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[Q] FB's GB Ext4 Starter Pack

Hi, I just got my phone a couple weeks ago, found this site and have been reading through the threads as much as possible. After reading through the step by step guide created by FB (thread link below) I feel confident that this shouldn’t be too difficult. When you get to step 11 it says to flash the GB you put on your SD cards. Do you need to do anything before that? The reason I’m asking is most of the ROM’s included their own install procedure like Audiophile FTW says, factory reset, wipe cache, check mounts etc. I wasn’t sure if that still needs to be done?
Also, since I’m starting with a stock phone would it be a good idea to flash Bali for Froyo first to get CWM and do a back-up before I try this?
Thanks for any help that can be provided.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1223765

Sorry I meant odin bali not flash.
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you should always wipe data and clear cache before flashing a rom. you will not need to odin bali prior to fb's procedure. after you flash gb files, you will automatically have cwm.

Thanks, so I don't need to worry about backing up stock phone before I got to gb?
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To be honest, I made backups ever single time I flashed a ROM. And I only fully restored once or twice. Back up once you are in GB. That way you can restore data. Once you are on GB, you won't go back to Froyo...
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Sounds good. Thanks again for your help.
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Two More Questions
Sorry, I have two more questions if anyone can help.
1 - I want to flash icbinb KI3 1.3. It states if you have problems with converting to EXT4 the flash FB's busybox installer before icbinb ROM, however if I follow the guide I should do the below. If I follow the below instructions instead of flashing busybox installer before will i have any problems?
Go into the voodoo menu > enable lagfix and /system lagfix on
11) Flash the GB rom you put on your sd card
12) Flash the busybox_installer.zip
13) Reboot
2- Also, the above guide has you enable lagfix & /system lagix before you flash, but when you flash icbinb KI3 1.3 it says to flash ROM and then enable voodoo. Is it still OK to enable lagfix then flash?
I'm probably making this more complicated than it really is. Again, any advice is appreciated. Thanks!

Voodoo doesn't get enabled until you hit reboot. The order in which you enable voodoo (before or after flashing a rom) doesn't matter, as long as you do the flashing AND the voodoo enabling before you reboot.

Thanks...That makes perfect sense. As I said I think I was making it more complicated than it was. Also, Thanks for making the guide!

Finally had the time to do this. It was really easy and had no problems at all. I'm just in the process of calibrating my battery and working on restoring my apps. Having a couple problems with some apps not wanting to restore via TB, but I'm sure I'll figure it out.
Anyone that wants to jump to GB just follow FB's guide and you should have no problems.

No Luck Upgrading to official GB

I've had absolutely no luck upgrading from KD1 to offiical GB.
I started off with the official KD1 (from Kies) that I have been running for months.
The only mods are root and CWM.Kies downloads the GB update (taking several minutes) then immediately comes up with the screen saying my phone could not be updated. It leaves the phone in download mode.
If I reboot I'm back to where I was.
Taking a suggestion in another thread, I cleared data and cache, and tried again.
Same result.
Taking another suggestion, I Odin'd another KD1 on top of my original. Same result.
Taking another suggestion, I Odin'd a KC1 on top hoping that Kies would upgrade me to official KD1 or GB. However, Kies took one look and said there was no upgrade.
I've Odin'd back to KD1, so after a lot of work I'm back to where I started.
Any ideas?

Flash ravers kj6 deodexed its the same rom http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=19455525
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Stupid question,
Can I flash Raver's ROM directly from Bionix Frost or do I need to go back to a KD1 ROM?

mdrinkwine33 said:
Stupid question,
Can I flash Raver's ROM directly from Bionix Frost or do I need to go back to a KD1 ROM?
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First you would need gingerbread bootloaders if you have them then flash away, if not you will need to odin kg4 for the bootloaders then drhonks kernel for root then flash kj6 from cwm.
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cnote74 said:
Flash ravers kj6 deodexed its the same rom http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=19455525
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I probably will, but I also would like to find out why I can't Kies the stock GB Rom. Obviously Kies doesn't like something it sees on the phone.
There is another issue I'm fighting at the same time. Until now I didn't have a data plan and just used wifi for data. I just got a data plan and haven't been able to get the phone to use it (just voice/text). I want to put the phone into a completely stock condition to try and eliminate variables, and possibly get T-mobile to help. I also feel that what ever Kies doesn't like might be a factor with the cell data issue.

Kies is potentially bad news for your phone if you've been on a custom ROM. If it doesn't work smoothly on the first try don't try and force it. What inevitably happens is that in a sudden rush to get it to work you start flashing one ROM after another (something you wouldn't normally do) and end up issues. There have been a bunch of posts about losing recovery and download modes as people start trying to flash back to froyo from GB. A buddy of mine just jacked his phone up so bad doing this...no recovery, no download, couldn't get it to adb boot on his Linux box. I finally got it into download mode with an adb/odin circus trick, hail Mary, and odined ravers hawk.zip to clean everything up. There is no way i want to go through that again, and there is no real logic in the way we fixed it, but it all started with a bad flash from kies. To any one reading this, USE THE CWM FLASHABLE THAT RAVER MADE IN THE DEV FORUM, take advantage of their knowledge and hard work and save yourself (and your sgs4g) some heartache.
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Try this
Ravers's ODIN for stock KJ6

candler33w said:
Try this
Ravers's ODIN for stock KJ6
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Thanks! This Odin rom worked for me. The earlier suggested recovery flash rom just got me into a booting loop.

kmandel said:
Thanks! This Odin rom worked for me. The earlier suggested recovery flash rom just got me into a booting loop.
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thats probably due to you not disabling Voodoo...I did the same thing

is any one having an issue getting wi fi to work after installing dr honks kj1 kernel on ravers 2.3.6 official rom? , everything seems good linda says voodoo activated phone boots up and then i try to turn wifi on and the icon just shuts off and it wont pick up any wifi signal, i tried factory reset wiped the cache batt and dalvick tried it again and nothing!!! so i just had to resort to flashing back to 2.3.6 official rom for cwm and now just have blue and yellow stock recovery if any one can give a few pointers id really appreciate it if not well then just have to wait for all the good **** to come about PEACE

PANTERA56 said:
is any one having an issue getting wi fi to work after installing dr honks kj1 kernel on ravers 2.3.6 official rom? , everything seems good linda says voodoo activated phone boots up and then i try to turn wifi on and the icon just shuts off and it wont pick up any wifi signal, i tried factory reset wiped the cache batt and dalvick tried it again and nothing!!! so i just had to resort to flashing back to 2.3.6 official rom for cwm and now just have blue and yellow stock recovery if any one can give a few pointers id really appreciate it if not well then just have to wait for all the good **** to come about PEACE
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I would use ODIN to reinstall Dr Honks KJ1. it will give you CWM and You should be OK. It might have just been a fluke on install the first time

Still no wifi "f.m.l"!!!
Everything works accept wifi reinstalled kj1 kernel frs, wiped down phone completley even used odin again to reinstall 2.3.6 official from ravers post and nothing ive done everything 2 or 3 times the sameway even tried different usb slot i used odin 1.85 i just dont get it anyone else got this problem

As ignorant as this sounds, I had the same problem once. I rebooted my wireless router & it started working again.
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Tried resetting router and still no luck I give up

Is there security on the router? If so, what happens if you take it off (temporarily)?
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Anything new?

Rooted and installed humble 5.0 a month or two ago and its been good but lately lots of freezing pulling batteries and the battery is dying fast so just wondering if anyone recommends anything else? I am thinking its not really humble but maybe something i installed so i plan on wiping everything back to normal but hey its a good time to try something else too

Danalo's Rooted ep4d is solid.

thats humble isnt it

It's not really Humble, just a slightly tweaked version of the factory EP4D release.
You can also try the InfinityROM and TweakStock versions of EP4D.
I just installed TweakStock on my wife's phone and it's pretty nice.
I'm not crazy about the clock tweak, but my wife could care less.
FYI: I've been running Humble 5.0 for about as long as you have, and I haven't had any issues with lock ups, or the battery.

Yeah I may just restore humble can i just do wipe data or do i need to reflash it

jfl14609 said:
Yeah I may just restore humble can i just do wipe data or do i need to reflash it
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I'd download the CWR version of 5.0, wipe data and cache, then just install the CWR version from your SD card. Easier than using Odin. If you don't have Titanium Backup Pro, it's worth the money. Makes reinstalling your apps (including any launchers you might use) a snap.

This ROM with this THEME is a great combo..new and fresh

I actually just spoke with verizon and there is an issue with the phone itself so they are going to replace it. is there a way to restore to stock yet?

jfl14609 said:
I actually just spoke with verizon and there is an issue with the phone itself so they are going to replace it. is there a way to restore to stock yet?
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Yes, in the dev section are stock odins. Wipe the data from your sdcard so they don't see root related apps.
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xdadevnube said:
Yes, in the dev section are stock odins. Wipe the data from your sdcard so they don't see root related apps.
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I believe you keep your sd card when doing fru's.... just going back to stock should be good enough.
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mikehal38 said:
I believe you keep your sd card when doing fru's.... just going back to stock should be good enough.
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You SD card will have whatever extra stuff you had on it whether you flash a factory ROM or not. Some of the folders on the SD card are system folders which most of the content will be replaced with the factory Odin. If you want your phone to be completely stock, wipe your SD card and then Odin the stock ROM.
You can also delete the information from the SD card manually. Folders like "Voodoo" and "clockworkmod" are a dead giveaway that the phone was rooted.
As long as the phone can read the SD card, then its fine to go ahead and either wipe or format the SD card before Odining the factory image. Or just delete the obvious stuff manually, or whatever...

xdadevnube said:
You SD card will have whatever extra stuff you had on it whether you flash a factory ROM or not. Some of the folders on the SD card are system folders which most of the content will be replaced with the factory Odin. If you want your phone to be completely stock, wipe your SD card and then Odin the stock ROM.
You can also delete the information from the SD card manually. Folders like "Voodoo" and "clockworkmod" are a dead giveaway that the phone was rooted.
As long as the phone can read the SD card, then its fine to go ahead and either wipe or format the SD card before Odining the factory image. Or just delete the obvious stuff manually, or whatever...
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I think I understand what you're saying now. Do this before taking your phone into vzw for them to look at it. I always call them and they over night a refurbished unit so I don't worry about the sd card.
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Seconded on TweakStock. It's the most stable rom I have ever used (as in not one issue whatsoever while still lightning fast with excellent battery life). I flashed the one with the experimental kernel so I don't know how it works with anyone else's, though.
I'm not a fan of the clock placement either, but dwitherell posted a flashable fix that I was going to try out sometime.

what stock rom should I use i see a few I would guess bloated but one says if your on epdm4 you wil have issues etc

jfl14609 said:
what stock rom should I use i see a few I would guess bloated but one says if your on epdm4 you wil have issues etc
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If true stock is what you want... Odin the stock froyo rom, let it ota update to the latest gingerbread, odin cwr and flash superuser through cwr. Than use titanium to freeze whatever you don't want.
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i want just straight stock no root or anything. if i go froyo is it gonna matter what radio or kernel I have now?

Infinity ROM is a good one- also I found that the TweatStock is great on battery life and you can use the ICS themes.

Really? Just flash on top of it? Seems like there would be conflicts.

jfl14609 said:
i want just straight stock no root or anything. if i go froyo is it gonna matter what radio or kernel I have now?
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When you odin the froyo rom it will put stock radio and kernel on it. Let it update to the new gingerbread. If you are coming from a lagfix kernel make sure you disable lagfix. When you odin the froyo rom I would recommend odin the pit file also to make sure your partitions are accurate.
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I was thinking about just using this. do you see any issues
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1380430

Infuse being laggy

So about two weeks ago Ive noticed my infuse starting to get laggy. Now its laggy all the time. Ive tried reinstalling CM7 and nothing, Ive installed CM9 and it still lags. can anybody help with this?

Did you try any other ROMs and noticed similar behavior?

If you use Google voice it will cause that. Make sure when you first reinstall a rom don't add any apps... run it and see if its laggy. If not install your apps you always use one at a time... if after installing one Ans you notice lag you got your culprit. GV used to do this to my aria
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i would backup everyone on both of you sd cards to a computer.
(also back up any apps with titanium and text and such)
read this whole page
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1524081
then flash stock gingerbread
factory reset your phone
then flash the kernal in the same thread
(format your external sd in your pc, then put it back in your phone and format it with your phone)
remember to back up things on the phone, then move them over to your pc before you start this process, because EVERYTHING on your phone will be wiped
then flash a rom again, from this clean of a state it should fix pretty much anything.

diablo009 said:
Did you try any other ROMs and noticed similar behavior?
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Before ive ran lots of different roms with no problems, ive been running cm7 for a few months now and its just now starting to act like this. I must have installed a bad file or something.
The_Zodiac said:
i would backup everyone on both of you sd cards to a computer.
(also back up any apps with titanium and text and such)
read this whole page
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1524081
then flash stock gingerbread
factory reset your phone
then flash the kernal in the same thread
(format your external sd in your pc, then put it back in your phone and format it with your phone)
remember to back up things on the phone, then move them over to your pc before you start this process, because EVERYTHING on your phone will be wiped
then flash a rom again, from this clean of a state it should fix pretty much anything.
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okay thanks, ive went back to stock gingerbread and im formatting everything right now. after everything is done ill try flashing cm7 and see if the lag is gone and if it is ill move on to cm9

Help Needed. Cannot restore backup in CWM

So here's the deal, I'm trying to restore my stock rooted 2.3.4 GB ROM. Eaglesblood is cool and all, but as of yesterday it started doing a bunch of sketchy stuff. I can't even connect to my t-mobile wireless network anymore. Just doesn't work. I also need wi-fi calling and video recording, so it's time for me to leave ICS (after a week or so lol). So I did a full wipe, formatted the system, cache and data. Went to backup/restore chose restore and chose the backup I made the very first day that I rooted my phone. It starts checking the MD5 sums....after about a minute I get an error saying "MD5 SUM MISMATCH." How do I fix this? I'm trapped in ICS and want back to GB please someone help free me. So after all of that I had no choice but to reflash eaglesblood and now I'm at where I started.

There's an option in cwm under advanced to toggle off md5 check, I think. That may work. But if the md5 is different than before it means something changed in your backup so it may not work.
If you're transferring stuff over usb a lot it gets messed up, I always have issues with that. I use airdroid to transfer files between pc and phone.

You gotta be kidding me......I transferred the back up to my PC to save room on my phone. I put it back into my phone yesterday because I knew I was probably going to use it today. So you're telling me there is no way for me to get back to my 2.3.4 stock rooted ROM because I transferred the file over a USB cable?

Pain-N-Panic said:
You gotta be kidding me......I transferred the back up to my PC to save room on my phone. I put it back into my phone yesterday because I knew I was probably going to use it today. So you're telling me there is no way for me to get back to my 2.3.4 stock rooted ROM because I transferred the file over a USB cable?
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Just flash Burom or kewes 2.3.4 rooted stock.
Ive had issues with backups getting corrupted with CWM, not sure why, and has never happened with TWRP.
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I've tried searching for kewes' rooted 2.3.4 stock rom but can't find it. Got a link? I need to get off ICS...
I don't get it...this ROM was working GREAT the first week I had it. I was warned about all the errors that ICS/JB roms have on this device but during the first week of application I thought everybody was nuts......now everything screwed more than ever. I've always wanted to try hellfire CM7...might just flash that instead what the hell

Pain-N-Panic said:
I've tried searching for kewes' rooted 2.3.4 stock rom but can't find it. Got a link? I need to get off ICS...
I don't get it...this ROM was working GREAT the first week I had it. I was warned about all the errors that ICS/JB roms have on this device but during the first week of application I thought everybody was nuts......now everything screwed more than ever. I've always wanted to try hellfire CM7...might just flash that instead what the hell
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/sho...ed Stock v21y 2.3.4 GRJ22 + Add-Ons in the OP
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Thanks for those man. As an afterthought, idk if this means anything but I realized that my Emmc folder was mounted, which contains the backups in cwm. Cwm under the SD card did not contain a backup file. Could this be an issue? I discovered this using file manager
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