I tried to root through the odin method and I can get into CWM but when I install zip then reboot it stops at the SAMSUNG screen...any help will do I need my phone by tomorrow at the latest also Im with Best buy warranty so should I just break my phone and get another ?
Boot into recovety try data/cache wipe 3 times each then reboot.
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Also which rom are you trying to install?
What u running 2.3.5? Or 2.3.6?
IF 2.3.5 than i would unroot it and run 1click root.
GeezyF.Ladies said:
I tried to root through the odin method and I can get into CWM but when I install zip then reboot it stops at the SAMSUNG screen...any help will do I need my phone by tomorrow at the latest also Im with Best buy warranty so should I just break my phone and get another ?
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stock one from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1340526
appdroid said:
What u running 2.3.5? Or 2.3.6?
IF 2.3.5 than i would unroot it and run 1click root.
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2.3.6 yeah I've heard one click is awesome
Your able to get into recovery? So as i said boot into recovery wipe data/cache 3 times then reboot. If still no go flash the stock tar with odin again and reroot. You could also try just flashing the stock recovery.tar and boot into it. Then wipe data, and cache. Then reboot
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Your able to get into recovery? So as i said boot into recovery wipe data/cache 3 times then reboot. If still no go flash the stock tar with odin again and reroot. You could also try just flashing the stock recovery.tar and boot into it. Then wipe data, and cache. Then reboot
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k tried the data/cache 3 times each and rebooted and nothing. well how do I put stock tar on my sd card if I cant get my phone on to connect with my pc storage ?
The stock tar you need to put on your pc. And you need to get your phone into download mode. You use odin on you pc with your phone in download mode. To flash the stock recovery tar. To be honest you need to just use odin to reflash the stock tar. Again. Go to the thread woth the stock tar and follow the instructions again
haha duh on my part I was just so scared that I panicked but its downloading now and im going to try and flash back to stock when it is done. thanks for your patience/help slvwrx.....upon more research I think I got a bad recovery tar bc I cant open it its just a white page with a folded corner and I think I saw someone with this problem in the thread and said you have to extract zip
any other ideas ?
anyone get tar files from another site because when I try to open mine they all say cannot open file does not seem to be a valid archive.
You cannot be serious with these questions? You don't open the tar file you put it in Odin. You really need to put some effort into researching what you are trying to do with your phone. Your lack of prior research is why you are having problems. Not trying to be an ahole but you really need to READ everything in these forums before you try to do anything to your phone or you seriously risk bricking it and not being able to recover it. It is nearly impossible to brick these phones but if you have not done the requisite research here then you will end up in essence with a brick because you have no clue how to recover it from your own mistakes. I read these forums for a solid week before I even connected my phone to my laptop and I am an IT Engineer but that doesn't make me an Android expert so I learned from the awesome people here that know more than I and are freely willing to share their knowledge. Take my word for it any/all information you would ever need to fix your phone is all right here for the reading courtesy of the great devs and enthusiasts here on the site.
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You cannot be serious with these questions? You don't open the tar file you put it in Odin. You really need to put some effort into researching what you are trying to do with your phone. Your lack of prior research is why you are having problems. Not trying to be an ahole but you really need to READ everything in these forums before you try to do anything to your phone or you seriously risk bricking it and not being able to recover it. It is nearly impossible to brick these phones but if you have not done the requisite research here then you will end up in essence with a brick because you have no clue how to recover it from your own mistakes. I read these forums for a solid week before I even connected my phone to my laptop and I am an IT Engineer but that doesn't make me an Android expert so I learned from the awesome people here that know more than I and are freely willing to share their knowledge. Take my word for it any/all information you would ever need to fix your phone is all wright here for the reading courtesy of the great devs and enthusiasts here on the site.
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any criticism is good criticism to me thanks for giving me the cold hard facts and to be truthful I did jump into this early coming from an iphone 4 and all the ones before that and jailbreaking them I thought it'd be easy and it was I just 2nd guess myself all the time. my mistake was following the vid a ruebarb posted in the thread and I followed it to a T .it wasnt till he updated his video and said that his method was for ''already'' rooted users so after getting konane's stock tar flashed in odin I was back to stock re-did the 2.3.6 method got it done stayed stock rooted for 2 days then just about 30 mins ago I went head and jumped on RED SONIA!
again thanks for your input and to care enough to set a noob stright
also Cdshep pretty much found the problem after having a personal chat with me he saw what I was trying to say I'm just not really good with wording or spelling I just recently winged myself of of concerta(ADHD pills) and so my mind moves faster than I can type or right and I confuse myself but its better than the life of a zombie!
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If anyone is able....and willing to help, I'd be most grateful.
I know there are many pages in the forum and the net that touch on this, but as one post puts it, almost too many.j
that is the least of the problems. I am a total newbie and get so confused.
When I originally rooted my phone it was with help from someone, now a friend, who I found on YouTube. I always saw confusing ways to root, where you can't miss ONE character. Somehow, don't ask me, feel free to tell me, we rooted with hardly any of that . Some character typing was done, but a lot was using programs, ROM managers, etc.. and hitting buttons.
So it was Rooted and I had no problems flashing ROMS
Now selling. I was gonna sell with MIUI...as I advertised. It was recommended by someone on here to put the factory firmware on .
1. That means flash the original MyTouch 4g firmware/UI/whatever?? ...or does it mean unroot
2. If it means the former, I found one site it gave me this file PD15IMG can I just flash that. It led me to believe I can. It won't be unrooted but it would be the original ROM
3. Or should I unroot. Is anyone willing to walk me thru some steps on here, maybe thru PM...I just get so confused by this stuff because it talks about s=on or ???
4. Lastly, this gent recommended I flash that OR reflash whatever I am gonna send, then Factory wipe. I thought reflashing WAS factory resetting.
Can you tell me how to factory reset AFTER I flash a ROM
LIke I said, I have searched and did find some of this in different places but in jargon I don't understand
So please if you could answer any one or all of the above Id be grateful. If you like I can paypal you 5-10 dollars or a few more if we spend time on it.
Sincerely
Eric
Did you root your phone with Gfree or the root.sh method?
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Actually you can put the PD15IMG file on your SD card and boot up into bootloader. It will ask you if you want to apply the update...say yes. BE PATIENT. It will get you back to stock.
eric0668 said:
If anyone is able....and willing to help, I'd be most grateful.
I know there are many pages in the forum and the net that touch on this, but as one post puts it, almost too many.j
that is the least of the problems. I am a total newbie and get so confused.
When I originally rooted my phone it was with help from someone, now a friend, who I found on YouTube. I always saw confusing ways to root, where you can't miss ONE character. Somehow, don't ask me, feel free to tell me, we rooted with hardly any of that . Some character typing was done, but a lot was using programs, ROM managers, etc.. and hitting buttons.
So it was Rooted and I had no problems flashing ROMS
Now selling. I was gonna sell with MIUI...as I advertised. It was recommended by someone on here to put the factory firmware on .
1. That means flash the original MyTouch 4g firmware/UI/whatever?? ...or does it mean unroot
2. If it means the former, I found one site it gave me this file PD15IMG can I just flash that. It led me to believe I can. It won't be unrooted but it would be the original ROM
3. Or should I unroot. Is anyone willing to walk me thru some steps on here, maybe thru PM...I just get so confused by this stuff because it talks about s=on or ???
4. Lastly, this gent recommended I flash that OR reflash whatever I am gonna send, then Factory wipe. I thought reflashing WAS factory resetting.
Can you tell me how to factory reset AFTER I flash a ROM
LIke I said, I have searched and did find some of this in different places but in jargon I don't understand
So please if you could answer any one or all of the above Id be grateful. If you like I can paypal you 5-10 dollars or a few more if we spend time on it.
Sincerely
Eric
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Check the development thread for the RUU file posted by Football. Name it pd15img.zip put it on the root of your sdcard, boot into bootloader and let it flash. That's it. Super easy, no dicking around with anything else.
DON'T FLASH IT WITH RECOVERY!
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Phateless said:
Check the development thread for the RUU file posted by Football. Name it pd15img.zip "put it on the root of your sdcard, boot into bootloader and let it flash. That's it. Super easy, no dicking around with anything else.
DON'T FLASH IT WITH RECOVERY!
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Here you go.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1174344
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Much thanks to the 3 of u. It may be a non issue...as I am not hearing back.from the buyer and it was advertised to be sold with MIUI with pics and he may have liked the iPhone 'look' In answer to your questions I was helped by Mack on YouTube to root. I do t k ow which way. I DO know it was the easy way....it involved very little typing and worrying about messing up a character
I have only used ROM Manager and CWM within that. When I reboot I see the option for bootloader. Is it 'dangerous?'
This is what I am gonna do tell me if correct
Take that last link. Hook up to Computerput in root of SD card. Hit restart except dont hit normal
or recovery...hit bootloader...it will restart...maybe hit yes or enter when asked
-only if he gets back to me today if not tomorrow is the 5 th day since he bought it and I have a 4 day turnaround so I will mail as advertised. He has 0 points, sales or purchases on EBay
-for some reason I am getting no email notification for xda when I select it.
-I get some keys that dont type occasionally it may have started with MIUI. could that be beccause of it. Someone on here, a senior told me as good as MIUI is it is unstable
-regardless of which I flash/leave on. How about the factory research tying. Thought that was just the reflashimg. For MIUI I JUST hit wipe data in recovery right after flashing and restart. I guessed that because I did that once by mistake and it restarted with MIUI there
I appreciate all your help and patience here. For all of you I can't give u more than thanks for hopefully getting me thru this. I dont think its my lack of intelligence that can't do it. Its my anxiety, health situation and lack of fundage to be able to brick a phone. No mas for me
That same gent told me that he thinks in HTC phones that once u flash a ROM he thinks u lose ROOT?
I hope to hear back and have a good day
Eric
eric0668 said:
I have only used ROM Manager and CWM within that. When I reboot I see the option for bootloader. Is it 'dangerous?'
This is what I am gonna do tell me if correct
Take that last link. Hook up to Computerput in root of SD card. Hit restart except dont hit normal
or recovery...hit bootloader...it will restart...maybe hit yes or enter when asked
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No, it is not dangerous. The last link is the RUU (PD15IMG) of the stock ROM. And your steps are good to go. Go into bootloader and let it do its thing.
Flashing rooted ROM's will not make you lose root. You only lose root flashing an unrooted ROM, such as a stock ROM.
Hello there guy's I'm new with rooted charge phones. Well guy's last night I did a stupid thing with my phone.. I accidentally updates my phone with the new OTA FP1 with rooted rom. Well guy's now my phone is screwing up.
So I followed few steps on at XDA.. How to fix my phone.. So I got my phone on stock rom and also I got the new update OTA FP1.
Well guy's I need some help on rooting this phone with the new update stock OTA FP1 rom.
The person who help me on rooting my phones he left to a church mission at south Africa.
Could any one please guide me on steps on rooting this phone on the new stock Rom (FP1) rooted also includes radios, kernel.
Please I need help guides steps with this phone issues because I'm not great person on rooting.
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sgtkillspot said:
Hello there guy's I'm new with rooted charge phones. Well guy's last night I did a stupid thing with my phone.. I accidentally updates my phone with the new OTA FP1 with rooted rom. Well guy's now my phone is screwing up.
So I followed few steps on at XDA.. How to fix my phone.. So I got my phone on stock rom and also I got the new update OTA FP1.
Well guy's I need some help on rooting this phone with the new update stock OTA FP1 rom.
The person who help me on rooting my phones he left to a church mission at south Africa.
Could any one please guide me on steps on rooting this phone on the new stock Rom (FP1) rooted also includes radios, kernel.
Please I need help guides steps with this phone issues because I'm not great person on rooting.
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Follow direction #5:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1560117
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I was fuclking frustrated when trying to CWM / ROOT / CUSTOM rom my charge.
I have rooted and installed more roms than i can shake a stick at with my other phones.
But the lack of information on sooooo many of the dev threads that leave out soooooooooooooooooooooooo much info made my head spin.
First of all.
Odin is a program that you can install clockword mod with, as well as some custom roms.
Clockwork mod is a recovery / install tool that you install to be able to install custom roms and packages.
Even installing clockwork mod is a hassle, often you have to install it with odin and select, dont auto reboot. then pull the usb and then the battery.. then you have to hit the VolumeUp button + power + home to get into cwm.. and hopefully it will stick..
Once you get cwm installed you have to download a rom..
There are many of them, i went with a package that you load via odin instead of installing from clockwork mod.
i went with a package that was a stock 2.3.6 with root.
after i installed it, it was recommended that you wipe devlink cache, system cache.
finally after i rebooted i finally had a rom that was rooted.
This was after 2+ hours of searching through threads, downloading way too much crap and swearing at my computer for the lack of quality directions.
Usually XDA is rife with STICKYS that are easy to follow.
The charge forum is quite the opposite.
If i was not tired / drunk and frustrated i would post a correct HOW TO thread.. that i would imagine would not get stickied.
sprintrjm said:
I was fuclking frustrated when trying to CWM / ROOT / CUSTOM rom my charge.
I have rooted and installed more roms than i can shake a stick at with my other phones.
But the lack of information on sooooo many of the dev threads that leave out soooooooooooooooooooooooo much info made my head spin.
First of all.
Odin is a program that you can install clockword mod with, as well as some custom roms.
Clockwork mod is a recovery / install tool that you install to be able to install custom roms and packages.
Even installing clockwork mod is a hassle, often you have to install it with odin and select, dont auto reboot. then pull the usb and then the battery.. then you have to hit the VolumeUp button + power + home to get into cwm.. and hopefully it will stick..
Once you get cwm installed you have to download a rom..
There are many of them, i went with a package that you load via odin instead of installing from clockwork mod.
i went with a package that was a stock 2.3.6 with root.
after i installed it, it was recommended that you wipe devlink cache, system cache.
finally after i rebooted i finally had a rom that was rooted.
This was after 2+ hours of searching through threads, downloading way too much crap and swearing at my computer for the lack of quality directions.
Usually XDA is rife with STICKYS that are easy to follow.
The charge forum is quite the opposite.
If i was not tired / drunk and frustrated i would post a correct HOW TO thread.. that i would imagine would not get stickied.
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Hey bro, no need to get frustrated, you tried too hard to learn all at once. Let talk about what you have on your phone and what you want to achieve? I will take you through step by step.
Another thing I want to clear with you about Odin and CWM. They both are two useful tools to flash rom/kernel etc.. If kernel or full rom image are created in a ZIP format or extension, you use cwm. If a rom/kernel created in a MD5 format or extension, you would use Odin.
For example; the new FP1 kernel was made in both format so you have a choice to use either to flash.
Summary:
1. If the file ended with ZIP extension like "FP1_kernel.ZIP", you would use CWM to flash.
2. If the file ended with MD5 extension like "FP1_kernel.MD5", then you would use Odin to flash.
In order to use cwm, it has to be installed on your phone. cwm was created in MD5 extension, so you need to use Odin to install cwm to your phone. Once cwm installed on your phone, in order to access it, you need to hold Vol up+home+power button to get to it, then you can use it to flash zip file.
Odin is an execution PC file (.exe), you download and install on your PC and it used to flash MD5 file. In order for Odin to talk to your phone, you have to put your phone in "download mode". By remove battery, plug in usb cable between your PC and phone, press Vol down button, this will put your phone in download mode, now you re insert battery back to ensure a stable data transfer between your PC and phone. Without put back battery, data transfer may fail. After this, Odin is ready to flash Md5 file to your phone.
Like I said, let me know what's on your phone and what you want to achieve, I can help you step by step to get it done. After you have some practice, you will understand what involved and how to use them. Cheers!!!
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yeah.. i should have just read through the forums a day or so to figure out the odin / rooting / rom process for this phone.
But i am a seasoned vet in the android world and got pretty frustrated, mainly because a few of the other xda forums made me a little jaded by the process.
I have a fully functioning 2.3.6 rooted charge with CWM and the edited build prop to keep the Unwanted ota updates from bugging me.
Thanks for not flaming the f-out of me.
BTW have yall come across a thread about sandblasting or sandpapering the back cover of the phone to make it less slippery? I have sweaty f-ing hand, i know gross, but its a slippery phone for me.
sprintrjm said:
yeah.. i should have just read through the forums a day or so to figure out the odin / rooting / rom process for this phone.
But i am a seasoned vet in the android world and got pretty frustrated, mainly because a few of the other xda forums made me a little jaded by the process.
I have a fully functioning 2.3.6 rooted charge with CWM and the edited build prop to keep the Unwanted ota updates from bugging me.
Thanks for not flaming the f-out of me.
BTW have yall come across a thread about sandblasting or sandpapering the back cover of the phone to make it less slippery? I have sweaty f-ing hand, i know gross, but its a slippery phone for me.
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Not a problem, you can get a back cover from ebay for a few bucks and it will do the trick.
Seems like you already knew how to handle cwm, why don't you flash (using cwm) FP1 eclipse rom, kernel and radio, so you will be on the latest O/S?
Hey everyone.
Im generally pretty savvy with androids. I rooted and S-offed my HTC Desire, I had a nexus S for a bit until it got ran over... Now im stuck with this Galaxy S 4G, which has been nothing but headaches because for some reason... this thing is impossible to root to me. Ive tried Hemidall, Super1clicks, Odin etc..
Can someone please just point me in the direction of rooting this POS? Im hoping that once its rooted and running stock, I wont hate this thing as much... because so far, Its a horrible purchase.
I just need someone to post a link to where I need to be. Ive searched.. and im absolutely lost. Even the Rootz wiki was useless to me.
Thanks.
Model Number - SGH-T959W
Android Version 2.3.6
You might not have any luck this is the T-959V and your phone might not be supported
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=28566711&postcount=15
Read that then understand what bhundven means by DONT FLASH BOOTLOADERS!!
You can use the heimdall one clicks he created to get root access and then flash any rom that DOESNT HAVE BOOTLOADERS INCLUDED. That means do not use gremlin remover period. Once you get rooted make a backup and keep it stored in as many places as possible. If you flash the ics variants you will have to use the stock kj6 HOC and then need to flash the HOC for antonx kernel to get root back. At that point you can flash your nandroid or whatever rom you want. AGAIN AS LONG AS IT DOESNT HAVE BOOTLOADERS included.
eollie said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=28566711&postcount=15
Read that then understand what bhundven means by DONT FLASH BOOTLOADERS!!
You can use the heimdall one clicks he created to get root access and then flash any rom that DOESNT HAVE BOOTLOADERS INCLUDED. That means do not use gremlin remover period. Once you get rooted make a backup and keep it stored in as many places as possible. If you flash the ics variants you will have to use the stock kj6 HOC and then need to flash the HOC for antonx kernel to get root back. At that point you can flash your nandroid or whatever rom you want. AGAIN AS LONG AS IT DOESNT HAVE BOOTLOADERS included.
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I have no idea what youre talking about. Sorry
I used the Hemidall, and only got an unrooted Tmobile rom.. Im not sure where exactly i get root from this
Meh, forget it... im selling this phone. There is no convincing me to ever buy anything from Sammy again unless its a Nexus line.
HTC or Nexus forever.
Thanks guys
Reading is hard
"Can I get step by step directions please?"
Sure, here you are!
"What?! Your not going to remotely root my phone for me? F this place"
Good luck sir, you have the patience of a saint and the drive of a tiger!
OK let's be honest you gave up kinda quick.......
The forum that eollie linked you to was a forum talking about the phone that you bought, which is an apparent offshoot of the t-959v and according to what Masonite found out, "our" roms work on the t-959w but you cannot flash the bootloaders.
Here is the one click link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1358498 just boot into download mode and use this but absolutely don't flash bootloaders and it should be OK, no promises.
Eollie was right for linking you there, all the info you needed about your model phone was on that forum, that one click is in the dev sticky which everybody should read.
There has been a flood of people not researching a little bit first before posting and that's why people flamed you but you should not give up, its a good phone and our devs are dedicated and have put in a lot of time on this model, you should be happy your phone can even support all the great roms that are available.
I'm not being mean but seriously, come on, all the info is there, no need to get mad.
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Edit: or Google search how to use heimdall if your confused, I learn off a damn YouTube video..........
Our devs didn't create heimdall and don't support it but it is a great program and the dev has to build the individual one click for the phone, we should be happy to have it that easily available.
Reading the whole thread you got linked to is really hard. Phone-bricking hard
FBis251 said:
Reading the whole thread you got linked to is really hard. Phone-bricking hard
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Hahaha I know but but I believe in you lmao
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You'll need to flash one of the back to stock files that you got linked to in that thread which will put you on stock GB with no root. DO NOT FLASH THE BOOTLOADERS. You'll very likely brick if you do.
After this download the AntonX kernel from bhundven's one click thread and flash that. That will give you a custom kernel with CWM built in and root.
Needless to say, this is all for the SGH-T959V which theoretically should work on the SGH-T959W. As you'll read any disclaimer on this forum, you're resposible for anything you flash and the damage that may occur to your device.
Thanks for that fb I forgot a few steps if he wants to be on mtd roms, I assumed he could read from that point............ but your right for knowing better
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Thank you very much, and I'm sorry for getting angry. I've had this phone for almost 4 months now, and haven't been able to do anything with it. Quite frustrating.
So, I currently have the Tmobile ROM on my phone, so I'm halfway there it appears!
I'm going to download the other ROM as soon as I get home.
Thanks so much! Next up.. Learning to flash with Odin, and not ROM manager.
It seemed like everything I tried wasn't working with 2.3.6. Superoneclick etc.
I was waiting for a new exploit, but it never came. I tried YouTube tutorials, text directions.. Everything would fail, or give me "read only" errors. I feared bricking, so I stopped.. But I searched the forum and came across the thread he linked me to, but it said no bootloaders, and all the ones I saw had bootloaders. Wasn't until tonight that I noticed it's a 2 part flash process, with the second being the bootloaders.
I think I started this thread at 3am.
Lesson learned.
In heimdall, you can click a little box that says "flash bootloaders" to toggle flashing them on and off! .... or maybe it was odin? I can't remember... been a while since I used them!
After being away for the weekend, I came home, and BAM... fully rooted. Amazing! and FINALLY!!!
Thanks everyone for your help...
I just have another issue.
I wanna flash this ROM http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1305145
It says its CWM.. but there is a huge disclaimer that we shouldn't use ROM Manager on the development page, which is a bit confusing. Since this ROM isnt Odin flashable... what do i do?
Thanks again.
So I was confused about this when I first started. I'm not at my computer but I can help. In order to flash Roms via cmw you have to turn off your phone hold both volume rockers on the phone then hold the power button and hold till you get into cwm recovery. That will get you into cmw recovery mode. Then wipe data factory rest, from there go back to the main menu and select the install zip from sd card and find the zip file you want to flash and select it and install. Should be good to go.
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Nevermind... im a complete goon. I got it, lol.
Thanks
I went to install a rom on my sk4g and something went wrong its just stuck on first load screen and thats it please anyone help
fall3n_soul said:
I went to install a rom on my sk4g and something went wrong its just stuck on first load screen and thats it please anyone help
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You need to ODIN your sidekick back to the stock ROM, it will help you :good:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1186954
good luck!
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If the link is broken, try to download the files for ODIN THERE
Stop being foolish, people.
Root your phone, get clockworkmod, make a backup, and then...
Do not install a rom.
You need to Odin first. That's right. Recover your phone to bone stock. Learn how it works first instead of showing up asking the same dumb questions over and over...
Odin first. Then root it again, get clockworkmod, and restore your backup.
Now, that you know how recovery works, you can start tinkering.
In case you didn't notice (you didn't), there was no development on this phone at all until developers had a way to Odin back to stock. Development started with Odin. Shouldn't you?
Don't wait until you have a problem. Use your head.
orange808 said:
Stop being foolish, people.
Root your phone, get clockworkmod, make a backup, and then...
Do not install a rom.
You need to Odin first. That's right. Recover your phone to bone stock. Learn how it works first instead of showing up asking the same dumb questions over and over...
Odin first. Then root it again, get clockworkmod, and restore your backup.
Now, that you know how recovery works, you can start tinkering.
In case you didn't notice (you didn't), there was no development on this phone at all until developers had a way to Odin back to stock. Development started with Odin. Shouldn't you?
Don't wait until you have a problem. Use your head.
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I learned this the hard way, but no one seems to be posting anything decent on how to make CWM the default and permanent recovery. Whenever I do the three button thingy, it always boots into stock recovery. Doing the update thingy through stock recovery didn't work either. It just gets me to CWM temporarily, and then the next time I boot into the device I get stock recovery all over again. Plz help?
T3kB0i said:
I learned this the hard way, but no one seems to be posting anything decent on how to make CWM the default and permanent recovery. Whenever I do the three button thingy, it always boots into stock recovery. Doing the update thingy through stock recovery didn't work either. It just gets me to CWM temporarily, and then the next time I boot into the device I get stock recovery all over again. Plz help?
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There's a fake flash Windows utility that uses the original root program and script, but it installs clockworkmod instead of rooting your phone. The idea was to use it after you rooted your rom. sduvick posted it. It is an ugly hack, but it works.
http://www.mediafire.com/?cedw9551tl1riu5
orange808 said:
There's a fake flash Windows utility that uses the original root program and script, but it installs clockworkmod instead of rooting your phone. The idea was to use it after you rooted your rom. sduvick posted it. It is an ugly hack, but it works.
http://www.mediafire.com/?cedw9551tl1riu5
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When I tried that utility, it boots into stock recovery, and when I tell it to re-install packages, it tells me that it isn't able to verify the signature?
Ok so im looking to root my blaze on stock 2.3.6, but im being hesitant now because ive previously soft bricked it. Im fairly certain the reason it soft bricked was cause i didnt do a flash to factory default before i tryed to downgrade the firmware in an attempt to get kies to recognize my phone the last time. Now my question is not only how do i go about rooting it and upgrading the firmware from 2.3.6 gb to 4.0.4 ics without bricking it. Oh and i didnt personally restore the phone from soft bricking, someone else did it for me, but he wont do the updating cause hes already bricked a phone doing it.
Once you have your phone rooted with a custom recovery, just grab any ROM from the dev section and flash. No need to update via kies.
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The thing is i dont have alot of experience doing it, im wary of bricking it again. I think the last phone i did anything like this with was actually g1 on 1.6, lol. And id also like an opinion or 2 on which rom to go for if i do install one,
jimmy2989 said:
The thing is i dont have alot of experience doing it, im wary of bricking it again. I think the last phone i did anything like this with was actually g1 on 1.6, lol. And id also like an opinion or 2 on which rom to go for if i do install one,
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If you do anything wrong, you'll jsut soft brick it. Blaze is very hard to brick. Follow the instructions on the (How to Root) and you should be fine. Take your time. Dont rush and ALWAYS make a backup. Ive lost inportant things cuz I goofed. Look into a rom before you flash. as well. decide what you want and go from there. research research
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you can upgrade to 4.0.4 by Keis on the Pc. without a risk.
If your completely set on running a rom, you don't need to root. Just use Odin to flash CWM. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1591622
Then make a complete backup (nandroid) first thing, and flash whatever you like. I suggest the latest Cyanogenmod nightly (not the stable version, it's old). http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1922935
It's very hard to brick this phone, Odin and download mode are your friend, lol.
So i tryed to flsh in clockwork mod nd go figure i soft bricked the phone
once it gets to nand write start it fails and i cant seem to flash it back to stock
jimmy2989 said:
once it gets to nand write start it fails and i cant seem to flash it back to stock
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I have always been able to recover my phone following the steps in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1591601
But you MUST do them exactly as written.
Once you do this you will be back to Gingerbread. The only way to upgrade from this build is a ROM. You will no longer be able to use KIES to upgrade.
rbeier1221 said:
I have always been able to recover my phone following the steps in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1591601
But you MUST do them exactly as written.
Once you do this you will be back to Gingerbread. The only way to upgrade from this build is a ROM. You will no longer be able to use KIES to upgrade.
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I did exactly as it said multiple times, but it keeps failing after nand write start
You may want to read through this thread. Also, anytime you are running ODIN always double check to make sure re-partition is not checked. I forget when it happens but when either adding the PDA or the PIT file it will re-check itself.
Forgot Link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1834059&highlight=blaze+hard+brick
Both those links should have the tips you need. If you can access download mode it's only soft bricked. It could be something like a bad download or something else flaky.
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You may want to read through this thread. Also, anytime you are running ODIN always double check to make sure re-partition is not checked. I forget when it happens but when either adding the PDA or the PIT file it will re-check itself.
Forgot Link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1834059&highlight=blaze+hard+brick
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Yea i just accidentally forgot to unclick repartition while trying again, but it always comes to the same screen no matter what i do, itll say it failed and stay soft bricked, i read thought that page but there wasnt anything i havent already tryed there, i think it might be the usb cords im using but i dont have the original to try