Sorry if this has been covered; searched and didn't see anything.
GTG Unbrick back to stock, SOC root, community k v8, flash newest cm7 as per intructions. (have done this many times)
never do i remember my home button completely ceasing to work... i don't know... is it possible this is just a "bad flash"? Any help appreciated.
Thanks all.
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Sooo... I recently got rid of my Samsung Captivate. I loved the phone, I simply didn't like paying $100 a month for it. ( Darn you greedy AT&T. Haha )So when I found out about this LG Optimus V and it was $25 a month, I jumped on it. Problem is: I bricked this phone by trying to put on the Captivate's Touchwiz Calculator onto this device (because it is much better and I liked it) by following someones guide. It seemingly worked until I shutdown my phone and now it won't pass the android screen. It tries over and over but to no avail. I have found almost no blogs/threads on this phone at all or anything of actual use to me not only on xda but on androidcentral, etc. I found it very easy to put my Captivate in download mode and use odin flasher anytime I wanted to change the ROM I had on it even if it was bricked I could put a new clean install back on it. I can't seem to find anything that can help me with this phone, how to put it in download mode if possible? How to flash a new stock rom? Can't find a stock rom? I would GREATLY appreciate anyones advice or help to this very aggravating problem.
Sorry I can't help more, but what happens if you boot the phone whilst holding the back button or volume down button? That enters the hboot/fastboot menu on HTCs, where you can enter the recovery module and flash a ROM.
Well I tried both of the volume button and the back button but you saying that made me attempt pushing both of them at once with the power button. It worked!!!!!!!!!! Thank you, you helped a ton! You wouldn't perhaps know where to find the stock rom would you?
I saw this thread still open and wondered; Do you still need a stock rom?
awidawad said:
I saw this thread still open and wondered; Do you still need a stock rom?
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id like stock rom!
Hey guys
I don't know where else to post this since I am considered "new" in XDA and cant post it in Development forum. So I am posting it here in the general section.
I have a 1008 batch Captivate on Stock 2.1. The 1008 batch looses its 3 button combo for recovery and download everytime you use ODIN One click for stock 2.1 and so I applied the 3 button fix. For now, the 3 button and 2 button combos work fine. Now I want to install the Mosaic 8 ROM.
As a part of the process, I was told to apply the the AT&T GB Bootloader from I897UCKF1 and the Dark_Core Kernel using ODIN3. My friend told me that before I can apply the ROM, I will face a boot loop and so I need to use 3 button fix to get into recovery and apply my new ROM.
My question is will the 3 button fix stay on the phone even though I will be applying a new bootloader and kernel? If not, is there an alternate approach without the boot looping? Because with boot loop and no 3 button combo, I will have to use the jig and go back to stock 2.1
Thanks
Once you flash the gingerbread boot loaders, your three button combo will be fixed.
Great!!! Thanks for the clarification.
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Hey guys
I don't know where else to post this since I am considered "new" in XDA and cant post it in Development forum. So I am posting it here in the general section.
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For future reference, first questions are in q&a not general, and if your question has to do with a specific ROM there are stickies on the top of that section for each ROM.
I know you're new, just a helpful tip, not waving my internets at you or anything
Btw enjoy mosaic
Hi people,
I am kind of a noob on this matters, i have searched a way to solve the problem but with no success.
I have a GT-I9000 with 2.3.4 XXJVR, its allready rooted, have CWM but no idea how its used...
I was thinking in upgrade to 4.0.3, its said to be the best so far, i wanna some help because i dont know what rom and kernel to use, a rooted kernel... have afraid to brick the phone. If you can help me with that i aprecciated.
In your opinion, do you think its worth? i heard its a lot of bugs so i am a little upprehensive with the possible result.
Thanks in advance.
i'm by no means an expert, but i've done this with mine and didn't regret it (only issues i've had are gps and facebook sync of contact list - tho i seem to be alone on that last one)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1462035
there are instructions about halfway down the page.
all you really need to do is go restart to recovery or restart and hold the key combination to get there (i think it's home, vol down)
once there, nav the text based menus using the volume keys to do up + down and the power button to select.
it isn't super difficult, and the worst thing that i had happen was i had to put my phone into download mode and hook it up to odin. not the end of the world
And what about the gps problem? What is the problem with it?
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My phone bricked about a month ago. Now unbricked, it's giving me problems. It's super slow and the menu buttons on the bottom won't work. It lights up but that about it. Any ideas on a fix?
bigpenguin4 said:
My phone bricked about a month ago. Now unbricked, it's giving me problems. It's super slow and the menu buttons on the bottom won't work. It lights up but that about it. Any ideas on a fix?
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I may be more inexperienced than yourself, but I'm sure anyone trying is a relief. Are you stock or rooted? What are you running? That all makes a difference. If you're on stock Froyo and don't want to root, I'd suggest getting it upgraded to Gingerbread ASAP, at the very least. Have you tried to do a complete data wipe and restore to stock? That's scary if you have a lot of stuff stored on the phone, but you can back it all up (there's threads giving instructions how). If you're rooted, how about trying a different rom?
I'm sorry if none of these suggestions help, but your answers will probably help the more experienced members help you, at the very least.
I flashed numerous ROMS. For some reason it bricked and when i used gtg's unbrick it unbricked it but phone is now running super slow and the bottons dont work. I did all the recovery options but still nothing.
bigpenguin4 said:
I flashed numerous ROMS. For some reason it bricked and when i used gtg's unbrick it unbricked it but phone is now running super slow and the bottons dont work. I did all the recovery options but still nothing.
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dumb question but did you try a double flash?
i got it! just flashed it twice
Hey guys i`ve recently managed to get an SGS 4G Vibrant ( i believe that i am at right place to seek for help ) , i have the T-Mobile version of the phone. I need help switching to different/better ROM, at this moment the phone uses the stock one ( or i believe so ). I`ve been tru the threads and saw that there are a lot of stuff posted about what you need to do/have to flash a rom, but i just cant understand the right order of doing the things.
If its posible can someone really quick just post the steps for the guide for flashing a ROM to the phone. I have previous expiriance with android phone and i am aware how thing go, just as i said i cant get the right order of puting all the thing at one place.
For the phone i used to have was like, first i had to install an stocklike ROM which had recovery, but before that i had to get some kind of software for LG that alowes to flash the rom via download mode. So is the same here? It would be awesome if someone can link or atleast type all the software and other thing i need to have installed to make this work. For now what i have is the USB drivers for Samsung.
Thanks in advance!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_S/SGH-T959V
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Ok, that helped, not sure how i missed it. I am gonna write down what i did so far, so you could see if i messed up something.
I rooted the phone via SuperOneClick 2.2, then i installed the SGS Kernel Flasher, and then flashed the kernel, my current phone was running an 2.3.7 android, so i used the Basic with a Twist`s kernel ( i hope i did it right ), and now the phone rebooted and some different boot screen apiared with some Robotic Chick speeking some stuff, BUT for now the phone load to there, it doesnt wannt to load.
So did i messed up something, or ....
Can you go into recovery by holding Volume Up+Volume Down while pressing the power button and as soon as the SGS 4G splash appears leaving the power button ?
If so and you can see CWM Ver. 5.0... then kernel was successfully flashed.
You shouldn't be getting a bootloop.
What ROM do you want to flash ? If you want to flash GB then I suggest Barebone/Valhalla of some kind.
If you want ICS - Go to the CM 9.1 thread and follow the instructions. After that you may change to AOKP or MIUI or all the rest of the ICS ROMs you wanna try.
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SGS 4G Vibrant
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This section is not for the Vibrant.
Check here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=708
I am sorry I do not know how to get you back to where you started before flashing the wrong ROM.
Good luck
Well, it wasnt a bootloop, it just loaded to some point and stoped. Gladly still got the download mode and brought it back to normal to how it was. Thats why i came here to ask, `couse there are too much similiar sgs`s and stuff for them here, i just got confused whats what. Got to start from scratch anyway, at least i didnt bricked it
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=21953587&postcount=1 <---- That's a post by Lumin 30 with a guide on how to get from stock to custom GB. If you want to get to ICS then use CWM 5.0.x.x.