Hi all! As the name suggests, I'm trying to get from stock ED01 to KangBang 2.0 with OTB 1.6. I'm familiar with android, having spent a year hacking the OG droid, but it seems the Fascinate is a whole nother beast in and of itself. So far I've read up on:
-How to use odin
-How to use adb
-What voodoo is
-Current ROM offerings
-Multiple 'how-to' guides
My problem, however, is that some of the guides are dated so I'm a tad uneasy on just jumping straight in. One thing in particular is how do I aquire root and flash 3.x.
This guide is the most relevant thing I can find but it uses cwm 2.x. Should I follow the guide verbatim while JUST replacing which cwm I'm flashing or is there a different set of rules to follow? Better yet, is there an easier way of doing this that I've overlooked?
Get Comrom and put it in your SD card.
Use Odin to flash CWM 3.0 in your phone(use PDA section/button). >http://dl.dropbox.com/u/36791/CWM3_Voodoo.tar.md5
After you do that, power phone on holding down the volume buttons to get to CWM.
Clear data, cache, dalvik.
Install Comrom from your sd card, let your phone chill while voodoo boots.
Enjoy
Thanks so much for a quick reply! Just one last question. Do I need to root before installing CWM or does root install with KB?
Since Com Rom is already rooted, you do not need to root first. Just make sure you boot directly into CWM after flashing it with Odin, then flash Com Rom.
Edit: If, after flashing CWM through Odin, you accidentally boot all the way, CWM will get erased (due to the stock kernel). Just reflash it with Odin
It's Actually quicker to do an odin load of commrom 2 from this link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1048380 this will include CWM in the build.
Just FYI, the cwm included in the build is not current, but it allows the ROMs to load after flashing through ODIN. If you follow the instructions in the thread, you are guided to flash CWM 3.0 after flashing and booting up the ROM.
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Im sorry if this has been covered, ive spent the last 2 days reading the Vibrant bible thread and also over on Cyanogen site and Android spin and im really frustrated with how often my device soft bricks.
i have 5 roms on my internal SD card and Rom manager running. i was able to use the option to install form SD card no problem for 4 roms and the 5th one was one called Hybrid R4 and when it rebooted into the clockwork recovery and performed the format and update then it rebooted into the Vibrant logo for 5 min. i removed the battery and rebooted so many times and same thing.
this is the 3rd time this has happened and its so annoying even more so because i know i have a good ROM on the internal SD card i can load up again but i cant get to it because i cant get into clockwork because i keep getting the stock samsung recovery screen with limited options resulting in having to use ODIN to flash the stock firmware and start over.
when i had my Mytouch i had a permanent recovery flashed to the device so i neve rhad to do this. are the Vibrants not able to have a alternate recovery console flashed to it?
which rom are you flashing over? It sounds like you are going from a 2.2 froyo rom. Hybrid R4 is from the time before the Devs started including Kernels with their roms. If you want to flash a 2.1 rom thats doesn't include the kernel over a 2.2 rom you need to flash a 2.1 kernel first. Search the bible for kingklicks kernel or Justanothercrowds kernels. Good luck.
Edit: also when you flash clockworkmod recovery in rom manager, it places a special update.zip in your root directory. leave it there. when you soft brick all you need to do in the samsung stock recovery is reinstall packages (sometimes needs to be done twice) and it will load clockworkmod recovery.
and they can have clockwork permanently flashed but it sometimes causes other problems. Eugene373 has a few kernels for 2.2 that have it permanently flashed, but it caused me issues when trying to flash another rom over it where i had no recovery at all, not even samsungs.
i am trying to root my phone for froyo and have done everything up to getting clockwork to install i tried odin no luck, i tried samsung flash update zip no luck any suggestions please. i was following instructions from jt's thread
Thanks
I've had trouble getting certain versions of clockwork to work on the initial flash. And using the Flash Clockwork option from the Clockwork app doesn't work intially for me in any version.
What version are you using?
Also, what version of OS are you running (DL09, EA28, etc.).
I believe adrynalyne mentioned this in one of his posts, but I read some of the new stock kernels don't allow CWM. If it detects this, it will overwrite the Recovery section and get rid of CWM.
If this is what's happening to you, once you install CWM, you have to turn on the phone and immediately go into recovery. You will need to install a custom kernel to allow CWM to stay on there.
Look in the development forum, and there's a thread in there that talks about this. It might just impact certain builds, though, so it might not be what you're seeing.
Yea you odin the cwm and then you load your rom when cwm boots up. Dont use rom manager as it can delete your cwm and you have to reodin it back
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Ok, so long story short - I went through a lot of steps to restore my fascinate to stock, and then rooted it through recovery. It worked fine until I installed Rom Manager and now my phone won't boot into recovery again. My question is - did I do something wrong?
I restored my phone to stock using Heimdall
Updated it to the latest version
Rooted it using odin and flashing recovery
then installed Rom Manager
Thank you for all your help guys!!!
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Ok, so long story short - I went through a lot of steps to restore my fascinate to stock, and then rooted it through recovery. It worked fine until I installed Rom Manager and now my phone won't boot into recovery again. My question is - did I do something wrong?
I restored my phone to stock using Heimdall
Updated it to the latest version
Rooted it using odin and flashing recovery
then installed Rom Manager
Thank you for all your help guys!!!
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download odin (onto pc), a non stock kernel and the recovery.zip that you want to use.(both recovery.zip and non stock kernel on your sd card)
Put your phone in dl mode and flash recovery via odin...when odin is done, immediately three finger boot into recovery and flash non stock kernel, and reboot.
Unless your on cm7 rom manager is useless and will bring more hurt then help, and your recovery is being overwritten by the stock kernel every time you boot which is why you need the non stock kernel...I personally would recommend a rom that contains a kernel...you can find a list of all roms, kernels, and recoveries in the dev section stickies.
Do you know how to properly flash roms, and kernels? I ask because I don't want to get you stuck even worse...if you need step by step instructions I'll reply later when I'm at a pc
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You can give me a few tips and hints. That would be appreciated. Also, I thought the easiest way was through Rom Manager.
On a side note - what would be the most stable ROM to flash to the fascinate?
EDIT: Ok, so I installed PowerWashed 1.2 ROM and can handle this on my own a little bit. I'm still a little unsure on which roms are most stable/trustworthy, but I might stick with this one for a while.
I am new to modding my vibrant (phone is rooted but that's all) but looking to flash a new ROM. I dl'd rom manager and installed cwr. When I reboot into recovery mode via rommanager or manually doing it,I do not get the prompt to backup. Only options I get are to reboot system, reinstall packages, delete all user data, delete cache data, and format internal sd-card. Anyone know how to fix this? I just updated to 2.2 froyo UVKB5 kernel 2.6.32.9 if that helps.
looks like you have stock recovery.
try reinstall packages, might take a couple times..
or install CWM via replacing update.zip
What he said, yeah.
So just delete the current update.zip file on my phone and replace it with a new one? Any links to download the update.zip file?
Sometimes you have to Reinstall Packages twice for it to go from regular recovery to CWR. If you flash a custom ROM though, most have a custom recovery built in.
If you have to replace the update.zip (which I don't think that you do), this worked for me the first time I rooted.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=849028
How to Root.
I am rooted, but I want to back everything up so that way if I do not like the new custom rom I can go back. I tried reinstalling the update.zip file from the link but s till have the same issue. Any other solutions besides going back to stock and going from there? And if I did go back to stock, would I lose everything?
I backed up using Titanium Backup, is that the same as going into recovery mode and backing up?
Re-download recovery using ROM Manager, then repeat. Worked when I had a similar issue.
Tried that several times. I also reuploaded the update file and reinstalled the package several times. Still no luck so I think I might go back to stock using Odin.
Then DL Eugenes froyo don't brick ROM with the 2e recovery update in it, then re-install packages, maybe twice and you'll have the green recovery menu your seeking
Googled Eugene's DL and I do not feel to confident with it. Is it supposed to fix the issue with getting into recovery mode?
So I went back to stock last night using Odin, upgraded to 2.2, and rooted using Superoneclick. Phone's back up and running but faster than the first time I upgraded to 2.2. I still have the issue getting into the proper recover to install the zip file. I've read that deleting Slacker helped some people, assuming it freed up space on the System ROM. My system ROM was full until I started to delete some apps. I now have 20.7 MB free. Could not enough System ROM space be the issue?
I am now also getting a "Fail" attempt when I try and update su saying that it failed to find currently installed su binary. Any advice on fixing this?
TIA!!!
it would probably be easier to just odin back to stock jfd and then flash a deodexed kb5 build thats rooted with SU already in it from here in the forums.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1036193&highlight=deodexed
If you flashed kb5 from kies or odin and don't want to reinstall the rom then you will need to flash a modified 3e recovery because you probably are not quite rooted and won't be able to use CWM until you flash the modified 3e recovery...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=833423
You might want to check out the AIO vibrant toolbox (pinned topic in the development thread) it will give you big easy buttons and instructions to flash back to jfd and root and flash a new rom if you need to... It comes with Odin so you can wander into the install folder and fire up Odin to flash the modified 3e recovery if you decide to go that route too.
If I flash a deodexed kb5 will i still be able to flash a custom rom?
This may be obvious, I've researched heavily but so many guides are out of date since gingerbread went official and I've never rooted any phone before so I'm confused about one thing:
My goal is to put superclean3 on my fascinate, and the instructions in THAT thread tell me to do a nandroid which i have no idea how to do because you need a rooted phone to do that, which I'm finding impossible to do after gingerbread. Regardless, do I really need to do a nandroid if i could care less what data is on my phone currently?
Also, in that threads guide, it says to flash clockwork after downloading a bunch of other files to the phone in recovery mode. In this thread in this forum's section about rooting, it says to put clockwork on my phone FIRST before anything other files. Does it matter?
If you're already stock, then there shouldn't be any need to odin the EH03 package before flashing the rom. What you'll want to do is download the CWM recovery, flash that in odin, boot into recovery, make a backup (optional), then flash the superclean rom. No need to root before flashing a rom, just flash the recovery and use that to flash a rooted rom.
Here is the link...
Clockwork Recovery: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?eda9voucgo0s46l
Then just follow these...
Flash Clockwork Recovery in Odin (clear "Re-Partition" and "Auto-Reboot" check boxes)
Power off phone, then boot into Clockwork Recovery by holding both vol buttons and power button
Flash the zip file (ROM) you downloaded in Clockwork Recovery
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This may be obvious, I've researched heavily but so many guides are out of date since gingerbread went official and I've never rooted any phone before so I'm confused about one thing:
My goal is to put superclean3 on my fascinate, and the instructions in THAT thread tell me to do a nandroid which i have no idea how to do because you need a rooted phone to do that, which I'm finding impossible to do after gingerbread. Regardless, do I really need to do a nandroid if i could care less what data is on my phone currently?
Also, in that threads guide, it says to flash clockwork after downloading a bunch of other files to the phone in recovery mode. In this thread in this forum's section about rooting, it says to put clockwork on my phone FIRST before anything other files. Does it matter?
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