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I had some problem. I was on minicm7 2.2.0 and yesterday I tried stark v3. After going back to minicm2.2.0 I got some problems.
When I switch off screen and wait few minutes i can't turn on screen. I must take of battery and reboot.
I tried full wipe few times and fresh install but again same problem.
Now I want to go back to stock. And than after that try one more time to flash minicm2.2.0
Hm but, if I am going to flash stock + stock kernel do I need to relock bootloader. Or it can be unlocked??
(before I flash stark v3 a never had problem with minicm2.2.0)
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no you don't need to relock your bootloader, the only time you need to do that is if you want to take it for repairs under warranty
Thnx
Going back to stock and flashing again minicm2.2.0 for now fix the problem.
Thnx God
My screen was going on like broken tv. (but only innstead gray black and white pixels there was colored pixels.
For now works fine. Hope it will stay like that.
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good luck
Help!!! Have a Galaxy S3 rooted and CM installed. I installed Omega rom coming from stock ICS. I did not wipe cache or factory reset. After install it will not boot whatsoever. Tried using odin to recover with no luck. I'm afraid I bricked the phone already. How do I boot from power of to at least get to CWM?
spdrasr3 said:
Help!!! Have a Galaxy S3 rooted and CM installed. I installed Omega rom coming from stock ICS. I did not wipe cache or factory reset. After install it will not boot whatsoever. Tried using odin to recover with no luck. I'm afraid I bricked the phone already. How do I boot from power of to at least get to CWM?
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well its almost impossible to brick a phone by doing what you said...
so, to boot to download mode its volume down, home and power
to boot to CWM directly its volume up, home and power.
Wait,
When you say stock ICS, do you mean the stock Samsung ROM or do you actually mean Vanilla ICS such as AOSP / AOKP / CM9?
When you say Omega ROM, do you mean the Stock Samsung based one, or teh AOKP one?
Be aware that system settings stored in /data for a stock samsung rom will not work well (probably preventing boot) on a vanilla AOSP/AOKP/CM rom and vice versa.
Please clarify exactly what ROM you are coming from and what ROM you have flashed.
i failed to mention I tried both button combinations and nothing is working
Have you tried starting fresh from a battery pull?
Take the battery out for a few minutes then re-insert it. See if the combinations work then.
well if you phone is giving you no sign of life at all the nits not looking good.
Tell us exactly what you did, because from the little you told us above there is no way you have bricked.
I was coming from the stock Samsung ICS 4.0.4 to Omega v3 rom if that helps
i'll try the battery pull. I tried it earlier similar to the Droid X recovery from power off
spdrasr3 said:
I was coming from the stock Samsung ICS 4.0.4 to Omega v3 rom if that helps
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Please give us a step by step of what you did, exactly - including what buttons you pressed and when.
Please try not to leave anything out.
Also try removing the battery like I said.
...and.... When you sya it does nothing, do you mean nothing? No scvreen, no button back lights, no vibrations?
Have you tried pulling the SD card?
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what happens when you put the power cable in?
Got the Galaxy S3 on thursday. Left completely stock until yesterday. Yesterday I rooted the phone and installed CWM using odin. The phone was working fine. Downloaded Omega rom v3 overnight. Before installing the rom did a nandroid backup. Installed the rom but without doing a factory/data reset or partition format. Clicked on the radio button to finish install where is said it should reboot. Waited a while as I know new roms can initiallly take longer to boot. Then the phone never rebooted. Next I tried both button combinations several times with no response from the phone. Now I can get the LED to light up while attached to a charger that's it. My PC doesn't even see it as a drive or as a device now. I had a HTC EVO before this and installed many ROM with no problem like this and felt comfortable enough to do the S3.
Any help would be greatly appreciated at this moment.
if i plug the cable in the computer recognizes something put still doesn't see the device
keep trying the download mode combo
hold volume down and don't let go
hold home and don't let go
hold power until you see life - don't let go of the other two!
if I ever do see life again then what next?
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if I ever do see life again then what next?
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when your in download mode you can flash a stock rom back with odin
okay thank you.
I've had stuck boot and no recovery and had to remove micro sd before I could get into recovery or download mode.
no life...looks like i'll have to return it
yeah i removed the sd card thinking the rom was on it. No luck. How'd you get yours to recover?
I installed an update without thinking a while back on my phone. It was software version 2.13.651.1 or something, I can't remember. I rooted my phone yesterday using this method:
http://htcevohacks.com/htc-evo-4g-l...tc-evo-4g-lte-unlock-bootloadertwrp-recovery/
I can use ROM Manager to create a backup and flash recoveries. When I flash a version of CM10, it gets stuck on a bootloop. When I hold the power and volume down buttons, I see HBOOT 1.19 and S-ON.
Is there no hope for me to flash roms or is there a way that I can still do it? I've read bad things about having a HBOOT 1.15 or above or something like that. I did not get S-OFF before I updated. Can I no longer get S-OFF? I'm not entirely sure what S-OFF is and what I need it for.
I read somewhere on xda that people who have a HBOOT like mine should try this:
http://androidforums.com/evo-4g-lte-all-things-root/606748-how-install-kernels-h-boot-1-15-a.html
I'm going to try that now, let's see how it goes.
If you use fastboot to install kernels you should be good to go after a normal flash through recovery, my phone came s-on and hboot 1.19 and I have no problems flashing roms. Only thing I think we can't do are radios without an official update, don't quote me on that though..
Your not screwed. You won't be able to get s-off at this time, but you can still flash roms. When moving from a sense rom to aosp like cm10, you need to flash the kernel...i use flash gui. I'm guessing that is why you are getting the bootloop.
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Thank goodness, phew; I thought I was doomed. So if I am to follow #1 on here: http://androidforums.com/evo-4g-lte-all-things-root/606748-how-install-kernels-h-boot-1-15-a.html, I should be able to flash roms afterwards? Do I need to do this every time I want to flash a new rom?
EDIT: So I believe my phone ran out of battery during the school day stuck in the bootloop. I am charging it right now and the orange light is there. When I hold down the power and volume down buttons, I get nothing. The screen stays black, but the orange light disappears. Then the orange light comes back. Should I just let it charge?
You just need to do it when switching between different type of roms like aosp and sense. If you stick with cm10 you can just flash the rom after the first time.
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Adding on to my last edit, sometimes when I hold down the power and volume down buttons, the 3 virtual buttons blink and then go out as if rebooting my phone. The screen is always black. Nothing is showing up. Should I be worried or do I just need to be patient and wait for my phone to charge a little?
When the screen turns off let go of the power button for a second then hold it down again while continuing to hold down the volume down button. That should boot you into recovery.
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When the screen turns off let go of the power button for a second then hold it down again while continuing to hold down the volume down button. That should boot you into recovery.
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The screen is black no matter what I try. I've tried just pressing the power button to turn the phone on, holding power and volume for recovery, holding power button, nothing is working. The screen remains blank no matter what I do right now. Is it just too low battery right now to do anything?
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The screen is black no matter what I try. I've tried just pressing the power button to turn the phone on, holding power and volume for recovery, holding power button, nothing is working. The screen remains blank no matter what I do right now. Is it just too low battery right now to do anything?
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Most likely. Give it some charge and try again.
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I have no idea why, but CM10 just started working. It was getting stuck in the bootloop for the whole day and even after I had done everything I posted earlier. Just now I tried to RUU and that wasn't working. When it came up with my phone's image version, it was blank. It was saying upgrade from nothing to 2.13.651.1.
I decided to repeat steps from the rooting process I used yesterday: http://htcevohacks.com/htc-evo-4g-l...tc-evo-4g-lte-unlock-bootloadertwrp-recovery/
I did step 25 again and then I did it again, but this time I flashed the stock recovery rom. For some reason unknown to me, CM10 actually loaded through and worked this time. Was something wrong with the other recoveries? I'm just glad it's working.
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I installed an update without thinking a while back on my phone. It was software version 2.13.651.1 or something, I can't remember. I rooted my phone yesterday using this method:
http://htcevohacks.com/htc-evo-4g-l...tc-evo-4g-lte-unlock-bootloadertwrp-recovery/
I can use ROM Manager to create a backup and flash recoveries. When I flash a version of CM10, it gets stuck on a bootloop. When I hold the power and volume down buttons, I see HBOOT 1.19 and S-ON.
Is there no hope for me to flash roms or is there a way that I can still do it? I've read bad things about having a HBOOT 1.15 or above or something like that. I did not get S-OFF before I updated. Can I no longer get S-OFF? I'm not entirely sure what S-OFF is and what I need it for.
I read somewhere on xda that people who have a HBOOT like mine should try this.:
http://androidforums.com/evo-4g-lte-all-things-root/606748-how-install-kernels-h-boot-1-15-a.html
I'm going to try that now, let's see how it goes.
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Thank You So Much for posting that link! I have been searching everywhere to figure it out how to flash rom to rom. My first rom was Meanrom ICS and I didn't have to do anything extra with that. So when I wanted to flash first to CM10, then JellyBam, I couldn't understand why I kept getting stuck in bootloop. I figured out eventually it was all about boot.img, but couldn't figure out how to do it separately.
thanks again.
i read this post (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1610925) a while ago, and i saw many custom roms for Flyer, i currently at revol s-off + CWM + rooted + 2.3.4 + 2.27.707.1, which rom should i choose if i want a fully function (camera, BT, video, calling etc) + high spd + smooth rom? i got a SGT7.0Plus, so i don't think i'll be heading to HC again, hate that window bar at the bottom, kicks me out every time in the action game, fren told me to stick to stock GB + sense, but kind of boring with the 7 page x 16 apps, i wish to have more, any suggesstion?
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just download leedroid GB for a test, put the file to ext-sd card, nand back-uped, wipe data, wipe cache, wipe delcache, install rom.zip, reboot, and now my flyer is stuck on white screen, when i hold home button i see there is a setup program running, i waited 10 minutes like the tutorial said, the white screen still there, tought i might still need some time, so i leave it still and go for an animation, when back still in white page, am i missing something or what? already restore back to the previous GB rom now, can't let the thing kept like that(white screen), try to swim the forum tomorrow again
Anyone can help with the white HTC screen after flashing custom rom with CWM? I'm on soff, revolution CWM, rooted stock GB.
Or am I in the wrong section while asking this question? -.-||
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From what you are posting there should be no issue. Make sure you download the gb version and not the hc
Flyer
DexterJB Jellybean
I stopped using my Flyer for a while but decided to give the jelly bean rom a try and WOW. It has nearly upgraded my flyer to a nexus 7, it is an amazing rom!
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I stopped using my Flyer for a while but decided to give the jelly bean rom a try and WOW. It has nearly upgraded my flyer to a nexus 7, it is an amazing rom!
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But it have issue on WiFi,hotspot,camera and videorec:crying:
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From what you are posting there should be no issue. Make sure you download the gb version and not the hc
Flyer
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I'm still getting stuck on white HTC screen, auto screen lock is activate, I think bout 10sec, HW button got function, power button can restart.
Do I have to use and to flash the boot img which extracted from the custom ROM zip? I saw some thread teach that way.
Oh, and I confirm I'd download the custom ROM for GB and not HC, leedroid and flyhigh, both having the same problem.
Just doing a sanity check: using TiBu to restore system data should work (in theory) so long as you restore data that has been backed up from the same ROM, correct?
Thanks for any help.
EDIT: Having power key problems, please see posts #3 and #16 for updated information.
In case it really backs up and restores EVERYTHING - theoretically you're right.
Practically, I'm not sure it's the case. Since you're restoring while running a ROM, I'm not sure you can get everything to exactly the same state.
Thanks for your help, but this question was hiding a bigger one.
So until today, my phone has been working just fine. I'm still running an old, now outdated and unsupported ROM: ShirshirROM pre-alpha ICS. It's been my daily driver for almost a whole year now, works perfectly with Entropy's old ICS kernel.
Yesterday, I got tired of shell errors with Superuser (which I had been dealing with since the latest binary update), so I finally switched to SuperSU. Everything seemed to work fine afterwards, though I noticed some trouble with the power button being a little wonky, i.e. showing up the power menu when I hadn't pressed it or not immediately responding.
Today, my power button doesn't work correctly at all. I tried wiping cache, dalvik, then restoring a Nandroid of the same ROM/Kernel combo from way earlier this year. Key test in CWM also shows that all buttons register when pressed, EXCEPT the power one. Otherwise phone functions are perfect; I can make calls, send/receive texts, etc, I just have to plug in my phone or have something happen for the screen to turn on, and then I have access to everything. My question is, is this (God forbid) a hardware failure? That would be my worst nightmare, seeing as I'm almost exactly one full year out from contract renewal, and I don't have a lot of money to spend on a new one, nor do I have nowhere near enough expertise to try to fix it myself. What can I do?
P.S. The TiBu question was because in case the Nandroid fixed the problem, I could just restore contacts and SMS from TiBu since it is the same ROM, and be back up and running immediately.
P.P.S. As mentioned, I can get into CWM. This is done by pulling battery, sticking it in, and holding all physical keys until boot screen shows twice. But I can't use the power key to select any options, I have to use home. And key test shows the power button not registering. I'm hoping that that means power key may still work, but that's just me praying this is fixable.
So this problem didn't occur at all prior to installing supersu ?
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So this problem didn't occur at all prior to installing supersu ?
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No, as far as I recall. I'm not using supersu anymore since I'm on a Nandroid but power button still doesn't work. I have to find alternate ways of activating the screen, like plugging it into a charger or pulling the battery to restart :/
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karate104 said:
No, as far as I recall. I'm not using supersu anymore since I'm on a Nandroid but power button still doesn't work. I have to find alternate ways of activating the screen, like plugging it into a charger or pulling the battery to restart :/
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Run a Rom that will support siyah 4.3.3 or siyah 5.0.1 and enable swipe to wake.
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Run a Rom that will support siyah 4.3.3 or siyah 5.0.1 and enable swipe to wake.
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Is that my only option? How can I test for sure that it's a hardware failure and my power button is completely useless?
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Full wipe and return to out of the box stock. If the issue persists, it's hardware.
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Full wipe and return to out of the box stock. If the issue persists, it's hardware.
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After full wiping, if the problem is fixed I should be able to restore the Nandroid from earlier this year without retriggering it, right? Or is that out of the question now?
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karate104 said:
After full wiping, if the problem is fixed I should be able to restore the Nandroid from earlier this year without retriggering it, right? Or is that out of the question now?
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No one will know until you try it, as yours appears to be a unique issue if it is being caused by software/firmware.
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dandrumheller said:
No one will know until you try it, as yours appears to be a unique issue if it is being caused by software/firmware.
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So I backed up stuff, then went ahead and flashed bone stock using the Odin3 One-Click from 2a in creepy's guide. I can't get past the initial setup wizard though, because Google Services Framework (process com.google.process.gapps), Calendar Storage (process.com.android.providers.calendar), and other Google apps processes keep force closing when I click the Android to start. I was able to boot into stock e3 recovery (again using three-button combo), but I can't select anything using the power key.
I didn't do a full data wipe/factory reset before flashing, and I can't get to the main menus to do so because my phone won't get past the setup wizard, which keeps crashing. What do I try next?
EDIT: I know that I was able to make selections using a CWM-enabled ICS kernel; home key functioned as select. I have the CWM-flashable zip, and I wanted to know if there's anyway to flash this kernel using Odin. I know it won't boot (custom ICS kernel with Gingerbread stock rom), but if I can get into recovery, I can use the home key to do a full data wipe/factory reset, then I'd Odin stock kernel+ROM again and see if that fixes things. So my question is, how do I flash a CWM-zipped kernel in Odin? (You can tell I never use Odin)
EDIT2: I'd still like to know how I can flash a CWM-zipped kernel in Odin, but I'm gonna hold off on it as it would trip the counter and I found out my phone is still under warranty, hooray! They're sending a refurb'ed replacement that should be here in a couple days, I can test that out and see if I can get me up and running again before I decide to do something really rash like trip the counter. It sucks cause I'm going out of town on Thursday but the replacement is arriving Friday, and I won't be back until next Wednesday. I'm stuck using my old iPhone 3G until then :/
I do know you can't flash this from Odim. You'll need another kind of file. Tar file... I don't remember.
Don't know where to find it.
I don't think you should back to stock. Just wipe and formating everything could test it.
Find an app that allow you to get recovery from android like rom toolbox lite.
Download mrRobinson AeSedai Aroma.
After formating and wiped everything, flash your rom and don't get out of recovery. Flash AeSedai just after. Flash gapps and KERNEL from AeSedai.
Must be an cm10 or aokp rom... Any rom from that source.
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RatusNatus said:
I do know you can't flash this from Odim. You'll need another kind of file. Tar file... I don't remember.
Don't know where to find it.
I don't think you should back to stock. Just wipe and formating everything could test it.
Find an app that allow you to get recovery from android like rom toolbox lite.
Download mrRobinson AeSedai Aroma.
After formating and wiped everything, flash your rom and don't get out of recovery. Flash AeSedai just after. Flash gapps and KERNEL from AeSedai.
Must be an cm10 or aokp rom... Any rom from that source.
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How would I format and wipe everything if I can't get past the setup wizard on bone stock 2.3.4? I can't install apps, make calls or texts, nothing. All I can do is select the language and make emergency calls. I can't wipe in stock e3 recovery either because the power button doesn't work.
I need a way to either Odin a kernel from which I can use the home button to make selections, or find some other way to remotely format and wipe my phone. Is there a way for me to put my phone in USB debugging mode so I can maybe use ADB? I can't access the settings menu...
Don't u use home button to select things in stock recovery?
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Don't u use home button to select things in stock recovery?
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Nah, it's power key. I double checked again this morning. Oh, and I guess it's called 3e recovery, not e3 xD.
One other note, when pulling battery, then putting it back in, phone autoboots. I have to hold buttons then place battery in to boot to recovery, and for download mode, I have to have it plugged in, buttons held, then place battery in to get to download mode.
EDIT: Would anyone be willing to do me a huge favor? I want to find out if Entropy's DD GB kernel, the Odin-flashable tar one, can use home as select in CWM. Would someone be willing to temporarily flash DD_01242012 from here to check for me? It's a CWM zip, the changes are very tiny between it and the previous 01232012 Odin one. I just don't want to Odin it myself and trip the counter to find out it was useless, especially since I don't have a jig to reset the counter.
So an update:
While looking around for a way to root my new refurb model which came shipped with stock ICS, I found creepy's Stock ICS with root package, and I thought, "I told AT&T I was on ICS, I guess I should actually put ICS on my phone instead of leaving GB (UCKH7) on there. Maybe since I was on ICS before I can get past the gapps force closing too and do a factory reset from the settings menu." Sure enough, after flashing stock ICS, I was able to get past the darn wizard and toy with it. I do have problems of course: calendar still force closes, and the phone will randomly reboot after some period of using it. But at least I was able to access stuff.
My data was all still there, all pictures, contacts, settings, etc. I realized that before I do a data wipe/factory reset, I should heed the emmc superbrick bug warning and NOT do that with stock ICS kernel. I still had ES file explorer and root access, so I went in and manually deleted all data as much as possible, to make it look like my phone did have a factory reset done as I said to the AT&T representative. I've deleted wifi access points, browser history/cookies/cache, all contacts, texts, pictures/videos, downloads, all CWM zips and backups, all installed apps, all accounts that were signed in...
My newest questions are:
1) is there anything I'm missing that I should delete so that my phone does not look like it's been modified in any way? Also, any personal data I'm missing that needs to be deleted? I still have root access so I can delete anything I want.
2) Should I go ahead and risk the brickbug and actually do a factory reset/data wipe, or should I just let it be since I've deleted most things manually (and not potentially send them a useless brick lol)? Actually, since I'm rooted, I can install Mobile Odin to flash a CWM-enabled kernel, then wipe data/factory reset safely from there; that is, assuming my phone doesn't do a random reboot in the middle of flashing the kernel. I do run the risk of it rebooting while flashing and possibly bricking something else. So should I do that and take that risk, should I take the risk of wiping data from the stock kernel, or is there no reason to take either risk anymore?
3) Is there anywhere I can find a non-rooted stock UCLE5 ICS Odin-flashable tar, that I can flash before sending the phone back?
How about:
1. Flash back to stock GB
2. Wipe Data
3. Upgrade to stock ICS via kies or OTA
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Red_81 said:
How about:
1. Flash back to stock GB
2. Wipe Data
3. Upgrade to stock ICS via kies or OTA
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Thanks for your help, but I can't do that. If I could, I wouldn't be stuck in this predicament.
Power key doesn't work at all, but it is necessary to make selections in stock 3e recovery. Hence, I can't wipe from recovery, either on stock GB or ICS.
Stock GB rom doesn't boot past Setup Launcher due to gapps force-closes. These force closes prevent me from reaching the settings menu within stock GB to do a wipe there.
My two options for wiping data are using stock ICS ROM (under settings menu), or flashing a custom kernel using Mobile Odin, then wiping with the home key in CWM. Both are risky: stock ICS ROM uses the stock kernel to wipe, possible brickbug there. My phone currently experiences random reboots without warning; a reboot during a Mobile Odin flash could also brick something. My question is, should I do either one, or neither at all?
What about wiping through ADB?
Adb shell
Wipe data
Or
Adb recovery --wipe-data
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What about wiping through ADB?
Adb shell
Wipe data
Or
Adb recovery --wipe-data
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Well, that previously wasn't an option on GB since I couldn't put the phone in debugging mode, but I can now in ICS so in theory it should work. The question now is, will the phone do one of its random reboots while I'm working with it in ADB...
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