I have a stock Infuse 4g from AT&T and I would like a step by step, like a tutorial of everything I have to do for flashing custom roms, what to backup, installing CWM, etc. Thanks.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1514886
[REF] Super Infuse Noobie Question Thread. Lots of questions answered
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Yes, I know about that thread, but they don't answer all of my questions, like for example: I have stock GB, do I still root with super one click? What is the first step in flashing custom roms, rooting and then installing CWM? How do I install CWM? What to use to backup apps? What is Rom manager from the android market and what is it for, is it useful? How to backup contacts? Before flashing, should I remove the sim card? When flashing, is it always done in CWM? If so, what's the exact process?
What I want is more of a fool proof step by step, just to make sure everything goes as smoothly as possible. I had to use Heimdall's one click back to stock to go from froyo to GB UCKJ4 because of the boot loop even though the phone wasn't rooted or anything, it was stock. If I did that, what are my options? What should I do if I want to flash custom roms from scratch? Also, CWM is kept even after a factory reset or a wipe? it doesn't get deleted in any way when you want ti flash another Rom?
Wow, I'm sorry but you should do some research first before you ask these questions. Google has an excellent feature called search. I'm sure if you use it you can find your answers as they have all been asked before. Everything I have learned has been from reading and rereading everything I could before I attempted rooting. Android central has a great guide to everything root. Then come back with questions. Sorry to go off but it seems like people just come here to have their hand held. I'm sure you could find someone to donate to on here that would take you by the hand if that's the route you choose.
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Silvares said:
I have a stock Infuse 4g from AT&T and I would like a step by step, like a tutorial of everything I have to do for flashing custom roms, what to backup, installing CWM, etc. Thanks.
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Hmm. So how much are you willing to pay for someone who takes time to consolidate this guide. Make it worthwhile for us too
Do I get dibs on this?
qkster said:
Do I get dibs on this?
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Lol... you may... I only asked that so maybe he would find someone to spoon feed him
diablo009 said:
Lol... you may... I only asked that so maybe he would find someone to spoon feed him
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lol..somewhere in this thread is the spoon...just have to know where to look.
"There is no spoon."
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rxnelson said:
"There is no spoon."
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He was referring to the link in post 2 by bigjoe.
diablo009 said:
He was referring to the link in post 2 by bigjoe.
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Yea, I was just goofing. Qksters bald avatar and all the spoon talk reminded me of the matrix....thought someone would get it. Ah well.
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Anyway, thanks qkster, with your Heimdall to UCBL3 and CWM installation I was able to do it. And now I have ZEUS on my Infuse :3.
Now, what are some must have apps rooted or not?
Silvares said:
Anyway, thanks qkster, with your Heimdall to UCBL3 and CWM installation I was able to do it. And now I have ZEUS on my Infuse :3.
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good job..
See how easy it was?
Anyway, lol..the spoon was on all my signature links
Let me just throw this out there: as a noob myself, I understand where op is coming from. On forums this large, it is easy to get lost. I also find that I spend so much time reading things that don't answer my questions. I know that's part of the process though, but can feel pretty overwhelming.
May I suggest that not just 1 person has to answer all the questions. Maybe u come across a post like this and answer just 1 or 2 questions, or paste in a link or 2 to where the specific question is answered.
Also, I know that I've asked a question in the most appropriate place & someone has come back saying it's not the right place, even though it's in the q&a - noob - device forum. It's just hard at first. So, pls, don't bust op's chops too bad, b/c somewhere on here it says that it helps everyone if anyone takes some of their time to educate.
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Noob here too, but I have done some of this successfully, and then I played around too much and really, really bricked my phone - but fixed it, so I have learned a bit. These are my thoughts:
Silvares said:
I have stock GB, do I still root with super one click?
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Yes. Get rooted. I've used S-O-C twice. Had to play around with it first. I think I ended up being successful by doing it thru my phone, not on the PC.
Silvares said:
What is the first step in flashing custom roms, rooting and then installing CWM? How do I install CWM?
What to use to backup apps? How to backup contacts?
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1st step - root, then - backup more than just 1 way-use some from market and put things in more than 1 place; Titanium Backup seems to be standard around here too. Here is a great youtube link that helped me a lot to prepare: http://youtu.be/ozNVeGPUlU8
Silvares said:
What I want is more of a fool proof step by step, just to make sure everything goes as smoothly as possible.
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Doesn't exist. Try to find a good youtube and follow along.
Silvares said:
I had to use Heimdall's one click back to stock to go from froyo to GB UCKJ4 because of the boot loop even though the phone wasn't rooted or anything, it was stock. If I did that, what are my options?
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When I got bricked last night, after trying 2 methods and much freaking out, GTG worked. Working link for that download is here: http://www.mediafire.com/?i57410xodydx5l1. Thread here → http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1116251
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Also, CWM is kept even after a factory reset or a wipe? it doesn't get deleted in any way when you want ti flash another Rom?
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It stayed for me, even through brick.
I know you got your questions answered, but maybe this will help you, or someone else, in the future. Again, I'm no expert - far from it - but this is what worked for me. Good luck!
Can't think of another way of saying this...HELP!
So, I was able to get 3e and clockworkmod recovery installed on my Infuse. (A great accomplishment for me, trust me)
I went through the process of wiping data and caches to install my new ROM but I put the two zips (Cyan7 & Google Apps) on the external sdcard so when I went to install them I couldn't see them. I thought my only option then was to chose to restore from backup in CM recovery and now I'm stuck on the Samsung boot logo.
I tried a battery pull and VOLup/VOLdwn/POWER to try to get into recovery but I'm still stuck on the boot logo. What can I do now?
I'd really appreciate your help. Cheers.
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So, I was able to get 3e and clockworkmod recovery installed on my Infuse. (A great accomplishment for me, trust me)
I went through the process of wiping data and caches to install my new ROM but I put the two zips (Cyan7 & Google Apps) on the external sdcard so when I went to install them I couldn't see them. I thought my only option then was to chose to restore from backup in CM recovery and now I'm stuck on the Samsung boot logo.
I tried a battery pull and VOLup/VOLdwn/POWER to try to get into recovery but I'm still stuck on the boot logo. What can I do now?
I'd really appreciate your help. Cheers.
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No need to recover. Simple enough. U've tried restarting normal, and it didn't work?
No unfortunately...
I'm stuck on the Samsung boot logo. I think my battery pull after being frozen after the restore didn't help matters. I've tried vol+/vol-/power and vol-/power and still can't get into recovery. Plugged into my MAC it's not recognized.
feroxcvpiditas said:
I'm stuck on the Samsung boot logo. I think my battery pull after being frozen after the restore didn't help matters. I've tried vol+/vol-/power and vol-/power and still can't get into recovery. Plugged into my MAC it's not recognized.
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Well, if it were me, I'd pull batt and let it sit while I search this site to see what other people have done when stuck in the loop. You're sure to find answers somewhere in/related to being bricked threads, though I'm sure you're not bricked, so relax and take a breath. I'd offer other suggestions, but I'm too new, so it'd just be speculation on my part.
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Well, if it were me, I'd pull batt and let it sit while I search this site to see what other people have done when stuck in the loop. You're sure to find answers somewhere in/related to being bricked threads, though I'm sure you're not bricked, so relax and take a breath. I'd offer other suggestions, but I'm too new, so it'd just be speculation on my part.
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Cheers, I think I will do that. I'm feverishly scouring the site and the interweb...I just hope I don't have to re-flash a stock ROM and start all over again. Of course that would be better than having a paperweight I suppose.
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Well, I got into Download mode using the vol+/vol- then usb plugin. Just don't know what to do next. At least something is happening...back to my research...
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Cheers, I think I will do that. I'm feverishly scouring the site and the interweb...I just hope I don't have to re-flash a stock ROM and start all over again. Of course that would be better than having a paperweight I suppose.
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Well, I got into Download mode using the vol+/vol- then usb plugin. Just don't know what to do next. At least something is happening...back to my research...
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fero,
you dont need to look very far...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1524081
the link to unbrick and how to has always been right on my signature links...
read my beginner guide...
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Hi all,
I'm having an issue and hope someone can point me to the right direction (thanks).
I followed the all the steps from this thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1052064) and after the rom manager asked me to reboot my phone and it went into the endless boot looping. The LG screen show up for around 15 seconds and went back to do the same thing over and over again.
Here are what I've tried so far.
1. Remove the battery to turn back on and issue still persist
2. Tried using the Power button + Volumn down to boot into recovery mode. What it did here was the screen shows the android guy jumping out of the box for around 20 seconds and the screen turn off, then the LG login screen comes back doing it things again.
I have very limited knowledge on android base so I'm not sure what else to try to get my phone back to life again.
I had a post on that thread to ask some other people in there but they seem to ignore my post so if anyone here could help me please, I would appreciate it.
Did you nvflash recovery? If so reflash the stock rooted rom (or any other you want). If you didn't nvflash the recovery you going to have to now to fix the situation..
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squish099 said:
Did you nvflash recovery? If so reflash the stock rooted rom (or any other you want). If you didn't nvflash the recovery you going to have to now to fix the situation..
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Hi Squish099,
Thanks for looking into my issue.
I've never done nvFlash recovery before, so according to your response, you said
"If you didn't nvflash the recovery you going to have to now to fix the situation.."
How do I have going to fix the situation? Sorry for my stupid question.
If you could, can you please provide me some basic steps/direction? Like I said, I have very limited knowledge on how android work so if you could, I would really appreciate.
you can try this
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Hi Squish099,
Thanks for looking into my issue.
I've never done nvFlash recovery before, so according to your response, you said
"If you didn't nvflash the recovery you going to have to now to fix the situation.."
How do I have going to fix the situation? Sorry for my stupid question.
If you could, can you please provide me some basic steps/direction? Like I said, I have very limited knowledge on how android work so if you could, I would really appreciate.
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read this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1052396
not sure if you can do this if the phone is already messes up.
But before you do things you need to read. you could of saved yourself a lot of heartache because the throttleing thing doesnt work at all anyways. and there are a couple threads here already that state that.
I searched and thats the best i found for ya. hopefully someone is more informed with your situation and can help but in the mean time read through that and see if you find anything helpful.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1056847
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1086687
eagle1967 said:
read this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1052396
not sure if you can do this if the phone is already messes up.
But before you do things you need to read. you could of saved yourself a lot of heartache because the throttleing thing doesnt work at all anyways. and there are a couple threads here already that state that.
I searched and thats the best i found for ya. hopefully someone is more informed with your situation and can help but in the mean time read through that and see if you find anything helpful.
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Eagle1967,
Thank you. I will follow on that thread and see if I could save my phone's life back to live. Thanks again.
I suggest you do this...
It's down at the bottom
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=Troubleshooting#Bootloop_problem
Good luck and be patient!
And P.S. this is the download you want, to go back to Stock
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1048274
Thank you all for the suggestions !!
Mikeglongo said:
I suggest you do this...
It's down at the bottom
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=Troubleshooting#Bootloop_problem
Good luck and be patient!
And P.S. this is the download you want, to go back to Stock
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1048274
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Unfortunately, I don't think he can do that if he can't boot into recovery at all.
@justin
I had the same problem with my old G2, I couldn't boot into recovery and ended up getting a new phone because no one knew what to do to fix it. Since you didn't use Nvflasher to flash clockworkmod recovery, you can't boot into recovery manually, you have to use the ROM manager app to boot into recovery.
I'm not sure what you can do to fix it honestly, I spent days searching for answers
Oops, damn your right ^. I misunderstood the wikipedia page =/
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Oops, damn your right ^. I misunderstood the wikipedia page =/
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Yes, I spent couple hours already searching for resolution but can't find definite answer. I'm sure someone else out there having the same issue but was able to fix the issue.
I don't think people can easily throw away a good phone like this. Hope there is a resolution for this very soon
My new theory:
Noob + endless bootloop + no recovery = brick
I'm sorry to say but methinks thou art ****ed. Hopefully you have assurion and can just claim you lost it. Well actually I hope you fix it but .. well you know what I'm gonna say. Gl hope it works out for ya....
"If Satan lived in heaven he'd be me... "
Ok so I just got me a New samsung showcase. It came with 2.2 installed build number sch-i500.ee25. Ok so i find out about rooting and all this so i start researching all about it. Here is where i am. I rooted with SuperOneClick. Worked fine. I installed ROM manager to get the clockworkmod but it did not work so I used Odin to install clockworkmod. That worked fine. So at this point I decided i need to backup the stock ROM. I try this using ROM manager but no go. it reboots into clockworkmod and gives me the sd card not mounted stuff. So I read and read and read but i can't seam to find a solution to this problem. I know there other people that have had this problem. I have read through the step by step guides and i really see nothing on this. Anyone have any type of solution.
Running on stock 2.2 rom manager doesnt work. You will need to go into cwm by turning off phone, holding power,vol up and down at same time. after samsung blinks 2nd time let go of buttons and you will boot into recovery.
Thank you. I thought I tried that before but I guess i did something wrong. Worked that time. Now if my memory is correct from reading that will not back up two things. The kernel and something else. How do I back up the kernel? Or am I just not thinking correctly cause I have not had enough sleep.
Samsung Galaxy S with Cellular South
I had to have Kies Mini open and running on my computer to root my phone
First, Welcome!
Second, Download and familiarize yourself with a program called Odin. This phone is hard to brick. From nearly every situation you can flash back to stock with Odin.
Third, Showcase files are not common. Send me a PM and ill give you my email address. I can better help over email.
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This phone is hard to brick. From nearly every situation you can flash back to stock with Odin.
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Not true; that's what we call a false sense of security.
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Not true; that's what we call a false sense of security.
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that is true. ive seen phones get restored that have been flashed with roms for other phones and wont even get past the samsung logo. he said nearly, I'm sure you can come up with some weird far out situation but don't try and scare the newbies off this early.
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don't try and scare the newbies off this early.
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What will scare newbies off is when they start flashing crazy **** for another phone in the Phone box in ODIN or something and can't fix it by just ODIN'ing like you guys are suggesting.
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What will scare newbies off is when they start flashing crazy **** for another phone in the Phone box in ODIN or something and can't fix it by just ODIN'ing like you guys are suggesting.
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It's ok he's the only one still here so he'll have to help them.
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You say that but the fact that you said it means I'm not the only one.
Ooooohhhh someone's getting technicallllllllll
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Ooooohhhh someone's getting technicallllllllll
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dang right
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Same phone
I have the exact same phone as you. I just rooted my phone for the first time yesterday and I am having trouble installing CWM. Can you explain to me how you used Odin to flash CWM. And after you flash CWM, is it possible to revert back to stock recovery? If so how?
OK so I have this Galaxy 4G that i need to install an ICS ROM on it. So I installed the kernel using this guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1223765
Which has CWM 3.0.2.8x. I am having a problem updating it and flashing roms. When I try to flash a rom, i can access the SDCARD just fine, but as soon as I choose a zip to flash and say yes i am sure, it says 'Error cannot mount /sdcard/rom.zip' and installation aborted. Then I cannot even mount the sdcard until I reboot. this is for both ICS and GB ROMS.
BTW It is on FroYo stock.
I think from this point you should start over from scratch. There's a heimdall one-click that will flash your phone back to gb stock and there's several others that will root and put cwm on it. If you've already got the Samsung drivers installed you gotta uninstall them and reboot your pc for heimdall to work.
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Also I assume you have a t959v since you had froyo. You gotta flash gb bootloaders too
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I think from this point you should start over from scratch. There's a heimdall one-click that will flash your phone back to gb stock and there's several others that will root and put cwm on it. If you've already got the Samsung drivers installed you gotta uninstall them and reboot your pc for heimdall to work.
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Also I assume you have a t959v since you had froyo. You gotta flash gb bootloaders too
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OK I was trying to avoid using a one-click since last time I used it it nearly hard bricked my phone. But which one would you recommend for going to GB with bootloaders and installing ICS from there?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1358498
This has all the one clicks and a pretty detailed explanation of how to use them.
Eollie's one-click would probably be the easiest if you're looking for a starting point to install ICS.
There it is lol I can never find that thread when I need it!
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OK I was trying to avoid using a one-click since last time I used it it nearly hard bricked my phone. But which one would you recommend for going to GB with bootloaders and installing ICS from there?
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How do you nearly hard brick with a one-click? Some user error there for sure. So far in the GB starter pack thread both Lumin and eollie have told you to use the one-clicks. Now a few more people tell you the same thing. Exact this time you had to start a new thread to get the info. So use the one-click and stay on stock until you learn a lot more about flashing this phone.
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Eollie's one-click would probably be the easiest if you're looking for a starting point to install ICS.
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Thanks for the link. I will use that one and hope it works.
And hechoen, I have had very bad experiences with one-click installers, so I was hoping to find a way around using one, but I guess there isn't. And I know a lot about flashing phones, but I have had the most trouble with this one, which ONLY has one click installers.
Sorry for going a bit side tracked but how can you fail a one-click? You don't even have to select anything, just plug and wait.
Odin is a different story though
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Thanks for the link. I will use that one and hope it works.
And hechoen, I have had very bad experiences with one-click installers, so I was hoping to find a way around using one, but I guess there isn't. And I know a lot about flashing phones, but I have had the most trouble with this one, which ONLY has one click installers.
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If you knew a lot you'd know that you can pull the boot.img out of any Rom and flash that to get a newer version of CWM. You can flash them from heimdall frontend or make them odinable. So not true about just having one-clicks. The one-clicks where made for users to have an easier time not a harder one. lol It's all about how much you know. If you don't know much the one-clicks are the easiest way to proceed. If you know more than you'd never have to ask in the first place. So learn to embrace the one-clicks until your a little more knowledgable.
OK So I used the one click and it worked, i am on GB. But I can't get into recovery. When i am holding volume + and - and power i let go of power on the galaxy 4g screen and it just stays there. And it wont go into recovery. Thanks
WOW actually i just didn't flash the bootloaders. I thought I did.
I answered you in the other thread. But something else you can do is open a command window and type "adb reboot recovery". If you have the android sdk installed that is. I think if you hold the power button there is a option to reboot to recovery also.
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I answered you in the other thread. But something else you can do is open a command window and type "adb reboot recovery". If you have the android sdk installed that is. I think if you hold the power button there is a option to reboot to recovery also.
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Never mind I got it. Thanks!
I just tried to flash Jellywiz for the first time. I forgot to unlock the bootloader prior to flashing the rom. I know.........So Stupid.
Anyway. I've tried the odin trick but my phone just has the yellow triangle with the message that the system software in not authorized by VZE. I can't boot into recovery to restore my backup. Odin doesn't seem to work. I'm trying to follow the instructions http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1840030 But I'm not getting the "PASS" message.
Please help... I'm freaking out.
Are you booting into download mode before connecting to Odin?
Oh, no I wasn't. I'm now going through the Odin process in Download mode. Thanks for the tip. Hope this works
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Oh, no I wasn't. I'm now going through the Odin process in Download mode. Thanks for the tip. Hope this works
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folks...i will say it again, you dont need to use puremotives guide to recover in this situation. just flash a stock rom in odin and be done. there is no need to flash bootchains...use section 6 of my guide, then if that does not work use puremotives guide. not trying to take anything away from pures great writeup, but its intended for devices that are actually soft bricked. i only recomend flashing bootchains if absolutely necessary because if anything fails during the flash, you get a hardbrick....then its jtag time!
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folks...i will say it again, you dont need to use puremotives guide to recover in this situation. just flash a stock rom in odin and be done. there is no need to flash bootchains...use section 6 of my guide, then if that does not work use puremotives guide. not trying to take anything away from pures great writeup, but its intended for devices that are actually soft bricked. i only recomend flashing bootchains if absolutely necessary because if anything fails during the flash, you get a hardbrick....then its jtag time!
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Ok, I'll try that. Thanks for every ones help. I'll let you guys know if it works.
I'm up and running. Thank you all so much... especially droidstyle for the tutorial. I tried looking for a "Donate" button on the tutorial but couldn't find one. I'll keep looking and send some cash your way. Again, thank you VERY much.
Dave
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I'm up and running. Thank you all so much... especially droidstyle for the tutorial. I tried looking for a "Donate" button on the tutorial but couldn't find one. I'll keep looking and send some cash your way. Again, thank you VERY much.
Dave
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donate link up! i never really thought to put up a link, but actually there have been quite a few folks wanting to make a donations...thx and glad your back up and running!
Droidstyle what are boot chains? I came from sprint and never saw them before and a Google search doesn't give an answer. Could u please shed some light on it for me. Thanks bro
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Droidstyle what are boot chains? I came from sprint and never saw them before and a Google search doesn't give an answer. Could u please shed some light on it for me. Thanks bro
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bootchains are the order of operations for the boot process(aka bootloader). some folks have had thier devices emmc internal memory get corrupted during a cwm session causing the system permissions to read only. since no data can be written on boot, your device is stuck in a bootloop. reflashing the bootchain followed by the stock rom restores the proper boot sequence and read/write permissions allowing the device to boot. the kicker is you want to make sure nothing goes wrong when flashing a bootchain or its brick city. hopefully this makes sense lol
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bootchains are the order of operations for the boot process(aka bootloader). some folks have had thier devices emmc internal memory get corrupted during a cwm session causing the system permissions to read only. since no data can be written on boot, your device is stuck in a bootloop. reflashing the bootchain followed by the stock rom restores the proper boot sequence and read/write permissions allowing the device to boot. the kicker is you want to make sure nothing goes wrong when flashing a bootchain or its brick city. hopefully this makes sense lol
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Yes it does. Thank you so much. I have never seen these used before so it was new to me. Thanks again.
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I wonder how many times droidsytles howto has saved people, im sure its in the thousands, thanxs droidstyle! I known it saved me a couple times
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Hi everybody!
So I've read every thread on here regarding what to do when troubleshooting a bricked phone and yet none of which has worked. My younger brother created this mess for me by rooting his phone and flashing it. When I try to reverse the damage by rerooting, I can only put it into the download mode and clockworkmod but that's it, it won't get passed the AT&T screen and the SAMSUNG logo (it was a Rogers phone to begin with). Two of the drives on the phone keep giving error messages when I try to clear user data (/sdcard & /datadata). From what I gather, none of the USB debugging was done, he didn't back anything up (his loss) but the phone isn't partitioned properly (I personally don't know what that means). It doesn't appear to be a power button issue.
Is there someway I can salvage this phone, or should it just get scrapped?
Thanks in advance.
Go here to start with. Make sure you have Odin. To run it, right click and run as administrator. Follow instructions for package. If you don't know just google odin flashing.
Here is a Rogers odin package http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1197248
Try that and see. Sounds like you got nothing to lose. Good Luck.
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Better yet, go here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1613523&highlight=odin+packages
Follow the instructions to install the package. I chose option d. THEN, go to the rogers page and get the rom, install it through cwm. Sorry, trying to make it as simple as possible.
If you have cwm or download mode your phone is fine
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eZdubzitmk4 said:
If you have cwm or download mode your phone is fine
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Correct,
Relax and take a deep breath.The phone is just fine and your going to fix it. I thought was in your position a few days ago and my phone was in much worse shape than what you have now. Odin is your friend. You just need to read some more first and ask a few questions.
Most likely you have not lost anything.
thanks
I appreciate the help thus far,
I've tried Odin and I guess I was using an AT&T package. I'll try using the Rogers package provided and let you know how it went.
Also, I don't mind being talked to like I have no clue what I'm doing, because that's exactly what I am. I just wish I knew exactly what he did to give more accurate information.
kenetix said:
Go here to start with. Make sure you have Odin. To run it, right click and run as administrator. Follow instructions for package. If you don't know just google odin flashing.
Here is a Rogers odin package http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1197248
Try that and see. Sounds like you got nothing to lose. Good Luck.
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Better yet, go here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1613523&highlight=odin+packages
Follow the instructions to install the package. I chose option d. THEN, go to the rogers page and get the rom, install it through cwm. Sorry, trying to make it as simple as possible.
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The downloads on the Rogers page don't work.
Just flash a rom
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=29269872 Go there. They moved the page.