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Nevermind used Odin was simple.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=734475
snorge said:
I am running Bionix 1.6 w/Jacs OC/UV kernel, say I want to go back to stock for the update I thought I could use the Nandroid backup found here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=734475
But then I read that Nandroid doesn't backup/restore the kernal so do I actually have to use the Odin method? Was hoping to avoid that.
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If you want to Nandroid back to a JFD-based backup:
1.) Disable Voodoo
2.) Download and flash the Stock-Kernel-Vibrant.zip from the Frankin-Twiz thread
3.) Nandroid your backup
snorge said:
I am running Bionix 1.6 w/Jacs OC/UV kernel, say I want to go back to stock for the update I thought I could use the Nandroid backup found here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=734475
But then I read that Nandroid doesn't backup/restore the kernal so do I actually have to use the Odin method? Was hoping to avoid that.
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AFAIK Jac's kernel is still compatible with JFD. Making it compatible with JIx builds is something we owe to eugene373 in the first place as this used to be an issue.
I switched from rooted stock, to bionix w/stock kernel. Do I need to Odin back to stock or can I just nandroid?
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Only Loki said:
I switched from rooted stock, to bionix w/stock kernel. Do I need to Odin back to stock or can I just nandroid?
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Nandroid will get you back to stock but will not put you back to stock baseline JFD. Odin is the only way back to true stock.
Only Loki said:
I switched from rooted stock, to bionix w/stock kernel. Do I need to Odin back to stock or can I just nandroid?
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Depends on which version of Bionix. Bionix 1.4 and below are based off JFD so you can Nandroid a stock backup safely. Otherwise you can flash the JFD kernel and Nandroid a stock backup, however this will not flash your baseband (modem.bin) back to JFD (but should still work I believe).
Thanks guys. I'm a linux user and don't want to deal with wine. So just wondering if I flash 1.4 or earlier then nandroid. Will that get me back to stock base band?
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Just in case you haven't read this yet...
If you wind up using Odin - find a windows PC - don't take chances with Wine + Odin - Odin is bad enough as it is.
Also, make sure your phone isn't hardware locked if you haven't already. If it IS hardware locked and Odin fails, (as is very common), you'll brick your phone.
Yeah that is why I was trying to avoid using it. If I don't get an answer by morning, I will just try to flash down and report back here so hopefully people will have something to reference. I searched but couldn't find a definite answer.
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Only Loki said:
Yeah that is why I was trying to avoid using it. If I don't get an answer by morning, I will just try to flash down and report back here so hopefully people will have something to reference. I searched but couldn't find a definite answer.
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I haven't tried it but flashing down should work.
Also if you are unable to get into recovery using the volume and power buttons you should return your phone for an exchange. This is consider a defect and you'll likely be unable to consistently get into download mode - not a good thing when experimentally flashing ROMS and kernels.
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Why would you want to switch from Bionix?
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Ok can someone answer a few questions for me I have a stock vibrant with a stock 2.6.29 kernel and would like to flash a new kernel so I can begin overclocking but I would also like to flash back to my original kernel just in case can anyone explain how to make a back up or do this any help would be greatly appreciated thanks
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so you have a stock Vibrant...you wanna overclock?
Are you rooted? Im pretty sure that too run a different kernel you need a diffrent rom other than the stock JFD.
You might get more answers if you posted in the right section.
Its the ji6 I think
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dont bother giving him crap just help the guy. mods can clean it up and move it later.
ok well 1st off - know that what your about to do can potentially brick or damage your device and that myself,xda,jesus, mary and the hly ghost, the hobo behind the walmart and your aunt frank have nothing to do with this so you can only blame yourself
i would get to know ODIN real well first off. make sure you are able to get into download mode. via the hardware method OR ADB
use the Vibrant bible to find info on that.
I apologize guys I'm assuming this belongs in q&a
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jmartiuk said:
Ok can someone answer a few questions for me I have a stock vibrant with a stock 2.6.29 kernel and would like to flash a new kernel so I can begin overclocking but I would also like to flash back to my original kernel just in case can anyone explain how to make a back up or do this any help would be greatly appreciated thanks
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Not trying to be a wiseguy but:
Read the "Vibrant directory ( Bible ) and search this forum. Look for the subjects you're interested in. All questions are answered you just need to study before you start.
Learn how to use odin - if you follow the links you will have everything you need to get back to stock in an emergency.
Read about and learn how to use one click root.
Read about and learn how to use Rom Manager to flash roms
Use Titanium backup to backup your apps
Good luck and have fun!
Ok real quick I have odin I have the stock vibrant rom from xda I am pretty good with this stuff just new to this phone I also have a few roms but kinda wanna wait for 2.2 but would like a new kernel I have rom manager and a back up of my rom but I am having a problem getting adb to work just been using the terminal apk but I need help.with this and thank you for your time
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And I do have titanium back with everything backed up
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im currently rolling TeamWhiskeys Obsidian V2
its a 2.2 Froyo based off the tmobile leak
everything works as it should and its fast and very stable.
OP you need to spend a couple hours reading and understanding several things. Most if not all you need is in the vibrant bible thread. If you can't get adb to work its almost always the driver. Must understand odin just in case something goes wrong. Its hard to truely brick this phone but not impossible.
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O I have been reading alot and its taking me several weeks to decide to do this cause I would, like to grab the ota once they release it
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aeok18109 said:
ok well 1st off - know that what your about to do can potentially brick or damage your device and that myself,xda,jesus, mary and the hly ghost, the hobo behind the walmart and your aunt frank have nothing to do with this so you can only blame yourself
i would get to know ODIN real well first off. make sure you are able to get into download mode. via the hardware method OR ADB
use the Vibrant bible to find info on that.
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In other words, take 5 min to do a little research.
Sent from Vibrant Frankin Twiz Update3 JI2 modem.bin jac kernel with voodoo lagfix on XDA app with no fc's FINALLY!
Echo,echo...read the Bible. And also the Tips and Tricks thread. Basically all the ones that are Stickies. I came from a stock blackberry with no knowledge and I've successfuly flashed at several Roms and kernels and soft bricked a few times. The stickies saved me.
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If I make a back up of my rom using manager can I flash that and go back to my old kernel
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There ask I'm really worried about
explodingboy70 said:
Echo,echo...read the Bible. And also the Tips and Tricks thread. Basically all the ones that are Stickies. I came from a stock blackberry with no knowledge and I've successfuly flashed at several Roms and kernels and soft bricked a few times. The stickies saved me.
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jmartiuk said:
If I make a back up of my rom using manager can I flash that and go back to my old
No, that only saves your data and apps. You need to save it or you can use the ones located in the vibrant library. You can always revert back to stock using odin but do so AT YOUR OWN RISK... Good luck
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The Bible is the greatest thing EVER.
Just seriously use how to use Odin. If you can learn how to get into download mode consistently and connect to odin successfully you will be fine. Then learn how to use recocery, which is very easy on the vibrant. you just install ROM manager from the market and flash clockwork mod recovery. learn how to backup and restore and you can flash things through recovery. Zips are for recovery, and Tar files are for Odin. If you want to OC i recommend "Corev2" by team whiskey (since JAC has dissapeared) which works with most ROMs and should work well with stock rooted. There is Odin files and zip files for stock kernels, jfd and ji6, which you could just flash over if you dont like it. Nandroid backups dont backup kernels, so make sure you have the right kernel on when you restore something. You can find everything in the BIBLE like everyone has told you to try. One word of the wise, if you load a Froyo 2.2 on your phone and then revert back to 2.1, make sure you flash a 2.1 kernel first before you restore. So many people think they brick after they do that.
And usually if you are waiting for official firmware, it appears here on XDA ready to flash (i flashed official ji6 before it was availible OTA) at some point. I would recommend you use a rooted ji6 ROM with Corev2 (and possibly the ji2 modem to save battery life but i like the ji6 modem) this will let you OC and UV without setcpu. this is kind of a scattered response but im just trying to help. I am running AOSP jk2 1.1 by Anderdroid and i LOVE IT.
It looks like you have everything ready on your phone.
Just learn Odin, you don't really need ADB. Make sure your phone can go into the download mode via the vol up and vol down key and connect USB cable for download mode. Its a Triangle Icon with android robot with shovel.
There you should load the Pit file and Tar file to flash back to Stock in case you brick you phone. As far as flashing ROM goes, remember this!!
If you flash a 2.1 Kernel + ROM like Fusion 1.2, and create a Nandroid backup through ClockWork. Then decided to go to a Froyo 2.2 kernel + ROM like Obsidian or MacnutR11 to try out. Do not restore Nandroid backup to 2.1, it will brick your phone requring u to ODin back to stock.
Bottom line 2.1 ROM will not work with 2.2 kernel and 2.1 kernel will not work with 2.2 ROM. Don't mix them up.
Basically if you are running a 2.1 kernel + rom, then switch to 2.2 kernel and rom. For some reason you don't like it, make sure you flash back to 2.1 kernel + rom instead of doing a nandroid restore.
Ok before everybody goes crazy over here and starts to roast me for putting up such a noob question and all that and telling me to search.. Here it goes.. Dont do it please!
Ok so i got TeamWiskey's Froyo 2.2 i like the rom and everything but the phone and contacts.apk suck they are terribly laggy and etc. So also my launcherpro plus seems to lag a bit more on 2.2 so now im wondering how to revert back to 2.1 without using ODIN! i dont do odin i dont know odin and i dont wanna mess with odin.. So is it possible i can just flash a 2.1 kernel like TeamWiskeys Core v3 and then flash a 2.1 Rom? Or no its not possible..
I have not done it personally, but if you flash the stock JI6 kernel you could probably just restore one of your nandroid backups of stock (assuming you have one).
Just install Bionix or something
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Chalup said:
Just install Bionix or something
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I dont think installing bionix or fusion will get me back to 2.1 kernel or will it? And hmm i dont want to risk anything nd im not sure if i have a nandroid of 2.1 or is my nandroid 2.2
just flash a rom with a kernel that is built into the rom. any of the bionix roms should do.
xSunny said:
I dont think installing bionix or fusion will get me back to 2.1 kernel or will it? And hmm i dont want to risk anything nd im not sure if i have a nandroid of 2.1 or is my nandroid 2.2
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Yes, almost (It think all) custom 2.1 ROMs have a kernel built in.
I know Master Rom does
Bionix does
Fusion does
etc
If you open the zip & go to updates & see zImage then yes
Alrite cool so ill just try that i didnt trust myself into doing it and risking a brick so yeah thanks for the help guys//
Ok it worked somebody can lock this now.. All i did was flash another fusion rom =]
I rooted my vibrant, installed CWM,update voodoo on stock froyo, but couldn't get the voodoo lagfix work(can't mount, file existing errors). So I disabled lagfix and flash a stock 2.1, upgrade to 2.2, and then flash in the voodoo 5.5 with Odin.
It works now but somehow in between the process, it messes up my volume buttons. Up is now Down and Down is now Up, I remember this behavior in CWM too but I thought that's how it works in CWM. So I guess it's not OS's problem. However, I'm not really familiar with linux so I really need your help. I'd appreciate any input.
Are u sure u didnt flash a i9000 rom and/or kernel?
afyaff said:
I rooted my vibrant, installed CWM,update voodoo on stock froyo, but couldn't get the voodoo lagfix work(can't mount, file existing errors). So I disabled lagfix and flash a stock 2.1, upgrade to 2.2, and then flash in the voodoo 5.5 with Odin.
It works now but somehow in between the process, it messes up my volume buttons. Up is now Down and Down is now Up, I remember this behavior in CWM too but I thought that's how it works in CWM. So I guess it's not OS's problem. However, I'm not really familiar with linux so I really need your help. I'd appreciate any input.
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Are u sure u didnt flash a i9000 rom and/or kernel?
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Ummm, I think I flashed in the i9000 kernel. I thought it would work....So, since I don't see a froyo kernel for vibrant, there is no way to fix this?
If so, i'll flash back a stock JFD and just wait.
afyaff said:
Ummm, I think I flashed in the i9000 kernel. I thought it would work....So, since I don't see a froyo kernel for vibrant, there is no way to fix this?
If so, i'll flash back a stock JFD and just wait.
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If you head over to the vibrant android development forum there is actually an array of different roms you can try with different kernels. I would however suggest odin back to stock first and see if that fixes your mapping problem, just to make sure it's software and not hardware related.
Theirs ur problem their is 2 kernels for vibrant(i think) flash one of those and u will b good....last resort odin back to stock
afyaff said:
Ummm, I think I flashed in the i9000 kernel. I thought it would work....So, since I don't see a froyo kernel for vibrant, there is no way to fix this?
If so, i'll flash back a stock JFD and just wait.
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Thanks for all the replies.
I'm going to flash a vibrant kernel and hope that fixes the problem.
edit: with new kernel, now it works flawlessly
I FLashed GB Bootloader from "adyscorpio's thread" http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1117990
then i flashed bullet kernal from odin
afterthat i installed
[ROM] [2.3.4 JVP] Gingerbread Blitzkrieg by "birgertime"
now i want to go back to my froyo i.e project v ?
can i just flash it with recovery or what??
and please tell me whats rom is best for battery & performance
Thanks a lot fellows
ZAIN_1 said:
I FLashed GB Bootloader from "adyscorpio's thread" http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1117990
then i flashed bullet kernal from odin
afterthat i installed
[ROM] [2.3.4 JVP] Gingerbread Blitzkrieg by "birgertime"
now i want to go back to my froyo i.e project v ?
can i just flash it with recovery or what??
and please tell me whats rom is best for battery & performance
Thanks a lot fellows
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The bootloaders are backwards compatible meaning you can flash a froyo rom without issue. Kernels are not though so if you want to use a backup youll need to flash a froyo kernel first.
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explodingboy70 said:
The bootloaders are backwards compatible meaning you can flash a froyo rom without issue. Kernels are not though so if you want to use a backup youll need to flash a froyo kernel first.
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Thank you.. your r awesome
nereed opost
gooooooooooddddddddddddddd
What are boot loaders for?
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mystycs said:
What are boot loaders for?
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If you dont know......dont play with em.....keep your hands out of the cookie jar.....youve got a lot of reading ahead of you
I didnt have any problems flashing bootloaders.. but yep.. best read a bunch first
Most important thing to know about bootloaders is they're one of the only things that, if you screw up installing them, may permanently kill your phone. Screwing up ROMs, Kernels, and Modems can almost always be fixed, last case scenario, by going into download mode and using Odin. If you screw up a bootloader install bad enough, you may lose download mode, and thus your phone unless you get outside assistance (A jig or jtag).