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Focus i917 AT&T USA UCKC3 ROM

Hello,
so you was waiting so long for this? there it is - first ROM for Focus
March 2011 release!!
Enjoy it
Samsung-i917-Focus-firmware-UCKC3-ATT-USA
i did not test it personally, so you take your personal risk
Happy Flashing

is hardspl needed?

has anyone used this? is it working? I am about to do it right now and I will let you know with the results..

Please report back.
carmello1911 said:
has anyone used this? is it working? I am about to do it right now and I will let you know with the results..
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I tried this in my Focus but it doesn't work. I got the following message on the attached screenshot.. any ideas on this? it seems that the installer doesn't recognise my device as a Samsung Focus therefore it doesn't continue with the flashing procedure..

PavelX1 said:
Hello,
so you was waiting so long for this? there it is - first ROM for Focus
March 2011 release!!
Enjoy it
Samsung-i917-Focus-firmware-UCKC3-ATT-USA
i did not test it personally, so you take your personal risk
Happy Flashing
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March 2011 so that means nodo?

carmello1911 said:
I tried this in my Focus but it doesn't work. I got the following message on the attached screenshot.. any ideas on this? it seems that the installer doesn't recognise my device as a Samsung Focus therefore it doesn't continue with the flashing procedure..
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There are two versions of I8700 (Omnia 7) firmwares
one for Retail Devices that are signed by "WP7_PRODUCT" and one for Developer Devices - signed by "WP7_ENGINEER"
For Focus me dont have any "WP7_PRODUCT" signed firmwares, so i am not sure if that one me put online today (signed by "WP7_ENGINEER") are suitable for Retail Phones that AT&T sells.
So its about to check all and get the best from this....its better to have something that nothing (some people will be VERY happy to see even maybe not flashable ROM)...

where did you find this ROM? do you have the other one also?!

He already said he doesn't have the WP7_PRODUCT release.
BTW, thanks, if this is the real thing it will make a lot of people happy!

you are right.. excuse me.. do you think is possible to alter or tweak few things on this one and make it workable to the retail devices as well?

The rom loader appears to be for a different phone. I tried using the demo mode rom loader to load these rom files, as each tmp file corresponded with one of these rom files, but when i replaced the demo rom files with the legitimate rom files it would not move forward with the flash. Perhaps someone will figure it out.

cmmsex1i said:
Thanks but did not work, Its not the Retail Rom wish if u could find one. Thanks again
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How can you say the rom is not retail... the loader surely is not, as it is looking for an SPH-i350 when it should be looking for the focus (SPH-i917)
If I was a little better with ollydbg id already have a solution but I am not very good with disassembly.
the rom is clearly not retail, but it is for this phone, and i would not mind testing it, as i do not use my focus for service right now, just my epic 4g

so probably what we need is someone to change the loader? could be a good idea to post this thread in a less specific forum as maybe someone should be able to do that..

carmello1911 said:
I tried this in my Focus but it doesn't work. I got the following message on the attached screenshot.. any ideas on this? it seems that the installer doesn't recognise my device as a Samsung Focus therefore it doesn't continue with the flashing procedure..
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the same error

M dying to get Samsung Focus ROm
Guys my problem is I have a samsung focus which was unlocked with a code. i was on 7004 and i used Chevron Updater to update it by mistake I chose UK instead of US and now though the Phone has got the NODO update and works well but I can't open few applications like Phone(call), Text, Email etc and those applications are just crashing the moment i click them.
and worst thing is I can't connect it to ZUNE because the initial setup can't be completed (the setup of accepting terms and opening LIVE ID) and the ZUNE says that "PHONE SETUP INCOMPLETE"
Plese let me know if there is any way to connect the phone to zune so that i can update it through zune

first of all please read the rules, secondly, do not double or cross post ( this is the same with most forum), and lastly post in the right thread.
back to the subject, apart from this rom, has there been a non branded rom available, the last time i was gonna buy a i917 from expansys hk, i did remember that the phone boot up without the at&t logo, does this mean the f/w is non branded or simply the logo was just removed.

No there is no Samsung FOcus Rom (Retail) available on net!!!!!!!!!!

I can confirm that this rom does in fact work. Not all devices are recognised (I suspect the update tool looks for a developer device). But on a recognised device that I tested, this worked flawlessly and successfully reflashed the device to 7.0.7390.0
For those that want to force the rom to your phone, you may want to try the command line "UpdateWP" found under Program Files\Zune. Note, I haven't tested this method.

what application did u use to flash the focus as the one with it reports error..
Anyway thanks for hopes

dvorak123 said:
I can confirm that this rom does in fact work. Not all devices are recognised (I suspect the update tool looks for a developer device). But on a recognised device that I tested, this worked flawlessly and successfully reflashed the device to 7.0.7390.0
For those that want to force the rom to your phone, you may want to try the command line "UpdateWP" found under Program Files\Zune. Note, I haven't tested this method.
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Are you saying you used the attachment in the beginning of this thread to flash a samsung focus of yours? And if that is what I am to believe, was this phone to your knowledge a special model, or a model meant to be used as a dev device?

[Q] Mango update issues (omnia 7)

I was pretty excited to see the Mango update is now available for the masses.. I mean those of us who don't have our devices unlocked as a developer phone so I decided to try my hands on it. But now I have some issues. When I open ZUNE I see update is available.
It tries to update but than after rebooting and finishing step 2/2: ERROR Code 80180048. apppers
I tried this several times on Win7 X64 and x86 but I still have the same problem.
Any ideas? maybe am getting something wrong

you need to download a beta copy of zune (4.8) google it my friend

rlatarche said:
you need to download a beta copy of zune (4.8) google it my friend
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I tried but didn't help

This could be happening for 2 reasons... Apparently your phone is getting confused by which update to download.
1) Did you unlock at any point with Chevron? If so you probably didn't check off all the languages. If this is the problem just look for the Microsoft approved walsh fix, very easy to find.
Then restore your phone to the version before it was provisioned for mango and apply the walsh fix. VERY IMPORTANT CHECK OFF EVERY LANGUAGE. Then restart the mango process and people have posted that this should work.
2) If, like me, your a registered developer and still getting this error then unfortunately I've only been able to find 1 fix. Microsoft is working on correcting the problem but has said it will take a couple weeks. So on to the fun part. You need to flash your phone back to factory form. Flash not reset. You lose everything. Good this is your purchase history, contacts and calendar should be attached to your live id, if not you might want to sync them.
To flash your rom just search these wonderful forums to find it. All I searched for was "flash focus rom" and found a thread with the files and instructions were in the files. Once your phone has been flash you should have no problem updating to mango although you have to go through all the original updates and re install and set up your phone.
Hope this helps... it worked for me.

mrcrazy11 said:
This could be happening for 2 reasons... Apparently your phone is getting confused by which update to download.
1) Did you unlock at any point with Chevron? If so you probably didn't check off all the languages. If this is the problem just look for the Microsoft approved walsh fix, very easy to find.
Then restore your phone to the version before it was provisioned for mango and apply the walsh fix. VERY IMPORTANT CHECK OFF EVERY LANGUAGE. Then restart the mango process and people have posted that this should work.
2) If, like me, your a registered developer and still getting this error then unfortunately I've only been able to find 1 fix. Microsoft is working on correcting the problem but has said it will take a couple weeks. So on to the fun part. You need to flash your phone back to factory form. Flash not reset. You lose everything. Good this is your purchase history, contacts and calendar should be attached to your live id, if not you might want to sync them.
To flash your rom just search these wonderful forums to find it. All I searched for was "flash focus rom" and found a thread with the files and instructions were in the files. Once your phone has been flash you should have no problem updating to mango although you have to go through all the original updates and re install and set up your phone.
Hope this helps... it worked for me.
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Thanks for reaching out to help me but I think I will give up now. I did all what you told me.. I read from other places even before you responded but it still didn't work. Am thinking its a problem with my Samsung Omnia phone so I guess I have to wait till the Final release of mango comes out. I had also the same issue with NoDo, I had to wait till the official Samsung fix came before I could finally get it.. guess this is like that too.

Sorry I couldn't help more. I have an unlocked ATT Focus running on Rogers... I was able to flash an Omnia 7 ROM on it but that was horrible because the phone literally began to mix the up and down and the portrait and landscape modes.
Did you try and flash your omnia back to stock?

I couldn't return back to the the stock ROM. My boot-loader is probably damaged . When I press the the volume up + and camera button to enter into download mode all I see is the black and white screen ..

[Q] "Sorry I'm Having Trouble Communicating..."

So I've been trying to unlock my Samsung Focus with ChevronWP7. I have followed >>this<< guide, step by step, but after I click both boxes and click on "Unlock", I get "Sorry, I'm having trouble communicating with the phone. Please make sure it's connected using USB. Please start the Zune application." So then I tried another guide(can't find the link right now), which included disabling the network, using WPConnect.exe, etc, but that didn't work either. I am completely at a loss of why this damn error keeps popping up. I restarted both my PC and phone numerous times, I've tried different USB ports and cables, but nothing is working. Anyone have any tips?
My OS version is 7.0.7390.0, Firmware Revision is 2103.11.3.3 and Zune version is 4.7.1404.0 if that helps at all.
Thank you, maxx.

I had same problem and I used the guide below and it worked on the first try. Most importantly was STEP 2 for me. Uninstalling Zune and using the version from the link provided in the guide at step 2.
[Tutorial] Unlock your phone; prevent relock & prepare for updates!

Well damn, it says my firmware isn't compatible with CWP7. I guess that and my Zune version is why it doesn't work. Is it possible to revert back to a previous firmware version?

try to downgrade to previous version (if possible) from zune.

If your phone came with NoDo (7392 or 7390) installed the only way to unlock at the moment is to flash a previous firmware version. Check the forums if there is one for your provider and phone.

If i'm not wrong you can checkwith Ansar's rom.

Have you resolved the problem yet? It seems there is something wrong with the "hosts" file. Generally, this file is in folder "C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc". Open it, delete all lines like "192.168.1.101 developerservices.windowsphone.com". Then, save it, try ChevronWP7 again in admin permission, it should be OK. If still not works, please send email to me, [email protected].

maxxdout said:
So I've been trying to unlock my Samsung Focus with ChevronWP7. I have followed >>this<< guide, step by step, but after I click both boxes and click on "Unlock", I get "Sorry, I'm having trouble communicating with the phone. Please make sure it's connected using USB. Please start the Zune application." So then I tried another guide(can't find the link right now), which included disabling the network, using WPConnect.exe, etc, but that didn't work either. I am completely at a loss of why this damn error keeps popping up. I restarted both my PC and phone numerous times, I've tried different USB ports and cables, but nothing is working. Anyone have any tips?
My OS version is 7.0.7390.0, Firmware Revision is 2103.11.3.3 and Zune version is 4.7.1404.0 if that helps at all.
Thank you, maxx.
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maxx,
Chevron WP7 DOES NOT work with 7390 and above. As you have found out, the only option is to downgrade the firmware to an older version and then unlocking it. I tried searching and was not able to find it ( or I did not know what the hell I was looking for, HTC HD7 user here )
If your Focus came with a older version and you updated using Zune, you can try restoring
Open Zune--> Settings-->Phone-->Updates-->Restore
Try posting in the Samsung Focus forum. You might get some help.Good luck...

[Q] Help with SGH-T959W only booting into recovery

Hello, all. I hope someone can help me with my SGH-T959W. Right now I'm at the point where the phone has CWM installed, but will only boot into recovery no matter what I do. I've followed the N00b guide to Flashing/Fixing the SGS4G, but clearly I'm missing something.
I tried to follow the Windows-based procedure for the SGH-T959W, but was unable to get version 1.40 to execute, and was unable to locate version 1.31.
So, given that the SGH-T959W and SGH-T959V are the same phone except for the bootloader, I tried the Java-based Stock KJ-6 + Root. The first time I tried it, the upload failed after the PIT, and the phone was no longer able to boot into anything other than download mode. I eventually managed to get it to the point where it tried to flash the modem, but I was never able to get the modem to flash successfully. I tried both under Windows and Linux, using two different PCs and every USB cable I could find, since I know those tend to be dodgy. Still, I've never gotten past flashing the modem, though sometimes it's done worse.
But at this point, I had a phone that would dutifully boot into CWM, so I could change strategy anyway. So I grabbed the unofficial Cyanogenmod 10.1, copied it to the root of the SD card, and tried to load that via CWM. It failed the hardware check.
That's problem #1. Is it possible to modify Cyanogenmod to check for the 959W instead of only the 959V?
Now, problem #2. I decided to give Slim ICS a whirl, since it's light on requirements and a 512MB/1GHz device would probably appreciate a lighter load. The two packages claim to install, but the progress bar never reaches 100%, and when I try to boot the phone, it just boots into CWM. It's a newer version of CWM now, and the startup logo is different, so something worked, but clearly not everything.
When installing, I did mount UMMU, factory reset, wipe the cache and the Davlik cache, mount UMMU, install, then fix perms. But I still get that loop back to CWM.
So something critical didn’t take, however many times I tried (I've lost count, but I think I'm going on 10), and I don't know the architecture well enough to know where to start looking. I'm pretty comfortable with other operating systems, but this is only the second Android device I've tried to customize.
I suspect I can’t solve any other problem until I solve problem #2, regardless of which distro I end up wanting to run.
Sorry for the long-winded post, but I figured the more questions I answered up front, the better the chances of fixing this would be.
Thanks for any help you're willing to offer a n00b.
Dave F.

I think what you were doing with heimdall is the way to go except the t959w doesn't like modems and I think there's some way to leave out the modem part but eh.. I'm not that well versed. Anyway here's a link that may or may not be relevant
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1956025

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dfarquhar said:
Hello, all. I hope someone can help me with my SGH-T959W. Right now I'm at the point where the phone has CWM installed, but will only boot into recovery no matter what I do. I've followed the N00b guide to Flashing/Fixing the SGS4G, but clearly I'm missing something.
I tried to follow the Windows-based procedure for the SGH-T959W, but was unable to get version 1.40 to execute, and was unable to locate version 1.31.
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Look here for 1.3.1.
dfarquhar said:
So, given that the SGH-T959W and SGH-T959V are the same phone except for the bootloader, I tried the Java-based Stock KJ-6 + Root. The first time I tried it, the upload failed after the PIT, and the phone was no longer able to boot into anything other than download mode. I eventually managed to get it to the point where it tried to flash the modem, but I was never able to get the modem to flash successfully. I tried both under Windows and Linux, using two different PCs and every USB cable I could find, since I know those tend to be dodgy. Still, I've never gotten past flashing the modem, though sometimes it's done worse.
But at this point, I had a phone that would dutifully boot into CWM, so I could change strategy anyway. So I grabbed the unofficial Cyanogenmod 10.1, copied it to the root of the SD card, and tried to load that via CWM. It failed the hardware check.
That's problem #1. Is it possible to modify Cyanogenmod to check for the 959W instead of only the 959V?
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Nope, not a CWM issue. Ever since TeamAcid and I started on CM9 (and I believe the last few CM7 builds) added support for T959W. Almost everyone (thankfully! ) has kanged those device trees and also support T959W. I'm sure other T959W users will chime in to tell you that 97% of all roms here work on T959W. (GB and forward)
dfarquhar said:
Now, problem #2. I decided to give Slim ICS a whirl, since it's light on requirements and a 512MB/1GHz device would probably appreciate a lighter load. The two packages claim to install, but the progress bar never reaches 100%, and when I try to boot the phone, it just boots into CWM. It's a newer version of CWM now, and the startup logo is different, so something worked, but clearly not everything.
When installing, I did mount UMMU, factory reset, wipe the cache and the Davlik cache, mount UMMU, install, then fix perms. But I still get that loop back to CWM.
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Crazy mount setups shouldn't matter anymore. That was an oldschool Froyo/Early GB thing. Almost all new CWM install scripts do the right thing now.
dfarquhar said:
So something critical didn’t take, however many times I tried (I've lost count, but I think I'm going on 10), and I don't know the architecture well enough to know where to start looking. I'm pretty comfortable with other operating systems, but this is only the second Android device I've tried to customize.
I suspect I can’t solve any other problem until I solve problem #2, regardless of which distro I end up wanting to run.
Sorry for the long-winded post, but I figured the more questions I answered up front, the better the chances of fixing this would be.
Thanks for any help you're willing to offer a n00b.
Dave F.
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I like the long posts! Especially when then they contain more detail for me to help you figure out your problem with. I'm also partial to the short posts that include logs!
TwitchyEye said:
I think what you were doing with heimdall is the way to go except the t959w doesn't like modems and I think there's some way to leave out the modem part but eh.. I'm not that well versed. Anyway here's a link that may or may not be relevant
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1956025
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@TwitchyEye you're right That is the heimdall oneclick that should be used.
@dfarquhar I think using the heimdall oneclick that @getochkn made should be the right path for you. Make sure you use the right version of heimdall. Make sure you completely remove the old version (software and drivers), use zdiag to make absolutely sure!
If all else fails, post here again! (maybe with logs )

Thanks everyone. I grabbed v 1.3.1, so I'm getting ready to try it now.
If anything goes wrong, I'll look into where the logs are stored and how to retrieve them, and I'll be back. Assuming I can't use the logs to figure it out on my own of course.

dfarquhar said:
Thanks everyone. I grabbed v 1.3.1, so I'm getting ready to try it now.
If anything goes wrong, I'll look into where the logs are stored and how to retrieve them, and I'll be back. Assuming I can't use the logs to figure it out on my own of course.
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Sometimes, it's just the output you see on your screen is a good enough log

bhundven said:
Sometimes, it's just the output you see on your screen is a good enough log
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Got it working! Heimdall 1.3.1 was the key. I then turned around and flashed Slim ICS since I had it on the SD card already, and it worked. I'm debating whether to move on to Slim Bean, but maybe I need to leave well enough alone for a few days now that I have a working phone.
Thanks again,
Dave

Moto logo boot loop after OTA

Sorry if this has already been posted somewhere, but I'm on a friend's phone and he doesn't have the XDA app and the site isn't being very cooperative with his phone.
I took the recent OTA this morning and now I'm stuck in a boot loop at the Moto logo. Prior to installation, my phone was completely stock and not rooted. I can get into fastboot in the short time that the M logo is off, but it kicked me right back out seconds later and begins attempting startup again. I did a factory reset from stock recovery and it still loops.
Is there an fxz out for this yet, or does somebody have a link to download the new OTA so I can adb push it onto my sd card to try to install it again?

I'm in the same boat, took OTA from 4.1.2 and now bootlooping. My phone was rooted prior to the OTA but I can live without it.

How does the saying go? If I had a penny for every ...
Anyways, this is a prevalent issue so I'm surprised no one seems to be able to find it as it is the most common issue since this OTA has come out, so for the umpteenth time, here is the link to fix you up:
http://www.droidrzr.com/index.php/topic/45494-how-to-xt926-upgrade-to-kitkat-ota/
PLEASE read it carefully and then re-read it again and then read it one more time BEFORE you even attempt to do it.
Good luck!

iBolski said:
How does the saying go? If I had a penny for every ...
Anyways, this is a prevalent issue so I'm surprised no one seems to be able to find it as it is the most common issue since this OTA has come out, so for the umpteenth time, here is the link to fix you up:
http://www.droidrzr.com/index.php/topic/45494-how-to-xt926-upgrade-to-kitkat-ota/
PLEASE read it carefully and then re-read it again and then read it one more time BEFORE you even attempt to do it.
Good luck!
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That's the download I needed. Thanks.
Should be able to install it manually from the phone if you push the OTA to your sd card (if you're stock) to avoid having to go through rsdlite