Hello,
I was running CM7 rom with gapps installed. it was draining my battery like crazy and i read online that it happens because the phone doesnt go into "deep sleep" mode. i decided to use another ROM instead and tried flashing my phone to stock 2.1 eclair before doing that. odin gave me an error during the process. so i goggled some more and on one of the xda forums it said that its recommended to follow this process - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1124391
i performed the option number 1 - *EB01 FROYO *Unofficial leak* full odin tar*
later when this process failed on me on odin, i realized that i am on the forum for samsung fascinate. my phone turns on with a samsung screen but gets stuck on a verizon wireless welcome message.
i have tried going back to stock 2.1 eclair but it gets stuck on modem.bin on odin.
what should i do?
there's a dongle that plugs into the USB port and can almost always reset your phone. Google it. Samsung vibrant USB dongle should find it and there are videos on YouTube.
alternately you can use the instructions on how to go to any other ROM from cm7/muiu. It involves a pit file, clicking repartition box and flashing with a complete stock room for you're phone (ROM and kernel at least and might as well do radio too).
Maybe that might work.
It's really hard to hard brick an Android especially the samsungs.
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the phone actually turned on as a verizon wireless samsung fascinate and im able to do everything but make calls. so i went ahead and used superclickoneroot thing and rooted my phone. i downloaded rom manger to install clockworkmod recovery and now im gnna try and install a custom rom for vibrant and hope that works.
If you can get to dl mode, go find my GingerZen thread in the dev section, and follow the FTDNB steps in the second post. That will get you fixed up.
Sent from my ZenDroid, meditating on the XDA App
i downloaded the pit/pda to flash with odin and also checked off repartition, its stuck on modem.bin - is that normal?
No, pull the battery and try it again.
Sent from my ZenDroid, meditating on the XDA App
well i think im at an even worse stage now. the phone does not turn on anymore. no samsung/galaxys or verizon wireless homescreen like before. but my computer does recognize it i think because i am able to go into download mode. im only able to go into download mode without my battery. with the battery in, the phone is useless and dead.
just so i know i have it right my first step is this right? - Download this first, and flash through Odin with your standard 512 pit file and then it redirects me to the EB productions website. (i am not allowed to post an outside link for being new and all)
Both links go to the eb productions site, both Odin packages were created by eugene373. If you can get to dl mode, you can still flash. I wouldn't give up, take a deep breath and try it again.
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i am not giving up. i have tried atleast 15 times but same thing. it gets suck on modem.bin. i feel like its getting stuck there because its formatted as a fascinate now and im trying to put vibrant softwares but then again what do i know lol
It doesnt let you flash modem.bin because of the bootloader, flash a vibrant bootloader and re-flash stock jfd with re-partition enable with pit file.
You should be good.
Is there a guide that helps me with the steps on flashing a vibrant bootloader?
As demetris_I stated, it does sound like you need to repartition off the bat. Don't repartition witht he FTDNB initial file, go striaght to either stock JFD of the JK2 in my post I referred you to, and select the repartition check box in Odin. That should tell Odin to set your mount points and flash all the files to their correct lo9cation.
For bootloaders if you want to try them, search for the GB bootloaders thread in the dev section, it also contains the froyo bootloaders, all flashable through Odin. I personally would try flashing a full Odin rom (such as the JK2 of stock JFD files) first with repartition, as those files will reset your bootloaders during the flash.
fascinate verizon Is not a gsm phone so when you flash the rom you also flash the bootloaders from it.It doesnt have a modem.bin partition and odin doesnt know where or cant put the modem.bin thats why is stuck there.
Go to dev section find froyo bootloader follow guide and re enter download mode and flash stock JFD with pit file and repartition checked, as i said You should be ok.
run odin under administrator or try heimdall instead
so, i just want to use t mobile vibrant on verizon
Is this an easy thing to do?
It's impossible. Vibrant uses GSM technology (sim card) and radio frequency called 1700/2100 in the USA. Fascinate uses CDMA (no sim card you call Verizon to activate your phone) and 1900 frequency.
Note: T-mobile vibrant can use AT&T 3G band (only one of them not both like AT&T captivate does).
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It's impossible. Vibrant uses GSM technology (sim card) and radio frequency called 1700/2100 in the USA. Fascinate uses CDMA (no sim card you call Verizon to activate your phone) and 1900 frequency.
Note: T-mobile vibrant can use AT&T 3G band (only one of them not both like AT&T captivate does).
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so it cant be used on verizon? what if i flash broadband or something like that? i have a verizon sim card...
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Hey folks, heres a synopsis of what I did:
1) Stock Bell Vibrant, rooted.
2) Installed Clockwork, installed, backed up.
3) Tried to install voodoo for vibrant.
Then during reboot, it sat at the "Vibrant" screen for well over two hours before I gave up on it.
Pulling battery and rebooting always ends up on "Vibrant" screen.
I booted into clockwork recovery, and recovered my backup using nandboot. It runs the process for a while then outputs:
ClockworkMod Recovery v2.5.0.4
Checking MD5 sums...
Restoring system...
Restoring data...
E:Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p2
(File Exists)
Can't mount /data/!
If I reboot, I'm stuck at the same "Vibrant" screen.
I've been searching the forums, and the only solution I can find is to re-flash, but I can't find a stock bell rom for the galaxy s... I was under the impression clockwork backed up my original rom.
Anyway, any help you can provide would be great!
Thanks
Shado
You need to learn how to use Odin if you are going to mod your phone with beta software.
You can use Odin to reflash your device to stock. From there you can start over or skip it. Since you had problems with Voodoo make sure you follow the instructions with the addition of checking the "repartition" box.
Check this thread for instructions on Odin: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=748074&highlight=ODIN
Youtube tutorial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnY7P14JSWQ
I agree odin is a lifesaver for most ppl here, and it doesn't hurt to learn something new
I've not installed Voodoo yet, but I read through the thread yesterday and If i remember correctly when Voodoo BETA creates it's EXT4 partition it was actually formating the internal SD card. Deleting most of the data, which would include backups. It seems as though people were using Eugine's 2.2 Froyo Rom then going back to there original nanbackup by moving over a backup that they were smart enough to store on their pc. This is all verbatim, and straight from memory. Start at page three and read on if you havn't yet. I hope this helps.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=781456&page=3
I love xda and everyone on it!
When I was waiting for a reply I found samsungfirmwareworld and grabbed I9000UGJH2 which was the latest Bell firmware, and I also found the 512.pit.
Following the instructions on that Odin instructions link got me back to stock, and avoided any major medical problems (like heart attack, stress induced coma, etc.).
Thanks so much!!
Now that I'm back to stock firmware, is it ok to re-root, install clockwork, and restore my backup I made pre-voodoo? I did copy the entire clockwork folder from the phone to my PC.
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I love xda and everyone on it!
When I was waiting for a reply I found samsungfirmwareworld and grabbed I9000UGJH2 which was the latest Bell firmware, and I also found the 512.pit.
Following the instructions on that Odin instructions link got me back to stock, and avoided any major medical problems (like heart attack, stress induced coma, etc.).
Thanks so much!!
Now that I'm back to stock firmware, is it ok to re-root, install clockwork, and restore my backup I made pre-voodoo? I did copy the entire clockwork folder from the phone to my PC.
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You do know that the Bell Vibrant is an sgs i9000 and NOT the same as the t959 vibrant for t-mobile that this forum is solely for/about, right?
And yes, you should be perfectly safe to restore your clockwork folder and do a nandroid restore.
Cheers,
=)
~ Jocelyn
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You do know that the Bell Vibrant is an sgs i9000 and NOT the same as the t959 vibrant for t-mobile that this forum is solely for/about, right?
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Yeah, I figured that out over the course of this whole process. I guess just because they share the "Vibrant" name, doesn't mean they're the same. Given the large number of Bell users here, I'm surprised we don't have our own forum for the i9000m. Would it be more appropriate to post in the i9000 forums, even though the Bell phones (from what I understand and firmware wise) are far from their European counterparts?
Either way, for having these problems and potentially posting in the wrong forum, you folks have been great
I have the same problem but i cannot get the samsung usb drivers to work. please help
@shadoslayer... i'm not really sure but i think the only diff between the bell vibrant ang the international i9000 is the hspa bands since bell vibrant has north america hspa.
except maybe for the few that do not have the 3 button combo.
btw, i'm using a bell phone too, on JM7 firnware.
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Clearly I'm an idiot and get over excited. I now need to find the stock Bell firmware to use with Odin so I can go back to normal. Any Canucks with a link to it?
EDIT: I got it back to Bell's stock firmware.
So we can't use what other odin post is using for the i9000m bell vibrant?
How did you get it back to bell firmware?
beowolf said:
I have the same problem but i cannot get the samsung usb drivers to work. please help
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OK, I've got a question. I'm having some trouble, people tell me I sound staticky ,and have a robotic voice, and I have unstable cell tower connections using KA7 modem and latest Axura. Its like "hi, you have 5 bars... no wait. you have 1, err maybe 1? Oh, no, there are 5 bars" And beautiful widgets cannot use geolocation to find my location now.. data connection sucks! constant complaints that geolocation failed. Or I open the market and get connection failures and have to press retry 5 times to get anywhere.
I'm having a feeling it could have to do with not odining back to stock for some time now. I would like to ODIN back to stock (already know how), then upgrade to Official froyo (including sbl and 3e recovery), then ODIN a voodoo kernel so I can use CWM as my main recovery and have custom roms.
Is this suggested? I know nothing of the new sbl (secondary bootloader) and think that it may be possible it can have some impact on performance. I'm not even sure if you can ODIN a new voodoo KA7 kernel after changing to the new sbl can you?
tips? suggestions?
http://martint.net/2010/how-to-use-odin-to-go-back-to-stock-jfd-2/
this guy will show you how to go back to stock using odin
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=747335
the third one down on the page that says "[ROM] OFFICIAL T-Mo Vibrant JFD ODIN/Nandroid Backup Images 7/29/10 (Tested/Working)"
is the stock
download the pit, image from samsung and odin file
good luck
so i bricked my phone. fortunately though i was able to recover it. the question i have is, there was not a rom for my carrier i.e. cellsouth but there was one for another network(verizon), so i used that. btw my phone is a samsung showcase which is almost identical to the fascinate so i have no problems with it except seeing verizon as the network when i boot up or lock the screen. also when i check to see which carrier i'm on by dialing 611, i get cellsouth. i just dont want to incur any fees i dont know about,so im asking if there are any dangers using a rom from a different network???
No I do not believe that there is between cell south and verizon. I had a hero that ran on a sprint rom then my last phone was a milestone that I was using roms that where for the moto droid from verizon. But can I ask how you bricked your phone and what you did to fix it? I got a galaxy showcase and was trying to install a different kernel to help on the battery life and through odin I messed it up but was able to fix it by install eb11_voodoo.zip and Showcase_eb11_PnP_0.3. Well today I was going down the road and plugged my phone in the car charger and a few minutes later it just rebooted by itself. After that it did not have any service. I went under settings, about phone and it said unknown under several of the options. I took it to cell south after I tried several things and all they did was make it not even boot up. Now if I try to flash a rom from or kernel or anything at all from CWM v3.2.0.0.otb it says, Amen scripting was necessary to remove it when upgrading to the ClockworkMod 3.0 Gingerbread based recovery. Please switch to Edify scripting (updater-script and update-binary) to create working update zip packages. Installation aborted. Can somebody HELP me get back my phone???
to unbrick it
to unbrick samsung showcase.you need samsung drivers, search forums or google ,easy find.
READ COMPLETELY AND DOWNLOAD FILES FIRST BEFORE STARTING.btw follow guide at your own risk. take no responsibility for you bricking your phone.which you already did, i mean for other people lol. it will work if you do it right so dont panic...i think...well, i hope
1) remove battery
2)plug usb cable to computer
3)start odin-
3)connect usb to phone and press volume down same time to activate download mode-that is yellow triangle thing-you should see "added" in odin
4) then make sure repartition auto reboot,reset time are checked-all three
5)then for pit file choose http://www.mediafire.com/?26xbh796jmwvwqb
6)for pda, go to here and download from the link that has "ECLAIR".its suppose to be about 419.5 mb.http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1124391
btw a guy named adrenalyn i believe uploaded these files so thanks to him.
hope this guide helps in you figuring it out.basically summarizing all you need cause i was confused a little bit when i began and realized i messed my phone up.
let me know if this works for yah.half asleep while doing this
I think your actual question was kinda missed here so I will explain it to you. First the rom that you choose to use is not carrier based, but is device based, never flash a rom that is not for your brand and model of phone. The thing that matters for the carrier is the modem, that gives you phone, data, and messaging. The only way your phone will not be on your carriers network is if you go through the involved process of switching it over yourself. Usually if you put the wrong modem on your phone it just won't work, requiring you to find the proper odin program to flash, including repartitioning the phone to get it right again. Hope this answers your questions.
Yea Dale...that answers my question ty
Sent from my SCH-I500 using XDA App
Btw if anyone is curious..Samsung fascinate and showcase are both SCH-I500 (model) so I suppose they use the same roms
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Roms yes, basically, modems NO.
Sent from my EC09 UKB GB Fascinate.
Yea I realized that after flashing fascinate modem to my showcase nd now my internet dont work
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Hey guys!
Anyone know if there is some roms/kernels for our SGH-T959P yet and if so, where I can find them?! Seems that there is no love for you model
Max
is that the telus fascinate 4g?
Yes it is the telus fascinate 4G from Canada.. You can help me?
Thanks,
Max
Sent from my SGH-T959P using XDA App
I'm on a T959D (Fascinate 3G+), so unfortunately I can't help you. I'd just like to point out that there's no custom rom specific for our device as well (T959D). We instead use i9000 roms. There are some kernels specific for our device, but the i9000-ones work just as well (after a button fix)
I'd suggest trying out an i9000 rom, but since I'm not aware of the existence of stock rom/kernel files for the 4G phone, I'm not sure how safe it is
Yeah.. Im scared to bricked the phone so i will just wait till a rom come out for my specific phone. Thanks for the reply.
Max
Sent from my SGH-T959P using XDA App
Still waiting on a Rom or instructions on how to use another models ROM without bricking for our t959p also. I've had the phone about a month and it was fine at first, but now touchwiz is starting to get a little laggy
msheikh25 said:
Still waiting on a Rom or instructions on how to use another models ROM without bricking for our t959p also. I've had the phone about a month and it was fine at first, but now touchwiz is starting to get a little laggy
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switch to launcher pro (free)
you can change the dock icons to touchwiz ones if you like the color. my only gripe with it is that the dock buttons are tiny compared to touchwiz. but the interface is overall faster and less-choppy than touchwiz 3.0
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switch to launcher pro (free)
you can change the dock icons to touchwiz ones if you like the color. my only gripe with it is that the dock buttons are tiny compared to touchwiz. but the interface is overall faster and less-choppy than touchwiz 3.0
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Thanks! Just tried launcher pro and it seems really good. Previously I had tried ADW launcher but that one was even more choppy than Touchwiz so i reverted back to it. But launcher pro seems like it has all the customizations of ADW and works nice and smoothly.
Unbrick and Flash T-Mobile Galaxy S 4G firmware to T959P with Voodoo
Well, I bricked my T959P on Friday and by this morning I had it converted to a T-Mobile T959V Galaxy S 4G. Everything works too...wifi, GPS. Only real issue is it only gives me 3G in canada .... I am assuming because of a frequency difference or something in the modem firmware.
PM me if someone would like the rar file containing the instructions and all flash files. I am hoping someone posts the stock Telus kernel so I can experiment more with taking the phone back but I could not get root on my Telus Kernel so didn't have a proper backup of all files. Hopefully someone will post them but in the mean time I am enjoying a Telus T959P Fascinate 4G with T-Mobile Rooted firmware on it.
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I just did the unlock of the Telus T959P after recovering it from a brick using the nvram backup technique and then copied the backup to my computer. The code is in clear text on the T959P as well I am now at T-Mobile 2.3.4 KH2 with Voodoo and have a fully unlocked Telus T959P. Not a bad end result to some hard days.
vcmerritt said:
Well, I bricked my T959P on Friday and by this morning I had it converted to a T-Mobile T959V Galaxy S 4G. Everything works too...wifi, GPS. Only real issue is it only gives me 3G in canada .... I am assuming because of a frequency difference or something in the modem firmware.
PM me if someone would like the rar file containing the instructions and all flash files. I am hoping someone posts the stock Telus kernel so I can experiment more with taking the phone back but I could not get root on my Telus Kernel so didn't have a proper backup of all files. Hopefully someone will post them but in the mean time I am enjoying a Telus T959P Fascinate 4G with T-Mobile Rooted firmware on it.
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I just did the unlock of the Telus T959P after recovering it from a brick using the nvram backup technique and then copied the backup to my computer. The code is in clear text on the T959P as well I am now at T-Mobile 2.3.4 KH2 with Voodoo and have a fully unlocked Telus T959P. Not a bad end result to some hard days.
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So you are still on Telus in canada but now only getting 3g on it vs 4g like you were before you convereted it to Tmobile? How do you verify that, just by the speeds you are getting or are you not seeing one of the 850 or 1900 bands anymore? I don't think the phone actually shows "4G" in the status bar as far as I know. But I'm actually using the phone on ATT in the US (which uses the same bands as Telus) so maybe thats why I never see "4g". But I've gotten speeds as high as 7mb download which is about as fast as my wife's ATT branded HTC Inspire 4g gets.
Can you post the instructions and files for how you converted here so others can play around with it too? Hopefully this can be a good start to getting roms working on this phone. The Tmobile version is already more widely supported so what you did is a good way to get around it.
Still on Telus network with T959P on T-Mobile Firmware
Yep, still on the telus network. Maybe the Tmobile bin just doesn't show the 4G like the old Telus bin did because I am getting download speeds between 4 and 7Mbs.
In the end it was pretty easy (if I take away two days of seeing the phone go from bricked to partially booting). Here are the steps I followed, and I have repeated these to verify that they work as well. I still haven't found any issues with the phone except that it isn't recognized in Kies with the Tmobile software
Download the following files in the Tmobile section at Samfirmware.com:
T959VUVKH2_TMB.zip
T959VUVFK1.zip
This file can be found elsewhere. I had originally posted links but I am a new user so not allowed.
stock+Voodoo-T959VKH2.tar
Hawk_Sidekick_VibrantPlus_831.pit -- Can be found in the T959VUVFK1.zip file
Once you have downloaded the files above:
1) Extract the files with 7zip.
2) In the extracted files for T959VUVKH2. Find the CODE_T959VUVKF1_CL270364_REV00_user_low_noship.tar.mdf
3) Extract cache.rfs, factoryfs.rfs, modem.bin and zimage to a folder on your computer.
4) Now extract the T959VUVFK1.zip so that you can extract the file called CODE_T959VUVKF1_CL270364_REV00_user_low_noship.tar.md5 All we want out of this tar file is data.rfs which should be placed in the same folder as the files in step 3.
5) Now use Windows Tar to execute the following command line from the command line while you are in the same directory as the files you have extracted in steps 3 and 4 above:
tar -c cache.rfs data.rfs factoryfs.rfs modem.bin zimage > T959P Flash.tar
Flash the new file with ODIN
This should have created a new file called T959P Flash.tar. Simply flash this T959P Flash.tar file in Odin and your Telus phone will boot to TMobile 4G firmware. Make sure you put the T959P Flash.tar file in the PDA box in ODIN to flash it. Also make sure the Hawk_Sidekick_VibrantPlus_831.pit file is in the PIT box and the REPARTITION Checkbox is on.
Rooting your new TMobile firmware on the Telus T959P
Once this is done flash the stock+Voodoo-T959VKH2.tar file which will root, add voodoo and CWM the newly flashed device. Again just put the file in the PDA Box and flash it. FLASH this with NO PIT and REPARTITION NOT SELECTED.
Unlocking the Device
The last step is to use dd to backup the NVData, open it with a hex and use the search technique talked about on the forums to find the unlock code which works perfect as well.
Hopefully this helps someone else. There seem to be a lot of people like me who erronously flashed the regular Telus T959D firmware by accident or the Vibrant software which pretty much kills the T959P and bricks your device. This will get people back to a usable state and GPS, WIFI, 3G/4G and everything else seem to work....except the Kies connection which I sure will get figured out eventually. Maybe just a matter of exporting the device db entries out of a valid system so that kies will see it as a valid phone. Not quite there yet.
One last note. You apparently cannot completely brick the T959P in the sense that even when it is black the EEPROM will still boot to download mode. Just hold Power + the Volume UP Down button for 10 seconds, then let go of the power button and keep holding the volume up/down. If you have odin open you will eventually see it recognize the com port. May take a couple of tries but this made it easier for me to continue to flash it knowing that I could always flash another bin
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So you are still on Telus in canada but now only getting 3g on it vs 4g like you were before you convereted it to Tmobile? How do you verify that, just by the speeds you are getting or are you not seeing one of the 850 or 1900 bands anymore? I don't think the phone actually shows "4G" in the status bar as far as I know. But I'm actually using the phone on ATT in the US (which uses the same bands as Telus) so maybe thats why I never see "4g". But I've gotten speeds as high as 7mb download which is about as fast as my wive's ATT branded HTC Inspire 4g gets.
Can you post the instructions and files for how you converted here so others can play around with it too? Hopefully this can be a good start to getting roms working on this phone. The Tmobile version is already more widely supported so what you did is a good way to get around it.
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Uploaded T-Mobile Rom for Telus T959
I have uploaded the files I used to convert my bricked Telus T959P to a Tmobile Galaxy S 4G. Instructions are provided earlier in the thread on how the files that are used were created. This is the rar with the exact end files that are flashed to my Telus phone. Just follow the instructions that came with the rar to upload and root the Tmobile software on your Telus phone.
I am not allowed to post links yet so PM me if anyone wants the mediafire link to the tried and tested Tmobile for Telus T959P files.
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Yep, still on the telus network. Maybe the Tmobile bin just doesn't show the 4G like the old Telus bin did because I am getting download speeds between 4 and 7Mbs. ...
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Thanks for posting the instructions! Sent you a PM to get the link to download files...although I'm not sure if I'm going to try this just yet. I want to try to get instructions and files for how to get it back to stock, Telus ROM before I probably do try these out. Do you happen to have those also?
My unlocked T959p on ATT only has network options of GSM or WCDMA (or both). And the icon in the notification area has never said 4g...always on 3g. But I also get speeds which ATT would claim to be 4g (upto 7Mbps). So you are probalby good.
As far as Kies goes, I've never used it but isn't it just used for software upgrades for your phone? And now that you have a different ROM on it, you will probably never need to use it right, just use updates from whoever manages the Voodoo ROM? So should be good there also.
Yeah, I punched my Telus sim that came with the T959P and put it in my Iphone 4. The speeds in the Iphone 4 seem way slower than with the same SIM in the Galaxy S 4 G (T959P) with the TMobile Galaxy S 4G firmware on it. I put it back into the whole I punched it out of and slid it back into the Galaxy S after testing on the Iphone to make sure the tests were done back to back and the Galaxy S 4G is consistently faster with the same SIM and 3G displayed in the menu bar.
I don't have original Telus Bin files so I can't go back and compare the Tmobile firmware speeds with the Telus T959P firmware speeds. Hopefully someone who has a rooted T959P on Stock Telus firmware will post a link to the stock firmware files so I can test this too.
So as a t959p owner who lives in Canada, is this a good idea for me? I guess not if it actually slows the data down... Can someone clarify this, I'm finding the comments a bit confusing here.? (and silly question... Any bt issues?) Interesting to note, I bought a tmobile sim card for my stock (2.3.4) unit while in the US for a couple weeks, and my data speed is about fifteen kbytes/second. Yes you read right. Customer support obviously is useless on that. So while modding it into a TMo sgs4g would quite likely get me back to multi MB/s for the rest of my trip, what would my data speed be when I get back to Alberta and put my Telus Sim back in? Maybe some experimenting would isolate the file that triggers this, and one could swap in the appropriate version when on each network.
And serious thanks for experimenting with this... This may finally get us people who bought T959Ps not realizing what a lonely device it is, back into the main modding scene. Exciting... maybe I'll stop wishing I'd bought an iPhone yet.
Also, I'll mention here again that I have a stock Telus T959P 2.3.3 firmware set that has been used to resurrect a handful of handsets (including mine) if anyone needs it. (pm me.)
Pooched T959P Saved
rryanosman said:
So as a t959p owner who lives in Canada, is this a good idea for me? I guess not if it actually slows the data down... Can someone clarify this, I'm finding the comments a bit confusing here.? (and silly question... Any bt issues?) Interesting to note, I bought a tmobile sim card for my stock (2.3.4) unit while in the US for a couple weeks, and my data speed is about fifteen kbytes/second. Yes you read right. Customer support obviously is useless on that. So while modding it into a TMo sgs4g would quite likely get me back to multi MB/s for the rest of my trip, what would my data speed be when I get back to Alberta and put my Telus Sim back in? Maybe some experimenting would isolate the file that triggers this, and one could swap in the appropriate version when on each network.
And serious thanks for experimenting with this... This may finally get us people who bought T959Ps not realizing what a lonely device it is, back into the main modding scene. Exciting... maybe I'll stop wishing I'd bought an iPhone yet.
Also, I'll mention here again that I have a stock Telus T959P 2.3.3 firmware set that has been used to resurrect a handful of handsets (including mine) if anyone needs it. (pm me.)
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READ Thoroughly before you start, pay special attention to the last paragraph!!! I am not responsible if this goes wrong but if you are here, not sure what other options you have.......
This for anyone who has flashed the wrong software on their T959P:
NOTE: You NEED to use the PIT file for each flash.......
NOTE NOTE: NEVER FLASH WITH ANY OF THE THE CHECKBOXES ON, THEY NEED TO BE BLANK READ BELOW THE STEPS!!!!!
1. Get the factory firmware, I have a copy as does rryanosman who sent it to me
2. If you don't have it get ODIN
3. Extract the .rar I recommend 7zip
4. Start Odin, put phone in download mode right after connecting
5. Put factory.tar in PDA slot, Flash the factory tar, wait for Odin to pass, power down phone while still connected
6. Disconnect, take out battery, reset Odin.
7. Back to download mode after plugging in the phone.
8. Put the zimage.tar file in the PDA slot, Flash the zimage.tar file, wait for Odin to pass, power down phone while still connected.
9. Disconnect, take out battery, reset Odin.
10. Back to download mode after plugging in the phone.
11. Put the paramalfs.tar in the PDA slot, Flash the paramalfs.tar file, wait for Odin to pass, power down phone while still connected.
12. Disconnect, take out battery, reset Odin.
13. Back to download mode after plugging in the phone.
14. Put the boot.bin file in the phone slot and flash, wait for Odin to pass, power down phone while still connected.
15. Disconnect, take out battery, reset Odin.
16. Back to download mode after plugging in the phone.
17. Put the sbl.bin file in the phone slot, and flash, wait for Odin to pass, power down phone while still connected.
18. Disconnect, take out battery, reset Odin.
19. Back to download mode after plugging in the phone.
18. Put the modem.bin in the phone slot, and flash, wait for Odin to pass, power down phone while still connected.
19. Disconnect, take out battery.
20. Put battery back in power up phone, you should have a running phone with 2.2.1 foyo
OPTIONAL: Update with Kies to 2.3.4 Gingerbread.
If you do ANY flash with the checkboxes on, especially the repartition, be prepared to break into a cold sweat, your phone will only show a white screen, no download mode, no recovery just WHITE!!!
The good news is if you hold volume up and power, while watching Odin it will still recognize the phone (com will be yellow) the phone will only have the white screen. From here you need to start from step 1 again, make sure you clear the checkboxs!!!! I personally did this 3 times before I brought my phone back to life!!!
Again special thanks to rryanosman without his help I'd have a $500 paperweight.
Link to files:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=78ZUOM2T
Technically if you're unticking repartition you're not even using the .pit file.
The intermediate steps (ie, disconnecting, removing the battery and restarting odin) are a bit unnecessary but I suppose it wouldn't hurt to be extra cautious.
White screen of Death
infinite-alternity said:
Technically if you're unticking repartition you're not even using the .pit file.
The intermediate steps (ie, disconnecting, removing the battery and restarting odin) are a bit unnecessary but I suppose it wouldn't hurt to be extra cautious.
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I was watching as Odin started processing, it read the pit file each time I flashed a file. I actually tried to flash without disconnecting and nothing happened, Odin reported 0 success/0 failed, that is why I did the intermediate steps (at least in the state my phone was in). Also at the end of the first time I tried, I was flashing the modem.bin and forgot to untick the repartition, which gave me a nice white screen, I had to reboot with volume up and power to get to the download screen (couldn't actually see it because the screen was still white) I only knew I was in download because Odin recognized the phone.
Gage_Hero said:
I was watching as Odin started processing, it read the pit file each time I flashed a file. I actually tried to flash without disconnecting and nothing happened, Odin reported 0 success/0 failed, that is why I did the intermediate steps (at least in the state my phone was in). Also at the end of the first time I tried, I was flashing the modem.bin and forgot to untick the repartition, which gave me a nice white screen, I had to reboot with volume up and power to get to the download screen (couldn't actually see it because the screen was still white) I only knew I was in download because Odin recognized the phone.
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It reads the .pit file but it doesn't write it. Since the correct partition table is (presumably) right on your phone already (otherwise it wouldn't boot and you'd have to repartition anyway) it essentially does nothing. I've successfully flashed back to 2.2 Froyo from 2.3.4 Gingerbread without the .pit file.
A little bit more about the .pit file: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=878104
It's generally just a good idea not to use the .pit file unless you've used a custom ROM that has overwritten the phone's original 512 setup. It's harmless if repartition is unchecked, but you don't need the file anyway. Re-partitioning overwrites the bootloaders, so if something goes wrong during one, it will be harder to recover from than your usual soft brick. Also, the .pit file that comes with the phone is likely faulty (a possible problem with using Rotobackup: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=850359 ) which resulted in the white screen when attempting to repartition.
I guess the intermediate steps are of the optional, YMMV variety. It doesn't hurt to try to boot to download mode and flash again without going through the extra steps and then trying them if it doesn't work.
Link to files:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/wduza3o79w3boa6/Galaxy 4G Files.zip[/QUOTE]
hey man i keep getting a crc error
I flashed RemICS v1.2 BETA. It was working fine. I was playing around with radio band and my phone won't register to network automatically now....
I pressed *#*#4636#*#* on the dialer, then Phone information -> soft menu button -> Select radio band -> Automatic
Then my phone won't register to the network automatically. I waited whole night, still no go. I tried to set to US band, it worked once, but after I reboot, it still cannot find the network. I have to manually select it from settings.
I reflashed this ROM, still same.
I searched forum, seems I have to flash SBF image... so is this the only way to get it resolved? if it is, where is the SBF image for T959 so I can flash?
BTW, I tried nandroid restore but the restore failed at restoring boot image...
Now what I do?
thanks
brisk5181 said:
I searched forum, seems I have to flash SBF image... so is this the only way to get it resolved? if it is, where is the SBF image for T959 so I can flash?
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This is Motorola talk here ^^^^. Motorola uses the SBF images to flash back to "stock" through RSD Lite on your PC. (I used to have a Motorola XT720 a long time ago). Samsung uses a similar process, but instead of RSD Lite we use Odin to flash back to stock 2.1 T959UVJFD. You can download the AIO Toolbox from my signature and install it on your PC. It'll have all the drivers and pit/tar files that you will need to get back to stock as well as Odin included. Go to the Dev Section and the sticky at the top will tell you how to use it.
BUT before you do that, have you double checked you APNs? Make sure you have your EFS folder backed up on your PC (at the very least). Is your IMIE corrupted? And finally have you tried to flash the ICS Modems to see if this fixes the issues.
Basebands are Motorola talk (where you can switch by region/country). Modems are Samsung talk where you are essentially just changing the radios. You can get the ICS Modems here. Flash them through recovery.
Thanks! I am flashing a different modem and see if it works. If not, I will use odin to flash back to stock. I have used odin before, didn't realize that is it the Samsung's version of RSD Lite...
Thanks!
Woodrube said:
This is Motorola talk here ^^^^. Motorola uses the SBF images to flash back to "stock" through RSD Lite on your PC. (I used to have a Motorola XT720 a long time ago). Samsung uses a similar process, but instead of RSD Lite we use Odin to flash back to stock 2.1 T959UVJFD. You can download the AIO Toolbox from my signature and install it on your PC. It'll have all the drivers and pit/tar files that you will need to get back to stock as well as Odin included. Go to the Dev Section and the sticky at the top will tell you how to use it.
BUT before you do that, have you double checked you APNs? Make sure you have your EFS folder backed up on your PC (at the very least). Is your IMIE corrupted? And finally have you tried to flash the ICS Modems to see if this fixes the issues.
Basebands are Motorola talk (where you can switch by region/country). Modems are Samsung talk where you are essentially just changing the radios. You can get the ICS Modems here. Flash them through recovery.
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Thanks! Flashed KB5 fixed my problem.