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Im craving froyo

can anyone direct me to the easiest and safest way to get froyo... I have been reading but i can't seem to find anything that isnt super complicated. all i have done to my phone is root and lagfix. just need an arrow to point me in the right direction. thanks

http://www.techpetals.com/how-to-in...d-2.2-froyo-for-samsung-captivate-leaked-2295

JagoRacing said:
can anyone direct me to the easiest and safest way to get froyo... I have been reading but i can't seem to find anything that isnt super complicated. all i have done to my phone is root and lagfix. just need an arrow to point me in the right direction. thanks
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STEP 1: Make sure you are on 2.1 Eclair
STEP 2: Make sure you are rooted
STEP 3: Install ClockWork Recovery
STEP 4: Download either Assonance or Cognition
STEP 5: Put the ".zip" file on the root directory of your phone
STEP 6: Boot into ClockWork Recovery and flash the ROM

Check out Doc CE in the development section
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nbs11 said:
STEP 1: Make sure you are on 2.1 Eclair
STEP 2: Make sure you are rooted
STEP 3: Install ClockWork Recovery
STEP 4: Download either Assonance or Cognition
STEP 5: Put the ".zip" file on the root directory of your phone
STEP 6: Boot into ClockWork Recovery and flash the ROM
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And what is wrong with Axura?

adamholden85 said:
And what is wrong with Axura?
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+1
From a phone

adamholden85 said:
And what is wrong with Axura?
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Nothing...I just didn't want to offer a 20 page list of equally good ROMs so I used the ones I have tried.

After months of waiting and finally getting over my fears of flashing, I rooted and flashed the stock 2.2 rom to my captivate today!
my opinion, just use the stock 2.2. it's frickin amazing. I'm thrilled and can't believe it took this long for me to build up the courage to flash. from the gps working to the beautiful text to speech ( which I'm using to write this even as we speak..lol); I can't get over how much I love this.
So, use the odin flasher and have fun!
Many thanks to all the developers on XDA who worked so hard to get 2.2 out all of us!
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA App

How do i use odin? Do you have a link?

I can't speak in regard to other ROMs as I have only tried working with Cognition.
The thing is, if you can handle the complexities of Lagfix, installing Cognition is a piece of cake. The instructions that nbs11 posted are pretty much it, except that you should disable whatever lagfix you used before you do it, and use Android ID changer to back up your Android ID. As far as Odin goes, you only need it if:
1. You really like your phone to be clean before you upgrade
2. Something goes wrong.
I panicked the first time something went wrong. I should tell you my story. I forgot to use Android ID changer, and also forgot to copy the data from a few other things from my original Eclair build. So, I went back to one of my backups. I didn't realize that the backup didn;t include the kernel, so the rolled-back phone no longer booted. Odin to the rescue. It flashed an idiot-proof stock version, then I used ROM manager to get to my backed-up data, re-flashed with Odin, and ran the Cognition backup. It all worked fine.
TL;DR. You just need ROM Manager and a little planning, and Odin will bail you out in the off chance you screw something up.
Someone who likes setting up a phone less than I do should make a back-up checklist.
Oh, and here's a link to everything you need to know about Odin:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Odin+downloader+Captivate&l=1

K, I was dumb the first time around.....
RepublicanDaddy said:
After months of waiting and finally getting over my fears of flashing, I rooted and flashed the stock 2.2 rom to my captivate today!
my opinion, just use the stock 2.2. it's frickin amazing. I'm thrilled and can't believe it took this long for me to build up the courage to flash. from the gps working to the beautiful text to speech ( which I'm using to write this even as we speak..lol); I can't get over how much I love this.
So, use the odin flasher and have fun!
Many thanks to all the developers on XDA who worked so hard to get 2.2 out all of us!
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA App
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I'm officially changing my mind. I've been using Cognition 3.04 now for about a week. I've not run into ANY issues. In the first week of using the leaked "official" 2.2 release, I'd already run into a few minor bugs, then over the course of a month, ended up with a fun that was stuck in a reboot loop...totally random issue, nothing had changed on the phone, it just went nutz on me.
I flashed to Cognition and am absolutely LOVING it!!! If you're going to flash a ROM, skip the "official" leaked 2.2 and go for Cognition. It's great! Smooth, fast, and without bloatware.
I do have to admit, yes I know I'll catch some flak for it, but I do miss the Samsung Media Hub (Cognition has it removed as Bloatware). Other than that....no issues at all!

Has anyone used these methods on a Rogers Captivate (I897)?

RepublicanDaddy said:
I flashed to Cognition and am absolutely LOVING it!!!
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Don't try Andromeda 1.0. You would probably be so overcome with joy as to poop yourself.

opcow said:
Don't try Andromeda 1.0. You would probably be so overcome with joy as to poop yourself.
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Does a squirt count? Cause I did that.

boborone said:
Does a squirt count? Cause I did that.
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Lol! Well, I did pee a little...lol
Btw - I know I'll catch flak for this, but Cognition doesn't have media hub...any idea how I can install it?
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Odin one click question

Can I use odin one click to revert to stock even though I have 1101 build cappy? It seems oc only works for 1010 and below. Should I use odin 3 and flash stock jf6 instead? Currently on cog 4.4.
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some people have trouble with odin one click with newer models. some dont.
you can flash anything with the odin 3 flasher.
avoid stocks with bootloaders. or "3 button fix" versions.
if you dont flash bootloaders you should never hard brick.

Once back to stock, do you know if I can use kies to flash official froyo upgrade, or will that be a prob after flashing custom rom? Is there an odin flash that will get me stock 2.2 without using any bootloaders? I've searched, but seems like everything takes you back to eclair.
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Cdub3 said:
Once back to stock, do you know if I can use kies to flash official froyo upgrade, or will that be a prob after flashing custom rom? Is there an odin flash that will get me stock 2.2 without using any bootloaders? I've searched, but seems like everything takes you back to eclair.
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You could use the one Trusselo made.. In his sig right above your post

thats for rogers... is he rogers...?

I'm at&t. same thing right? I got one completely dead, bricked, cappy in the hands of samsung right now. Hoping they'll replace or fix me. Got one cappy in my hand that's being "borrowed" for the 30 day window till I find out what's up with the one samsung has. Hoping I can get functioning cappy back from samsung, and talk the wife into letting me keep the "borrowed" one. That way I have a stable one, and one to mess around with. Planning on taking on gingerbread, only once I've covered all my bases.....I think. Just wanted to know best way back to stock, just in case I needed to bring back the phone. Like I said, it's a 1101 build, and I'm currently running Cog4.4, so I didn't want to brick it with one click. Dumb noob question, but are boot animations same/diff from bootloaders. I opened archive on cog 4 and in system/bin their are boot animations. I flashed cog via rom manager. Did i just get lucky or are these not bootloaders, just animations? Is there a thread that shows which roms come with bootloaders and which don't?

read this it explains the boot process and what a bootloader is
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1049294
bootloaders are not the same as a boot animation.
animations are found in /system/media/bootanimation.zip
you didnt get lucky with cognition flashing a bootloader that will only **** **** up if you have gingerbread bootloaders which you didnt, so flashing a froyo secondary bootloader was fine (thats why its in there)
The bootloaders would be in the updates folder of the zip.

Thanks studacris. Seems the more I learn about all this, the more ii find stuff I didn't know. Constantly on forum trying to learn so I don't have to bother guys like you. Since I got ur attention, flashing to i9000 rom would require bootloaders correct? Looking to do that next. Currently im US, att, i896. Sorry to bother ya.
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Sorry I meant i897
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nope new bootloaders are only needed if you are jumping to gingerbread

only flashing the i9000 2.3.3 roms requires bootloaders. all the 2.2.1 roms will work without danger of bricking.
if all you did on the borrowed cappy is root and flash a kernel you can flash the backed up kernel and then unroot. (did you use sgs kernel flasher to flash the kernel like when we talked about it? did you back up the kernel?)
you might want to look at getting a jig just to have one around. samsung keeps releasing new builds of the phone and there are unknowns. there are mixed reports from the 1010 build and up. you should be able to use odin 1.7 and flash the jf6 from icezar1 and you still have stock bootloaders so there "should" be no need for odin one click.
all the problems last time must have been do to the gingerbread bootloaders in combination with your 1010 build phone, i should have told you to use odin one click, infact you should have had a jig before i encouraged you to try gingerbread, my fault, but i didnt have problems when i did the same thing.

Should I flash a i9000 kernel before a i9000 rom? Then after all is said and done, find a compatible modem? Only reason I want to go to i9000 rom is because there seems to be more available. Can I do all this via sgs kernel flasher and rom manager/cwm or does it have to be done odin for the first switch to i9000? I'm assuming I can go back between sgh I897 and i9000 no prob since no ginger boots are involved? Just to be clear, even if I flash a rom with bootloaders, it shouldn't be a prob as long as it's 2.2 rom? Are 2.2 boots backwards compatible if i want to flash back to stock? I ask cuz prob can't use oneclick cuz my build is to new. again, don't mean to be a pest. cut me off whenever you feel like it.

Roms are all in one package kernel and modems are included.

Rooting OTA Gingerbread

Hey everyone im kinda new to the forums.. Anyways i just downloaded GB 2.3.3 the other day. Well after that i realized my phone wasnt rooted anymore. So i updated simpleoneclick and it wouldnt work. Anyone had any success rooting their g2x after the update?

Another person with a broken search button. Need to get that fixed.
At the present time, there is no root for the GB update. There is a way to root GB but it required going back to 2.2.2 and then loading a custom GB rom.

Ya mine has been broken for awhile.. Ive been trying to fix it but no luck.. Anyways any idea if theyre working on a root for it, and if so how long do you think itll take?

randy954 said:
Hey everyone im kinda new to the forums.. Anyways i just downloaded GB 2.3.3 the other day. Well after that i realized my phone wasnt rooted anymore. So i updated simpleoneclick and it wouldnt work. Anyone had any success rooting their g2x after the update?
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There is a rooted OTA ROM in the development thread. Flash that with recovery and you will have root back and 2.3.3.

gaww said:
There is a rooted OTA ROM in the development thread. Flash that with recovery and you will have root back and 2.3.3.
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So i dont need to flash back to 2.2 first? Ive never flashed a custom rom on this phone so im new to it still.
Thanks

randy954 said:
So i dont need to flash back to 2.2 first? Ive never flashed a custom rom on this phone so im new to it still.
Thanks
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no, you dont need to flash back to 2.2

My device came with 2.3.3 you dont need to downgrade. Just nvflash cwm recovery and flash over top of the default firmware.

ahronzombi said:
My device came with 2.3.3 you dont need to downgrade. Just nvflash cwm recovery and flash over top of the default firmware.
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Just nvflash cmw and flash away!

fcisco13 said:
Just nvflash cmw and flash away!
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Apparently, you can flash with CMW Recovery without being rooted, and also make nandroids and restore them. You will not be able to use apps that require root like titanium backup.

gaww said:
Apparently, you can flash with CMW Recovery without being rooted, and also make nandroids and restore them. You will not be able to use apps that require root like titanium backup.
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I am a noob (first post) but I learned a lot by monitoring the forums the past few days. If you flash a rooted rom, then you can use use apps that require root access. At least that is how my G2x seems to be working.
Cheers

hoopduke said:
I am a noob (first post) but I learned a lot by monitoring the forums the past few days. If you flash a rooted rom, then you can use use apps that require root access. At least that is how my G2x seems to be working.
Cheers
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Yep!
G2X CM7

hoopduke said:
I am a noob (first post) but I learned a lot by monitoring the forums the past few days. If you flash a rooted rom, then you can use use apps that require root access. At least that is how my G2x seems to be working.
Cheers
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Yes - flashing it has rooted your phone. I am somewhat surprised by this however. I would have thought rooting was done at a deeper level then anything in a ROM, but apparently that is not the case.
Good news is whatever the case, it works.

Recovery has nothing to do with the rooted status of your phone. Nvflash and cwm work no matter what.
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gaww said:
Yes - flashing it has rooted your phone. I am somewhat surprised by this however. I would have thought rooting was done at a deeper level then anything in a ROM, but apparently that is not the case.
Good news is whatever the case, it works.
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Having an unlocked/unencrypted bootloader gives us G2X owners a LOT of flexibility with what can be done with our phones in terms of customization. Its one of the main reasons I couldn't wait for this phone to be released. Check out the first post in this thread over in the Atrix forum for a rundown of the differences between locked/unlocked/encrypted bootloaders:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=957461.
G2X CM7

ahronzombi said:
My device came with 2.3.3 you dont need to downgrade. Just nvflash cwm recovery and flash over top of the default firmware.
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im sorry for the noob questions but could you elaborate on the steps you took to do this? Im having no luck figuring out so far.
Or if anyone else could explain the process.
I downloaded cwm but it says my phone needs to be rooted just to use it. So im stuck because im with 2.3.3 which isnt rooted. I just wanna go back to 2.2 so i can have root agian or so i can download custom 2.3.3 roms which are rooted already.
thanks

is flashing the rooted rom would root my phone perma or it would be unroot after flashing anything over that rooted rom?

you need one click reovery to flash the cwm with nvflash

[Q] Starting from Scratch

Hello everyone,
I am going to be getting my SGS 4G via Warranty Replacement tomorrow. My first question is that do I need to root to use ODIN? Also do you need to flash a different Froyo ROM over the Stock ROM? Finally what do you guys think is the best STOCK Gingerbread ROM.
Thanks for all of you help
MacFan74318
www.technology-buzz.com

you dont have to root to use odin. you can flash any rom posted in the bible and it should root it for you. you can odin any froyo from any other froyo rom. also, you can flash straight to gb if the rom you are flashing has the gb bootloaders.
i would go with the icbinb kh1 leak for now

Thanks a lot for your advice!
Also how is the performance compared to the myTouch 4G? That is the phone I am coming to and is their anything that you love/hate about the phone? Also do you need to flash a boot loader for icbinb kh1?
Thanks,
MacFan74318

If you're new to flashing, I would actually suggest for you NOT to flash any GB ROMs. The whole process of flashing one is so complicated right now. You probably have to reserve a whole day just to try and get it working. Flashing a Froyo ROM would be the easiest though.

Hmm that seems about right, I would like to try and wrap my head around it so I can make a guide so it can be easier for others. Also who is Linda? I have heard about it in the ROM's?
macfan74318

macfan74318 said:
Hmm that seems about right, I would like to try and wrap my head around it so I can make a guide so it can be easier for others. Also who is Linda? I have heard about it in the ROM's?
macfan74318
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I think Linda has something to do with EXT4/Voodoo. You hear her voice when you convert your filesystem from rfs to ext4. I can barely understand what she's saying, and in my opinion, she's ANNOYING! Lol .

Can someone tell me if this will work?
So this is the ROM
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1193751 (GingerBread ROM ?)
So in theory all I have to do is to put the phone in download mode and flash via ODIN? Do I need a GB Bootloader for this? (If so where can I find one)
Finally to overclock I just use Tegrak Overclock?
macfan74318

My advice is you read a whole lot. The myTouch 4G is easy to work with, took 2 steps to get from Froyo to GB. But for Samsung GS4G it's a whole lot more complicated and much more steps. Just learn how to use Odin as it's pretty much required for almost anything. Anyways, good luck.
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Allright, Thanks for all of you help
macfan74318

If you want gingerbread for sgs4g this is the link. Its pretty straight forward.
Download and unrar
Place files in Odin.
Load the files by this order:
pit: Hawk_Sidekick_VibrantPlus_831.pit
PDA: CODE_T959VUVKG4_CL385158_REV00_user_low_noship.tar .md5
Phone: T959VUVKG4-Phone-CL1037720.tar.md5
CSC: SGH-T959V-CSC-TMB-VIBRANTP.tar.md5
and check "Re-Partition" "Auto Reboot" "F. Reset Time"
Heres the link
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1183413
Hope this helps you get some gb.
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[Q] Infuse 4g - Broken CWM - ICS 4.0.4 Infinitum Rom

Hello, I am a long-time viewer of xda but a new member, this is my first post.
(and yes, i looked for a similar theard. i could not find one.)
So, onto the problem.
I flashed Infinitum 1.1.1 to my Infuse using cwm recovery. I noticed problems right off the bat when after i had installed the zip, i rebooted into recovery then it got stuck on the samsung logo and i had to pull the battery (a normal event when flashing this rom) So when i pulled the battery and booted into recovery to try again, the cwm recovery was terribly screwed up. The top half of the screen was pixelated, and the navigation menu was off center. I was still able to use cwm to flash the rom successfully, But cwm remains srewed up.
So i tried to reflash cwm recovery using rom manager. but when i rebooted i was stuck in a recovery boot-loop that i had to get out of using odin.
I then flashed the rom again using the same procedure suggested by its developer, and it worked, but cwm is still acting as it was before. (the pixelated top half of the screen and the off center navigation menu. )
So can i get some help? i thought about removing cwm the using some other recovery. I also heard that cwm wont work on ics, but im unsure what it is.
Thanks in advance.

You don't have Gingerbread bootloaders. That's why recovery looks the way it does.
You need to Odin or Heimdall back to Gingerbread stock (I find Heimdall much easier for this) and then flash Entropy's DD kernel to get back into red recovery to flash Infinitum.
Posts 1 and 2 in this thread are what you need: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1524081

lukas_s said:
You don't have Gingerbread bootloaders. That's why recovery looks the way it does.
You need to Odin or Heimdall back to Gingerbread stock (I find Heimdall much easier for this) and then flash Entropy's DD kernel to get back into red recovery to flash Infinitum.
Posts 1 and 2 in this thread are what you need: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1524081
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I i came from froyo, and is there a way to get the bootloaders without reverting to gingerbread stock?

Hard2thexcore said:
I i came from froyo, and is there a way to get the bootloaders without reverting to gingerbread stock?
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Yeah, ICS recovery doesn't play nice with Froyo bootloaders.
AFAIK, there is no way to get Gingerbread bootloaders without reverting to stock. With Heimdall it's an incredibly simple, and quick process. I just had to do it myself a couple nights ago

lukas_s said:
Yeah, ICS recovery doesn't play nice with Froyo bootloaders.
AFAIK, there is no way to get Gingerbread bootloaders without reverting to stock. With Heimdall it's an incredibly simple, and quick process. I just had to do it myself a couple nights ago
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Thank man, one more thing, will going back to gingerbread stock work if the only time i have ever used gingerbread was when i used the Zeus rom. The only other thing i have had besides zeus and this ics rom was froyo.

Hard2thexcore said:
Thank man, one more thing, will going back to gingerbread stock work if the only time i have ever used gingerbread was when i used the Zeus rom. The only other thing i have had besides zeus and this ics rom was froyo.
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Yup, it'll work just fine
Just follow all the instructions for Heimdall to a T (there aren't many) and everything will be fine

Yeah...heimdal is the best way to get bootloaders...odin doesnt always do it and no custom rom includes them that i am aware of...
I had written detailed instructions for another person...ill try and find them and paste it here...
Also-dont use rom manager, that thing is known to cause bricks/bootloops so using it is asking for bad ju-ju lol
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I997 using XDA

mg2195 said:
Have you tried flashing boot loaders?
Here is how to do it...
1) Download uclb3 heimdal by qckster
2) open the program
3) put phone in download mode
4) click flash (leave program open when finished DO NOT CLOSE)
5) after it finishes and your phone reboots, put the phone back in download mode and reconnect to PC
6) click flash bootloader on the heimdal program you left running
7) flash, let reboot and your problems should be gone
Download mode instructions
1) pull battery
2) put battery back in
3) hold volume up + down
4) connect phone to PC with USB cable *don't let go of volume*
Just because you were on gingerbread previously does nit mean you have ginger bread boot loaders...I had ginger bread since the first leaks and did not have boot loaders until a month or two ago when I flashed them using those steps above...
Good luck!
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There you go...follow those instructions and your cwm will be fixed!!!
Also just added it to my op of infinitum...
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Thank you for posting the guide. I literally just got done flashing GB bootloaders to my Infuse because of the rainbow Recovery when I'm on ICS. I used Odin though and used GB loader that a member posted in the AOKP Uniporn thread. I was scared but there really isn't anything to be afraid of. I tried using Heimdall but dang that was nerve racking because I was trying to use it on Mac and it wouldn't let me do the flash.

Jammol said:
Thank you for posting the guide. I literally just got done flashing GB bootloaders to my Infuse because of the rainbow Recovery when I'm on ICS. I used Odin though and used GB loader that a member posted in the AOKP Uniporn thread. I was scared but there really isn't anything to be afraid of. I tried using Heimdall but dang that was nerve racking because I was trying to use it on Mac and it wouldn't let me do the flash.
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Good deal, glad you got it sorted out. And to clear up some confusion that is in this thread: you don't have to flash an entire Gingerbread rom to get the bootloaders. We all have our preferred ways of doing it, but you CAN flash just the bootloaders.
Here is both a Heimdall and an Odin way to get JUST the bootloaders. That's all that is necessary for someone who has rainbow distortion issues on an ICS or Gingerbread rom.:
See the third post (HERE) in Entropy512's Unofficial CM9 thread for instructions on how to flash just the bootloaders using the Heimdall command line. Or, see the answer to question 1.) in the FAQ of the rooted UCLB3 Odin thread which is HERE.
mg2195 said:
Yeah...heimdal is the best way to get bootloaders...odin doesnt always do it
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Heimdall is one way to get the bootloaders, and here's how I did it.:
heimdall flash --primary-boot boot.bin --secondary-boot Sbl.bin
The second part of your statement isn't true. Odin doesn't do it only when the user can't figure out how to use Odin.

thank you everyone.
Being a creature of habit i ended up flashing to rom and bootloaders using odin. that did indeed fix CWM right up.

GB loader
Jammol said:
Thank you for posting the guide. I literally just got done flashing GB bootloaders to my Infuse because of the rainbow Recovery when I'm on ICS. I used Odin though and used GB loader that a member posted in the AOKP Uniporn thread. I was scared but there really isn't anything to be afraid of. I tried using Heimdall but dang that was nerve racking because I was trying to use it on Mac and it wouldn't let me do the flash.
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I am trying to get those GB Bootloaders. Would you be able to provide them ? or to provide the AOKP Uniport thread ?

RemiChartier said:
I am trying to get those GB Bootloaders. Would you be able to provide them ? or to provide the AOKP Uniport thread ?
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Unfortunately I haven't had this device for over 3 years now. You'll have to do some searching for that.

Jammol said:
Unfortunately I haven't had this device for over 3 years now. You'll have to do some searching for that.
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Thanks, I have found the GG boot.bin and sbl.bin in another thread, I will update later on this thread.

RemiChartier said:
Thanks, I have found the GG boot.bin and sbl.bin in another thread, I will update later on this thread.
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Where did you find them? Please share...