i rooted my friends sidekick 4g and he bricked it. i am trying to help him fix it. i am new to forums so if you let me know what info you need i will gladly post it. i do know he tried flashing the kernel and when it finished it wont go past logo screen. i can get to cwm recovery but it wont install recovery ... some kind of error... he used voodoo and tried to flash bali...i think that was it ...i just want to go back stock
I assume you used an incompatible version of the kernel for your ROM. And there's a known problem with getting clockwork set up right. Anyway, you can restore it all the way back to stock by using Odin. Then you can try again or leave it alone.
do i have to download something to do this
if so could you post a link and thanks for the quick reply
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1350060
i tried the program in the link and it is asking for drivers that i dont have...and i cant seem to find them
I believe there are a set of USB drivers on the Samsung website.
Ok yea i knew that... i was under the impression hemidall drivers were different.
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It finally workedand I just wanted to thank everyone involved in helping me...
Hey everyone.
Im generally pretty savvy with androids. I rooted and S-offed my HTC Desire, I had a nexus S for a bit until it got ran over... Now im stuck with this Galaxy S 4G, which has been nothing but headaches because for some reason... this thing is impossible to root to me. Ive tried Hemidall, Super1clicks, Odin etc..
Can someone please just point me in the direction of rooting this POS? Im hoping that once its rooted and running stock, I wont hate this thing as much... because so far, Its a horrible purchase.
I just need someone to post a link to where I need to be. Ive searched.. and im absolutely lost. Even the Rootz wiki was useless to me.
Thanks.
Model Number - SGH-T959W
Android Version 2.3.6
You might not have any luck this is the T-959V and your phone might not be supported
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=28566711&postcount=15
Read that then understand what bhundven means by DONT FLASH BOOTLOADERS!!
You can use the heimdall one clicks he created to get root access and then flash any rom that DOESNT HAVE BOOTLOADERS INCLUDED. That means do not use gremlin remover period. Once you get rooted make a backup and keep it stored in as many places as possible. If you flash the ics variants you will have to use the stock kj6 HOC and then need to flash the HOC for antonx kernel to get root back. At that point you can flash your nandroid or whatever rom you want. AGAIN AS LONG AS IT DOESNT HAVE BOOTLOADERS included.
eollie said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=28566711&postcount=15
Read that then understand what bhundven means by DONT FLASH BOOTLOADERS!!
You can use the heimdall one clicks he created to get root access and then flash any rom that DOESNT HAVE BOOTLOADERS INCLUDED. That means do not use gremlin remover period. Once you get rooted make a backup and keep it stored in as many places as possible. If you flash the ics variants you will have to use the stock kj6 HOC and then need to flash the HOC for antonx kernel to get root back. At that point you can flash your nandroid or whatever rom you want. AGAIN AS LONG AS IT DOESNT HAVE BOOTLOADERS included.
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I have no idea what youre talking about. Sorry
I used the Hemidall, and only got an unrooted Tmobile rom.. Im not sure where exactly i get root from this
Meh, forget it... im selling this phone. There is no convincing me to ever buy anything from Sammy again unless its a Nexus line.
HTC or Nexus forever.
Thanks guys
Reading is hard
"Can I get step by step directions please?"
Sure, here you are!
"What?! Your not going to remotely root my phone for me? F this place"
Good luck sir, you have the patience of a saint and the drive of a tiger!
OK let's be honest you gave up kinda quick.......
The forum that eollie linked you to was a forum talking about the phone that you bought, which is an apparent offshoot of the t-959v and according to what Masonite found out, "our" roms work on the t-959w but you cannot flash the bootloaders.
Here is the one click link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1358498 just boot into download mode and use this but absolutely don't flash bootloaders and it should be OK, no promises.
Eollie was right for linking you there, all the info you needed about your model phone was on that forum, that one click is in the dev sticky which everybody should read.
There has been a flood of people not researching a little bit first before posting and that's why people flamed you but you should not give up, its a good phone and our devs are dedicated and have put in a lot of time on this model, you should be happy your phone can even support all the great roms that are available.
I'm not being mean but seriously, come on, all the info is there, no need to get mad.
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Edit: or Google search how to use heimdall if your confused, I learn off a damn YouTube video..........
Our devs didn't create heimdall and don't support it but it is a great program and the dev has to build the individual one click for the phone, we should be happy to have it that easily available.
Reading the whole thread you got linked to is really hard. Phone-bricking hard
FBis251 said:
Reading the whole thread you got linked to is really hard. Phone-bricking hard
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Hahaha I know but but I believe in you lmao
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You'll need to flash one of the back to stock files that you got linked to in that thread which will put you on stock GB with no root. DO NOT FLASH THE BOOTLOADERS. You'll very likely brick if you do.
After this download the AntonX kernel from bhundven's one click thread and flash that. That will give you a custom kernel with CWM built in and root.
Needless to say, this is all for the SGH-T959V which theoretically should work on the SGH-T959W. As you'll read any disclaimer on this forum, you're resposible for anything you flash and the damage that may occur to your device.
Thanks for that fb I forgot a few steps if he wants to be on mtd roms, I assumed he could read from that point............ but your right for knowing better
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Thank you very much, and I'm sorry for getting angry. I've had this phone for almost 4 months now, and haven't been able to do anything with it. Quite frustrating.
So, I currently have the Tmobile ROM on my phone, so I'm halfway there it appears!
I'm going to download the other ROM as soon as I get home.
Thanks so much! Next up.. Learning to flash with Odin, and not ROM manager.
It seemed like everything I tried wasn't working with 2.3.6. Superoneclick etc.
I was waiting for a new exploit, but it never came. I tried YouTube tutorials, text directions.. Everything would fail, or give me "read only" errors. I feared bricking, so I stopped.. But I searched the forum and came across the thread he linked me to, but it said no bootloaders, and all the ones I saw had bootloaders. Wasn't until tonight that I noticed it's a 2 part flash process, with the second being the bootloaders.
I think I started this thread at 3am.
Lesson learned.
In heimdall, you can click a little box that says "flash bootloaders" to toggle flashing them on and off! .... or maybe it was odin? I can't remember... been a while since I used them!
After being away for the weekend, I came home, and BAM... fully rooted. Amazing! and FINALLY!!!
Thanks everyone for your help...
I just have another issue.
I wanna flash this ROM http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1305145
It says its CWM.. but there is a huge disclaimer that we shouldn't use ROM Manager on the development page, which is a bit confusing. Since this ROM isnt Odin flashable... what do i do?
Thanks again.
So I was confused about this when I first started. I'm not at my computer but I can help. In order to flash Roms via cmw you have to turn off your phone hold both volume rockers on the phone then hold the power button and hold till you get into cwm recovery. That will get you into cmw recovery mode. Then wipe data factory rest, from there go back to the main menu and select the install zip from sd card and find the zip file you want to flash and select it and install. Should be good to go.
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Nevermind... im a complete goon. I got it, lol.
Thanks
First to all, ahi to everyone here.
My long story short, I've been lurking around this forum all day long. I finally mustered the courage to root my stupid infuse and decided to go with LiquidSmooth.
I come from from 2.3 (original official Gingerbread release) and I was following some steps to root it first (which I managed to do, somehow...) and i was following the next to upgrade it to ICS and then JB... but my f*(#@^$cking browser decided to crash, and now I'm unable to find the thread again.... (i've been looking for hours)
Please if someone can point me to the right direction?? Like I said i rooted it already.... and everytime I keep trying to get the ICS rom, all i get is a red menu (CWM i think??) but I can't find the rom anywhere. Help!??
Thanks to all.
If you downloaded it already, it would be in the download or downloads folder on your SD card. But since your browser crashed, you may want to re-download it, just to make sure it actually downloaded.
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wow. over 8 hours here...... (sigh)
well i think i bricked the thing. i get nothing but the samsung logo.
i can still get into the red menu, but i've tried to install the rom severall times..... with no luck.
does anyone know if there's still a way to save my phone or can i smash it to little pieces by now?
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If you downloaded it already, it would be in the download or downloads folder on your SD card. But since your browser crashed, you may want to re-download it, just to make sure it actually downloaded.
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Good advice right here as flashing a ROM that may be corrupted (even though CWM should see it and abort the install) can and will cause problems. Re download the ICS ROM then make a new folder in your internal SD card and place the ROM in it for easy finding.
Remember though, you have to boot into ICS at least ONCE before installing a JellyBean ROM.
Good luck
If you still find yourself stucked at the samsung logo, you may want to go back to stock with odin or heimdall, and also flash the GB bootloaders which you probably don't have, depending on how you upgraded to GB.
Then flash entropy's dd kernel to get cwm back.
There is a link to a guide on How to flash JB on my signature. Follow that and should reach JB safely.
I have a rooted Galaxy S 4G T959 that all of a sudden decided it wanted to freeze on the boot screen. Even when I plug it up to charge it it just shows and empty battery gauge. I updated the phone using kies mini to the latest gingerbread software. The root I used I found on youtube. The file names are heimdall-suite-1.3.1-win32 and I used a driver called zadig. I'm not familiar with the workings of developing and rooting but I'm trying to learn. Which is why I have no idea how to get my phone off the boot screen. If anyone who's had this problem can help please do. I cant get into the phone to check and see if I still have development mode on. Any help you guys can give would be great. thanx
If you rooted with heimdall and then updated using kies you lost root if I'm understanding correctly the order you did this stuff
Do you have cwm? If so just download a rom...slap it on your SD card and install new rom that way.
If not you need to return to stock using heimdall one click or odin. You can search the forum for this stuff. Use that then use a custom GB kernel to get CWM and root using heimdall/odin
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Do you have a T-959 or a T-959V? Check under your battery to make sure it's got a V in the model before you flash anything! If it's not the correct phone you can hard brick.
If you DO have a T-959V (Notice the V at the end there? Again, make sure your phone is the correct one) then follow this guide:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=21953878&postcount=2
I have a Mediatek device from a local brand (Greentel G9) and now it's stuck in a bootloop and I can't recover from it. I will list all the details below. Any help is deeply appreciated.
*Issue - Stuck in a bootloop. (phone starts up and then the boot animation begins to plays continuously. Another thing that I have noticed is that the boot animation is played in reverse. Not sure why, though. )
*Cause - Attempted Build.prop edit ( I was trying to enable soft keys, but never thought it would be so dangerous)
What I did so far - I have the original Build.prop and a dump of the stock system in .tar format.
As this is an relatively unknown device, no custom recoveries are available, and many attempts to make one myself failed. (this phone also have ubifs partitions,which are not supported by CWM) Have the stock recovery backed up.
Phone currently runs 4.2.2 and is rooted but USB Debugging is disabled.
1). Tried pushing the Build.prop via ADB with the ADB option in stock recovery. Failed! Gives an error 'closed' probably because of disabled USB Debugging.
2). Tried fastboot but it's wasn't helping too. Doesn't have anything to flash.
I'm not really new to Android modding. I previously had an HTC Wildfire, but having CWM made things easier. But I'm still aware of the risks involved.
But now, I'm really stuck. I'm not sure there is anything else I can do. But, I would deeply appreciate any help if recovering the phone is still possible.
Thank you.
Sorry bro... But I think you should find stock firmware.....
Hope this helps
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Killwish said:
Sorry bro... But I think you should find stock firmware.....
Hope this helps
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I don't think it's easy to find firmware for devices like this.
I'm thinking of getting a new phone anyway. So, I give up on recovering this.
Thanks for trying to help.
Cheers...