Hi,
My wife's phone is a fascinate. I want to confirm I'm doing the right steps to go from Commrom 2.1 to the latest TSM.
The phone has recovery version 3.0.?.? and I think commrom uses voodoo lagfix.
Do these steps sound right?
Take a nandroid backup.
Do a Titanium backup.
Download Resurrection V1.0 Ei20 (full rom) and save to SD card
Download Resurrection V1.2 patch and save to SD card
Download GeeWiz 2.1 kernel
Boot to recovery and turn off Voodoo lagfix
wipe cache/davlik cache
select install from sdcard for V1.0 Ei20
Let phone boot
wipe cache/davlik cache
select install from sdcard for V1.2 patch
Let phone boot
Reboot and install GeeWiz 2.1 kernel from recovery
Let phone boot
Restore apps using Titanium
See smile on Wife's face!
rlewis19 said:
Hi,
My wife's phone is a fascinate. I want to confirm I'm doing the right steps to go from Commrom 2.1 to the latest TSM.
The phone has recovery version 3.0.?.? and I think commrom uses voodoo lagfix.
Do these steps sound right?
Take a nandroid backup.
Do a Titanium backup.
Download Resurrection V1.0 Ei20 (full rom) and save to SD card
Download Resurrection V1.2 patch and save to SD card
Download GeeWiz 2.1 kernel
Boot to recovery and turn off Voodoo lagfix
wipe cache/davlik cache
select install from sdcard for V1.0 Ei20
Let phone boot
wipe cache/davlik cache
select install from sdcard for V1.2 patch
Let phone boot
Reboot and install GeeWiz 2.1 kernel from recovery
Let phone boot
Restore apps using Titanium
See smile on Wife's face!
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that should work, but i think your wife will complain about the random reboots that tsm res has. I would look up the awsome sauce rom on rootzwiki or superclean3!
http://rootzwiki.com/topic/10490-romawesome-sauce-eh09-fasc-touchwiz/
I did a quick glance at the instructions for the ROM you recommended Awesome Sauce and was wondering... why do some ROM's require flashing back to stock and others need Odin and others can just flash from the sd card thru recovery?
Also, I think the random reboot issue you mention is solved in the latest TSM 1.2 patch.
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I did a quick glance at the instructions for the ROM you recommended Awesome Sauce and was wondering... why do some ROM's require flashing back to stock and others need Odin and others can just flash from the sd card thru recovery?
Also, I think the random reboot issue you mention is solved in the latest TSM 1.2 patch.
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Read thru the tsm res thread... folks are still getting reboots. Its a common problem on eh09/ei20. I would probably go with superclean if it was my wifes phone. Some roms are .tar files wich can only be odined, some roms are zip files that are flashed in cwm.... pretty much up to the dev. Fwiw It's always best to odin a stock package first before upgrading to any rom. Just insures a clean install. Your method should work, but odining back to stock eh03 first, then odin cwm and flash tsm res or superclean would be better. Directions can be had in section 2 of my guide in general section. Imo that method will pretty much eliminate any chance of issues.
Thanks. I'll take a look.
To be honest, my head is mush with too many choices. Just to help me get an understanding, aside from the random reboots for TSM, why would one pick superclean over tsm res 1.2 or vice versa?
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Thanks. I'll take a look.
To be honest, my head is mush with too many choices. Just to help me get an understanding, aside from the random reboots for TSM, why would one pick superclean over tsm res 1.2 or vice versa?
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Just because its more stable since its based off of leaked verizon gingerbread(eh03), instead of ported gingerbread eh09/ei20. I think nitsuj is going to rework tsm res and base it off of eh09 soon tho.
We went with Superclean3 as suggested and I think we'll stay there.
I'm getting familiar with the different launchers.
My wife didn't like the default launcher that SC has, so she had me put the stock launcher back. Unfortunately, the widgets disappear on boot with that launcher. We're now onto Touchwiz4. We'll see how it goes.
Can the apps at the bottom of the screen be customized?
I should probably start a new thread on that.
Can the apps at the bottom of the screen be customized?
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Go into app launcher, select View Type from menu and choose Customizable grid. Then hit menu again and choose Edit. You can now drag/drop app shortcuts to the bottom drawer.
I am coming off of CommRom 2.1 also been about six months since I've been on xda real busy so first go around was pretty shoddy had to flash some stuff twice. switched to CM7 just to try it out. Ultimately went to TSM Resurrection 1.2. I did have some battery problems right away, not wanting to recognize my aftermarket. All it took was the KGB-I500-1202 kernel from comradesven, thanks to nitsuj17 for putting it in the FAQ. Runs like a champ now!
I was wondering where would be a good place to start for some performance apps? Clueless on whats been working really good for people lately. I'm at the point where my headache feels like its going to split me in half.
Any help would be greatly appreciated
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ok i need help like asap my phone is really important to my life and i just did a totall wipe complete formatt when to dl09 then tried to get to the ed01 radio for the evil fascination rom. it didnt work so i dropped the project and re rooted using odin with the 2.2 full froyo and then odin-ed clockwork 3.0 lag fix red version then flashed the evil fascination rom. everything seemed fine and i set up my phone and everything but now my txts arent saving the settings such as display brightness vibration sounds lock screen pinlock etc arent saving and as soon as i shut down they go back. i tried everything like the adb code to add the settings file and disabling lagfix. i go to my mounts and storage and i keep seeing my data and dbdata arent mounted everytime i boot into recovery....could this be it is my fascinate not auto mounting them?....im going nuts and have been trying things all day and i need help!!!
My thought would be to take a deeeep breath...and start from scratch.
Re-ODIN DL09, then follow adryn's guide to get to EA28 (using the update.zip files), then get to ED01 the same way (using recovery and update.zip)
Then you can download community Rom onto your SD card, ODIN cwm, and immediately boot into cwm to flash comm Rom 1.3. Don't forget to clear cache and dalvik cache. Next reboot will take quite a while. Be patient.
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If you phone is THAT important to your LIFE, you probably should load a stock rom and let the OTA come through, then just leave it alone. You will probably have less issues if you are running stock firmware. If problems persist, then return the phone for replacement.
followed this thread back in november when i first got the phone(its the first thread in the "thread roll-up sticky") : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=798064
Back then it was much different and said to get voodoo. Everything went fine and I havent seen a reason to update my phone.
Now I want to update to whatever the newest stuff is. I guess we have 2.2 by now? I dont need a lot of stuff. I probably didnt need voodoo. But on my current version things have started to get really glitchy and slow and GPS will not find my location at all.
I also froze the verizon auto update program or whatever its called because they kept trying to update my phone OTA. I dont like that.
What steps do I need to do in order to get up to date and not lose all my stuff on my phone?
I think this really depends on what YOU feel up to date is for YOU.
Plenty of people could push a custom ROM and all its shiny bells and whistles but from the onset you seem like you would just be happy with a functioning stock ROM (perhaps a debloated and debinged one).
I would read through the few ROMs we have, including the latest 2.2 stock ROM and figure out what you would like. Find out if you want a custom kernel or just an easy set and forget one, voodoo or non.
I'll do my best at a suggestion here before I tackle the next part of your post.
I would go here --> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1013312
Grab one of the stock ED01 or EC01 (read the bugs n such if you like, basically the same thing) ROM and radio ODIN packages and follow the guide to flashing with ODIN. Grab Imnuts stock voltage PBJ kernel and just keep it vanilla.
**The above will require the use of ODIN and CWR(clockwork recovery MOD)**
Now the "not lose" part of your question. This depends on what you mean by lose. ( I feel like Clinton and his definition of what "it" is....). If you backup with google and/or titanium backup you are pretty much in the clear. Aside from losing maybe a login or some preferences you will not lose any hard data (pics, contacts, apps....etc)
Read all the steps before you do anything. Also, you will need Odin. Just search for it in the forums (or Google) and you should be able to find it.
What you want to do is flash CWM 3 by following this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1046905
Then, you should go and backup your stuff with Titanium Backup (get it at the market). Backup contacts with Google.
Get the new radio from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1097355 I would go for ED01.
Download ComRom 2.0 (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1108991) to your SD Card. I recommended getting a version with a kernel either pbj or otb kernel.
Next, boot to Clockwork Mod (press volume up and down and power) and make a nandroid backup there. (Select the backup option in the menu).
Now, after every thing is backed up, wipe data, clear cache, clear dalvik (under advanced menu I think).
Finally, flash the ComRom by selecting the zip from the sdcard.
Now, as a warning, you will lose the stuff on your phone which is why you made backups. DO NOT flash the nandroid (CMW) backup. That is for if you go back to stock. DO use Titanium Backup and your Google account to get MOST of your stuff back. Everything stored on your SD Card should be safe.
If anything that I said is wrong, xda please correct me, but I've done it a few times... this is roughly what I did, and it worked for me.
EDIT: gkirby11 beat me to it.
I would agree with the previous suggestions, and would add that you should use Titanium Backup to backup all your user apps+data. Do not, however, use it to backup/restore system data, because this has been shown in many cases to be the cause of force closes, and other headaches.
I am thanking you for your great username, Art Vandelay. I assume that is a Seinfeld reference to the importer/exporter.
jptech7 said:
Read all the steps before you do anything. Also, you will need Odin. Just search for it in the forums (or Google) and you should be able to find it.
What you want to do is flash CWM 3 by following this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1046905
Then, you should go and backup your stuff with Titanium Backup (get it at the market). Backup contacts with Google.
Get the new radio from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1097355 I would go for ED01.
Download ComRom 2.0 (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1108991) to your SD Card. I recommended getting a version with a kernel either pbj or otb kernel.
Next, boot to Clockwork Mod (press volume up and down and power) and make a nandroid backup there. (Select the backup option in the menu).
Now, after every thing is backed up, wipe data, clear cache, clear dalvik (under advanced menu I think).
Finally, flash the ComRom by selecting the zip from the sdcard.
Now, as a warning, you will lose the stuff on your phone which is why you made backups. DO NOT flash the nandroid (CMW) backup. That is for if you go back to stock. DO use Titanium Backup and your Google account to get MOST of your stuff back. Everything stored on your SD Card should be safe.
If anything that I said is wrong, xda please correct me, but I've done it a few times... this is roughly what I did, and it worked for me.
EDIT: gkirby11 beat me to it.
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Okay, I sat here for the past hour trying to get caught up to date before I ask my questions. I only use this site like once a month and there is always new stuff here. I already have odin on my laptop cause I needed it for the tutorial that I linked in the OP
1)I have Rom Manager(v4.3.1.3) and under RECOVERY It says "current Recovery:ClockworkMod 2.5.1.0" and "Latest: ClockworkMod 3.0.0.8. Does this change step one as you posted?
2)I have titanium backup and have used it to freeze some of the bloatware. I do not know how to backup anything with it though. where do the backup files sit anyways until I am ready to put them back on my updated phone?
3)Can I go strait to ED01 from where I am now(DI01--was a few months after phone was released) Or do I have to work my way up through the other updates? What order do they go?
I dont even know what this step is, lol. Radio???
4)I will get the 1.5 OTB voodoo kernal. also, I noticed this roms stup looks like adwlauncher or whatever that other launcher is. Right now i use launcherpro, which i like more. I hate touchwiz. can I still use launcherpro on here?
5)I am guessing this part would be self explanatory once I got to it, but I might as well ask just in case, what is a nandroid backup?
6)Where do I go to complete these functions?
7)Do I just select it using a file browser like astro????
I thought that I had to remove voodoo before I did any of these steps??
What about the bloatware that I have frozen? The only reason I did that was because i was told to so in the tutorial that i linked in the OP . It said I will need them if I ever update.
Thanks for your help guys!!
1. CMW 2.x is fine.
2. Open Titanium, click the backup/restore tab at the top. Now press the menu button (left to your home button), click batch. Now, select RUN next to Backup all User Apps. It will then back them up to your SD Card.
3. Go through the steps listed in the tutorial. You will step through a couple radios to get to ED01
4. It uses the gingerbread launcher (made by google, but it is modified by TSM), but yes, you can use whatever launcher you want on almost any ROM.
5. A nandroid backup is made in Clockwork Mod, and it backs up the system & all your apps & data. If you want to go back to stock, you can flash the stock ROM and then restore this backup, and it will be exactly how it is right now.
6. These functions are in Clockwork Mod Recovery. Hold Volume Up, Volume Down, and Power to get to CWM.
7. No, you select the option in Clockwork Mod. It is something like choose zip from sd card. From there you navigate the SD card looking for the zip file with ComRom.
As a tip, to navigate CWM, use the volume keys to go up and down in the lists and the power button to select an option. Use the menu button to go back to the last list. When you are done, select reboot & cross your fingers.
If you have voodoo, OTB is also voodooo, so you are fine (*should be fine*).
Your bloatware will "disappear". You won't have to freeze it ever again. ComRom doesn't have any of the bing, vzw bloat, etc.
Good Luck & if at first you don't succeed, flash, flash again! For the worst mistakes, Heimdal and Odin work wonders.
Sorry if I miss something but first off try and stay away from rom manager, many people have been having issues with it.
ED01 is what verizon released to us as the official ota. EC01 is one that developers created from the mesmerize I believe. I don't think there's much of a difference between the two. Getting ED01 takes a bit more work as you have to return to stock and ota all the way up through 3g and it takes a bit.
If you're already on voodoo I think you shouldn't have any problems flashing a rom with a packaged voodoo kernel such as otb.
What I would do since you already have a recovery is download a zipped CWM 3.x and place it on your sd. Then download the rom of choice, recommend com rom or evil fascination if you're not going to flash much, they come with voodoo kernels.
Hop on odin and flash the EC01 radio. Boot into recovery and flash CWM 3.x. wipe data, cache, and dalvik. Flash the rom. After backing up of course.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong. Hope this helps
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jptech7 said:
I am thanking you for your great username, Art Vandelay. I assume that is a Seinfeld reference to the importer/exporter.
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Yep- most people i work with are too young to get that.
bangdrum said:
Sorry if I miss something but first off try and stay away from rom manager, many people have been having issues with it.
ED01 is what verizon released to us as the official ota. EC01 is one that developers created from the mesmerize I believe. I don't think there's much of a difference between the two. Getting ED01 takes a bit more work as you have to return to stock and ota all the way up through 3g and it takes a bit.
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Yes, I would stay away from ROM Manager. Just boot into CWM.
Also, if you follow the step in the forum post that I linked, you can get ED01 without going back to stock and ota-ing. They have extracted the upgrade packages, so you just have to flash two or three packages to get to ED01. Really though either EC01, ED01, or ED03 should be fine.
Once I boot into clockwork mod I dont get an option for Nandroid backup
this is what I get:
Android system recovery <2e>
Samsung recovery Utils
--For BML--
Reboot system now
apply sdcard:update.zip
wipe data/factory reset
wipe cache partition
E: Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1
(invalid argument)
#MANUAL MODE#
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With the exclamation marker and the little android guy. I am affraid to click anything else so I just rebooted the phone and now i am stuck. I started here because this was the first step to do in the tutorial.
also, for me, to select anything in CWM, I need to press the home button, not the power button.
wut do?
You don't have CWM installed then.
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If you can boot into android. Make your titanium backups and google backups. Then, get one of the all in one packages for odin and flash it.
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jptech7 said:
If you can boot into android. Make your titanium backups and google backups. Then, get one of the all in one packages for odin and flash it.
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what if i just flashed CWM like you said to do in your original post? Even if its a few extra steps or whatever, it makes it easier for me because I have that list and a tutorial you linked to go off of
fupamobile said:
Once I boot into clockwork mod I dont get an option for Nandroid backup
this is what I get:
With the exclamation marker and the little android guy. I am affraid to click anything else so I just rebooted the phone and now i am stuck. I started here because this was the first step to do in the tutorial.
also, for me, to select anything in CWM, I need to press the home button, not the power button.
wut do?
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You are booted into the stock Samsung recovery, not CWM. This is why the home key works instead of the power button.
Flash this recovery via Odin if you're on voodoo: (or want to get on voodoo)
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/36791/CWM3_Voodoo.tar.md5
Or, use this if non-voodoo: (use .tar file)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=942021
Once Odin is done, it will power down the phone. Unplug, reinsert battery and boot into CWM by holding vol up, vol down, and power at the same time, continue holding until CWM appears. Go to backup/restore.
artvandelay440 said:
You are booted into the stock Samsung recovery, not CWM. This is why the home key works instead of the power button.
Flash this recovery via Odin if you're on voodoo: (or want to get on voodoo)
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/36791/CWM3_Voodoo.tar.md5
Or, use this if non-voodoo: (use .tar file)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=942021
Once Odin is done, it will power down the phone. Unplug, reinsert battery and boot into CWM by holding vol up, vol down, and power at the same time, continue holding until CWM appears. Go to backup/restore.
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this is wierd to me though. because when i first got the phone I thought I had done all that already. I followed the tutorial in the OP but this was in november and it was much different then. what that tutorial accomplished was getting rid of bloat, adding voodoo, getting root, installing CWM via Odin, adding launcherpro. I know I did SOMETHING right because my boot animation changed, touchwiz was gone, the bloat was gone, and I have root. but thats all I know that I did........
fupamobile said:
this is wierd to me though. because when i first got the phone I thought I had done all that already. I followed the tutorial in the OP but this was in november and it was much different then. what that tutorial accomplished was getting rid of bloat, adding voodoo, getting root, installing CWM via Odin, adding launcherpro. I know I did SOMETHING right because my boot animation changed, touchwiz was gone, the bloat was gone, and I have root. but thats all I know that I did........
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If you heard the robotic android lady during install, then you have ext4 file system enabled (aka voodoo). If you don't remember, you can use voodoo control from the market to check if you have etx4 lagfix enabled. If you can't install this, your kernel isn't compatible. I recommend imnuts' PB&J kernels here. Stick with sv (stock voltage) if you aren't familiar with undervolting/overclocking.
http://sites.google.com/a/imnuts.net/android/kernels
If you are on the stock kernel, that can sometimes overwrite CWM. You have to boot directly into CWM after Odin to avoid it. Make your backups and flash ComRom then. Then CWM will stay, and you will have a ROM installed... with Voodoo nonetheless.
You can also get an ODIN package for a ROM. Look at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1048380 and get one of the Community Rom ones that wipes data. Make your Titanium,etc. backups, and then Odin that. Then update to the latest ComRom, and make sure to always wipe data, cache, and dalvik. That could be easier for you to do if you are fine with Odin.
artvandelay440 said:
If you heard the robotic android lady during install, then you have ext4 file system enabled (aka voodoo). If you don't remember, you can use voodoo control from the market to check if you have etx4 lagfix enabled. If you can't install this, your kernel isn't compatible. I recommend imnuts' PB&J kernels here. Stick with sv (stock voltage) if you aren't familiar with undervolting/overclocking.
http://sites.google.com/a/imnuts.net/android/kernels
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yes i definitely heard that lady. so i have voodoo. but i dont have CWM??
so does that mean i can start from step one in the original post that jptech posted in this thread?
thanx guys for your help. i know im probably being a little difficult. i just dont want to screw up my phone.
Personally, no offense.. but it seems that you are having issues with CMW. I too had a disappearing CWM. The easiest route would be to backup what you can with Titanium, Google, etc. Then, use one of the all-in-one Odin ROM packages that I posted. Download one that wipes data, and you will start fresh with ComRom, a new kernel, and CWM. From there, feel free to flash another ROM from CWM. Just remember to wipe in between ROMs, and you'll be fine. Really though, it is very hard to "mess up" a Fascinate. As long as you don't corrupt the bootloader or flash a ROM for another phone, you can always ODIN.
Just a tip: I use the Amazon App Store, and it stores the apps that I have online (just without my data). It is really easy to reinstall things that way, but Titainum is great too. It can store your app's data which is really a nice feature.
Also, remember that it is fine to ask questions (it is the Q and A section). I respect that you are trying to be careful. Everyone starts somewhere.
So I just rooted my wife's phone and froze as many apps as I could without glitching the system out with TB. The phone was super laggy from the box but now it seems better but she said today that it froze on her a couple times. I come from a Droid X with GB 2.3 rooted and it's pretty fast for me. Even when it was stock it was quick. I'm not sure what else to do. Since it's my wife's I would rather leave it as close to stock as possible. Any suggestions.
Also is there a list of apps that can be froze in TB without causing other issues. It may be possible I froze one to many.
Thanks for your time.
Terry
Divey1130 said:
So I just rooted my wife's phone and froze as many apps as I could without glitching the system out with TB. The phone was super laggy from the box but now it seems better but she said today that it froze on her a couple times. I come from a Droid X with GB 2.3 rooted and it's pretty fast for me. Even when it was stock it was quick. I'm not sure what else to do. Since it's my wife's I would rather leave it as close to stock as possible. Any suggestions.
Also is there a list of apps that can be froze in TB without causing other issues. It may be possible I froze one to many.
Thanks for your time.
Terry
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I would suggest you follow this link here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1048380
Download and flash one of the "DEBLOATED/DEODEXED"
These types of ROM's are completely stock just with all of the crap removed (bing and the VZW bloatware)
Shark has the thread updated to the 12th of June so they should be up-to-date.
Cheers
gkirby11 said:
I would suggest you follow this link here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1048380
Download and flash one of the "DEBLOATED/DEODEXED"
These types of ROM's are completely stock just with all of the crap removed (bing and the VZW bloatware)
Shark has the thread updated to the 12th of June so they should be up-to-date.
Cheers
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I read over it all and my wife's phone is ED04 which is not in his list. I think this is exactly what I am looking for. I understand most of it except the modem stuff. There are so many numbers and versions to use. This is so different than my droid x. If I would have started with her phone first, I probably would have never attempted to mod it. Anyways what should I do now? Would it be better to flash a rom that's not stco but stable and fast. Just for giggles I did a quadrant test on hers and mine. She barely broke 900 while mine is over 1900. Seems like a huge difference being both are 1g processors.
Thanks for the help.
Terry
Barely breaking 900 is normal if you are not using a voodoo enabled kernel. The rfs partition is what is the biggest bottleneck. If you truly want a snappy rom, jump to comrom or evil fascinate. I use both equally and both will give you the speed you are wishing to match from your dx. As for modems, your wife's modem is compatible with either rom I mentioned.
For now I would suggest keeping her phone froyo based as gb is still being worked on by our awesome devs, but isn't for the faint at heart just yet IMHO
Dalamar1320 said:
Barely breaking 900 is normal if you are not using a voodoo enabled kernel. The rfs partition is what is the biggest bottleneck. If you truly want a snappy rom, jump to comrom or evil fascinate. I use both equally and both will give you the speed you are wishing to match from your dx. As for modems, your wife's modem is compatible with either rom I mentioned.
For now I would suggest keeping her phone froyo based as gb is still being worked on by our awesome devs, but isn't for the faint at heart just yet IMHO
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Perfect, exactly what's needed. So do I follow these steps even tho is says from ED01.
Install Instructions:
If you are coming from a stock ED01 non rooted build follow these instructions:
Download Evil Fascination and place it on your SD card
Download Odin: http://www.mediafire.com/?msnc375idu7xhqt
Download Recovery: http://www.mediafire.com/?pfuhk4ibn9uore3
Install Samsung Drivers for your pc: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=779238
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
When you are in CWM recovery continue with the instructions below.
If so I'm ready to flash it.
Thanks
Terry
Yeah that looks good. Just use Odin (pda button) to flash your recovery. (Ensure you are using the PDA button. Cannot emphasize that enough)
Then follow the steps outlines. You're good to go.
Dalamar1320 said:
Yeah that looks good. Just use Odin (pda button) to flash your recovery. (Ensure you are using the PDA button. Cannot emphasize that enough)
Then follow the steps outlines. You're good to go.
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Thanks a million. Will update after flash.
Terry
Just to make sure since there are a million different downloads is this the right one to download. (highlighted in red is the one)
CR 2.0
These versions will wipe your data, so make sure you back it up
This version contains the EC01 modem/radio and imnut's 05/31 PBJ -50mv nonvoodoo kernel
This version contains no modem/radio and imnuts' 05/31 PBJ -50mv nonvoodoo kernel
So this one would be without the kernel which is the modem/radio.
Then I do this patch for 2.1
Com Rom (froyo) 2.1 (patch, must flash on top of 2.0, no need to wipe):
md5: 725f94fa1cad7e562a767cd61ecd590b
And then this theme.
[THEME] Crysis Revolution v4.0 *Community ROM 2.1!* *6.20.11*
Is this all correct and in the right order. I want to 100% sure before I do this. Man is it so much different than flashing my DX.
Thanks
Terry
Divey1130 said:
Just to make sure since there are a million different downloads is this the right one to download. (highlighted in red is the one)
CR 2.0
These versions will wipe your data, so make sure you back it up
This version contains the EC01 modem/radio and imnut's 05/31 PBJ -50mv nonvoodoo kernel
This version contains no modem/radio and imnuts' 05/31 PBJ -50mv nonvoodoo kernel
So this one would be without the kernel which is the modem/radio.
Then I do this patch for 2.1
Com Rom (froyo) 2.1 (patch, must flash on top of 2.0, no need to wipe):
md5: 725f94fa1cad7e562a767cd61ecd590b
And then this theme.
[THEME] Crysis Revolution v4.0 *Community ROM 2.1!* *6.20.11*
Is this all correct and in the right order. I want to 100% sure before I do this. Man is it so much different than flashing my DX.
Thanks
Terry
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this looks fine, no need to worry about the radio I believe it will use the one from whatever baseband you're at before you flash (ED04 I believe you said) or you can flash the one with ED01 radio... yes ComRom with imnuts' PBJ kernel is good, I would suggest the voodoo kernel one but its up to you, patch on top of that then theme after and you should be set
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As anoninja said. You should be good to go. Thing to keep in mind is that it is very difficult to brick your fascinate. Not impassible. But difficult. As long as you stay with fascinate files, never try captivate, vibrant, i9000, etc, stuff, then worse case scenario, you may have to odin back to stock and try again, but even that's unlikely. Good luck. Keep us posted with your progress
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Hey thanks guys, feels better knowing it's not so easy to screw my phone up. I read a little about voodoo before work and yes, I do want to have it. So the majic question is, which one.
Thanks
Terry
Well if you choose evil fascination with the kernel, I think out will automatically convert you to voodoo so no extra steps other then to wait for the conversion after it boots.
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After doing some more research I have decided to go with Com Rom 2.0 then patched to 2.1.
I am going to go with this one:
*Fixed* UKB 2.0 with -50 PBJ Voodoo Kernel ***6.4.11 (script fixed)
md5: 1092A4F02F668521D633670A80BA127C
My wife doesn't like the all black theme on the evil rom. Now I am still a little confused on the kernel thing. I have been reading for awhile now and will continue to do so. I'm not understanding if I have to flash the kernel first or rom first. I have been through the fascinate development thread over and over and while most put "how to's" in them, I still don't understand in which order things should go. There is so much to do just to flash a rom on this phone. But I know I will get it done even if I have to start over from fresh. So many roms, kernels, updates, 2.2.3.4.6._______, etc, etc...... What exactly is a kernel? I come from the droid x back ground where we root, cwr, then flash. That's it. Also to me Odin seems to be a 3rd party app that's needed to flash CWR. Other than that is there any other use for it. Sorry for all the ?'s but I like to do my homework before I do something like this. I am a pretty good self learner but the way things are worded for the phone is a little confusing at times. Maybe a step by step list if starting fresh.
EX- 1-root
2-odin
3-cwr
4-kernel or rom or both
Something like that would be easier to understand. Anyways I always appreciate any help I get.
Thanks
Terry
Divey1130 said:
After doing some more research I have decided to go with Com Rom 2.0 then patched to 2.1.
I am going to go with this one:
*Fixed* UKB 2.0 with -50 PBJ Voodoo Kernel ***6.4.11 (script fixed)
md5: 1092A4F02F668521D633670A80BA127C
My wife doesn't like the all black theme on the evil rom. Now I am still a little confused on the kernel thing. I have been reading for awhile now and will continue to do so. I'm not understanding if I have to flash the kernel first or rom first. I have been through the fascinate development thread over and over and while most put "how to's" in them, I still don't understand in which order things should go. There is so much to do just to flash a rom on this phone. But I know I will get it done even if I have to start over from fresh. So many roms, kernels, updates, 2.2.3.4.6._______, etc, etc...... What exactly is a kernel? I come from the droid x back ground where we root, cwr, then flash. That's it. Also to me Odin seems to be a 3rd party app that's needed to flash CWR. Other than that is there any other use for it. Sorry for all the ?'s but I like to do my homework before I do something like this. I am a pretty good self learner but the way things are worded for the phone is a little confusing at times. Maybe a step by step list if starting fresh.
EX- 1-root
2-odin
3-cwr
4-kernel or rom or both
Something like that would be easier to understand. Anyways I always appreciate any help I get.
Thanks
Terry
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yes odin is a 3rd party program used to push installs, and most roms nowadays will root you and install kernel (most come with it built in unless otherwise specified) when you flash them so no worries about rooting or kernels... a little about voodoo here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1043673&highlight=voodoo
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1039897&highlight=voodoo
and you can read about what all these 'roms', 'radios' and 'kernels' are here (i wouldn't get any downloads from here as this is old):
https://docs.google.com/document/d/...XcM268FoIzk/edit?hl=en&authkey=CKqWypcP&pli=1
I'll try and make it simple, this is how I did it and had no problems:
1. obvious step, have all the driver, programs and packages you need ready to go: samsung drivers and odin on your pc, both ComRom 2.0 and 2.1 patch on sd card
2. assuming you're already on EB01 froyo baseband or higher, you wanna use odin to install CWR
3. from CWR make any backups you want then wipe data/cache/dalvik
4. flash .zip of rom you want (ComRom 2.0), select reboot phone once to ensure it took. Since you're flashing a voodoo kernel on first boot you should hear a robot lady saying she's formatting partitions, this may take a while but its normal
5. once it started up power phone off and boot again into CWR (or use power button menu to boot straight there with 'recovery' option)
6. flash .zip of ComRom patch, no wiping needed and select reboot phone
7. congrats you're rooted, voodoo'd and running ComRom 2.1
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anoninja118 said:
yes odin is a 3rd party program used to push installs, and most roms nowadays will root you and install kernel (most come with it built in unless otherwise specified) when you flash them so no worries about rooting or kernels... a little about voodoo here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1043673&highlight=voodoo
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1039897&highlight=voodoo
and you can read about what all these 'roms', 'radios' and 'kernels' are here (i wouldn't get any downloads from here as this is old):
https://docs.google.com/document/d/...XcM268FoIzk/edit?hl=en&authkey=CKqWypcP&pli=1
I'll try and make it simple, this is how I did it and had no problems:
1. obvious step, have all the driver, programs and packages you need ready to go: samsung drivers and odin on your pc, both ComRom 2.0 and 2.1 patch on sd card
2. assuming you're already on EB01 froyo baseband or higher, you wanna use odin to install CWR
3. from CWR make any backups you want then wipe data/cache/dalvik
4. flash .zip of rom you want (ComRom 2.0), select reboot phone once to ensure it took. Since you're flashing a voodoo kernel on first boot you should hear a robot lady saying she's formatting partitions, this may take a while but its normal
5. once it started up power phone off and boot again into CWR (or use power button menu to boot straight there with 'recovery' option)
6. flash .zip of ComRom patch, no wiping needed and select reboot phone
7. congrats you're rooted, voodoo'd and running ComRom 2.1
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You are the shiz nik. Perfectly worded and the timing couldn't have been better. Phone has both files ready to go. I found some more literature on kernels and now understand what it does. Pretty much controls performance of the phone. And I see roms with and without kernels. For my first time with this phone I will go with a kernel/rom. The radio is stock ED04 which I will leave stock. Will update after I finish all of this. My wife will be stoked now that her phone will run smoothly. Thanks for the detailed explanation for me.
Terry
Divey1130 said:
You are the shiz nik. Perfectly worded and the timing couldn't have been better. Phone has both files ready to go. I found some more literature on kernels and now understand what it does. Pretty much controls performance of the phone. And I see roms with and without kernels. For my first time with this phone I will go with a kernel/rom. The radio is stock ED04 which I will leave stock. Will update after I finish all of this. My wife will be stoked now that her phone will run smoothly. Thanks for the detailed explanation for me.
Terry
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no problem, good luck
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I just wanted to thank all of you that helped me here. Running Com Rom 2.0 w/2.1 patch. It's nite and day compared to how the phone was. So much smoother and no lags as of yet. My wife couldn't be happier now with the phone working like it should be. I did encounter one issue tho. I could not create a backup. It would read an error message. (forgot what it said) Anyways thanks a million for the help. The crt animation is awesome and I love the functions when powering off. Rebooting instead of powering off then on and especially booting into recovery without pushing the volume rocker. Well I am going to add a theme for her so richen it up and go from there.
Just got it to backup as I was typing this. After reading thread after thread it seemed like you either had to flash a kernel other than stock or flash a rom before it would back up. I even tried red, blue, and purple with no luck. Oh well at least now it's backed up.
Terry
Divey1130 said:
I just wanted to thank all of you that helped me here. Running Com Rom 2.0 w/2.1 patch. It's nite and day compared to how the phone was. So much smoother and no lags as of yet. My wife couldn't be happier now with the phone working like it should be. I did encounter one issue tho. I could not create a backup. It would read an error message. (forgot what it said) Anyways thanks a million for the help. The crt animation is awesome and I love the functions when powering off. Rebooting instead of powering off then on and especially booting into recovery without pushing the volume rocker. Well I am going to add a theme for her so richen it up and go from there.
Just got it to backup as I was typing this. After reading thread after thread it seemed like you either had to flash a kernel other than stock or flash a rom before it would back up. I even tried red, blue, and purple with no luck. Oh well at least now it's backed up.
Terry
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sucks about the backup, the voodoo lagfix CWR versions are known to have problems with this and unfortunately I forgot to mention this, I tend to not do nandroid backups since I don't keep much on my phone in terms of data and apps, being the flashaholic that I am lol anyway good that you got it up and running, its good stuff and a million times better than stock
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first, I want to remind that I'm new here so I don't know all the rules and, by the way, my english is sucks...sry!
and now to the subject:
recently, I changed my rom to cm7 (can't remember the previous one...) and besides the problems it's made to my sd card (by mistake after wipe, n i couldn't activate the backup) I don't really like it. It's a nightly build so it have alot of issues and I have been told that it takes more battery so...
I wont to change my rom from cm7 to a better one, if there is a better at all- do you recommend me some rom?
Liorgex said:
first, I want to remind that I'm new here so I don't know all the rules and, by the way, my english is sucks...sry!
and now to the subject:
recently, I changed my rom to cm7 (can't remember the previous one...) and besides the problems it's made to my sd card (by mistake after wipe, n i couldn't activate the backup) I don't really like it. It's a nightly build so it have alot of issues and I have been told that it takes more battery so...
I wont to change my rom from cm7 to a better one, if there is a better at all- do you recommend me some rom?
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Digging Jt's vanilla gingerbread. But you should read up on it first. You like want to Odin back to stock first if you're having alot of issues with previous rom.
ok so...
I'll cheak this stuff out but, n sorry about my misunderstanding, what I need to do exactly? I know what is odin but not really how to use it or stock back...sry again ):
Since I have answered this type of post about 4 times in the last couple days, Im not going to repost step by step directions.
this is the sticky top of page:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1053567
hers is the samsung drivers: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/25089906/Generic_CDMA_i500_Showcase_USB_Driver_V1.3.550.0.msi
here is odin:http://www.mediafire.com/?429fcpdtpckkcea
here is stock ed05:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1178544
Liorgex,
I recommend a froyo based rom at the moment. Gingerbread roms are having small issues across the board. such as: low call volume, non working proximity sensors, and worst case your SD card may get completely ruined.
The froyo roms i suggest is either the Evil Fascination v3.6.0 or Com Rom 2.1
EF-http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1035420 Instructions are in OP
CR-http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1108991 instructions for install are in post #4
If you are daring try a GB Rom. Vanilla GB is getting rave reviews! (jt is working on a fix for the sdcard issue, so just be warned)
Installing A GB Rom:
1)Odin a VZW Stock image
ED05-http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1178544
ED04-http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1187950
2)Boot fully into the rom
3)Pop Battery and put into download mode and Odin CWM4 for CM7
cwm4-http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1190668
look for the "attached files" at the bottom of the first post
4)when odin is finished put the battery back in and hold down both volume rockers and the power...Dont let go until you see "Samsung"
5)Wipe files\factory restore, wipe cache, and in advanced wipe Dalvik cahce
6) flash the GB rom from SD card
GB- I assume you know which thread to get the rom at!!!
7)When the flash is done reboot phone from the CWM menu.
8) let it boot fully to the rom
9) use the shut down menu to reboot into recovery
10) Wipe files\factory restore, wipe cache, and in advanced wipe Dalvik cahce
11)Flash Gapps for GB
Gapps-http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1191063
12)When the flash is done reboot phone from the CWM menu
13) Enjoy a GB Fascinate
And that should bring you up to speed
AOKP milestone 1 seems a lot better than the current build of cm10 on the Fascinate, so I would like to give AOKP a shot. However, the guides say to flash from a cm7 enabled CWM. If I'm on the latest nightly of CM10, would it be ok to just download the latest AOKP and flash it, or should i downgrade to cm7 then back to AOKP
No need to go back to CM7, but you should do a data wipe before switching for sure
I have read up and am quite experienced, especially with samsung flashing and Odin.
I will be flashing a coworkers verizon fascinate which is bone stock 2.3.5
to keep on subject with this thread I would like to go straight to a Jellybean ROM.
can I just... Odin the CWM recovery fixed for CM7, wipe data/cache/dalvik,etc. flash JB ROM & gapps?
Do I need GB bootloaders? shouldnt they already be there? Im not sure of his ext sd card speed class, but it is the stock 16gb ext sd. Will a low class(class 2) really cause so many problems I've read about?
Since I wont have a ton of time I would like to get to JB as quick as possible.
I will be backing up via GoBackup, will we run into trouble restoring? going from GB-->JB ?
also, just to be safe.. factory reset should not wipe the ext. removeable sd correct?
Thanks so much guys..
GT-P6200 user here .. Galaxy Tab Plus 7.0 3G Malaysia... waiting for Note 7! yeah baby!
chrisrotolo said:
I have read up and am quite experienced, especially with samsung flashing and Odin.
I will be flashing a coworkers verizon fascinate which is bone stock 2.3.5
to keep on subject with this thread I would like to go straight to a Jellybean ROM.
can I just... Odin the CWM recovery fixed for CM7, wipe data/cache/dalvik,etc. flash JB ROM & gapps?
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Yep, although you should still flash the stock EH03 first just to be safe before flashing CWM
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Do I need GB bootloaders? shouldnt they already be there?
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You don't need them, and no, they won't necessarily be there. You can flash the bootloaders at a different time, but I think if you check 'bootloader update' in Odin while flashing EH03 it should do it (I have not tested this. I flashed them separately).
chrisrotolo said:
Im not sure of his ext sd card speed class, but it is the stock 16gb ext sd. Will a low class(class 2) really cause so many problems I've read about?
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I don't know. I never had a problem with my stock sd card until I started flashing custom roms, and boom, all of a sudden it had problems mounting in CWM. If you want to play it safe, get a new sd card, because sometimes there aren't any warning signs (I got a 32GB class 10 for $30).
chrisrotolo said:
Since I wont have a ton of time I would like to get to JB as quick as possible.
I will be backing up via GoBackup, will we run into trouble restoring? going from GB-->JB ?
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You shouldn't have a problem, but then again I've always used Titanium Backup. Never had an issue using TiBu, it's very fast and has a ton of options. Personally, I always do a full data wipe on almost every rom I flash and restore using TiBu and I'm good to go within 15 minutes.
chrisrotolo said:
also, just to be safe.. factory reset should not wipe the ext. removeable sd correct?
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If you mean photos, music, etc. then no, it won't. One time when I did a reset it did wipe my music, but I think that was when I had my old sd card. My photos were never touched, though.
*USE DROIDSTYLE'S GUIDE*
big thanks @Crawshayi, I should probably use the alpha 2.2 .pit to Odin back stock right?
I thought I also saw a 2.2.2 pit and a v2.3 pit are these any better?
chrisrotolo said:
big thanks @Crawshayi, I should probably use the alpha 2.2 .pit to Odin back stock right?
I thought I also saw a 2.2.2 pit and a v2.3 pit are these any better?
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Honestly I didn't even know there were different versions of that file, I've always used the 2.2 one from section 4 of droidstyle's guide and never run into any problems. The only purpose of that file (from my understanding) is just to re-partition so I don't think it matters all that much
From my understanding you don't need cwm 4 fixed for cm 7 to flash straight from stock to jb. Only when flashing ics roms. I have had to go back to stock a few times flashing aokp jb builds. And I always step up to jb like this. Odin cwm 4 fixed for cm 7-flash ths build 2- reboot -reboot into recovery vis power menu -flash aokp milestone 6(ics)- flash aokp jb build of choice. (me stone 1 just released). And then devil kernel of choice. Currently running devil 1.6.1. Never had any problems. Going this way. And I prefer to use go back up when restoring. It's slways done me right. Is this all necessary? Idk... But it works. Just sayin...
The devil rode a unicorn named jelly bean
forsakenone said:
From my understanding you don't need cwm 4 fixed for cm 7 to flash straight from stock to jb. Only when flashing ics roms. I have had to go back to stock a few times flashing aokp jb builds. And I always step up to jb like this. Odin cwm 4 fixed for cm 7-flash ths build 2- reboot -reboot into recovery vis power menu -flash aokp milestone 6(ics)- flash aokp jb build of choice. (me stone 1 just released). And then devil kernel of choice. Currently running devil 1.6.1. Never had any problems. Going this way. And I prefer to use go back up when restoring. It's slways done me right. Is this all necessary? Idk... But it works. Just sayin...
The devil rode a unicorn named jelly bean
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This has been proven unnecessary, basically the new roms have scripts built in that will re-partition as needed thus removing any need to flash 'over' another rom first. I was the one who actually verified this in droidstyle's guide (check the last few pages) and he has updated the thread to reflect it. If it still makes you feel better to do so... well... rock on because I don't think it hurts anything, but I thought you should know it isn't required.