is there any roms that you can flash threw odin but not a stock rom?
if anyone can make one a tar file for me i would buy you a beer (lol)
i know i can flash it but i want to be safe and do it threw odin
IMO wouldn't flashing it through CWM be safer then ODIN? I know if you are restoring with ODIN and your phone gets unplugged or something happens with your computer you could possibly brick your phone. Just my two cents...but to answer your question I've never seen a ROM in TAR format. Good luck though
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The only odin roms I've seen here are stock leaks, some with root and cwm. Flashing through cwm is way safer; get cwm running and make a nandroid backup (backup and restore option in cwm) then flash the rom of your choice. If you screw it up, boot back to cwm recovery and restore your backup. If you screw up in Odin you softbrick. (Hint: there is a reason there are no odin flashable customs roms...)
bord1er said:
is there any roms that you can flash threw odin but not a stock rom?
if anyone can make one a tar file for me i would buy you a beer (lol)
i know i can flash it but i want to be safe and do it threw odin
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Flashing any rom or using odin is not safe....that's why the warning is there....flashing in general can be harmful....but if directions are followed and with some research not just in the mighty XDA forums....like YouTube you won't have problems...but hey if you do just ask via here....so much knowledge around you will get help kk
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I have been trying to use Odin with no success recognizing my device. So I am giving up for now.
My question is can I use CWM or rom manager to flash a rom without Odin. I am stock froyo 2.2 and was wanting to flash another custom froyo rom like fasty or similiar. Can this be done without Odin? Thx
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If you don't want to use ODIN you will have to find the method to get around the 3e recovery in order to use ClockworkMod recovery. You'll need something like Root Explorer from the Market so you can move files around. Search in the forums for 3e recovery workaround.
When you get that, then just put the zip of any froyo rom on your internal sd card and flash it through CWM.
This is the most simple type of flashing so if I lost you, your best bet is to read as much as you can about flashing froyo roms. Luckily, it is generally safer than trying to start out with gingerbread roms.
stoehner said:
I have been trying to use Odin with no success recognizing my device. So I am giving up for now.
My question is can I use CWM or rom manager to flash a rom without Odin. I am stock froyo 2.2 and was wanting to flash another custom froyo rom like fasty or similiar. Can this be done without Odin? Thx
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Have you considered giving Heimdall a try?
You may also want to check the options in the "Connection Issues" post in my signature.
That's what I needed to know. I put the 2e recovery fix through root explorer. So I should be in good shape. So I wipe everything, and does it matter what CWM I have. I just installed CWM thru rom manager.
PS I am gonna try hemidall soon.
Thx
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stoehner said:
That's what I needed to know. I put the 2e recovery fix through root explorer. So I should be in good shape. So I wipe everything, and does it matter what CWM I have. I just installed CWM thru rom manager.
PS I am gonna try hemidall soon.
Thx
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Theoretically, if you have the 2e recovery fix done you can flash the new rom from the recovery menu with no problems. The new rom will just replace the old one but all your data will stay where it was.
I would suggest backing up and flashing from stock because most roms run better this way. But, to each his own.
Lastly, Rom Manager sucks for Galaxy S phones. You should really learn how to use odin because there have been some problems when people use rom manager.
Been browsing around a bit and noticed that some people want to completely revert back to stock, but they don't want to use ODIN, due to the fact it'll trigger the flash counter for warranty exchanges. It's a backup I made literally IMMEDIATELY after I flashed Clockwork recovery, so it's completely unrooted and untouched. Just wanting to ask around to see if it seems like something useful to others before I upload it. Let me know! Could just flash the stock recovery and be at a completely out-of-the-box state.
Or possibly use it to make a stock flashable .zip?
It wont get rid of root and cwm and super user.
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Been browsing around a bit and noticed that some people want to completely revert back to stock, but they don't want to use ODIN, due to the fact it'll trigger the flash counter for warranty exchanges. It's a backup I made literally IMMEDIATELY after I flashed Clockwork recovery, so it's completely unrooted and untouched. Just wanting to ask around to see if it seems like something useful to others before I upload it. Let me know! Could just flash the stock recovery and be at a completely out-of-the-box state.
Or possibly use it to make a stock flashable .zip?
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Actually I would certainly have a usefor this. I made some boneheaded decision and unistalled.a.couple.bloatware apps before I made my first nandroid.backup
This would be pretty useful when the ics ota comes around.
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In order to get back to "out of box" condition for warranty/return purposes you need to reinstall 2.3.5 or 2.3.6 stock ROM, KERNEL, and 3e Recovery. The only time (based on what I've read on SR Forum), the custom binary flash counter gets tripped is when you use Odin to flash a Kernel (boot.img). So I think what you are proposing is to flash stock ROM/KERNEL using CWM, then use Odin to flash the stock 3e Recovery partition. Odin should not trip the flash counter if you only Odin flash "recovery.img" and not the "boot.img" (kernel). Correct?
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It wont get rid of root and cwm and super user.
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I was running SkyIce before, fully rooted, and after restoring this, I no longer have root priveledges and Superuser.apk isn't anywhere to be found.
And yes, restoring this to get a stock kernel and everything back, then just flash stock 3e with Odin to get the recovery partition back to stock.
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I want to install the ClockworkMod TOUCH 5.5.0.4 v4 . but I found there are many ways to install it , odin and cwm
I have both , but somebody said they have trouble to flash in Cwm and some others said there are some mini error happened when they use the odin way. which way is more safe to flash the ClockworkMod touch instead of my non touch CWM.
if i flash with CWM, the touch will replace the CWM, or they will both installed on my phone???
I've always used Odin with no problems. To my knowledge you can't flash a recovery from a recovery. You could use rom manager from the market if your rooted but I hear bad things about using rom manager to flash clockwork. My advice use Odin
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please take a look
i agree with you that we can not to flash a recovery with another recover. however, please take a look the link
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1472954
the first one is a zip file and the instruction said
( Just flash in CWM
- this one creates the .hidenandroidprogress file for you so you dont need to create it manually)
what is that mean??
i have already flash the non touch CWM on my phone, is it ok to flash this touch with odin , do i need to wipe the data or something i need to be careful before i flash, please let me know. i did not find a instruction detail with that.
Some phones you have to create that file and some you don't. On mine when creating a backup it would hang up. So what I did was flash in Odin the recovery image then installed the zip thru cwm then wipe cache and dalvick cache... also it is important that you have the latest version of busybox installed...
Try flashing the recovery in Odin first and if all works well then don't do anything else but if it hangs on making a backup then do what I said above... if you get stumped just let me know and I'll try to walk you thru it
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thanks for your answer. let me say my phone first.
att i727
i only rooted with the method on the link : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1340526
so the result is i am rooted with cwm installed
and now i want to install the sky ics and the first step is to install the touch recover.
so as you said before. can i just use odin to install the recorvery.tar.md5?? do i need to wipe or do something else?? if i get something wrong, can i use my nandriodrid backup to restore the current recovery?? i am really a noob and new with andriod. thanks in advance.
christianxin said:
thanks for your answer. let me say my phone first.
att i727
i only rooted with the method on the link : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1340526
so the result is i am rooted with cwm installed
and now i want to install the sky ics and the first step is to install the touch recover.
so as you said before. can i just use odin to install the recorvery.tar.md5?? do i need to wipe or do something else?? if i get something wrong, can i use my nandriodrid backup to restore the current recovery?? i am really a noob and new with andriod. thanks in advance.
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1. Yes you can just use Odin and flash cwm touch. I had an earlier version installed and wanted to update so I just cranked up Odin 1.85 click PDA navigate to where you downloaded the tar file make sure repartition is NOT checked and flash away.
2. All you are flashing is a recovery image so no need to wipe anything.
3. Yes if something goes wrong you should be able to restore your backup or if you wanted you could look in the dev section and find the Odin one click 2.3.5 att stock firmware and flash it and start over. But that is not necessary. However I do recommend you download the phones stock firmware from sammobile.com and store it on your PC just in case you ever need it for any reason....
OK I think I covered everything so if you need anymore help let me know and as always happy flashing....
Oh btw flashing is very addictive. I'm a flashaholic... so flash at your own risk
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Hi,
Please help me.
I tried to install CWM in my galaxy ace using "Odin".
I followed correct steps and odin showed "pass" at last.
but now my phone is not booting.
It will load upto "GALAXY Ace GT-S5830....." scree and nothing is happening after that.
I am not able to boot into recovery also now.
How I can recover my phone back?
Please help me.
Flash everything back to stock with Odin. You should make sure repartition is checked before flashing. When you try to flash cwm through Odin, redownload the files and try again.
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brnbock said:
Flash everything back to stock with Odin. You should make sure repartition is checked before flashing. When you try to flash cwm through Odin, redownload the files and try again.
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Thanks for replying, but sorry to ask you one more doubt (may be too n00b qn.)
what do you mean by "flash everything"?
where I can get all those files for Ace?
Sorry took soo long to reply, was at work. Can you post a link to the method you used to flash cwm? Just want to make sure I point you to the correct firmware.
I have used the method at
acetips.wordpress.com/2011/10/01/install-cwm-ace-froyo
As it didn't worked, I used some other "ops" file, which brick my phone.
Can I use any samsung upgrade method ( as I have done earlier in my sonyericsson w8 using SEUS) ?
Or how can I fully flash and make it alive?
Try this...!
Hey no phone dies so easily, so, follow the process mentioned in the given link:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1034145
You know how to use odin get you ops file and further download the stock rom on
http://www.sammobile.com/firmware/
thanks friends.
But now I am not able to get into the recovery mode. will it get fixed after flashing the latest firmware?
What is the really working method to get CWM recovery for ACE?
It should work again if u flashed the stock because the stock recovery is included in the stock rom =)
please help me.
my phone is still not turning on, even after flashing stock firmware using odin.
How can i get it back?
my ace is now alive
Thank god!!! at last, my phone is alive.
Now dear friends, do u know any guaranteed to work -cwm flashing methods for ace?
Since you have flashed stock, are you able to get into stock recovery?
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brnbock said:
Since you have flashed stock, are you able to get into stock recovery?
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Yes, now I am able to get into stock recovery by booting up holding HOME+POWER buttons.
Before CWM, ROOT ur phone...!
eljomon said:
Thank god!!! at last, my phone is alive.
Now dear friends, do u know any guaranteed to work -cwm flashing methods for ace?
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Before you flash CWM Recovery, you need to ROOT ur phone, download upd_1.zip file from the link that I provided in the previous post and flash it from Stock recovery.
bipinbedi said:
Before you flash CWM Recovery, you need to ROOT ur phone, download upd_1.zip file from the link that I provided in the previous post and flash it from Stock recovery.
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I agree. Though not totally necessary, it does help. Also enable adb.
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If I wanted to go back to my stock rom for warranty purposes, do I just download the original from samsung-update
Put the .zip into my SD card. And use CWM to install it?
Plus, if I put the original ROM back onto my phone, will the "Custom" bootloader appear or will it be normal?
And how would I get rid of CWM? Just delete recovery.img?
The file you'll download is going to be a file that you need to flash with Odin, once flash it puts everything back the way it was. No you won't get the custom when flashing back to stock since you'll be using an official signed rom. You should, however, might want to make sure you don't have a counter going for the number of unsigned rom flashes.
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scsa20 said:
The file you'll download is going to be a file that you need to flash with Odin, once flash it puts everything back the way it was. No you won't get the custom when flashing back to stock since you'll be using an official signed rom. You should, however, might want to make sure you don't have a counter going for the number of unsigned rom flashes.
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What's a counter?
Do I delete everything by with CWM and then use odin to flash my GS3?
Or do I just use odin over my custom rom?
emckai said:
What's a counter?
Do I delete everything by with CWM and then use odin to flash my GS3?
Or do I just use odin over my custom rom?
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Prior to using odin to flash the stock image, be sure to use EZ-Recovery for VZW Galaxy S3 to flash the stock recovery.
Click link in sig...your questions are answered there.
Droidstyle posted a great step by step on how to go back stock, in the developers section of this forum
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droidstyle said:
Click link in sig...your questions are answered there.
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Ohhh, thank you very much. I'll be using that!
chip594 said:
Droidstyle posted a great step by step on how to go back stock, in the developers section of this forum
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Thanks!
PJnc284 said:
Prior to using odin to flash the stock image, be sure to use EZ-Recovery for VZW Galaxy S3 to flash the stock recovery.
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Is that necessary? I odin'ed using the stock image and my custom recovery is gone, so was the unlocked keypad.
simollie said:
Is that necessary? I odin'ed using the stock image and my custom recovery is gone, so was the unlocked keypad.
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I had a kexec recovery installed and flashed back to stock a couple nights ago and completely lost recovery. Luckily it booted into the rom and I was planning to re-root anyway using the simple root to make sure I didn't have any Sprint stuff like the initial root method.