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flashing question - new whiskey team ROM

hello all,
first of all THANK YOU very much for this ROM - really appreciate it!!!
second of all:
I currently have a stock rom on my device - rooted.
As I understand I need to replace the stock recovery with that of krylon360(http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1099374) and then follow the steps listed in the first post??
is the link in my post is the link to the final version of cwm for our devices??
Thank you very much for the help and sorry for the noobenst this is my first rom change

alon2 said:
hello all,
first of all THANK YOU very much for this ROM - really appreciate it!!!
second of all:
I currently have a stock rom on my device - rooted.
As I understand I need to replace the stock recovery with that of krylon360(http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1099374) and then follow the steps listed in the first post??
is the link in my post is the link to the final version of cwm for our devices??
Thank you very much for the help and sorry for the noobenst this is my first rom change
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your link wont load, just make sure you go to the thread that says CWM FINAL by krylon 360 and follow the steps and you will be fine

dsexton702 said:
your link wont load, just make sure you go to the thread that says CWM FINAL by krylon 360 and follow the steps and you will be fine
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this is the link(as I see it in my broser)
what are the steps after I replaced the recovery?
is it as simple as following the steps in this thread?cause I saw people had problems...
Thank you very much for the help again

Just go to cyclopscomputers.com/gs4g
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Use root explorer to copy/replace recovery.bin put update.zip on root of sd card, reboot into recovery.
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This is what I did and worked perfectly. But I allready had KD1 which I recomend you get. Download the recovery and update.zip and put both of them on the root of your sd card. Then get root explorer from the market. Open root explorer and go down to sdcard. In the sd card you are gonna find the recovery file you placed in there. Your long press it and its gomma say copy. Copy that and press back button and then your at the main page of root explorer again. Its gonna say paste and cancle at.the bottom but dont press anything yet. You go all the way down to system and go into it and then into /bin. In /bin your gonna press the mount r~w button at the top right which allows you to paste the file. You press paste at bottom left and its gonna ask if you want to overwrite say yes.(if it didnt ask you overwrite that either means the file you downloaded was renamed.or there was a (2) or (3) on it if you downloaded various times. Just take the ending out so its.just.recovery)
Now back out to homescreen of your phone.and if you have kd1 you can get into recovery from quickboot if not then turn off your phone and hold powerbutton and both volume keys while the phones turning on normally it will go to a bluish screen with an android.(recovery) here you click reinstall packages and your done
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sorry i have to do this... but i'm pretty sure theres more than enuff info to figure it out... noob or noobiest... didnt have to start a random thread

Moved to general.

rickyy00 said:
This is what I did and worked perfectly. But I allready had KD1 which I recomend you get. Download the recovery and update.zip and put both of them on the root of your sd card. Then get root explorer from the market. Open root explorer and go down to sdcard. In the sd card you are gonna find the recovery file you placed in there. Your long press it and its gomma say copy. Copy that and press back button and then your at the main page of root explorer again. Its gonna say paste and cancle at.the bottom but dont press anything yet. You go all the way down to system and go into it and then into /bin. In /bin your gonna press the mount r~w button at the top right which allows you to paste the file. You press paste at bottom left and its gonna ask if you want to overwrite say yes.(if it didnt ask you overwrite that either means the file you downloaded was renamed.or there was a (2) or (3) on it if you downloaded various times. Just take the ending out so its.just.recovery)
Now back out to homescreen of your phone.and if you have kd1 you can get into recovery from quickboot if not then turn off your phone and hold powerbutton and both volume keys while the phones turning on normally it will go to a bluish screen with an android.(recovery) here you click reinstall packages and your done
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Thank you very much for the detailed explanation.
I'll try that tomorrow at work cause at home I can't get windows 7 to recognize my device

To be honest u don't need a pc and can do the whole thing from your phone with the right apps and it works flawlessly haveing roottookit and supermanger also helpful in the process
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rose2jam said:
To be honest u don't need a pc and can do the whole thing from your phone with the right apps and it works flawlessly haveing roottookit and supermanger also helpful in the process
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how can I do it without a PC?
downloading now supermanger , didnt find roottookit

not working...
So I did as you said(didn't use my PC by downloading stright to the phone and using root explorer)
boot into recovery using quick boot app(exclamation mark screen with little green robot)
pressed the reinstall packages
it says:
-- Applying Multi CSC
-- Installing Multi CSC
-- Install from sdcard..(in yellow)
Finding update package(in yellow)
E:Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1(in red)
(No such file or directory)(in red)
E:Can't mount SDCARD:update.zip(in red)
Installation aborted(in red)
did I do something wrong?

alon2 said:
So I did as you said(didn't use my PC by downloading stright to the phone and using root explorer)
boot into recovery using quick boot app(exclamation mark screen with little green robot)
pressed the reinstall packages
it says:
-- Install from sdcard..(in yellow)
Finding update package(in yellow)
E:Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1(in red)
(No such file or directory)(in red)
E:Can't mount SDCARD:update.zip(in red)
Installation aborted(in red)
did I do something wrong?
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Did you move the the update.zip to the correct directory?

yep moved it to /sdcard
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Did u add the recovery file from downloaded to system .bin folder
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rose2jam said:
Did u add the recovery file from downloaded to system .bin folder
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yes I did just like the tutorial said to(overwrite the original)

/dev/block/mmcblk0p1 - really doesn't exist
E:Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1(in red)
(No such file or directory)(in red)
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I really don't have that directory - should I have it?

issue solved by formatting the SDcard
so I formatted mt sdcard and the managed to get into CWM.
I hava another question:
now every time I want to go into CWM I should do the same procedure?
I mean put the update.zip in the root of the sdcard->go to recovery->reinstall apps?
Alon

That's what I do leaving the update there... btw its root toolbox helps geting into recovery without the three button push also with getting rid of bloat
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going to flash...few more questions
rose2jam said:
That's what I do leaving the update there... btw its root toolbox helps geting into recovery without the three button push also with getting rid of bloat
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Now that I have cwm I want to replace the kernel.
I want to take Bali v2.1 extended battery from whisky -
my questions are:
1) which kernel should I take:regular\UV(what's the difference anyway)
2) what about all my apps+data/contacts/sms...? will it erase them?what backup should I do?

[Q] Noob guide?

Im very new to development on the Sidekick. I have my phone rooted and thats it. I want to put the final smooth maximus on it. How do I go about do that??
Additional info:
As I said I only have it rooted, I dont have CWM on it or anything else.
A step by step noob friendly guide would be helpful please.

Install CWM from here ,
Put the Update.zip on your /SDCARD
Install root manager from phone , put moddedrecovery on your /SDCARD then navigate it to /SYSTEM/BIN rename Recovery.bin to Recovery.bak then move krylon's there .
Terra27 said:
Im very new to development on the Sidekick. I have my phone rooted and thats it. I want to put the final smooth maximus on it. How do I go about do that??
Additional info:
As I said I only have it rooted, I dont have CWM on it or anything else.
A step by step noob friendly guide would be helpful please.
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I dont see a link? Also what is a good free root manager??

http://www.4shared.com/file/kdrTVrGw/Root_Manager_v195.htm
there's root manager & here's CWM
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1124453
Terra27 said:
I dont see a link? Also what is a good free root manager??
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Now how do I put the manager on my phone?? Thank you for being so patient!

Put the .apk on your /SDCARD open file's application from your sidekick & install it
Terra27 said:
Now how do I put the manager on my phone?? Thank you for being so patient!
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if u ever need help feel free to pm me
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Now how do I install it?? Sorry I'm confused on all this. I thought I knew that. Phone dev isn't my forte..

Terra27 said:
Now how do I install it?? Sorry I'm confused on all this. I thought I knew that. Phone dev isn't my forte..
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Go to files , go to place where you saved the .apk and Just click on it , then a option may come up say package installer click on that then it will install.
Hope this helped you.
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Okay so I got everything done and it soft bricked so I used ODIN to unbrick it and when I retry to get into CWM it always errors out now, I've redone everything I originally did and it won't go back into CWM. Why?

Sounds like you didn't replace the recovery binary correctly if it's giving a "verification failed" error.

I did though, I rooted my phone using super one click, robooted it, replaced recovery in system/bin with krios' and left the update.zip on the root and it still didnt. I dont think it really rooted though..

Terra27 said:
I did though, I rooted my phone using super one click, robooted it, replaced recovery in system/bin with krios' and left the update.zip on the root and it still didnt. I dont think it really rooted though..
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do you have the superuser app? if not its not rooted.

I have it.

Terra27 said:
I have it.
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okay so download the recovery file and move it to sytem/bit and overwrite the old recovery file. place the update.zip on to your sd card the volume down+power on should get you there! if its blue i think you have to press reintall packages

Try my script here, it'll place the recovery and cwm for you:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=15831175&postcount=124

So after having my phone brick twice, will someone PLEASE take the time to type a step by step noob friendly guide. Please

Define brick. Where did you have issues and what issues did you have?

Terra27 said:
So after having my phone brick twice, will someone PLEASE take the time to type a step by step noob friendly guide. Please
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download:
http://www.krylon360.com/file_host/sk4g/recovery.zip (This is the recovery.)
http://www.krylon360.com/file_host/sk4g/update.zip (this is the update)
http://www.4shared.com/get/HpENkmN8/...rer_v2124.html (this is root explorer.)
open the first zip file (recovery file) on your computer and take out the recovery file inside it (should be the only file) and place it on the sd card.
place the second file (the update file) on the root of your sd card
and install (root explorer) the last file just like you would a normal apk file.
now open root explorer scroll down and find sdcard,
now open it and find recovery and long press on it. hit copy. now hit the back button once.
now find system. open it.
find bin. open it.
hit on the top mount r/w
hit paste and overwrite the file.
next, power down the device and instead of powering on regularly, press volume down+ power button or volume up+volume down+camera+power on you should be in the recovery mode.
if it is blue then hit re-install packages,
if it is red you should be good to go.
NOW YOU HAVE A CWM
Goodluck and have fun flashing.

tylermaciaszek said:
download:
http://www.krylon360.com/file_host/sk4g/recovery.zip (This is the recovery.)
http://www.krylon360.com/file_host/sk4g/update.zip (this is the update)
http://www.4shared.com/get/HpENkmN8/...rer_v2124.html (this is root explorer.)
open the first zip file (recovery file) on your computer and take out the recovery file inside it (should be the only file) and place it on the sd card.
place the second file (the update file) on the root of your sd card
and install (root explorer) the last file just like you would a normal apk file.
now open root explorer scroll down and find sdcard,
now open it and find recovery and long press on it. hit copy. now hit the back button once.
now find system. open it.
find bin. open it.
hit on the top mount r/w
hit paste and overwrite the file.
next, power down the device and instead of powering on regularly, press volume down+ power button or volume up+volume down+camera+power on you should be in the recovery mode.
if it is blue then hit re-install packages,
if it is red you should be good to go.
NOW YOU HAVE A CWM
Goodluck and have fun flashing.
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okay I can get that far, but when I attempt to flash smooth mazimus on it, it will get to the tmo/sidekick/samsung screen and I'll hear a weird female robotic voice. 4 bricks, 1 with the FC vibrations, 3 with that weird voice.

HELP - nvflash

I just did my 1st nvflash. followed all the directions and the flash completed. it started to boot to the stock rom. I saw the tap n whatever screen then another. it is stuck at the n with the 5 thinks above it screen for almost 20 min...
what can i do at this point??
thanks

ok, i got into the rom now. i am sending back for repairs. do i need to remove cwm recovery? anything else?

Stock recovery 1.2.4349
nixie2121 said:
ok, i got into the rom now. i am sending back for repairs. do i need to remove cwm recovery? anything else?
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Assuming you went back to stock 1.2.4349...Here's the stock recovery
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/36150173/4349stock_recovery.zip
Put this on your internal sd, boot to CWM & flash this.
Al

aabbondanza said:
Assuming you went back to stock 1.2.4349...Here's the stock recovery
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/36150173/4349stock_recovery.zip
Put this on your internal sd, boot to CWM & flash this.
Al
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something crazy going on. I copy the file onto the tablet and it does not stay. i see it in the folder, (tried while tablet was on and tried copying file while in recovery. i see the file is on the tablet on my computer but when i go to flash it is not there??? do they check recovery (if i cant flash this one back)?
thanks!!!

They probably don't check BUT can't guarantee it!
Are you selecting the "install zip from sdcard" option in CWM (different than the "apply sdcard:update.zip" option). The first option lets you browse for any zip you want the second looks specifically for a zip called update.zip in the root of sdcard.
You should use the "install zip from sdcard" option since the filename for the stock recovery isn't update.zip.
Al

yes, i am choosing the right option. The file I copied is not really coping to the tablet. so weird

thanks for the help... I just downloaded from the tablet and got it done...really, thanks a bunch!!!!

The only reason I could think that it would do that is if it hasn't finished copying or the Android is seeing the file as damaged.
Android perioically does file system checks (it's the scanning sdcard notifications you may see periodically). If it finds a corrupt file it moves it and moves it to the LOST.DIR folder.
Are you sure you are giving it enough time to fully copy? Are you sure you got a good download from the link. Try opening the zip on your PC to make sure it isn't damaged. After transferring to the tablet open your file manager & long press on it...it should give you the option to Extract to....see if it will extract the contents to a folder (to make sure the zip transferred OK) if it extract fine you know the zip is intact & you can then delete the extracted folder/contents.
Al

[Q] HELP rooted Nexus S w/ Cyanogen mod 9

I rooted my phone (nexus s i9020a at&t) and have superuser and downloaded rom manager. I had no idea how to figure out how to flash a rom onto my device on my mac so I downloaded one of the many cyanogen mod 9's directly in rom manager. The rom loaded up perfectly and runs smoothly except there is no app market. When I try to go back into rom manager it force quits out.
I am very new to rooting and hacking into my phone and tried searching for hours and can't figure out what to do. If anyone knows how I can just flash a new updated version of cyanogen mod 9 without using rom manager that would be awesome. I really just need a step by step way to do it on the mac because every time someone posts a rom .zip file it downloads as a folder with random stuff in it and in recovery mode in my phone I don't know how to go about flashing it. So confused. Any help would be so appreciated.
Jess

Check your PM. I couldn't post links as it would have been my first post.

cm9 issue
thanks did you get my replies to your pm? i can't figure this out haha

download cm9 and the gapps add-on(with your phone) in the first post of the cm9 thread. boot into recovery, fimd your rom and gapps files, flash cm9 there, then flash the gapps(google apps), then reboot. you do not need rom manager.

Hmm cm9 does not come pre loaded with android app market so u will have to download the latest gapps from other posts in this forum... then copy it into ur phone from ur computer...then after going to cwm recovery use the volume up down buttons to scroll and the power button to choose...u will have to remember where u pasted the gapps file and u will have to navigate to it ...choose the gapps file and scroll down to yes to flash it then go back and reboot...that's it u will now have google apps in ur nexus s...Remember u do not need to open the downloaded gapps zip file as there is nothing u can do by opening it...good luck and happy flashing...
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Must not of searched that much if you overlooked that. Gapps is separate. Read the post fully, please.
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okay so i downloaded the g apps file and its a folder on my desktop with a few other folders within with random files. i go to recovery on my phone mount my phone drag this folder to my mounted phone. then i go back and do i do instal zip from sdcard? or do i do apply update from sd card? this is where I'm stuck idk where to go from here. if i click install zip from sdcard it makes me navigate and i find the name of the folder but it just brings me to the smaller folders and little individual files it's not just one big file but a bunch of little ones so i can't choose the whole thing.
so im confused
edit: so i guess on my mac when i download the zip file it must unzip it during download and becomes a folder. so i tried compressing the folder back into zip format and go back into recovery and load it but it says installation aborted.

Jessicaa39 said:
okay so i downloaded the g apps file and its a folder on my desktop with a few other folders within with random files. i go to recovery on my phone mount my phone drag this folder to my mounted phone. then i go back and do i do instal zip from sdcard? or do i do apply update from sd card? this is where I'm stuck idk where to go from here. if i click install zip from sdcard it makes me navigate and i find the name of the folder but it just brings me to the smaller folders and little individual files it's not just one big file but a bunch of little ones so i can't choose the whole thing.
so im confused
edit: so i guess on my mac when i download the zip file it must unzip it during download and becomes a folder. so i tried compressing the folder back into zip format and go back into recovery and load it but it says installation aborted.
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use google chrome browser on your mac and it wont unzip your files
latest gapps http://t.co/LssQaFMj

alright it went through and it's rebooting now..... it worked. thanks everyone for all your help!! im such a noob but i'm learning.
Jess

Jessicaa39 said:
alright it went through and it's rebooting now..... it worked. thanks everyone for all your help!! im such a noob but i'm learning.
Jess
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we were all noobs before. most important is the learning part.

Help please! Phone wont boot. Need adb expert.

Hey all. I did something silly and deleted a file in system/bin folder while troubleshooting a problem. I made a backup of the file before deleting it in sdcard/download but my phone wont boot so I can copy the backup file back to system/bin. I am able to get my phone into download mode and I believe I could copy the file via adb. However I do not know how to get adb to recognize the phone in download mode. I type...
adb devices
and it states "List of devices attached" and there is nothing under the list but when I plug my phone via USB it shows "SAMSUNG Mobile USB CDC Composite Device" in device manager so I know my pc is recognizing it. I have used adb before with batch files like 1click root and things like that so I know its just me not knowing the right commands to get my device recognized.
Any and all help is appreciated! I just need to copy 1 file from sdcard/download to system/bin and I would assume it would boot back up with no problem!
Thanks!

do u have cwm installed?

I just installed CWM v5.5.0.4 via download mode using this method. http://www.theandroidsoul.com/skyrocket-root-clockworkmod-cwm-recovery/
So now that I am in CWM I am trying to mount things like /system and it shows an error mounting /sdcard and I get that error messaging for mounting all except mount usb storage which works great. I was however able to get the file off my phone but now how do I get the file back to system/bin?

Yes.. you can (and really should) flash CWM from download mode via your PC/laptop. A few weeks ago I did something very similar and soft-bricked my SR by renaming an in-use file (framework-res.apk)... I also only had 3e, so couldn't just restore a nandroid or flash a rom zip. Go to the Dev section and find the thread by Copperhed ("Root the ATT SGH-I727 Skyrocket..."). read through the OP and follow instruction exactly. You will be Odin3 flashing just the CWM recovery partition... this will NOT trip your flash counter. If you are already rooted, you should retain root... if not, you can root via his OP. After you have CWM recovery, there's a way you can mount the sdcard so you can transfer files between your PC and SR... then, you can put the sbin file back and see if it reboots fine... if not, with CWM installed, you can flash (via zip.. not Odin) any rom/kernel/modem zip package you want.

Even though I installed CWM from a different source I thanked you anyways DoctorQMM! Now that I have CWM installed how to I transfer the file from my pc to the system/bin directory? I have been able to mount usb storage and it show up as a drive on my pc but when I mount /system nothing shows up. What am I missing?
Thanks for all your help! I am almost there! ^_^

hey, I recommended it first . Seriously though, download a kernel from the dev section, any kernel. Open it up in winrar, winzip, etc... and delete everything except the system folder. Now take the bin file u copied to ur computer and put it in a folder called bin. Put this bin in the kernel zip inside the system folder. Now delete everything else in the system folder. Put this file on a microsd, slip it in ur phone and flash it through cwm. this will put the bin back, and allow u to reboot phone

JDub... PM cdshepherd.... he's the one who shared with me you can use the mounts and storage option in cwm (then click "mount USB storage")... then you can copy files between your sd and computer without having to do what I did (which was pull external sd out of SR, mount in micro adapter, plugged into laptop and loaded files on the sd... then put sd back in phone.. booted into CWM and flashed the rom zip I put on there). Yes.. you are close! If you can't get that one file back to sbin on root, you could try to flash a stock rom/kernel zip (KK1 or LA3)... you only need to put that rom/kernel zip on your sd or external sd so CWM will see it.

icenight89 your right you provided the inspiration so I thanked you as well and appreciate the explanation. I will perform it now and see where I get. Let me understand this correctly in steps..
1. Download a kernel, any kernel.
2. Open it up, delete everything except the system folder.
3. Create a folder named bin and put the backed up file in the bin folder.
4. Delete everything else within the system folder except the bin file and bin folder. So it should be /system/bin/xxx.file
5. Put this on a microsd card and flash it through cwm. I assume I do this by selecting "install zip from sdcard?"
Thanks for the continual help! ^_^

I am having trouble with the kernel part. I downloaded a i727 kernel from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1340114&page=2. Opened it up and it has boot.img in it. Am I missing something?

Alright. I downloaded the kernel from here http://www.mediafire.com/?85g701ate11zdc9. The kernel contained a folder named system and deleted everything else. I then added the folder bin and added the backed up file I deleted to the system/bin/ directory. I then mounted usb storage via CWM and put the new .zip in there. I then selected "install zip from sdcard", "choose zip from internal sd card" located the zip file and selected "yes." I then get the following read outs...
Installing update...
Installation aborted.
--Installing: /emmc/sgh-1727-skyrocket-att-original-kernel_2.zip
Finding update package...
Opening update package...
Installing update...
Installation aborted.
So it looks like it is not installing. Am I doing something wrong?

wrong kernel, download this one:
http://faux.androidro.ms/sky-kernel-010b1.zip
delete everything from in there except system folder, including boot.img, and follow instructions again, should work

JDubbed said:
icenight89 your right you provided the inspiration so I thanked you as well and appreciate the explanation. I will perform it now and see where I get. Let me understand this correctly in steps..
1. Download a kernel, any kernel.
2. Open it up, delete everything except the system folder.
3. Create a folder named bin and put the backed up file in the bin folder.
4. Delete everything else within the system folder except the bin file and bin folder. So it should be /system/bin/xxx.file
5. Put this on a microsd card and flash it through cwm. I assume I do this by selecting "install zip from sdcard?"
Thanks for the continual help! ^_^
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these steps are exact, nice

Unfortunately I get the same error message with the kernel you supplied. x.x
010b1.zip
Finding update package...
Opening update package...
Installing update...
Installation aborted.
Are you sure I can just delete and add stuff like that and It will work? I mean it makes sense to me but since it keeps aborting there may be something crucial missing that I need to keep in the .zip file. Any ideas?
Here is a link of my modified zip. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6778642/Android/sky-kernel-010b1.zip

pm me when u get a chance

JDubbed said:
Unfortunately I get the same error message with the kernel you supplied. x.x
010b1.zip
Finding update package...
Opening update package...
Installing update...
Installation aborted.
Are you sure I can just delete and add stuff like that and It will work? I mean it makes sense to me but since it keeps aborting there may be something crucial missing that I need to keep in the .zip file. Any ideas?
Here is a link of my modified zip. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6778642/Android/sky-kernel-010b1.zip
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download a rom from Dev section. Doesn't matter which one. Try silvers rom you'll like it. Mount USB storage in cwm. Copy rom to sd. Eject SD from computer. Go back to main menu in cwm. Wipe data/factory reset. Wipe cache partition. Wipe dalvik cache(under advanced in cwm) format system under mounts and storage. Back to main menu in cwm. Install zip from sdcard. Choose zip(rom) you just placed on your SD. Flash it. Reboot device. Enjoy. And make a nandroid after it boots for the first time.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I727 using xda premium

Did you make a cwm backup of rom you were using prior to this?
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No, I did not make a nandroid backup. I had to install CWM from download mode and then I was able to get into CWM all without booting.
I appreciate your time in writing a solution however I am not interested in wiping everything and starting from scratch which is what your proposing. I simply deleted a file in system/bin named mediaserver so system/bin/mediaserver. When I rebooted the phone would not boot. I made a backup of the mediaserver before deleting it and placed it in the sdcard/download folder. All I need to do is copy the mediaserver file back to system/bin/ directory and phone should boot backup as if nothing ever happened. That's is how I understand it. Its just missing a file and I know what the file is and I have the file I just need to figure out how to copy it back over to where it belongs.
I do know how to install stock and other roms but after spending numerous hours on my first phone, SGS Captivate, to experience others roms like Darky's Rom the end result was that it was not worth me having to keep up with all the releases and bug fixes, loading in working kernels to make things work correctly and the like. I would rather just stick with stock. Its just a personal preference.
If anyone knows how to copy a file from my pc or from internal sdcard to my Skyrocket using Download mode or ClockWorkMod using any means but without wiping my data please let me know. Eventually if I do not get a solution I will be forced to revert back to the stock rom but I would rather leave that as a last resort.
I look forward to any other suggestions!
Thank you!

Without the ability to push/pull with adb your running out of solutions. I do hope that you get your skyrocket up and running no matter what method you use. And I do hope that someone with the ability comes along to help you. My way is prob the easy way out. If it were me ide cut my losses. Start from scratch, and try to figure out where my prob starts. Good news is there is a great community with plenty of help. Good luck mate.
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Since my zip suggestion didn't work, try flashing a different kernel, romracer stockish 0.3 is a good choice, from cwm

JDubbed said:
No, I did not make a nandroid backup. I had to install CWM from download mode and then I was able to get into CWM all without booting.
I appreciate your time in writing a solution however I am not interested in wiping everything and starting from scratch which is what your proposing. I simply deleted a file in system/bin named mediaserver so system/bin/mediaserver. When I rebooted the phone would not boot. I made a backup of the mediaserver before deleting it and placed it in the sdcard/download folder. All I need to do is copy the mediaserver file back to system/bin/ directory and phone should boot backup as if nothing ever happened. That's is how I understand it. Its just missing a file and I know what the file is and I have the file I just need to figure out how to copy it back over to where it belongs.
I do know how to install stock and other roms but after spending numerous hours on my first phone, SGS Captivate, to experience others roms like Darky's Rom the end result was that it was not worth me having to keep up with all the releases and bug fixes, loading in working kernels to make things work correctly and the like. I would rather just stick with stock. Its just a personal preference.
If anyone knows how to copy a file from my pc or from internal sdcard to my Skyrocket using Download mode or ClockWorkMod using any means but without wiping my data please let me know. Eventually if I do not get a solution I will be forced to revert back to the stock rom but I would rather leave that as a last resort.
I look forward to any other suggestions!
Thank you!
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Based on your first post, I don't think your pc is FULLY installed your device. Download mode requires additional drivers.........adb devices should return a serial number.
I have not tried adb on my skyrocket...I will do that for your sake and reply with my experience..