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Flashing question

I am new to the Charge but not rooting and Android. I came from the DX so the way things are done in this thing are different. Here's my question:
I am currently rooted and running a rom with a custom kernel. If I use Odin to flash the official software, will I also need to replace the kernel separately or will flashing the official software also restore the original kernel?

You will not need to replace anything, the Odin package is all in one. It will put you back to bare stock which means ROM, kernel, recovery, modem, you name it.
If you wouldn't mind helping could you link me to a rooting guide on a DX? Some general tips on rooting it would be very appreciated. My dad has one and I'd like to root/ROM it for him but i don't feel like studying up >_< Thanks!

Wrightperspective said:
I am new to the Charge but not rooting and Android. I came from the DX so the way things are done in this thing are different. Here's my question:
I am currently rooted and running a rom with a custom kernel. If I use Odin to flash the official software, will I also need to replace the kernel separately or will flashing the official software also restore the original kernel?
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Odin will replace everything, including your kernel.

Thanks for the response. I got confused because I saw posts saying that some kernels were interchangeable but I didn't know if they meant that you would have to flash the kernel after you flash the rom or if you just flash a new rom and the kernel remains. Appreciate the response.

You have to flash kernal only on cmw versions and not all of them read the pre requisites it will tell you if the cwm version either do not or do.have a kernal included for example humble 5 cwm version I.believe u.have to flash a kernal prior to rebooting or stock recovery will over write cwm happened to me and learned my.lesson the hard way !!!
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Okay...so flashing the stock file will also get rid of CWM, right?

need help with getting cm7 from kk4

Have a friend with the kk4 rom which is 2.3.5 . He wants cm7 but the instructions are vague, when he loads up rom manager it doesn't show captivate mtd but only shows the regular galaxy s i900 . What should I do from here ?

ROM manager really needs to die a horrible death and be erased from public memory.
Flash a custom kk4 kernel with Odin that has cwm built into it. Then flash cm7 from there.
No need to even root the damn thing let alone (attempt to) use crappy ROM manager that doesn't work on galaxy devices running over Android 2.1

studacris said:
ROM manager really needs to die a horrible death and be erased from public memory.
Flash a custom kk4 kernel with Odin that has cwm built into it. Then flash cm7 from there.
No need to even root the damn thing let alone (attempt to) use crappy ROM manager that doesn't work on galaxy devices running over Android 2.1
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did the odin of the kernel samurai and it did its thing and when I reboot to get to recovery doesn't work now I can't even get into the rom

coldconfession13 said:
did the odin of the kernel samurai and it did its thing and when I reboot to get to recovery doesn't work now I can't even get into the rom
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You may need to flash CM7 twice - A lot of times, the first flash just sets up the MTD file scenario, giving you the CWM you need. The second flash should finish installing it.

Yank battery and replace...hold Vol up Vol down and power til you see the boot screen and let go.
The button combos should work.

got it to work now just trying to load the gapps which seems to not be installing and for some reason it won't recognize the gapps arg this is the weirdest thing.

Just to clarify, if I'm on stock KK4 I can just flash a KK4 ROM with CWM and then CM7? I don't need to be on Froyo, as the CM wiki says?

ArttG12 said:
Just to clarify, if I'm on stock KK4 I can just flash a KK4 ROM with CWM and then CM7? I don't need to be on Froyo, as the CM wiki says?
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Yes, you can

I need help installing gapps for some reason its not installing it after I load it into cwr . The latest gapps in cwr says its installing 2.3 5 if that means anything
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coldconfession13 said:
I need help installing gapps for some reason its not installing it after I load it into cwr . The latest gapps in cwr says its installing 2.3 5 if that means anything
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What is the filename of the zip you are trying to install for gapps?
When you say it isn't installing, does it say it completed and nothing happens, or is it failing? If it's failing, does it give you an error?

apbthe3 said:
What is the filename of the zip you are trying to install for gapps?
When you say it isn't installing, does it say it completed and nothing happens, or is it failing? If it's failing, does it give you an error?
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gapps-gb-20110828-signed
it says completed but nothing shows up in the rom

coldconfession13 said:
gapps-gb-20110828-signed
it says completed but nothing shows up in the rom
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Forgive me if you already know this, but it only installs apps that can't be downloaded from the market. If you have the market, it worked and you just have to download the rest of them. If you don't have the market, it definitely didn't work and, short of flashing back to stock and trying again, I don't have any other suggestions to troubleshoot it, unfortunately.

gapps-gb-20110930-237-signed
flashing that one fixed my problems thanks guys for helping

how do i downgrade cwm?

Rom: cm9
Cwm: 6.0.1.0 trying to get to 5.0.x in order to flash rom

xr1charxx said:
Rom: cm9
Cwm: 6.0.1.0 trying to get to 5.0.x in order to flash rom
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Heimdall. See the second post in the oneclicks link in my signature.
Don't forget to read the OP for instructions.

bhundven said:
Heimdall. See the second post in the oneclicks link in my signature.
Don't forget to read the OP for instructions.
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Second post only has kernels.
I'm lost. Haha.

xr1charxx said:
Second post only has kernels.
I'm lost. Haha.
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You want to know how I know you cant read....because had you clicked on this link.
eollie: AntonX's BwaT + Stock Rom
Stock KJ6 + Antonx-One-Click.jar
You would have known it wasnt just a kernel...but then again reading is fundamentally hard on xda.

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eollie said:
You want to know how I know you cant read....because had you clicked on this link.
eollie: AntonX's BwaT + Stock Rom
Stock KJ6 + Antonx-One-Click.jar
You would have known it wasnt just a kernel...but then again reading is fundamentally hard on xda.
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I don't need stock rom I'm trying to flash Codename Android 2.0 which needs ICS and 5.0.2.x and that one click gives stock rom
how do i update to cm9 and staying on 5.0.2.x recovery
can i just update to cm9 then codename android without rebooting?
back to back flashing ?

xr1charxx said:
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I don't need stock rom I'm trying to flash Codename Android 2.0 which needs ICS and 5.0.2.x and that one click gives stock rom
how do i update to cm9 and staying on 5.0.2.x recovery
can i just update to cm9 then codename android without rebooting?
back to back flashing ?
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You can't update to cm9 and stay on 5.0.
Unlike most samsung phones, we do not have a functional recovery partition.
Even though we do have a recovery partition, and you can flash the recovery.img there, the bootloader will not even notice it.
It will just boot the kernel with the kernel command line argument: bootmode=2
In this mode, a stage1 init has to check if we are booting to: recovery, low power mode (charging), or normal boot (possibly with ota upgrade).
So in a nut shell, you upgrade to cm9, you get whatever recovery comes with cm9.
If you want to flash another cm9/ics based rom after that, just flash it (factory reset/wipe data, of course!). No need to go back to 5.0 recovery.
If however, your IMEI is screwed up or you have a specific reason to go back to gingerbread, use the oneclick that eollie mentioned. Flash it twice to get bootloaders. And then you can go back to cm9 by just 'factory reset/wipe data' and flash cm9 or whatever ics rom you wish.

I tried the one clicks but I end up having 6.0 cwm and no bootloader

xr1charxx said:
I tried the one clicks but I end up having 6.0 cwm and no bootloader
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That didn't make any sense. If you don't have a bootloader, how do you know what cwm you have?

i guess i do have boot loader.
im on CM9. cwm 6.0.1.0 and all i want to do is install this rom.
[TUK's ROM][Hybrid]Codename Android 2.0
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1799192
can you please tell me how? :crying:
ive tried one clicking to stock then once clicking Antonx kernel.
but once i go to CM9 i get cwm 6.0 and when i try to once click the AntonX: Basic with a Twist SGS4G KJ6 1.1.0 i get boot loop.
and the eollie: AntonX's BwaT + Stock Rom link is broken.

Sorry about that I changed the link and thought it was the same. This is the correct link.
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/10373328/Stock KJ6 + root-One-Click.jar

so i go back to stock or can i just one click this from my CM9 cwm 6?

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=2031989

xr1charxx said:
so i go back to stock or can i just one click this from my CM9 cwm 6?
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Please read some more and understand what one clicking means. You could have cwm 3.x.x.x and if you flash the heimdall one clicks it will change to the current cwm for bml.

ive tried everything and i guess i have bad luck cuz i get boot loops or stuck on boot screen
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solved

Ok so im planning on flashing in cyanogenmod v9.1 and then up to ultragen v1.1 with the jb and tw5 taste, now if i do this do i still need to flash in a version of gapps or is there one in the ultragen rom, and in order to do the flashing can i use the cmw-based voodoo lagfix recover 5.0.2.7 to flash in the cm9.1 or do i need to use odin or something, im kinda new to all this, all ive done to the phone so far is recover from soft brick by using odin to flash back to stock and then using some off site instructions to root the phone which also apparently came along with the voodoo recovery, so im basically a noob at this

jimmy2989 said:
Ok so im planning on flashing in cyanogenmod v9.1 and then up to ultragen v1.1 with the jb and tw5 taste, now if i do this do i still need to flash in a version of gapps or is there one in the ultragen rom, and in order to do the flashing can i use the cmw-based voodoo lagfix recover 5.0.2.7 to flash in the cm9.1 or do i need to use odin or something, im kinda new to all this, all ive done to the phone so far is recover from soft brick by using odin to flash back to stock and then using some off site instructions to root the phone which also apparently came along with the voodoo recovery, so im basically a noob at this
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No need to flash the gapps with Utragen ROM its included.
Use CM recovery to flash no need for Odin ... cm 5.0.2.x is fine.
I always go to cm 9 then work up never had a problem.
Ultragen is a very stable ICS based rom .. I used it for awhile.
Be sure you follow the OP`s flashing instructions.
If you want JB try slim 4.1.2 its very stable...if you can live
without GPS.
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Thanks, everythings installed and its running beautifullyi thanked your post ill mark this thread as solved

SGS4G Android 2.2 rec 3e. Do I have to flash kernel and modem before flashing custom?

Phone is rooted, CWM installed latest, recovery e3 does not check signatures.
Can I just create nandroid backup, wipe phone and install this one rom for example?

AjvarXX said:
Phone is rooted, CWM installed latest, recovery e3 does not check signatures.
Can I just create nandroid backup, wipe phone and install this one rom for example?
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Yep.. You take a backup, wipe cache,data and dalvik cache. You are ready to flash your custom rom.. But while changing kernels you gotta flash your stock rom+stock kernel then root then flash new kernel then the custom rom.

haridevil99 said:
Yep.. You take a backup, wipe cache,data and dalvik cache. You are ready to flash your custom rom.. But while changing kernels you gotta flash your stock rom+stock kernel then root then flash new kernel then the custom rom.
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Appreciate. So I now will backup and wipe everything and then update it with kies mini. And then will ask more about custom stuff, am I doing right?
The problem about SGS4G is that it is WAY TOO MUCH information about it as well as kernels, mods, articles and you are lost because some of them conflicts with other.
P.S. I spent a week for going into Android stuff and Galaxy S.

AjvarXX said:
Appreciate. So I now will backup and wipe everything and then update it with kies mini. And then will ask more about custom stuff, am I doing right?
The problem about SGS4G is that it is WAY TOO MUCH information about it as well as kernels, mods, articles and you are lost because some of them conflicts with other.
P.S. I spent a week for going into Android stuff and Galaxy S.
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Well.. If you were talking bout updating your stock rom using kies... I dont see any use of that if you are going to flash a custom rom. Its just mere waste of time.

haridevil99 said:
Well.. If you were talking bout updating your stock rom using kies... I dont see any use of that if you are going to flash a custom rom. Its just mere waste of time.
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it's because 2.2 version is so hard for modding that I didn't risk to update from it.
Now I have modded kernel on stock 2.3.6. And thinking about what ROM to use.
Here is a link I found recently and it is so very helpful! http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1470716

AjvarXX said:
it's because 2.2 version is so hard for modding that I didn't risk to update from it.
Now I have modded kernel on stock 2.3.6. And thinking about what ROM to use.
Here is a link I found recently and it is so very helpful! http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1470716
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The guide seems good enough but a bit more complicated that it should be. Anyway here are two tips or info for you. First, whatever you do, have Odin and Stock Firmware ready to flash coz when everything else fails, Odin to the rescue and also flash stock firmware (Rom+kernel) whenever you change kernel as changing kernels without doing so removes root access and you cant apply root update on a custom kernel unless it has pre root access. Second, you dont need any kind of manager to flash firmwares and updates. CWM is a replacement to all. But its all your choice.