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Hi, I have a serious problem with my phone. So here's the long story (sorry).
First I turned off my phone and turned it back on but it froze at the S logo and went on vibrating every once in a while.
I used odin to flash it but it restored it to eclair 2.1 and all my photos and music are gone. I was wondering if there is a way to restore the lost data.
Thanks.
Basically, no. Sorry.
My thoughts too. Unless u had them on ur external card the wipe erases them all.
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Also, I was on android 2.2 prior to the flash but after, it's 2.1 with the AT&T start screen, is there a way to revert back to 2.2 rogers?
pickupman66 said:
My thoughts too. Unless u had them on ur external card the wipe erases them all.
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Only a master clear or formatting the internal storage would do that. A simple odin one click flash will not cause that.
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Pirateghost said:
Only a master clear or formatting the internal storage would do that. A simple odin one click flash will not cause that.
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And yet it happened...im quite upset. =/
The best and easiest way to flash a rom without having any bugs or flaws,etc.
follow this to a 'tee' and you will have no problems, guarantee you.
Instructions:
1. Download .rar from link and extract it
http://www.multiupload.com/FO6TA6OBAH
2. open odin
3. put pda into the pda, phone into phone (their all in the respective folders)
4. let it finish wiping your phone and everything
5. once your phone boots, back up everything on your internal sd
6. go into settings and do a factory reset then let the phone reboot
7. put the rom you want to flash onto your sd card
8. turn off the phone and go into download mode (both volume buttons then plug in your usb cord.) flash gtg's community kernel. (in the root folder, put that .tar into the pda section) let it finish converting the partions.
9. once it finishes and boots up do this:
turn off phone, then:
using three button method. (volume up, volume down, power button. once you see samsung label release power button and keep holding volume buttons til you see your touch buttons light up, thats the way i figured out when to release them)
10. once the red screen appears, do: wipe data/factory reset, wipe dalvik cache
11. install zip from sd card, choose the rom that you placed onto your sd card
good job. works for me!
Which version of flashing stock does this use? Gtg unbrick?
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Haha, the best way is NEVER using ODIN. Heimdall is much much better.
And why would you return to stock before every flash?
AJerman said:
Haha, the best way is NEVER using ODIN. Heimdall is much much better.
And why would you return to stock before every flash?
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A clean slate. I use to do this all the time with my Captivate. Never had any problems installing any rom. Still do it now with the Infuse, and no problems installing any rom or Hellraiser Hybrid rom.
bigfau said:
A clean slate. I use to do this all the time with my Captivate. Never had any problems installing any rom. Still do it now with the Infuse, and no problems installing any rom or Hellraiser Hybrid rom.
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Never did it with the Captivate, never do it with the Infuse, never had any problems. You have a clean slate every time you flash a ROM as long as you wipe all the data and cache partitions. The system partitions are already overwritten with the flash itself. Basically going back to stock is just doing the same thing twice. Unless you are having some big problems and want to drop back to all stock files to see if you can fix a problem, it's generally unnecessary and just a waste of time. I mean, it doesn't hurt if you want to, it's just redundant.
All you gotta do is flash your ROM from Heimdall or CWM, wipe your data and cache partitions, boot up and you're done. As clean and fresh of a slate as it gets.
AJerman said:
Never did it with the Captivate, never do it with the Infuse, never had any problems. You have a clean slate every time you flash a ROM as long as you wipe all the data and cache partitions. The system partitions are already overwritten with the flash itself. Basically going back to stock is just doing the same thing twice. Unless you are having some big problems and want to drop back to all stock files to see if you can fix a problem, it's generally unnecessary and just a waste of time. I mean, it doesn't hurt if you want to, it's just redundant.
All you gotta do is flash your ROM from Heimdall or CWM, wipe your data and cache partitions, boot up and you're done. As clean and fresh of a slate as it gets.
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yeah i've always had a question about this... would you mind answering?
some instructions say to wipe data factory reset wipe cache before installing custom ROM,
some say after install wipe data factory and all that...
any difference? same? thanks!
jhong91 said:
yeah i've always had a question about this... would you mind answering?
some instructions say to wipe data factory reset wipe cache before installing custom ROM,
some say after install wipe data factory and all that...
any difference? same? thanks!
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I was once watching a youtube video on how to flash and he said something very simple, "wipe, fix, delete, get rid of, whatever. Old school rom flashing: make sure that you knock out everything so that you start on a fresh slate." Jordan is definitely right and knows much more than I. But I agree with AJerman that says its redundant. Just my two cents.
Jordan would you recommend using this method if you just got and rooted an infuse?
(have a warranty replacement on the way )
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Using this method coming from Darky in an attempt to flash the FusionXII ROM, i recieved the message "installation aborted" after clockwork mod started and then ended the flash of the file. any advice? i cleared both data and dalvik in that order.
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Odin back to Froyo, then Odin one of the gingerbread leaks, Odin entropys kernel, turn phone off and get into cwm and flash Fusion. Make sure to wipe data as well.
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is there another link for it
GoSooners345 said:
is there another link for it
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Yes please ...
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Well said Jordan...glad I'm not the only one with that opinion....
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Nice guide, it should definitely alleviate lots of the questions around. I'd reccomend maybe flashing a rom with the gb loaders somewhere near the end so that theres no more rainbow issues.
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can anyone please upload the package form op
should probably mention that this guide isn't for rogers users
threi_ said:
should probably mention that this guide isn't for rogers users
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oh. Is there a guide for rogers I am looking for one
dlzp said:
oh. Is there a guide for rogers I am looking for one
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Yeah people that can't read to save their lives.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1326143
[Guide] [UXKG3] Complete Stock (FOR ROGERS USERS ONLY)
Do thank me.. That was hard work.
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After I failed at upgrading my phone to 2.3.4 GB I ended up just using Raver's KC1 cleanup with ODIN and put the SGS4G back to the custom UI Froyo. The phone started and I put the SIM card in and the phone cannot recieve any signal and also the phone vibrates randomly at times... Any help/suggestions? Please and thank you, reply or PM me please on how to fix my phone! Thanks!!!!
Thanks YOU!!! AGAIN!!!
Go into recovery, wipe the caches. Past that, maybe a factory data reset.
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steven_w said:
Go into recovery, wipe the caches. Past that, maybe a factory data reset.
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Thanks YOU!!! AGAIN!!!
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The phone is still the same. I did both before this problem too. Any other suggestion mate?
try reflashing the rom without your SD card in the phone. Then format your SD card before you put it back in the phone (back up your important data first).
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try reflashing the rom without your SD card in the phone. Then format your SD card before you put it back in the phone (back up your important data first).
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Can you tell me how to correctly flash it?
ktownpop said:
Can you tell me how to correctly flash it?
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If it's via ODIN (which I think it is) you should only need to put the 1 file in the PDA section. Don't mess with any of the check boxes.
stephen_w said:
If it's via ODIN (which I think it is) you should only need to put the 1 file in the PDA section. Don't mess with any of the check boxes.
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Well the one i used came in a .rar file and i just extracted the 3 .tar files and 1 .pit and used odin to put them all in.
ktownpop said:
Well the one i used came in a .rar file and i just extracted the 3 .tar files and 1 .pit and used odin to put them all in.
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Which one did you flash? Are you still having issues?
Remove your sd card and sim card.on your computer, format the sd card to fat32. Wipe everything and make sure you back up whatever you need. Set it aside. Odin the froyo bootloaders from the gb starter pack. If you are staying on froyo, then Odin krylons kb5. If you are going to gb, Odin the gb bootloaders. Once you Odin kb5/gb ROM (which can be done according to the gb start pack), factory reset, wipe both caches. Boot up and let sit for 10 min. Shut down, factory reset, wipe caches again and fix permissions
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jager555 said:
Remove your sd card and sim card.on your computer, format the sd card to fat32. Wipe everything and make sure you back up whatever you need. Set it aside. Odin the froyo bootloaders from the gb starter pack. If you are staying on froyo, then Odin krylons kb5. If you are going to gb, Odin the gb bootloaders. Once you Odin kb5/gb ROM (which can be done according to the gb start pack), factory reset, wipe both caches. Boot up and let sit for 10 min. Shut down, factory reset, wipe caches again and fix permissions
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Okay so could you walk me through on how to do all this? I really want to get this fixed right. Also i found out the signal issues are from the phone not reading or tethering? the SIM card which is in place. Thank you for the help and please help me a bit more on how to format my sd card to fat32 and where to get the froyo bootloaders and roms and such.
Thank you so much
Search for the gb start pack thread. It has all of the files you need. Try following that and wiping the sd by plugging the as card directly into the computer and right clicking and going to format. If you have any specific questions, I'll be happy to explain but I'm not sure what elder you need help with. once you run through it, it makes sense. we'll fix this. Pm me if this thread gets lost in the fray
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Reason I'm asking is:
My Galaxy S had CWM and was running custom ICS and I dropped it and now the display is smashed and touch screen doesn't work. I have a new phone so am going to sell it.
I didn't have debugging activated so I rebooted in download mode and flashed it with a stock ROM using Heimdall.
I'm hoping this would have wiped entire internal memory contents including pics, ebay login, vnc sttings etc.
I think there would be nothing left to identify my on it but wanted to get conformation that it was "clean" of anything identifying me before I sell it.
Thanks
I dont know your phone but after a quick google search I see that it has a internal memory with optional SD card slot. So if its like my g2x then no it wont. When you flash a rom it only wipes the data, system, cache partitions. Not the left over partition(s) which house your user data thats been added per downloads and usb / bluetooth transfers and what not. That wont get touched and needs to be sorted. is the screen not viewable at all? like can read anything at all? I have a few tricks but it is contingent on what you can see or not see.....
No the screen is completely dead.
There was no SD card in the phone when I flashed it if that makes any difference.
Thanks
rough60 said:
No the screen is completely dead.
There was no SD card in the phone when I flashed it if that makes any difference.
Thanks
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so then you may have to adb it... do u have the ability to adb shell to the phone?
Tried that, device wasn't recognized.
There wasnt a sim card in the phone and not sure if debugging is set to on immediately after flashing a new rom?
rough60 said:
Tried that, device wasn't recognized.
There wasnt a sim card in the phone and not sure if debugging is set to on immediately after flashing a new rom?
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um just depends on the dev.. but if u look in the threads u may be able to get a rom that has that setting set on default... or ask a dev to compile a rom with the setting .. or just say eff it turn it on and drop it in a bucket of water.. lol maybe that wouldn't work since your trying to sell it.. hmmm kinda limited with no debugging and no ts...
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I have a captivate, which is the AT&T version of the galaxy s. If you run Odin and put a stock rom on your phone you can completely wipe the phone, internal and all, using the master clear function. I'm sure Heimdall probably has a similar feature but I've only used Odin and know for sure that you can.
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Thanks for your help, I'll look around for rom
Cheers
Thanks gatormatt, I'll check the settings in heimdall
cheers
Try it in CWM?
Adb shell in CWM is possible, right?
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mDroidd said:
Try it in CWM?
Adb shell in CWM is possible, right?
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Is there a menu in CWM I have to be in to do this?
gatormatt said:
I have a captivate, which is the AT&T version of the galaxy s. If you run Odin and put a stock rom on your phone you can completely wipe the phone, internal and all, using the master clear function. I'm sure Heimdall probably has a similar feature but I've only used Odin and know for sure that you can.
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Nope, couldn't find that type of option.
Thanks guys
That's what I get when accessing the "advanced" part of CWM Touch 5.8.1.3 on my skyrocket(to wipe dalvik cache). I also got something similar during a nandroid backup.
What does this mean and why am I getting this message?
Something to do with your external sd card. Might want to Odin cwm again.
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It's done this since I've had the phone.. part of me thinks it's because of all the weird partitioning i had to do when i was using this external card with my atrix and the lapdock.. trying to unlock the webtop and all that insanity. I've tried repartitioning but it doesn't do the job.. now what?
I don't think re-odining CWM will do it, I've been on 4 different CWMs since getting my skyrocket and they've all done this.
I'm also having trouble running sean's newest ICS rom(i went back to GB for a while, too many little bugs were driving me crazy) now. Phone won't boot with it installed. Could this be because the dalvik can't be wiped? where is the dalvik cache written to?
Have you tried using a different external SD card to see if it still gives you that error?
naw, i know i should. i will soon, i was just kind of looking to see if this was a common thing. just formatted the card and will try again. the issue never caused any problems until right now, i'm thinking it's part of the reason i can't boot the ROM. will try reflashing after formatting the external card, then if that doesn't work i'll try going back to the GB nandroid, if it still doesn't boot then i'll try the external card and get back.
You shouldn't need an external to boot the rom. Everything should be flashed from the internal. Just leave the external out, reflash everything, and boot up.
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yeah i figured it couldn't really be the external causing the boot failure. but would not being able to properly wipe the dalvik cause it? because it returns the error when i go to wipe the dalvik. sorry, i'm like a half-noob... got all the terms and procedures down, but the under the hood stuff is still coming slowly lol
edit: no dice. just won't boot at all. going to ODIN cwm again as suggested and try that.
now things are getting really weird. after ODINing CWM, when i go to install from the external SD it just keeps going to my internal. both "internal" and "external" sd card options go to the internal. there's a subfolder for the external_sd as it would be in root explorer, but that just loops back to the normal internal sd folder.. what the hell is going on?
stevenavm said:
now things are getting really weird. after ODINing CWM, when i go to install from the external SD it just keeps going to my internal. both "internal" and "external" sd card options go to the internal. there's a subfolder for the external_sd as it would be in root explorer, but that just loops back to the normal internal sd folder.. what the hell is going on?
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Your on ATT so get the odin oneclick and properly start with the leaked ICS rom.
The onclick has bootloader updates thats CWM wont give you and it also installs the most recent radio and most recent ril's.
The odin "oneclick" will wipe the entire phone and set it up stock and should correct any wierd formatting errors.
Then use the Odin "program" to flash CWM tar
Then try flashing a rom again.
Oh take that card from your atrix and format it FAT32 with a pc and only put the rom and rom updates on it to start with. If you get this far, you should be good to go.
stevenavm said:
That's what I get when accessing the "advanced" part of CWM Touch 5.8.1.3 on my skyrocket(to wipe dalvik cache). I also got something similar during a nandroid backup.
What does this mean and why am I getting this message?
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Well you are a noob for one but to answer your question its a file on you SD card used for the apps to SD feature the file will not exist nor will it be found if the feature is not used in the rom its not an error and its nothing to worry about your phone is fine and to all of you giving advice stop none of you know wtf your doing
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nrm5110 said:
Well you are a noob for one but to answer your question its a file on you SD card used for the apps to SD feature the file will not exist nor will it be found if the feature is not used in the rom its not an error and its nothing to worry about your phone is fine and to all of you giving advice stop none of you know wtf your doing
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Hey don't be a ****, go take your disgruntled ass elsewhere. No need to be a douche when people are trying to help. This q and a. And he is having other problems too, guess you missed that part.
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Dirtburgler said:
Hey don't be a ****, go take your disgruntled ass elsewhere. No need to be a douche when people are trying to help. This q and a. And he is having other problems too, guess you missed that part.
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Hey, the clueless noobs were giving incorrect answers, He answered his question with an informative answer. What more do you want.
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stevenavm said:
yeah i figured it couldn't really be the external causing the boot failure. but would not being able to properly wipe the dalvik cause it? because it returns the error when i go to wipe the dalvik. sorry, i'm like a half-noob... got all the terms and procedures down, but the under the hood stuff is still coming slowly lol
edit: no dice. just won't boot at all. going to ODIN cwm again as suggested and try that.
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Your second issue is likely a bad download
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Dirtburgler said:
Hey don't be a ****, go take your disgruntled ass elsewhere. No need to be a douche when people are trying to help. This q and a. And he is having other problems too, guess you missed that part.
i727-ucle2-SkY IcS
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While you are so called trying to help. Nrm actually did help. Take the attitude elsewhere.
Its not good to have a question when you all give wrong answers lol
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nrm5110 said:
Its not good to have a question when you all give wrong answers lol
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So your just a douche then? At least people tried to help without insulting others.
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Yes I am when your dealing with repeat questions but I did answer no less and correctly
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Dirtburgler said:
So your just a douche then? At least people tried to help without insulting others.
i727-ucle2-SkY IcS
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They are all wrong answers.
I was going to say, I get this all the time and never worry about it. Everything runs fine.
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So your just a douche then? At least people tried to help without insulting others.
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He didn't insult them personally. He gave constructive criticism for the noobs to build on. You are the only butt hurt noob insulting the one guy who gave correct information. If he didn't help the OP, he would have flashed his phone repeatedly with the same results. Quit trying to be a tough guy, and swallow your pride
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