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The Samsung Captivate Guide: FROYO 2.2

This guide is for if you are on Android 2.1 and want to get 2.2. If you are fine with 2.1 use this guide. If you already have Cognition you can use this just skip the install cognition step. If you are on a different version of 2.2 you need to do an ODIN reset (second to last page of guide)
UPDATED 10/11
This is a guide that is similar to the other guide however it is for DesignGears Cognition ROM.
Drivers
Rooting
Clockwork Recovery
Unlock
Installing ROM
LCD Density Hack
Launcher Pro
Battery Optimizations
Desktop Syncing
TV Out
ODIN One-Click Restore
This guide was created to be as user friendly as possible, so the easiest method was was shown for all of the above, even if it is not the best.
PLEASE READ THIS GUIDE BEFORE POSTING ANY QUESTIONS BECAUSE IT IS MOST LIKELY ALREADY BEEN COVERED
You can download the guide here.
If you would like to help out with the guide that would be great. Just PM me the section and I may include it in the next version of the guide.
This guide took a lot of work. If it helped you please consider donating a few dollars. http://bit.ly/cplmLk

Won't be upgrading now, but just wanted to say thanks for this and the other one.
From a phone on an app

boborone said:
Won't be upgrading now, but just wanted to say thanks for this and the other one.
From a phone on an app
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No problem! If your still thinking about upgrading I would say its worth it. DesignGear(s?) makes great ROMS. However it does erase your userdata (although for something the files still remain on the SD card (like music). In addition in you want the official Froyo release you will have to use ODIN to flash back.

So, I just want to clear things up for myself.
Right now, I am running Eugene's ROM.
I will flash back to stock JF6
I can download the Cog 2.2 BETA6.zip file. Put it on my SD card and flash it using Clockwork.
If I want to flash back to JF6, I can use Odin to that.
Does all that seem right or is there more to it?
I did read the guide and it is excellent. I am just hesistant here, so just wanted some confirmation.
Thank you for your awesome work.

xtremekilla09 said:
So, I just want to clear things up for myself.
Right now, I am running Eugene's ROM.
I will flash back to stock JF6
I can download the Cog 2.2 BETA6.zip file. Put it on my SD card and flash it using Clockwork.
If I want to flash back to JF6, I can use Odin to that.
Does all that seem right or is there more to it?
I did read the guide and it is excellent. I am just hesistant here, so just wanted some confirmation.
Thank you for your awesome work.
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You use ODIN to get back to stock 2.1. Then follow the guide to the beginning. A summary of the steps to get cognition is:
Flash to 2.1 Eclar
Root the 2.1
Flash the zip file with clockwork

And skip JH7 altogether? Cognition contains the JH7 "fixes"?

tbong777 said:
And skip JH7 altogether? Cognition contains the JH7 "fixes"?
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That is what my understanding. I did this with an un modded captivate. I am pretty sure that was JH6. If you have a PC you can always just use his ODIN flash to install it and that is that. But I have a Mac so I made my guide Mac friendly.

pretty decent guide

Great Guide, Works Awesome!
Samsung Captivate
AT&T
Install went smooth as can be. I had to install the drivers, as told by the guide, but I think you may have missed a step?
Under "Installing Froyo --> Prepare" you may want to add a note that the phone has to be in Mass Storage mode to transfer the ZIP. Not sure if this is always true, but I did have to do that on my own (it was not showing the phone when it was sitting in debugging mode.)
I will be sending you a $5 donation. Really wish I could send more, but simply cannot. I am hoping others are doing the same, as this guide is awesome...
I did have one question about the 2.2 update. I heard somewhere that this would fix the GPS issue, however, I am experiencing the same issues with connectivity. Does anybody know if Samsung/AT&T plan on fixing this?
Again, thanks!
------EDIT------ Donation sent.

SiL3nTKiLL said:
pretty decent guide
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I think asking for a donation for copy & pasting postings into a PDF is cheap.
But I suppose you can't blame a guy for trying to skim some money off what should be going to the actual cooks.
Hey, no offense.

~nevermind~

EpicEric said:
~nevermind~
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haha I copied from my own PDF but I think you figured that out.

Gotta appreciate the tech writers out there! thanks for the post.

No Froyo
Where it says,
"Download the ROM from pocknack thing (technically new user and cant post outside link)
I go to the link and it gives me a 4040 error. anywhere else to download this from?

muleskinner93 said:
Where it says,
"Download the ROM from pocknack thing (technically new user and cant post outside link)
I go to the link and it gives me a 4040 error. anywhere else to download this from?
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If you look @ the date on the OP (Opening Post) then you'll see where your issue is.
This is an older thread. So the file no longer available.
Although I do commend you for ACTUALLY LOOKING for a tutorial thread and not opening a new topic.
The steps will all still work though. You can get the most recent version of Cognition (3.04 i think) in the link in my Sig
Happy Flashing!

thanks marzo, i found it. i just finished flashing and now im waiting for it to boot up with FROYO!

Not a problem... And it really is a Rearity that a person actually searches for answers around here.
Better to *BUMP* an old thread then open YET another.
Be careful though.. This is a very addictive habbit that your forming!

Can you update the guide for theh persons with the update to froyo 2.2 from AT&T.
Thanks.

Thank You!!
Thank you very much for this it was just what I was searching for!

thanx
thanks for this

[Q] Droid Charge Full backup?

I've had my Charge for a few weeks now. I've been silently reading the forum this whole time. I've downloaded the tools and I'm ready to kernel/root/rom it... But I like to be cautious. Everyone always says "HAVE A BACKUP YOU TARD!" but I can't seem to find any information on the topic pre-root.
So... Is there some way to backup everything on the phone prior to tinkering with it so I can put it back if something goes bad?
I did search.. Couldn't find anything for the droid. Lots of mentions of titanium. I downloaded it but it's for rooted phones as well.

No. Clockwork doesn't do a proper backup now. (And it doesn't back up the kernel anyway.)
Just changing the kernel and rooting won't alter anything that flashing the original kernel can't undo. So do that, get Titanium (I suggest the pro version, since it's the flasher's best friend), and use that to back up your user apps before you take the step of flashing a full ROM.

I'm a total newbie to this stuff, so this is something I've been wondering about as well.
s44- So changing the kernel and rooting you would say is a pretty safe venture to start with? I'm a fairly technical guy in general, but haven't ventured into the realm of phone rooting before, so I'm a little anxious about possibly bricking my phone right after I got it.
Is there something I would need to do beforehand to enable me to flash the original kernel, or is that just something you can always do after rooting? Thanks for any info.

We have odin. Thanks to odin we can always flash back to stock rom. If you look at the development forum you will find the stock package that no matter what you do you can always go back. Just dont mess with the radio or the pit file. Always us pda in odin unless you are flashing a new radio and you are instricted todo so. For user apps and data you can use titanium backup
Sent from my SCH-I510 using XDA Premium App

Excellent, thanks. I assume you're referring to the stock ROM at this link? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1085190
What exactly does flashing a new radio do? I'm not really familiar with the terminology

ColonelSeitan said:
Excellent, thanks. I assume you're referring to the stock ROM at this link? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1085190
What exactly does flashing a new radio do? I'm not really familiar with the terminology
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Flashing a new radio means replacing the current modem/voice radio's software with a new/different one. There's currently no flashable radio softwares that I know of for the Charge. There are two radio softwares for the phone, though: the original version shipped with the phone, and the new one that started rolling out last week with the EE4 OTA update. That update is a patch to the old radio software (a patch is a method that changes only portion of the current software rather than overwriting the whole thing).
Hope that helps you understand a bit better.

Can't back up my phone.
I'm sorry if someone already posted this. I've been hours at it re installing ROMs. I have GummyCharged 2.0. I've tried doing a nandroid back up for the past couple of days. I've tried Rom Manager to back it up many different times and every time it shows that open box for a few seconds then it's just the android with a triangle /!\. I've tried backing up while on Recovery but at the end it can't find my SD-ext and doesnt back up. I can't find anything online relating to it. I'm gonna reinstall the stock and root it. I'll back up every time I change my phone and see when exactly it starts to fail. I'm still a noob at this.

BlackMagicNights said:
I'm sorry if someone already posted this. I've been hours at it re installing ROMs. I have GummyCharged 2.0. I've tried doing a nandroid back up for the past couple of days. I've tried Rom Manager to back it up many different times and every time it shows that open box for a few seconds then it's just the android with a triangle /!\. I've tried backing up while on Recovery but at the end it can't find my SD-ext and doesnt back up. I can't find anything online relating to it. I'm gonna reinstall the stock and root it. I'll back up every time I change my phone and see when exactly it starts to fail. I'm still a noob at this.
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first of all don't use Rom Manager for anything on the Charge as it doesn't work right... second of all nandroid backups can be made on Gummy 2.0, you would need the most up to date CWM from Imnuts thread here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1112804, it should be orange and version 4.0.1.4

BlackMagicNights said:
I'm sorry if someone already posted this. I've been hours at it re installing ROMs. I have GummyCharged 2.0. I've tried doing a nandroid back up for the past couple of days. I've tried Rom Manager to back it up many different times and every time it shows that open box for a few seconds then it's just the android with a triangle /!\. I've tried backing up while on Recovery but at the end it can't find my SD-ext and doesnt back up. I can't find anything online relating to it. I'm gonna reinstall the stock and root it. I'll back up every time I change my phone and see when exactly it starts to fail. I'm still a noob at this.
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Rom Manager and the Charge do NOT work.
Make sure you're using the latest Recovery as that's the only one that's able to backup/restore and even then there's known to be issues.

Just gonna latch on here since this is a pretty recent last post...
I have recovery 4.0.0.8 and am trying to go to gummycharge GBE 2.0RC1.5, do I need to update my recovery first? I'm assuming I do to backup, but just wanted to confirm. And on the subject of updating recovery, I use ODIN just like I did for Gummy (except following what it says on that link, no auto reboot)?
Thanks, I've done enough rooting in the past, but not too familiar with CWM updating and ODIN.

JLCollier2005 said:
Just gonna latch on here since this is a pretty recent last post...
I have recovery 4.0.0.8 and am trying to go to gummycharge GBE 2.0RC1.5, do I need to update my recovery first? I'm assuming I do to backup, but just wanted to confirm. And on the subject of updating recovery, I use ODIN just like I did for Gummy (except following what it says on that link, no auto reboot)?
Thanks, I've done enough rooting in the past, but not too familiar with CWM updating and ODIN.
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if you're trying to do a CWM backup first then yes you would need to update CWM to the latest 8/17 build which you can odin separately... odining or flashing the new Gummy rom should update your kernel and thus update CWM

What is the latest cwm for droid charge. I had 5.0 on tunderbolt now only have 3.0 on Charge.

mickrg123 said:
What is the latest cwm for droid charge. I had 5.0 on tunderbolt now only have 3.0 on Charge.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1112804

v4.0.1.4...backup no workee...MD5 mismatch!
When attempting to run a backup via CWM v4.0.1.4 I get MD5 mismatch! Yes...Im on the ROM that I'm attempting to backup. Any help would be kick [email protected]#...

Here's my 5 cents for what it's worth.
I only backup what I really need, rather than a full backup - that way I know I keep the DATA, not the old apps, outdated cache and setting etc.
To do this I use:
SMS Backup+ : Backs up SMS, Call Log
Evernote : I keep notes, screenshots, voice memos etc in sync using evernote. This of course only works if you like evernote
Eye-Fi : I move all my pictures of the phone using Eye-Fi. This cost of course, sorry, but it works (Plus you get a cool SD card for your digital camera). Other options exists, I hear a lot of good stuff about SugarSync.
Market and Amazon : All you apps are already backed up on Google Android Market or Amazon (dep. on where you bought/downloaded them from). Some people wants everything re-installed from the get go. I prefer re-install when I need it, I'm always near 4G so it literally takes seconds.
This has been working so well that I now don't think twice before factory resetting or upgrading firmware. I just do it.
Hope that helped...

[Q] CWM Wont work and other aggravating problems- What can i do?

Hello, boy do I have a mishap. Well, anyway to begin I will say that I decided I wanted to root my phone to debloat it. So what I did, is downloaded the EE4 update and did the VooDoo V4 Kernel that flashes CWM and EXT4 and other junk. Well that all went great. I got it rooted and such but then just tinkering around I went into Rom Manager and told it to back up. WELL, when I did this the phone got locked on the SAMSUNG boot screen for hours and continued to refuse to boot. SO, I attempted to fix it by installing altered beast just to get the os running again and went into clockwork and backed it up. Then I went to the rooted ed1 to bring it back up to EE4 rooted and with the voodoo kernel and such but it refuses to open clockwork! The voodoo kernel changes filesystems and roots it and such but clockwork wont load. When I try to flash it in rom manager it says its succesful and then i go to reboot in recovery. It takes me to the Samsung Recovery 3e, I try to the update.zip, (yes i took the cwm recovery-update.zip and renamed it and through it in the sd card root) but all that happens is that a progress bar shows up for a split second then the android guy with the triangle and ! shows up and it does nothing. Help? I really need to back it up, preferably in the rooted ed1 but in ee4 will work to. Any ideas would be appreciated. I used odin v1.3 by the way. Im willing to try anything to get clockwork to boot so i can back it up. What do I do?
EDIT: Also, now when I go into 3e recovery, it complains saying " cant mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p3 " or something like that.

Did you read anything on this forum beforehand? Or just go link by link downloading files and deciding what to try on your phone?
Just saying..

Yeah, I did. Ive searched everywhere. I cant find anything about my problem. Ive looked at things that are close, hoping a solution can be found but nothing and no I wasnt just downloading files and spoon feeding them to my phone.. I just wanted to be able to debloat it.

Go search about Rom Manager and let us know what you find out...

I dont see how thats going to get me one step closer to solving my problem. Ive done the searching, now im asking.

Start w/ this one. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1100384

I can't tell where you are currently on your phone from reading that as it's to much text in one paragraph and it isn't put together in a logical sense and seems to jump around. I would look at the instructions for going to rooted EE4 in the Dev forum as that should get you to where you want to be with voodoo/cwm/rom

Instead of being a Forum Snob. If you know the answer, why don't you just help him out?
There's an abundance of confusing information on here and everyone uses acronyms. I too searched for hours on how to solve a similar problem and ended up having it taken care of for me. People join communities like this one for help. Not to get flamed for asking a question. It may be elementary to YOU but not everyone.

Thanks, for the care. Sorry about that if its jumbled, im frustrated with this because ive flashed the rooted ed1 about a billion times now, trying everything to get it functioning. Id be glad to try to explain again if that could help? Ah, yes. Well, I returned to the forum about installing the voodoo kernel. I followed the process word for word. But it just doesnt seem to want to work. Right now I just flashed it again back to the rooted ed1. Would I be able to put CWM on there at that point?

Jessman123 said:
Thanks, for the care. Sorry about that if its jumbled, im frustrated with this because ive flashed the rooted ed1 about a billion times now, trying everything to get it functioning. Id be glad to try to explain again if that could help? Ah, yes. Well, I returned to the forum about installing the voodoo kernel. I followed the process word for word. But it just doesnt seem to want to work. Right now I just flashed it again back to the rooted ed1. Would I be able to put CWM on there at that point?
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Yes. But don't use rom manager. Use imnuts cwm recovery.
Sent from my SCH-I510 using Tapatalk

Alright, thanks. Ill try and use imnuts's cwm recovery. But if someone may answer a question, is the samsung bootloader unlocked?? My brother said thats something to know.

Jessman123 said:
Alright, thanks. Ill try and use imnuts's cwm recovery. But if someone may answer a question, is the samsung bootloader unlocked?? My brother said thats something to know.
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Yes
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so it is unlocked?? What does the exclamation triangle mean, when i try to do the update.zip from the samsung bootloader?

Oh and sorry if Im not getting this. Are you saying use a application that imnuts made? If so, could you be so nice to link it? Or a method he used? I looked for stuff but I didnt find anything other then what looks like a stock rom/kernel ed1 from him

I know how it is to be frustrated, but like they all said all of your questions have already been answered.
Here's my attempt to help:
Your problem lies in trying to flash CWR through ROM Manager, it currently doesn't play well with our phones. Word is that Koush (the creator) needs to update something for it to work with our phones. The bootloader is unlocked.
To flash imnuts' version of CWR, you'll need to use Samsung's leaked software called Odin - it's PC only. The alternative is Heimdall which is supposed to be cross-platform compatible, but the latest version is command-line only.
You have to find out if you've converted your system to EXT4 or if it's still RFS. That depends on if you have the Voodoo lagfix enabled or not. Check out the dev section and look for the titles that say [RECOVERY], [ODIN], [ROM], and/or something like "Get yourself to EE4 successfully".
A few links:
[HOW-TO] Get a rooted version of EE4
[RECOVERY][6-11-11]Clockwork Mod Recovery
[KERNEL][06-02-11] PeanutButta Jelly Time

Well, currently right now its rfs. Its the stock file system. What I was going to do, or did before, was to put it in download mode and flash the VoodooV4 Kernel. It roots the phone, and all that good stuff and is suppose to put the Voodoo recovery/cwm on there.
EDIT: Heres the proccess I followed before.
http://www.theandroidsoul.com/how-t...and-clockworkmod-recovery-installation-guide/

Jessman123 said:
Well, currently right now its rfs. Its the stock file system. What I was going to do, or did before, was to put it in download mode and flash the VoodooV4 Kernel. It roots the phone, and all that good stuff and is suppose to put the Voodoo recovery/cwm on there.
EDIT: Heres the proccess I followed before.
http://www.theandroidsoul.com/how-t...and-clockworkmod-recovery-installation-guide/
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The recovery is a separate flash, both in odin. First the kernel, then Recovery.

Just follow here from the beginning, it should work for you:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1122657

Well I have good news. I would like to announce that I have successfully installed CWM. I guess my phone just didnt like the other one or something. But following this link,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1122657
I was able to get it installed. Now my only question is, I want this kernel http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1092114 for my phone. But its not in a zip. Am I out of luck? Or do I not have to use CWM to install the kernel? Can I use odin and still be okay?

Jessman123 said:
Well I have good news. I would like to announce that I have successfully installed CWM. I guess my phone just didnt like the other one or something. But following this link,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1122657
I was able to get it installed. Now my only question is, I want this kernel http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1092114 for my phone. But its not in a zip. Am I out of luck? Or do I not have to use CWM to install the kernel? Can I use odin and still be okay?
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You do need Odin to load that, but i'm wondering why you want to? Did you install the PBJ kernel following the instructions from the other link?
If you want to go down this route, be sure to apply the SD Card fix as well - you'll find posts about it.

[Q] Samsung Exhilarate stock tar file.

I heard that shabby was working on it but the thread they were posting in just stalled out, So has anyone heard any news of a stock tar file for Samsung Galaxy Exhilarate being worked on?

we have pretty much everything except the stock recovery image. need someone to mod kernel for root so w can get stock recovery off an unmodified phone. I've tried but really don't know what I'm doing.

Nanition said:
I heard that shabby was working on it but the thread they were posting in just stalled out, So has anyone heard any news of a stock tar file for Samsung Galaxy Exhilarate being worked on?
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Hi Nanition:
As j3r3goss stated, Shabby needs someone to help out. We need an unrooted phone so that we can grab the original recovery that comes on the phone. If you have an unrooted exhilarate and can donate some time/effort, Shabby would be the best person to contact. You can reach him by going to http://webchat.irondust.net/?channels=hitsquad Just type in his name (Shabbypenguin) and if he's lurking he'll respond.
Shabby had someone volunteer, but he said it didn't work out (no details as to why or what happened).
V/R
BlackWolf

Black-wolf said:
Hi Nanition:
As j3r3goss stated, Shabby needs someone to help out. We need an unrooted phone so that we can grab the original recovery that comes on the phone. If you have an unrooted exhilarate and can donate some time/effort, Shabby would be the best person to contact. You can reach him by going to [10 posts] Just type in his name (Shabbypenguin) and if he's lurking he'll respond.
Shabby had someone volunteer, but he said it didn't work out (no details as to why or what happened).
V/R
BlackWolf
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Unfortunatly when I was rooting the phone something weird happened and nearly hard bricked it, but I am currently running Tmobile blaze 4g on it with no sound or calling. So hopefully sometime soon someone will be able to help Shabby get a stock tar figured out and ran.

Nanition said:
Unfortunatly when I was rooting the phone something weird happened and nearly hard bricked it, but I am currently running Tmobile blaze 4g on it with no sound or calling. So hopefully sometime soon someone will be able to help Shabby get a stock tar figured out and ran.
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Shabby has the system.img and boot.img from my phone. Contact him and see if he can explain how to get back to a stock image. Also, if he can't help, get w/ j3r3goss about this as he had the very same issue, but I think he got his back to running the way it's supposed to.
Hope that helps!
V/R
BlackWolf

stock tar
Here's what I used to get the stock OS back, minus recovery of course. The tar contains the system and boot and can be pushed via Odin. For some reason when I had the radio files in the tar it would fail in Odin so I found a script to update those via CWM. I'm not sure what all needs to be done but since mine was extremely messed up I pushed the system tar via Odin then booted into CWM Recovery flashed the radio.zip then performed factory reset x3, format cache x3, format dalvik cache x3 and fixed permissions. It took a bit but booted just and I have had no issues.
You will need to perform a touch key fw update after you boot recovery, but everything else appears to be fully functional. We still need to get some assistance in getting the boot.img rooted so that we can get a dump of the stock recovery.img.
Hope this helps.
Obviously these are to be used at your own risk.
I577 GB Radio UCLD2
http://d-h.st/9PF
I577 ICS Radio UCLH3
http://d-h.st/xka

j3r3goss said:
Here's what I used to get the stock OS back, minus recovery of course. The tar contains the system and boot and can be pushed via Odin. For some reason when I had the radio files in the tar it would fail in Odin so I found a script to update those via CWM. I'm not sure what all needs to be done but since mine was extremely messed up I pushed the system tar via Odin then booted into CWM Recovery flashed the radio.zip then performed factory reset x3, format cache x3, format dalvik cache x3 and fixed permissions. It took a bit but booted just and I have had no issues.
You will need to perform a touch key fw update after you boot recovery, but everything else appears to be fully functional. We still need to get some assistance in getting the boot.img rooted so that we can get a dump of the stock recovery.img.
Hope this helps.
Obviously these are to be used at your own risk.
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Thanks for your help! I'll try these and get back to you on the results.
worked

Glad to hear it worked.
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Working on a Custom ROM
Nanition said:
Thanks for your help! I'll try these and get back to you on the results.
worked
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I am about to start working on a custom System ROM for this phone. What Apps should be included, what apps should be removed (AT&T crapware of course - but what else)?
I want to make a basic one with just a few key apps, and a more advance one for the ultimate tweaker/hacker.
All suggestions (but please be polite) are welcome!
We also still don't have the original restore.img - so if you want to help w/ that, let me know, I may have an angle that we can get it with.
V/R
BlackWolf

ROM
Black-wolf said:
I am about to start working on a custom System ROM for this phone. What Apps should be included, what apps should be removed (AT&T crapware of course - but what else)?
I want to make a basic one with just a few key apps, and a more advance one for the ultimate tweaker/hacker.
All suggestions (but please be polite) are welcome!
We also still don't have the original restore.img - so if you want to help w/ that, let me know, I may have an angle that we can get it with.
V/R
BlackWolf
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Right now the biggest things for me are bloat and launcher. Everything AT&T needs to go. Is there a way to seperate Google apps or do they pretty much install together? Ther are way to many Google apps that I don't use or ever care to use. Not a big fan of the TW so I'm using ADW, but that can be easily changed by the user. One thing I have been trying to find is support for volume rocker music controls. I use this thing for for music all the time and hate having to skip tracks from the screen.

j3r3goss said:
Right now the biggest things for me are bloat and launcher. Everything AT&T needs to go. Is there a way to seperate Google apps or do they pretty much install together? Ther are way to many Google apps that I don't use or ever care to use. Not a big fan of the TW so I'm using ADW, but that can be easily changed by the user. One thing I have been trying to find is support for volume rocker music controls. I use this thing for for music all the time and hate having to skip tracks from the screen.
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j3r3: The Google apps can all be installed separately AFAIK. What's TW? I'm familiar with ADW so I assume it's a launcher?
I think there is an app that does the vol control switch, but I don't know what it is off the top of my head.
V/R
BlackWolf

TW = TouchWiz

Custom Binary Counter Reset
I take absolutely no credit for this, I merely tried it and it does infact work for our phone as well. I was at 42 BTW.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1694529

j3r3goss said:
Right now the biggest things for me are bloat and launcher. Everything AT&T needs to go. Is there a way to seperate Google apps or do they pretty much install together? Ther are way to many Google apps that I don't use or ever care to use. Not a big fan of the TW so I'm using ADW, but that can be easily changed by the user. One thing I have been trying to find is support for volume rocker music controls. I use this thing for for music all the time and hate having to skip tracks from the screen.
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Hey bud. Does shabby need som1 to send him a phone? I got one of these phones. Stock of course. I'd like to root it. I'm hip to flashing. I've got the note running flapjaxxx rom. Samsung s2 running blu kuban. So anyhow. What does he need?

I don't know what's going on with Shabby. As far as I know there are some people trying to get ahold of him to test his rooted kernel and he's not responding nor has he posted his rooted kernel.
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harley1rocker said:
Hey bud. Does shabby need som1 to send him a phone? I got one of these phones. Stock of course. I'd like to root it. I'm hip to flashing. I've got the note running flapjaxxx rom. Samsung s2 running blu kuban. So anyhow. What does he need?
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I don't know if Shabby needs a phone or not. I personally, haven't heard from Shabby since a couple of weeks ago.
You can always go to his site and PM him and make the offer.
I was actually hoping my wife would buy one of these, and I was going to try to grab the stock restore, but she opted for a Galaxy S II SkyRocket instead (larger screen, more memory, thinner, etc. - but she did like that my phone is smaller (edge-to-edge)).
Anyway, we're pretty much stuck at the moment. We don't have the original restore, and we can't seem to get it.
I think I know what needs to be done, but I'd have to consult w/ Shabby and j3r3. If you're willing to try yourself, you need to get the rooted ROM, and get it installed on your phone. Then, as I understand it, you need to adb the phone and dd a restore.img. Once we have that, we can then install custom ROMs and revert back to stock if needed.
Other than that, we have full root, and I have been able to uninstall AT&T crapware, Samsung Crapware, and also most of the other system stuff that isn't needed/wanted.
The next step is, as I find time, to create a minimal ROM that has only what is necessary for the phone to function. There will be a couple of other apps (to verify root, and allow you access to all files and system settings), but other than that - that'll be it.
Let me know if you think you'd be willing to be a guinea pig on this - and you should let j3r3 and shabby know as well (if shabby is still interested).
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BlackWolf
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j3r3goss said:
I don't know what's going on with Shabby. As far as I know there are some people trying to get ahold of him to test his rooted kernel and he's not responding nor has he posted his rooted kernel.
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Since I just read this: I will post a rooted Kernel here in a day or so...
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BlackWolf

Got the Original Kernel and Platform.tar files
So, I found, DL'd and am currently uploading the original Samsung Exhilarate SGH-i577 Opensource Kernel and Platform Files... Good find? I think (hope) so.
If you need them, go here: https://docs.google.com/folder/d/0B7...VmckQwRnc/edit
You can DL any of the files I have posted there, or you can just DL the entire zip here: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B7nWFHy_HCE7aTBEbF83T2Z0Mzg11.
Or you can just them from where I did: The files were DL'd from the Samsung Open Source website: http://opensource.samsung.com/index.jsp - just do a search for "i577".
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BlackWolf

ROM for Exhilarate?
Hi
I am new to this...
I was able to successfully root my Galaxy Exhilarate (Thank you) - trying to unlock it so I can use it with other carriers - do I need a specific ROM file? are the files posted by Black-wolf what I need?
Thanks
GHORR

GHORR said:
Hi
I am new to this...
I was able to successfully root my Galaxy Exhilarate (Thank you) - trying to unlock it so I can use it with other carriers - do I need a specific ROM file? are the files posted by Black-wolf what I need?
Thanks
GHORR
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GHORR: Here's the deal: As of right now, there is no way to unlock your phone for use with other carriers unless you can convince AT&T to send you the unlock code. To do that (I know this from experience), you'll need to be able to explain why you want it unlocked to them. Read this thread for more info: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1812976
I know that doesn't help. However, you can also do a search for "SIM Unlock" - there are some phones that have had their system files hacked and you might be able to unlock it that way. Note, I am in no way responsible for anything that happens to your phone. This is at your own risk.
Good luck
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BlackWolf

Thanks for replying - but I thought that by flashing the ROM it removes the lock, did I get it wrong?

[Q] Skyrocket on Simple Mobile (tmobile) - Brain is fried

Alright, so i am having a bit of an issue. And it's probably because i'm a complete noob....
So, I have a new GS3, and wanted to give my (already rooted and flashed with Cyanogenmod 10) Skyrocket to my mom to use on Simple mobile (a company using T-mobile's towers).
I read that you can flash radios for T-mobile onto the phone, and so I figured everything would work.
Here is what I did.
I unlocked the phone while in Cyanogenmod10
Flashed LiquidSmooth RC9 - read it had less bugs
tried flashing multiple Tmobile Radios
I get NO service. I cant pick any of them up..
Baseband comes up as UNKNOWN...
So i'm currently downloading ODIN and going to try to flash to stock and just start from scratch...
Any suggestions on what to do?

Do you still have an imei?

Try unlocking the phone after you've gone back to stock. I don't know how you did it with cm10. I don't think it works with anything but stock.
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No, the IMEI is blank when i do the *#06# code....
also, when i put the simple mobile sim in the phone, it automatically came up asking for the network unlock code. That's how i was able to unlock it.

Did you ever backup your imei? Flashing back to stock will hopefully bring it back if not you may have some issues. Also as mentioned above it's better to unlock from a stock ROM or at least stock based.

Alright, Flashed to stock, IMEI is back (thank god), and i'm getting service.
Now here are the issues ahead of me, and any help would be greatly appreciated.
I am on STOCK ATT ICS Rom.
I GET SERVICE (however, it's only 2g) i know i need to flash the radios for Tmobile,
Was going to use this ---> Blaze_4G_LB7_ICS_Radio_MOD ...... Direct DL, CAN BE USED FOR T-MOBILE/WIND ON ICS (from the skyrocket reference thread)
First i know i have to root, install CWM, all that.
Now, should i flash a custom rom? If so, which one would you suggest. ( i assume, i have to give her ICS, not JB, right?)
Also, you said backup my IMEI, i'll look this up in the meantime, but if you could include a link in your post on a how-to just in case i dont find it, i would really appreciate it.
Also, is there anything else i should do to get this working properly?
thank you very much for all your help.

eternalcold said:
Alright, Flashed to stock, IMEI is back (thank god), and i'm getting service.
Now here are the issues ahead of me, and any help would be greatly appreciated.
I am on STOCK ATT ICS Rom.
I GET SERVICE (however, it's only 2g) i know i need to flash the radios for Tmobile,
Was going to use this ---> Blaze_4G_LB7_ICS_Radio_MOD ...... Direct DL, CAN BE USED FOR T-MOBILE/WIND ON ICS (from the skyrocket reference thread)
First i know i have to root, install CWM, all that.
Now, should i flash a custom rom? If so, which one would you suggest. ( i assume, i have to give her ICS, not JB, right?)
Also, you said backup my IMEI, i'll look this up in the meantime, but if you could include a link in your post on a how-to just in case i dont find it, i would really appreciate it.
Also, is there anything else i should do to get this working properly?
thank you very much for all your help.
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Custom ROM is your choice. There are a lot of JB ROMS that are pretty stable. Also a new stock JB leak in the dev section. As far as backing up your imei. You'll need to root first as soon as you do get a file explorer and copy the whole EFS folder to your external SDcard. Then also copy it to your computer. The imei is held within the EFS folder. From now on do this as soon as you root BEFORE you flash anything. lol

hechoen said:
Custom ROM is your choice. There are a lot of JB ROMS that are pretty stable. Also a new stock JB leak in the dev section. As far as backing up your imei. You'll need to root first as soon as you do get a file explorer and copy the whole EFS folder to your external SDcard. Then also copy it to your computer. The imei is held within the EFS folder. From now on do this as soon as you root BEFORE you flash anything. lol
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Thank you very much! I'll start rooting now and back it up immediately. I would love to give her a JB rom, mainly for google now. However, that radio is for ICS. Is that going to cause a problem? or will it even work on JB?

I've been on JB for months using an ICS radio. I'm on ATT so I can't say for certain but it shouldn't be an issue. Just go to the DEV thread and spend a few hours reading up on what's available. Like I said most of the ROMs are pretty stable at this point.

FYI, on skyrocket the IMEI is stored in mmcblk0p18 and mmcblk0p19, not /efs partition. Might really want to back those up, especially before attempting a usb unlock. The /efs only really stores exports of certain properties from mmcblk0p18.

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FYI, on skyrocket the IMEI is stored in mmcblk0p18 and mmcblk0p19, not /efs partition. Might really want to back those up, especially before attempting a usb unlock. The /efs only really stores exports of certain properties from mmcblk0p18.
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Thanks for the heads up. lol I thought for sure they'd be stored in the same place they where for my SGS4G. So what is stored in the imei folder in EFS then?