Okay so recently I rooted my phone, no problem with the process, I used odin to change the kernel so it will be able to root. I then download a custom rom which is jellyBAM to my desktop. I waited until it was downloaded (I think it was around 285 mb) and I really don't know how to change roms and stuffs so what I did is I transferred jellyBam to my phone and found a rooted app called rom manager. I runned the app and pressed download rom from sd card and chose the jellyBAM (btw it was a zip file) and pressed download. After that it rebooted and it came to a point where it was just showing the name model (Samsung Galaxy s2 i9100) and this caution symbol underneath it. So the big question is... Is it bricked? Can i recover it? I can't put it in recovery mode but the download mode seems to be working. Should I install a stock rom in my phone using odin? or should I install a kernel? please help! ... :crying: :crying: :crying:
You should read some and be relieved
And rom manager & s ii dont get along well.
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I've been searching threads similar to mine but I couldn't find any! just wondering if I can restore my phone using download mode.. Thanks anyway
Do the reading thing again, it's all there.
Reflash via cwm or flash a stock rom via odin.
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So if I flashed a stock rom using odin, will it go back to normal? will my phone be unrooted?
Yes to all.
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Need some help for a strange situation
I was attempting to flash my samsung t959 to froyo 2.3 and came across a site the stated I could use the files for the vibrant gt i9000 and flash via odin. Well guess what that didn’t work it booted up and worked ok but some functions were severely hampered. So I reinstalled eclair 2.1 via odin everything was fine but when it boots up the gt i9000 screen shows first than the vibrant screen followed by regular boot up.
I rooted the phone and tried installing a rom but it wont install. when in recovery mode it will just install the update.zip folder and not the rom I downloaded with the rom manager. I have a feeling there is some of the gt i9000 software still in the phone but cant figure out how to get it out.I have flashed several times using odin but still the same. If I want to get into recovery mode the 3 button way I have to use the buttons that the i9000 would use not the t959. That’s what makes me think there are remnants of the i9000 left over.Anybody got any ideas for getting the back to stock 2.1 so I can install a rom?
tsurdam said:
Need some help for a strange situation
I was attempting to flash my samsung t959 to froyo 2.3 and came across a site the stated I could use the files for the vibrant gt i9000 and flash via odin. Well guess what that didn’t work it booted up and worked ok but some functions were severely hampered. So I reinstalled eclair 2.1 via odin everything was fine but when it boots up the gt i9000 screen shows first than the vibrant screen followed by regular boot up.
I rooted the phone and tried installing a rom but it wont install. when in recovery mode it will just install the update.zip folder and not the rom I downloaded with the rom manager. I have a feeling there is some of the gt i9000 software still in the phone but cant figure out how to get it out.I have flashed several times using odin but still the same. If I want to get into recovery mode the 3 button way I have to use the buttons that the i9000 would use not the t959. That’s what makes me think there are remnants of the i9000 left over.Anybody got any ideas for getting the back to stock 2.1 so I can install a rom?
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you installed the gingerbread bootloadder easy way to solve your problem it flash the stock bootloader via odin which you can find here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1117990
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Thanks for the info I am going to try that when I get back from Alaska. In you opinion what is the best most stable rom out there for a t959. When I download the rom and put it in the root of the sd card it should not be unzipped correct?
tsurdam said:
Thanks for the info I am going to try that when I get back from Alaska. In you opinion what is the best most stable rom out there for a t959. When I download the rom and put it in the root of the sd card it should not be unzipped correct?
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yes you dont unzip the rom. also one of the most stable roms for me on 2.2 is trigger 3.1 and for 2.3.4 simply honey
Is there a rom that uses odin to flash the t959 to 2.2.1? Any rom I have tried using the reboot recovery method does not seem to work. As far as I know I am installing correct.
Downloaded update.zip to the sd internal removed external sd
ran recovery and installed update .zip
have superuser icon so the root has been made
downloaded rom manger looks like it works connects and lets me look at the roms I can use etc.
downloaded several differant roms and tried to install all it wants to do is install the update and does not install the rom files.
The rom files are zip files and I do only leave one rom on the sd card at a time allong with the update.zip file. I dont get it.
Did you flash recovery in ROM manager and reboot into recovery. Then reinstall packages and reboot into recovery?
You can keep as many ROMs and kernels and whatever you want on either sdcard. I have both filled to the brim.
Eitherway you could use Eugene's froyo that doesn't brick in ODIN but that might be 2.2 actually so ignore that, lol
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Ok,
A few days ago I rooted my phone, but I didn't install any custom roms to it. Today I installed Rom Manager from Market and from there I installed ClockworkMod Recovery.
The only thing I cant figure out now is how to actually remove it again. I found this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1227464, but doing what these guys says does not remove ClockworkMod Recovery from my Galaxy S II. I tried it three times now, and when I install Rom Manager from Market again it tells me that ClockworkMod Recovery is still installed (in top of the app after you start it.) I can even boot into it using the second choice in the app, without even touching to first one first.
Do I really have to flash the entire stock rom along with it's kernel to get ClockworkMod Recovery out of my way? I cant really find out anything about how to remove it from Galaxy S II, but I it would be great to know how to remove it just in case the phone ever need's a trip to the hospital.
This is the first time I'm playing around with S II, and I'm not very good at these things. Would be great if someone could help me out here.
Flash a stock kernel or another kernel?
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If the plan is to send it back you the shop you would need to flash a whole stock ROM with Odin
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Method depends on which model you have as the firmware you need to flash will be different
International or American seems to make a big difference. If you have an american model then maybe listing the carrier would help as well.
I tried to flash a stock kernel @nikzDHD, that was the content of the link I had in my first post. Didn't work. =(
Crap. I was hoping I didn't have to flash a stock rom since I'm already running it, but if that's the only way to get ClockworkMod Recovery out of my way I guess I'll just have to get it done.
The phone was bought in Norway, Europe and it isn't locked in any way. I flashed the kernel with Odin, so I would guess I could flash the rom with it as well? Is there any guides on how to flash a rom for the first time to Galaxy SII?
Thanks
I found this thread with stock roms: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1075278 , but I'm not sure witch to choose.
My phone says after *#1234#:
PDA: XWKI8
PHONE: XXKI4
CSC: OXXKI2
Can anyone please tell me what rom to choose?
Edit:
I just downloaded a file I found here: http://droidangel.blogspot.com/2011/09/i9100xwki4-android-234-samsung-galaxy.html. After extracting it I flashed it with Odin, and everything looked fine. That version var 2.4 and I used Kies to update to 2.5, everything working great.
Now, the only problem is that I'm still not getting rid of that ClockworkMod Recovery. It's seriously starting to piss me off, that ClockworkMod Recovery thing. What I did is quite simple. First I deleted cache from ClockworkMod Recovery, then factory reset, turned off phone and booted into Odin mode where I flashed the stock rom from Odin on my laptop. But why the heck is Rom Manager still telling me that ClockworkMod Recovery is on my phone? I can't really understand why this is just not going where I want it - Off my phone.
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Found another rom somewhere out there, flashed it, same result. The only thing is, Rom Manager is showing that cwm still is installed, but when I click the button to reboot into it, it just show some kind of error-message. I guess that's good enough for me, all tho I can't understand why that Rom manager app is telling me that it's actually there. :S
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similar problem
Hi,
I also would like to remove completely clockworkmod and unroot my phone, I have searched and what comes to my knowledge so far is that I have to flash the firmware (the 200+MB file?) from phone (recovery mode, i would prefer this way as it seems really easy), flash stock kernel and reset counter using USB Jig (found on eBay or any other online electronic market).
I would just like to confirm if these are the steps to do a complete HARD reset (exactly like bought fresh from shop), not the reset set by phone itself.
PHONE TECH INFO:
BASEBAND VERSION:
i9100XXKI1
KERNEL:
(STOCK)
2.6.35*XWKI4
T-MOBILE -- UK
I only want to UNROOT and REMOVE CLOCKWORKMOD !!!
Thank you in advance !!
You'll be able to find your stock firmware on Sammobile.com. Search for it on there & follow whatever instructions they have for flashing firmware downloaded from there. Then do a factory reset, and if the flash counter in download mode is showing anything other than no/0, use the jig to reset same.
suenoromis said:
Hi,
I also would like to remove completely clockworkmod and unroot my phone, I have searched and what comes to my knowledge so far is that I have to flash the firmware (the 200+MB file?) from phone (recovery mode, i would prefer this way as it seems really easy), flash stock kernel and reset counter using USB Jig (found on eBay or any other online electronic market).
I would just like to confirm if these are the steps to do a complete HARD reset (exactly like bought fresh from shop), not the reset set by phone itself.
PHONE TECH INFO:
BASEBAND VERSION:
i9100XXKI1
KERNEL:
(STOCK)
2.6.35*XWKI4
T-MOBILE -- UK
I only want to UNROOT and REMOVE CLOCKWORKMOD !!!
Thank you in advance !!
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Thank you for your quick reply, but would it possible for you to give me detailed instructions on how to restore a phone to factory settings using Odin?
I have Odin, stock kernel, soon a USB Jig and several files within the range of 270MB and 300MB, they are:
GT-I9100_XEU_I9100XWKI4_I9100XEUKH2_I9100XXKI1.7z
T-I9100_XEU_I9100XWKI4_I9100XEUKH2_I9100XXKI1.7z
I9100XWKI4_I9100OXXKI2_I9100XXKI1.rar
I really want to UNROOT my phone and REMOVE CLOCKWORKMOD.
The instructions that you said to me in your post, in response to mine, made me even more confused.
Thank you in Advance !
Flash stock rom and ready!
I would like to know if this method worked for anyone and was the phone really turned back to the factory conditions or not
I am new to this and thinking of flashing a custom ROM trying to understand the consequences before i actually do the update.
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ROM Manager is NOT compatible with CWM. It f*cked up my phone before. It somehow gives you two recovery images. For example, going to recovery mode from ROM Manager will take you to its personal CWM Recovery Image. But if you go to Recovery Image manually (Volume Up + Menu + Home), you will also be taken to a different CWM Recovery (the one you got by installing CF Root or a custom ROM with CWM Recovery... I know these based on experience. So what I do is that I only use ROM Manager for downloading stuff. And manually go to CWM Recovery (or use CWM Manager app) for backing up and restoring ROMs.
Unfortunately, I don't think you can remove CWM Recovery without getting rid of root. Some form of custom recovery always comes with a rooted device.
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Detailed instructions for removing ClockworkMod - Help
Hello All,
I rooted my Samsung Galaxy S II (Sprint) right after I got it in 2011. Recently I upgraded to the SGIII so I want to remove my ClockworkMod and restore to Factory so I can sell the phone.
I've seen some instructions like "Flash with Stock ROM". I agree with others... sorry but that info just confuses me more.
Can anyone provide instructions? Clear, simple instructions? I tried finding stock firmware at SamMobile but I had no luck. How do I find the stock ROM for MY phone..a Sprint Samsung Galaxy S II? How do I know if it is a P3100 or other?
Then ...once I have the Stock ROM, how do I "flash" it..what else do I need?
Then..steps to follow.
If you don't have time, do not reply. Like I said, "flash with Stock ROM" doesn't help me. If you can provide the info and steps, I'll be eternally grateful.
When I start up my phone and press Volume Up, I get the ClockWorkMod Recovery v5.0.2.7 screen. Does that mean my phone is still rooted? If so, how do I remove the CM Recovery?
Thank you,
Ken Arcia
shetalksandroid said:
ROM Manager is NOT compatible with CWM. It f*cked up my phone before. It somehow gives you two recovery images. For example, going to recovery mode from ROM Manager will take you to its personal CWM Recovery Image. But if you go to Recovery Image manually (Volume Up + Menu + Home), you will also be taken to a different CWM Recovery (the one you got by installing CF Root or a custom ROM with CWM Recovery... I know these based on experience. So what I do is that I only use ROM Manager for downloading stuff. And manually go to CWM Recovery (or use CWM Manager app) for backing up and restoring ROMs.
Unfortunately, I don't think you can remove CWM Recovery without getting rid of root. Some form of custom recovery always comes with a rooted device.
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Where do I find my stock ROM for MY phone? Where do I find ODIN? Can you provide steps to flash the Stock ROM with Odin once I have the Stock ROM and Odin for my phone??
I have a Sprint Samsung Galaxy II
Thanks so much,
Ken Arcia
crypticc said:
If the plan is to send it back you the shop you would need to flash a whole stock ROM with Odin
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Doesn't CSC or any other single one of the 3 files be enough to flash? Do we need to flash modem also to get the stock recovery back?
PS: none of the experts here could extract and make a flashable stock recovery installer, as a sample if not for each stock version?
Hello,
This is my first time installing a custom rom and I hope i did everything right. I installed CM9 using the guide found on their wiki page and installed it successfully. But after installation i cannot get my sim card to work on the phone.
Recovery: ClockWorkMod
CM9: 9.0.0-i9300
Galaxy SIII international.
Thanks in advance
Muzammil Ahmed
muxammle said:
Hello,
This is my first time installing a custom rom and I hope i did everything right. I installed CM9 using the guide found on their wiki page and installed it successfully. But after installation i cannot get my sim card to work on the phone.
Recovery: ClockWorkMod
CM9: 9.0.0-i9300
Galaxy SIII international.
Thanks in advance
Muzammil Ahmed
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try reinstall a stock rom, check if everythings is fine then reinstall CM9
Thnx for the quick response
I think the problem isn't cm9, when I was trying to install the from I couldn't boot to the cwm recovery because I forgot to root my device. Then I rooted my s3 with cf something root kit and then my signals were gone. I have the international version so my phone should be factory unlocked so I thought I should install cm anyway cuz that might solve the problem. But it didn't. I really like cyanogenmod and don't want to revert back to crappy touchwizz . The problem was there before installing cm9 but after rooting my phone.
Please any help. I really need to use my phone.
Thnx
Muzammil
muxammle said:
Thnx for the quick response
I think the problem isn't cm9, when I was trying to install the from I couldn't boot to the cwm recovery because I forgot to root my device. Then I rooted my s3 with cf something root kit and then my signals were gone. I have the international version so my phone should be factory unlocked so I thought I should install cm anyway cuz that might solve the problem. But it didn't. I really like cyanogenmod and don't want to revert back to crappy touchwizz . The problem was there before installing cm9 but after rooting my phone.
Please any help. I really need to use my phone.
Thnx
Muzammil
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You should reinstall everything from the scratch mate, so revert your device at stock (using odin), then flash the correct [email protected] kernel and finally if everything is working flash cm9.
Edit: if your device is locked i think you can unlock it easily, search in the forum you can find out everything you need for this.
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sorry mate ..
i am a complete noob, i dont know how to revert to stock rom, stock recovery and unroot my device
Download original firmware for your phone from sammobiles and flash it using odin. If is good then root it again and flash cm9.
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Arsaw said:
Download original firmware for your phone from sammobiles and flash it using odin. If is good then root it again and flash cm9.
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Okay,
I have downloaded my firmware file but i noticed that i need three tar files for the flashing precess through ODIN but i downloaded only 1 file *.tar.md5
no clue now what to do
Update: I tried to extract the file using splitfus but it didnt work.
Update 2: Okay now I have Installed my stock firmware and it seems to be working now.. But should I risk installing the CM9 again ?
muxammle said:
Okay,
I have downloaded my firmware file but i noticed that i need three tar files for the flashing precess through ODIN but i downloaded only 1 file *.tar.md5
no clue now what to do
Update: I tried to extract the file using splitfus but it didnt work.
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- launch Odin
- load that ONE FILE on PDA section
- put your phone in download mode (volume down+home+power)
- connect the phone to computer, wait for drivers to be installed and ODIN to find your phone (you will see a message in Odin)
- click start
- don't touch the phone until it's done. It will boot alone
Also, it might be a good idea to wipe data / reset to factory before and after flash.
You could find all this info with google ....
On the topic, I have a similar issue. My phone was factory unlocked , and got locked after flashing latest stock firmware. Downgrading didn't solved anything. I am searching the forums right now, but it seems like all fixes are dated.
If anyone could point me in the right direction, it will be appreciated.
Thx
Hey rsndetre,
Thnx for the post, but sorry I already did that and it worked ..
Here are the method I used to get back my device back to normal and got my sim card working and again reinstalled cm9
1- Downloaded Toolkit from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1703488
2- Flashed Stock Boot Image
3- Flashed Stock Recovery Mode
4- Downloaded stock firmware from http://fus.nanzen.se/
5- Flashed stock firmware using Odin (your method above)
6- Rooted the device again (using odin and CF-Root-SGS3-v6.4)
7- Downloaded and placed cm9 and google apps package in SDCARD
8- Installed Rom Manager from Play Store.
9- Downloaded and Installed ClockWorkMod from rom manager and booted to recovery mode using RomManager
10- Then factory resetted, formatted the cache and installed the CM9 and GAPPS V11
Then my phone was good to go.
My phone is up and running, thanks rsndetre, Arsaw and TecQuality for your replies. I appreciate your time
Thanks
Muzammil Ahmed.
i have s3. i rooted the phone then tried to install flash miui v5 via with but failed -i guess- because phone is lack of cwm. so i installed cwm but the phone wouldnt boot to recover mode, instead there was always original recovery mode. so i tried again and again but still anything change. then i tried to unlock bootloder with a app named ez lock i guess i did it but after something my phone went to download mode by itself and there is nothing else. top left there is no version info. just download mode with a green android guy. i removed battery and take it back, and tried to open download mode again there was infos top left screen this time. but when i tried to enter recovery mode it just load something in cwm recovery then there is again download mode without infos top left.
now im downloading stock rom, hope it'll work. is there anything else i can do guys? please help me, im not good at this stuff..
Tried to Flash stock firmware ?
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Bootloader ??? do you actually have a I9300 as bootloader is not locked .
please help me, im not good at this stuff.. That would be due to not bothering to read the faqs and guides first .
My guess is that you have bricked your phone and need a paid for service repair .
i tried to flash to stock rom with odin, but somehow it failed to flash :S then phone stucked at a screen that says "firmware upgrade encountered an issue. please select recovery mode in kies & try again. then i found this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2261153 and my phone opened.
i have a question though, why didnt cwm open in the phone? if it had opened i would've install miui
Things went wrong because you didn't read or follow the many guides on XDA that other members wrote to help you. Guessing what to do can be very expensive.
CWM didn't open because you flashed in onto a stock ROM, which immediately restored a stock recovery.
boomboomer said:
Things went wrong because you didn't read or follow the many guides on XDA that other members wrote to help you. Guessing what to do can be very expensive.
CWM didn't open because you flashed in onto a stock ROM, which immediately restored a stock recovery.
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but i couldnt install miui because cwm wouldnt open, before that i had stock rom which same now too. anyway now i have rooted 4.1.2 stock rom of samsung with counter 7 :laugh:
Hello, My old S2 was dead (i thought), but after i remember charging it for a night, it suddenly worked again.
The problem is, i had a rom Resurection Remix, and i want to put a stock 4.1.2 rom.
My pc didn't recognize the phone via usb, it charges but nothing more. So i can't use Odin. I can enter recovery and download mode. I tried to do a factory reset via recovery mode, but now the phone is stuck in the resurection remix logo.. I can only install a new rom using the recovery mode and 'installing from zip', but i can't find a working link to that rom. even here on Xda the links are dead.
Phone is from europe.
Can anyone provide me a link to a stock rom please?
Thanks in advance
Edit: I was able to download a Resurection Remix rom and install using CWM. Phone not stuck on boot anymore. But still can't find a stock Rom (zip) so i can install it using the recovery mode, because that's the only option i have, since my pc still doesn't recognize my phone as usb.
Hi,
Given the situation that you have experienced, it seems that your USB port on you phone needs replacing. This is highly recommended as if something does happen to your phone, you won't be able to restore it.
The closest ROM I could find that is based on stock ROM is NeatROM which can be found in the link below:
NeatROM thread
Stock ROM should only be flashed via ODIN which requires a working USB port and a PC nearby.
Saber
Saber said:
Hi,
Given the situation that you have experienced, it seems that your USB port on you phone needs replacing. This is highly recommended as if something does happen to your phone, you won't be able to restore it.
The closest ROM I could find that is based on stock ROM is NeatROM which can be found in the link below:
NeatROM thread
Stock ROM should only be flashed via ODIN which requires a working USB port and a PC nearby.
Saber
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Someone in the S2 community could convert a stock .tar into a recovery flashable zip. There are many here for other devices.
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SirWiland said:
Hello, My old S2 was dead (i thought), but after i remember charging it for a night, it suddenly worked again.
The problem is, i had a rom Resurection Remix, and i want to put a stock 4.1.2 rom.
My pc didn't recognize the phone via usb, it charges but nothing more. So i can't use Odin. I can enter recovery and download mode. I tried to do a factory reset via recovery mode, but now the phone is stuck in the resurection remix logo.. I can only install a new rom using the recovery mode and 'installing from zip', but i can't find a working link to that rom. even here on Xda the links are dead.
Phone is from europe.
Can anyone provide me a link to a stock rom please?
Thanks in advance
Edit: I was able to download a Resurection Remix rom and install using CWM. Phone not stuck on boot anymore. But still can't find a stock Rom (zip) so i can install it using the recovery mode, because that's the only option i have, since my pc still doesn't recognize my phone as usb.
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Hello, I got the same problem. So I wrote the complete tutorial to flash without Odin !
Follow me : https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s2/help/guide-tutorial-samsung-galaxy-s2-i9100-t3538601
djibe89 said:
Hello, I got the same problem. So I wrote the complete tutorial to flash without Odin !
Follow me : https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s2/help/guide-tutorial-samsung-galaxy-s2-i9100-t3538601
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They wanted to go back to stock 4.1.2, they don't want a custom ROM.
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I am wanting to download stock ROM for GTi9100 (Australia) and would appreciate any help with a download link where I am NOT going to get malware or have to pay a fee. Samsung site does not recognise a search for S2 GTi9100 neither does sammobile. I have tried dozens of threads on XDA site but just get redirected to some crap site or the links are no longer active. Can anyone help please.
Franklin46 said:
I am wanting to download stock ROM for GTi9100 (Australia) and would appreciate any help with a download link where I am NOT going to get malware or have to pay a fee. Samsung site does not recognise a search for S2 GTi9100 neither does sammobile. I have tried dozens of threads on XDA site but just get redirected to some crap site or the links are no longer active. Can anyone help please.
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What mobile carrier do you use?
I found these two firmwares for i9100 in Australia
XSA-https://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/galaxy-s-/GT-I9100/XSA/
Optus-https://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/galaxy-s-/GT-I9100/OPS/
Create a free account there and choose the "free download" option, it won't cost anything and won't have malware, the download will take a little longer though, just be patient.