I just got my phone rooted and installed rom manager and every time I try to install a custom rom my phone gets stuck in recovery mode on installing cscs is there a step or something I am missing
Did you root Froyo (2.2), or Eclair (2.1)? If you were on Froyo when you rooted, Odin back to JFD, the original official ROM, or you need to modify you recovery to 3e (search around this section of the forum, its here somewhere how to do that). If you were on Eclair, I have no idea what could be wrong.
Good luck!
Sent from my rough sketch of a Vibrant on a brick.
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i dont know what to do i was running Eugene Froyo perfectly and wanted to add a lag fix and i did and since then it had been stuck there and when i do reinstall packages in take me to the regular clockwork recovery 2.5.0.4 please help me asap i need a phone and i dont know how to load another rom onto it
cant you just re-flash eugenes froyo from CW?
or if you connect your phone, and boot into CW, you should be able to adb push a stock kernel/rom like Eugene's Vibrant9, and flash.
I have a vibrant i rooted and flashed with macnut 12 and i want to go back to stock. I have a backup image of my rom i made when i first rooted the phone but i have a problem with it when i boot into recovery and go through the steps,choose my recovery image starts fine but then get these errors in the picture below i have tried also the stock rom that was posted on the forums same issue, i didnt want to use odin if i didnt have too but can someone maybe tell what might be wrong thanks.
You have to use odin backups do not store a kernel ,trying to use that backup to go back to stock from 2.2 could and most likely will result in a soft brick
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o ok i wasnt sure now if i use odin to restore the phone will i be able to unlock it again if not i will be stuck with a phone i cant use on my network.
Oh I have no idea man I'm with tmobile never unlocked a phone before
V5 custom vibrant
Cant you just flash the stock 2.1 kernel and then restore?
Not sure I play it safe man its not worth the aggravation of it doesn't work
V5 custom vibrant
if i could just flash the stock kernal back then restore that would nice then i wouldnt loose my unlock or would i
I'm total noob and i need help.
in recovery menu it says 3e and i don't know how to change it to 2e so i can boot update.zip please help
Hi,
I'm currently using Samsung Vibrant (t-mo version) running Firmware 2.2, Baseband version T959UVKB5, Kernel 2.6.32.9.
My problem is I can never boot into ClockWorks Recovery. I've CWR's update.zip downloaded using ROM Manager. Rooted the phone using SuperOneClick.
When I boot into recovery and select apply update.zip, it gives me an error half way thruogh about verification failed.
So I replaced Android Recovery 3e, with another Android Recovery 3e which skips the verification. It installs fine but restarts back in Android's recovery. On rebooting I get a phone with everything back to default!
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks.
PS: I want to upgrade to CM7. which I had at one point but reverted because my bluetooth failed to connect to my headset.
Are you reinstalling packages twice?
Honestly, why not just odin to jfd and rather than boot and flash cwr, just use the update.zip in the noob guide.
I'd encourage checking that route (noob guide is in my signature).
I'm certain we could find a way for yours to work, but if you are going to try a new rom, using ODIN may benefit you anyway. It will not format your internal or external.
cant get or find cwr for samsung vib s.. been looking all night
go to the noob guide.
I am on Samsung Vibrant Froyo 2.2 T959UVKB5.
I have seen your post and it provides 2 update.zip files for JFD.
I do not want to install custom ROM, I just want to root the phone.
will that update.zip work on my phone?
If all you're doing is rooting just for the root apps and not for a custom rom you should use zip A. However the easiest method for you to root would be superoneclick root. Look it up, it will have you rooted with the click of a button (hence the name)... The only thing is that it may stir up your anti-virus, even though it is safe...
Sent from my SGH-T959 (Samsung Vibrant)
Thanks you!
I keep thinking for sure I've got this fixed and each time so far I've been wrong. I'm on the tmobile vibrant. I can odin no problem and I'm currently 2.1 stock rooted. I want to go to cm7. I can't get to cwr though. I have tried flashing rom managers samsung galaxys vibrant recovey, both 2.x and 3.x vibrant (mtd) recovery through rom manager, and even the zip package in the noob root sticky. every time it goes to stock recovery and if I have the cm7 file named update.zip when I hit reinstall packages to get to cwr recovery it attempts to install the package and bootloops me. If I don't have anything labeled update.zip it will say file not found and I can't go any further. If I try to instal from rom manager it will just reboot normally without installing anything. Please help I can't live with this phone stock after I've seen the other side lol
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Ok so i had ICS passion installed then one day the rom gave me an error telling me encryption unsuccessful. So i followed the instructions to fix it, by putting the partition on the micro sd card (8gb). I then decided to flash back to stock gingerbread with odin. I thought that if I put a galaxy s international rom on the US vibrant it would work, but i was wrong so dont try that. I was stuck on a bootloop and was able to get to download mode. Then i used Odin to flash JFD for vibrant it said i passed but when i booted it did the same. Now im on KB5 and it gave me android system recovery <3e> but i have an error dev/block/mmcblk0p1.
I cannot go to menu, i can access download mode and android system recovery, i also tried to install update zip but it gave me the signature fail.
Please help me back to stock firmware or any stable version. Thank You
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1278683 follow the instructions in the thread and remember to flash the bootloaders
You should just Odin back to JFD and go from there. Flashing bootloaders is dangerous, shouldn't be done lightly, but can be done with caution if needed, usually isn't.
try the 1click root method. see if that helps.