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i have searched, read and read more. but i am totally stuck on getting a custom theme and dock setup on my rooted phone. is there a how to that is better written than the ones i have come across on start to end on programs, apps, w/e i need to get one of these custom themes working. seems i follow what is there, but get stuck on area's of it, than i search on that to come up with nothing or no info. maybe im just over doing it all in one day on learning all this, lol. im a video person, but havent seen a install video of this. any help or links or something? thanks
tyhodge07 said:
i have searched, read and read more. but i am totally stuck on getting a custom theme and dock setup on my rooted phone. is there a how to that is better written than the ones i have come across on start to end on programs, apps, w/e i need to get one of these custom themes working. seems i follow what is there, but get stuck on area's of it, than i search on that to come up with nothing or no info. maybe im just over doing it all in one day on learning all this, lol. im a video person, but havent seen a install video of this. any help or links or something? thanks
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Youre asking how to install a theme?? Find once compatible for your rom. Stick it on your sd card. Boot into recovery, and flash it.
Post what problems you are having. Good luck.
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Dredge said:
Youre asking how to install a theme?? Find once compatible for your rom. Stick it on your sd card. Boot into recovery, and flash it.
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im not even sure which rom to use, i have tried a couple but the adk is where i am stuck at, when i go to command prompt it isnt at the c://adk/etc.. like what all the write ups are at, its at c://user/applications or something of that nature and i type what should be typed in on the /adk part of it and says it can not be found. i tried reinstalling the adk again and same problem, im doing something wrong somewhere i assume or stuck in a spot that i keep doing wrong and not noticing. i just rooted it, so whatever rom i have i am assuming is the stock one since i havent gotten past this yet.
Your in over your head man, seriously, YOU put the sdk where you want it, me, I just put it in C:\sdk to make my life easy when changing directories.
If command line work is not something your familiar with, have patience, enjoy your rom as it is right now and wait until the super easy one click gui programs are created.
Did you buy the phone already rooted, or did you root it yourself?
Dredge said:
Did you buy the phone already rooted, or did you root it yourself?
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i rooted it myself. also when i right click on tools and im supposed to see open in comand promp or something, that doesnt appear?
tyhodge07 said:
i rooted it myself. also when i right click on tools and im supposed to see open in comand promp or something, that doesnt appear?
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You say you rooted it yourself, which is great, but the questions you're asking are so far out that it makes it urprising that you did.
UNLESS... you rooted using simpleroot or some ****? If sooooooo, that makes ur questions make a lot more sense.
Anyways you just boot into recovery, and flash the zip from that menu.
It has nothing to do with adb, cmd, or any of that other bull**** you're talking about. Just do what's bolded and stop going 3 miles outside of the box.
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You say you rooted it yourself, which is great, but the questions you're asking are so far out that it makes it urprising that you did.
UNLESS... you rooted using simpleroot or some ****? If sooooooo, that makes ur questions make a lot more sense.
Anyways you just boot into recovery, and flash the zip from that menu.
It has nothing to do with adb, cmd, or any of that other bull**** you're talking about. Just do what's bolded and stop going 3 miles outside of the box.
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I agree, OP, you are way over complicating it dude. What is your build number? Settings> about phone> software information.
If I didn't know better I would almost bet you're trying to troll us. Being a brand new account and all.
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I agree, OP, you are way over complicating it dude. What is your build number? Settings> about phone> software information.
If I didn't know better I would almost bet you're trying to troll us. Being a brand new account and all.
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build number
1.17.651.1 cl160858
ive tried the reboot and flash thing and nothing happened, said missing filie or something and erased my phone and now vibrate doesnt work? this is after placing them theme on there i want to use and trying to load it in the boot screen. dont know all these names for the android system. prob just so used to messing with the iphones which is what is making this so hard for me, lol.
tyhodge07 said:
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1.17.651.1 cl160858
ive tried the reboot and flash thing and nothing happened, said missing filie or something and erased my phone and now vibrate doesnt work? this is after placing them theme on there i want to use and trying to load it in the boot screen. dont know all these names for the android system. prob just so used to messing with the iphones which is what is making this so hard for me, lol.
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I don't believe you anymore. Even Root tutorials direct you to install a rom after rooting, which would put you at 1.47.65 or whatever even without 2.2 upgrading.
Trying to flash a zip that isn't valid doesn't do anything at all to your phone... it just... doesn't work and sends you on your way. Absolutely nothing you type comes off as a "real" problem.
Anyways, I'm just going to say straight out, that I think you're trolling and that it's sad that you made an account just to waste your time.
I'm done with this thread.
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I don't believe you anymore. Even Root tutorials direct you to install a rom after rooting, which would put you at 1.47.65 or whatever even without 2.2 upgrading.
Trying to flash a zip that isn't valid doesn't do anything at all to your phone... it just... doesn't work and sends you on your way. Absolutely nothing you type comes off as a "real" problem.
Anyways, I'm just going to say straight out, that I think you're trolling and that it's sad that you made an account just to waste your time.
I'm done with this thread.
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think what you would like, im not a kid. ive answered your questions. computers or phones is nothing new to me. family works for sprint, but will not mess with the rooting part of it. so i was left alone on this. ive searched and searched and what u have read is where i am at. basically i am wanting a custom theme. i have tethering and all that crap that works fine. but a theme wont work and a rom to be 1.47 or whatever was never put on, i have what i posted and have everything a rooted phone should have. obviously im stuck on that rom part of it. no reason to be a **** or call someone a troll or say their trolling, when their asking questions. if ur intentions wernt to help, than dont reply. u wasted ur own time.
Hello, boy do I have a mishap. Well, anyway to begin I will say that I decided I wanted to root my phone to debloat it. So what I did, is downloaded the EE4 update and did the VooDoo V4 Kernel that flashes CWM and EXT4 and other junk. Well that all went great. I got it rooted and such but then just tinkering around I went into Rom Manager and told it to back up. WELL, when I did this the phone got locked on the SAMSUNG boot screen for hours and continued to refuse to boot. SO, I attempted to fix it by installing altered beast just to get the os running again and went into clockwork and backed it up. Then I went to the rooted ed1 to bring it back up to EE4 rooted and with the voodoo kernel and such but it refuses to open clockwork! The voodoo kernel changes filesystems and roots it and such but clockwork wont load. When I try to flash it in rom manager it says its succesful and then i go to reboot in recovery. It takes me to the Samsung Recovery 3e, I try to the update.zip, (yes i took the cwm recovery-update.zip and renamed it and through it in the sd card root) but all that happens is that a progress bar shows up for a split second then the android guy with the triangle and ! shows up and it does nothing. Help? I really need to back it up, preferably in the rooted ed1 but in ee4 will work to. Any ideas would be appreciated. I used odin v1.3 by the way. Im willing to try anything to get clockwork to boot so i can back it up. What do I do?
EDIT: Also, now when I go into 3e recovery, it complains saying " cant mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p3 " or something like that.
Did you read anything on this forum beforehand? Or just go link by link downloading files and deciding what to try on your phone?
Just saying..
Yeah, I did. Ive searched everywhere. I cant find anything about my problem. Ive looked at things that are close, hoping a solution can be found but nothing and no I wasnt just downloading files and spoon feeding them to my phone.. I just wanted to be able to debloat it.
Go search about Rom Manager and let us know what you find out...
I dont see how thats going to get me one step closer to solving my problem. Ive done the searching, now im asking.
Start w/ this one. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1100384
I can't tell where you are currently on your phone from reading that as it's to much text in one paragraph and it isn't put together in a logical sense and seems to jump around. I would look at the instructions for going to rooted EE4 in the Dev forum as that should get you to where you want to be with voodoo/cwm/rom
Instead of being a Forum Snob. If you know the answer, why don't you just help him out?
There's an abundance of confusing information on here and everyone uses acronyms. I too searched for hours on how to solve a similar problem and ended up having it taken care of for me. People join communities like this one for help. Not to get flamed for asking a question. It may be elementary to YOU but not everyone.
Thanks, for the care. Sorry about that if its jumbled, im frustrated with this because ive flashed the rooted ed1 about a billion times now, trying everything to get it functioning. Id be glad to try to explain again if that could help? Ah, yes. Well, I returned to the forum about installing the voodoo kernel. I followed the process word for word. But it just doesnt seem to want to work. Right now I just flashed it again back to the rooted ed1. Would I be able to put CWM on there at that point?
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Thanks, for the care. Sorry about that if its jumbled, im frustrated with this because ive flashed the rooted ed1 about a billion times now, trying everything to get it functioning. Id be glad to try to explain again if that could help? Ah, yes. Well, I returned to the forum about installing the voodoo kernel. I followed the process word for word. But it just doesnt seem to want to work. Right now I just flashed it again back to the rooted ed1. Would I be able to put CWM on there at that point?
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Yes. But don't use rom manager. Use imnuts cwm recovery.
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Alright, thanks. Ill try and use imnuts's cwm recovery. But if someone may answer a question, is the samsung bootloader unlocked?? My brother said thats something to know.
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Alright, thanks. Ill try and use imnuts's cwm recovery. But if someone may answer a question, is the samsung bootloader unlocked?? My brother said thats something to know.
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so it is unlocked?? What does the exclamation triangle mean, when i try to do the update.zip from the samsung bootloader?
Oh and sorry if Im not getting this. Are you saying use a application that imnuts made? If so, could you be so nice to link it? Or a method he used? I looked for stuff but I didnt find anything other then what looks like a stock rom/kernel ed1 from him
I know how it is to be frustrated, but like they all said all of your questions have already been answered.
Here's my attempt to help:
Your problem lies in trying to flash CWR through ROM Manager, it currently doesn't play well with our phones. Word is that Koush (the creator) needs to update something for it to work with our phones. The bootloader is unlocked.
To flash imnuts' version of CWR, you'll need to use Samsung's leaked software called Odin - it's PC only. The alternative is Heimdall which is supposed to be cross-platform compatible, but the latest version is command-line only.
You have to find out if you've converted your system to EXT4 or if it's still RFS. That depends on if you have the Voodoo lagfix enabled or not. Check out the dev section and look for the titles that say [RECOVERY], [ODIN], [ROM], and/or something like "Get yourself to EE4 successfully".
A few links:
[HOW-TO] Get a rooted version of EE4
[RECOVERY][6-11-11]Clockwork Mod Recovery
[KERNEL][06-02-11] PeanutButta Jelly Time
Well, currently right now its rfs. Its the stock file system. What I was going to do, or did before, was to put it in download mode and flash the VoodooV4 Kernel. It roots the phone, and all that good stuff and is suppose to put the Voodoo recovery/cwm on there.
EDIT: Heres the proccess I followed before.
http://www.theandroidsoul.com/how-t...and-clockworkmod-recovery-installation-guide/
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Well, currently right now its rfs. Its the stock file system. What I was going to do, or did before, was to put it in download mode and flash the VoodooV4 Kernel. It roots the phone, and all that good stuff and is suppose to put the Voodoo recovery/cwm on there.
EDIT: Heres the proccess I followed before.
http://www.theandroidsoul.com/how-t...and-clockworkmod-recovery-installation-guide/
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The recovery is a separate flash, both in odin. First the kernel, then Recovery.
Just follow here from the beginning, it should work for you:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1122657
Well I have good news. I would like to announce that I have successfully installed CWM. I guess my phone just didnt like the other one or something. But following this link,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1122657
I was able to get it installed. Now my only question is, I want this kernel http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1092114 for my phone. But its not in a zip. Am I out of luck? Or do I not have to use CWM to install the kernel? Can I use odin and still be okay?
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Well I have good news. I would like to announce that I have successfully installed CWM. I guess my phone just didnt like the other one or something. But following this link,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1122657
I was able to get it installed. Now my only question is, I want this kernel http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1092114 for my phone. But its not in a zip. Am I out of luck? Or do I not have to use CWM to install the kernel? Can I use odin and still be okay?
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You do need Odin to load that, but i'm wondering why you want to? Did you install the PBJ kernel following the instructions from the other link?
If you want to go down this route, be sure to apply the SD Card fix as well - you'll find posts about it.
Is it possible to make a one click odin for our phones???
the story.....
my friend gave my his samsung captivate to unlock and root. I had all of that done. Then he asked me to put a ROM on there. Thats where i FU**** up and i bricked it bad. screen blacked out wouldnt boot into recovery NOTHING. i was searching around and found a one click odin for the captivate...long story short i have the phone back up and running.
This would be VERY helpful
THANKS
The thread where i found it
http://androidforums.com/samsung-captivate/140190-whats-odin.html#post1527154
I must be missing something, cause that thread looks like it's using the exact same steps as our normal method for Odin. I see no One Click link or instructions anywhere there.
Also, this belongs in the General section.
sorry for wrong section...
scrool down till you find a post by james 27007 September 5th, 2010, thats everything i did it has the link to download the program
but basically all it is you have you phone booted into recovery plugged into to recovery the program says device found then all u do is let it run when the device resets your back bone stock
That's basically all we have to do now... the only added step is putting in the pit and PDA...
yea but with this program all you do is click start and it does everything for you
You still have to install the drivers, and get your phone into download mode, that's the hard part for most users. I'm not sure how he made that.
okay well i just thought id see because i see alot of people asking questions about where to put the files and stuff like this just thought it would help
Odin is already so easy to use... a child could use it no reason to make it more simple
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hi i'm kind of new to this. I rooted the atrix 2 and put a rom file in the SD card. I can't flash it because i don't have the proper update.zip file. How do I obtain that file?
jetkid03 said:
hi i'm kind of new to this. I rooted the atrix 2 and put a rom file in the SD card. I can't flash it because i don't have the proper update.zip file. How do I obtain that file?
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Follow the instructions on the ROM's post... is it a flashable zip file, or CWM restore? We got both styles for the A2 roms..
If it's a .zip install, then choose the option "install zip from sdcard" in recovery; if it's a CWM backup, you need to unzip it then put it in your clockworkmod/backup folder on your sdcard, then choose "restore". Again, follow the instructions in the original thread.. including the proper wipes and whatnot.
jetkid03 said:
hi i'm kind of new to this. I rooted the atrix 2 and put a rom file in the SD card. I can't flash it because i don't have the proper update.zip file. How do I obtain that file?
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ok I have no idea what you are talking about. I would need more info to help. that said, I am getting a little mad at how many people that have no idea what they are doing are trying to flash roms. GOOGLE BEFORE ASKING. honestly, there is so much right in our forum here and the rest on google that it should make the process clear. if not, you probably have no business whatsoever getting into this stuff.
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ok I have no idea what you are talking about. I would need more info to help. that said, I am getting a little mad at how many people that have no idea what they are doing are trying to flash roms. GOOGLE BEFORE ASKING. honestly, there is so much right in our forum here and the rest on google that it should make the process clear. if not, you probably have no business whatsoever getting into this stuff.
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I have flashed my SGS1 and SGS2 multiple times. I remember renaming a file to update.zip and also putting the rom into the SD root and then flashing it from CWM. For the Atrix 2 I am not sure what I'm doing wrong, that's all. Sorry if I can't learn from Google so I had to ask?
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I have flashed my SGS1 and SGS2 multiple times. I remember renaming a file to update.zip and also putting the rom into the SD root and then flashing it from CWM. For the Atrix 2 I am not sure what I'm doing wrong, that's all. Sorry if I can't learn from Google so I had to ask?
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First off, do you have CWM installed?
farshad525hou said:
First off, do you have CWM installed?
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yep, I understand why you could be confused, stuff is weird for our phone, but everywhere does have pretty clear instructions. I am not trying to be mean here, but please do your reading before asking. Look at the major roms like lithium, supercharged, sonya, blaze and more, the OP's have details and links.
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yep, I understand why you could be confused, stuff is weird for our phone, but everywhere does have pretty clear instructions. I am not trying to be mean here, but please do your reading before asking. Look at the major roms like lithium, supercharged, sonya, blaze and more, the OP's have details and links.
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Thanks for the help. My phone is now stuck at the boot (M) screen... sigh.
jetkid03 said:
Thanks for the help. My phone is now stuck at the boot (M) screen... sigh.
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yep, you're soft bricked, no problem to get out of though. got to the post in my signature and then go to the mirrors link. download the restore to stock script. extract it on your computer, plug your phone in to the computer and boot into fastboot by pulling the battery, putting it back and starting it while holding both volume buttons, select fastboot. run the .bat file in the script folder. you should be fine after it goes. Whatever you do do not unplug it in the middle of the flash, or you will be totally screwed.
First off i'd like to apologize on behalf of those who sounded rude/irritated to you, most people are nice on here and we tend to help each other out when we can. Don't let 1 person put you off from messing with your phone, we all started somewhere I have yet to meet a person who was a "pro" from the start.
So since your phone is softbricked you need to flash the stock FXZ (I hope you made a CWM backup), for instructions on how to do that go to the Beginners Guide by clicking here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1396650
Then install CWM again and now onto flashing. You don't need to rename any zip to update.zip, you can CHOOSE a zip on your SdCard with CWM, the option is there, it's in "Install Zip from sdcard" ----> "Choose Zip from sdcard"
Now, like someone said, there are 2 types of flashing. Flashing ZIP's and RESTORING a CWM backup. In order to know which one you need to do you need to read the install instructions carefully and thoroughly.
What rom we're you trying to install?
eL_MeXiCaNo said:
First off i'd like to apologize on behalf of those who sounded rude/irritated to you, most people are nice on here and we tend to help each other out when we can. Don't let 1 person put you off from messing with your phone, we all started somewhere I have yet to meet a person who was a "pro" from the start.
So since your phone is softbricked you need to flash the stock FXZ (I hope you made a CWM backup), for instructions on how to do that go to the Beginners Guide by clicking here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1396650
Then install CWM again and now onto flashing. You don't need to rename any zip to update.zip, you can CHOOSE a zip on your SdCard with CWM, the option is there, it's in "Install Zip from sdcard" ----> "Choose Zip from sdcard"
Now, like someone said, there are 2 types of flashing. Flashing ZIP's and RESTORING a CWM backup. In order to know which one you need to do you need to read the install instructions carefully and thoroughly.
What rom we're you trying to install?
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I need to apologize too. I am generally very willing to help out those who do not understand everything that is going on on these forums. I don't get it all either. That said users do need to understand that a forum is not only about posting new topics with questions, but reading all the older ones too. I think I may try to write up a shorter more concise guide to some of this stuff for our phone that is easy to follow for all users. I just tend to get mad when so many people are breaking things when they do not know how to recover from them. I would never try to do something to my phone until I knew what could go wrong, and how to recover from those things. I do not want to keep anyone away from modding their phone, I just want to help them understand the risks involved.
I am very sorry if this came off as me being rude or inconsiderate. I hope I can make it up to you by getting a good thread out with clear instructions. I think I will basically include how to flash the roms, how to recover from bootloops/ softbricks, and some other basics in an easy to understand way with screenshots and stuff. Do you think this should go in development or general? I am leaning towards development since it is very important towards the roms, but if not, please tell me.
Thank you, and sorry I sounded rude.
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I need to apologize too. I am generally very willing to help out those who do not understand everything that is going on on these forums. I don't get it all either. That said users do need to understand that a forum is not only about posting new topics with questions, but reading all the older ones too. I think I may try to write up a shorter more concise guide to some of this stuff for our phone that is easy to follow for all users. I just tend to get mad when so many people are breaking things when they do not know how to recover from them. I would never try to do something to my phone until I knew what could go wrong, and how to recover from those things. I do not want to keep anyone away from modding their phone, I just want to help them understand the risks involved.
I am very sorry if this came off as me being rude or inconsiderate. I hope I can make it up to you by getting a good thread out with clear instructions. I think I will basically include how to flash the roms, how to recover from bootloops/ softbricks, and some other basics in an easy to understand way with screenshots and stuff. Do you think this should go in development or general? I am leaning towards development since it is very important towards the roms, but if not, please tell me.
Thank you, and sorry I sounded rude.
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I believe it should go in general, as development is really only supposed to be for actual dev such as roms kernels, and other mods.
I'm searching these forums, the web, every single website, and I still haven't came across a solution. Cyanogen, clockworkmod, they don't want to cooperate. I really am desperate now.
I'm trying to find a way to easily run a ROM on my phone, or maybe just install it. I'm aiming for Kitkat, but I have no idea how, as almost all of the posts on this forum contain broken links. Please, someone help!!!
Alex
Tell me about your fone.
Whats your skill set, as in do you KNOW how to unlock bootloader? Do you know how to root?
Firmware creators are too busy creating firmware. And fixing Bugs.
If your a noob, I can handle that, in effect, I need more information, because all those broken links are irelevant when what you actually need is found in millions of posts here..
The very reason developers dont answer
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Tell me about your fone.
Whats your skill set, as in do you KNOW how to unlock bootloader? Do you know how to root?
Firmware creators are too busy creating firmware. And fixing Bugs.
If your a noob, I can handle that, in effect, I need more information, because all those broken links are irelevant when what you actually need is found in millions of posts here..
The very reason developers dont answer
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Okay.
My phone is a Samsung Galaxy W. It's model number is SGH-T679M and it is currently running Gingerbread.
And so I wanted to change that version because... Gingerbread is unsupported, right? So I landed on this forum first, trying out all the ways that I could, and most of them lead me to dead links as I said.
So I went on different web pages, the Android subreddit, all that. Ended up finding this zip file supposedly containing KitKat or something earlier.
I tried to install it how they told me. Already knew how to go into recovery mode, then it told me to go to the apply update from sd card (used the internal storage instead because i could) and it said the MODEL NUMBER WAS WRONG.
It was for the Samsung Exhibit II, model I8150, and that makes no sense. Because they are LITERALLY THE SAME PHONE.
Thought this was gonna be simple but it was being rough on me. This is why I need help, because I honestly don't know what to do anymore. It is so confusing.
Look at this:
h**ps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et0AnYkBlc4
correct the link above copy n paste in your browser
Then say if you can handle the work, nothing more. If you are up for it, your best here
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Look at this:
h**ps://www.you tube.com/watch?v=et0AnYkBlc4
Then say if you can handle the work, nothing more. If you are up for it, your best here
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Thank you, I will try it. I'll keep you updated if i didn't mess something up lol
Sincerely, Alex