over and reflash recovery through odin
Boot into CWM recovery
Select Wipe data/factory reset
Select Install zip from sdcard and select where you stored the rom
Screen will flash during install
Reboot phone after installation
Is that all? Do I just download odin / recovery onto my computer and go from there? And also. Once I have done this, if I want to flash a new rom, do I just repeat the entire process above but open the new rom I want from my SD card? Is there anything else I have to do once I've followed these steps on my phone? Just download / install a theme and I'm good to go!?
Also, this process is 100% reversible, correct?
sorry if this sounds so stupid, but I always thought flashing roms was crazy difficult, but it doesn't seem that bad at all. Most of the responses I see overcomplicate things and make it so that I can't understand, and this guide seems very straight forward so please let me know if I forgot anything or if I'm missing any steps since I'll be doing this on a mac. I just really don't want to mess anything up.
Thanks so much in advance!
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Looks like you've got everything correct. Zip file on sd card, download ODIN and recovery to computer, open ODIN, flash recovery in PDA section. pull usb cord, put battery in, boot directly to CWM (you can take a few extra seconds to make sure you do this by holding volume up, volume down, and power button at the same time until samsung logo flashes for the second time then let go of all three buttons the instant you see samsung flash for the second time), install zip from sd card, choose zip from sd card, find zip file, install (volume buttons scroll in CWM, power button makes selections), reboot phone, done. Then when you want to flash new ROM or theme or patches or mods or kernels, boot to recovery, install from sd card. Most ROMs also include the long press power button menu, hold the power button for like two seconds and a long menu will appear with options for powering off, rebooting, and recovery.
thanks so much for the replies, I'm about to try this now!!!! Im excited.
A few last questions, If I want to change the theme, do I have to download the theme as though it is a rom, and redo all of my steps,
or can I just transfer the theme onto my SD and then install it from there?
ps; any programs you guys recommend aside from the usual? (pandora, google maps, backup assistant, facebook)
There seem to be a few differences in WM and Android, thanks again for the help and being so nice to a rookie
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thanks so much for the replies, I'm about to try this now!!!! Im excited.
A few last questions, If I want to change the theme, do I have to download the theme as though it is a rom, and redo all of my steps,
or can I just transfer the theme onto my SD and then install it from there?
ps; any programs you guys recommend aside from the usual? (pandora, google maps, backup assistant, facebook)
There seem to be a few differences in WM and Android, thanks again for the help and being so nice to a rookie
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Just put the theme on sd card and flash through CWM.
Tapatalk is a good one. That's how you can check on the forums and post from your phone. That is if you want to be able to do that for more than one forum. XDA has a premium app that works just the same. I'm a big fan of Jorte calendar rather than the stock calendar. Jorte is formatted to look just like a day planner.
Just gonna throw out that K-9 mail is a nifty email program and a bit more useful than the stock
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ps; any programs you guys recommend aside from the usual? (pandora, google maps, backup assistant, facebook)
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The Gmail app isn't to be overlooked IMO. I suggest forwarding all mail to your Gmail. Everything ends up perfectly in-sync on your phone and on your computer. I used to deal with setting up all kinds of POP servers, but I haven't looked back.
Also for a file browser you should get Root Explorer. As for everything else it's really what you want to use your phone for. I like be minimalist, but there are so many useful apps on the market. Just do some looking around.
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As for apps there's a ton of them, I have about 100 or so on my phone but only use maybe a third of them regularly. It's all personal preference. Also you may want a different look for your home screens so a third party home screen app from the market like launcher pro or go launcher are pretty nice and very customizable. Main thing is to get it working and looking the way you want it while having fun with it at the same time
tapatalked from my rooted/debloated stock eb01 Fascinate
If all you are trying to do is root SuperOneClick v1.8 works great. ED03 just run it, if it fails, Happens sometimes, re run. It may ask if if you are running a 2.0+ OS, really easy Instructions, basically just follow what pops up on the screen asking, after it finishes, reboot your phone.
If anyone wants to try it or use it, here's a link
So, another newb question, what ask do hI have to do if all I want is to be de-binged and able to under clock cpu? Can I root with only a couple of changes and not a while new kernel? Thanks
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what ask do hI have to do... changes and not a while new kernel...
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Sorry, bad job of proof reading before posting. BTW, I am running ed04 now.
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I'll second launcher pro. Love it way more than t-wiz. And Audiogalaxy!! It shares all music from your pc to your phone anywhere you go. Only downside is you computer has to be on to use it (mine stay on anyway). I have 25000 songs on my phone. They are added as soon as I download them, I never have to transfer files or use up sd card space. Have burned a cd since I got my fassy.
And comrom is where its at. Until cm7 is finished.
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I'm honestly surprised no one has flamed the poor guy for asking a question in the general section lol...
could that actually be....wait a minute...YES! tolerance and patience on xda. Nice to see for once.
"Madness is only the first step to becoming what I am."
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Bonus points for best disguised flame for posting in wrong section.
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I personally would recomment ADW Ex over launcher pro. As launcher pro isn't really getting any updates nowadays and I find ADWEx to run more smothly and the theming engine to be better. Both are good launchers though and I've bought both.
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Bonus points for best disguised flame for posting in wrong section.
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Lmfao! Sweet, I love bonus points
No flame intended, just surprised.
"Madness is only the first step to becoming what I am."
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Hi Guys am quite new at this however i've been doing some research on how to install [ROM]KaosFroyo V30 on my Eris but i have not found any instructions or guide and so i was wondering if anyone here could help? by the way i am running the android 2.1 version released by Verizon an HTC and hopefully this won't be a problem.
Google is your friend, also the Eris root app might make things easier.
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first question is are you rooted?
i think the phone's rooted now!
well i used the eris root app and when it asked me to i used the KaosFroyo V30 zip and it seemed to install ok, then i boot up the device and after an initial boot screen i get a screen saying android in blue and like a white light inside i don't know if that makes any sense but that's where the phone stays. i guess i am rooted now but then phone won't fully boot up
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well i used the eris root app and when it asked me to i used the KaosFroyo V30 zip and it seemed to install ok, then i boot up the device and after an initial boot screen i get a screen saying android in blue and like a white light inside i don't know if that makes any sense but that's where the phone stays. i guess i am rooted now but then phone won't fully boot up
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The first boot can take 10+ mins. Wait it out.
well the phone boots pass the skatebording androids and then it shows "ANDROID" with a while light scrolling through the letters and is been like that for about an hour now.
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well the phone boots pass the skatebording androids and then it shows "ANDROID" with a while light scrolling through the letters and is been like that for about an hour now.
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Did you download goggle apps and flash that zip while in recovery after you flashed kaos v30?
Edit:does kaos have a google apps zip?
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Did you download goggle apps and flash that zip while in recovery after you flashed kaos v30?
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ok so this is what i did i downloaded eris root app i ran the app rebooted the phone as instructed by the app turned it off again then held down volume down and pressed power. then i chose recovery and from there instead of using the default zip file i used the "kaos v30" zip file everything installed well then i just rebooted the device. since then the phone doesn't boot completely it just says android and it just stays there.
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ok so this is what i did i downloaded eris root app i ran the app rebooted the phone as instructed by the app turned it off again then held down volume down and pressed power. then i chose recovery and from there instead of using the default zip file i used the "kaos v30" zip file everything installed well then i just rebooted the device. since then the phone doesn't boot completely it just says android and it just stays there.
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turn off, turn back on holding the end button and the vol UP, use the trackball scroll to backup/restore click the trackball, click nand backup, let it run hit vol down, scroll to wipe, wipe data and wipe dalvik, hit volume down hit flash zip click on the kaos v30 zip assuming that its on your sd card and let it run and then reboot shouldnt take much longer than 10 min to boot up
Thanks everyone for the help specially Funnyface19 your last suggestion solved my problem my phone is working great!
ssvtcobra said:
Thanks everyone for the help specially Funnyface19 your last suggestion solved my problem my phone is working great!
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good luck and remember to always do a nand backup before flashing anything...saves more lives than seatbelts
The thing that you did different was wiping caches before flashing. That's why it works now.
BTW, NAND backups are important, but the one you made this time was worthless.
A NAND backup makes a copy of your system. Unfortunately your system wasn't functional when you created it.
Use this as a lesson. Always do a NAND before you change anything. That way you can restore to a working system.
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Hi guys I was messing around on the HTC DROID ERIS and I may have damage my phone. I change the wrong NV items. 435,436,1192,1194 and now phone keeps turning on and off. it only gets to the skate boarding green dudes. I try adding a custom rom but i dont think i am rooted. I try doing the system wipe but as soon as it reboots to enter that mode it reboots and reboots again same system. I can only update with the PB00IMG.zip but does not changes anything. I can only keep it stable on the hboot usb which I dont know what else to do with that. anyone has any idea on how to correct this issue...
So like the title states I'm having some difficulties flashing a rom. I just updated to froyo 2.2 with root and I'm trying to flash nero v5.0. The problem I'm having is when I boot into clockwork i keep getting an E:can't open /cache/update.zip. I've tried both method 1 and 2 from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=732458
Did you make sure to take step 2 on the tutorial? "Flash clockwork recovery"?
If so, I would try it again to see if it helps. Another step is to uninstall ROM manager, then re-install it taking all the steps again. It sounds like you may have accidentally deleted the update.zip file that should be on the root of your SD card.
yea, i tried it. I flashed it. I even clear the data and uninstalled rom manager and reinstalled. I also never touched update.zip as well. This was the first time I've actually mounted my phone to my computer and opened up my internal/external sdcard.
OP, here is a thread I made for issues in the past.
Try this and let me know how it goes:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=875890
still no luck, i boot into recovery and get the same message still
Well, Hmm... You could try the steps in the noob guide and use ODIN to install froyo+root. This is the ALT METHOD in the guide. This is what I personally use.
Not really certain what's going on man, but doing this can't hurt.
I recently followed your guide, I could try again it wouldn't hurt my phone right?
No, you are not going to hurt your phone...
lets troubleshoot.
List to me step by step what you have done... If need be I will ODIN to JFD tonight and we can go through it together. I'm certain it's something silly though. No reason it should not work. You have a a Vibrant on T-Mobile right?
yea i have a tmobile vibrant so this is what i just did right now.
1) Flashed froyo+root from your noob guide followed all the steps (i.e. wipe data etc)
2) downloaded rom manager and flashed clockwork recovery.
3) placed nero v5.0 into the root of the phones internal sdcard.
4) went to rom manager and roboot. E: Can't open /cache/update.zip
(Bad)
Installation Aborted
nvm i think i got it to work
Do i need to do anything special for the longer battery life for nero v5.0
^^ what was the issue?
^ nothing special... you may want to recalibrate your battery. Drain it down to it powers off on its own (or really close)... charge it full... leave it on maybe an hour longer after fully charged... you can bump charge it (DO NOT do this a lot)... all this means is once full, unplug and then plug back in... your "full" battery will accept more charge....
dont boot up, but go straight to CWR and then Advanced > Wipe Battery Stats
reboot with the power cord still connected. Once its booted unplug and use like normal.
I repeat, do not bump charge often, this will hurt your battery.
I just flashed froyo again and used the update zip on the fix thread
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How to you go straight to clockwork recovery?
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How to you go straight to clockwork recovery?
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long press the power button and a list of options will show up, select "Recovery"
So first off, I am a noob. Sorry
So I merged my contacts with google, and now none of them will show up on my Contacts. Plus, I can't save any contacts when "Save new contacts to" is set to Phone. So frustrating.. How do I fix this?
Three other side questions that are not as important and irrelevant to the title of the thread:
1) I unbricked my SGS2 after accidentally (and stupidly) updating my firmware to an international version... Need I get rid of the I9100 boot splash??
2) When unbricking, does flashing the zImage by itself near the end of the unbricking process do anything? I was following the thread titled "Recovering an ATT Galaxy S2 after flashing GT-I9100 Firmware"
3) I cleared the data for Calendar and Calendar Storage because I was continuously getting the error message "The process com.google.process.gapps has stopped unexpectedly" after I unbricked, so now all the little default calendar entries like "Veteran's Day" or "End of Daylight Savings Time" are gone. Any way to get them back?
I realize I'm posting up four question, and I apologize in advance if this is somehow against the forum rules or rude or inconvenient for the other forum users. Oh and please forgive me for being such a noob xP
In your contacts, hit the menu button, go to display options and play with the settings there.
1. Use a jig to reset the flash counter.
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In your contacts, hit the menu button, go to display options and play with the settings there.
1. Use a jig to reset the flash counter.
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I tried to mess with the settings in display options but as soon as I got on it, the error message "The process android.process.acore has stopped unexpectedly" pops up and I have to force close.
1) Thanks for telling me how to do it, since I now can revert my boot splash if I wished to. However, is changing the boot splash necessary in some way? I can't tell if the I9100 boot splash does anything to my SGS2..
Hmm not sure about that then...
1. No, the I9100 and yellow triangle only show up because it tells you that you have tripped the flash counter and flashed the phone before. If you want to return the phone/warranty it, you need to revert back to the stock rom and reset the flash counter.
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Hmm not sure about that then...
1. No, the I9100 and yellow triangle only show up because it tells you that you have tripped the flash counter and flashed the phone before. If you want to return the phone/warranty it, you need to revert back to the stock rom and reset the flash counter.
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Alright. Thanks anyway.
1) I haven't tripped the flash counter, I'm guessing because I flashed one of the official I9100 ROMs. So I have no yellow triangle when I boot, or at least I didn't see one when the phone was rebooting after I flashed the stock ROM. I was simply wondering if the "GT-I9100" beneath "Samsung Galaxy S II" would cause me any trouble later, but from your answer, I'm guessing the answer for this is also no.
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No idea if this helps, but if I try to add a new contact, a little bubble near the bottom of the screen pops up and says "Unable to Save Contact". Pretty sure the new contact gets saved in my Google Contacts, though..
Just login to your Google voice account through a web browser to see if newly added contacts are syncing.
The listings in your Calender you're looking for are from the holiday calendar. For that login to Google calendar through a broswer as well and you can edit your calendars from there.
zImage is the kernel. If it doesn't flash properly you will have weird issues. In general rule of thumb, if you don't know what you're doing and there's instructions that people have followed and it worked. Follow EVERY step.
Though with the issues you're having it sounds like reflashing your Google apps through cwm would be a good idea. Heck it really seems like you'd want to flash the whole phone again.
Just no international this time OK?
And as an fyi, if you flashed an international, you tripped your counter. And no, tripping the counter or having a different splash screen does not affect the phone in any way.
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Just login to your Google voice account through a web browser to see if newly added contacts are syncing.
The listings in your Calender you're looking for are from the holiday calendar. For that login to Google calendar through a broswer as well and you can edit your calendars from there.
zImage is the kernel. If it doesn't flash properly you will have weird issues. In general rule of thumb, if you don't know what you're doing and there's instructions that people have followed and it worked. Follow EVERY step.
Though with the issues you're having it sounds like reflashing your Google apps through cwm would be a good idea. Heck it really seems like you'd want to flash the whole phone again.
Just no international this time OK?
And as an fyi, if you flashed an international, you tripped your counter. And no, tripping the counter or having a different splash screen does not affect the phone in any way.
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Well I don't really have a Google Voice account.. So maybe I'll just re-flash everything. Where does the kernel go on Odin?
By the way, what exactly is CWM, I saw it pretty often as I was looking around sites to figure out the solutions to my issues, but I never came across a definition or explanation of the term or anything.
Lol, yes you are noob, but you already admitted it, and that is the first step.
Cwm is short for clockworkmod. Accessed a few different ways. Most often by shutting the phone off, then pressing and holding volume up + volume down + power. As you hold it the phone will start to boot then shut off, continue holding and you'll see the start screen a second time, then let go of all three buttons. You may ask, but no, don't use rom manger, at least for now.
Cwm replaces the stock recovery and makes it very easy to make backups, restore backups, flash cwm zip files, and many other things.
You may not have used Google voice, but when you have a gmail account, you now are able to log into anything Google, even YouTube as Google owns it now.
Just search Google voice and login with your gmail login, it'll work. Check your contacts to see if they are backed up. All your phonebook should be there. Just to make sure it's working add a new contact on your phone and see if it shows up on Google voice in the web browser.
Kernels go in PDA. If your phone is working, more or less, you don't have to go through the recovery process all over again, as you are no longer on an international rom.
I'd recommend using entropy512's method to root as it will flash stock to your phone and give you root.
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Yup. Complete noob here..
Ah. So how would I go about reflashing Google apps through CWM?
Honestly, the only issue I'm noticing in my phone is the contacts problem, so it would be nice not to have to reflash everything, if possible, although it wouldn't be too much of a hassle to just do so.
Wait, why do I need to root... can I only use CWM if I'm rooted?
Google voice worked, and all my contacts (from my phone after the initial merging) were there. However, I don't think my SGS2 and google are connected as of right now because the new contact entires that are saved to my google account are not showing up. Plus I can't save them to my phone, so.. But pretty sure my contacts are safely backed up already.
Many useful apps require root. Utilities and the like.
Cwm should not be flashed through rom manager. And I believe more importantly not booted into recovery from rom manager. That's not true with all phones, just our phone is still pretty new.
Here's a link to the latest Google apps zip. Even though it's a link to cyanogenmod, google apps are now rom independent. Just make sure you download the one for cyanogenmod7, as that will be the most recent one.
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=Latest_Version/Google_Apps
Cwm .zip files are not to be extracted, but placed on your phone in an easy to find spot on the sdcard. So make sure it's a cwm file and not just a zip compressed file.
Watch a YouTube video of someone using cwm to flash a .zip so you get an idea of how it works.
Keep in mind you still may have issues and need to flash stock rom.
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Many useful apps require root. Utilities and the like.
Cwm should not be flashed through rom manager. And I believe more importantly not booted into recovery from rom manager. That's not true with all phones, just our phone is still pretty new.
Here's a link to the latest Google apps zip. Even though it's a link to cyanogenmod, google apps are now rom independent. Just make sure you download the one for cyanogenmod7, as that will be the most recent one.
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=Latest_Version/Google_Apps
Cwm .zip files are not to be extracted, but placed on your phone in an easy to find spot on the sdcard. So make sure it's a cwm file and not just a zip compressed file.
Watch a YouTube video of someone using cwm to flash a .zip so you get an idea of how it works.
Keep in mind you still may have issues and need to flash stock rom.
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Hmm so I just tried to flash the google apps via cwm, but it aborted installation after stating that the signature could not be verified.. help?
EDIT #2: So I just rooted and flashed gapps via cwm (before I hadn't rooted and just tried to do it through the stock recovery. such a noob I am), and it installed smoothly and everything but I still cannot save contacts to my phone nor will the google contacts sync into my phone. Should I just reflash stock rom?
EDIT: By the way, just in case this becomes necessary, if I'm flashing just the zImage through odin, how do I even get odin to find/see the file since the zImage itself isn't a PDA file??
Don't unzip it once you download it. Just use the file that you downloaded in the pda section.
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reFlash with stock modem and stock room and hope for the best.
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Don't unzip it once you download it. Just use the file that you downloaded in the pda section.
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I didn't unzip it.
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reFlash with stock modem and stock room and hope for the best.
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Yeah I'm probably gonna have to do this. Or just get a jig and return my SGS2 to its initial state.. Ugh.
EDIT: so I looked around some more in these forums, and does the jig only reset the flash counter and not do anything else??
Regarding the initial problem, I did figure out a way to get around it so I'm just saving my contacts to one of my two google accounts and using GO Contacts to access them. I'm pretty sure I still can't sync contacts with either of my google accounts, and I'm not willing to try it since I'd be risking losing a way to have a contacts list saved in my phone. So I'm curious, if I'm saving my contacts, supposedly to a google account, but not syncing with the actual accounts... where are my contacts being saved? They must be somewhere in my sdcard right?
Well if you have a google account setup with go contacts, I'm going to guess that's where it's going.
I'm not entirely sure what you said in you're last post. Kinda hard to follow.
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Well if you have a google account setup with go contacts, I'm going to guess that's where it's going.
I'm not entirely sure what you said in you're last post. Kinda hard to follow.
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Sorry about that. Simply put, when creating a new contact, I'm checking the box for my Google account instead of my phone but never syncing my phone with the Google account while using GO Contacts to view my contact entries.
Gotcha. You can export your contacts from the menu in your phone book. No matter where you tell it to save, it saves it on your phone as well.
Edit: nevermind, just reread your first post.
That is so weird. I'll do some research and see what I can find.
It may be saving them in go contacts widget itself.
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For all the headache this is giving you I'd seriously consider re-flashing back to stock and see if that clears up the problem. It seems something in the system is messed up when you were recovering from flashing the i9100 rom.
It's very weird that flashing an i9100 rom didn't trip the flash counter. I was under the impression it would.
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I have updated to ICS stock, have a twrp 2.0 on the phone. It is unlocked and am super user. I tried to add beats audio through a file in recovery. The phone rebooted and showed android upgrading. Then it showed a system processing error, wait or ok? I had to pull the battery since it wouldn't respond at this point. Tried to reboot and get a black screen with haptic feedback. I tried a few more times and never got the screen to show. Finally used the All-in one-tool to get into recovery. Tried to wipe and fix permissions multiple times. Phone still does the android upgrading and after that it gives the system processing error.
Finally said to hell with it and tried to reinstall the stock ICS. That was a no go. My question is what is my best choice. I think the reinstall didn't work because the phone is unlocked. I am a noob here so hang with me here. Should I go back to stock recovery with Gingerbread and start completely over? I am worried about losing access to recovery and fully bricking the phone. Or do I just try another custom ICS rom, which doesn't make sense if my system is already corrupt. My concern with that is that most of the new roms need EXT4, which I don't have.
What is the cleanest way for a noob to get his phone back?
I would say if you did nandroid back up start from there. Restote then do it all over again. new ROMs dont really require 4EXT, its just recommended. I use it myself. you can try flashing ICS custom rom, i recommend Energy.
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First off my backup doesn't show in TWRP. I have no clue what happened there.
I tried to install Energy Rom. After clearing cache/dalvik. I installed the ph85img.zip in bootloader and then went into recovery. The nrg rom doesn't show up in my file system. I tried to mount only to find windows wants to format.
Its gone from bad to worse for me. My sd-ext card folder shows nothing and I only have a TWRP folder in the sdcard folder.
Do I go for broke and try install GB stock recovery or am I missing something?
Thanks
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First off my backup doesn't show in TWRP. I have no clue what happened there.
I tried to install Energy Rom. After clearing cache/dalvik. I installed the ph85img.zip in bootloader and then went into recovery. The nrg rom doesn't show up in my file system. I tried to mount only to find windows wants to format.
Its gone from bad to worse for me. My sd-ext card folder shows nothing and I only have a TWRP folder in the sdcard folder.
Do I go for broke and try install GB stock recovery or am I missing something?
Thanks
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Try using different sd card, or back up the sd card and format it. Put back ph85img.zip and make sure its(
Ph85img) only on the root of the sdcard. Keep trying. I had to do it twice before when flashing the ics stock through bootloader.
It takes time to get everything go through
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Remember, you have to flash stock ICS TWICE in hboot to get the entire package flashed.
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Beats I'd nothing special. Just a series of eq settings you can do with lots of mobile media players
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I've blown my car component speakers using just poweramp. Very quality sound.
Unless you're getting the bears audio software or the expensive headphones, the rest is all marketing.
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Yea, poweramp is just beast!
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+1 for poweramp, ftw!
I am now having trouble trying to charge the battery enough to flash. I take it won't flash using AC Power with the battery plugged into the phone? Also do you think I need to relock the phone if I am going to try and reflash ICS or does that not matter?
Yeah, no more Beats audio for me. Just thought the headphones weren't sounding so great as on my previous ROM.
Thanks for the help .. Sorry to have posted in the wrong forum. It was late and I was frustrated. It is however murder not having a phone, I miss it so..
Does the phone charge faster using Recovery, Hboot or the black screen I get with haptic feedback? On the black screen the orange light stays lit for about a half an hour then the orange light goes off. I have tried charging like that for about four hours - who knows how much of that was actually charging it. I have no idea what the phone is doing during that time. Obviously something is running since the icons have feed back.
The phone seemed to charge better in hboot hooked up to the AC adapter. When I tried to flash it actually unzipped the PH85img, then showed I didn't have enough battery. It had previously shown not enough battery power when bootloader started.
Sucks that TWRP shows 66% battery no matter the status. I'd love to know if it was even charging.
Finally sweet success!!! I did have to relock for the zip to take.
Thanks for holding my hand.
What a waste of a day though. I think I read more than 300 pages on XDA. All for beats...
FIrst let me apologize for being a noob!! But I need help. I bought a used Note i717 that has Cyanogenmod 9 on T-mobile
installed and I am trying to get it back to the standard Samsung/AT&T/Android os. (Either Gingerbread or Ice Cream Sandwich version)
I have been going dizzy reafing thread after thread and watching a hundred videos. I have no idea about this stuff but I know I dont want to pay the phone dr guys hundreds of dollars of I can learn myself.
I downloaded odin, and the tar file for what I believe to be ICS stock rom. What I am needing help with is what kernel file I need to download. Also, if I put theae files on the sd card and restore from it I am not sure which mode to go into?
I was hoping to find a step by step for a complete retard like me but so far my 4 days of searching have found nothing.. Can someone please please help??? Many many thanks in advance!!
Easiest way, download samsung Kies, boot into download mode, go to tools, firmware upgrade and initialization it will get you to stock ics
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android4545 said:
Easiest way, download samsung Kies, boot into download mode, go to tools, firmware upgrade and initialization it will get you to stock ics
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Awesome. Thank you so much!!!
Probably a stupid question.. but I download Kies on my laptop and connect the phone to it correct?? Also will Kies get it from T-Mobile to At&t?
Yes download to computer and plug in, I think it will get it back to ATT but im not completely sure
Why even use kies? Just download a vanilla ics Rom that doesn't have the bloatware and flash it from cwm which the phone already has since it has a cm build loaded.
Please for the love of god don't run the ota ics.
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Why even use kies? Just download a vanilla ics Rom that doesn't have the bloatware and flash it from cwm which the phone already has since it has a cm build loaded.
Please for the love of god don't run the ota ics.
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Will installing just Vanilla ICS rom get rid of the Cyanogenmod9? The guy I bought it from was using the phone on T-Mobile, and I am on AT&T..
I guess vanilla is the wrong word since touchwiz is there but you get what im saying. Heres a link to a debloated stock Rom from one of our fine devs. Everything you want, nothing you don't.
http://d-h.st/Shk
1.Download to your sd card.
2.hold power button>restart>recovery
3.wait for phone to boot into recovery.
4.verify you can locate your Rom by selecting "install from internal sd card" and locating the zip file which will be located in "sd card>download".
5.if that is successful then go back to the first recovery menu and wipe system three times then wipe cache three times and then under "advanced" wipe dalvik three times.
6.Return to original menu and repeat step 4 but this time go ahead and tap the zip to install.
7.wait for install to finish and reboot.
Goodbye cm9, hello stock.
Fyi ditch samsungs keyboard asap. Biggest piece of **** I've ever seen. Its a bad joke.
Wipe and flash stock .
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johnrippa said:
I guess vanilla is the wrong word since touchwiz is there but you get what im saying. Heres a link to a debloated stock Rom from one of our fine devs. Everything you want, nothing you don't.
http://d-h.st/Shk
1.Download to your sd card.
2.hold power button>restart>recovery
3.wait for phone to boot into recovery.
4.verify you can locate your Rom by selecting "install from internal sd card" and locating the zip file which will be located in "sd card>download".
5.if that is successful then go back to the first recovery menu and wipe system three times then wipe cache three times and then under "advanced" wipe dalvik three times.
6.Return to original menu and repeat step 4 but this time go ahead and tap the zip to install.
7.wait for install to finish and reboot.
Goodbye cm9, hello stock.
Fyi ditch samsungs keyboard asap. Biggest piece of **** I've ever seen. Its a bad joke.
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Lol, I hate the Samsung keyboard too. AOSP ALL DAY!
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johnrippa said:
I guess vanilla is the wrong word since touchwiz is there but you get what im saying. Heres a link to a debloated stock Rom from one of our fine devs. Everything you want, nothing you don't.
1.Download to your sd card.
2.hold power button>restart>recovery
3.wait for phone to boot into recovery.
4.verify you can locate your Rom by selecting "install from internal sd card" and locating the zip file which will be located in "sd card>download".
5.if that is successful then go back to the first recovery menu and wipe system three times then wipe cache three times and then under "advanced" wipe dalvik three times.
6.Return to original menu and repeat step 4 but this time go ahead and tap the zip to install.
7.wait for install to finish and reboot.
Goodbye cm9, hello stock.
Fyi ditch samsungs keyboard asap. Biggest piece of **** I've ever seen. Its a bad joke.
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OK - so I followed all these instructions and it is rebooting to Cyanogenmod9 still....?? I don't see anything different but it said the install was complete. I think I just wiped my entire SD card... banging my head on the wall.
Maybe I would've been better to pay the pros the 200 bucks they wanted! lol
Is it going to brick the phone if I try it again?
Let me get this straight. You wiped the device and installed the Rom successfully and it still booted into cm9? There's no way. I don't see how that's possible. Not if the Rom installed successfully. Try again. Same procedure. The recovery is clockwork recovery right? The text should be blue
Not to be a jerk but it seems like you don't know much about this, just go back to stock, get used to the phone and then flash a rom
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Why would you go back to att stock and then flash a rom? That's nonsensical, just flash the rom I gave you and be done with it. Still waiting to hear back as to whether or not you have cwm recovery installed
johnrippa said:
Why would you go back to att stock and then flash a rom? That's nonsensical, just flash the rom I gave you and be done with it. Still waiting to hear back as to whether or not you have cwm recovery installed
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He's clearly doing something wrong.
Maybe someone should post clear, step by step directions for him to follow
Edit: I see you've already done this. Lol
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android4545 said:
Not to be a jerk but it seems like you don't know much about this, just go back to stock, get used to the phone and then flash a rom
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Yeah. I AM indeed clueless and have never done anything like this before. That's why I apologized in advance for my ignorance. I do very much appreciate your help though!
I am going to try the step by step again and hope for the best!
Is your recovery text blue? I'm trying to make sure you have the proper recovery to flash the rom
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Is your recovery text blue? I'm trying to make sure you have the proper recovery to flash the rom
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Yes the recovery text is blue. Sorry about that. Oh and I didn't wipe out my SD card thank goodness so if my calculations are correct I am only 99.8% ignorant about this stuff.
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Yes the recovery text is blue. Sorry about that. Oh and I didn't wipe out my SD card thank goodness so if my calculations are correct I am only 99.8% ignorant about this stuff.
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It says: ClockwordMod Recovery v5.8.4.8 at the top and bottom of the screen with all blue text.
PS: Thank you for being so helpful and patient with this SEVERE NOOB. You rock!
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It says: ClockwordMod Recovery v5.8.4.8 at the top and bottom of the screen with all blue text.
PS: Thank you for being so helpful and patient with this SEVERE NOOB. You rock!
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If you do the following you should have no problem putting back stock ICS:
1. Factory reset
2. Wipe cache
3. Wipe dalvik cache.
4. Install rom (i recommend putting it on external sd if you have one in)
5. Reboot. Done!
I also recommend using black star ICS, very good rom.
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Did the second try work?if not update your cwm with the rom manager app
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Did the second try work?if not update your cwm with the rom manager app
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Yes and no. I think I figured out what I was doing wrong though..
I put the zip file in the internal SD instead of the external, and the file I was installing was not a complete version. (No idea what happened in the download but I am going to try again this morning and see if it's successful.)
Thank you SO much!! I'll let ya know as soon as I get through this attempt!
EDIT: I put the zip file on external SD. Did the triple wipe of data, cache and Dalvik. When in Clockworkmod - I select the zip file from the external SD and it tells me No files found. I tried remounting both SD cards and still "no files found".