Hello guys im new to this kinda stuff I was watching a couple of videos last night about flashing roms on the virbant and I dont got a good computer right now. I did see a few ways of doing from the phone but I cant get it to root froyo 2.2 I tried the z4root that didnt work. All I want to do is flash my rom to jellybean 4.2 it looks fast and I cant use any good apps on froyo 2.2 I want to play the new minecraft update but ot wont wprk because I need jellybean please help
L80mans said:
Hello guys im new to this kinda stuff I was watching a couple of videos last night about flashing roms on the virbant and I dont got a good computer right now. I did see a few ways of doing from the phone but I cant get it to root froyo 2.2 I tried the z4root that didnt work. All I want to do is flash my rom to jellybean 4.2 it looks fast and I cant use any good apps on froyo 2.2 I want to play the new minecraft update but ot wont wprk because I need jellybean please help
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You don't really need a good computer to flash back to stock, just a USB cable. The easiest way is to flash back to stock JFD 2.1 with Odin and then root your phone with update.zip B, reboot to recovery and reinstall packages twice then flash the ROM (twice also if going to JB 4.2). Here is a link for both flashing to stock and rooting with update.zip B http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=849028 . If you decide to stay on 2.2 you will have to use the modified 3e recovery zip, I have never done this so can't really explain how to do it, here is the link though http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=833423.
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iTz KeeFy said:
You don't really need a good computer to flash back to stock, just a USB cable. The easiest way is to flash back to stock JFD 2.1 with Odin and then root your phone with update.zip B, reboot to recovery and reinstall packages twice then flash the ROM (twice also if going to JB 4.2). Here is a link for both flashing to stock and rooting with update.zip B http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=849028 . If you decide to stay on 2.2 you will have to use the modified 3e recovery zip, I have never done this so can't really explain how to do it, here is the link though http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=833423.
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Ok I ran into a little problem I dont want to downgrade and im trying to do the 3e and since I dont got a root and superuser I cant install the modded recover file any suggestions ?
L80mans said:
Ok I ran into a little problem I dont want to downgrade and im trying to do the 3e and since I dont got a root and superuser I cant install the modded recover file any suggestions ?
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Try update.zip A from the first link I provided, it should root your phone. Then you can use the 3e method. I've never had to do this myself so sorry I don't have a straight answer for you.
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iTz KeeFy said:
Try update.zip A from the first link I provided, it should root your phone. Then you can use the 3e method. I've never had to do this myself so sorry I don't have a straight answer for you.
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Ok I tried that and it gave me a whole-check error. Ive tried simpleoneclick and it didnt root my phone it gave me a error. Did you root your phone? What did you use to root it? Nothing is working I searched all night long
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Ok I tried that and it gave me a whole-check error. Ive tried simpleoneclick and it didnt root my phone it gave me a error. Did you root your phone? What did you use to root it? Nothing is working I searched all night long
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Yes I rooted my phone with Update.zip B, it doesn't actually root but it gives you CWM and you can flash a custom ROM, they all come pre rooted. You should really flash back to stock if possible, it's very easy from stock 2.1. I'll do some research and see what I can come up with but stock 2.2 has a bunch of issues with rooting and installing CWM, this is why everyone recommends flashing to stock 2.1 (JFD)
Edit - it appears superoneclick 2.3.1 works for some people on stock Froyo (2.2). Here is the link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1146645 If you get it rooted on stock 2.2 you will still have to do the 3e recovery step FYI
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iTz KeeFy said:
Yes I rooted my phone with Update.zip B, it doesn't actually root but it gives you CWM and you can flash a custom ROM, they all come pre rooted. You should really flash back to stock if possible, it's very easy from stock 2.1. I'll do some research and see what I can come up with but stock 2.2 has a bunch of issues with rooting and installing CWM, this is why everyone recommends flashing to stock 2.1 (JFD)
Edit - it appears superoneclick 2.3.1 works for some people on stock Froyo (2.2). Here is the link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1146645 If you get it rooted on stock 2.2 you will still have to do the 3e recovery step FYI
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Thanks ill report back with results
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Thanks ill report back with results
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Cool, hopefully you get everything working, let me know.
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L80mans said:
Hello guys im new to this kinda stuff I was watching a couple of videos last night about flashing roms on the virbant and I dont got a good computer right now. I did see a few ways of doing from the phone but I cant get it to root froyo 2.2 I tried the z4root that didnt work. All I want to do is flash my rom to jellybean 4.2 it looks fast and I cant use any good apps on froyo 2.2 I want to play the new minecraft update but ot wont wprk because I need jellybean please help
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I am having the worst time going from Eclair to upgrade to Froyo. Would you have a copy of Froyo to flash??? Thanks.
brie987 said:
I am having the worst time going from Eclair to upgrade to Froyo. Would you have a copy of Froyo to flash??? Thanks.
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hey sorry for the late reply I just used samsungs skies to upgrade mine to froyo just put your phone in kies mode then plug it in run the updater and it should work fine and I got the root to work thanks for the help only problem I got now is making it boot into clockworks recovery so I can flash my room im still working on that ill post back when I can get it to work
Thanks for the reply. Sad news. I used Kies Mini to update and everything went fine until the reboot. well it didnt reboot, my phone is officially bricked. I bought a JIG to see if it would help wake it in Download but it does not. I have read that you can open the phone and do some soldering to get the phone back but it seems like too much for this phone. If you have any suggestions that would be fantastic.. Thanks again for your reply.
brie987 said:
Thanks for the reply. Sad news. I used Kies Mini to update and everything went fine until the reboot. well it didnt reboot, my phone is officially bricked. I bought a JIG to see if it would help wake it in Download but it does not. I have read that you can open the phone and do some soldering to get the phone back but it seems like too much for this phone. If you have any suggestions that would be fantastic.. Thanks again for your reply.
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Hey you should be able to use odin and it should be able to unbrick it you will just lose all your data because it will install a new rom!
HERE IS A VIDEO TO HELP YOU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nMCBbdAcHU
if this does not work come back and ill help you find another way to fix it
and sorry for the late reply ive been busy
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hi guys,
i am currently on Bionix-v 1.3.1 in my vibrant and i want to update to gingerbread.
so i wonder is it possible to upgrade vibrant to gingerbread and if so,can u link me to a way how to do that ?
thanks in advance
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1117990
flash GB bootloaders then you can flash any GB rom over whatever rom
theres ways to do it without the bootloaders but you'll get rainbow screen on boot and wont be able to see recovery
Flash using GB bootloader,it can fix rainbows and use any GB ROM
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thanks guys
so do i have to install GB rom first and then flash ? or its other way around ?
and which rom do u recommond for vibrant ?
thanks
royalkalana said:
thanks guys
so do i have to install GB rom first and then flash ? or its other way around ?
and which rom do u recommond for vibrant ?
thanks
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bootloaders 1st
cant flash straight to a GB rom from froyo without them
only rom i know of that can be is SH3.3, can flash that from froyo without them then flash whatever other GB rom you want through rom manager i think (i did this because i dont trust odin)
some have .tar files so you can flash them through odin to get to GB but voodoo sometimes messes up so you still need the bootloaders to go to recovery and disable it if it does
easiest way's to flash the bootloaders then just flash whatever GB over whatever
thanks again
i have flashed using gb boot loader
i am going to try Simply Honey 4.0 Revolution(JVQ GB 2.3.4) custom rom.
will post what happens
royalkalana said:
thanks again
i have flashed using gb boot loader
i am going to try Simply Honey 4.0 Revolution(JVQ GB 2.3.4) custom rom.
will post what happens
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im on that
eveything works fine for me, abit of lag now and then but thats to be expected
theres a 2.3.4 problem with calls for some people but it seems random, iv never had it on 3.8, 3.9 or 4.0, some people have had it on all of them
hi,
all things working fine
but just wondering how to upgrade to Medium OR Large sized version of that OS.
i am currently on the light version of Simply Honey 4.0 Revolution(JVQ GB 2.3.4)
any ideas ?
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hi,
all things working fine
but just wondering how to upgrade to Medium OR Large sized version of that OS.
i am currently on the light version of Simply Honey 4.0 Revolution(JVQ GB 2.3.4)
any ideas ?
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theres only a large 4.0 i think so you'll be on that
ok done all things but guess wat !! phone cant receive calls now!! the problem is i have installed anOS designed for I9000 but my phone is tmobile vibrant. i see radio app too and video call option when calling.... :/
please someone tell me how to fix this thing ?
kyle51 any idea mate ?
guys i followed this thread and calling is ok now
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1169848
but in instead installing lite version in step 10, i installed the RC3 version.. it still worked
posted this because if anyone got the same problem someday
royalkalana said:
ok done all things but guess wat !! phone cant receive calls now!! the problem is i have installed anOS designed for I9000 but my phone is tmobile vibrant. i see radio app too and video call option when calling.... :/
please someone tell me how to fix this thing ?
kyle51 any idea mate ?
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all GB roms are taken from i9000 because we dont have an official GB for our phones
dont know what its because of why calls dont work for some people, they worked for everyone on 2.3.3 i think
dont think radio works because there isnt any radio drivers for our phone so just uninstall it
video calling is there for the people that have put an FFC into their vibrant, it doesnt change anything
MIUI FTW
If you wanna flash a GB ROM trust me MIUI 1.29.11 is the way to go. You will be surprised how nice it is. Just give it a try.
P.S. I flashed it coming from a 2.2 ROM (trigger 3.3) without flashing bootloader. Just did the same old flashing process (wipe,wipe,wipe)
well,
i am on 2.3.4 and i want to reverse back to a 2.3 rom "Team Toxic "Crazy8".
so i do have to install old bootloaders according to them.
anyone got a idea how to do that ?
thanks
hold on to your pants
royalkalana said:
hi guys,
i am currently on Bionix-v 1.3.1 in my vibrant and i want to update to gingerbread.
so i wonder is it possible to upgrade vibrant to gingerbread and if so,can u link me to a way how to do that ?
thanks in advance
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i came from bionix 131 was a great rom but get ready for bad assness
1. assuming you have cwm, flash cwm recovery, pick vibrant mtd, click yes then chose clockworkmod 2.x
2. go to download rom, go to cyanogen nightlies and pick perhaps the highest build number unless it has really bad remarks.
3. do the usual clear cache, clear dalv, flash it, fix permissions
let it boot and sit for a few and hold on to your panties...lol
nope gps does not work. but from what i remember bionix gps was pretty spotty as well
dont forget to wipe data, anyways reading some of the posts. simply galaxy is cool, love the blue but cm7 is waaaaay smoother and highly customizable. and you dont need to flash gb bootloaders. and if you want to go back once you flashed gb loaders, your gonna gave to get froyo boots back, from what i remember. cm7 has made it too easy to flash, was kind of tricky in the beginning, but did it for the fun of it
I have spent the fortnight since getting my s2 reading everything I can about roms, rooting etc and I cant say that there wasnt / isnt some confusion, but this is where I am as of now.
I want to start trying some other roms like CM7 or MIUI
To root I have kies installed for the drivers.
I have odin and also super one click
I have downloaded the stock kernel for my phone which is XWKI4 from the xda site. I have the very bottom one which is around 8mb. My phone is from CFW but I didnt download the 200mb plus CFW one ( not sure if I need to? ).
I am going to download any insecure kernel and use with odin and then use superone click. I am then going to put the stock secure kernel back on.
Then I planned to download clockwork rom manager from the app store and start to download and flash firmwares with that.
Am I on the right lines or miles away from where I need to be? Been an iphone user for 3+ years so android in itself is completely new to me.
Any advice or help or confirmation I look good to go would be very much appreciated indeed.
Thanks.
Easiest to flash a cf-root to get the phone rooted. Installs CWM also.
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Do not install anything with Rom Manager. If you want to flash things do it with CWM recovery. Go here and get your phone rooted and follow the guide it gives you. Could not be more simple to do it
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1103399
You have odin which is great. Just find the kernel that matches your current firmware and just flash away. This way you get cwm recovery and then you get the cwm manager apk which again is a must app to have. More explanation is better on the thread link i gave above
Many thanks all. Will check it out when I'm back home.
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pewdle said:
Many thanks all. Will check it out when I'm back home.
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no problem. just press that thanks when you get there
Hello I'm basically trying to find android 2.3.6 for att galaxy s 2 pure stock not looking to flash any custom stuff as for me seems to make my phone worse my opinion. Also I do not like android 4 ics I have had to pull my battery out all week since I've updated, if u can please direct me to the 2.3.6 update that would be great. thank you
http://www.sammobile.com/firmware/
That's the link. On the top of the page in the search bar just type sgh-i777 and the stock down load will be at the bottom just flash it via Odin good luck
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Hello I'm basically trying to find android 2.3.6 for att galaxy s 2 pure stock not looking to flash any custom stuff as for me seems to make my phone worse my opinion. Also I do not like android 4 ics I have had to pull my battery out all week since I've updated, if u can please direct me to the 2.3.6 update that would be great. thank you
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There is no stock UCKK6 (2.3.6) but you can download and flash a Stock plus root version of UCKK6. See Entropy512's thread which is a sticky in the development forum.
...Or you can flash fully stock UCKH7 (2.3.4). See the link in my signature for the return to the store guide.
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Hello I'm basically trying to find android 2.3.6 for att galaxy s 2 pure stock not looking to flash any custom stuff as for me seems to make my phone worse my opinion. Also I do not like android 4 ics I have had to pull my battery out all week since I've updated, if u can please direct me to the 2.3.6 update that would be great. thank you
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I will add this if you flashed UCLE5 via kies or any other method to get your ICS besides AJ's thread you have an unsafe kernel and possible eMMC SUPERBRICK BUG make sure you DON'T wipe data/factory reset before you flash this package do it after you flashed a safe GB kernel... If it were me knowing KK6 2.3.6 has battery drain issues I would flash KH7 2.3.4..... Just use creeys thread to get the files here is the link... GL
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=18859438&postcount=199 For KH7 stock or rooted.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1746181 Some info on the eMMC bug
sad
i flashed on of those and for some reason all i get is samsung galaxy s 2 screen i tryed getting into the stock recovery but it wont do anything just sits there tryed again with odin doing the samething any ideas.? thanks for the replies
Please post detailed information about what you have done so far. Need more info before we can help.
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Please post detailed information about what you have done so far. Need more info before we can help.
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i flashed I777UCKH7-REV02-home-low-CL503881.tar
that i had got from sammobile i didn't see the other post till now and i also upgraded to ics from kies i can get into download mode but when i try recovery i held power and volume rockers and it's suppose to flicker once it does not do this it just stays there
You can upgrade to the stock 2.3.6 by downloading the stock 2.3.4 firmware from the download repository here in our forums, then after you are booted into the operating system, go to settings, scroll all the way to the bottom to software update, and it will download and install 2.3.6. I wouldn't suggest it , just because I don't like it or think it runs well, but try it out. Good luck, happy flashing.
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im just gunna return it and get a new one with gingerbread i only had it for 14 days ,thanks for the help every one
sorry to bug yall again but they wouldn't take it back i was just wondering does cyanogen mod 7 have hardware acceleration srry im a bit weird and dont like ics lol
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im just gunna return it and get a new one with gingerbread i only had it for 14 days ,thanks for the help every one
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Why didnt they take the phone back
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slim1991 said:
Why didnt they take the phone back
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I'm gonna guess they booted into download mode and checked the flash counter...
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sorry to bug yall again but they wouldn't take it back i was just wondering does cyanogen mod 7 have hardware acceleration srry im a bit weird and dont like ics lol
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Why would they not take it back?? You never flashed any custom ROMS from here right? All you did was flash the AT&T ICS update via kies and it gave you problems right? Knowing all that = true I will do all I can to help you (the only problem is I don't know anything) If you don't respond back in about an hour it's 6:30am now on the West coast I have to roll out for awhile. There are some cool people here that will help you. Just make sure you cross reference EVERYTHING...... Do all the reading you can, nobody can keep your phone safe but YOU. Here is a link to one of the best guides on here via the man Creepy <~~~ Koolest dude much respect!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=18630030#post18630030 read it so you can understand a little better..... Don't do ANYTHING till you understand EVERYTHING
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=18576627#post18576627 Some more good info just read all you can.
1. What is the status of the phone now? (can it boot recovery or go in to download mode)
looked at similar threads but not found what im looking for
i tried a new rom last night whih made my phone freeze and trying i could reboot as after 2 seconds it would hang. ended up flashing firmwre via odi which was fine.
tonight tried to reroot my phone using the S3 toolkit which i used fist time round. everything seemed to go as planned but then when it came to reboot.. s3 toolkit aid all successful but i was getting a black screen.
i can hear the samsung logo load up but cant see it.
I can boot into recovery and download mode. what do I do??.. reflash latest 4.1.1 firmware via Odin?
If this works how best to go about rooting as i dont know if i want to try the s3 toolkit again if it clearly didnt work (although all messages pointed to that it did)
Thanks in advance
Kobrax said:
looked at similar threads but not found what im looking for
i tried a new rom last night whih made my phone freeze and trying i could reboot as after 2 seconds it would hang. ended up flashing firmwre via odi which was fine.
tonight tried to reroot my phone using the S3 toolkit which i used fist time round. everything seemed to go as planned but then when it came to reboot.. s3 toolkit aid all successful but i was getting a black screen.
i can hear the samsung logo load up but cant see it.
I can boot into recovery and download mode. what do I do??.. reflash latest 4.1.1 firmware via Odin?
If this works how best to go about rooting as i dont know if i want to try the s3 toolkit again if it clearly didnt work (although all messages pointed to that it did)
Thanks in advance
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Hi,
I would flash the last stock rom via odin. (I9300XXDLJ4) UK BTU
Then I would root using the chainfire topic here (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1695238)
I hope it helps! Good luck!
Regards.
yeh done this about an hour ago and opted for Cf root.
now just trying to find a good stable Rom.. had omega from day I rooted. great rom but at the end the battery drain was unreal
I Like Wanamlite Rom. Give a try!
Cheers
Kobrax said:
yeh done this about an hour ago and opted for Cf root.
now just trying to find a good stable Rom.. had omega from day I rooted. great rom but at the end the battery drain was unreal
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Foxhound is great. But i have to say stock is better for me. Just use nova launcher then freeze all the bloatwares ising TBpro to set free your RAM. All smooth for me.
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ramsorriso said:
I Like Wanamlite Rom. Give a try!
Cheers
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+1 for WanamLite, really lite and quick and stock looking.
Hi guys this might sound repetitive but i need help finding a stock kernel for my xperia ray i flashed it today. I was doing pretty fine as i wanted to run a custom rom on my phone in the long run. I initially unlocked the bootloader then flashed the phone now the problem occured after flashing it as now its in a boot loop. Can anyone please post a stock kernel oh by the way im running Gingerbread 2.3.4 i tried searching the net to no avail. If flashing is not an option then what can i do help please guys i really want to toy with my phone its old so i want to learn how to fiddle with it using these custom roms thank you
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Hi guys this might sound repetitive but i need help finding a stock kernel for my xperia ray i flashed it today. I was doing pretty fine as i wanted to run a custom rom on my phone in the long run. I initially unlocked the bootloader then flashed the phone now the problem occured after flashing it as now its in a boot loop. Can anyone please post a stock kernel oh by the way im running Gingerbread 2.3.4 i tried searching the net to no avail. If flashing is not an option then what can i do help please guys i really want to toy with my phone its old so i want to learn how to fiddle with it using these custom roms thank you
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Before i forget to add this my phone can still go into boot mode after pressing the fast boot button so there is still hope. Please guys id really appreciate the help thank you
Go here : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1628264
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figured it out after a day of searching for a stock kernel
Rhyskymud said:
Go here : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1628264
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Hi thanks for getting back to me but I already figured out hhow to revive my phone IT TOOK SOME SEARCHING but Ifound a stock kernel. Anyway now I want to continue to innstall cygenomod 11 n kitkat sori for the spelling can you show me a thread with instructions how to install it as well as one with stable kernels so I dont enter a bootloop unless the one you already shown me has the steps required
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Hi thanks for getting back to me but I already figured out hhow to revive my phone IT TOOK SOME SEARCHING but Ifound a stock kernel. Anyway now I want to continue to innstall cygenomod 11 n kitkat sori for the spelling can you show me a thread with instructions how to install it as well as one with stable kernels so I dont enter a bootloop unless the one you already shown me has the steps required
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https://github.com/LegacyXperia/Wiki/wiki/Installing-LegacyXperia-for-Dummies
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Thanks for the swift reply
You the best thanks a million :good::good::good: I thought it would take ages to get some help
wifi error
i don't know why but my wifi is not working its due to the fact i flashed a custom kernel with cwm recovery tool and it was a rooted kernel. I also rebooted several times but my wifi still says error. I looked for a stock kernel.sin flashed it the wifi is still not working so after flashing the kernel.sin i then tried a hard reset. Now my question if i reinstall 2.3.4 is that the only way il be able to get my wifi working again or isn't there a shorter method because im sure if i reinstall the phones firmware that should get my wifi working again any ideas ? by the way i havn't installed any custom rom i was about to but the wifi issue is a problem
solved on my own
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i don't know why but my wifi is not working its due to the fact i flashed a custom kernel with cwm recovery tool and it was a rooted kernel. I also rebooted several times but my wifi still says error. I looked for a stock kernel.sin flashed it the wifi is still not working so after flashing the kernel.sin i then tried a hard reset. Now my question if i reinstall 2.3.4 is that the only way il be able to get my wifi working again or isn't there a shorter method because im sure if i reinstall the phones firmware that should get my wifi working again any ideas ? by the way i havn't installed any custom rom i was about to but the wifi issue is a problem
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Well no need for help i just flashed my phone's official firmware an it restored the wifi modules that were lost when i flashed a custom rom so i kinda answered my own question but in anycase now that everything is sorted id like to thank you guys for being there but whenever im in need il definately return.:good::good: