Hey all my gf has the samsung galaxy s2 and she went to about phone > update settings etc, downloaded all of it for the new ICS that come out how when she enters her passcode its says app wizard isnt responding.. :S Any help
Maybe you flash a stock ics rom with odin.. make sure you select the .tar file in the right way...
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It was a stock rom?... :S I just didnt seem to boot correctly, she has the Galaxy S2 GT-19100 Nothing was installed that could possiblely cause something like that aka ROOTED, Flash Rom, ETC. it was just stock
if you don't want to bother with manually upgrading using odin but rather have the comfort like the ota update, you could also just connect the phone to the pc and let kies do the updating for you.
or if you know your way around the phone, clear the cache of the system updater app and try again, or use odin and flash it manually, but that won't spare you from installing kies as well, if you don't want to bother with rooting and stuff, you might as well use kies in the first place.
It wasnt rooted, she updated it using the OVER THE AIR updates, got one and updated it..then got one saying ICS and updated it. the update for the ics just turns on gets to the lockscreen, enter the code then that second it flashes and says "Setup wizard has failed" Then nothing just a black screen no icons nothing, it wasnt rooted it was all a offical update. Now, wouldnt Restoring it with odin void the warrenty and wouldnt it mess it up?.
rezkon said:
It wasnt rooted, she updated it using the OVER THE AIR updates, got one and updated it..then got one saying ICS and updated it. the update for the ics just turns on gets to the lockscreen, enter the code then that second it flashes and says "Setup wizard has failed" Then nothing just a black screen no icons nothing, it wasnt rooted it was all a offical update. Now, wouldnt Restoring it with odin void the warrenty and wouldnt it mess it up?.
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No... Odin flashes with official firmwares do NOT increase counter or void warranty. Counter keeps track of how many kernels (NOT firmwares) that are NOT signed by Samsung are flashed via Odin. Official firmwares from Samsung contain kernels signed by Samsung, so they do NOT increase the counter.
Im looking at Sammobile are there firmware offical?
I think its a GT-I9100 Australia On 3 or unlocked i cant remeber
Still plugs into kies but restore failed at the end..-.-"
rezkon said:
Im looking at Sammobile are there firmware offical?
I think its a GT-I9100 Australia On 3 or unlocked i cant remeber
Still plugs into kies but restore failed at the end..-.-"
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The site isn't officially Samsung affiliated, but the firmwares are downloaded from Samsung, then posted there. They're about as official as you can get without downloading it directly from Samsung yourself.
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Pretty much installed XXKG6 on my SGS2 ages ago using ODin, check back a couple of months later and saw i had missed out on loads of updates. I really do not have time in my life to update my phone manually every other day.
My phone still works with Kies perfectly but i can't update/go back to official firmware which you get from kies. Unable to update to Samsung's newest firmware. How can get it back to working like when i first got my phone? When i could just plug it in and Kies did all the work while i go off and do something else. Also do i need a USB jig?
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Pretty much installed XXKG6 on my SGS2 ages ago using ODin, check back a couple of months later and saw i had missed out on loads of updates. I really do not have time in my life to update my phone manually every other day.
My phone still works with Kies perfectly but i can't update/go back to official firmware which you get from kies. Unable to update to Samsung's newest firmware. How can get it back to working like when i first got my phone? When i could just plug it in and Kies did all the work while i go off and do something else. Also do i need a USB jig?
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Hey,
should be work, when u flash back to an older stock rom like "KJ3" (without root or anything).
So Kies recognized that it's not the newest and so update to it.
U can check this thread for firmware and install guide:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1075278
Much success.
CHEERS
Hannibal226 said:
Hey,
should be work, when u flash back to an older stock rom like "KJ3" (without root or anything).
So Kies recognized that it's not the newest and so update to it.
U can check this thread for firmware and install guide:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1075278
Much success.
CHEERS
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I will give it a go now, Thanks for the quick reply by the way.
Would it be best to install something like "XWKE2" i think that might of been the original firmware what come with my phone and it also says "Generic XEU (UK)" which is where I'm from so that might help too?
Cheers for the help mate!
Okay i can see
"+++++++[Frankenstein Firmwares]+++++++
These packages below are not official firmware packages, they are Frankenstein package created due to demand for Firmware with different CSC and modems and also leaked firmware packages. KIES will not recognise the firmware so you won't be able to update to new firmware using KIES unless you flash back to a firmware meant for your device first. Otherwise there will always be Odin to use for updates"
Explains why i couldn't update with kies. But now i have tried installing a number of the official firmwares. Half of them boot loop and never turn on. The other half turn on but i get no service and every couple of seconds something pops up about having to force close com.phone.android or something. Plus it no longer connects to Kies.
Please help me out
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I will give it a go now, Thanks for the quick reply by the way.
Would it be best to install something like "XWKE2" i think that might of been the original firmware what come with my phone and it also says "Generic XEU (UK)" which is where I'm from so that might help too?
Cheers for the help mate!
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Sure mate,
it doesn't matter what version u take
Cheers
Sent from my Galaxy S2 - I9100 with Sensation Rom!
Hi all I've been on this for a while, since the weekend looked at a serious amount of posts and guides on rooting and unrooting but I'm no further forward.
The problem I have is I wanted to upgrade from gingerbread to ics so I could eventually put the latest cyanogen mod on my phone. I rooted the phone no problem there flashed an insecure kernel with odin 1.85 as per the instructions from one of the guides got the CWM and superuser apps then flashed the original back, got rid of the yellow triangle every thing good so far. I did this coz I expected I had to, to put cyanogenmod on my phone.
Samsung kies says there is a update to ICS but every time I try to update it fails. Try using Odin with a stock mod and it fails. I rang Samsung and they say my build number is the up to date version. One of my colleagues has an older sgs2 and he managed to update his no problem with kies. I'm wondering if there is a problem with my phone preventing it from being updated? Also every time a look at a post or a guide it seems like that post is specific to a particular android version and I can't find one that is specific to mine such as carrier Orange, gingerbread2.3.3 as I think it's too old. PDA I9100BVKH2.
Now I'm thinking I might just try unrooting it and take it to orange and get them to update it but uprooting it to stock seems to be a pain, I need to get rid of that doing flash counter.
Do I need to go to orange or is this easy to update and I'm just missing something. Before I get flamed I did search not just here but all over the Internet to find a reason why I couldn't update but didn't get a definitive answer.
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Hi all I've been on this for a while, since the weekend looked at a serious amount of posts and guides on rooting and unrooting but I'm no further forward.
The problem I have is I wanted to upgrade from gingerbread to ics so I could eventually put the latest cyanogen mod on my phone. I rooted the phone no problem there flashed an insecure kernel with odin 1.85 as per the instructions from one of the guides got the CWM and superuser apps then flashed the original back, got rid of the yellow triangle every thing good so far. I did this coz I expected I had to, to put cyanogenmod on my phone.
Samsung kies says there is a update to ICS but every time I try to update it fails. Try using Odin with a stock mod and it fails. I rang Samsung and they say my build number is the up to date version. One of my colleagues has an older sgs2 and he managed to update his no problem with kies. I'm wondering if there is a problem with my phone preventing it from being updated? Also every time a look at a post or a guide it seems like that post is specific to a particular android version and I can't find one that is specific to mine such as carrier Orange, gingerbread2.3.3 as I think it's too old. PDA I9100BVKH2.
Now I'm thinking I might just try unrooting it and take it to orange and get them to update it but uprooting it to stock seems to be a pain, I need to get rid of that doing flash counter.
Do I need to go to orange or is this easy to update and I'm just missing something. Before I get flamed I did search not just here but all over the Internet to find a reason why I couldn't update but didn't get a definitive answer.
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There are two ways to do this:
1. Update the phone to ICS on your own.
- Visit Sammobile
- Download the firmware for your country/carrier
- Extract the zip file.
- Flash the firmware via odin
- Boot to recovery and perform a factory reset.
done.
2. Reset your binary counter and take it to Orange!
- you can use USB jig to reset your counter.
or
- Flash a Samsung based custom rom via CWM recovery,
- Download Triangle away app by Chainfire
- Use Triangle away app, to reset your binary counter
- flash back your Stock ROM (you can also get it from Sammobile if you dont have a copy)
- take your phone to Orange.
done.
cheers
OK thanks for your help. will give it a go.
You dont need kies or orange-this is why your getting confused.You could go to sammobile and get an unbranded ics for your region/model,and to be "safe",go for 4.0.3.
Then you can flash like siyah kernel,make a nand backup,and efs backup then install whatever rom you want.
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You dont need kies or orange-this is why your getting confused.You could go to sammobile and get an unbranded ics for your region/model,and to be "safe",go for 4.0.3.
Then you can flash like siyah kernel,make a nand backup,and efs backup then install whatever rom you want.
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would like to try that but now odin failed after i flashed a stock rom and now i'm stuck on the samsung galaxy logo with no recovery mode. I can get into download mode though but thats it.
Odin wont flash anything exept kernels.
Seriously thinking about throwing it in the bin. Now i spend days trying to get the phone usable again. why the hell cant i flash roms WTF!
Thanks for your replies.
There's a wealth of knowledge on this forum but i cant seem to find a solution on here to get my phone back.
Ive got my phone back. used upstairs pc and flashed original insecure kernel and recovery came up. ive now done a factory reset. back to square one but at least phone is back on. guess it was the laptop i was using. What is that all about?
Looking at all the how to's on upgrading to ICS i thought if i stuck to the steps it would just work but it didn't
Thanks for every ones input.
Chris.
I have searched and searched and cannot find a solution. Here is my problem. I bought a note 2 weeks ago. I updated to ICS through kies. At the very end of the update my pc had a blue screen of death and reset on me. The update seemed to take though as I was on ICS when I checked my android version. So I proceeded to install cmw and root my phone. I had been noticing some issues regarding uninstalling downloaded apps. I decided to connect to kies again and lo and behold I received a message saying that the update had not completed and I needed to do an emergency firmware recovery. Well, since my phone was rooted kies wouldnt do it. So, instead I decided to try to install official ICS (I717UCLF6_I717ATTLF6_I717UCLF6_HOME.tar.md5) through odin. It fails every time. It goes all the way to the end and fails on (write).
I decided to take my note back to stock GB and see if that may help. I got it back to stock using this method http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1506330 and on download mode it showed custom binary: yes and current binary:custom also the flash counter read 4. I am however back to GB. I tried kies and it still says that my phone cant be upgraded through kies. This is what it says under current firmware version: PDA:LA1 / PHONE:LF6 / CFC:LF6 (ATT).
Next I tried installing cmw on the stock build and resetting the flash counter in hopes that kies would then be able to upgrade. Since doing that download mode now shows custom binary: no current binary: official samsung and no flash counter. However, I am still unable to upgrade through kies (still says my device cannot be upgraded through kies) or the flashable odin tar (I717UCLF6_I717ATTLF6_I717UCLF6_HOME.tar.md5) still fails at the end when it has to write.
I just want official ics on my phone. I really hope someone can help me. I am very sorry if this has been answered, I hope you can see that I have done some searching and exhausted any options that I have found. Thank you in advance.
About 10 threads down...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1889275
Ignore.. Not sure that helps in your situation...
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Thx for your response. I did see that thread and gave the kies suggestion a go earlier, however kies kept crashing.
At this point i may just flash a custom rom. Any suggestions? Looking for something ics with touchwiz.
Just wanted to provide a little more info. I am at&t. Also, in the thread i refernced with the stock gb tar there is also a few other files underneath. Stock kernel only odin tars, one of which is for at&t. I did not install that. Also, cwm is still installed on the phone. Can that be whats causing kies to reject the device?
Looks like you have the GB rom and ICS radio and that's why Keis is not recognizing your rom. Flash the stock GB radio from the dev section and Keis should update. If not, you should be able to perform emergency firmware restore through Keis. There is a thread in the general section that details how to enter your serial number, etc.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1731654
This procedure should put you on the latest firmware regardless of root or what you currently have installed.
You could flash one of the debloated official ICS ROMs.
I'm not sure but I think Bigfau has the complete official posted. Flappjaxxx has a nice one also
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I went with bigfau. I installed the better stock ics rom. Works like a charm. Thank you to those that replied.
I am wanting to go back to stock (no root) and would like to update to official ICS from ATT. I have successfully gone back to 2.3.4 GB but have searched and searched trying to find either the last version of GB or the latest ICS. I read that I should be able to update through Kies but it just says I am at the latest version and OTA updates will not work on the phone. Again, I am just looking for a customer odin flashable stock ICS image or at least get to a version that I can get back on the ATT updates. Thanks.
There is an option in kies to force the update by putting in your imei number or something to that affect I can't remember it was a long while ago when I tried it. Do a Google search with xda kies ICS upgrade.
I believe it is the emergency restore option in Kies and you need to put in your model (SGH-I777) and serial # from the battery compartment.
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Thanks! I will give it a shot tonight when I get home.
I attempted to run the emergency firmware recovery option without success. Only option I have under tools > firmware upgrade and initialization is to go to the same version.
I just found this post, currently downloading the firmware. It is showing the ICS firmware upgrade.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1727109
Worked like a charm. I was messing up by trying to choose the firmware upgrade and initialization option with the phone plugged in. You have to do it when the phone unplugged, enter your model and S/N, then plug the phone in. After the software downloads you have to remove the cable, shut off the phone and go into download mode. Then it is all waiting from there. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.
Awesome!
I just use ODIN on my PC and the .tar file that contains the Samsung/AT&T 4.0 when ever I want to go back.
Which will never happen but have had some minor thoughts about it..
Not a bad idea to see just how good you've got it on custom ROMs
Clay
Team Pirate
Sent from my PINK GSwagger2
Careful of the super brick bug with stock ICS and no root.
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If Im on Gingerbread, can i root it and install CMW for it, then upgrade to an ICS/JellyBean custom rom through it or must I update to official ICS rom first through odin (because of bootloader issues(?))?
dkimmortal said:
If Im on Gingerbread, can i root it and install CMW for it, then upgrade to an ICS/JellyBean custom rom through it or must I update to official ICS rom first through odin (because of bootloader issues(?))?
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The stickies have the information u need to root and get started flashing.
Okay, so a while ago I decided to root my SGS3, then the root suddenly just stopped working, so I flashed stock 4.1.1 back onto it using Odin3. Now I cannot update via Kies or the Software Update in the settings on the phone.
Whether I flashed the wrong ROM onto the phone, I don't know but I thought it was the right one for my Three phone (downloaded from samsung-updates.com), but the boot animation seems to be the official Samsung logo, which used to be the Three logo.
Is there a way I can upgrade onto the normal, proper stock 4.1.2 firmware which will update genuinely in Kies?
Any help would be much appreciated.
is the status "modified" in the settings? try this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1710613
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is the status "modified" in the settings? try this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1710613
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No, it doesn't say its modified, but Kies says that its not the right firmware or something and the system update doesn't even tell me that 4.1.2 is available when I know for a fact that it is.
have you flashed the correct csc?