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[Q] samsung galaxy s4g brick help

alright so i had one of my friends who has the vibrant on tmobile help me root and install darkys rom on my phone. since i had no idea i just let him do it since he has it on his phone. we rooted it use the onesuperclick. we took off the bloatwear and then put the rom on the sd card loaded it up in recovery and did the recovery then installed it. my phone hard bricked. nothing comes up or no download mood nothing even when pluged. but no worries i just send it to tmobile. but i wanna know if anyone can give me a guide to do this step by step so it dosent happen again when i get my phone back. thanks

The vibrant roms do not work on the 4g....until they are ported to 4g with the proper mods made to the rom they will cause a brick everytime
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1. no matter how much it looks like it, the s4g isn't a vibrant. there are as of yet no custom roms available.
2. people like you and your friend are the reason carriers and manufacturers are going towards more restrictive ability to root and signed/encrypted bootloaders

theirs no roms for the 4g?

rickyy00 said:
theirs no roms for the 4g?
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Why don't you try and look for crying out loud
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i have tryed but if their saying their isnt i guess there isnt

rickyy00 said:
theirs no roms for the 4g?
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this is what you get if you don't read before flashing! sorry to say.. but you have nice paper weight.

There are 2 roms available but require odin to install
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cufd440 said:
There are 2 roms available but require odin to install
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what are the roms?

Check the dev section
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cufd440 said:
Check the dev section
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dev?device? im new to this ****

Yeah n00b, read before you flash.
Hey guys, we have a soooper n00b

All of us were noobs once...you need to read the guides and stickies and use the search feature
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kevho00 said:
Yeah n00b, read before you flash.
Hey guys, we have a soooper n00b
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Hey dumbass don't down the kid he's trying to learn just help him out get him goin in the right direction.
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Chill out i was the one who flashed it wrong for him.
I'm the n00b, hes my friend LOLOLOL

kevho00 said:
Yeah n00b, read before you flash.
Hey guys, we have a soooper n00b
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Heh glad to hear you are his bud. I was going to flame your flame too.
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shutem down said:
Hey dumbass don't down the kid he's trying to learn just help him out get him goin in the right direction.
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nice post for someone with 4 posts total.... reported.
Really though, when carriers stop insuring phones, this will be the reason why....

i had the same hard brick problem as above but for me it was weird. all i wanted at the time was to get rid of the bloat where and i did after which i unrooted and the phone worked fine. the weird thing is later i went in to download mode by accident and before i could do anything the phone was bricked. tmobile replaced My phone but if this has happened to anyone else please reply

jermrz said:
i had the same hard brick problem as above but for me it was weird. all i wanted at the time was to get rid of the bloat where and i did after which i unrooted and the phone worked fine. the weird thing is later i went in to download mode by accident and before i could do anything the phone was bricked. tmobile replaced My phone but if this has happened to anyone else please reply
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before you could do anything? um...ooookk....

Please use the Q&A Forum for questions Thanks
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New to nexus s 4g

Hey nexus s users, So I've upgraded up to a nexus s 4g coming from a sprint HTC hero. Can someone please point me in the direction into rooting nexus s?
I would appreciate any answers
Thank you so much and God Bless all
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1071500

NYYFan325 said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1071500
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Solid! Thank you!
One more thing, Which rooting guide would you recommend?
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kijp15 said:
Solid! Thank you!
One more thing, Which rooting guide would you recommend?
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That's the one I used when I first got mine..
Pay attention to the end.. Install Rom Manager and have it install the latest CWM so recovery sticks.
http://www.droidfiles.us/nexus-s-4g/root-nexus-s-4g/

styckx said:
That's the one I used when I first got mine..
Pay attention to the end.. Install Rom Manager and have it install the latest CWM so recovery sticks.
http://www.droidfiles.us/nexus-s-4g/root-nexus-s-4g/
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Okay. I'll use the same guide you did. Thanks buddy(s).
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New member/User

Hello, All Im new to these forums..And would like some info on how to install roms and mod my galaxy s 4g..Any help would be appreciated thanks in advance.

Kingpin214 said:
Hello, All Im new to these forums..And would like some info on how to install roms and mod my galaxy s 4g..Any help would be appreciated thanks in advance.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1117554
Just follow the link obove and you will be shown the light. Lol but seriously check out the noobs guide to odin and that will get you started. Glad to have you on the forum and welcome.
Also please check our one and only stickie it will help avoid alot of BS you might hear in he future for posting those noob questions.
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Tip for the new member... read and search before you post
use sgs4g bible
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It works. But just want to mention, the NooB bible should be the best point to start.
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Tip for the new member... read and search before you post
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Great, so I can close this thread since it clutters the forum.

One step root?

Anyone tried this "one step" root?
http://www.dialandroid.com/2011/12/rootunroot-any-android-phone-in-one.html#more
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I doubt it will work for 2.3.6 but if someone wants to try and verify that would be great. So if by chance it does it can be posted for everyone to see

silver03wrx said:
I doubt it will work for 2.3.6 but if someone wants to try and verify that would be great. So if by chance it does it can be posted for everyone to see
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Won't be me... right now I'm happy to have root, and READING lots before I get too adventurous. I've got 2.3.5.
There's SO much stuff out there on different ways of doing things, BUT my money is on XDA!
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[Q] Backed up ROM on Vibrant 3G installed on Vibrant 4G?

My husband has a Samsung Vibrant 3G, I rooted it and installed MIUI-NB_1.12.2_signed a few days ago and he really likes it. He just bought a used Samsung Vibrant 4G with the FFC on Craigslist today. Our question is if I make a ROM Manager backup of the current ROM on the 3G, can I install it on the 4G or is the hardware so different that it is impossible? Thanks for any feedback !!

Vibrant ain't sgs4g. Vibrant roms (nitpickers) brick sgs4g, ROM manager shouldn't allow flash work on sgs4g... ROM manager issue with sgs4g too.
Treat both phones/roms separately...
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Thanks !!
ok, off I go to root and install a fresh copy THANKS !!

Good luck with that no miui here...
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You did the right thing by asking first. If you need more help just go ahead and ask in this thread, plenty of people willing to help others who ask the right questions.

OK, we have decided to leave the OS virgin for now, no root and no custom ROM Maybe later we'll root at least. Thanks for the feedback and keep up the GREAT WORK !!
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So I know for future reference, what is the easiest and best application to root the 4G? I have quite a few downloaded when I rooted my husband's Vibrant 3G, such as SuperOneClick and Galaxy S One Click Root All Models. Which one do you recommend?

Depends if your on froyo or GB
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It's Froyo 2.2.1 It's probably a much better thing than being on Gingerbread to root, right? It's a PAIN in the badonkadonk to downgrade via ADB, been there done that twice with the MyTouch 4G's Successfully too, it was a huge learning curve though LOL

Eh it's the same really.just the method differ. For froyo you can find super one click 1.9 and use the PS nueter (sp?) Option just like you did with the vibrant.
are you planning on cwm recovery?
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yes, I know CWM pretty well since I started rooting MyTouch 4G's a couple of months ago, I find it easy to use and never had any problems on those particular phones. But then, the MyTouch 4G's are HTC phones, this is a Samsung and a completely different kind of breed If you have anything better and safer for rooting the Samsung Galaxy S 4G's, I'm all ears

You could hit the GB upgrade, root, and cwm all in one flash with my one click guide http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1422824
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Tell him it's ok that his phone isn't as good as yours/ours. Just once for me
If you decide on updating, 2.3.6 version is really smooth. There's a few ROMs around, just read up and follow any/all directions.
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development
this link is just what you need...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1213713

Why is this thread on development? Move it immediately.
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Chill out
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airfluip1 said:
Why is this thread on development? Move it immediately.
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Seriously dude you need to chill, or you can politely ask a mod to move it to q&a. This rudeness is not constructive nor is it helpful to anyone.
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Questions or Problems Should Not Be Posted in the Development Forum
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