Hello all,
I know this is likely in the wrong place, but I can't post in the dev forum. I was attempting to SBF my phone to 2.3.4 to update to 2.3.5. I have used the exact same RSD and SBF file on this computer. Last time my battery died while SBFing and it became a big hassle. Regardless, I was able to finally get it done. I did it today and it failed at 9% and switched to BP Passthrough. I pulled the battery and tried to get it back in to RSD and try a different usb port. It will not bring up the fastboot/RSD menu. I hold down DN VOL and power and it just shows the Moto logo and then after maybe 20 seconds then flashes failed to boot4 and screen goes blank very quickly. I can not get it in to RSD to try again. My PC is Win7 x64, RSD 5.4.4, VRZ-MB870_4.5.1A-DTN-150-30_1FF_01.sbf.
Any suggestions?
I just seen yesterday someone posted a way to sbf with a cd instead of rsd lite. Maybe something you can try. Look here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1406186
Ok thanks I'll look into that. any idea where you saw it?
Try holding power and volume up
That is the direct way to get into rsd mode
I don't know why every one good through the hassle of power volume down and going through the choices when power and volume up starts rsd mode without having to press anything else
ashclepdia said:
Try holding power and volume up
That is the direct way to get into rsd mode
I don't know why every one good through the hassle of power volume down and going through the choices when power and volume up starts rsd mode without having to press anything else
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Good point Ash that is how i get to it volume up and power. I posted the link back in my first post. Good luck and let us know how it goes.
So will it say RSD or anything or will it just go into it without saying anything?
ashclepdia said:
Try holding power and volume up
That is the direct way to get into rsd mode
I don't know why every one good through the hassle of power volume down and going through the choices when power and volume up starts rsd mode without having to press anything else
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So will it say RSD or anything or will it just go into it without saying anything?
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Phone off, volume up and power hold until you see rsd. Should say it. Once you see it you are good to go.
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Phone off, volume up and power hold until you see rsd. Should say it. Once you see it you are good to go.
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Did that and it never says RSD. just shows the logo. I had 95% bat when I started and I tried to RSD once. So that should not have drained it that much should it?
Worth a shot to try a full battery
Know anyone with an x,atrix,x2,etc...I or a desktop charger?
As I was on the phone with VZW it started and went to FTB4 and then said started RSD. So now it is taking the update so far from a different USB Port
have you tried opening rsd and hooking your phone up to it to see if it auto magically recognizes the device....lol might get lucky.
Either that or try the other method that has shown up recently
Well I got it to take the SBF, but it bootloops as expected and it wont let me boot into stock recovery to clear the cache. Should I reflash?
3gwhitelightning said:
Well I got it to take the SBF, but it bootloops as expected and it wont let me boot into stock recovery to clear the cache. Should I reflash?
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Just let it loop for a while
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And after like 15-20 mins pull battery and try to boot stock recovery
I don't know why but it now goes to Stock recovery and I'm going to delete cache and data about 50 times and hopefully it will work.
Thanks for all the suggestions and help.
Mods can you please erase this thread.
Somehow reflashing seemed to work. Thanks.
If this helps.
Charge the battery completely. Completely being part of the key.
Insert battery and boot holding power button and vol up key at the same time.
DO NOT release the keys if it does not attempt to boot into RSL quick mode. if the logo appears continue holding the keys till it loops like ash said, except continue to hold the keys thru at least two full boot loops.
On the last loop release the keys and depress the power button while removing the battery. Once the battery is out release the power key. It sounds crazy but it definately worked. Now reinsert the battery and but do not power on. Open and launc RSD on your pc. Connect cable. The connection of the cable will sometimes activate RSD. Power on phone using the quick RSD commands (Hold power button and vol up key.) And Walla!
I hope this helps. I had another person follow this exact same instructions and it worked for them as well.
When flashing fails in the middle of flashing due to power loss: Boot is whacked or corrupted. This usually works.
Android.Ninja
If u r having trouble sbf check out thread new way to sbf there is a link follow it u want have to worry about rsdlite anymore
OP....
Throw a solved in the title...
People aren't seeing ur problem is no longer an issue
Android.Ninja said:
If this helps.
Charge the battery completely. Completely being part of the key.
Insert battery and boot holding power button and vol up key at the same time.
DO NOT release the keys if it does not attempt to boot into RSL quick mode. if the logo appears continue holding the keys till it loops like ash said, except continue to hold the keys thru at least two full boot loops.
On the last loop release the keys and depress the power button while removing the battery. Once the battery is out release the power key. It sounds crazy but it definately worked. Now reinsert the battery and but do not power on. Open and launc RSD on your pc. Connect cable. The connection of the cable will sometimes activate RSD. Power on phone using the quick RSD commands (Hold power button and vol up key.) And Walla!
I hope this helps. I had another person follow this exact same instructions and it worked for them as well.
When flashing fails in the middle of flashing due to power loss: Boot is whacked or corrupted. This usually works.
Android.Ninja
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!!!Awesome... It did work for a MB853 as well!! great post, thanks a lot.
Woah....
Flashbacks....lol
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i just flashed simply honey 3.8 via odin, i did back to stock before via odin (came from cm7) but after flashed simply honey, my phone stucked at rainbow screen sayin partition partition stupid partition, so i read that to get rid that rainbow i should flash gb bootloader, then i flashed the bootloader via odin, yeah the rainbow has gone but my phone keeps bootloping in vibrant and bullet screen then sayin partition2 bla bla, i can't get to odin with 2 button combo, it's just go to charging wtf, i can't even get to cwm via 3 buttons combo, help me guys, thx in advance
Have you tried
1. Start Odin
2. Plug USB cable into pc
3. Power off the Phone.
3. Pull the Battery.
5. Plug USB cable into Phone.
6. Press and Hold: Volume UP + Volume DOWN + Power, all at the same time.
7. Re-insert the battery.
8. The phone will power now, when the screen starts a cycle of going to a BLACK screen, release ONLY the POWER button.
9. When you see the download icon release the volume buttons,
10. Odin back to stock by putting the PIT file into the appropriate area and the .tar in the PDA area.
Just checking, did you take out your battery, unplugged the usb, put the battery back in, then held vol up, vol down, and power and released all three as soon as you saw the Vibrant logo?
and if that doesnt work try all the steps above but minus one step! hold down both volume buttons except power and see if that works!
nomadrider123 said:
Have you tried
1. Start Odin
2. Plug USB cable into pc
3. Power off the Phone.
3. Pull the Battery.
5. Plug USB cable into Phone.
6. Press and Hold: Volume UP + Volume DOWN + Power, all at the same time.
7. Re-insert the battery.
8. The phone will power now, when the screen starts a cycle of going to a BLACK screen, release ONLY the POWER button.
9. When you see the download icon release the volume buttons,
10. Odin back to stock by putting the PIT file into the appropriate area and the .tar in the PDA area.
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nah, it doesn't work, it just keep showing the charging screen, even i keep holding the three button then reinsert the battery it just keep goin to charge mode over and over and if i release the power button only the phone sayin "partition" in chargin mode but not get into download mode at all, im pretty desperate right now, this is my first smartphone and i bricked it, how stupid i am
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and if that doesnt work try all the steps above but minus one step! hold down both volume buttons except power and see if that works!
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no it doesn't work it still can't go to download mode, its in charging mode keep saying that stupid partition, thx for replying my thread btw
It's not bricked, I know you're mad and frustrated, trust me, I've been there a million times!
Lets try taking out the battery and leave it out for 15 minutes. Reboot your computer and unplug every usb.
Then try the above steps again.
crazy25000 said:
It's not bricked, I know you're mad and frustrated, trust me, I've been there a million times!
Lets try taking out the battery and leave it out for 15 minutes. Reboot your computer and unplug every usb.
Then try the above steps again.
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tried it, still my phone can't see the download mode screen, i can't bring it to t-mobile since i don't live in states
If you flashed the bootloaders then the mapping is different. Try power button and volume up without the usb plugged and with the battery in. That should get you in download mode.
bricked
tried it, still my phone can't see the download mode screen, i can't bring it to t-mobile since i don't live in states
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You are not bricked. I just had the same thing happen flashing the light version with Rom Manager. Since you flashed the Bootloaders, the key combination has changed. Hold down the volume up and power key. Release when you see the vibrant logo-that should take you into red recovery. When there, go to voodoo, choose disable. It will tell you it is 'actually enable' and will be disabled next boot. So reboot and let it do its thing. When I did it the Android in space finally showed up.
EDIT: I'm pretty sure you don't need to go into download mode to reflash with odin, just disable the lagfix. If it doesn't boot into the Android, then volume down+power will take you into download and reflash after the lagfix is finished disabling.
EDIT 2: And with the Gingerbread bootloader, you can't go into download mode if plugged in anymore. It will not go past the charger like on the Froyo Bootloaders.
EDIT 3: Sorry got the key mapping backwards, lol here it is straight from the Bootloaders site.
Gingerbread Bootloaders - No Rainbow - Fully visible Recovery on all ROMs
Benefits - No more rainbows on Gingerbread 2.3 ROMs like Simply Honey GB, LiDroid, Asgard, etc.
Convenient Key Maps for entering Recovery and Download Modes. (I personally like these mappings over the Standard Vibrant Mapping as you can enter download mode directly without needing to turn off phone or remove battery etc...)
For Recovery - Lower Volume Key + Power Button
For Download - Upper Volume Key + Power Button
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RaymondPJR said:
You are not bricked. I just had the same thing happen flashing the light version with Rom Manager. Since you flashed the Bootloaders, the key combination has changed. Hold down the volume up and power key. Release when you see the vibrant logo-that should take you into red recovery. When there, go to voodoo, choose disable. It will tell you it is 'actually enable' and will be disabled next boot. So reboot and let it do its thing. When I did it the Android in space finally showed up.
EDIT: I'm pretty sure you don't need to go into download mode to reflash with odin, just disable the lagfix. If it doesn't boot into the Android, then volume down+power will take you into download and reflash after the lagfix is finished disabling.
EDIT 2: And with the Gingerbread bootloader, you can't go into download mode if plugged in anymore. It will not go past the charger like on the Froyo Bootloaders.
EDIT 3: Sorry got the key mapping backwards, lol here it is straight from the Bootloaders site.
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YOU GUYS ARE AWESOME! THAAAAAAAAAANKSSSSSSSSS I can go to download mode, sorry for my noooobnesss
bricked
YOU GUYS ARE AWESOME! THAAAAAAAAAANKSSSSSSSSS I can go to download mode, sorry for my noooobnesss
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Glad you are happy, lol! I'm flashing the medium version right now from recovery and will do the full whenever it finishes downloading.
Glad you got it worked out!
nasgadth said:
YOU GUYS ARE AWESOME! THAAAAAAAAAANKSSSSSSSSS I can go to download mode, sorry for my noooobnesss
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I'm impressed with your risk taking capabilities man... Dont know how old you are to Android, and I'm not commenting on that, but from what I see, you are just 15 posts old, and you managed to flash Bootloaders to your phone...
Do read the OP for possible solutions before you flash anything... That said, till you have a screen, its not a brick.
Flash the bootloaders, using the new key mapping, and then flash the ROM, you should be good to go !!!
maybe one of you guys can help me here
i have the rainbow screen and i cannot get computer to recognize phone. i have to get into download mode with a dongle and odin still does not recognize my phone. i cannot boot into recover as the screen is completely rainbowed out and I cannot see what I am doing.
Are there any suggestions on what to do from here?
Thank you
I just sbf'd to 1FF-sunfire-user-2.3.4-4.5.1A-1_SUN-198_7-CM-release-keys-signed-Sprint-US
and now I cannot get into rsd mode or fastboot, with the key combo's just stuck at dual core screen, finished successfully.. I don't know why..
Alright reflashed the 198_7 again, and getting the same thing again, is there a way to fix this? mind you I flashed sbf after unlocking bootloader.
so now I cannot get into fastboot, or rsd mode.
slawson said:
I just sbf'd to 1FF-sunfire-user-2.3.4-4.5.1A-1_SUN-198_7-CM-release-keys-signed-Sprint-US
and now I cannot get into rsd mode or fastboot, with the key combo's just stuck at dual core screen, finished successfully.. I don't know why..
Alright reflashed the 198_7 again, and getting the same thing again, is there a way to fix this? mind you I flashed sbf after unlocking bootloader.
so now I cannot get into fastboot, or rsd mode.
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bump.
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Pull your battery and give it a few minuntes. Then place the battery back in and try again.
Instructions if your having trouble still.
The gist is you will want to use RSD light have the SBF file and then flash it . Make sure battery is greater than 50 percent charged.
1) Fire off RSD lite, select the SBF you need 198_7 or 198_6 either or.
2) Hold down power and vol up till RSD mode comes up
3) Plug into usb then start the flashing sequence.. ( the whole process will take a while)
4) The process is done when RSD lite says manually power up the phone.. You may need to take the back off and pull the battery to restart it incase it doesnt power up on its own.
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May be a hunch but it is possible you may need to do a wipe and data reset before flashing the sbf... Remember reading somewhere this helped for someone having trouble flashing an sbf with RSD...
instructions if you need.
1) Power off phone holding Power and volume down button
2) Screen will come up with "Fastboot" press Volume down and cycle through till you get "Android Recovery" Press Volume up to select it
3) Wait for the Triangle / Android
4) Press both Volume up and volume down ... A menu will pop up..
5) Press volume down and select "Wipe Partition" by pressing power button to select it.
6) Tap volume down to select "wipe data/Factory reset" again tap power key toselct.
Once done tap power key when done using the "reboot system now"
Sometimes you may need to flash 154 before flashing 198
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Thank you guys, it worked!
Please post a quick what worked for you so someone else can see what your resolution was.
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Thank you guys, it worked!
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I just sat there and let it boot up, took 25 minutes for it to finally start.
Well I found a fix for Photon's that are stuck at the red Motorola logo and will not enter RSD protocol.
Here was my situation:
Photon was running CM9 and I needed to flash back to stock. So I got all the drivers and RSD lite installed and downloaded the SBF for the Photon. Booted into RSD Protocol and opened RSD lite. Selected the SBF and started flashing the phone. Well in the middle of flashing, five minutes later, my desktop decided it was going to lock up. At this time I knew I was Fed. Rebooted the computer and pulled the battery on the phone. For the next few hours I tried everything I could possibly try to get the phone into RSD protocol to no avail. Tried every key combo listed on these forums and had no luck at all. It was about to get thrown against the wall when I figured I would F around and hold both vol keys + camera + power and put the battery back in the phone with USB plugged into computer. And to my surprise RSD protocol text displayed at the top of the screen and I was able to flash that SBF again with success this time..
Not sure if it was just a fluke but I was able to test my theory a second time but retrying that scenario over.. flashing sbf, pulling battery in the middle of it, not being able to get to RSD with standard key combos, but being able to enter it again using both vol keys + camera button + power button and plugging in usb and battery
Hope this helps!
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Well I found a fix for Photon's that are stuck at the red Motorola logo and will not enter RSD protocol.
Here was my situation:
Photon was running CM9 and I needed to flash back to stock. So I got all the drivers and RSD lite installed and downloaded the SBF for the Photon. Booted into RSD Protocol and opened RSD lite. Selected the SBF and started flashing the phone. Well in the middle of flashing, five minutes later, my desktop decided it was going to lock up. At this time I knew I was Fed. Rebooted the computer and pulled the battery on the phone. For the next few hours I tried everything I could possibly try to get the phone into RSD protocol to no avail. Tried every key combo listed on these forums and had no luck at all. It was about to get thrown against the wall when I figured I would F around and hold both vol keys + camera + power and put the battery back in the phone with USB plugged into computer. And to my surprise RSD protocol text displayed at the top of the screen and I was able to flash that SBF again with success this time..
Not sure if it was just a fluke but I was able to test my theory a second time but retrying that scenario over.. flashing sbf, pulling battery in the middle of it, not being able to get to RSD with standard key combos, but being able to enter it again using both vol keys + camera button + power button and plugging in usb and battery
Hope this helps!
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Usually if the phone can't boot, it will go into RSD mode by itself after about a minute or so on the red moto logo, but you have an interesting solution too.
Holy sh*t how many hands do you have?
Do you mind if I include this on my website? You will get proper credits.
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I am unsure if this is exactly true.
I had a similar issue when sbfing back to stock after a failed cm9 stint.
Had exact same red moto with no key response. My fix was pull battery for like 15 minutes, holding power a couple different times then plugging AC adapter in and reinserting battery. Let phone stay on the red m for a while then finally (10 minutes) it would do the bootanimation then powercycle. After the powercycling my button combos worked everytime regardless of RSd or fastboot.
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Hey guys,
Just a small advice for those who didn't know.
If you want to flash another rom and you got a "battery low" in bootloader/ fastboot AP, don't be panic: make sure you've booted your device in fastboot mode. Then just press the power button shortly and the device will shut down completely. Now you can charge your device without any factory cable. You will also get the loading Stats displayed.
This works on bootloader version 0A.72 onwards
dtrail1 said:
Hey guys,
Just a small advice for those who didn't know.
If you want to flash another rom and you got a "battery low" in bootloader/ fastboot AP, don't be panic: make sure you've booted your device in fastboot mode. Then just press the power button shortly and the device will shut down completely. Now you can charge your device without any factory cable. You will also get the loading Stats displayed.
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doesnt work for me unfortunately tried this before, never shows any stats. guess it would work for people who havent screwed up like me.
New Method?
spc_hicks09 From DroirRzr.com posted this. I'm trying it now, Will let you know how it goes.
Press and hold power and volume down until the screen flickers, release those buttons and quickly press all three side buttons (power, vol up and vol down). When the bootloader menu pops up, plug in the charger. Use the volume down button to scroll to the SBF option and use volume up to select it. Now press and hold the power button for about 3 seconds then release. This will automatically put your phone in the "powered down/charging" mode. Wait till the battery charges all the way then complete a fastboot. I just did this 3 days ago so I know it works.
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aety9 said:
spc_hicks09 From DroirRzr.com posted this. I'm trying it now, Will let you know how it goes.
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This didn't work btw. Tried it and ended up having to force-charge the battery by opening the case and connecting the terminals with a stripped USB cable.
I just got the SGH i757m and i tried rooting with using superoneclick v2.3.3 but it always goes to not responding! So I'm trying another method from
"http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1707126" using Odin
however, my phone won't go into download mode, when i press power and volume down button, it just vibrates in a 1 second interval, and it just keeps vibrating... i tried holding on to it for a full minute and all it did was vibrate... i tried pulling battery out and retry, same thing! (or power+ volume up). When i let go, it just turns my phone on, thats it. Does anyone know how to fix this?
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I just got the SGH i757m and i tried rooting with using superoneclick v2.3.3 but it always goes to not responding! So I'm trying another method from
"http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1707126" using Odin
however, my phone won't go into download mode, when i press power and volume down button, it just vibrates in a 1 second interval, and it just keeps vibrating... i tried holding on to it for a full minute and all it did was vibrate... i tried pulling battery out and retry, same thing! (or power+ volume up). When i let go, it just turns my phone on, thats it. Does anyone know how to fix this?
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google is a power tool....plus this is the wrong forum to post your question in
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google is a power tool....plus this is the wrong forum to post your question in
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i tried googling before i posted this i had no luck finding anything relevant to the phone being able to boot and the download mode not working, and i tried to look for the galaxy s2 i757m section and i couldn't find one .... i wouldn't randomly post something without research
andyzeng1993 said:
I just got the SGH i757m and i tried rooting with using superoneclick v2.3.3 but it always goes to not responding! So I'm trying another method from
"http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1707126" using Odin
however, my phone won't go into download mode, when i press power and volume down button, it just vibrates in a 1 second interval, and it just keeps vibrating... i tried holding on to it for a full minute and all it did was vibrate... i tried pulling battery out and retry, same thing! (or power+ volume up). When i let go, it just turns my phone on, thats it. Does anyone know how to fix this?
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I looked into this for you, you're doing everything correct holding volume - and power, should boot download mode, try holding lower on the volume rocker or try booting download mode having it already connected to you computer via USB....... If it won't work the only thing I can think or would be you have a different version of Android then what the original instructions were for. The thread you linked is your best bet on getting help, the last post was on March 28th so it's still active!!! If you don't get a response in that thread try to message titanic_fanatic it looks like he's helping people in that thread. Just make sure you understand everything before doing ANYTHING......... GL sorry I couldn't be more help
EDIT: Try this first, power off your phone, then hold power and vol- once you feel the vibrate let go of power keep holding vol- to see if it boots download mode? If not try to plug it in to your computer then repeat those steps. If you need help you can message me.
EDIT: Try this first, power off your phone, then hold power and vol- once you feel the vibrate let go of power keep holding vol- to see if it boots download mode? If not try to plug it in to your computer then repeat those steps. If you need help you can message me.[/QUOTE]
Oooo it works now thanks a lot! I realized I didn't turn off my phone before holding power button and down volume :X thumbs up and cheers
andyzeng1993 said:
Oooo it works now thanks a lot! I realized I didn't turn off my phone before holding power button and down volume :X thumbs up and cheers
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No problem, just be VERY CAREFUL when you flash any firmware (ROM), recovery or kernel to your phone. If you flash anything else other then the exact packages made for your phone you could end up bricking it....... With out a forum for your device it could be hard to get help if you need it. You can message me if you have questions, I'll do my best to help you. If you post questions in this forum all you'll get is "Wrong forum, don't you know how to read, noob, blah blah blah etc" just ignore them, just make sure you read and understand everything before doing ANYTHING....... GL