I was wondering how to make a custom boot splash picture like dfgas did. Ive looked and cannot find a way to make it
veteranmina said:
I was wondering how to make a custom boot splash picture like dfgas did. Ive looked and cannot find a way to make it
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Not sure how to do it but I read that it's not easy and you can brick your phone if you do it wrong. And not soft brick either. Like paperweight brick.
Are we talking about replacing the boot animation or the samsung logo when it first starts up. I am thinking the samsung logo but this talk about hard brick kinda makes me want to make sure
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Not sure how to do it but I read that it's not easy and you can brick your phone if you do it wrong. And not soft brick either. Like paperweight brick.
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Oh, well thats not a good thing. Well I have edited the splash screen once by accident and it made it into a paperweight. Somehow i was able to unbrick by constantly trying to go into download mode and using odin to flash back to stock 2.1. But if its a really risky thing i'll take very very extra caution to this one. I just wanted to know how to do it
scarmon25 said:
Are we talking about replacing the boot animation or the samsung logo when it first starts up. I am thinking the samsung logo but this talk about hard brick kinda makes me want to make sure
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We are talking about the samsung logo
Ok thanks. Just wanted to make sure.
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Check the fascinate forums there is a thread on how to do this. there is a brick chance but its totally possible. I was gonna try to take the black google screen that you get when shutting down phone on com rom. If I get a chance to do it this week ill post how it went.
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Here you go check this out
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=956349
doesnt look super easy but not impossible let us know if you try it!
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Yeah you try that **** first. Knock yourself out.
add144 said:
Yeah you try that **** first. Knock yourself out.
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Just tried it (still conscious too ) it took me about 15min including downloading and installing heimdall and drivers, finding my logo, flashing phone and doing terminal commands. I used terminal emulator rather than adb. Just follow instructions and its actually really easy. Make sure follow directions to install heimdall so you get the right drivers. Ill get some video of it and post it when I get a chance later
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How easy is this phone to brick?
And by brick I mean point of no return?
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I have heard no reports of people bricking it ever.
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It appears to be rather difficult. I've not seen any validated reports of a brick here yet. One guy acted like he might have bricked his legitimately, but it's not clear what he actually did or if he managed to flash something to it.
As long as you have fastboot working, there should be no issues flashing a recovery image and a rom from there.
Keep in mind Google designed this phone to be easily unlocked and modded with custom roms.
If mine is still working, they have to be pretty hard to brick. Google did an awesome job in making recovery very easy.
byock1 said:
If mine is still working, they have to be pretty hard to brick. Google did an awesome job in making recovery very easy.
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Indeed. I'm not going to pull a Titanic and claim its unbrickable but I'd say its pretty f°°°ing hard to brick. As distortedloop said, I've not seen a case where someone could not get to the bootloader and if you can do that you can fast boot a recovery and restore a stock nandroid.
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I haven't heard of bricks either.... its really difficult to brick when u have recovery.
you really have to pull some crazy **** to brick this phone, even then its hard. ive even tried flashing a nexus one and a mt4g rom to it, but it just errored out
lol i did brick my nexus s
i flashed the odin flash image found here and killed my att nexus s so sad
i was trying getting CM7 on it but it wouldnt mount cache nor data so tried to mount them over adb and went crazy and flashed that odin image,
wont boot or anything probably different bootloader and i killed it appart from having different modem, i guess i will go back to my i9000T that wont brick even if i install euro i9000 bootloaders
davioxx said:
lol i did brick my nexus s
i flashed the odin flash image found here and killed my att nexus s so sad
i was trying getting CM7 on it but it wouldnt mount cache nor data so tried to mount them over adb and went crazy and flashed that odin image,
wont boot or anything probably different bootloader and i killed it appart from having different modem, i guess i will go back to my i9000T that wont brick even if i install euro i9000 bootloaders
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Even then, its probably still not bricked. Sell me yours.
peeturr said:
Even then, its probably still not bricked. Sell me yours.
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lol really help me getting it back to life i think i have a unique device atm
i cannot boot neither recovery, fastboot or download mode
im thinking on building a jig with the 301k resistor to see if that makes it boot :S
davioxx said:
lol i did brick my nexus s
i flashed the odin flash image found here and killed my att nexus s
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How did you brick a phone that doesn't yet exist (att nexus s)...?
Nice catch there
nice to notice the ATT nexus s
Brick
benifactor said:
How easy is this phone to brick?
And by brick I mean point of no return?
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I think it must be impossible; I've put on roms, kernels, etc., and I don't know what I'm doing. Just play around and it's never broken.
benifactor said:
How easy is this phone to brick?
And by brick I mean point of no return?
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its kind of hard to brick where you cant bring it back. i had bootloops and stuck at the google screen but as far as that goes you can still access your recovery and restore a working rom.
Oh yea, the first brick on the block.
I was experimenting with stock rom modification through ADB and within the OS itself. We still can't flash anything with the "backdoor" CWM that we have at the moment that wasn't even designed for our phone, but it will allow you to do a nandroid backup, so I made sure to back up everything in case I did something stupid. Well, I did something stupid. So stupid in fact that I can't get back into recovery, I just hang at the initial boot screen. So I'm kind of glad an odin TAR file is being worked ok. I think I'm going to need it. Oh well, no progress without failure.
TO THE BACKUP PHONE! *cue the batman music*
I bricked my phone but I got it 7 days after buying it. So being thr horrible person I am o exchanged it and played dumb
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Oh yea, the first brick on the block.
I was experimenting with stock rom modification through ADB and within the OS itself. We still can't flash anything with the "backdoor" CWM that we have at the moment that wasn't even designed for our phone, but it will allow you to do a nandroid backup, so I made sure to back up everything in case I did something stupid. Well, I did something stupid. So stupid in fact that I can't get back into recovery, I just hang at the initial boot screen. So I'm kind of glad an odin TAR file is being worked ok. I think I'm going to need it. Oh well, no progress without failure.
TO THE BACKUP PHONE! *cue the batman music*
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so did you get odin workin and unbrick?
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so did you get odin workin and unbrick?
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yep, he was the 1st to unbrick with the stock tar
Thanks to the awesome Krylon. I've actually flashed that tar about 4 times now. :-D
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I did the same exact thing yesterday. I forgot to use the stock tar. and my first superbrick ever. Won't even turn on period...Sent in for an exchange to Wal-Martwire dot com. Normally Walmart is cool about taking things back (even if it's torn to shreds.) so we shall see if they're gonna notice.
I actually bricked my Vibrant 4G in like 4 hours of owning it...was rather dissappointing
Hey, guys, I feel very inadequate in here so I was wondering if anyone would be willing to Skype with me on how to root, flash, etc. on my phone. I ask for Skype because I truly know next to nothing in regards to this process. I vaguely understand what rooting does but I have never done any of it.
I have been patient with my g2x and am still on my original one(hoping that LG or TMO would do what was right by it's customers) but after the recent news that they "might" start doing internal testing after having pulled our legs with this whole "by summer" nonsense, I have decided to try to correct their mistakes for now.
Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.
check out theunlockr.com....if you cant do it that way id suggest you dont try it
Rooting and flashing so easy even a http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9Dognr3BII&feature=related can do it.
laker666 said:
check out theunlockr.com....if you cant do it that way id suggest you dont try it
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Thanks. Yeah, I have checked them out and while they are thorough I am still a bit intimidated because I don't want to brick my phone.
here is a thread that will point you in all the right directions to getting the g2x rooted with clockwork so you can start flashing...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1060715
just a fair warning once you start you can never stop.
tq745 said:
here is a thread that will point you in all the right directions to getting the g2x rooted with clockwork so you can start flashing...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1060715
just a fair warning once you start you can never stop.
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Man, that's great guide. I think I have skimmed over it before. It seems so daunting, haha. Am I making a bigger deal of it than I should be?
gogoplata1980 said:
Man, that's great guide. I think I have skimmed over it before. It seems so daunting, haha. Am I making a bigger deal of it than I should be?
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You are. Why are you letting a phone scare you?
Really its a piece of cake this is my second device I've rooted.. I did my old mt3g slide (it was a little bit harder especially being a n00b) but yea just follow guides to the T as much as possible. Even at worse case scenario you should able to revert to exchange and stuff if you have a warranty and whatnot. Have faith and go balls out you wont regret it!! I'm hooked on rooting/flashing.
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Man, that's great guide. I think I have skimmed over it before. It seems so daunting, haha. Am I making a bigger deal of it than I should be?
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dude listen just read it slowly and take your time u should be researching first before anything, i researched these forums for 7 months before i joined, but just take your time and if u need help ask, its really easy use tga gunmans guide for nvflash (putting recovery on your phone cwm), after u rooted it then always make a backup
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You are. Why are you letting a phone scare you?
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Ha, I figured. I'm not scared of the phone, I'm scared of not being able to use a brick.
sarni84 said:
dude listen just read it slowly and take your time u should be researching first before anything, i researched these forums for 7 months before i joined, but just take your time and if u need help ask, its really easy use tga gunmans guide for nvflash (putting recovery on your phone cwm), after u rooted it then always make a backup
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Are you volunteering help?
Yep, you've totally scared yourself. Don't worry, I did it with my G1. Read, read, read. Then use the one click great app to root your phone then use TGA's thread to put CWM recovery on it.
If you're gonna do this stuff you gotta trust that you know what you're doing (unless there's something you really don't understand). Else you'll never do it.
And I don't think I've seen a thread about a really bricked phone. So relax and use the source young Skywalker.
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Easy, download AmonRA recovery and follow youtube video directions. pretty much, download amonra, put on sd card, insert sd card, Power down, then press powerbutton+volume down, brings you to hboot menu....then you look for hboot usb, press volume down, then youre rooted.
First 2 times in rootet, i did it with this htc legend, took a few hours and yet didn't work, but afterwards in went to theunlocker guide and piece of cake it was, i even have to tell im running @ 806 mhz stable, even if found the biggest stable clock on legend to 768 mhz good luck
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Ok, might take the plunge here in a few. Roughly how long does the whole process take?
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yea ill help and listen dont download amonra, thats for different non tegra2 phones, recovery do the nvflash way its the only way.....dont do rom manager either its whats called a fake flash and u can only get access to recovery thru the app, now if u go into a bootloop your screwed, and wont be able to turn your phone on or off u can pull battery but it does nothing cuz when u turn ur phone back on ur still bootlooping so this way if u nvflashed recovery (cwm) on your phone and u go into a bootloop u can get into recovery by holding power down and volume down and your in
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yea ill help and listen dont download amonra, thats for different non tegra2 phones, recovery do the nvflash way its the only way.....dont do rom manager either its whats called a fake flash and u can only get access to recovery thru the app, now if u go into a bootloop your screwed, and wont be able to turn your phone on or off u can pull battery but it does nothing cuz when u turn ur phone back on ur still bootlooping so this way if u nvflashed recovery (cwm) on your phone and u go into a bootloop u can get into recovery by holding power down and volume down and your in
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Thanks a ton, bro! I'm gonna try to root and then post in here every so often to show my progress/ask questions.
Do I need to take out my SD card before rooting?
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Do I need to take out my SD card before rooting?
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no u do not just go into ur settings go to applications then development and make sure usb debugging is checked then start the root process u need to install adb theres guides all over for that and install the lg drivers......oh and remember to reboot after u have it rooted for root to stick
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no u do not just go into ur settings go to applications then development and make sure usb debugging is checked then start the root process u need to install adb theres guides all over for that and install the lg drivers......oh and remember to reboot after u have it rooted for root to stick
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Ok, I downloaded SuperOneClick(haven't ran it yet) but I want to make sure I dl'd the right one. I dl'd the last and biggest one offered. SuperOneClickv1.9.5-ShortFuse.Driver.rar
Is that the right one?
Ok so I just got me a New samsung showcase. It came with 2.2 installed build number sch-i500.ee25. Ok so i find out about rooting and all this so i start researching all about it. Here is where i am. I rooted with SuperOneClick. Worked fine. I installed ROM manager to get the clockworkmod but it did not work so I used Odin to install clockworkmod. That worked fine. So at this point I decided i need to backup the stock ROM. I try this using ROM manager but no go. it reboots into clockworkmod and gives me the sd card not mounted stuff. So I read and read and read but i can't seam to find a solution to this problem. I know there other people that have had this problem. I have read through the step by step guides and i really see nothing on this. Anyone have any type of solution.
Running on stock 2.2 rom manager doesnt work. You will need to go into cwm by turning off phone, holding power,vol up and down at same time. after samsung blinks 2nd time let go of buttons and you will boot into recovery.
Thank you. I thought I tried that before but I guess i did something wrong. Worked that time. Now if my memory is correct from reading that will not back up two things. The kernel and something else. How do I back up the kernel? Or am I just not thinking correctly cause I have not had enough sleep.
Samsung Galaxy S with Cellular South
I had to have Kies Mini open and running on my computer to root my phone
First, Welcome!
Second, Download and familiarize yourself with a program called Odin. This phone is hard to brick. From nearly every situation you can flash back to stock with Odin.
Third, Showcase files are not common. Send me a PM and ill give you my email address. I can better help over email.
studdyhalllooser said:
This phone is hard to brick. From nearly every situation you can flash back to stock with Odin.
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Not true; that's what we call a false sense of security.
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Not true; that's what we call a false sense of security.
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that is true. ive seen phones get restored that have been flashed with roms for other phones and wont even get past the samsung logo. he said nearly, I'm sure you can come up with some weird far out situation but don't try and scare the newbies off this early.
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sageDieu said:
don't try and scare the newbies off this early.
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What will scare newbies off is when they start flashing crazy **** for another phone in the Phone box in ODIN or something and can't fix it by just ODIN'ing like you guys are suggesting.
add144 said:
What will scare newbies off is when they start flashing crazy **** for another phone in the Phone box in ODIN or something and can't fix it by just ODIN'ing like you guys are suggesting.
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It's ok he's the only one still here so he'll have to help them.
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You say that but the fact that you said it means I'm not the only one.
Ooooohhhh someone's getting technicallllllllll
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Ooooohhhh someone's getting technicallllllllll
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dang right
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Same phone
I have the exact same phone as you. I just rooted my phone for the first time yesterday and I am having trouble installing CWM. Can you explain to me how you used Odin to flash CWM. And after you flash CWM, is it possible to revert back to stock recovery? If so how?
Verizon GS3 was running the new ota 4.1. Tempted to root and now its Bricked. It will only boot to the yellow triangle telling me to take it back to Verizon. I have tried to use Odin the flash back to stock and it will not for the life of me. If someone is home and willing to call me and walk me through this I will gladly fork over some cash.
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Can you describe your process trying to Odin back to stock?
Phush said:
Can you describe your process trying to Odin back to stock?
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I followed these instructions and got to the PASS screen but phone is still only booting to the yellow triangle telling me to go to Verizon Store.
http://www.theandroidsoul.com/restore-verizon-galaxy-s3-samsung-pre-rooted-rom/
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I followed these instructions and got to the PASS screen but phone is still only booting to the yellow triangle telling me to go to Verizon Store.
http://www.theandroidsoul.com/restore-verizon-galaxy-s3-samsung-pre-rooted-rom/
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Currently downloading 1.2GB worth of files and going to try this next...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyuJ8ii3M4o
Don't stress.. Lol just put the phone back into download mode (home+power up+ power)... redo whatever you wanted in odin.. Don't worry, I think we all have had panic moments...
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Currently downloading 1.2GB worth of files and going to try this next...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyuJ8ii3M4o
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I have been there and done that
Most likely you, while installing a custom recovery or custom ROM, forgot to unlock your boot loader.
For future reference you can unlock he boot loader using this app
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mmmeff.ez.unlock
I hate to say it but I doubt his method is going to fix your phone in this situation.. I have been in this situation and you need to follow the soft brick method here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1840030
90% sure your binary count has been tripped as well and you will need to reset that as well if you ever plan to ship to Verizon.
Binary count number can be viewed in download mode by the way.
Flash count can be reset useing this app.
After you unsoft bricked.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.chainfire.triangleaway
Let me know how everything goes. Feel free to pm me.
Hit that thanks if I pointed you in the right direction.
sent from that young galaxy on clean ROM!
FIXED!!!!
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Currently downloading 1.2GB worth of files and going to try this next...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyuJ8ii3M4o
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If anyone runs into the same issue follow these instructions! The file is HUGE so it will take a while to download but it worked like a champ!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyuJ8ii3M4o
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If anyone runs into the same issue follow these instructions! The file is HUGE so it will take a while to download but it worked like a champ!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyuJ8ii3M4o
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You mean when since not everyone will take the time to do some research before they embark on this journey called rooting.
hope you get it fixed man.
but just for future reference, (sorry if was already said, didn't read the thread)
a brick is just that, the phone is worthless, cannot charge, no lights, no nothing you cannot get it to turn on or do anything.