I just got the phone on sat, rooted yesterday. i got a head of myself and through ROM manager i installed CWM. as i understand it this shouldnt have even worked but it did. i have yet to reboot or anything as i assume i wont boot back up. i want to make sure that this wasnt a fluke and somehow i got CWM on my phone when i should have before i fix it.
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I just got the phone on sat, rooted yesterday. i got a head of myself and through ROM manager i installed CWM. as i understand it this shouldnt have even worked but it did. i have yet to reboot or anything as i assume i wont boot back up. i want to make sure that this wasnt a fluke and somehow i got CWM on my phone when i should have before i fix it.
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No it didn't install it. Someone else on here did this as well. If you try to get into recovery it'll just send you to stock recovery. Your lucky it didn't brick your phone.
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so i shouldnt have to do this? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2301259 or should i just incase?
circsmonky said:
so i shouldnt have to do this? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2301259 or should i just incase?
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Well I'm not 100% but you might as well have that file ready just in case. If you phone is good through a reboot your good. Try installing SafeStrap. First.
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circsmonky said:
so i shouldnt have to do this? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2301259 or should i just incase?
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How'd you make out? Just curious
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I put safestrap on no issues. though i dont like the idea of partioning my storage just for a rom. i like stock, except for 4x4 home screens i like 5x4. im prob gonna do a tibu back up and fully unroot wipe then re root just incase. im usually not as dumb as i was i just got excited cause new phone and i hadnt really played with my phone in a while. i forgot how much fun it is.
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I put safestrap on no issues. though i dont like the idea of partioning my storage just for a rom. i like stock, except for 4x4 home screens i like 5x4. im prob gonna do a tibu back up and fully unroot wipe then re root just incase. im usually not as dumb as i was i just got excited cause new phone and i hadnt really played with my phone in a while. i forgot how much fun it is.
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Well that's good. Yea I was jw some have bricked their phones trying to do what you had done.. and others it didn't do a thing.
Lot of SafeStrap ROMs out now for your phone, before in got my mdk s4 and had one like you... There was maybe 2 solid ROMs for SafeStrap.
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Alright i need help badly. I consider myself an advanced noob in installing roms and kernals on a phone. I have the rezound. I unlocked it about a week about and went through the step by step instructions. I installed ziggys kernal. I was getting some bootloops but not to many until this morning. My phone kept bootlooping. I would take the battery out and put it back and it would do it again. I tried wiping the date cache and dalvik. Nothing. I then formatted all to ext3. After i did that it said i need to install a rom. I try to restart my phone and it just stays on the HTC screen. I tried to do the factory restore. Nothing. I have to put my sd card in after i get into recovery because when i go to the bootloader screen the HBOOT does something and then asks me if i want to do an update. I tried and hit yes and it did it then reboots but nothing. When i hit no it just wants me to reboot my phone, which does nothing for me. As it is right now my phone wont load. it just stays on the HTC screen. HELP please
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1394659
Try this, but you should really search first.
I would try that but my phone will not boot. it will not go past the HTC start up screen
Evo4gLI said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1394659
Try this, but you should really search first.
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The other half of the problem is that it sounds like he formatted ext3 and wiped his ROM. So, he'd have to reboot back into recovery and restore a backup or drop a new ROM on the phone via USB.
Grab the RUU and start all fresh again.
MrSmith317 said:
The other half of the problem is that it sounds like he formatted ext3 and wiped his ROM. So, he'd have to reboot back into recovery and restore a backup or drop a new ROM on the phone via USB.
Grab the RUU and start all fresh again.
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Good point. I'm in class, so I just read it quickly. RUU sounds like the way to go.....start with a clean slate.
how do i get to the RUU
See "shipped Rom collection" sticky in dev section
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Good Luck
This is one of the reasons I have not tried to hack this device. Although I may unlock/root my Rezound I'm not in a hurry to. It's really a great device. Just too expensive for me to maybe mess up. Especially since its our own fault if we do. Can't blame the carrier/manufacturer for not paying to fix/replace either. Hopefully you get it fixed soon. I know I wouldn't want to have to go through all that either.
i just installed the CleanRom. Ill let you know if this works
installed cleanrom but now my wifi says error and wont connect
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installed cleanrom but now my wifi says error and wont connect
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You need to reflash the kernel in order to get wifi to work.
Abead84 said:
installed cleanrom but now my wifi says error and wont connect
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The answer should be in the CleanRom thread but as far as I know if you flashed Ziggy's Kernel, you should reflash it and that should solve the problem.
Oops, just noticed this was already answered.
i flashed a kernel and its all good now
Abead84 said:
i flashed a kernel and its all good now
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Glad you got it all back. That would scare the sh*t out of me
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Glad you got it all back. That would scare the sh*t out of me
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It shouldn't. You can't brick with unlock S-On. If you can get to HBOOT, you are fine. And there is no way to overwrite HBOOT yet.
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It shouldn't. You can't brick with unlock S-On. If you can get to HBOOT, you are fine. And there is no way to overwrite HBOOT yet.
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And does it need to be said that this phone has been out for less than a month? Maybe we should give the devs a chance to work out the kinks before we start flashing.
I *really* miss WiFi tethering that I used to do with my DInc, but I am not about to root in the first two weeks of ownership before I see good, dependable feedback from the community.
I love this phone too much.
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con247 said:
It shouldn't. You can't brick with unlock S-On. If you can get to HBOOT, you are fine. And there is no way to overwrite HBOOT yet.
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That's damn good to know
WasabiWa83 said:
That's damn good to know
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Actually you might be able to mess up the partitions or something, but HTC limits our ability to **** up the phone pretty well
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And does it need to be said that this phone has been out for less than a month? Maybe we should give the devs a chance to work out the kinks before we start flashing.
I *really* miss WiFi tethering that I used to do with my DInc, but I am not about to root in the first two weeks of ownership before I see good, dependable feedback from the community.
I love this phone too much.
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Not trying to knock you but I don't see the point in waiting. Flashing a rom is fairly straightforward and even flashing kernels is for the most part. I had an Incredible prior to this and I am absolutely in love with my phone...that's why I read how to do things properly and learn from others mistakes.
Take the plunge! It's great on the otherside
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I *really* miss WiFi tethering that I used to do with my DInc
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There is a wifi tether app that doesn't require root. Koush is the dev. I tried it and it worked. That was the only thing I would have needed root for also. You should be able to find it if you search for it. If not, I'll find the link.
Edit: I found the link
https://plus.google.com/u/0/103583939320326217147/posts/1Yy1jb9z4TA
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i did the odinoneclick of ICS last night, and all was well. but not i want to revert back to GB. it still seems a little to buggy for me. so i want to wait a while for the devs to do their thing with it. plus i miss all my custom roms.
is there any way i can do this? i dont exactly understand but apparently the original leaked version did something to the bootloaders or something?
i have the stock ATT GB 2.3.6 rom ( incase i ever needed to return my phone ) i put that through odin ( its a .tar file ) would that safely bring me back to GB?
Did you ever do a nandroid backup on cwm?
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yeah i have a few of them. but from what i read that wouldnt work with the ICS i installed.
It works, i did it earlier. I have the att note.
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And i used the odin method to install ics.
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you used the oneclick odin? and everything is ok? baseband settings/modem whatever else? and all you did was flash backup in CWM?
I just restored back to gb and double checked to make sure everything works. I made a phone call, sent a text, and went on the internet. The baseband is the ics baseband but didn't seem to effect anything. just remember ymmv.
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i think ill just use odin to put the stock att OS on. the root and flash saurom again. i feel like thats the safest wway. though i may be way off
Let us know how it goes.
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i think ill just use odin to put the stock att OS on. the root and flash saurom again. i feel like thats the safest wway. though i may be way off
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Yeah let me know if that works. I'm trying to do the same thing
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Ill let you know in a few hours. Im heading to the gym atm. But if someone else wants to test it first go for it and let us know.
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Hey guys just to give you all a heads up I also flashed ICS last nite with odin and just missed a few things like the camere not freezing on me so I went back. I just flashed the stock odin att tar and it booted up first time.
It had no issue booting but the phone app with just not even open so I just held volume up and down at the same time while powering down so I could factory reset it and wipe the cache and now everything is back to normal with out skipping a beat.
sorry if I made this longer then what it had to be but I just wanted to also give some mini instructions as well jsut in case anyone had a question or two.
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Hey guys just to give you all a heads up I also flashed ICS last nite with odin and just missed a few things like the camere not freezing on me so I went back. I just flashed the stock odin att tar and it booted up first time.
It had no issue booting but the phone app with just not even open so I just held volume up and down at the same time while powering down so I could factory reset it and wipe the cache and now everything is back to normal with out skipping a beat.
sorry if I made this longer then what it had to be but I just wanted to also give some mini instructions as well jsut in case anyone had a question or two.
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Wow perfect. Thanks for the heads up
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lukelytle said:
Hey guys just to give you all a heads up I also flashed ICS last nite with odin and just missed a few things like the camere not freezing on me so I went back. I just flashed the stock odin att tar and it booted up first time.
It had no issue booting but the phone app with just not even open so I just held volume up and down at the same time while powering down so I could factory reset it and wipe the cache and now everything is back to normal with out skipping a beat.
sorry if I made this longer then what it had to be but I just wanted to also give some mini instructions as well jsut in case anyone had a question or two.
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yeah awesome to know! i just sat down getting ready to do it now. does the stock .tar earase yyour internal SD like ICS did?
kevinallen4325 said:
yeah awesome to know! i just sat down getting ready to do it now. does the stock .tar earase yyour internal SD like ICS did?
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I am pretty sure it does although I cant be certain because as soon as it was back up and running I put CWM back on and recovered a back up that I made right before Flashing ICS so all my stuff came back.
Also in any case I did make a back up of ICS in case stuff went really bad and say the bootloader was crazy or something and it messed up and my only option was to stay on ICS at least I would have a back up from a soft brick or something so if you have the room on your sd card might as well do it just to be safe.
yeah im definitely making a backup. well ill report back in a bit if it works
yup. using odin to flash stock att .tar file, then after its finished rebooting into recoery and wiping data factory works like a charm. back on good old 2.3.6
im trying to boot in to recovery on my s4 <sch-i545> to flash cyanogenmod the method i use is vol up & home & power. im able to boot back in the stock rom by turning it back off and plugging it back in to the pc then holding down volume down. when i try it again it pops up with the same thing: system software not authorized by verizon...
what do i need to do to boot in to recovery to install the cm 10.2 rom?
ps im fallowing the steps layed ot for me on the cyanogenmod wiki /Install_CM_for_jfltevzw sorry i cant post the link because im new -ish to the forums
You are probably on the ME7 build. No custom recovery is available for ME7
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JaeKay said:
You are probably on the ME7 build. No custom recovery is available for ME7
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so you can root the phone but you cant rom it?
jlgevo said:
so you can root the phone but you cant rom it?
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Correct
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jlgevo said:
so you can root the phone but you cant rom it?
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I suggest taking a look at the safestrap thread in the general section. Hashcode is working on a method for me7 romming. Its a wip at the moment. Also take a look at xposed framework and the wanam module on the play store. Youll atleast be able to do some general customization. I use it and its pretty damn awesome.
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hexitnow said:
I suggest taking a look at the safestrap thread in the general section. Hashcode is working on a method for me7 romming. Its a wip at the moment. Also take a look at xposed framework and the wanam module on the play store. Youll atleast be able to do some general customization. I use it and its pretty damn awesome.
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yeah i did that last week and had alot of fun with that; i was hoping to try out cyanogenmod this weekend
ive sense screwed up my phone ( i was going to take a picture of the boot screen but my tablet which ive never used to take a picture with before wont connect to the camera )
my phone now says:
firmware update encountered
an issue. please select
recovery mode in Kies and try again.
Of course it wants my serial number which i cant get because the phone wont boot, not to mention that its verizon and they dont put ther serial number on the back of the phone.... so i guess ill have to call verizon; Foook me!
jlgevo said:
yeah i did that last week and had alot of fun with that; i was hoping to try out cyanogenmod this weekend
ive sense screwed up my phone ( i was going to take a picture of the boot screen but my tablet which ive never used to take a picture with before wont connect to the camera )
my phone now says:
firmware update encountered
an issue. please select
recovery mode in Kies and try again.
Of course it wants my serial number which i cant get because the phone wont boot, not to mention that its verizon and they dont put ther serial number on the back of the phone.... so i guess ill have to call verizon; Foook me!
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Try THIS out. This should get you back up and running.
haza12d said:
Try THIS out. This should get you back up and running.
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ill give it a shot. i called verizon and they couldn't get me out of the screen either even after consulting samsung. im not saying i expected much but they couldn't even pull up my serial number in their system......
well it didn't work, so i made this photo....
life...
Don't mean to jack the thread, but I've got a related question.
While rooting my friends phone I attempted to flash a recovery... But the phone is on ME7 so it obviously didn't work. Now there's no working recovery. With that, can't do a factory reset because it boots to the Odin screen on reboot.
Any way to reflash the stock recovery?
Picolini said:
Don't mean to jack the thread, but I've got a related question.
While rooting my friends phone I attempted to flash a recovery... But the phone is on ME7 so it obviously didn't work. Now there's no working recovery. With that, can't do a factory reset because it boots to the Odin screen on reboot.
Any way to reflash the stock recovery?
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There was some stock recocery images posted here on the forums but I dont have links. If you cant find them you coulf always reflash the stock me7 image via odin. If you have apps and their data you dont want removed there is also no wipe stock images as well. Both are posted in the dev section.
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Picolini said:
Don't mean to jack the thread, but I've got a related question.
While rooting my friends phone I attempted to flash a recovery... But the phone is on ME7 so it obviously didn't work. Now there's no working recovery. With that, can't do a factory reset because it boots to the Odin screen on reboot.
Any way to reflash the stock recovery?
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try this out
haza12d said:
Try THIS out. This should get you back up and running.
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So the problem started when I flashed a 4.3 rom last friday. I formatted my internal memory in recovery mode because for some reason I only had 4 gigs of space and had moved everything over to the sd card. Once that was done phone said like 8 gigs available and thought everything was fixed. Well now if I turn off my phone it gets stuck in some kind of bootloop but it's not looping. It's just sits at the Samsung unlock symbol and custom screen. Doesn't loop just sits there. So one day I decided to format the internal memory again and the phone boots up like normal, but I can't power off the phone without going into recovery and formatting the internal memory every time. Any ideas on what is causing it or how I can make the Samsung custom boot stock instead so I can send it out.
I also have tried flashing another 4.3 rom and it doesn't seem to go away either.
I'm not an expert on how they have to make this stuff work with the mdk bootloader but I'm sure it's not hardware related. Have you tried flashing back to a 4.2 rom?
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Downloading one now hopefully it will fix it.
Which recovery are you using? Make sure to wipe data, cache, and dalvik 3x each, then flash your rom
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TWRP and I flashed hyperdrive still no luck still freezing in the same spot and have to actually format to get past it.
Anyone else have any idea on what else I can try?
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Anyone else have any idea on what else I can try?
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What version of TWRP are you using?
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I believe 2.5 I'm guessing only way to check is to go into recovery again.
BlackDynomitr said:
I believe 2.5 I'm guessing only way to check is to go into recovery again.
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Yep that's the only one I've never had any issues with. TWRP 2.5.0.2
Edit: If your still having issues you could always Odin back with Stock firmware and get a clean start. I know its a pain lol
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heath2805 said:
Yep that's the only one I've never had any issues with. TWRP 2.5.0.2
Edit: If your still having issues you could always Odin back with Stock firmware and get a clean start. I know its a pain lol
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Well I think that might work only thing I'm afraid is what if it doesn't turn on.
BlackDynomitr said:
Well I think that might work only thing I'm afraid is what if it doesn't turn on.
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Well if it doesn't turn on after flashing stock firmware via Odin, you'll know its a hardware issue with it and your warranty should cover a new replacement.
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I had this issue when I first got my phone. I bought it off Swappa, it was already running TWRP 2.5.0.2, giving me nothing but problems. I switch to Philz Touch and no longer have the issue.
Hello everyone, tonight I attempted to install Cyanogenmod 10.2 onto my phone, and now I have a bit of a problem. When I made my nandroid backup, I think it went onto my internal storage, and was deleted when I did a factory reset. I wasn't really aware of this, and had to go into recovery and set up the phone multiple times (the rom didn't ever seem to take), and now when I power up my phone, I get the stock recovery mode, with it saying "Could not do normal boot" and "ODIN MODE" on the next line. Is there anything I can do to salvage my poor phone? I realize that I screwed up majorly with the nandroid backup, but hopefully there's something that can be done.
Thanks for your help, regardless of the outcome.
Bedwardd said:
Hello everyone, tonight I attempted to install Cyanogenmod 10.2 onto my phone, and now I have a bit of a problem. When I made my nandroid backup, I think it went onto my internal storage, and was deleted when I did a factory reset. I wasn't really aware of this, and had to go into recovery and set up the phone multiple times (the rom didn't ever seem to take), and now when I power up my phone, I get the stock recovery mode, with it saying "Could not do normal boot" and "ODIN MODE" on the next line. Is there anything I can do to salvage my poor phone? I realize that I screwed up majorly with the nandroid backup, but hopefully there's something that can be done.
Thanks for your help, regardless of the outcome.
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Going to need more info.
You should check this thread out: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2606501
It's the perfect place to start.
riker147 said:
Going to need more info.
You should check this thread out: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2606501
It's the perfect place to start.
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I did use Goomanager, so I think that means I'm boned. Damn. At least this gives me a half decent excuse to upgrade if I can't fix this.
Bedwardd said:
I did use Goomanager, so I think that means I'm boned. Damn. At least this gives me a half decent excuse to upgrade if I can't fix this.
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Find out what your build number is and learn about using Odin.
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Bedwardd said:
I did use Goomanager, so I think that means I'm boned. Damn. At least this gives me a half decent excuse to upgrade if I can't fix this.
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You should be able to get it into download mode still so you can Odin the full Wipe.
Good luck
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You should be able to get it into download mode still so you can Odin the full Wipe.
Good luck
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Yep. That seemed to work, I'm back in the OS. Now, what would be the best way to install CM 10.2? I've installed safestrap but I don't really want to go further unless I'm sure of what I'm doing, and google/youtube haven't been very helpful
EDIT: it seems that installing it is impossible since I'm on the mk2 broadband. Oh well. I'll just wait for someone to break the restrictions
Bedwardd said:
Yep. That seemed to work, I'm back in the OS. Now, what would be the best way to install CM 10.2? I've installed safestrap but I don't really want to go further unless I'm sure of what I'm doing, and google/youtube haven't been very helpful
EDIT: it seems that installing it is impossible since I'm on the mk2 broadband. Oh well. I'll just wait for someone to break the restrictions
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More rom options for safestrap coming online...right now HD is the premiere one.
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