Hey guys, I come to you as a seasoned Captivate flasher but I seem to be having issues flashing anything on my wife's fascinate. She has been having some issues with Powerwashed 2.2 and I was trying to flash a current MIUI but the sd card will not mount from CWM. Is this a known issue with the fascinate? Come to think of it I had to flash this current rom via odin. I have never been able to flash ROM's from CWM. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
jayjr1105 said:
Hey guys, I come to you as a seasoned Captivate flasher but I seem to be having issues flashing anything on my wife's fascinate. She has been having some issues with Powerwashed 2.2 and I was trying to flash a current MIUI but the sd card will not mount from CWM. Is this a known issue with the fascinate? Come to think of it I had to flash this current rom via odin. I have never been able to flash ROM's from CWM. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
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yep its a known issue between stock sd cards and mtd based roms such as miui/cm7/cm9... some stock cards will work fine others bork and have wierd mounting issues. best bet is to purchase a class 6 or higher sd card.
I have a few other 1gb or higher micro cards floating around the house I'll try before ordering a new one. Thanks for the reply!
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I am using Com Rom gbec09 with the .2.1 patch and I just can't get it to boot after doing the formatting and installing the kernel. I am not new to this at all but I really need help on this one. I have used odin and reparted back to rfs to start over several times and im getting frustrated. I get com rom working fine and then proceed to use the otb cwm 3.0 recovery suggested. I have tried it flashing the kernel first and then doing the formatting as well as formatting and then flashing the kernel while still in recovery before rebooting as well as any other way I can think of. The one thing I am doing is disabling the lagfix on cwm before as I was under the impression that it screws with the rom. If you would like a logcat let me know as I will be actively butting my head against the wall until i get this fixed.
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I am using Com Rom gbec09 with the .2.1 patch
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I don't know if this was a mis-type but that sounds like your problem right there. ComRom 2.0 and its 2.1 patch will not run over the EC09 gingerbread leak, there is a whole 'nother ComRom for that my friend check the Dev section out. Otherwise it sounded like you were doing it right, formatter/kernel flashed first then the rom
blazing through on my VZ Droid Charge
I am using the 0.2.1 patch that goes with the com rom gingerbread.
I just didn't put the zero on it. If I could get a step by step install of the the rom with the kernel and ext4 formatter I would really appreciate. I have tried to follow the directions and every time it seems no matter what order I do them in it will bootloop at the samsung logo. I am lost at this point.
It might be your sd card - as the warning in the OP says, ec09 is known to eat sd cards. If I were you, I would take the card out and back up your data on your computer if your pc can still read it...
Also, at least 2 key members of teamsbrissenmod (who develop all the community ROMs) now have Droid Incredible 2 phones so I'm not sure how long they will continue to support this ROM. You may want to try CM7
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Ok guys, I have a captivate and I am super familiar with rooting/flashing/kernels/modems, etc... I just got my wife a fascinate and I was wondering if I could use the same method to flash ROM's as I do on the captivate. I already noticed that my jig also works for the fascinate. Here is my method...
1. Put desired ROM on SD card
2. Get into DL mode (Jig)
2. Flash a CWM compatible kernel with odin
3. Boot directly into recovery (wipe date/cache)
4. Install ROM
I hunted for some good videos but it seems the fascinate gets no love on youtube unlike the cappy.
Also I was wondering if someone could recommend a good stable froyo ROM for my wife's phone. She doesn't care about GB or anything like that, just want stability and to be snappy. From a fellow galaxy lover, Thanks in advance.
Actually there is a video on how to root the fascinate on youtube. Thats how I first learned. For froyo rom's I would look into geewiz or powerwashed ed05 1.2, you can flash the no kernal version then flash the stock ed05 kernal if you dont want voodoo. Both very stable daily driver roms per say. Although I am really starting to like this powerwashed eh09 rom by ccompos aswell. The tks kernal really woke the rom up. Only issue I have found is the flashlight app don't work and I thought data was crappy but today its been very good.
jayjr1105 said:
Ok guys, I have a captivate and I am super familiar with rooting/flashing/kernels/modems, etc... I just got my wife a fascinate and I was wondering if I could use the same method to flash ROM's as I do on the captivate. I already noticed that my jig also works for the fascinate. Here is my method...
1. Put desired ROM on SD card
2. Get into DL mode (Jig)
2. Flash a CWM compatible kernel with odin
3. Boot directly into recovery (wipe date/cache)
4. Install ROM
I hunted for some good videos but it seems the fascinate gets no love on youtube unlike the cappy.
Also I was wondering if someone could recommend a good stable froyo ROM for my wife's phone. She doesn't care about GB or anything like that, just want stability and to be snappy. From a fellow galaxy lover, Thanks in advance.
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You've got it for the most part, you have to Odin cwr, and immediately boot into recovery by holding up, down, power
until you see the 2nd Samsung screen then release the power but continue to hole both volume buttons until you get into recovery, you have to flash a non stock kernel the first time or the factory kernel will over write recovery and you'll have to start over, but most roms lately will contain a kernel so no needed to install the kernel first...unless the OP specifies that it doesn't contain one
You can enter download mode by connecting the USB cable to PC, or wall charger and removing the battery and holding the volume down button until you see the DL screen...the jig for the fascinate is normally for worse case scenarios...so keep it around but hopefully you'll never use it for the fassy!
As long as you follow the directions from the OP for what ROM you decide to run ie: some roms may require a specific recovery to flash properly, or Odin flashing to revert back, or other instructions specific for that ROM...that said I haven't been on a tw based ROM in a while so I don't have a suggestion other than experimentation and reading through posts of a potential ROM choice.
Whichever you run i'm sure your wife will love it, and if not, there are plenty of choices.
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Everything went good, but when I go to choose SD from zip it says "can't mount SD card" I cant seem to mount the internal SD either. Does it matter where exactly you put the ROM?
Yes ROM should go on the root of your sd not in a folder But that is mainly for easy finding... Which sd card are you using...capacity/brand?...which ROM are you going to? and which recovery are you using and how did you install recovery
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I ended up flashing geewiz because you could fully flash it with odin. Maybe its because my phone isn't activated yet but I'm having some difficulty mounting the phones internal memory. I cant get past the screen where you first program the phone. I have a kingston 4gb card. I tried powerwashed and followed his instructions perfectly but I think I need to get the phone activated so I can actually tinker with the OS.
I checked various threads and belive the answer is no, but wanted to make sure. Can CM9 alpha 0.03 be set up to boot off SD card, as opposed to EMMC? I enjoy the stock, especially for my kids but love the dual boot aspect of the Tablet (16GB).
Thanks,
Jason
JKShack said:
I checked various threads and belive the answer is no, but wanted to make sure. Can CM9 alpha 0.03 be set up to boot off SD card, as opposed to EMMC? I enjoy the stock, especially for my kids but love the dual boot aspect of the Tablet (16GB).
Thanks,
Jason
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Well as of now there's no CM9 ROM that runs from SD. However, you could always just flash CM9 to internal and run a stock ROM from SD.
I put CM9 on the emmc, which brought cyanoboot with it, and now can boot cm7 from sd, as well as get into CWM via recovery, which gives me everything I want. Are you looking to keep stock and also boot CM9 from sd? Don't think that is possible atm.
Thanks
Yes, my original thought was to keep stock and boot alternate (CM7/CM9) from SD. There are some things about stock I just like...especially for the kids. But I am intrigued about flashing CM9 to EMMC and then booting stock from SD. I had some concerns about bricking but it seems like unless you get really crazy you can flash back to stock without much trouble...
Thanks.
Jason
As long as you can boot from sd you can always unbrick it...
1) I assume going back to stock would be risky after this is flashed ?
2) Currently rooted 1.43 16 gb. Can I flash cm10 with old sd version of clockwork mod ?
3) Regarding recoveries, Do I need an internal one ? if so which one and why does it matter which one ? and then what is the best way to install a recovery for cm10 ?
Thanks
I am flashing CM10 with my SD card version of CWM and it does work. I have had no issues.
Going back to stock is not really an issue. Flask Adam Outlers "acclaim_update.zip and you go back to 1.4.0 like it's right out of the box. Even better you should do a nandroid backup before anything else and just restore that. If you appear to still be rooted there is a way to unroot.
You do not need an internal recovery as long as you keep your sd card recovery.
Bill
miniblue said:
I am flashing CM10 with my SD card version of CWM and it does work. I have had no issues.
Going back to stock is not really an issue. Flask Adam Outlers "acclaim_update.zip and you go back to 1.4.0 like it's right out of the box. Even better you should do a nandroid backup before anything else and just restore that. If you appear to still be rooted there is a way to unroot.
You do not need an internal recovery as long as you keep your sd card recovery.
Bill
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Hi Thanks for the info. I'm comfortable flashing the rom, but I thought being kernel 3.0, it might cause a brick flashing an old kernel over it. I currently have 2 Nooks. One is bricked at the moment from trying to go from cm9 to cm7. , I think the partitions are messed up.
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).
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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.