I have the samsung sprint epic 4g
I've previously installed the clockwork mod i believe. It was a one click install type of thing. I dont know what it did to the phone and didtn really notice a difference aside from a few applications that were put onto the phone.
I want to go to FROYO. Am i currently rooted?
Do i need to unroot this clockwork thing to root to froyo? how do i do this if i need to do this step?
If i don't need to do this part can you direct me to where i need to be.
Hi Guys
I have some question and I was wondering if u can help me.
I have rooted plenty of phones nexus one> captivate>inspire but for some reason I am having problems with this one
I have used superoneclick and I was able to root the phone. It works great and I dont really see a reason to to continue messing around with it but I still want to figure out some stuff.
Reading this forum I have not seen CWM mention too much. In addition I found some info about the fact that this phone has an e3 recovery (dont know what that means). Also I did not see a lot of rom development for this phone.... thats sad.
So too make a long story short.
1. Should I continue and hack the recovery?
2. Can I put CWM just by flashing a recovery to it?
3. Is there a procedure to go back to stock (for warranty issues)?
4. Whats is the best rom that i should use?
5. Is there support for HDMI in the custom roms?
6. Is there a way to chnage the boot animation without chnaging the rom?>
Thank you
B
i am still figuring this out myself...if you find out before me please let me know...
Hey everyone. First of all, thank you very much for your help here if you're able!
Now, on to this:
I have a Droid 2 Global right now, rooted and running Fission ROM. (Recovery is ClockworkMod v5.0.2.3) Fission is, well, out of commission as it would seem, and I'm looking to upgrade to some Gingerbread.
Thing is, I haven't flashed more than one ROM onto this phone before and I'm coming from the HTC EVO 4G -- so I'm a little nervous about messing anything up as there was a much heavier amount of steps involved in rooting and flashing to this D2G than there was for the EVO!
Needless to say, I'm terrified of messing up. Here's my question:
1. If I load a new ROM onto my SD card, do a factory data reset, clear cache and dalvik, can I flash a new ROM from the recovery, no problems? Or would there be more steps needed?
2. This isn't as relevant I guess, but is it possible to unroot this phone safely and update to the VZW OTA Gingerbread? I'm probably not gonna worry about this if it's possible to just flash another ROM as asked in my first question, but it's worth noting.
Thank you guys so much, I've been super antsy with this phone lately. Any help is completely appreciated!
If you really want Gingerbread, with corresponding kernel patches and stuff, you have to update to VZW's latest firmware (4.5.608) as all modern Gingerbread ROMs use it as the base. They won't work on Froyo base.
The safest and cleanest way to get the phone to update is to flash an SBF image and then update to 4.5.x. Do note that this will clear any CDMA programming you probably have done to get it to work on Sprint Nextel. You'll need to reprogram the phone while still running 2.4.x.
Please also note that using custom ROMs is always a risk as there's always chance you'll need to flash an SBF to recover from a bad build, etc., so if to flash the phone to Sprint you need to contact Sprint themselves (i.e. you cannot do it yourself), this might turn into a real hassle.
Stock 4.5.608 is very stable and fast, especially with bloatware frozen.
Ah, sorry, I should have clarified further! It's on Verizon Wireless right now, so it's operating on Verizon still and has not been flashed to Sprint. (I had to go and change my provider logo -- if only I could have two!)
Also, thank you for your quick reply! I do have two more questions now, though;
1. If I flash another Froyo ROM, would I be able to do so in recovery off of the SD card? Rather, is it only Gingerbread that would need to be done with an SBF?
2. I was reading about SBFs earlier and was about to try the process, but I found that it was in .exe format. Would I need to be using a PC to do this? I have a Mac currently, though I would have access to a PC certainly if it were necessary (since it seems like this might be my best bet).
Regarding the OS question: there's sbf_flash utility available for both Linux and MacOS X. It's more easy to use, and is overall more “sturdy” (no problems with missing drivers leading to SBF process aborting in the middle).
Going through SBF is only required to update to Gingerbread (which is indeed highly recommended; Froyo ROMs are mostly outdated), because for that, you need a clean 2.4.330 system. If you can access ClockworkMod on your Froyo ROM, you definitely can install any Froyo-based custom ROM.
Thank you again. I think I will flash an SBF and update through VZW, it sounds like my best plan!
I'm searching to see if I can find the right SBF utility to download (for MacOS X), but I'm having a bit of trouble--do you happen to know where I can find it or have a link? In the meantime I will keep going through the forums!
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Hey everyone, long time reader first time poster.
I am having a real issue tryign to find out how to unlock the Atrix 4G that i got just two weeks ago. Seems it came with Gingerbread 2.3.5 loaded on it and for one reason or another I can only find out how to unlock 2.3.4 and even that I can't seem to get into fastboot. Some of the tutorials I have read invole going into RSD mode which also doesn't seem to be working for me (holding volume up and turnign on the device). Is there a simple way to do this that can be suggested? Would hate to try to unlock and root for a rom and not be able to use my phone. Any help would be much appreciated. Also I am on ATT which from all I am reading may or may not make a difference.
Also side question is if possibly I am already unlocked with this Gingerbread being installed? Heard it might be released as unlocked but again not much I can find on 2.3.5.
Thanks everyone.
Alright, well today I finally decided to make the switch from the Atrix to a Skyrocket. I heavily modded the atrix and I'm used to having absolutely no freedom with my phone, so I have to hack my way through everything. With a bit or trial and error, I succeded. Anyway, to avoid soft-bricking my phone in less than 12 hours, I want to know everything I need to do in order to flash ROMs, kernals, and all that other good stuff. So far, all I've done s root and flash CWM. Am I done?
Thanks. Oh and before I leave, has anyone tested out that 1.89ghz OC kernal?
Hello fellow atrix user. I to came from the atrix . But have had samsung galaxy then sgs2 now sgs2 skyrocket. You rooted and installed cwm so your done. You can flash roms and kernels with cwm totally different world.then that pita atrix. For now best bet is to stay on stock rooted. People were havong some problems with alien rom. I have used the oc kernel. Up to 1.83ghz and got over 4200 quadrant with that ( not that quadrant really matters) but my phone did heat up alot while over clocking, and anything over 1.83 i got instant shutdown so i flashed stock rooted back. And im happy with it. And with sammy odin is your friend if u run into problems keep this thread handy it has easy to use directions how to odin back to stock and how to use odin to flash the tar and fix a soft brick http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1342348
Perfect! thats exactly what I needed... a heck of a lot easier to do too! And i've already done my research for the crash course I take it the TAR/ODIN stuff is the Skyrockets equivalent of RSD Lite? Looks easy (enough) to use and I have everything I need incase something bad happens. Anyway thanks again for the help! I guess I'll wait it out before flashing alien. Oh and one more question (yeah I do that a lot), whenever I flashed themes on my atrix, it NEVER worked, but I never found out what was wrong with it. Is there anything special I need to do aside from rooting/CWM? Or once I have that, I have the power to do ANYTHING posted in the dev section (that applies to my phone model and all that)?
Nothing special you need to do after root and recovery. But some themes cause problems on some roms as im sure you know. Some work some dont .