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ODIN problem? FactoryFS doesn't want to install?

Ok so i've tried to upgrade to GummyCharged, using the Odin version (figured it would have been simpler than doing it in CWM... don't ask why)
In any case, it keeps failing to install the Factoryfs.rfs
I've tried the stock ED1 file for the phone, tried a few other roms lying around, tried re-partitioning with the pit file floating around here.
It seems like it just will work half way then thats it..
I can hook my vibrant up and it works fine no problem, what could the issue be here!?!?!?!!

Try Heimdall or PST.

Try downloading from a different source as well.
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Hit start, and when it verifies the MD5, slip your battery in. Or, if your battery is in during the process, take it out!
Sent from my Droid Charge running GummyFroyo 1.9.1

Booting it into SamPST/ODIN mode without the battery in, then sliding it in immediately before starting the flash, seemed to solve this issue for me.

Noob with possessed phone

I will start with saying I like the NOOB video I just watched.
Now onto business. I rooted my Charge Saturday with Gummy Charged 1.9.1, Voodoo lagfix, and SD card patch by Kejar using ODIN. I am running Gingerbread.
It ran fine all day Saturday and then Sunday evening the following problems set in.
1. I tried to turn off my phone, power off, and it would shut off boot right back up.
2. Upon booting back up the notification bar would loop between "usb connected" and "usb debugging connected" It kept going back and forth between those two notifications until I went to USB Setting and checked "ask on connection".
3. My phone would not charge or recognize a usb connection
I booted into recovery wiped the data and did a factory reset. After several times of that my phone now accepts a charge and recognizes when the usb is plugged in. However, problem # 1 and 2 still exist. Now it won't let my computer read the SD card while it is connected and the battery indicator is all over the board with it's readings.
I figure I will flash back to stock. I downloaded a charge.pit file and a samsung_charge_ED2_Full.tar.md5. That has turned out to be a fail as I get a "MD5 hash value is invalid" from ODIN
Well, I'm at a loss of what to do. I want to get it back to stock and see if it is still having problems. If so back to Best Buy with it.
I want to keep my phone rooted since it makes it a whole different beast.
I apologize in advance for details I likely omitted. I tried to search for these issues but I didn't find anything close.
Thank you!

donkason said:
I will start with saying I like the NOOB video I just watched.
Now onto business. I rooted my Charge Saturday with Gummy Charged 1.9.1, Voodoo lagfix, and SD card patch by Kejar using ODIN. I am running Gingerbread.
It ran fine all day Saturday and then Sunday evening the following problems set in.
1. I tried to turn off my phone, power off, and it would shut off boot right back up.
2. Upon booting back up the notification bar would loop between "usb connected" and "usb debugging connected" It kept going back and forth between those two notifications until I went to USB Setting and checked "ask on connection".
3. My phone would not charge or recognize a usb connection
I booted into recovery wiped the data and did a factory reset. After several times of that my phone now accepts a charge and recognizes when the usb is plugged in. However, problem # 1 and 2 still exist. Now it won't let my computer read the SD card while it is connected and the battery indicator is all over the board with it's readings.
I figure I will flash back to stock. I downloaded a charge.pit file and a samsung_charge_ED2_Full.tar.md5. That has turned out to be a fail as I get a "MD5 hash value is invalid" from ODIN
Well, I'm at a loss of what to do. I want to get it back to stock and see if it is still having problems. If so back to Best Buy with it.
I want to keep my phone rooted since it makes it a whole different beast.
I apologize in advance for details I likely omitted. I tried to search for these issues but I didn't find anything close.
Thank you!
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Getting back to stock is a good idea, you can then start clean from there. A bad hash check means it was a bad download or corrupted file so just download it again and try again... Also I would suggest the all in one EE4 download as it's the most recent stock rom
blazing through on my VZ Droid Charge 4G

I downloaded it again from this link,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1111486
Same error popped up on ODIN.
I'm downloading ED1 to see if that will work.
I don't understand how this works for everybody but for some reason my phone gets an error.
If you can direct me to a different download that may be more reliable that would be great.
Thanks!

Grab the full EE4 Odin file here and restore. Don't forget to wipe data, cache and dalvik before you Odin.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1172182

I agree, you want to flash back to stock EE4. It has solved all of the problems I've had so far. Use the link above.
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I downloaded the all in one file and I am ready to rock. One problem though, when I open up ODIN and follow the instructions when I click on PDA the file that you good folks directed me to is not an option. It only lets me select the CWM.tar file I used when rooting the phone:mad
Any way to work around this?
Thanks!

donkason said:
I downloaded the all in one file and I am ready to rock. One problem though, when I open up ODIN and follow the instructions when I click on PDA the file that you good folks directed me to is not an option. It only lets me select the CWM.tar file I used when rooting the phone:mad
Any way to work around this?
Thanks!
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does it say .zip or .7z at the end? if so you need to unzip it with 7zip, inside should be the file you need... also for future reference odin will only work with .tar and .md5 files

anoninja118 said:
does it say .zip or .7z at the end? if so you need to unzip it with 7zip, inside should be the file you need... also for future reference odin will only work with .tar and .md5 files
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Good eye for the inexperienced my friend. I used it to unzip the file and then I attempted a flash with ODIN and the exact same error came up. I unzipped the file I downloaded earlier today and the one that was linked previously in this thread.
I am at a loss still and my phone is mocking me (face palm in shame). If it is working for everybody else it should be working for me. I'm not a tech guy but I am a pretty slick mechanic so I know how to follow directions. Everything is gravy until the MD5 hash issue with a big red FAIL notification.
The only other option I can think of is to download the ED1 and try that. After that the only thing I can think of is to try to flash another custom rom and see what happens.

donkason said:
Good eye for the inexperienced my friend. I used it to unzip the file and then I attempted a flash with ODIN and the exact same error came up. I unzipped the file I downloaded earlier today and the one that was linked previously in this thread.
I am at a loss still and my phone is mocking me (face palm in shame). If it is working for everybody else it should be working for me. I'm not a tech guy but I am a pretty slick mechanic so I know how to follow directions. Everything is gravy until the MD5 hash issue with a big red FAIL notification.
The only other option I can think of is to download the ED1 and try that. After that the only thing I can think of is to try to flash another custom rom and see what happens.
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yeah a failed hash check or bad MD5 sum means that it was a bad download or a corrupt file
redownload it and if that fails too then yeah try other stock roms... also you put battery back in before starting the flash right? I know odin poops out sometimes unless its in

Another thing I thought of is....have you used your copy of ODIN before? Could be an error with ODIN. If re-downloading the stock EE4 still doesnt work, I would trying downloading the newest version of ODIN.
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Flashing ED1 finally worked and for me back to normal. Did an OTA update when I noted it up. I still had the same USB problem but it got worse. Took it back to Best Buy and they took care of me and replaced my phone on the spot. Luckily I only had it for 2 weeks.
Thinking back plugging in the charger was really hard at first. I had to force it in. Likely something broke internally and caused the problem.
Now back to rooting my new phone.
I bow down to everybody's greatness and 1000 thanks for all of your help.
BTW the phone name Charge and a function of a phone as "on charge" really makes it a PITA to use search engines to get phone specific info and troubleshooting. I kept banging my head into a wall finding posts about charging problems. It could make a good episode of Sienfeld.

Hahaha! I agree. I have resorted to searching "droid charge" with the quotation marks....seems to help.
For rooting, I would suggest PBJ overclocked version kernel and Altered Beast 5. Super fast and great theme-age.
Droid Charge
0731 PBJ
Altered Beast 5

Soooo I did something stoopid

I flashed the 0817_charge_recovery.tar.md5. I didnt see that it worked and then went back into download, thru Odin, tried to flish cwm_Recovery4008.tar. Got a fail and now when i try to turn on it just shows an icon of a phone with a yellow triangle exclamation point between that and a computer icon. it still goes into download mode with volume down and usb connection but it wont flash the default VZW rom back.
Suggestions?

Battery in or out?

battery in = (phone) ... ! ... (cpu)
battery out = can still go into download mode

Did you come from another rom? I think if you want to flash back to stock from another rom via odin you need to also flash the pit file. At least thats what I had to do.
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No i had reverted back to the stock (pentafive ee4 full factor tar).

Have you tried everything from imnuts Fix your Phone thread?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1111486

Ya i got a fail for that as well on Odin. Also tried the Samsung PST and it said error download there as well

DRO1DZ1LLA said:
Ya i got a fail for that as well on Odin. Also tried the Samsung PST and it said error download there as well
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Are you keeping the battery out during the entire process? You're using the PIT too with the Re-partition box checked (unchecked Auto Restart and F. Time)?

I left the battery in cause in step 4b he says to but anyways it worked. the first time i tried i was using the ed2 file cause for some reason the ed1 link wasnt loading. then i realized i had that file already from somewhere else and used that and it went through

DRO1DZ1LLA said:
I left the battery in cause in step 4b he says to but anyways it worked. the first time i tried i was using the ed2 file cause for some reason the ed1 link wasnt loading. then i realized i had that file already from somewhere else and used that and it went through
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Nice, bro! Glad to hear you're back up!

thanks for all the help tho! so should i not try to re-root/rom/kernel this ***** or what?

DRO1DZ1LLA said:
thanks for all the help tho! so should i not try to re-root/rom/kernel this ***** or what?
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Right now, your best bet is to apply whatever system updates there are. If your phone doesn't get you up to EE4 on its own, then you should follow imnuts' instructions here: http://rootzwiki.com/topic/10202-how-to-prepare-for-the-gb-ota/
At some point today, someone will be able to confirm whether the update.zip (leaked) is truly 100% identical to the update.zip that Verizon is pushing out for EP4. If it is, then we'll be safe update to EP4 ahead of the OTA, root, restore any backups, and apply working EP4 themes. I'm anxiously awaiting the ability to depoop my phone--rolled back to stock EE4 last night and have hated my phone ever since!

Haha same. I returned initially for the same reason and then was so sick of it i pushed ahead and messed it up. Still haven't gotten the update tho

Happened to me once. Used stock ee4 odin with the charge .Pit file imnuts posted and it brought me back to stock
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[Q] (Q) Downgrade frm CM 9 back to gingerbread and bricked [Resolved, please delete]

I tried going back to gingerbread using Heimdall 1 click and it gives me a kernel error and failed. Now phone won't boot past the rogers logo. Any suggestions? No samsung screen. No green battery indicator when plugged in. Heimdall does detect the phone, and I've tried all USB ports and cords at my disposal. I use a mac so no access to odin. This is the first brick I haven't been able to get myself out of. Any help you would be appreciated

I am a gt i9000 owner, but can you get into download mode?
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If you can get download mode, then flash a gingerbread stock rom, even if it means you will lose root still do it, then flash a new rom of your choice, if you can get into download mode then you haven't got a brick
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Been bricked more than once...you have?
Embarking on a fresh new ROM without educating oneself can be very frustrating....since your on a Mac..with in the one click you say it reading your phone...can you get to download mode?
Pull battery
Plug in USB to phone
Hold both volume button
Pop battery back in
Do you see...the yellow Android digging?

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1293751

bigjoe2675 said:
Been bricked more than once...you have?
Embarking on a fresh new ROM without educating oneself can be very frustrating....since your on a Mac..with in the one click you say it reading your phone...can you get to download mode?
Pull battery
Plug in USB to phone
Hold both volume button
Pop battery back in
Do you see...the yellow Android digging?
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I can get into download mode.heimdall detects my phone. I tried both qksters and adam outlers 1 click. neither would take. If I upgrade heimdall version (as it tells me its out of date) it wont get through the initial connection to the phone. if I use with out upgrade it continues to fail on kernel download.
This is my second brick (first one was when trying to root it on my mac) First brick was fixed through odin at my work. Unfortunately I don't want to wait till monday to have a functioning phone

teknhard said:
I can get into download mode.heimdall detects my phone. I tried both qksters and adam outlers 1 click. neither would take. If I upgrade heimdall version (as it tells me its out of date) it wont get through the initial connection to the phone. if I use with out upgrade it continues to fail on kernel download.
This is my second brick (first one was when trying to root it on my mac) First brick was fixed through odin at my work. Unfortunately I don't want to wait till monday to have a functioning phone
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Hummmm..ok
Let's step back here does out prompt you for drivers?
....you might have to make a stop at your office..

Try different USB ports, I used heimdall yesterday to go back to gingerbread (so I could get the boot loaders) and I had the same problem as you, I finally got it to work with a different USB port and even then it kept failing...but I just kept trying and eventually it went through
(Pull battery, place battery back in, hold volume up and down, plug USB in-should put you in download mode...even if you can't see anything on your screen you can still enter download mode)
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DOesnt prompt me for drivers. It detects my phone and says ready to flash. I see the download mode screen. so its not completey screwed. Just can't get past the rogers logo.. I only have two USB on my macbook.. tried both quite a few times guess i'll mess with it some more. see if I can get it going. Thanks for the tips. ANy others ideas would also be appreciated

Alright, here it is:
I encountered the same problems yesterday, heimdall doesn't work when flashing back to stock from ics, from what I've found, you must use gtg's ultimate unbrick, the pit repartitions everything and also resets your binary counter (cha-ching! ). Once completed, your phone will reboot and be stuck at "...installing default apk files..." for a few minutes, don't panic, let it run its course. From there on, you can do the usual root/flash cwm deal. .
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theROMinator said:
Alright, here it is:
I encountered the same problems yesterday, heimdall doesn't work when flashing back to stock from ics, from what I've found, you must use gtg's ultimate unbrick, the pit repartitions everything and also resets your binary counter (cha-ching! ). Once completed, your phone will reboot and be stuck at "...installing default apk files..." for a few minutes, don't panic, let it run its course. From there on, you can do the usual root/flash cwm deal. .
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Funny I just did that yesterday using qkster heimdall after running the ics for the day....no issues utilizing it...so i say it does work...

theROMinator said:
Alright, here it is:
I encountered the same problems yesterday, heimdall doesn't work when flashing back to stock from ics, from what I've found, you must use gtg's ultimate unbrick, the pit repartitions everything and also resets your binary counter (cha-ching! ). Once completed, your phone will reboot and be stuck at "...installing default apk files..." for a few minutes, don't panic, let it run its course. From there on, you can do the usual root/flash cwm deal. .
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I went back to stock from ics yesterday using heimdall...just took a long time and a lot of tries
I really think it depends on the computer though, for some Odin works best...for others heimdall works best
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bigjoe2675 said:
Funny I just did that yesterday using qkster heimdall after running the ics for the day....no issues utilizing it...so i say it does work...
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I did not mean to be misleading, as you both have said, either or may work, I simply wanted to share my experience
mg2195 said:
I went back to stock from ics yesterday using heimdall...just took a long time and a lot of tries
I really think it depends on the computer though, for some Odin works best...for others heimdall works best
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mg2195 said:
I went back to stock from ics yesterday using heimdall...just took a long time and a lot of tries
I really think it depends on the computer though, for some Odin works best...for others heimdall works best
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Agreed. On my desktop (quad core 6 gb ram, watercooled blablablabl) can't run heimdal nor Odin to save its life.
My netbook (single core atom) took me back from CM9 with Odin like it was nothing.
My 7 year old laptop (running Ubuntu) works great using Heimdal (just run the .jar file as an executable)

theROMinator said:
I did not mean to be misleading, as you both have said, either or may work, I simply wanted to share my experience
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No ... understood..no worries...there are some many that have never flashed or much less read anything regarding flashing are having so many prob`s...when this ics it's still bring birthed...for the infuse.
Instead of going to the dev section and doing some home work...understanding the basic info....they see ICS and have pictures of Sunday treats....in their mind...having no clue about the current ROM they are on now...Then the questions pop up...from individuals...after wards yelling SOS...But hey it's their phone.

bigjoe2675 said:
No ... understood..no worries...there are some many that have never flashed or much less read anything regarding flashing are having so many prob`s...when this ics it's still bring birthed...for the infuse.
Instead of going to the dev section and doing some home work...understanding the basic info....they see ICS and have pictures of Sunday treats....in their mind...having no clue about the current ROM they are on now...Then the questions pop up...from individuals...after wards yelling SOS...But hey it's their phone.
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I've flashed lots of roms and never had any issues. Also looked through the forum and know the basics about getting back to stock. I'm no expert, but I have a decent idea what I'm doing. I do appreciate a forum you can ask questions though and have people help out when your stumped. I did what i could from the tools I have at my disposal here, and ran into some problems. I'm not yelling SOS, just asking for some tips as what I have tried hasn't worked. All the same I do appreciate everyones opinions and help they provide. THat's what makes this forum great.

why would you need to heimdall if you are on a rogers infuse? Isn't that for AT&T phones only?

teknhard said:
I've flashed lots of roms and never had any issues. Also looked through the forum and know the basics about getting back to stock. I'm no expert, but I have a decent idea what I'm doing. I do appreciate a forum you can ask questions though and have people help out when your stumped. I did what i could from the tools I have at my disposal here, and ran into some problems. I'm not yelling SOS, just asking for some tips as what I have tried hasn't worked. All the same I do appreciate everyones opinions and help they provide. THat's what makes this forum great.
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I apologize wasn't directed to you just in general and your correct this forum is great...

Then reflash ics lol
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threi_ said:
why would you need to heimdall if you are on a rogers infuse? Isn't that for AT&T phones only?
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Because I don't have access to a PC for Odin, and the at&t should work to get me out of brick state. I currently can't get past rogers boot screen
GoSooners345 said:
Then reflash ics lol
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I don't have recovery.. otherwise I certainly would have

Bricked....Ugh

Ok so I've been rooted and unlocked for a while now, but stayed with the stock rom as when I tried out Synergy Nightlies it gave me some errors. So I went to try out CleanRom 2.1, people liked it and I didn't notice any flashing errors. So I flashed it through CWM 6.0.1 and it gave me the yellow exclamation mark saying I had unauthorized data on my phone. So I followed the sticky on how to unbrick my phone using the 2 boot loaders and the root66 stock image. My issue is that when running the root66 stock image through Odin it fails at _XmitData_Read, which seems to be somewhere in system.img.ext4. I've tried rebooting the computer, the phone, Odin, it just doesn't work. So when I reboot my phone after the failure I get Odin auto loading saying:
Odin Mode
Product Name: SCH-I535
Custom Binary Download: No
Current Binary: Samsung Official
System Status: Official
Qualcomm Secureboot: Enable
Then an image of a phone, 2 dots, a yellow exclamation, 2 dots and a computer are shown with the message "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies and try again.
Anyone able to help me?

can you still get to odin mode? also if you have kies installed on the computer erase it.

kidhudi said:
can you still get to odin mode? also if you have kies installed on the computer erase it.
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Kies isn't installed on the computer and yes I am still able to get into Odin Mode.

I'm under the impression that "unauthorized software" message comes from the locked bootloader (if I'm wrong about that someone plese correct me.)
Sounds like you're functional enough to be able to Odin back to stock and go from there - that's what I'd try. See the stickied thread in the Q&A forum.

I would run the FULL VRALF stock image through ODIN to return to stock. That is always the safest way out of a sticky situation.

Thanks guys, according to another post the version of EZ-Unlock I used most likely gave a false report and never actually unlocked my phone. The problem with going back to stock, which if what I'm trying to do, is that it fails.

Could be an USB issue - an intermittent connection would be most likely to cause problems while sending the system partition since that's the biggest. I've had problems using adb from time to time if I plug into one of the front-panel ports on my PC but no trouble with one on the back.
Maybe try switching ports or try a different cable ...

Actually what usb plug are you using on your computer? You should be using one in the back of your computer by the power supply. Seen the front jacks not work correctly for large transfers. Finally, try another usb cable.
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Strange.... i was able to flash syergy on thefirst try. Never used odin during the whole process....
If youre rooted you need to make sure you have a custom recovery in place like cwm or twrp. Make sure you make a nand-backup.
I used casual to flash unsecure bootloader, with that and recovery in place you should be able to flash roms without any hitches....
I could never find a comprehensive guide on using odin so i never got around to testing it

kintwofan said:
Actually what usb plug are you using on your computer? You should be using one in the back of your computer by the power supply. Seen the front jacks not work correctly for large transfers. Finally, try another usb cable.
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So far I've tried 3 different USB cables and both a desktop, both front and back ports and a laptop, each one fails on the write of XmitData under system.img.ext4
I had a custom recovery installed and Odin is only being used to get me back to a stock rom, otherwise I did all my flashing under CWM 6.0.1 or twrp. I think the whole fake unlocked bootloader just hard bricked the software.
EDIT: Come to think of it I remember waking up to my phone in download mode. I think Verizon tried to install the update to my phone while I was sleeping. Granted it failed at the end, but I'm wondering if that did something to brick me now.

If you can get in download mode it can be saved. I woud re download the stock firmware or the 66, but personally i would go bone stock. You may just have a bad download.
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kintwofan said:
If you can get in download mode it can be saved. I woud re download the stock firmware or the 66, but personally i would go bone stock. You may just have a bad download.
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Yea, I'm currently downloading at the speed of slug the newest update from the forums, will probably just redownload at home, since it's going to take over an hour >.<
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Does anyone have a link for an older EZ-Unlocker, that is known to work, so that I don't get this problem yet again.

FIXED!
Ok, so using the newest stock rom from the dev forum worked. Can someone please give me a link to an old EZ-Unlocker so I can flash without worrying about another massive brick in my palm. I'm guessing that running the original root66 stock rom through dropbox somehow corrupted it.

LlirasChosen said:
Ok, so using the newest stock rom from the dev forum worked. Can someone please give me a link to an old EZ-Unlocker so I can flash without worrying about another massive brick in my palm. I'm guessing that running the original root66 stock rom through dropbox somehow corrupted it.
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I personally suggest not using the app if you already had trouble. Just root your phone using the Debug Root method in Development, download the aboot.img from Adam Outlers thread HERE to your phone, and run the commands at the very bottom in Terminal Emulater app (from the market).
That way you know for sure your bootloader is unlocked. This is what I have done and never had an issue.
Edit: Glad you got your issue resolved!