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Last week I was running Cm10 port with datadata without any issues. In a bad time I saw a new kernel version and I flashed that. After flash I got boot loop so I tried to go into recovery but to add to my bad luck recovery didn't work. So I thought Odin is the only option now. I odin back to stock and phone started working. Now time comes for more bad things to me
Day 1
I installed the CWR and tried to install SLIM 4.2 which was on my SD card. Install went fine and system booted. I soon as I booted I saw my SD card got formatted and I lost my IMEI with EFS folfer empty. I tried to restore EFS from backup but it didnt work so I odin back to JFD which gave my IMEI back. I tried slim again and same thing, again lost IMEI.
I thought lets try with different kernel, I flashed subzero kernel and rebooted into recovery again. Flashed zip and all went fine. Rebooted system after flash but system again went back to recovery. Flashed zip 2-3 time but same recovery again and again( Like a recovery loop)
Here I odin back to JFD and also flashed gingerbread bootloaders to make my life easy.
Day 2
Downloaded biwinning redux v1 which is 2.2.1 ROM. Install went smooth and I was able to use it.
Now I got new red recovery and it automatically enabled voodoo.
Here I tried to install HellyBean and got status 7 error. So I tried to flash devil intial package but status 7 again. So I flashed icy glitchy kernel and install went fine.
As soon as I reboot system all I had was small orange bar at the bottom and nothing else.
It was like I only have kernel but no system. Rebooted into recovery and flashed files again. Still same thing. So I flashed initial package on top of icy glitch and again install went fine. Phone got recovery loop again.
Damm...ODIN back to JFD and installed biwinning redux again as nothing else seems to be working for me.
Day 3
ODIN back to JFD and flashed icy glich kernel.
Flashed latest CM9 build. As soon as I flashed it, phone rebooted twice with some fast scrolling text. After that it keeps on rebooting and seems like its trying to find some file as I can see some red exclamation sign when it reboots.
Odin devil kernel tar file and flashed files again. But after cm9 files I just get black screen, waited for 10 minutes and nothing.
I odin again to JFD and restored nandroid of biwinning.
So I am again on 2.2.1 rom and seems like I am stuck on it.
Please suggest me what should I do....and I have already tried more then what I told.
Right now I am on biwinning redux v1(2.2.1 rom) with vodoo enabled and Gingerbread bootloaders
Go back to stock, flash straight from stock one of CM9 nightlies and then you will be able to flash to JB
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mikka06 said:
Go back to stock, flash straight from stock one of CM9 nightlies and then you will be able to flash to JB
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Already tried that. Phone keeps rebooting after flash...script keeps looking for something and gives me loop.
You have to flash twice from stock to CM9. After that you should be good
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You have to flash twice from stock to CM9. After that you should be good
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Can you please please give me step by step instructions from stock. I just dont want to odin again...already did like 10 times and now I am at breaking point.
Ok, so flash back to stock. Reroot your phone,so under recovery hit "reinstall packages" (once or twice, i always have to do it twice). Once you're in the new recovery flash any of CM9 nightlies. You will have some bootloops due to the recovery mismatch. Don't panic, take out the battery, put it back and go again in the recovery (vol up+vol down+power button if you're on froyo bootloaders or vol down+power button for gb bootloaders). Once you're in the recovery flash CM9. Once on ICS you should flash JB.
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Ok, so flash back to stock. Reroot your phone,so under recovery hit "reinstall packages" (once or twice, i always have to do it twice). Once you're in the new recovery flash any of CM9 nightlies. You will have some bootloops due to the recovery mismatch. Don't panic, take out the battery, put it back and go again in the recovery (vol up+vol down+power button if you're on froyo bootloaders or vol down+power button for gb bootloaders). Once you're in the recovery flash CM9. Once on ICS you should flash JB.
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Trying ..thanks
Update : Everything went smooth. I am on Slim Bean now
So the problem was when I got bootloops with cm9 , I was odin back but instead I had to reboot into recovery and flash again without changing any kernel. When I was getting bootloops I was installing kernel again.
Thank you for all the help
Haha good times .
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Well, I was previously running Comm rom, and i decided to switch to CM7 7/13
This didn't go so well. I Odin'd DL09 with atlas and repartitioned then installed Cmw and still Status 7 when I try to install. Then I tried installing 7/4 and it would just say something like "Checking BML" Or something, i forgot... and it would just reboot into cwm. I was running JT's cwm fix, and i tried with cwm all... I don't know what to do. Now my fascinate won't install comm rom, and every rom install just leads up to booting up in cwm.. no samsung logo.. Help??
Edit: Phone is now in "Manual mode"
i guess samsung recovery? but it wont boot. It just reboots into the same recovery after i press "reboot system now"
please? :'(
Just do this
after fighting with my phone yesterday trying to get it running this is what i did
Step one may be unnecessary but this is what i did.
1) Odined ED01 image let it boot. then Odind CWM3 3 finger salute. Flashed CommRom 2.0 when that was done i booted into CWM and disabled the VooDoo rebooted when the conversion was done.... i did step 2
2) in the OP of cm7 flash or odin the cwm
then flash the 07/04...
once that is up use the shutdown menu to access the Orange [cwm 4.0] cwm.
if you do a three finger salute it takes you to the RED [CWM 3.0] cwm.
Then flash the updates.
And suspect there was an issue with the Voodoo even though it said it was disabled. Good Luck
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Just do this
after fighting with my phone yesterday trying to get it running this is what i did
Step one may be unnecessary but this is what i did.
1) Odined ED01 image let it boot. then Odind CWM3 3 finger salute. Flashed CommRom 2.0 when that was done i booted into CWM and disabled the VooDoo rebooted when the conversion was done.... i did step 2
2) in the OP of cm7 flash or odin the cwm
then flash the 07/04...
once that is up use the shutdown menu to access the Orange [cwm 4.0] cwm.
if you do a three finger salute it takes you to the RED [CWM 3.0] cwm.
Then flash the updates.
And suspect there was an issue with the Voodoo even though it said it was disabled. Good Luck
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That's the thing... It wont boot to anything i install on it.. But it sure as hell boots to ANY cwm i install... and it also boots to normal recovery in the absence of a cwm....
Can you get back to stock using odin? If you can try flashing a custom kernel after you flash the cwm recovery.
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Can you get back to stock using odin? If you can try flashing a custom kernel after you flash the cwm recovery.
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I can flash the DL09 with odin... but ive been there... 20 times. I havent tried a kernel but it probably wouldnt work seeing as it only boots back into cwm. I'm desperate...
EDIT: flashed EB01 voodoo... still boots into CWM... omg.
jamespweb1503 said:
I can flash the DL09 with odin... but ive been there... 20 times. I havent tried a kernel but it probably wouldnt work seeing as it only boots back into cwm. I'm desperate...
EDIT: flashed EB01 voodoo... still boots into CWM... omg.
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Have you tried flashing the official vzw eb01..(not dl09 and not eb01voodoo) file with pit and repartition checked? If not do that and let it boot completely. You need to do this to make sure your ext4 partition is formatted to remove voodoo.
After you odin official vzw eb01 with the pit file and repartition checked let it boot fully.then odin 3-30 recovery and immediately boot to cwr...if it boots up fully you will have to re odin recovery.
At this point wipe everything and flash com rom 2.0 that will give you root, recovery and the rom....from there you can go to com rom 2.1or whatever your want but your phone should be up and running
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Have you tried flashing the official vzw eb01..(not dl09 and not eb01voodoo) file with pit and repartition checked? If not do that and let it boot completely. You need to do this to make sure your ext4 partition is formatted to remove voodoo.
After you odin official vzw eb01 with the pit file and repartition checked let it boot fully.then odin 3-30 recovery and immediately boot to cwr...if it boots up fully you will have to re odin recovery.
At this point wipe everything and flash com rom 2.0 that will give you root, recovery and the rom....from there you can go to com rom 2.1or whatever your want but your phone should be up and running
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My phone crashed this morning after running the daily OMFGB from the 31st for a few days. I tried to restart, it won't go past the Glitch Kernel screen. When I go into recovery, I am greeted with this message:
ClockwordMod Recovery v4.0.1.0
E: can't mount /cache/recovery/command
E: can't mount /cache/recovery/log
E: can't open /cache/recovery/log
E: can't mount /cache/recovery/last_log
E: can't open /cache/recovery/last_log
wiping data, did not help. reflashing the rom and kernel did not help. I still can't start the phone. What are the steps I need to take to fix this as I am currently not able to use my phone at all.
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My phone crashed this morning after running the daily OMFGB from the 31st for a few days. I tried to restart, it won't go past the Glitch Kernel screen. When I go into recovery, I am greeted with this message:
ClockwordMod Recovery v4.0.1.0
E: can't mount /cache/recovery/command
E: can't mount /cache/recovery/log
E: can't open /cache/recovery/log
E: can't mount /cache/recovery/last_log
E: can't open /cache/recovery/last_log
wiping data, did not help. reflashing the rom and kernel did not help. I still can't start the phone. What are the steps I need to take to fix this as I am currently not able to use my phone at all.
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Same thing happened to me yesterday..the only way I got my phone working again was to odin eb01 with the atlas 2.2..reboot fully...I then tried to go back to cm7 and got the same message and the only way I was about to fix it was to flash the com rom 2.0 obviously wipe everything before..let that boot and tried to flash cm7 with the recovery from com rom....still same message...i had to odin otb3.x.x.recovery... Download times infinity's recovery zip and flash that in otb recovery, then reboot recovery so I had ti's purple recovery...wipe everything and flash cm7...and success! I used the 7/17 build cause I didn't want nightly then rebooted from power button menu and flashed glitch and gapps.
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Oh my goodness, sounds like something is really busted. Do you think it is OMFGB related? Yikes.
I have same thing, but I cant get the phone to show in download mode to odin anything
Same here. I'm now stuck in a boot loop. I can't even restore a backup.
Edit: Just tried to do a restore and the MD5 Sums don't match. I've had to do Odin reset three times today.
I think I might do Vodoo and try to restore that way. I will report back.
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Oh my goodness, sounds like something is really busted. Do you think it is OMFGB related? Yikes.
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No I don't think its omfgb related cause I've never ran that rom but I do think it has something to do with all the different recoveries we have floating around and so many different builds with different formats things are bound to get screwed up...my problem came from forgetting to wipe before flashing a different kernel and got me stuck in a boot loop.
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I've had this problem ever since I got my Fascinate and tried to get CM7 on it. (2 days ago) I was always able to flash new builds just fine if I managed to get into the orange recovery and not the CM7 one. I believe the one I used was the one on ROM Manager.
This is kinda upsetting...
Hyphnx said:
Same here. I'm now stuck in a boot loop. I can't even restore a backup.
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Its not the quickest but it should get you back...odin eb01 with the atlas 2.2pit...and reboot. Then odin recovery boot immediately to recovery via 3 finger salute...wipe everything and flash the rom you want...I've had good luck with cwm 3-30 fix all or otb 3x.x.x....if you want to go to cm7 odin the fixed recovery in jt's post and flash cm7 from that recovery....the sticky in the dev section...going from cm7/miui/gb to any other rom should give you some good info and instructions
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Its not the quickest but it should get you back...odin eb01 with the atlas 2.2pit...and reboot. Then odin recovery boot immediately to recovery via 3 finger salute...wipe everything and flash the rom you want...I've had good luck with cwm 3-30 fix all or otb 3x.x.x....if you want to go to cm7 odin the fixed recovery in jt's post and flash cm7 from that recovery....the sticky in the dev section...going from cm7/miui/gb to any other rom should give you some good info and instructions
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We are having problems with the recovery he posted in his post.
Tried CWM-Recovery-All, turned my phone into muffed up phone. UGH!
Sorry for the double post. I've had to Odin 2 more times which makes it a total of 5 today. I used all the recoveries that are available. One at a time and they all end in the same way.
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Sorry for the double post. I've had to Odin 2 more times which makes it a total of 5 today. I used all the recoveries that are available. One at a time and they all end in the same way.
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So what rom are you running now?
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efan450 said:
Same thing happened to me yesterday..the only way I got my phone working again was to odin eb01 with the atlas 2.2..reboot fully...I then tried to go back to cm7 and got the same message and the only way I was about to fix it was to flash the com rom 2.0 obviously wipe everything before..let that boot and tried to flash cm7 with the recovery from com rom....still same message...i had to odin otb3.x.x.recovery... Download times infinity's recovery zip and flash that in otb recovery, then reboot recovery so I had ti's purple recovery...wipe everything and flash cm7...and success! I used the 7/17 build cause I didn't want nightly then rebooted from power button menu and flashed glitch and gapps.
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".i had to odin otb3.x.x.recovery... Download times infinity's recovery zip and flash that in otb recovery"
can you link to that? Is it the voodoo one form here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1046905
and which is the recovery zip that u flashed from otb recovery? can you link to them, i don't wanna screw this up any more than i already have.
alemondemon said:
".i had to odin otb3.x.x.recovery... Download times infinity's recovery zip and flash that in otb recovery"
can you link to that? Is it the voodoo one form here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1046905
and which is the recovery zip that u flashed from otb recovery? can you link to them, i don't wanna screw this up any more than i already have.
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Yup...boot into the otb 3x.x.x recovery and flash the times infinity.zip and then select reboot recovery while in cwm and it should go from the otb one to the times infinity one...at that point wipe everything and flash cm7 build 7/17..not the nightly....once your on the mtd build you can flash the nightly if you wanted
From the power button menu
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Edit: I suppose you could just odin times infinity's recovery...I just happened to have the zip on my sd handy so thats why I did it that way...it was that recovery that worked so you could odin it if you wanted it's in the link you posted try flashing it from ti's recovery..I just got there a little differently
Any suggestions if you cant get odin to recognize the phone? Ive tried three Win7 machines both x86 and x64 and three different cables...ALL of them say unknown device. Ive tried pointing to both the Sammy drivers and the nexus ones with no luck.
My phone was revived by simply doing the atlas odin method. I then flashed a fully rooted image...and from there on it's child's play. With that said, I can't get into download mode now, to odin things. What could be causing that? Not, very urgent, because at the moment the phone is running like it should
Thanks so much!
OK so I copied infinity times cwm red to phone and applied that. I still got message about cache. I ran the cwm4 from recovery and now Im back to square one again. I can try to install a ROM, but it boot loops everytime. Can my phone be revived w/o odin? Do I need an updated update.zip file?
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OK so I copied infinity times cwm red to phone and applied that. I still got message about cache. I ran the cwm4 from recovery and now Im back to square one again. I can try to install a ROM, but it boot loops everytime. Can my phone be revived w/o odin? Do I need an updated update.zip file?
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unfortunately a boot loop normally requires odin...use the eb01 tar and the atlas 2.2pit and your phone will be back up and running
From there I would flash com rom and reboot then if you wanna take a stab at cm7...try and flash it with the com rom recovery...if it doesn't work you can just try odin'ing different recoveries as long as you don't let the phone boot fully you can simply pull the battery and try to odin a different recovery.try the one from com rom, the 3-30 fix all, ti's recovery, or jt's fixed recovery...I don't know where I got the file but I also have a recovery named fixed 3 x.x for cm7 but I came remember where I got it.it is important that you let eb01 sit for a few minutes after booting and also let com rom sit for a few minutes after flashing also...I just skipped all the setup stuff to get the main screen and then pulled the battery and started flashing
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Any suggestions if you cant get odin to recognize the phone? Ive tried three Win7 machines both x86 and x64 and three different cables...ALL of them say unknown device. Ive tried pointing to both the Sammy drivers and the nexus ones with no luck.
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I'm running vista home edition...if it matters and I'm using odin v.1.7 try the samsung generic drivers also.but once I'm on cm7 my pc says it doesn't recognize my phone but if I put it in download mode and hook up odin recognizes it...so I'm not sure on that one
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alemondemon said:
My phone was revived by simply doing the atlas odin method. I then flashed a fully rooted image...and from there on it's child's play. With that said, I can't get into download mode now, to odin things. What could be causing that? Not, very urgent, because at the moment the phone is running like it should
Thanks so much!
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Try holding the down button while you plug into your wall charger then just move it to your pc...if that doesn't work...clean the contacts with rubbing alcohol...with the phone off.at worse case there is a jig you can manually force download mode...you can buy or make them
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I was sent a Fascinate as a Droid Incredible replacement. I was able to root it without a hitch but now my CWM can't mount anything. Won't mount anything can't bring up any logs. I am using the CM7 Clockwork and my phone is now bricked and I'm tired of using Odin to restore it and root it again then flash CWM and CM7, I lose all my games and free apps which I have to download again.
What am I doing wrong?
Also, are you using atlas.pit when odining to stock? After doing what does the phone stop working entirely (IE does the phone boot up CM7 and then brick, or can it not load CM7 at all)? Can you run stock without your phone breaking?
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Also, are you using atlas.pit when odining to stock? After doing what does the phone stop working entirely (IE does the phone boot up CM7 and then brick, or can it not load CM7 at all)? Can you run stock without your phone breaking?
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Yeah. I can work on stock just great.
What is the best rooting method to use if I plan on using CM7?
What I do is use Super One Click to root (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=803682), then flash the custom CM7 CWM, and then flash CM7 in the custom recovery after wiping data, cache, and dalvik.
Use the CM7 from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1190668
Do I use the recovery in that thread? I've been using that one as well. I will re download the rom then.
Yes. Here are the exact steps from that thread after rooting with SuperOneClick:
Start with a rooted device (do not ask us how to do this).
Flash ClockworkMod Recovery attached to this post.
Download and push the ROM zip file to the sdcard.
Reboot into recovery.
Do a Nandroid Backup!
Wipe Data! Seriously! Do it!
Install the ROM zip from sdcard
Install gapps package linked here (http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=Latest_Version#Google_Apps)
Alright. Let me try that again now. I just put the Nightly #8 on my SDCARD
Flashed it through the recovery, it's at the Samsung logo now. I am going to leave it there for a bit and see if that changes.
Yeah. It's stuck at the logo. I reboot into recovery and I get the log errors. That's 6 Odin resets today.
Make sure you use atlas.pit when restoring to stock. If you are following those directions exactly, all I can say at this point is to try another ROM (maybe MIUI or OMGB) and see if that works, unless another poster wants to take a stab at this.
Yeah, I'm using the atlas 2.2.pit
I had it working yesterday but only if I flashed the rom using the orange recovery through ROM Manager. I might try that again.
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Alright. Let me try that again now. I just put the Nightly #8 on my SDCARD
Flashed it through the recovery, it's at the Samsung logo now. I am going to leave it there for a bit and see if that changes.
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I think the nightly might be your problem?...my $.02...and there are a lot of extra steps but it works for me if I really can't get cm7 to load (I've done this more then once)
Odin eb01 with the atlas 2.2pit and reboot fully when odin is done.
Pull battery...Odin cwm 3/30 fix all..and when that's done, install battery and 3 finger salute into recovery....wipe everything and flash com rom 2.0 and reboot.
This is where you may have to try different recoveries, putting com rom on your phone gives you root, recovery and voodoo. So from here if your recovery doesn't properly flash cm7 you can simply pull the battery re odin a different recovery and try again, as long as you don't try to reboot the phone.
Make sure you are using the 7/17 build from, jt's pretty much official cm7 Thread, not the nightly. even if this is not what you want it should properly get you to mtd format, so another rom on an mtd build can just be flash the good old way.
I've had the cwm4.x.x.x work fine and then today it would not work after I flash a different kernel with out wiping anything...oops! I've had 3/30 fix all cwm give me the best results but even today would not work.
What did work was using the com rom recovery to flash times infinity's purple recovery zip...reboot recovery into the purple one, and then wipe everything and flash cm7 7/17...ugh finally! Once I was there just power button menu... reboot recovery to install gapps, and glitch. You could at this point wipe cache and dalvik and flash nightly if you wanted...hope some of this helps.
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I've had the same problem tryin to flash all mtd based roms...it always sticks at the samsung logo when I three finger back to recovery. I get the error logs aswell...**** sucks lol. That's odining ed05, fully boot, odin cwm 4 fix for cm7, boot recovery, wipe data,cache, dalvick, install rom.zip, all for a samsung logo and log error lol. So instead of spending 5hrs trying to flash a rom, I spent 10min and flashed power wash ed05, works great!
I am sure, this has been posted somewhere, but am new to this forum and cannot find it. please bear with me.
I installed CM7 on my Galaxy ace and tried to restore back to stock ROM. the restoration failed, the phone is now in a bootloop (the samsung logo flashes once every two seconds). I tried getting the phone into recovery mode but it does not get that far.
However, I am able to get the phone to download mode and tried loading the stock 2.3.3, 2.3.5 ROM via ODIN. Both times, ODIN passed the installation. but my phone has not improved. can anyone please help?
PS: consider me a beginner.
after flashing from odin go to recovery and do full wipe
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after flashing from odin go to recovery and do full wipe
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I wish I could do that. My phone does not get that far.. it restarts before that. Can I do this from the PC anyway?
Search clockwork mod recovery that has 205mg its flashable via odin
Try to flash this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1121192
Flash it with odin choose it as pda
might say aint compatibile but flash anway
yeah. just tried that. I downloaded the file and chose that as PDA and flashed my phone with odin.. I am still getting the same problem. I guess, the warranty is void since I installed CM7.. so what to do now?
well before giving up you could just let it do its thing for like an hour and see what happens...
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Flashed a full package ROM ?
Herpderp Adreno + Tegra.
Wait from where did you downloaded firmware snd which version of odin did you used.
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the same happened to me also.
in the past i've flashed my ace with cm7 and wanted to go back to the stock rom.
flashed the stock rom with odin but the phone stuck in a boot loop.
if you have flashed stock rom with odin..
do this..
remove the phone batteries and let them out for a minute.
after that insert the battery again and goto the Recovery mode by holding the power and the home button.
once you are in recovery (Clockworkmod Recovery).
do a data/factory wipe.
a cache wipe
and a Dalvik Wipe.
and reboot the phone.
hope you phone boots normally.
Am using ODIN version 4.38.
downloaded the original CM7 version from this site ported by grif (Kooper Kang something).
When I had problems with that, I tried to revert to Stock rom 2.3.3 from sammobile.com
To answer other question, I am NOT able to go to the recovery menu. Hence cannot wipe cache, reset etc. The phone restarts before that. The only mode I am able to switch on is the Download mode. Even if I reload the ROM with ODIN showing a "PASSED" at the end of the process, my phone is still a brick.
Thanks to everyone who tried to help.
Seriously, I've seen this before. It can only be fixed by the service centre... flash the stock rom and take it in under warranty if you still have it.
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Seriously, I've seen this before. It can only be fixed by the service centre... flash the stock rom and take it in under warranty if you still have it.
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Wrong, after flash the stock rom with ODIN take battery, insertt battery, the keep pressed Home button and Power button until it goes to Samsung Recovery, then do the full wipe and reboot.
Last week I flashed LD3 for my Galaxy S2 i777. Today I was going to flash CM9. Every time I tried to boot into recovery it just started the phone.
I figured I could use mobile odin to flash a new kernel and it would fix it. Like an idiot I used a Gingerbread kernel on my phone running an ICS rom. So of course my phone froze on the "Galaxy S2" screen.
I couldn't boot into recovery and freaked out because I couldn't boot into dl either. I ordered a jig but kept fiddling in the meantime. I found that if I hook my phone to the USB, wait for the battery charging icon, take the battery out, then hold the down button it would boot into dl mode. Then I had to put the battery back in before I clicked continue or else it just reset.
Ok, so got into DL mode. I grabbed the stock rom and kernel from XDA site and flashed them with Odin. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1286432 (can't post links yet).
The phone starts and setup mode begins. It shows the android figure and says click it. Now all kinds of errors pop up telling me different google services weren't working and force close. When you click the android figure it goes to setup wizard screen but nothing happens (except more android service errors).
Can someone help me out here? I've been at it 5 hours and searched this forum high and low. My thought is there are some ICS elements left behind in there it is trying to load, but I could be way off.
I still can't boot into recovery mode, just DL.
PenguinSpark said:
Last week I flashed LD3 for my Galaxy S2 i777. Today I was going to flash CM9. Every time I tried to boot into recovery it just started the phone.
I figured I could use mobile odin to flash a new kernel and it would fix it. Like an idiot I used a Gingerbread kernel on my phone running an ICS rom. So of course my phone froze on the "Galaxy S2" screen.
I couldn't boot into recovery and freaked out because I couldn't boot into dl either. I ordered a jig but kept fiddling in the meantime. I found that if I hook my phone to the USB, wait for the battery charging icon, take the battery out, then hold the down button it would boot into dl mode. Then I had to put the battery back in before I clicked continue or else it just reset.
Ok, so got into DL mode. I grabbed the stock rom and kernel from XDA site and flashed them with Odin. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1286432 (can't post links yet).
The phone starts and setup mode begins. It shows the android figure and says click it. Now all kinds of errors pop up telling me different google services weren't working and force close. When you click the android figure it goes to setup wizard screen but nothing happens (except more android service errors).
Can someone help me out here? I've been at it 5 hours and searched this forum high and low. My thought is there are some ICS elements left behind in there it is trying to load, but I could be way off.
I still can't boot into recovery mode, just DL.
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Did you do a full wipe before flashing the stock rom and kernel?
I did not do a full wipe. How can I go about that without logging into recovery? I'm googling that now but if you have linkage I would appreciate it.
mattdm said:
Did you do a full wipe before flashing the stock rom and kernel?
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dont need to wipe when using Odin/Heimdall.
To OP:
there is only factory recovery, no CWM, you could always just flash a kernal from the DEV section, get CWM, flash CM9.
If I flash another kernel wouldn't I still have the same problem? I'll go ahead and give it a shot. Any you recommend for any reason or other?
PenguinSpark said:
If I flash another kernel wouldn't I still have the same problem? I'll go ahead and give it a shot. Any you recommend for any reason or other?
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So let me get the straight...you're on unrooted stock right now? If that's true, you should:
1. Do a factory reset from settings.
2. Use Odin to flash the Stock with Root package.
3. Use Mobile Odin to flash either Entropy's DD or Siyah.
4. Use CWM to flash what you want after that.
PenguinSpark said:
If I flash another kernel wouldn't I still have the same problem? I'll go ahead and give it a shot. Any you recommend for any reason or other?
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recovery is in kernal. If you flash a kernal from the DEV section you'll get CWM recovery, then you can flash your CM9 that you wanted, after a wipe data/factory reset.
MotoMudder77 said:
recovery is in kernal. If you flash a kernal from the DEV section you'll get CWM recovery, then you can flash your CM9 that you wanted, after a wipe data/factory reset.
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Yes, but if he flashes said kernel with Odin, it'll trip his flash counter. I'm just telling him the safe way to do it, Mobile Odin.
I've already tripped my counter. I have a jig that will be here tomorrow so I can use it to reset the counter.
I can't use mobile odin because I can't log into my phone. I can only use desktop Odin.
All the files I am digging up look like .zip made for cwm. Could someone help guide me towards a kernel I can flash from desktop?
PenguinSpark said:
I've already tripped my counter. I have a jig that will be here tomorrow so I can use it to reset the counter.
I can't use mobile odin because I can't log into my phone. I can only use desktop Odin.
All the files I am digging up look like .zip made for cwm. Could someone help guide me towards a kernel I can flash from desktop?
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Either Entropy's DD or Siyah. You can open the zip and extract the zimage; the zimage is the kernel.
I just tried using Syiah:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1367800&highlight=cf-root
I still get this message:
"The process android.process.acore has stopped unexpectedly. please try again"
I can't get past the setup screen.
And I still can't access recovery.
PenguinSpark said:
I just tried using Syiah:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1367800&highlight=cf-root
I still get this message:
"The process android.process.acore has stopped unexpectedly. please try again"
I can't get past the setup screen.
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you flashed siyah kernal, booted into recovery, wiped data, and reflashed and are still getting this?
I can't boot to recovery
PenguinSpark said:
I can't boot to recovery
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Flash the return to stock package from Odin again. Something must have gone wrong with it the first time.
well thats wierd. Sorry man but are you doing it right?
vol down and power. hold it untill the screen flashes twice.
I flashed stock 3 times now. I couldn't get into recovery before this (manually or with rom manager) and still can't. It starts like its going into recovery then just resets and loads normally.
Down is for dl mode, up is recovery.
I think the lack of ability to boot into recovery and the android service errors may be related.
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I flashed stock 3 times now. I couldn't get into recovery before this (manually or with rom manager) and still can't. It starts like its going into recovery then just resets and loads normally.
Down is for dl mode, up is recovery.
I think the lack of ability to boot into recovery and the android service errors may be related.
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Forget recovery. You shouldn't be worrying about recovery until after you get your phone booting.
New thought: maybe your download of the stock package is corrupted. Try to download it on your computer again. Download the one with root. If that fixes it, you can go use Mobile Odin to flash the Siyah kernel.
To get into recovery hold down both volume up, volume down, and power button and don't let go until recovery comes up.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I777 using XDA
I have been using the rooted. The fully stock won't dl. This started because I flashed a gb kernel instead of ics. Maybe I should try flashing an ics kernel instead of stock gb?