Mine could be a stupid question, especially since I''ve already downgraded successfully from ICS to GB, but anyway I'd like to have some feedback from anyone who's a bit more experienced than me
I tried stock ICS for Mini and I didn't quite like it (LED issue, too much heating, some app incompatibilities and so on) so I decided to downgrade to my beloved and trusted stock GB. BUT my bootloader is locked, and I had no internet access nor DoomLord's root kit with me either. This meant that, after downgrading to GB, I couldn't have rooted it, so no CWM, no Recovery, no backup restoring, oh well, I didn't feel like going around with a brand new phone for a whole afternoon (I'm an idiot, am I? ).
So here's what I did: I had CWM Recovery installed on stock ICS. I used Flashtool to flash only stock 2.3.4 kernel. Then I booted and when prompted by the brighter screen (no blue LED, damn ICS!) entered CWM Recovery (which, let me repeat that, I had previously installed on ICS) and restored a stock GB backup. I rebooted, and I'm on stock GB now. Great.
Now I'd like to know... even if everything's going just fine, and even if I can't think of a reason why I could get in trouble, I still think that maybe I just don't know something, or I forgot some important information, and this way of restoring a stock GB ROM could just be totally wrong. And here you come, experienced users: did I do something stupid?
Thanks for your attention... I just talk a lot, I know...
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Also: if I feel like going back to stock ICS, I suppose I can flash stock ICS kernel and then restore a stock ICS backup... right?
Feanor88 said:
Mine could be a stupid question, especially since I''ve already downgraded successfully from ICS to GB, but anyway I'd like to have some feedback from anyone who's a bit more experienced than me
I tried ICS for Mini and I didn't quite like it (LED issue, too much heating, some app incompatibilities and so on) so I decided to downgrade to my beloved and trusted GB. BUT I had no internet access, and I didn't have DoomLord's root kit with me either. This meant that, after downgrading to GB, I couldn't have rooted it, so no CWM, no Recovery, no backup restoring, oh well, I didn't feel like going around with a brand new phone for a whole afternoon (I'm an idiot, am I? ).
So here's what I did: I used Flashtool to flash only 2.3.4 kernel. Then I booted and when prompted by the brighter screen (no blue LED, damn ICS!) entered CWM Recovery (which I had previously installed on ICS) and restored a GB backup. I rebooted, and I'm on GB now. Great.
Now I'd like to know... even if everything's going just fine, and even if I can't think of a reason why I could get in trouble, I still think that maybe I just don't know something, or I forgot some important information, and this way of restoring a GB ROM could just be totally wrong. And here you come, experienced users: did I do something stupid?
Thanks for your attention... I just talk a lot, I know...
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Also: if I feel like going back to ICS, I suppose I can flash ICS kernel and then restore an ICS backup... right?
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With an unlocked bootloader getting back / switching between gb an ics is easy.
Use in both ways a prerooted kernel with cwm. Install the kernel via flashtool. After that restore your nandroid and you are done.
That shouldn't take much more than about five minutes. Switching is so an easy way.
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I did it with a locked bootloader. It doesn't matter, since CWM is not installed in the kernel (it's in /system, I think, but I'm not sure of it).
If you install CWM Recovery and then flash any stock kernel you can access the recovery even if it's not included in the kernel. That's what I tried, and it worked.
What I was asking is: is there any chance that this method can leave old/unwanted data on the phone? Based on what you said, it should be ok
I did the same but via wotanserver, because I have a belgian azerty mini pro and couldn't find the right firmware on xda.
Didn't have any issues, but you should remove all application data on your sd card to avoid problems.
I did like the complete ICS look, but it was too choppy, and too many bugs to live with.
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I did the same but via wotanserver, because I have a belgian azerty mini pro and couldn't find the right firmware on xda.
Didn't have any issues, but you should remove all application data on your sd card to avoid problems.
I did like the complete ICS look, but it was too choppy, and too many bugs to live with.
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After updating my O1 to Gingerbread two friends complained about receiving just half of the message right and the rest of it with squares/boxes, (at) or Chinese characters, this just happens after x characters, since they get short messages without problems. I think this just happened to them, I'm not sure. Others receive the whole message without any problem. I'm not sure if the problem is the Stock ROM, their cellphones or if I configured my cellphone wrong. Any ideas about what's wrong?
Ps: I'm so sorry about my English, it isn't so good.
hi Phoenix232,
there are seldom any problems like this in a newly updated firmware.
still try master reset.
If that doesn't helps i would recommend updating again.
Good luck.
I'm so sorry to ask this but what are the button combinations I need to press to do the master reset?(It's the same as hard reset I think?) I've been searching but I can't find the right buttons for the P500.
EDIT: Actually, I think I found out how to do it, it's HOME+Vol. Down+Power, but if I do this I get in Recovery Mode.
EDIT 2: Yep, it looks like I need to do this without any recovery installed. I'll try it later. Thanks.
Hello Phoenix232,
I have an O1 myself and I think that I can help you. Please answer my following questions:
1) Did you update to Stock firmware or are you using an CFW?
2) Wich version did you happen to have installed before gingerbread?
3) Which version came pre-installed in your device?
I guess that since you can boot to Recovery mode you are using a CFW, am I right? But if you remove the Recovery, did the Master Reset help?
BR
1) Stock
2)Stock Froyo ROM with Franco Kernel
3) Stock Froyo ROM
I just rooted it, installed recovery and installed franco's kernel. I removed the recovery, did the reset, but it's happening the same thing.
Im currently facing a similar issue, people telling me they simply didnt get my SMS.
Having this issue after installing a new rom.
With me they get half of the message and the other half is just squares or chinese characters.
Dear Phoenix232,
I think that that the best procedure for you is to first go back to original O1 Froyo ROM without mods or root, master reset, them perform the upgrade to official O1 GB and master reset again if you want to use a stock ROM with no mods. Please be warned that this procedure can kill your handset, and since you already rooted and changed kernels you probably voided your warranty so be extra careful with all that.
I haven't already upgraded my O1 since it is my primary work handset, can't risk loosing all my info, but I've done a very similar procedure with a Motorola Milestone and it was all OK (2.1 stock, 2.2 shadowmod, them back to stock 2.1 and finally stock 2.2). You just can't root and change kernels then try to upgrade directly to GB stock without first going 100% back to Froyo stock. (no root, stock kernel etc...). Manufacturers tend to taylor their Android OS upgrades based in the previous version so everything must be exactly the same as it was when you first purchased it for the upgrade to work correctly in the end.
Good Luck!
That makes sense. I'll try it right now and post the result asap. Thanks.
I got back to Fryo and the SMSs are working fine. I'm upgrading to gingerbread now.
Question: Can I root it after doing everything you wrote? Or it'll bug again?
Hi guys,
I've had an S2 for a few months now, and although I've managed to root the phone I'm still pretty green and need help.
I've had an OTA update from Gingerbread to ICS which I only installed as it popped up when I was using the phone.
The battery died earlier than expected and now it's stuck in a bootloop.
I don't want to have to ROM it as frankly I'm still in the "full theory" stage. I've heard of Odin and SamMobile.com, I've seen hours of vids on Youtube but I'm hoping there's another way to get around it. My confidence levels are improving but not there yet.
I have a Titanium backup on the phone from 2.3.4, if I wipe the phone from recovery will it work? Is there anything I can do apart from a new ROM?
If you had my lack of experience with this, what would you do? Thanks.
Can you get into download mode?
If so, you may have to bite the bullet and use Odin to flash the original firmware. You will be able to find it on these forums.
Don't sweat it, just download the Orange ICS ROM and put it in PDA on Odin and flash it, it'll take just a couple of minutes and you are done.
Thanks guys. It sounds so simple when you don't have a bootlocked phone to panic about.
FourQ said:
Thanks guys. It sounds so simple when you don't have a bootlocked phone to panic about.
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Thats because it is simple! Ive never rooted because it looks confusing. But I've used odin many times to flash stock firmwares.
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Warren.D said:
Thats because it is simple! Ive never rooted because it looks confusing. But I've used odin many times to flash stock firmwares.
Sent from my GT-I9100 using XDA
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Nothing confusing about rooting either.
Download one of chainfires cfroot kernels or siyah kernel and flash via Odin.
That's it you're rooted.
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Hydra H2O 1.2.1
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if ya have a look around the forum, theres plenty of pre-rooted roms to flash via odin that wont increase ya binary counter, nothing hard about that.
Read the links in my signature
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I'm still reletively new to it
and I've had a couple of bootloops. A bit of a panic and then I figured out what I'd done wrong. As long as you follow instructions to the letter you'll be fine.
Edit: *Relatively, damn it.
Rooting it was easy enough. I went to unlockroot.com and a download later I was rooted. It's the ROMs that terrify me.
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Rooting it was easy enough. I went to unlockroot.com and a download later I was rooted. It's the ROMs that terrify me.
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getting a custom rom isn't something you should be afraid of
getting a custom rom (or kernel) can improve your battery life (some of them).. but just be sure that getting a custom rom, it should be for whatever you're running (Gingerbread or ICS) usually, roms are flashable via CWM
take a leap, when you get into bootloop or get some problems along the process, just flash a stock firmware with odin..
@saywhatt
A mate (who's been doing this for years) has installed CWM7. It's odd how the things I liked about Gingerbread were added by Samsung, not Google.
I suspect I'll run with CWM7 for a week or so and decide then. First impressions aren't always correct (especially if you saw my face!) but after a week I should have a pretty good impression of the new ROM. I'm hesitant about ICS as the official version killed the phone but ultimately I may end up there.
It's good to watch the Youtube vids on how to flash stock ROMs with Odin. It's something I may try next week if CWM7 falls from favour.
Ultimately I'm sort of glad it happened. It's given me new confidence to try these things as I know there's a good chance it can all be recovered.
Q
I've never been too afraid of rooting or flashing. My first android device was a cheap piece of rubbish (an LG GTsomething i think), so I built up confidence in rooting and flashing because I didn't care if i damaged my phone.
I would recommend anyone who's not too confident to go out and get a cheap phone, it's a pretty significant investment but if your unsure about what your doing and just want to experiment, it's definitely worth the peace of mind.
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I'm hesitant about ICS as the official version killed the phone
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no m8 it didn't, your battery dying while you were updating killed your phone
It had finished a while before that. I was selecting a new font when it died.
You can't stuff up your phone anymore - its already in bootloop, what do you have to lose?
Odin is indeed very easy. Just make sure F.Partition is unchecked. Put the ROM in PDA and flash! Of course, after your phone has been put into download mode and connected to pc via usb and one of the Odin blocks have turned yellow.
Your phone is already rooted? If you made a backup in CWM (NOT Titanium Backup, this won't help you right now, as it's only for apps) you should restore that in CWM. A wipe and factory reset wouldn't help you right bow.
I understand you are a bit skeptic of ICS stock ROM right now, but remember you probably got pushed an early version,.the latest versions are very stable! Though Custom ROM's are the way to go eventually. Try the latest stable Cyanogen ROM.
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@FreeStanler
Good point.
The stock ICS ROM was 4.0.3 if memory serves. It wasn't there for long but I was curious to see which version I'd been upgraded to.
I'm planning to see how this CWM7 ROM sits with me. If I can find out which app is causing this: http://t.co/9GfdXmD I'll probably be happy with it. I need to have a good play about with it to give it a fair chance. May end up with ICS/Stock ICS but for now we'll see how it goes.
Why on earth would you use Cm7 when Cm9 is far better, plus to flash a fw & then root with SuperOneClickRoot, or use the cf root kernel. The whole process takes 5 mins. Honestly M8 there's nothing to worry about. One thing I will say tho, Google Nandroid back up & once you know how to use etc, use it & make it your best friend coz that's the only thing that will fix the bootloop in the future
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@blade30p
I didn't. A friend who's been doing this for years did it for me. I was hoping to get something resembling the stock Gingerbread on the phone, instead I got CWM7.
Hi Everyone
I have been readind pages on this site for a while, I have a Xperia mini pro sk17i on UK O2 and I would like to remove the O2 and Sony bloatware along with the facebook rubbish. With a you tube guide I have made a back up of my existing rom using flash tool, I have tried it seems in vain to find a standard rom, the type you have on a unlocked phone from the UK, the mny guides are a bit confusing i have the4.0.2.A.0.62 build and understand I need to down grade first, I did try this a few weeks ago but my phones screen locked up completely luckily at the same time as i had used a foreign rom by mistake so I reflashed and pulled the plug part way through so a little triangle apperared and O2 repaired it and had to replace the screen it seems, that crapped me up a tad. So I thought I would get some advice this time. So im looking for the r4ight rom to flash with then root to remove the rubbish. Apologies if this has been brought up before but some of the liks I go to say the roms have been removed.
Thank you for any assistance you can provide.
Mark
P.S if my rom back is helpfull please let me know I can upload it or email it to you.
Check out my signature there's a step by step guide how to root and then Update to .62 again. Then you can uninstall Facebook etc
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Hi
Thanks I flashed to the firmware and did the zerg bit but could not upgrade or remove anything also the radio did not work so i assume i need to flash with a baseband 64.
Thanks
Mark2260 said:
Hi
Thanks I flashed to the firmware and did the zerg bit but could not upgrade or remove anything also the radio did not work so i assume i need to flash with a baseband 64.
Thanks
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Why weren't you able to update? Something wrong or just no notification for the update?
You can flash the update via flashtool, but for that you will have to use local-prop and push-root-files method as far as I know...
Yes flash the baseband you had before or the recommend for your provider/region. I don't even changed my baseband, so I don't know much about the baseband
Hi Again
Ok flashed again and then flashed to baseband 64, radio works interweb ok super user icon shows up still no update but i have no wifi at my home only hard wired. Now how do i get rid of the crap please?.
Thanks for your help so far.
Mark
update now shows but will have go round to my brothers as he uses wifi. just need to know how to getrid of useless rubbish now. o/
update 2 cannot update to 62 with wifi can i use somthing else?
Mark2260 said:
Hi Again
Ok flashed again and then flashed to baseband 64, radio works interweb ok super user icon shows up still no update but i have no wifi at my home only hard wired. Now how do i get rid of the crap please?.
Thanks for your help so far.
Mark
update now shows but will have go round to my brothers as he uses wifi. just need to know how to getrid of useless rubbish now. o/
update 2 cannot update to 62 with wifi can i use somthing else?
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You have to use wifi, otherwise you could update to .69 firmware version. Download from here the 4.0.2.A.0.69 zip file to install via cwm.
Download x-parts from playstore and install cwm. Then do a backup and flash the zip via cwm. Do a factory reset, wipe cache
and davlik cache and you should have superuser installed and it should work
If you don't know how to use cwm, ask here and I will tell you exactly what to do!
Hi
Ok I went daft got bored and updated by sus, and now I am happy I have ICS everythingworks spot on apart from front camera option missing but thats no big deal, I disabled all the crap and it runs just as sooth as gb and i have more memory and ram left, pictures are just as good as before, I am very happy with this, I made a ftf file in case anyone wants it. This is on a uk phone on the giffgaff network.
Many thanks for your help.
Mark
I got a (sk17i / o2) 4.0.2.A.0.62 today and im also confused on how to get root, put on cwm & upgrade it beyond 2.3.4
DK71 said:
I got a (sk17i / o2) 4.0.2.A.0.62 today and im also confused on how to get root, put on cwm & upgrade it beyond 2.3.4
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Check out my signature for a link to the rooting guide. There you should find out how to root it. It's an easy tutorial for newbies
Thanks Mihahn I will check out the guides.
Whats the best stable custom ROM for the mini pro ?
Im just waiting for my 7 days cooling off period to pass before I play
DK71 said:
Thanks Mihahn I will check out the guides.
Whats the best stable custom ROM for the mini pro ?
Im just waiting for my 7 days cooling off period to pass before I play
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Best stable custom rom for locked bootloader? Don't know on gingerbread there aren't many custom roms and on ics there are only a few like real ics lite and MiniCMSandwich...
I'd stay on stock gingerbead rom, best rom for everything
I managed to root the phone but on each custom ROM I tried thats listed as suitable for locked bootloader (3 different ROMS)
I had a stuck black screen after the SE words after powering up.
DK71 said:
I managed to root the phone but on each custom ROM I tried thats listed as suitable for locked bootloader (3 different ROMS)
I had a stuck black screen after the SE words after powering up.
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Did you wipe data/factory reset wipe cache and dalvik cache (and on some roms required format system) BEFORE you installed the zip file?
Yes I done the wipes & formats. All CWM installs gave me black screen no matter what options & roms I tried so I used flashtool & put on 4.0.4 after 4.0.2.A.0.69 just to get the phone functional & to try it out for speed & problems. Will have a crack another day when my hair loss grows back
DK71 said:
Yes I done the wipes & formats. All CWM installs gave me black screen no matter what options & roms I tried so I used flashtool & put on 4.0.4 after 4.0.2.A.0.69 just to get the phone functional & to try it out for speed & problems. Will have a crack another day when my hair loss grows back
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When you want to install custom roms like real ics and similar ics roms for locked bootloader, flash them through cwm when you are on ics. If you have been on gingerbead before, it won't work, but if you are on ics, it should work
On 4.1.B.0431 I dont have root or CWM so I will no doubt get a headache when I next have a tinker around.
Im actually shocked I didnt turn it into a paper weight!
I'm pretty new to android so sorry for newbie question.
When I bought my phone it came rooted on what I guess is stock rom etc, 4.0.4 version.
I tried doing OTA update but it gives me some error when it restarts and get into that state, don't remember, turned update off with titanium backup.
So for a while now I've been meaning to update to some nice new rom but I haven't found anything I really like so I want to just update my version to stock JB but now I have no idea how. Can anyone point me to right thread/guide or give me tips how to do it and how not to lose any files (apps, sms, settings etc etc), that's what putting me off from ROMs the most, losing all the stuff and setting it up back again.
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I'm pretty new to android so sorry for newbie question.
When I bought my phone it came rooted on what I guess is stock rom etc, 4.0.4 version.
I tried doing OTA update but it gives me some error when it restarts and get into that state, don't remember, turned update off with titanium backup.
So for a while now I've been meaning to update to some nice new rom but I haven't found anything I really like so I want to just update my version to stock JB but now I have no idea how. Can anyone point me to right thread/guide or give me tips how to do it and how not to lose any files (apps, sms, settings etc etc), that's what putting me off from ROMs the most, losing all the stuff and setting it up back again.
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As it seems you are not 100% aware of rooting, and your phone came rooted, maybe try to read first in the general section all the basic how-to documentations (e.g. how to root, how to unroot, how to flash a rom etc.). This will give you the background knowledge that you need.
After you got that knowledge and understand it, you can flash a stock Samsung JB rom via Odin or Mobile Odin Pro. The rom itself you can get on sammobile.com, here on XDA or via checkfus.
I hope it helps
Is this possible? The full details are I had my phone stolen, and got a new one with android 4.0.4 on it. I have on my computer a copy of my latest backup of my old cognition gingerbread rom. Can I just use CWM to recover to my old rom, or do i need to first downgrade to a gingerbread rom, and then recover?
Thankyou very much for assistance
Edit: Also, I don't actually want to use the old rom, I just need the contacts it saved, afterwards I'll wipe everything and install a clean ICS mod. In case there's any way of doing this without having to revert
You'll probably need to restore the backup with a version of CWM close to the one the backup was made with, you can often have problems restoring if you're using a CWM version a lot (say 12 mths or more) newer than the one you made the backup with.
So I'd probably go GB/with a rooted GB kernel first, restore the backup & go from there. I mean, it could work first try with an ICS kernel that's running a recent CWM build, but there's a fair chance it won't.
Edit - And be really careful with stock 4.0.4, don't do a wipe while you're running that.
Wow. I just... wow.
Ok, so I did the stupid thing and just tried to restore my old backup without doing proper downgrading first and it ended up soft bricking my machine, couldn't get recovery mode up, but I got into download mode. So I downloaded my country's stock gingerbread rom from samsung's site and flashed it with odin just to see what happens, and somehow my old rom was working again, and I have all my contacts and data. saved everything up to google, upgraded to ICS, import.
Everything went better than expected.
Thanks for the help
Told you Important thing is you managed to fix it yourself without asking silly questions in Q&A. Not many people seem to be able to do that these days.
Well done. I'm glad you got it sorted
Edit -You're welcome