My wife is having problems with her S2, which is stock Gingerbread, unrooted and still under warranty. The two main problems are:
- She is unable to send texts to one of her contacts unless she deletes all previous text threads with that contact first (this is using the stock messaging app)
- The phone frequently freezes, with the screen blank, immediately after dialling an outbound call. Sometimes it responds again after half a minute or so; other times it needs to be rebooted.
A factory reset helped for a while, but the problems have now returned. We could return the phone under warranty, but that would leave my wife without a phone. I'd rather try an upgrade to ICS, but am concerned that this might void the warranty.
Is there a way of installing ICS on an unlocked, unrooted phone which will not void the warranty if we do eventually need to send the phone back for repair?
You can flash official ICS ROM through Odin, if you use ROM that has same region like the Gingerbread one, then it should impossible to notice. But I might be wrong, see responses below.
Yep! Like mentioned above^ flash firmware via odin, visit www.sammobile.com and go to firmware and search for i9100. Then find appropriate files and download. After that, open up odin, click on PDA and choose your downloaded files and press start. After it finishes boot into recovery and wipe data and now you have stock ics!
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UltimateAnas said:
Yep! Like mentioned above^ flash firmware via odin, visit www.sammobile.com and go to firmware and search for i9100. Then find appropriate files and download. After that, open up odin, click on PDA and choose your downloaded files and press start. After it finishes boot into recovery and wipe data and now you have stock ics!
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Will this definitely NOT void the warranty?
100% No!
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itm said:
My wife is having problems with her S2, which is stock Gingerbread, unrooted and still under warranty. The two main problems are:
- She is unable to send texts to one of her contacts unless she deletes all previous text threads with that contact first (this is using the stock messaging app)
- The phone frequently freezes, with the screen blank, immediately after dialling an outbound call. Sometimes it responds again after half a minute or so; other times it needs to be rebooted.
A factory reset helped for a while, but the problems have now returned. We could return the phone under warranty, but that would leave my wife without a phone. I'd rather try an upgrade to ICS, but am concerned that this might void the warranty.
Is there a way of installing ICS on an unlocked, unrooted phone which will not void the warranty if we do eventually need to send the phone back for repair?
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100% YES.
It's possible, to upgrade your phone without voiding warranty but the method needs little reading, and understanding because any wrong doing, can potentially spoil/brick your phone.
My advise:
1. Upgrade the phone via Samsung repair center:
-walk into any Samsung customer care/repair center,
-tell them you wish to upgrade your phone to ICS
-their technician will upgrade the phone within few minutes and you go home with that phone same day.
2. Manually upgrade the phone yourself.
Note: this method will not void your warranty if you download the ICS firmware for your country/region (this is very important)
- Visit www.sammobile.com/firmware/
- select the firmware for your phone's model no, and country
-Download the firmware
-Download latest version of Samsung kies
When you are through with the downloads, let me know so as to post the tutorial about flashing via Odin.
Swyped from my Galaxy SII
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Right, my dad has a GS2 and it is crashing a few times a week, before trying a warranty claim we want to try sort it ourself. So we're going to try flash/update it.
Current phone info:
Android vers 2.3.3
Baseband 19100XXKDA
PDA i9100XWKD6
PHONE i9100XXKDA
CSC i9100CPWKD1
KERNAL [email protected]#2
KIES says no updates and tbh I think CPW have abandoned it and it will never see an update.
Anyway will flashing an official firmware with Odin kill the warranty? Will it add to the counter?
As there is no other firmware out for the CPW model, I'm thinking of going for
I9100XWKJ1 O2 UK
as that's the network it's on anyway so will have the settings and O2 barely brand their firmware anyway.
Will change it from CPW to O2 UK affect the warranty? This is essentially changing the product ID so it won't match the serial/IMEI if Samsung check?
It's my dad's phone so he doesn't care about cutting edge or rooting, all he wants is stability and to preserver the warranty. Both these things are very important. I can handle the flashing etc, just not sure about the versions.
Thanks.
Best advice I can give you is, if you've never run custom firmware on it & have only been running stock, don't try and 'fix it yourselves'. Send it in for warranty service.
If you flash any firmware in Odin it will add to the flash counter, so you'll need a jig to reset if you ever send it in for warranty service. Some people report having their phones repaired under warranty regardless of whether they've reset the counter or not, and many report they've been made to pay. Obviously you're taking a risk if you don't reset it first.
That depends on whether CPW do their own repairs, have a 3rd party do them to their standards/with their rules or whether they pass them on to Samsung/a Samsung repairer to fix them. You're only going to know this if you ask CPW I imagine (unless someone who has put a warranty claim in with CPW in similar situation to you replies to this thread).
Now to firmware versions. I've had a look with Checkfus (PC version), this enables you to find/download the latest firmware for your phone/carrier/country that you'd normally get from Kies. It's telling me the latest available firmware for CPW is: 9100XWKI4/I9100CPWKH1/I9100XXKI1/I9100XWKI4 from 16/9/2011, which is obviously different to your current firmware. I'd be very surprised if this isn't later than your firmware as well.
As this is an official firmware update, I'd be very surprised if you sent a phone back with this firmware flashed (and nothing else like rooting, etc done to the phone) & your warranty service got knocked back on the basis of the firmware on the phone.
Obviously there's a very small risk of bricking your phone everytime you use Odin, but if you follow the process & your PC doesn't crap itself halfway thru or something, you should be fine ;-)
Sooo...Find/download the PC version of Checkfus (search for it on here/Google), you should be able to get the firmware I mentioned above.
Thanks, so even flashing an official firmware with Odin adds to the counter? Damn.
I can just see CPW leaving it stuck on 2.3.3 forever even when ICS is out. Annoying.
Thanks for the reply. Will have a look into Checkfus now.
FYI They will put the lastest for your handset best use a CFW which has a service center or just take it into any Sammy service center outlet..
Cheers will get him to take it in instead then. Is it worth trying a factory reset?
If it was my phone I'd be running a custom rom, but he won't lol.
Anyway whilst this problem will solve the crashing problem (hopefully). It still won't solve no ICS ever (most likely).
Yeah just spoke to him, we're not taking it in. When his Desire HD broke, he didn't have it for 3 months, and it was send off by CPW 5 times and came back with a different fault every time, reboot loop, no service etc. And it took an email to the CEO of CPW to get them to accept it was useless and give him the GS2 instead. We're just going to try a factory reset and complain about the lack of updates for a supposably generic unbranded phone.
PS: Backup your data and remove memory card before handing fone it for checks..
Sorry just updated the above.
Yeah just spoke to him, we're not taking it in. When his Desire HD broke, he didn't have it for 3 months, and it was send off by CPW 5 times and came back with a different fault every time, reboot loop, no service, black battery covers on a brown phone etc. Each time we got it back it was sent off again within a day And it took an email to the CEO of CPW to get them to accept it was useless and give him the GS2 instead. We're just going to try a factory reset and complain about the lack of updates for a supposably generic unbranded phone.
theronkinator said:
Thanks, so even flashing an official firmware with Odin adds to the counter? Damn.
I can just see CPW leaving it stuck on 2.3.3 forever even when ICS is out. Annoying.
Thanks for the reply. Will have a look into Checkfus now.
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the counter does not go up if you flash only firmware from ODIN.
on a custom kernel will trigger custom binary count to rise.
official is official. period.
A friends got a CPW GS2 on 2.3.4 so I'm going to do it myself I think.
Right I used CheckFus and get:
GT-I9100_CPW_1_20110916085339.zip
This extracts to:
I9100XWKI4_I9100CPWKH1_I9100XXKI1_HOME.tar.md5
SS_DL.dll
What I do with this in Odin as all the guides have multiple files?
Not going to do it yet anyway, going to wait for ICS and see how that goes in a few weeks. Would just like to know.
Thanks.
*edit* Ok, I think I just put the .tar.md5 in the PDA box, what is the .dll for though?
theronkinator said:
A friends got a CPW GS2 on 2.3.4 so I'm going to do it myself I think.
Right I used CheckFus and get:
GT-I9100_CPW_1_20110916085339.zip
This extracts to:
I9100XWKI4_I9100CPWKH1_I9100XXKI1_HOME.tar.md5
SS_DL.dll
What I do with this in Odin as all the guides have multiple files?
Not going to do it yet anyway, going to wait for ICS and see how that goes in a few weeks. Would just like to know.
Thanks.
*edit* Ok, I think I just put the .tar.md5 in the PDA box, what is the .dll for though?
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No idea. You don't need it though. Just do as you say, i.e flash through Odin with the .tar.md5 file in PDA. If you have problems booting afterwards then restart in recovery and do a factory wipe/reset.
Hello,
I'm going to send my Galaxy S2 in for repairs but I need to un-root it first.
I'm searching for the official Vodafone Australia kernel DUKJ1
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1113928
The kernel is there but because multiupload is down I cannot download it. I have tried Check Fus downloader but it does not have DUKJ1. Is there any other way I can get the kernel?
Also do I even need to un-root it as I have used the usb jig to reset the binary counter?
Um, actually, Checkfus does have KJ1 for Voda AU. This is the most recent firmware available for Voda AU via Kies (I just checked this with my own copy of Checkfus).
Download the entire rom and extract the kernel zImage.
If you leave a rooted kernel on it & whomever repairs the phone notices this, there's a fair chance your warranty will be deemed to have been voided. Frankly, you might as well flash the entire KJ1 rom package from Checkfus (for all whomever repairs it knows, you probably updated OTA via Kies), then do a factory reset then double check to make sure there's no trace of any apps that required root left on the phone.
Then jig it again just to be doubly sure.
Then done. Send it in for warranty service.
MistahBungle said:
Um, actually, Checkfus does have KJ1 for Voda AU. This is the most recent firmware available for Voda AU via Kies (I just checked this with my own copy of Checkfus).
Download the entire rom and extract the kernel zImage.
If you leave a rooted kernel on it & whomever repairs the phone notices this, there's a fair chance your warranty will be deemed to have been voided. Frankly, you might as well flash the entire KJ1 rom package from Checkfus (for all whomever repairs it knows, you probably updated OTA via Kies), then do a factory reset then double check to make sure there's no trace of any apps that required root left on the phone.
Then jig it again just to be doubly sure.
Then done. Send it in for warranty service.
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What version of Checkfus do you have as I can't find it. I select Android then GT-1900T but KJ1 is nowhere to be seen?
Thanks.
2.1. Android/I9100T/Australia (Vodafone). Tells you original firmware was KF2, then hit check firmware. Tells you KJ1 is latest released on 8/11/2011.
Are you sure you're using the PC version & not the phone app ?
Eye_Blake said:
What version of Checkfus do you have as I can't find it. I select Android then GT-1900T but KJ1 is nowhere to be seen?
Thanks.
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I got it working, thanks alot.
To re jig it I flashed the old bootloader, should I re flash the new bootloader or leave the old one?
No worries
Unless you have a specific reason for flashing the new bootloader (I.E. something not working without it), leave it. The less you mess around with bootloaders the better.
Eye_Blake said:
I got it working, thanks alot.
To re jig it I flashed the old bootloader, should I re flash the new bootloader or leave the old one?
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The reasons I planned on sending the phone in for repair/replacement were that is would turn on and off by itself sometimes, would open voice talk by itself almost constantly and would make the charging 'beep' noise when not plugged in.
Since unrooting none of these problems have happened again, should I still send it in for repair/replacement? Why would unrooting fix these problems?
Hard to say. Was the phone just rooted, or were you running a custom rom ? If the latter it may have been something in the rom causing the issues.
Up to you. Maybe run it for a week or two (or whatever) & see how it goes. You've unrooted it, you can jig it if you haven't already & send it in for warranty service whenever you like.
Obviously jigging it & going back to stock is never a guarantee of warranty service (given you've voided the warranty by rooting it in the first place), but most people who have done this have been fine so far as warranty service is concerned. I have seen a few exceptions over the past few months on here, but it's hard to say whether those people followed all the steps before sending it in or not.
That would be a good idea!
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Hard to say. Was the phone just rooted, or were you running a custom rom ? If the latter it may have been something in the rom causing the issues.
Up to you. Maybe run it for a week or two (or whatever) & see how it goes. You've unrooted it, you can jig it if you haven't already & send it in for warranty service whenever you like.
Obviously jigging it & going back to stock is never a guarantee of warranty service (given you've voided the warranty by rooting it in the first place), but most people who have done this have been fine so far as warranty service is concerned. I have seen a few exceptions over the past few months on here, but it's hard to say whether those people followed all the steps before sending it in or not.
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It was just rooted. Yeah that's a good idea, I'll see if it plays up in the next week, thanks!
Do you think they will replace it or just repair it?
No idea. That's entirely up to them. But unlikely to replace outside the first few weeks unless the phone was unfixable if previous experiences on here are anything to go by.
Eye_Blake said:
It was just rooted. Yeah that's a good idea, I'll see if it plays up in the next week, thanks!
Do you think they will replace it or just repair it?
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Hard to say. Was the phone just rooted, or were you running a custom rom ? If the latter it may have been something in the rom causing the issues.
Up to you. Maybe run it for a week or two (or whatever) & see how it goes. You've unrooted it, you can jig it if you haven't already & send it in for warranty service whenever you like.
Obviously jigging it & going back to stock is never a guarantee of warranty service (given you've voided the warranty by rooting it in the first place), but most people who have done this have been fine so far as warranty service is concerned. I have seen a few exceptions over the past few months on here, but it's hard to say whether those people followed all the steps before sending it in or not.
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Any proper guide to be done before send to repair?.. i've just sent my phone to service today. Battery temperature warning problem. Re-flash stock rom with stock kernel. Everything goes back like factory settings
Just the usual steps I.E. flash stock firmware, do a wipe/factory reset, use jig to reset the flash counter, double check that the reset worked & there are no traces of old apps on the phone which required root that could tip off whomever fixes the phone that you'd rooted it. Some say you should first (while the phone is still rooted) go into CWRecovery and format cache, data, system, & sd card. Then flash stock firmware and then use the jig. Depends on how paranoid you are I guess.
As I said to the previous poster, there are no guarantees of warranty service after you root or flash non-stock firmware on your phone (you shouldn't expect same), however if you follow these steps you should get warranty service. But there are always exceptions.
whose_ni said:
Any proper guide to be done before send to repair?.. i've just sent my phone to service today. Battery temperature warning problem. Re-flash stock rom with stock kernel. Everything goes back like factory settings
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MistahBungle said:
Just the usual steps I.E. flash stock firmware, do a wipe/factory reset, use jig to reset the flash counter, double check that the reset worked & there are no traces of old apps on the phone which required root that could tip off whomever fixes the phone that you'd rooted it. Some say you should first (while the phone is still rooted) go into CWRecovery and format cache, data, system, & sd card. Then flash stock firmware and then use the jig. Depends on how paranoid you are I guess.
As I said to the previous poster, there are no guarantees of warranty service after you root or flash non-stock firmware on your phone (you shouldn't expect same), however if you follow these steps you should get warranty service. But there are always exceptions.
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Lucky for me. My phone just back from service and they replace broken parts. ..i didn't jig to reset the counter..
Yep. You were lucky.
whose_ni said:
Lucky for me. My phone just back from service and they replace broken parts. ..i didn't jig to reset the counter..
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Hello fellow XDA user
I have recently bought a the I9100 internation version and I am really pleased, however I do know the power of a ROM and how much it could improve or brick your phone.
However I came from the Galaxy S i9000, I never managed to recover the phone, so it would be recognized by kies, it did recognize my phone, but it said that 'Kies didn't support any upgrades for it'. Meaning if I would like to return it for garantee reasons, the shop or manufacturer will see I have been messing with my phone, which excludes my warranty.
Therefore I wonderd if there was a possibility to install roms or root your phone and unroot it, so kies would regonize it again.
Thanks alot and feel free to suggest any rom
Intensity007 said:
Hello fellow XDA user
I have recently bought a the I9100 internation version and I am really pleased, however I do know the power of a ROM and how much it could improve or brick your phone.
However I came from the Galaxy S i9000, I never managed to recover the phone, so it would be recognized by kies, it did recognize my phone, but it said that 'Kies didn't support any upgrades for it'. Meaning if I would like to return it for garantee reasons, the shop or manufacturer will see I have been messing with my phone, which excludes my warranty.
Therefore I wonderd if there was a possibility to install roms or root your phone and unroot it, so kies would regonize it again.
Thanks alot and feel free to suggest any rom
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yes there is a way cfroot to which will give you superuser access and also CWM recovery by then swapping back to stock kernel will unroot also if you using odin to flash this wil increase binary counter look for a app called triangle away this will reset the binary counter but only works on ics.
this is just basics to answer quickly your question please still search within the sgs2 forum sections most of all new users questions have been answered and there is many guides for new users to refer to in development sections prior to installing customs roms etc
DJBoxer said:
yes there is a way cfroot to which will give you superuser access and also CWM recovery by then swapping back to stock kernel will unroot also if you using odin to flash this wil increase binary counter look for a app called triangle away this will reset the binary counter but only works on ics.
this is just basics to answer quickly your question please still search within the sgs2 forum sections most of all new users questions have been answered and there is many guides for new users to refer to in development sections prior to installing customs roms etc
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I know about CF root .. but as I said before, I managed to restore the stock functionality of my Galaxy S, but I never managed to get support from Kies again. ('Kies doesn't support updates for your phone'). I don't know if the Galaxy S II method might diffrentiate from that .. but I do want to be on the safe side with my warranty and I don't want another bad to happen to my phone.
Quik Recap
1) Prepare Odin --> Go download Mode (Power + volume down + home button)
2) Flash Phone --> Odin --> Install CF Root Kernel
3) Mount Phone ---> USB --> Download Rom ---> Boot ClockWorkRecovery (Power + volume up + home button)
4) Enjoy Rom --> Enjoy Xda Power
5) How to Revert?, will kies regonize it and support it
Code:
[URL="http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=20075898&postcount="]CF Root Kernals By Chainfire[/URL]
Can someone please answer my post above, I really want to start modding, but I also want to be able to get back to an unrooted version with Kies support
Check out the links in my signature, especially the one about going back to stock. That should satisfy your request.
Long story short, reset your flash counter and flash stock rom. But make sure you READ
OK. The experience on here over the past 6 mths or so goes something like this. About 50% of people who go back to stock firmware for their region after using custom roms or stock firmware not for their region seem to be able to get OTA updates via Kies OK. For some reason(s), the other 50% or so of these people seem not to be able to get OTA updates to work despite flashing a full stock rom for their region (with correct CSC).
Why doesn't it seem to work for some people ? Who knows ? I don't think I've seen a single answer that could cover even a small majority of those cases.
Regardless, if you find you ever go back to stock with the intention of getting OTA firmware updates & they don't work, do what plenty of people on here do & flash them via Odin. Easy fixed.
The bottom line with warranties is this. The moment you start rooting your phone or flashing non-stock firmware on it, you should forget about/lose all expectations of warranty service/replacement should something go wrong with your phone. At the end of the day, you mess with your phone, why should Samsung/your telco foot the bill ?
Having said that, if you format everything, go back to stock & reset the flash counter, again, the experience on here is many people seem to get warranty service OK.
What you seem to be looking for is a 100% iron-clad guarantee.
There isn't any. If potentially borking your phone & having to pay to have it repaired/replaced yourself frightens you, best advice would be simply don't mess with it. Stay on stock. That's the only way you're getting 100% guarantees. If you've only ever been on stock/OTA updates & never rooted/flashed custom firmware and the phone borks, they pay to fix it.
Pretty simple really.
My i9300 has started doing a random freeze and reboot thing, so I have been reverting it to factory to see if that cures it, or so I can return it if need be. I know the information that I want is all here somewhere, but I can't seem to find the last couple of pieces.
I have used Triangle Away to reset the counter to 0.
I reapplied the stock ROM using mobile Odin, which got rid of everything except SuperSU and MobileOdin itself. I uninstalled SuperSU, but couldn't get rid of MobileOdin, but now appear to have by loading the Vodafone stock firmware from Sammobile - the file was I9300XXELLA_I9300VFGELL3_I9300BUELL1_HOME.tar.md5, and loading that on using Odin (as the PDA file) on my PC. Mobile Odin now seems to have gone.
I can't seem to do a system update - it just sits there for ever looking for a system update, but at least it doesn't come straight back and say that I am custom and can't upgrade.
But...
When I go into the bootloader (Vol Down, Home and Power) and then press Vol Up, I still get the Odin bootloader. Isn't that a giveaway that I have been playing around with it. I can't remember what the pre-Odin bootloader looked like, but how do I get that back on it?
Toby
Their is a thread how to return to warranty state .
Odin bootloader ???? is stock Samsung tool .
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1927113
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2148708
JJEgan said:
Their is a thread how to return to warranty state .
Odin bootloader ???? is stock Samsung tool .
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1927113
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2148708
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Doh. Thank you very much. I couldn't see that particular gem of information anywhere, possibly because it was so obvious that it didn't need stating.
I can relax a bit more then. The only oddity that I have noticed in Touchwizz is that in the app drawer, the lower right hand spot in the grid is always blank, rather than being filled by an app.
Toby
Hey all,
Had my S3 for about 10months.
HANDSET DETAILS:
* Unlocked GT-i9300 (running GiffGaff sim)
* 16GB White, running Stock Touch-Wizzed ICS 4.0.4
* Baseband: I9300BVLE4
* Kernel Ver: 3.0.15-554502-user
[email protected]#1
SMP PREEMPT Sun May 13 11:40:33 KST 2012
* Build Number: IMM76D.I9300BVALE4
WHAT I'M TRYING TO DO:
I am not trying to root this phone (YET!), I am just trying to use Kies to upgrade to JB.
All the 'legal information' in the Settings menu is 'greyed out'. I cannot select, or update OTA.
I will probably get to the CM / custom ROMs sometime but for now I just thought I'd do a simple (I thought) easy upgrade to JB.
Kies recognises the phone, suggests I do a back-up (which I did), and then attempts to download a 3000mb install package. At this point, it throws up a dialog box showing a bunch of 'square characters' - the kind of thing you see if you don't have a language installed on your OS. (which is XP by the way).
It's an error for sure, as after closing it (OK is the only option), the download process loops as it asks me again 'do I want to backup before upgrade'. So I'm getting nowhere.
I'm not sure why Kies has such a problem with my phone.
If it's any use, I can say that this was bought brand-new, unlocked, from a retailer website, though upon boot it displays an Orange logo, and certain parts of the menus (although very few) were in French by default. I've registered the phone with Samsung on their site successfully so that's fine. I put in a QUERY for them to help but it's been over a month and nothing back so far.
So I thought I would come to the expert village and see if I can get some help.
-I'm hoping it's okay to ask about Official updating here and not completely boring ( ! ) as I'm aware this is a land of great rootery and customisation! which I think is great by the way :good:
Thanks to anyone that can help!
regards,
SkEvol (newbie)
Have a look in the stickies about how to use ODIN (its not difficult to use).
Then, I would advise you flash the latest official Samsung firmware from here - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1646610
Ensure you follow the ODIN instructions properly and make sure Kies isn't running when you use ODIN.
This will get you onto the latest version of JB to be released by Samsung...
mikep99 said:
Have a look in the stickies about how to use ODIN (its not difficult to use).
Then, I would advise you flash the latest official Samsung firmware from here - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1646610
Ensure you follow the ODIN instructions properly and make sure Kies isn't running when you use ODIN.
This will get you onto the latest version of JB to be released by Samsung...
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Hi there Mike,
Thanks for the reply, while I'm quite happy to use some ODIN to do this (I don't mind a learning curve), I'm just a bit put off by the disclaimer "Using ODIN can change your bootloader to show that the system is MODIFIED and may increase your ODIN flash count. This may void your Warrenty".
-my phone is still under warranty and I would rather avoid breaking the warranty if at all possible.
Are there any other options?
SkEvol said:
Hi there Mike,
Thanks for the reply, while I'm quite happy to use some ODIN to do this (I don't mind a learning curve), I'm just a bit put off by the disclaimer "Using ODIN can change your bootloader to show that the system is MODIFIED and may increase your ODIN flash count. This may void your Warrenty".
-my phone is still under warranty and I would rather avoid breaking the warranty if at all possible.
Are there any other options?
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I wouldn't worry about that tbh.
As your phone hasn't been rooted it shouldn't be an issue.
Also, there are ways to change the system flag back to 'official' using Triangle Away but I don't think you'll need to.
Sent from my GT-I9300 using xda app-developers app
mikep99 said:
I wouldn't worry about that tbh.
As your phone hasn't been rooted it shouldn't be an issue.
Also, there are ways to change the system flag back to 'official' using Triangle Away but I don't think you'll need to.
Sent from my GT-I9300 using xda app-developers app
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Thanks again Mike,
I'm going to use ODIN to update to Samsung's official I9300XXEMD2_I9300OXXEMD1_I9300XXEMC2_XEO.zip ROM.
I'm already using the Stock ICS which came with the phone (brand new, but unlocked). So essentially I'll just be updating to a new version of an official ROM from Samsung.
I have already taken steps using KIES, to backup the call logs, SMS's, contacts, and APPS.
These are all items which are stored on the internal 16GB (I believe) please correct me if I'm wrong?
I would like to ask:
1) Will this ODIN flashing process effect any data on my external SD card? (I obviously don't want to lose any of it)
2) And, will I be able to use KIES afterwards, to return all my old data (ie app settings, the APPS themselves, call logs, SMS's, contacts etc) to the phone's 16GB memory?
Hopefully simple questions :fingers-crossed:
Thanks again.
The ODIN process doesn't wipe your phone as far as I can remember so everything should still be there (downloaded apps, SMS, call log etc).
Hopefully someone else can clarify this who has used it recently...
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mikep99 said:
The ODIN process doesn't wipe your phone as far as I can remember so everything should still be there (downloaded apps, SMS, call log etc).
Hopefully someone else can clarify this who has used it recently...
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Thanks for heading me in Odin's direction
I haven't gotten round to doing the update yet.. and considering just hanging on until samsung release their official 'non-leaked' JB s3 update.
I'm still in the dark as to why my update options / legal information are greyed out though..
Does anyone know why?
I'm still in the dark as to why my update options / legal information are greyed out though..
Does anyone know why?
usual reason is a mismatch in the phone codes shown to KIES .
Orange logo means its an Orange phone and based upon the OP i would suggest that its an Orange France phone originally . It may have had firmware modifications or been a return phone or even a grey import .That would explain wrong codes no update path .
jje
'Mismatch in phone codes shown to Kies'
Are you saying Kies is expecting a certain code from the phone?
(Presumably derived from its serial number or something) - I don't know what a 'phone code' is.
I never had a doubt this phone has been messed with.
Presumably then.. the warranty might have been void (technically) since the day I bought it.
Since the firmware has been messed with?
If you have a mismatch in the Phone and CSC Kies will tell you that you can't update when you connect it as its trying to update that wont be the problem.
Your baseband and build are defiantly Orange so you need to flash the latest Orange France version to keep warranty but would guess that if it doesn't have Orange bloatware on it then at some point its been rooted and the bloatware wiped, in which case you want have a warranty
The latest France Orange firmware is phone I9300XELLA csc I9300FTMELL1 from sammobile site but if you want non branded then you need Open Europe OXA or UK & Europe BTU, the one you mention XEO is Poland although it will work for you its not really the one you want but the choice is yours.
You don't need a rooted phone to use Odin but any update will increase your flash count you can zero this by using triangle away from XDA if you want.
EDIT :- Just noticed in your first post the version is from May 2012 that you currently have so is this phone previously used.