Hey guys, I've had the Galaxy Player 4.0 for a while now, and I've rooted, tried out multiple ROMs & Kernels, and I'm just not really with its performance anymore, and I'm looking to return it. I've been looking and I didn't really find the stock firmware straight out of the box that I can just flash with Odin. Any help? Thank you.
I just restarted it after what was said to be stock firmware, and it still had Superuser, and root permissions, clockword, download mode, etc. I want all of this gone. Someone please help
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I have recently flashed and installed a custom CM7 rom to my Galaxy 5 but i am not happy with the results and i wish to go back to Stock 2.2- i stupidly didnt create a backup, so can anyone point me in the right direction on how to get back to stock, i am completely new to this kind of stuff so please try and keep it simple!
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go to samfirmware.com and download the rom for your phone.
Then use odin to install it on your phone
Hi, Ok, so I am new at this and I have a samsung galaxy vibrant on tmobile...i got it and it was running eclair 2.1, I figured out how to root it and then upgraded to froyo 2.2. Now I am wanting to get either Bionix ROM or Nero V3. I have followed all the steps, got rommanager, did the flash clockworkmod recovery, dowloaded the zip file and put it in the root of my sd, but when i go to reboot, it wont run as clockwork, no matter how many times i try!
I read that it is because 2.2 has recovery e3 and i need e2...so it says t download a kernal that contains clockwork recovery but the problem is i cannot find one. I can find stuff all day long about the galaxy I9000 but nothing on the vibrant!
I have Odin and was wondering can I flash the rom straight to the phone?
My model number is SGH-T959, Kernel is 2.6.32.9, and build is FROYO.UVKB5.
Please help me, I really have no clue what I am doing, I just want my phone to run fast, get a nice looking theme for it, and not have to worry about it messing up and from what i have read the only way to that is to get a custom ROM and the only way to get themes is thru a custom ROM....
So if anyone can tell me how to go about getting my phone to recover using clockwork and any links i need to download the stuff I would greatly appreciate it! Thanks!!!
Just bricked my phone i think!!!
Ok so i just followed all of the directions on this sight on how to do it, i backed up my apps with titanium then put my phone in download mode with odin and tried to flash the kernal for my phone to upgrade it and on odin it just said on the screen part, modem, it was green and nothing else happened so i unplugged it because it wouldnt reboot even after waiting a while (10min) and then the screen just showed a broken link between phone and comp and wouldnt change, so i looked at how to restore it with odin and did that and now it will go to the download screen again but nothing else! PLEASE HELP!!!!
follow this guide it will solve all your problems press the thanks button
ok so i wouldnt say im a noob but im not as advanced as some of yous. last night i flashed a leaked ics onto my phone and loved it with one exception. i couldnt figure out how to root it. all my apps are backed up on titanium backup and i didnt want to have to get all of them manually. so i flashed back to stock using odin with a file i used back when that crappy update came out. i rooted it with super one click and and then went to put on a prerooted ics... when in recovery mode now i get this message
cant access to '/system/csc/att/system/'
i try putting on cwm and siyah and i keep getting authentication errors and the installation aborts. also recovery mode wont read my external sd card now. when the phone is booted up it works fine except i tried to do the factory ota update and it keeps failing. i tried reflashing back to stock again and did the update unrooted and it still failed.
i know you guys hate hate when people ask without researching so i did SOME forum browsing and found nothing. sorry i dont really have time to look too extensively. i just want to know how to fix it. i appreciate any help i can get
Joeyjr25 said:
ok so i wouldnt say im a noob but im not as advanced as some of yous. last night i flashed a leaked ics onto my phone and loved it with one exception. i couldnt figure out how to root it. all my apps are backed up on titanium backup and i didnt want to have to get all of them manually. so i flashed back to stock using odin with a file i used back when that crappy update came out. i rooted it with super one click and and then went to put on a prerooted ics... when in recovery mode now i get this message
cant access to '/system/csc/att/system/'
i try putting on cwm and siyah and i keep getting authentication errors and the installation aborts. also recovery mode wont read my external sd card now. when the phone is booted up it works fine except i tried to do the factory ota update and it keeps failing. i tried reflashing back to stock again and did the update unrooted and it still failed.
i know you guys hate hate when people ask without researching so i did SOME forum browsing and found nothing. sorry i dont really have time to look too extensively. i just want to know how to fix it. i appreciate any help i can get
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Start with getting back to stock using this guide. Check for ICS bootloaders too, you probably flashed them and you have to get stock ones back (careful, flashing bootloaders can cause hardbricking). Once you're back to stock and rooted, you shouldn't need to ever use PC Odin again.
Then use this guide for rooting/flashing.
One other note: when you tried to install CWM, it sounds like you loaded an update.zip onto your phone then tried to install it using stock recovery. Stock recovery won't let you install unsigned update.zips, which is why that method for getting CWM on your phone will never work (hence the authentication error and installation abort). For our phone, CWM is only included in custom kernels, that's the only way to get it on there, and don't even think about updating or changing it via other means. Just flash a custom kernel, it'll include CWM, use it until you want to switch kernels.
Hit my thanks button, I was really nice this time. And post in Q/A next time as well.
EDIT: Skip the second guide if all you want is stock. You should be able to update OTA after following the first guide. Though even if stock is what you want, I highly recommend flashing a custom GB kernel because a) they're more stable and faster and b) you'll have CWM in case you need it.
You started off mentioning about "leak ics" which I have absolutely zero experience.
My suggestion:
1. Try to get it back to stock. Make sure it works correctly.
2. If hasn't rooted yet, do so.
3. Getting CMW into the device by flashing custom kernel.
4. From there, install any ICS ROM you want.
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.
N_L said:
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
Hi, i'm new to rooting and flashing. I recently rooted my phone using odin, and flashed a custom rom. I thought I did a backup of my original hardware but can't seem to get back to it. When using the custom rom, everything works except for sound or any apps that require sound, that includes the phone dialer so I can't recieve or make calls. I tried flashing new roms, I even unrooted and installed the stock s4 bell canada rom.
When the phone reboots, it'll say kernel is not seandroid enforcing, and from what I understand, that means that maybe my phone is still rooted??
Currently, i'm back to my stock s4 rom, but sound and phone still doesn't work. Please if anyone has any info on this it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
rhabib2008 said:
Hi, i'm new to rooting and flashing. I recently rooted my phone using odin, and flashed a custom rom. I thought I did a backup of my original hardware but can't seem to get back to it. When using the custom rom, everything works except for sound or any apps that require sound, that includes the phone dialer so I can't recieve or make calls. I tried flashing new roms, I even unrooted and installed the stock s4 bell canada rom.
When the phone reboots, it'll say kernel is not seandroid enforcing, and from what I understand, that means that maybe my phone is still rooted??
Currently, i'm back to my stock s4 rom, but sound and phone still doesn't work. Please if anyone has any info on this it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
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Having the same problem. Did you ever get it figured out?
Hey, yup I did. U basically started from scratch. Downloaded proper Rom files and rerooted cleared cache etc, and re flashed. Then for some reason everything worked. There's the link in s4 Canadian forum with title along the lines of 'all in one' follow that. If u have trouble finding it, lemme know, I'll try and get it for u
HI did you have the link of the site? I also have the problem :/
rhabib2008 said:
Hey, yup I did. U basically started from scratch. Downloaded proper Rom files and rerooted cleared cache etc, and re flashed. Then for some reason everything worked. There's the link in s4 Canadian forum with title along the lines of 'all in one' follow that. If u have trouble finding it, lemme know, I'll try and get it for u
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Link
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2314494