I am very new to the Android scene, got my first phone which is the Infuse 4g. Love the phone, but I am wanting to possibly get into the custom rom, rooting, etc...
I am just trying to cover my bases, my main concern is I always want to be able to flash back to stock if I ever need to for any reason...main reason is that I want the availability to get the over the air official roms to try when they are released.
My problem is that when I research on here, I see 3 different tutorials on how to do this, are these just three different ways to do it, or is only one of the ways going to work for my phone?
Also, none of them are for a uckh1 baseband, does it matter?
They all seem fairly straight forward and easy to do, but I just dont want to be phoneless, and I want to be able to go back to stock if I want to.
I have tinkered with xboxes, iphones, etc...so I am not scared to do this, I am just uncertain about going from a custom rom to stock.
If anyone can help me out here, or answer any of these questions I would greatly appreciate it.
thanks in advance.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=18219157&postcount=1
GTG's Ultimate Unbrick for return to stock.
kh1 baseband is actually t-mo's sgs 4g modem. It works on Infuse, I would stick with Infuse modems.
what exactly do you mean by the modem? WHen does my phone use its modem?
also big thanks for responding.
For wifi, for data connections, and cellular connections.
modem thread with link to kh1 modem:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=18383744&postcount=222
gtg's ultimate unbrick will always get you back to stock.
thanks guys, this is a little assurance here.
much appreciated.
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Hey all,
Not that i want to, but i was wondering how if possible, to unroot the samsung captivate. I got it rooted and installed the JH2 rom, but i don't know how to revert if i can.
I see the odin one click downloader to go back to the stock rom, but i don't know if that will unroot and make my phone as it was.
I would also like to know if i'm rooted and running the jh2 rom, what would happen if i click the reset button in the privacy menu of the settings.
It's called a one click tool for a reason. It reverts you entirely back to the original "out of the box" feeling. I'm pretty sure even att or samsung could figure out it had a different rom on it.
Also, rooting and flashing a rom are not the same thing
Sent from my Samsung i897
Kaik541 said:
It's called a one click tool for a reason. It reverts you entirely back to the original "out of the box" feeling. I'm pretty sure even att or samsung could figure out it had a different rom on it.
Also, rooting and flashing a rom are not the same thing
Sent from my Samsung i897
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Hey thanks for the reply.
I know that rooting and flashing a rom are not the same thing which is why i was confused about that one click tool. I was unsure if it would just revert a rom and not a root or if it would do both.
Thanks for the clarification.
mchimney said:
Hey thanks for the reply.
I know that rooting and flashing a rom are not the same thing which is why i was confused about that one click tool. I was unsure if it would just revert a rom and not a root or if it would do both.
Thanks for the clarification.
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Odin will perform a full flash of whatever ROM (the one-click just happens to do JF6 for AT&T) you want. This will replace everything, including partitioning even (that's what the .pit file is, if memory serves). Basically, I'd be willing to believe if you were to use Odin with the JF6 ROM and drop it off at AT&T, they would be none the wiser. You can also, of course, use this tool to flash the i9000 ROMs with our captivate kernel (buggy at best) or even use the new JH2 ROM (as you obviously know by saying you're on JH2).
A factory reset will only put you back to "factory" settings, I don't even know if it will restore missing AT&T apps, but I doubt it. But it will keep you on your current ROM. So factory reset on JH2 will keep you on JH2, while flashing with the one-click tool on JH2 will put you on JF6. Sorry if this is repetitive and long-winded, but I figured any additional clarification for others couldn't hurt
Edit: I should also add there IS a way to unroot somewhere on this forum, too lazy to do the search right now. There's a one-click root/unroot that I believe SHOULD work with JH2.
Kaik541 said:
Odin will perform a full flash of whatever ROM (the one-click just happens to do JF6 for AT&T) you want. This will replace everything, including partitioning even (that's what the .pit file is, if memory serves). Basically, I'd be willing to believe if you were to use Odin with the JF6 ROM and drop it off at AT&T, they would be none the wiser. You can also, of course, use this tool to flash the i9000 ROMs with our captivate kernel (buggy at best) or even use the new JH2 ROM (as you obviously know by saying you're on JH2).
A factory reset will only put you back to "factory" settings, I don't even know if it will restore missing AT&T apps, but I doubt it. But it will keep you on your current ROM. So factory reset on JH2 will keep you on JH2, while flashing with the one-click tool on JH2 will put you on JF6. Sorry if this is repetitive and long-winded, but I figured any additional clarification for others couldn't hurt
Edit: I should also add there IS a way to unroot somewhere on this forum, too lazy to do the search right now. There's a one-click root/unroot that I believe SHOULD work with JH2.
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Haha, i had to read this a couple times but i learned more in that post than i ever knew about these phones. I thank you for that. This definitely clarified allot of questions that i probably would have plagued the forums with.
(sorry if i put this thread in the wrong section, i see it was moved)
Thanks for the help =)
Hi All,
I know this has been asked before, but I was hoping to get some more specific answers than I could find in other threads.
I have the galaxy S Captivate from Rogers, which is still running 2.1. Would I have any problems rooting/updating the rom or kernel with my specific version of the phone? Are there any hardware differences, or is it all just cosmetic? And if I update the ROM or root, will I have any problems upgrading to Froyo once rogers sees fit to release it?
In that regard, what would be the best ROM? Or should I do a kernel/firmware upgrade? Not too sure what the difference is really.
I'm also wondering what else I can do with the phone once it's rooted. I mean, I know that I can access all parts of the filesystem and have sudo which would be nice, but what do people specifically use it for? I guess it's needed for the ROMs and loaders and stuff.
Thanks! I appologize for any questions which have been asked in the past, but I wasn't sure that everything applied the same way with different versions of the phone.
Cheers
Also, does rooting my phone cause all my information to be deleted? What method of rooting would be the safest/easiest?
Thanks!
Edit: Ah, I see that it shouldn't, and that the z4root would probably be easiest.
Still not sure what ROM I should use or how to back it up, i'll search the forums some more but some links or posts would be much appreciated. There's an overload of information on here haha.
Cheers
Do a nandroid backup to be able to go back to your stock Rogers ROM if you want.
Any ROM will work.
Also back up your /efs folder to preserve your IMEI code #.
Worst case scenario is you flash a ROM that doesn't have Rogers APN info in it, in which case you can add it manually or switch to another ROM. Pretty sure all of.them do.
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Hey guys...i succesfully flashed, rooted my phone, ended up with a few roms but ultimately wanted to go back to stock Rogers rom.
I found the GTG ultimate unbrick ad thought that might get me where i needed to be, but ufnrotunately not as it is ATT rom.
I then found Odin_Stock_Rogers_UXKG3_Kernel, which is almost what i need but it is a rooted & CWM version of the ROM, also, some of the apps dont work and there is no data.
Does anyone have a link to the absolute stock Rogers rom? I really need to go back to stock, I assume the only way to go back to stock would be to have the rom, which I dont, and to use Odin.
Please and thank you.
I have search the infuse threads and cant find anything on this subject. I just got a infuse and im coming from a captivate. My question is, if im on stock froyo do i have to have gingerbread bootloaders to odin flash one of leaked gingerbread builds or can i just odin flash a build straight from froyo? I would appreciate the help.
the last 4 leaks contain bootloaders. also the Rogers based custom kernels have a rainbow fix and work with the froyo bootloaders.
Thanks for the help. I did a little more research and got everything i need. Im used to flashing the hell out of my captivate and i didn't want to jump right in with the infuse and brick it. I was just trying to be cautious. I bricked my captivate the first week i had it and didnt want a repeat of that.
tmease1 said:
Thanks for the help. I did a little more research and got everything i need. Im used to flashing the hell out of my captivate and i didn't want to jump right in with the infuse and brick it. I was just trying to be cautious. I bricked my captivate the first week i had it and didnt want a repeat of that.
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you wont brick it. maybe get boot loops but this phone is practically unbrickable. the captivate had bricking issues because people like deisgngears thought it was a good idea do flash sbl.bin through cwm and not package it with boot.bin(3button fix). samsung is also responsible because many of the firmwares they leaked contained sbl.bin and not boot.bin(i9010 armani captivate). they also had several bootloader builds that for no apparent reason were not compatible. the infuse doesnt have those factors. also the bootloaders seem to be signed to the device which prevented us from flashing rogers bootloaders. from what i gathered from threads by gtg there may be a bootloader backup system on a spare partition that prevents bad flashes and restores the last bootloaders if the wrong bootloaders get flashed.
That is extremely helpful. I have read that there alot of issues with all of the leaks so i dont know if I will do anything with it or not. I like to flash roms but i also like a stable phone. The way i am ill end up flashing something anyway and just deal with whatever the problem is. Thanks again
Alright, well today I finally decided to make the switch from the Atrix to a Skyrocket. I heavily modded the atrix and I'm used to having absolutely no freedom with my phone, so I have to hack my way through everything. With a bit or trial and error, I succeded. Anyway, to avoid soft-bricking my phone in less than 12 hours, I want to know everything I need to do in order to flash ROMs, kernals, and all that other good stuff. So far, all I've done s root and flash CWM. Am I done?
Thanks. Oh and before I leave, has anyone tested out that 1.89ghz OC kernal?
Hello fellow atrix user. I to came from the atrix . But have had samsung galaxy then sgs2 now sgs2 skyrocket. You rooted and installed cwm so your done. You can flash roms and kernels with cwm totally different world.then that pita atrix. For now best bet is to stay on stock rooted. People were havong some problems with alien rom. I have used the oc kernel. Up to 1.83ghz and got over 4200 quadrant with that ( not that quadrant really matters) but my phone did heat up alot while over clocking, and anything over 1.83 i got instant shutdown so i flashed stock rooted back. And im happy with it. And with sammy odin is your friend if u run into problems keep this thread handy it has easy to use directions how to odin back to stock and how to use odin to flash the tar and fix a soft brick http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1342348
Perfect! thats exactly what I needed... a heck of a lot easier to do too! And i've already done my research for the crash course I take it the TAR/ODIN stuff is the Skyrockets equivalent of RSD Lite? Looks easy (enough) to use and I have everything I need incase something bad happens. Anyway thanks again for the help! I guess I'll wait it out before flashing alien. Oh and one more question (yeah I do that a lot), whenever I flashed themes on my atrix, it NEVER worked, but I never found out what was wrong with it. Is there anything special I need to do aside from rooting/CWM? Or once I have that, I have the power to do ANYTHING posted in the dev section (that applies to my phone model and all that)?
Nothing special you need to do after root and recovery. But some themes cause problems on some roms as im sure you know. Some work some dont .