because I wanted to try out a gingerbread rom and i figured that since I was at stock I would open up Kies to see what kind of update it would say for the phone, but when I looked at it, Kies doesnt show anything. I mean it reads and finds my phone no problem but where it shows "Current Firmware Version" its just empty.
I remember previous times I did it, it would still show Version 2.1 and ask me if i wanted to update to 2.2.
So I guess im asking, if I should be concerned with this?
I did use Odin to go back to 2.1 btw
which odin?
odin3 one click? the ATT one? the one that obviously wouldnt work with Rogers keis?
or odin3 flashing utility with the Rogers Stock roms in my sig?
keis is crap anyway. if you want 2.2 flash my 2.2 stock. but dont bother if you are going to flash gingerbread. avoid 3e recovery, but theres a fix for that too in my sig.
TRusselo said:
which odin?
odin3 one click? the ATT one? the one that obviously wouldnt work with Rogers keis?
or odin3 flashing utility with the Rogers Stock roms in my sig?
keis is crap anyway. if you want 2.2 flash my 2.2 stock. but dont bother if you are going to flash gingerbread. avoid 3e recovery, but theres a fix for that too in my sig.
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Actually it was yours in your sig. It was the only one I have been using since I found it at like the beginning of the year. You are right Kies is crap but I keep it because id like to give Gingerbread stock a shot once it comes out before flashing to gingerbread roms. But now that I think about it, I think it might be that kies had an update when i opened it since its been so long from the last time i used it. So it was probably that.
And thanks I will look at that 3e recovery before i start flashing.
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Hey all,
Not that i want to, but i was wondering how if possible, to unroot the samsung captivate. I got it rooted and installed the JH2 rom, but i don't know how to revert if i can.
I see the odin one click downloader to go back to the stock rom, but i don't know if that will unroot and make my phone as it was.
I would also like to know if i'm rooted and running the jh2 rom, what would happen if i click the reset button in the privacy menu of the settings.
It's called a one click tool for a reason. It reverts you entirely back to the original "out of the box" feeling. I'm pretty sure even att or samsung could figure out it had a different rom on it.
Also, rooting and flashing a rom are not the same thing
Sent from my Samsung i897
Kaik541 said:
It's called a one click tool for a reason. It reverts you entirely back to the original "out of the box" feeling. I'm pretty sure even att or samsung could figure out it had a different rom on it.
Also, rooting and flashing a rom are not the same thing
Sent from my Samsung i897
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Hey thanks for the reply.
I know that rooting and flashing a rom are not the same thing which is why i was confused about that one click tool. I was unsure if it would just revert a rom and not a root or if it would do both.
Thanks for the clarification.
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Hey thanks for the reply.
I know that rooting and flashing a rom are not the same thing which is why i was confused about that one click tool. I was unsure if it would just revert a rom and not a root or if it would do both.
Thanks for the clarification.
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Odin will perform a full flash of whatever ROM (the one-click just happens to do JF6 for AT&T) you want. This will replace everything, including partitioning even (that's what the .pit file is, if memory serves). Basically, I'd be willing to believe if you were to use Odin with the JF6 ROM and drop it off at AT&T, they would be none the wiser. You can also, of course, use this tool to flash the i9000 ROMs with our captivate kernel (buggy at best) or even use the new JH2 ROM (as you obviously know by saying you're on JH2).
A factory reset will only put you back to "factory" settings, I don't even know if it will restore missing AT&T apps, but I doubt it. But it will keep you on your current ROM. So factory reset on JH2 will keep you on JH2, while flashing with the one-click tool on JH2 will put you on JF6. Sorry if this is repetitive and long-winded, but I figured any additional clarification for others couldn't hurt
Edit: I should also add there IS a way to unroot somewhere on this forum, too lazy to do the search right now. There's a one-click root/unroot that I believe SHOULD work with JH2.
Kaik541 said:
Odin will perform a full flash of whatever ROM (the one-click just happens to do JF6 for AT&T) you want. This will replace everything, including partitioning even (that's what the .pit file is, if memory serves). Basically, I'd be willing to believe if you were to use Odin with the JF6 ROM and drop it off at AT&T, they would be none the wiser. You can also, of course, use this tool to flash the i9000 ROMs with our captivate kernel (buggy at best) or even use the new JH2 ROM (as you obviously know by saying you're on JH2).
A factory reset will only put you back to "factory" settings, I don't even know if it will restore missing AT&T apps, but I doubt it. But it will keep you on your current ROM. So factory reset on JH2 will keep you on JH2, while flashing with the one-click tool on JH2 will put you on JF6. Sorry if this is repetitive and long-winded, but I figured any additional clarification for others couldn't hurt
Edit: I should also add there IS a way to unroot somewhere on this forum, too lazy to do the search right now. There's a one-click root/unroot that I believe SHOULD work with JH2.
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Haha, i had to read this a couple times but i learned more in that post than i ever knew about these phones. I thank you for that. This definitely clarified allot of questions that i probably would have plagued the forums with.
(sorry if i put this thread in the wrong section, i see it was moved)
Thanks for the help =)
Alright so I had successfully rooted my vibrant at one point and was fine with using hybrid R4.. I then flashed to 2.2 froyo, then tried to go back down to 2.1.. forgot to flash kernel and then had to use Odin 1.3 to revert back to stock. used odin with T959UVJI6... now how do i reroot my phone? it doesnt have the update.zip anymore, and i really dont think its rooted... whats the best way to root this guy now that i have i used odin to flash back to a almost, if not completely stock rom? i have tried my original method of superoneclick to which now doesnt seem to work...
Dont help this A-Hole
Been searching for a way to unroot my samsung galaxy s 4g. Tried the superclick method and the universal galaxy s tool wit no luck. Can anyone help, or guide me towards the right direction please?
you can odin a rom that is prerooted. or you can odin bali and flash from there. i would suggest odining ravers KC1 first and then bali and you should be good to go. let me know if you cant find it in the bible or through search and i'll help you out
He's trying to unroot. Are you unrooting on Froyo or GB? Froyo should really be as easy as SuperOneClick > unroot. GB would probably require a new flash of GB.
I'm curious though, why unroot?
thanks jagger, but bkoon is right... I bought this phone for my girl as a gift. It was already rooted by unknown source and was loaded with froyo 2.2.1. Tried hookn her up with GB through odin but got a lil confused, roms werent being flashed and was stuck with bootloops. So than i tried flashing thru CWM, with the vodoo lagfix, and once i got them to flash phone was pretty unstable. so I tried reverting back to froyo using odin. Got it flashed back but now her phone goes thru some serious glitches. I figured if i can unroot, i can start all over from scratch. Im no professional but have experience on other phones, but this phone has been a serious beeeeotch from day 1. Any ideas bro?
my bad. misread that. it sounds to me like you messed up the bootloaders. search for ravers kc1 and flash all 4 or so files in odin and that should give you a fresh start. once there, format the sd card on the phone and reboot. then reinstall your drivers (uninstall, reboot computer, reinstall) and then try superoneclickroot and try unrooting again.
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thanks jagger, but bkoon is right... I bought this phone for my girl as a gift. It was already rooted by unknown source and was loaded with froyo 2.2.1. Tried hookn her up with GB through odin but got a lil confused, roms werent being flashed and was stuck with bootloops. So than i tried flashing thru CWM, with the vodoo lagfix, and once i got them to flash phone was pretty unstable. so I tried reverting back to froyo using odin. Got it flashed back but now her phone goes thru some serious glitches. I figured if i can unroot, i can start all over from scratch. Im no professional but have experience on other phones, but this phone has been a serious beeeeotch from day 1. Any ideas bro?
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I hope that phone was purchased from a credible source and it wasn't stolen. That would suck if someone reported it and her phone got blacklisted.
Unrooting the phone won't help make much of a difference though. Odin'ing RaverX3X's KC1 will already remove your root and give you the cleanest slate you can possibly get on this forum. From there, you can work on getting GB on the phone. I hope you have experience flashing with this device though. Reading is VERY important for this phone. Unfortunately, it's not as easy as other phones out there.
Follow what jager555 said. He's got his stuff down, lol.
lol. Thanks!
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flash kc1 itll do the trick
Thanks jagger and bkoon, going to work on it tonight. Hopefully all goes well.
i have a samsung captivate with android 2.2 froyo and i want to go to 2.3.5 gingerbread. found this link http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1300843
my question is which should i download with bootloaders or without bootloaders?
kies mini will not update me and even bricked me so i dont want to ever use kies mini again. i have both odin one click and odin 1.7. also have heimdell one click and prefer to use it but cant find a stock 2.3.5 rom that will boot up on my phone. i have downloaded 2 and used heimdell but didnt work. heimdell is just so much easier but i will use odin if needed. i do want a stock rom nothing fancy since phone modding is a little new to me. i have a computer degree but phones are a whole different world lol...
link
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1300843
ok the link above isny working
If you are going from Froyo 2.2 to Gingerbread 2.3, you will need a Odin or Heimdall file that contains the bootloaders. They changed between 2.2 and 2.3, and you have to have them to make 2.3 run properly.
I would suggest this UCKH3 one-click Heimdall solution. It will flash everything you need, and you don't have to open anything else to do it.
Just be aware that it won't have ClockworkMod Recovery installed, so you'll have to flash a different kernel or use a one-click with CWM baked in later.
I would recommend flashing the lastest build (KK4) from Samsung. Here is a link to Odin one clicks and Heimdall one clicks with gingerbread bootloaders.
You must have Gingerbread bootloaders to run Gingerbread roms, however they are backwards compatible with Froyo and Eclair so you won't have to flash bootloaders again.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=18370912&postcount=3
Just got an Infuse a few days ago. It was running froyo 2.2.1 I believe. It was on AT&T, but I wanted to unlock to use with StraightTalk on AT&T. I did get the unlock code and rooted it. I then upgraded it thru Samsung's site to the 2.3.6 Gingerbread. In the process of this, I managed to lock up my laptop when installing Kies and had all kinds of issues. Needless to say, my persistance paid off after spending several hours reading here. Got it all up and working on ST.
Since today was my day off, I decided I wanted to remove the AT&T bloatware from it so off to googleville again and ended up here. Started reading and then found that when I did the Gingerbread update, my phone was unrooted again. Needless to say, after reading around here all day, I decided I wanted to give ICS a try and have been reading about ParanoidAndroid. I am now on pg 31 of 62 and am getting nowhere fast.
I don't want to ask for spoonfeeding, but I am confused about alot of this coding stuff. I have had some flashing experience years ago in ....well, don't guess I want to mention that, but anyhow, it seemed overwhelming until I got my feet wet in it. I have to say, this GB bootloaders, Aroma, non-Aroma, cm7, cm9, red CWM, and blue CWM has me more confused than a fat kid in a candy shop in some foreign country.
In all honesty, I think I could read here for a week and still not be sure on which way I need to go. As I said, I am interested in ICS (ParanoidAndroid) but don't know if I have the GB bootloaders or not and not sure where to start at. The firmware version os showing 2.3.6, Baseband I997UCLB3, Kernal version 2.6.35.7-I997UCLB3-CL977492, and finally a Build of Gingerbread.UCLB3. Yesterday, I was using SuperOneClick and 010 editor. Now I am reading about Odin, Heimdall, and several other programs that I don't know which to start with.
Could somebody please help out this fat kid in a foreign candy shop? I don't even think I can find a Hershey bar. Thanks.
How did you get to gb?
Kies?
Odin?
Cwm?
Which package did you use?
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qkster said:
How did you get to gb?
Kies?
Odin?
Cwm?
Which package did you use?
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I used Kies mini. I d/l Kies and the file and followed the instructions at Samsung's own website. samsung.com/us/support/SupportOwnersFAQPopup.do?faq_id=FAQ00045587&fm_seq=46249
Be patient... there are a lot of helpful people here and qkster is among the best.
boatboy63 said:
I used Kies mini. I d/l Kies and the file and followed the instructions at Samsung's own website. samsung.com/us/support/SupportOwnersFAQPopup.do?faq_id=FAQ00045587&fm_seq=46249
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This method will give you the gb boot loaders.
Your next step is to flash a custom kernel.
Follow my signature links to the heimdall method of kernel flashing.
If you are more comfortable with odin, jscott has made some great packages also.
Once you have flash the kernel, just boot into cwm and go from there. If you wanted paranoid, then flash the ROM in cwm.
If you use a gb kernel, for now, it will be red letter.
If you use heimdall jt ics kernel, you will see blue letter.
I rec the jt kernel as you are planning to go ics
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this is the ics kernel I was referring to:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=25526654&postcount=3
flash in download mode.
boot into cwm -3 fingers technique - flash the ics rom you want - follow the OP instructions