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Potentially bricked Charge?

Can anyone help please? I was running stock ED1 and decided to update to EE4. I put Voodoo lagfix on, then flashed the EE4 update that was in the general forum through recovery as an update.zip. It stopped about halfway through for some reason, leaving me with an "unknown" baseband and thus, no way to get a signal. All attempts to flash different radio updates failed. So, I decided to flash everything over. I flashed the stock ED1 through Odin, but it keeps saying the MD5 checksum is invalid, so I flashed Altered Beast. This got me clockword mod, but still no baseband. Finally, I tried to flashed debloated EE4 through clockword and now, I'm stuck at the Samsung screen, with no way to get into recovery. Any suggestions for my noobness? :/ I can still get it to connect to Odin.

Ok, quick update. I got Altered Beast reflashed. CWM is still on there. I'd like to get back to stock, ED1, ED2, EE4; I don't care which, as long as I have a working baseband. Suggestions?

try redownlolading ed1 because the md5 has to do with the file itself not the phone. Then connect to wifi and update to ed2. after, try flashing the update .zip thats from the forums while you are stock, no custom recovery or anything other than root ed2. if none of this works, then you probably burnt out your sim card like i did accidentaly by activating my old droid x. so if you did burn the sim card, go to best buy or verizon or the costco wireless booth and have them activate a new sim card for you. this happened to me where i couldnt get data or anything and i got a new sim card and pow! it worked. try my initial instructions first. and make sure you are using the PDA button in odin

empyreandance said:
Ok, quick update. I got Altered Beast reflashed. CWM is still on there. I'd like to get back to stock, ED1, ED2, EE4; I don't care which, as long as I have a working baseband. Suggestions?
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whenever you flash an update you need to be completely stock thats including the kernel
i would disable lag fix then flash ED1 downgrade and try to update if it doesnt let you i would unroot and bring your phone into VZW tell them the update failed and left you with unknown baseband.
you may be a good test subject to try out his idea on flashing a radio , if he is there yet
also you posted in the wrong section

rami98 said:
try redownlolading ed1 because the md5 has to do with the file itself not the phone. Then connect to wifi and update to ed2. after, try flashing the update .zip thats from the forums while you are stock, no custom recovery or anything other than root ed2. if none of this works, then you probably burnt out your sim card like i did accidentaly by activating my old droid x. so if you did burn the sim card, go to best buy or verizon or the costco wireless booth and have them activate a new sim card for you. this happened to me where i couldnt get data or anything and i got a new sim card and pow! it worked. try my initial instructions first. and make sure you are using the PDA button in odin
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you cant get the update over wifi im pretty sure he will need to download the update.zip files for each update if he doesnt already have them

Hah im trying to figure out how to get outta bootloop forgot to disable voodoo odin'd back to ed2 w/root and now i have bootloop..
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Ok, I'm still getting a MD5 mismatch on the third try with the stock ED1 file. any other ideas?

mv1luv said:
Hah im trying to figure out how to get outta bootloop forgot to disable voodoo odin'd back to ed2 w/root and now i have bootloop..
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flash altered beast, then boot up , boot into recovery disable lagfix then try again

empyreandance said:
Ok, I'm still getting a MD5 mismatch on the third try with the stock ED1 file. any other ideas?
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redownload the file

i've done that three times today. i think something else is going on

I would suggest reinstalling the Samsung drivers for the Charge, then open Odin, use a different USB port and try again. I had a lot of issues with flash ED1 and one of the ways I found worked around this (for me) was to make sure the drivers were messed up.

empyreandance said:
i've done that three times today. i think something else is going on
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where are you downloading the file from?

RaptorMD said:
I would suggest reinstalling the Samsung drivers for the Charge, then open Odin, use a different USB port and try again. I had a lot of issues with flash ED1 and one of the ways I found worked around this (for me) was to make sure the drivers were messed up.
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MD5 mismatch happens when a file is corrupt or not fully complete

ok, good news (sort of). the md5 mismatch was being caused by the way chrome was naming the multiple instances of the download. I renamed the file and got back to stock ED1. still no signal, but i got the pop up saying i had a system update waiting, i just have to wait for the battery to charge a bit. I'll check back in soon. in the meantime, thanks for all the help and patience everyone.

ok, installing the update didn't help. is it possible my sim card is fried?

empyreandance said:
I put Voodoo lagfix on, then flashed the EE4 update
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wait i thought if you wanted to flash to stock you want the Voodoo lagfix off? i think your problem might be that your flashing non voodoo kernals to a system that has voodoo on i dont think you should do that, try flashing a voodoo kernal maybe instead of the stock stuff
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well, a trip to verizon and trying new sim cards didn't fix it. guess i'll need to wait for a replacement.

EE4 Being Pushed to Phone =Safe?

I am running the rollback Odin root to ED1 / edited build.prop .... EE4 system update is sitting here wanting to be installed. Anyone know if it is gonna kill the root I have ??

It will keep root. Make sure you undo lag fix if you installed new kernel.
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I don't recall mine keeping root. I just flashed CWR (odin), PBJ kernel (cwr), and debloated EE4 (cwr) after anyways. No wipe is necessary.
This way you get the radio update, EE4, back to rooted, and debloated.

Chopstix9 said:
I am running the rollback Odin root to ED1 / edited build.prop .... EE4 system update is sitting here wanting to be installed. Anyone know if it is gonna kill the root I have ??
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why are you posting the same exact questions twice?

Well sir if you MUST know, I will explain why this is posted as a stand alone question as well as at the bottom of the 'stock rooted ed1 odin' thread in development. I do this just because I am such a nice S.O.B. .... I edited the build.prop last night as was being discussed in THAT thread. When I re-booted a couple of times I was still getting the update notification and I thought it was still the ED2 trying to be pushed to the phone so I posed the question of why the build.prop edit didn't take. I then noticed that it wasn't the ED2 update at all but EE4 was being pushed to the phone. So I went back in and edited the post to refelct the same, since I was unable to delete it. Now, since this was a new question and it was likely that it would get lost at the end of a 13 page week+ old post, I also posted it as its own question in the general forum where it belongs...
FEEL BETTER NOW ??

binglejellsx2 said:
I don't recall mine keeping root. I just flashed CWR (odin), PBJ kernel (cwr), and debloated EE4 (cwr) after anyways. No wipe is necessary.
This way you get the radio update, EE4, back to rooted, and debloated.
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*sigh* ... LOL ... I tried to accept the EE4 and it came back as can't download now try again later. I go into phone and try to check for updates and it says phone is up to date. I'm thinkin due to the build.prop edit and stuff not matching in phone? Baseband version still says ed1 but build says ed2 in about phone listings. It started the download then kicked out immediately and rebooted when I tried to accept ee4 push.
I was able to ODIN this back to ED1 originally. Recovered from a brick the other night (many thanx to droidXcon !!) But I have never used cwr and am a flashing noob so to speak. I am assuming the directions and all downloads are around here if I research it? I am leery of the cwm/cwr stuff as I've seen so many peeps having issues stuck in boot loops and such.
Any help/advice appreciated.

I went back into build.prop and changed everything back to ED1. Phone now shows baseband and build as ED1 again and EE4 is trying to be pushed to the phone again. Looks like I can take the OTA update now and am assuming I will lose root? I have to learn how to use cwm. I downloaded the imnuts cwm this morning, is it as simple as istalling that via ODIN since it is a tar file? Then it will just be a matter of doing the research to figure out how to install stuff via cwm to have a rooted EE4?
Edit: nope ... still wouldn't take the ee4 update. Go to accept it, phone shuts down, get the download image, yellow progress bar makes it about 20% of the way across and phone reboots.

Chopstix9 said:
I went back into build.prop and changed everything back to ED1. Phone now shows baseband and build as ED1 again and EE4 is trying to be pushed to the phone again. Looks like I can take the OTA update now and am assuming I will lose root? I have to learn how to use cwm. I downloaded the imnuts cwm this morning, is it as simple as istalling that via ODIN since it is a tar file? Then it will just be a matter of doing the research to figure out how to install stuff via cwm to have a rooted EE4?
Edit: nope ... still wouldn't take the ee4 update. Go to accept it, phone shuts down, get the download image, yellow progress bar makes it about 20% of the way across and phone reboots.
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If you have Voodoo enabled it will do that. Make sure you disable before accepting OTA

hydrored said:
If you have Voodoo enabled it will do that. Make sure you disable before accepting OTA
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I had never installed the voodoo ... don't know cwm yet ... when all else fails drop 5 yards and punt... i just re-flashed the stock rooted ed1 tar. Verified it had all of the appz back that I nuked with titanium and verified I still had root ... now the ee4 update is installing. Will advise of results asap.

Chopstix9 said:
I had never installed the voodoo ... don't know cwm yet ... when all else fails drop 5 yards and punt... i just re-flashed the stock rooted ed1 tar. Verified it had all of the appz back that I nuked with titanium and verified I still had root ... now the ee4 update is installing. Will advise of results asap.
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I just upgraded my rooted ed1. The apps I had frozen are still frozen but I lost root.

Okay, I am at what I would consider a stock EE4 build. I did lose root.
So now I need to learn the easiest way to root to an EE4. I have not used cwm yet so I reckon I better learn!! Read the how to once thru. I did try just going into stock samsung recover holding volume/power/home and I did get into that.
So ... I have downloaded the imnuts cwm. Do I install that tar file and it is going to replace the stock recovery?
It now seems as though I am unable to enter stock recovery since I took the ee4? I was able to do this prior to the update. Do I proceed with flashing imnuts cwm and go from there?
Edit: I can get to stock recovery afterall
Also, I see references to some adb pushing in the cwm thread and I am ignorant of adb as well. I need to find a how to thread on all of this !! Is the adb another form of access to the phone that needs to be used in conjunction with cwm?
Edit: I flashed the New_CWM_Recovery.tar.md5 file via ODIN and I got the blue 'reset' in oding and the the green 'pass' ... I go thru the process to enter recovery mode and the menu looks the same with no added options? I have Android system recovery <3e> but now it is blue .... I think I better wait at this point for guidance.
Any Help Appreciated I need ee4 root !!

elucid said:
It will keep root. Make sure you undo lag fix if you installed new kernel.
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So I did Odin to ED1 and rooted. Accepted the OTA for ED2 and kept root. Now like the previous poster, I have the EE4 downloaded and ready to install. If I install it, do I keep root?
Someone said no cuz of modem changes. I didn't flash anything else except the ED1.
Thanks!
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not sure if still works as i havent tried it yet, but here http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/04/30/instructions-how-to-root-the-verizon-samsung-droid-charge/ typically with adb its permanent.

ED1 Full Factory TAR WORKS!!! AND Fixes the Unknown Baseband radio!

Hey folks, just follow the instructions for the first ED1 Full factory http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1107797
It fixed my unknown baseband radio. thank you so much to the people that were able to get these files.
WEWT!!!
The instructions are very easy to follow.

Thank you p3droid!!!
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It did not fix mine. It gets all the way to the end, then gives me an error message.

Grizzld said:
It did not fix mine. It gets all the way to the end, then gives me an error message.
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That could be Oden. try a different usb port. Also try restarting your computer.

It's not for odin. He sent a flashing software with it. This will fix all problems
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papi92 said:
It's not for odin. He sent a flashing software with it. This will fix all problems
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Should everyone do this or just people who are having problems with their phones?

psalm462 said:
Should everyone do this or just people who are having problems with their phones?
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This is for ppl who have issues. You hope you never have to use it.
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khanfuze said:
That could be Oden. try a different usb port. Also try restarting your computer.
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No, I was using the Samsung PST software. It downloads the software to 100%, then an error dialogue box pops up.
I have the "unknown baseband" problem, and I think it's failing right at the very end as it's trying to flash the modems.
Sorry for the multiple posts--this topic is being discussed in a lot of different threads, and I feel like I'm the only one who can't get it to work successfully.

Baseband Radio
Ok so this is a noob Q. Is the baseband what gives my charge Signal?? Ive been having problems with dropped calls and lack of network stablility would this fix it and can i upgrade to ee4, root flash roms and kernels and still keep the new baseband? Thanks...

brandonaspencer said:
Ok so this is a noob Q. Is the baseband what gives my charge Signal?? Ive been having problems with dropped calls and lack of network stablility would this fix it and can i upgrade to ee4, root flash roms and kernels and still keep the new baseband? Thanks...
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In a nut shell, YES. Once you get yourself to an ED1 or ED2 stock or rooted state, you should then be able to accept the OTA EE4 update which will update your radio. Just make sure you are not on a custom rom when you update. So, stock rooted ED1 or ED2, then update. Just apply the OTA, then your favorite root kernel. If you want a custom rom, pick one that is made for the EE4 update. However, you will not lose the radio/baseband update as the custom roms and kernel's don't touch the radio area.
Good luck!!

Thanks youre the only who answered any of my posts...lol I was thinking maybe I had to know someone

Grizzld said:
No, I was using the Samsung PST software. It downloads the software to 100%, then an error dialogue box pops up.
I have the "unknown baseband" problem, and I think it's failing right at the very end as it's trying to flash the modems.
Sorry for the multiple posts--this topic is being discussed in a lot of different threads, and I feel like I'm the only one who can't get it to work successfully.
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Did you take Sim Card out? Heres i what i did.
as soon as i put the phone in download mode ( you know yellow triangle?) i inserted the battery, make sure its fully charged and make sure you take the sim card out. So i inserted the battery back in and pressed the button to start flashing the ED1 file. I tried to flash the ED2 thats on the list but that file is borken i think.

Please continue this discussion in the thread linked in Post #1 so that everything is in one place.

Is this possible to fix?

Back on September 14th I downloaded that 14 Mb update. Since then I've flashed many times between stock, special ROMs, and of course the Gingerbread leaks. Well, my current issue is that I'm stuck on UCKE3 which is the newest I could find (the one from early June.) So far I have had no luck re-updating my phone to UCKH1 from the 14th. I'm getting the constant, "Your phone is up to date. You may check back in 24 hr and 24 min" message. This is very frusterating to me since when I'm on stock I like to have to latest official updates. Anyone have any idea what's causing this? I've asked a similar question in the Q&A thread, but some kid gave me nothing but a link to GTG's modem collection which is not what I really needed and threw a whole you better thank me for helping you thing in my face, so I prefer to check in here.

I assume you're referring to gtg's "Return to stock" UCKE3? If you actually want to be stock, that's the one to go with. That OTA Update really doesn't gain you much value, except for possibly the KI3 modem (which of course you know you can install yourself, no thanks necessary )
Now for your actual question: I don't have a definitive answer for you, but a good guess that "Return to stock" may not be 100% stock. Obviously it's rooted, but there may be something else (don't know what) that might be just different enough that AT&T's firmware update utility no longer recognizes your ROM as a candidate for updates.
Sorry that's not a very solid answer, but if I were you I wouldn't sweat this particular update anyway.

I had the same problem. What I did was return to stock using gtg's unbrick then after the phone booted I did a factory reset from the settings menu. I was able to get the update installed after that. Just back up your SD cards if you try this.
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UCKH1 updated the bootloader and modem. I'll find you the link so you can Odin it. it's the completely stock version.
http://hotfile.com/dl/129136963/92a8405/SGH-I997_I997UCKH1_ATT.rar.html
The password for the .RAR is samfirmware.com

Flashed the UCKI3 modem and now I'm back to FROYO.UCKH1! Don't know why I didn't do that in the first place... Oh well. That's what happens when you get 2 hours of sleep then wake up at 7 to PT, haha. I will be thanking your post, good sir.

Bandit_Kaine said:
UCKH1 updated the bootloader and modem. I'll find you the link so you can Odin it. it's the completely stock version.
http://hotfile.com/dl/129136963/92a8405/SGH-I997_I997UCKH1_ATT.rar.html
The password for the .RAR is samfirmware.com
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This will come in handy for if I need it again, and honestly, I might as well just flash this to be completely safe. You will also be receiving a thanks.

Bandit_Kaine said:
UCKH1 updated the bootloader and modem. I'll find you the link so you can Odin it. it's the completely stock version.
http://hotfile.com/dl/129136963/92a8405/SGH-I997_I997UCKH1_ATT.rar.html
The password for the .RAR is samfirmware.com
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Thank you for the link. I downloaded it and tried to Odin it... Odin recognised my phone "showing yellow in the top left bar), but the step stayed a "<1> connection setup" for a little under 10mins without doing anything more...
Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?
My phone is rooted and I'm on UCKE3.
Thank you

Unplug then plug it back in,if that doesn't start it, reboot and put it back in download mode. Rerun Odin.
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[ROM] [CWM] [EC05] [EI22] Stock Heimdall Packages

Please see this new thread for up to date packages.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1584346
DISCLAIMER:
The whole point of putting out Heimdall packages is to make flashing safer, faster and easier but please use some common sense and read before you wildly click on stuff. No one listed in this OP nor myself, God, Satan or any other being (Supreme deity or not) is responsible for what you do with these files. If you brick something, you did it, so man up and own your mistakes (and hopefully learn from them).
Epic Heimdall Packages:
The title should be self explanatory. Use these with Heimdall to flash your Epic back to stock or to flash CWM recovery. Do NOT re-partition unless you have an absolute good reason to (Like coming back from MTD and you know EXACTLY what you are doing). 99% of the time you will NOT need to re-partition.
Thanks to:
Nubecoder for putting these packages together
Drockstar and Rodderik for putting the purple CWM 3.1.0.1 together
Rodderik for hosting the devphone.org (Primary site and file mirror)
All I did was xfer some files and host the unlimited download server (files.devphone.org).
Heimdall Info and Download:
http://www.glassechidna.com.au/2011/devblogs/heimdall-suite-1-3-0-and-anti-squish-graphical-update/
http://www.glassechidna.com.au/2011/devblogs/heimdall-suite-1-3-1-released/
http://www.glassechidna.com.au/products/heimdall/
Primary Links (unlimited monthly xfer):
See New Thread
Mirror Links (limited monthly xfer, please use primary 1st):
See New Thread

Big thanks to insanity213 for hosting the files for me (would cause too much BW on my server).
Now everyone can stop using Odin!!!
NOTE:: The EI22 package does not include the ei22 modem.
Also, there are no bootloaders in these packages, so I do not think you should ever re-partition with these.
=]

nubecoder said:
Now everyone can stop using Odin!!!
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THIS.
(ODIN sucks)

I never could get heimdal to recognize the epic when plugged into my imac although I haven't tried with lion. Supposedly this there was a secondary boot loader bug that got fixed on most galaxy s variants with froyo but we epic owners never got it. Works great on my PC though.
Sent from my SPH-D700 using Tapatalk

stilesja said:
I never could get heimdal to recognize the epic when plugged into my imac although I haven't tried with lion. Supposedly this there was a secondary boot loader bug that got fixed on most galaxy s variants with froyo but we epic owners never got it. Works great on my PC though.
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I've got a late 2006 24" iMac kickin around the basement. I'll fire it up later on tonight and see if I can get it to roll.

so teh ei22 package will give a stock install, with no mods at all? and the modem is not included?

diptenkrom said:
so teh ei22 package will give a stock install, with no mods at all? and the modem is not included?
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That is correct.

How come in the EI22 Package the pit file says EC05?

jtheking said:
How come in the EI22 Package the pit file says EC05?
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the pit hasn't changed

jtheking said:
How come in the EI22 Package the pit file says EC05?
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Rodderik said:
the pit hasn't changed
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^ this.
Just a name, and FYI the pit was ripped from my phone with Heimdall.
=]

Are these files rooted or all they get rid of my root. I'm looking to go back to stock actually, so unrooted is preferable.
Also, is this Mac compatible?

Shadomastr said:
Are these files rooted or all they get rid of my root. I'm looking to go back to stock actually, so unrooted is preferable.
Also, is this Mac compatible?
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No root, just stock.
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I've not once been able to get Heimdall to work on my windows xp machine, any suggestions?

Is this deodexed I'm looking for a stock rooted deodexed tar
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So I'm running the deodexed "mostly stock" rom, and need to bring phone in for repair. Sorry, but I can't find a ton of info on Heimdall, and I just want to get stock rom and bootloader back on there before I get it fixed and get a new phone next month. So if I get into download mode, load up the SPH-D700_ripped_stock_EI22.tar file, and hit Flash > Start, then I'm good to go? Thanks to anyone who can help!

Digglez said:
Is this deodexed I'm looking for a stock rooted deodexed tar
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They are not modified, so no, not deodexed.
pjnofrills said:
So I'm running the deodexed "mostly stock" rom, and need to bring phone in for repair. Sorry, but I can't find a ton of info on Heimdall, and I just want to get stock rom and bootloader back on there before I get it fixed and get a new phone next month. So if I get into download mode, load up the SPH-D700_ripped_stock_EI22.tar file, and hit Flash > Start, then I'm good to go? Thanks to anyone who can help!
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The bootloaders are not contained in these packages.
I doubt your bootloaders have been changed though, to my understanding they haven't changed in a while (or ever).
The only other thing would be the modem...
I need to add the EC05 modem to the EI22 package, so it is a nice and easy to flash the delta update zip in cwm to get updated.
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nubecoder said:
They are not modified, so no, not deodexed.
The bootloaders are not contained in these packages.
I doubt your bootloaders have been changed though, to my understanding they haven't changed in a while (or ever).
The only other thing would be the modem...
I need to add the EC05 modem to the EI22 package, so it is a nice and easy to flash the delta update zip in cwm to get updated.
=]
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I meant recovery, not bootloader. This should replace CWM with stock I'd imagine. I already have EI22 modem, wouldn't I want to keep that?

pjnofrills said:
I meant recovery, not bootloader. This should replace CWM with stock I'd imagine. I already have EI22 modem, wouldn't I want to keep that?
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Yes it includes the stock recovery.
And yes you would want to keep the EI22 modem (since you already have it).
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Thank you for this. I finally got around to un-rooting / returning my wife's phone to stock. Now I can take it into the Sprint store. This should be the default method to return rooted phone to stock in the wiki, as it is quite easy if you follow the Heimdall instructions.

Can this be used to go back to BML from MTD instead of Odin? I'm guessing not since we can't repartition but wanted to make sure.