Hey guys...
I use boot manager to boot between ROMs. My main ROM is Gingeritis3D v1.2 and I was going to set my other ROM as the new AOKP ICS ROM, but when I go to install it, I am prompted to select a boot.img to install from.
Which one should I choose?
My options are boot.img and _MACOSX/._boot.img
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I would think that it would be boot.img but I don't use boot manager so I don't know anything about it.
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That's what I was thinking... but Idk.
Oh well, I'm going for it anyways. Haha.
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So I chose boot.img anyways and it worked just fine.
Flashed right into the AOKP ROM and it ran perfectly.
Scared me once I got into the ROM because boot manager didn't want to work since I wasn't signed into my Gmail.. and I couldn't find out how to sign in. And without signing in and getting the app to work, I couldn't get back to my main ROM.
And then my brain started working for once.
Anyways, on a side note, if anyone chooses to dual boot to the AOKP ROM....
Once you've booted into the AOKP ROM from boot manager, you cannot sign into Gmail account... or at least I couldn't. This kept the boot manager app from being accessible.
So if this happens to you and you also cannot find a way to sign into your Gmail account, don't panic and don't bother wasting time wiping or restoring a nandroid.
Just reboot into recovery, install zip from sd card, choose zip from sd card, navigate down the the boot manager folder, navigate to phone ROM, select update.zip, and flash it. Press the back soft key button and then reboot system now.
You should then be back on your main ROM.
I want to try this rom normally but it keeps rebooting. Im not using boot manager. Any ideas?
crackedvenom2 said:
I want to try this rom normally but it keeps rebooting. Im not using boot manager. Any ideas?
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If you're not using 4ext to flash then try that.
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I flashed JT's Vanilla GB rom, and flashed the gapps zip. What am I doing wrong, because I don't see any google apps, or even a market app. I flashed from recovery, then rebooted the phone?
Try it again, otherwise you are doing something wrong, possibly wrong file. Mine worked 5 mins ago.
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I flashed gapps-gb-2011016--zip. Onced flashed where do they show up?
Jeff194 said:
I flashed JT's Vanilla GB rom, and flashed the gapps zip. What am I doing wrong, because I don't see any google apps, or even a market app. I flashed from recovery, then rebooted the phone?
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Make sure you are getting into recovery using power menu > reboot > recovery. If it still doesn't work, then your downloaded zip file must be corrupt or something and re downloading might fix it.
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Make sure you are getting into recovery using power menu > reboot > recovery. If it still doesn't work, then your downloaded zip file must be corrupt or something and re downloading might fix it.
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Ahh that's what I was doing wrong, I was using the 3 finger salute. Thank you.
i know there are many tpics similar but i cant find a straight answer or working link..
basically i flashed a rom and this rom ws working fine until it started to reboot everytime i chargd the phone then it would boot loop for like 30min and finaly go in to the rom.. ive tried to access the recovery to switch roms but it just bootloops.. onlything i can go is to bootloader.. i was looking for a stock rooted
P0g5?? file to flash in bootloader but all i can find is mr2 and its in multiupload which is not working for me.. can anyone please give me a working link or answer... and the last option i would hate to do is completely restore to stock and root allover again.. i want to restore to stock rooted/s-off.. not stock rooted/s-on.. please help anyone....
Can u download a new recovery, rename, then flash in hboot possibly?
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I had an issue kinda similar like this and ended up having to flash the RUU through the bootloader. It is the stock firmware 605.19, and I had to reroot. It's a pain I know but it works
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I had an issue kinda similar like this and ended up having to flash the RUU through the bootloader. It is the stock firmware 605.19, and I had to reroot. It's a pain I know but it works
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I to had to this at one point and it does work. I would first try to flash cwm in fastboot though. Sometimes that works.
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My friend's phone tried to pull an OTA while he had CWM recovery installed, and it started boot looping. Had to download the stock recovery, name is PG05IMG.zip in the root of the SDCard, and force the phone to boot to the bootloader and install it. Once it did, the phone started up, rebooted itself, and installed the OTA fine. Sounds like yours may be trying to do something similar?
If so rooted phones need caches cleared for the ota to work.
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From my understanding, Rooted can still take OTA, but you have to have stock recovery to do it (as I witnessed earlier). You will lose root, and will have to re-flash recovery to TWRP, CWMR, or whatever your normal choice is, and then re-apply the su.zip, but otherwise easy as pie.
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My friend's phone tried to pull an OTA while he had CWM recovery installed, and it started boot looping. Had to download the stock recovery, name is PG05IMG.zip in the root of the SDCard, and force the phone to boot to the bootloader and install it. Once it did, the phone started up, rebooted itself, and installed the OTA fine. Sounds like yours may be trying to do something similar?
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Do you by chance have a working link to the stock recovery? I have been trying to find one without success.
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I won't be home to later, I'll get it to you then, but I'm piety sure I found it through thunderboltforums.com
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I won't be home to later, I'll get it to you then, but I'm piety sure I found it through thunderboltforums.com
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I would appreciate that. Thank you
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I would appreciate that. Thank you
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Stock recovery PG05IMG.zip http://dl.dropbox.com/u/61129367/PG05IMG-Stock-Recovery.zip
Hello, first of all I would like to thank everyone who has posted in this thread to try and help out. I just started having a very similar problem- I'm rooted and running stock, but apparently my phone accepted an OTA and I'm stuck in a bootloop as well.
I got into CWM recovery and downloaded the stock recovery PG05IMG.zip, but it won't install. It just aborts every time I try to install it. I'm a noob at this stuff and not very good at dealing with these sorts of things and I've been having a panic attack for the past hour, so if anyone could help me as soon as possible I would really appreciate it.
I'm really scared of making things worse than they already are. I just want a working phone.
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Stock recovery PG05IMG.zip http://dl.dropbox.com/u/61129367/PG05IMG-Stock-Recovery.zip
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Much appreciated my friend.
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pull battery, wait a minute, turn on phone
when in bootloader screen,
volume down, select reboot
back to white screen, select recovery ( i had to do this twice)
hold volume up and power when black screen appears
choose the bottom option (wipe cache i believe)
choose reboot
phone should be good aftter this
( idont own a thunderbolt, but i had to fix this for a nother phone, called tech support and this worked)
hope this helps - hopefully saves someone from ruu'ing and wiping their phone
Thank you for posting the file, life got in the way yesterday. Hope that fixes your situation!
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Hello, first of all I would like to thank everyone who has posted in this thread to try and help out. I just started having a very similar problem- I'm rooted and running stock, but apparently my phone accepted an OTA and I'm stuck in a bootloop as well.
I got into CWM recovery and downloaded the stock recovery PG05IMG.zip, but it won't install. It just aborts every time I try to install it. I'm a noob at this stuff and not very good at dealing with these sorts of things and I've been having a panic attack for the past hour, so if anyone could help me as soon as possible I would really appreciate it.
I'm really scared of making things worse than they already are. I just want a working phone.
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The zip won't work in CWM because it's not designed for use with CWM. It's designed for use in Fastboot. Should be on the root of your sd card. From off, if I'm correct (like this with other HTC devices), hold volume down and power to boot into fastboot. This will allow it to flash the stock recovery.
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The zip won't work in CWM because it's not designed for use with CWM. It's designed for use in Fastboot. Should be on the root of your sd card. From off, if I'm correct (like this with other HTC devices), hold volume down and power to boot into fastboot. This will allow it to flash the stock recovery.
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Right. I also have a recovery zip that installs the stock recovery if anyone wants it?
It can be found here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/61129367/OTARestoreAndRecovery.zip
(warning: I have tested it and it works but it did cause me a bootloop, and im assuming this is becuase im on a different rom - - - so not responsible for any damages)
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My battery went tits up the other day so I had to purchase a new battery.....Ended up with HTC extended battery.(all verizon had in stock). When I put the battery in and powered on it just pops up with the HTC screen....couple secs go by the phone vibrates....HTC again......I can get the phone into bootloader.....but for the life of me can only get fastboot to work.....I have tried pushing cwm through that as well as the img above with no luck.....The Hboot only shows my device as android 1.0 and is unrecognized.I have reloaded drivers and everything I know how....Someone please help
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My battery went tits up the other day so I had to purchase a new battery.....Ended up with HTC extended battery.(all verizon had in stock). When I put the battery in and powered on it just pops up with the HTC screen....couple secs go by the phone vibrates....HTC again......I can get the phone into bootloader.....but for the life of me can only get fastboot to work.....I have tried pushing cwm through that as well as the img above with no luck.....The Hboot only shows my device as android 1.0 and is unrecognized.I have reloaded drivers and everything I know how....Someone please help
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Have you tried an ruu?
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Quick question I have been unable to get a rom to install on slot 1 of boot manager i was close but at the end I got error: unable to create new boot.img... So close. I am running 3.14.605.10 firmware, s off, viperrez. I on boot manager I have small image selected, screen force on, and ext4 selected any help would be appreciated. Oh and I tried doing cm9 and also neomax roms on slot 1
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Same problem here. I don't know what is causing the problem but I read somewhere that a work around for the boot manager problem is to restore nandroids to each slot. Just make a nandroid of your current ROM, wipe device, install new ROM, set it up and make a nandroid of the new ROM. Do this for each ROM you want to use in boot manager. Once that is done restore whatever ROM you want to be the phone ROM using regular recovery. Once that boots open boot manager (follow instructions) and restore each nandroid to adifferent slot. I'm trying now.
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Same problem here. I don't know what is causing the problem but I read somewhere that a work around for the boot manager problem is to restore nandroids to each slot. Just make a nandroid of your current ROM, wipe device, install new ROM, set it up and make a nandroid of the new ROM. Do this for each ROM you want to use in boot manager. Once that is done restore whatever ROM you want to be the phone ROM using regular recovery. Once that boots open boot manager (follow instructions) and restore each nandroid to adifferent slot. I'm trying now.
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Yeah. That was my last resort lol ill try it out also, good luck!
Edit: no dice still get the error building boot.img
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Ok I installed kushdeck nightly it boots perfectly but after a while it restarts and stays at the boot animation or if I reboot it myself it stays at the boot animation I'm on s-on and hboot 1.5 I have installed other rims perfectly including aokp but I can't figure this one out
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Try using a wipe script and remember the kernel has to be flashed separately
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Try using a wipe script and remember the kernel has to be flashed separately
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Where can I get the wipe script do I just flash that?.....yes I always use fastboot but I will try a wipe script
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=27166189
Still keeps freezing on the boot animation i tried the superwipe
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Still keeps freezing on the boot animation i tried the superwipe
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How long does it stay on the bootscreen? Is it the "cyanogenmod" bootscreen, or the HTC one?
Sometimes it takes a while to boot up...I haven't had issues with any of my attempts, and I've done them "wrong" on purpose, to see if it makes a major difference. The only time I have issues is when I do it completely wrong and not flash the boot.img.
Are you installing other things? A different kernel as well, maybe? Might also want to try to redownload -- maybe you had a bad zip..?
That is a bit odd, but have you tried official nightly to see how it acts?
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How long does it stay on the bootscreen? Is it the "cyanogenmod" bootscreen, or the HTC one?
Sometimes it takes a while to boot up...I haven't had issues with any of my attempts, and I've done them "wrong" on purpose, to see if it makes a major difference. The only time I have issues is when I do it completely wrong and not flash the boot.img.
Are you installing other things? A different kernel as well, maybe? Might also want to try to redownload -- maybe you had a bad zip..?
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I have downloaded the rom many times...it stays on the cyanogenmod bootscreen...the rom it self boots but if i restart the phone it just hangs on the cyanogenmod bootscreen i have let it sit there for 30 mins already
Yea i have tried all of them
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That is a bit odd, but have you tried official nightly to see how it acts?
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Sounds to me like you're not doing something right. Are you sure that you're flashing the right boot.img? Take us through an exact step by step of what you're doing....this isn't a problem that anyone else is having as far as I'm aware.
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I had this problem when I was first trying to install CM10 as well. I used TWRP as my recovery, and was HTC Dev unlocked with HBOOT 1.15 (I used the RegawMOD one-click root method)
Note: I'm not going into complete detail on all of the steps, but I'll go into detail on where I made the mistake
1. Use adb/fastboot to flash the boot.img from the CM10 zip file. Reboot into recovery.
2. Select wipe, then do a factory reset, then a system wipe, then a cache wipe, and then a dalvik cache wipe (in that order). Stay in recovery.
3. Flash CM10. Stay in recovery.
4. Flash gapps. Stay in recovery.
5. Select Reboot > system
Step 2 is where I was messing up. I wasn't doing the factory reset (or wasn't doing the resets in the right order). After that, it did take awhile for it to boot up (5-10 minutes, maybe more). It only takes that long the first time it boots, every time since has been pretty quick.
Also, I got my instructions from a youtube video, but I couldn't find it after searching for 20 minutes. Although it's late, and my brain is fried, so I might have found it and just not recognized it.
Hope this helps.
(Also, I'd suggest doing ALL of the steps over again, from the top, not just the one that you think you might have missed. I don't think that all of the steps have to be done in order, but doing some of them out of order is what was causing my issue, so better just to start from the beginning)
when i download the zip i extract the boot.img to where ever im going to fastboot it
then i superwipe my phone
i install the nightly then the gapps
after i boot to bootloader and fastboot
the phone starts up but then if i ever reboot the phone it just hangs on the boot animation
i have done this proccess with every rom and no problems just with this one
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Sounds to me like you're not doing something right. Are you sure that you're flashing the right boot.img? Take us through an exact step by step of what you're doing....this isn't a problem that anyone else is having as far as I'm aware.
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when i download the zip i extract the boot.img to where ever im going to fastboot it
then i superwipe my phone
i install the nightly then the gapps
after i boot to bootloader and fastboot
the phone starts up but then if i ever reboot the phone it just hangs on the boot animation
i have done this proccess with every rom and no problems just with this one
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Ok. My first rule of thumb is that if you are trying multiple roms, make sure you rename the boot.img accordingly. I change the name to correspond with the date and rom (like 915cm10boot.img). I don't get them confused and they're always right.
Download the rom.
Extract boot.
Boot into recovery and wipe everything that isn't your sd card. I always do them in order from TWRP, starting from the left top. I don't superwipe, so let's skip that for now.
Install your rom and your gapps. Rom first, gapps after.
Once that's done, navigate back to the main tarp and choose the reboot option, then choose bootloader.
Fastboot flash your renamed boot.img file.
Reboot device.
Do not...do not sync/restore apps from Google during the initial setup. Just do the bare minimum that you have to to get through setup.
Reboot.
report back.
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Ok. My first rule of thumb is that if you are trying multiple roms, make sure you rename the boot.img accordingly. I change the name to correspond with the date and rom (like 915cm10boot.img). I don't get them confused and they're always right.
Download the rom.
Extract boot.
Boot into recovery and wipe everything that isn't your sd card. I always do them in order from TWRP, starting from the left top. I don't superwipe, so let's skip that for now.
Install your rom and your gapps. Rom first, gapps after.
Once that's done, navigate back to the main tarp and choose the reboot option, then choose bootloader.
Fastboot flash your renamed boot.img file.
Reboot device.
Do not...do not sync/restore apps from Google during the initial setup. Just do the bare minimum that you have to to get through setup.
Reboot.
report back.
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Yea I have done everything mentioned above and still get stuck there I gave up on and went to aokp and now I get the same error which I never did before so now I'm just on meanrom instead going to try again when there's new updates thanks for the help by the way
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I have a p4wifi that is stuck in a boot loop. I think the term is 'soft bricked'.
Basically, last night I turned my tab on for the first time in ages, and it all worked fine. I had rooted and flashed custom roms before (I'd been running a nightly of CyanogenMod for a long time, and it worked well), and I considered myself an expert. I updated loads of apps and stuff, and then realised I wanted a new font. I went into ROM manager and found the font I wanted, Ubuntu. It told me there was an update to ClockworkMod recovery so I wen ahead and updated it, checking the thing for Touch (I'd already bought it). That want ahead and it updated, throwing me back into the OS. I then went to get Ubuntu (I downloaded it within ROM manager), and didn't deem it necessary to create a backup, nor wipe anything. It processed it but returned an error, I though ok but never mind and I told it to reboot. Again that worked fine. I realised I was on a very old verson of CyanogenMod (probably ICS, it was around 201304). As I always do, I grabbed the latest version (again, in ROM manager), and elected to install it. I didn't wipe the delvik cache or whatever, and hit 'Reboot into recovery'. That was where the problem occurred. It wouldn't go any further than the 'Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1' boot screen (see attachment) into recovery. A similar thing happened before, but it just eventually went away after an hour or so. This has been running for a day, and there has been no progress. I've tried various key combos, like the normal way to get into recovery, but they won't work.
If I need I could find the instructions I followed, but it would be hard.
Is it completely broken? Can a save my data? Will I have to factory reset it? Will I keep my root/ClockworkMod? Will I keep my rom?
Thanks in advance to the person who can answer this
Do you have any ROM zips in your SD card? If you do, boot into recovery, full wipe and flash it. Piece of advice, don't use the recovery in ROM manager. Download pershoot's version of cwm instead in here. www.droidbasement.com
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I have a few nandroid backups, if that counts? I do have a few ROM zips on my SD card too, though. Will a full wipe delete photos etc? I'm guessing it'll get rid of the apps, but that's no problem. But how would I get into recovery? I've already tried to get in with no success.
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I have a few nandroid backups, if that counts? I do have a few ROM zips on my SD card too, though. Will a full wipe delete photos etc? I'm guessing it'll get rid of the apps, but that's no problem. But how would I get into recovery? I've already tried to get in with no success.
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If you can find a way to get into recovery, then yes you can use your nandroid. You problem now is you can't get into recovery or download mode, right? Well can you try using adb? If you can then type adb reboot recovery in command prompt to reboot to recovery.
Oh yeah, full wipe won't delete photos etc unless you wipe your internal storage/SD card.
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Oh, thanks. I've got ADB already installed (I used it in trying to root my HTC Hero). Have I said thanks? You're a life saver
Oh dear, it seems that it's not showing up as an ADB device. Are there any other ways to get into recovery?
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Oh dear, it seems that it's not showing up as an ADB device. Are there any other ways to get into recovery?
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I don't know. The hold down power button + volume down didn't work? You have to hold for at least 10 seconds.
Don't just say thanks...hit my thanks button.
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I don't know. The hold down power button + volume down didn't work? You have to hold for at least 10 seconds.
Don't just say thanks...hit my thanks button.
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Just tried that, when I selected recovery it just turned off
So you can get into download mode?
Download mode, yes. I've got it open now, in fact
Now that's easy. Your tab can't boot because it doesn't have any sort of recovery(don't ask me why I don't know ). Apparently ROM Manager wiped your recovery clean and didn't flash the new one. Just flash cwm or twrp via Odin and try to boot. If it still can't boot, then restore your nandroid. Ironically, the same thing happened to me yesterday when I tried to flash latest twrp using Mobile Odin.
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What's odin?
Ok, It's all sorted now! Thanks for your help!
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What's odin?
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You have never used Odin before? Then how on earth did you root?
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You have never used Odin before? Then how on earth did you root?
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I actually have no idea. I think I used a program similar to Odin that did the job. I remember booting into download more before. Oh yes, I flashed the disk image for the root and CWM using the default windows tool. Anyway, I've fixed it now. I couldn't find a .tar to do the job so I converted a random file to a .tar and flashed it that way, tricking it into thinking it had a recovery and therefore booting. In the OS I used ROM Manager to get CWM.
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I actually have no idea. I think I used a program similar to Odin that did the job. I remember booting into download more before. Oh yes, I flashed the disk image for the root and CWM using the default windows tool. Anyway, I've fixed it now. I couldn't find a .tar to do the job so I converted a random file to a .tar and flashed it that way, tricking it into thinking it had a recovery and therefore booting. In the OS I used ROM Manager to get CWM.
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