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[Q] Back to stock Telus Fascinate after flashing Darky 10

Hi,
I have a Telus Fascinate (T959D) that I've flashed with Darky's 10.0 "Final".
I've read countless threads that tell me NOT to flash bootloaders to this phone, but we were adventurous (I don't own the device, a friend does) and wanted to try the latest Darky on it since it was working beautifully on my GT-I9000M.
Sadly, Darky's ROM requires a different bootloader, and it comes from an I9000.
After following the guide to install Darky, it effectively puts an I9000 bootloader, kernel, and ROM on the phone. (Shame on me, I know).
OK, so the problems are:
1.) No way to get into download mode or recovery mode without booting completely and issuing a 'reboot download' or 'reboot recovery' from a su terminal (or adb)
2.) The home and search softkeys act like left and right instead
There are other Darky related bugs, but not important to this discussion.
My question is: What is the safest/most reliable way to go back to stock Fascinate, bootloader and all? At this point since we don't have access to download mode without the phone booting properly, we don't want to flash anything else unless it's going to give us download mode back.
I've read the guides on going back to stock, but they all say you needed to have flashed a certain Telus ROM before going custom, and I don't know what exactly this phone had on it for sure. My friend says it was whatever was the latest update from Telus, but he hasn't plugged it into Kies in a while so I couldn't confirm for sure.
The idea here is to go back to stock then flash a custom kernel and possible a different modem to help with battery life and signal problems, and possibly some custom roms that don't require changing the bootloader.
Any insight would be greatly appreciated. If any additional info is needed, I'll provide it.

Hey just curious if you ever solved this problem as i currently have the exact same problem with a different Rom it won't allow me to boot into recovery and cwm won't recover my nandroid

[Q] How to downgrade From ICS to Gingerbread?

I have a Nexus s with 4.0.3 flashed via bootloader.How can i downgrade to 2.3.x without root,cwm or debug(cause it isn't working) ?
i've tried several methods but none of them worked(Odin,Heimdall)
They all requires me to enter download mode with debug enabled.My debug mode is enabled but as far as i read on xda,the degub is not working in this version of ICS.
my question is : how can i downgrade to ANY firmware from this ICS version
P.S. Entering recovery mode is not an option...the phone simpli enters in a recovery/download mode - loop and keeps restarting.
Please respond fast.10x

The way I did it was to download Clockwork Mod app and scroll down to where it says stock... then 2.3.3. Once u flash that you'll lose root and an update to 2.3.x will be prompted to ya. If it doesn't then Google (Download) 2.3.4(x) and manually update. What model do u have btw?
- Google

You need to root is the basic moral here. Nothing else is really worth the effort of getting it done.

Hi
If the procedure for the nexus is the same as it is for the S2.
It should be straight forward.
Download your ROM, if its Orange you want here is a good link, I used it myself today:
http://androidromupdate.com/2012/02...-i9100p-firmware-updates-list-and-stock-roms/
The ROM I used was the NON WIPE type - I9100BVKJ4_I9100ORAKJ4_ORA
I include a picture of what I did.
I was initially on a custom ICS 4.0.3 XXLPH and have gone back to Orange stock rom.
Load the integrated Rom just into the PDA window - connect your phone in download mode and start, and that should be it!
Don't check re-partition or anything else.
Keep trying it will work.
I also had an initial prob whereby I installed the wrong kernel and the phone screen was messed up and seemed to be bricked and to get it back I loaded odin up.
Put phone in download mode.
Checked re-partition - unchecked 'auto reboot and f.reset'
Used a PIT (partition file)
Used a kernel file suitable for the S2 in the PDA window and pressed 'start'
This seems to have repartitioned and wiped the mistake and unbricked the phone.
This loaded and the phone booted - no messed screen.
Then I continued to accomplish the ROM switch over.

tsam19 said:
Hi
If the procedure for the nexus is the same as it is for the S2.
It should be straight forward.
Download your ROM, if its Orange you want here is a good link, I used it myself today:
http://androidromupdate.com/2012/02...-i9100p-firmware-updates-list-and-stock-roms/
The ROM I used was the NON WIPE type - I9100BVKJ4_I9100ORAKJ4_ORA
I include a picture of what I did.
I was initially on a custom ICS 4.0.3 XXLPH and have gone back to Orange stock rom.
Load the integrated Rom just into the PDA window - connect your phone in download mode and start, and that should be it!
Don't check re-partition or anything else.
Keep trying it will work.
I also had an initial prob whereby I installed the wrong kernel and the phone screen was messed up and seemed to be bricked and to get it back I loaded odin up.
Put phone in download mode.
Checked re-partition - unchecked 'auto reboot and f.reset'
Used a PIT (partition file)
Used a kernel file suitable for the S2 in the PDA window and pressed 'start'
This seems to have repartitioned and wiped the mistake and unbricked the phone.
This loaded and the phone booted - no messed screen.
Then I continued to accomplish the ROM switch over.
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Don't do this. The method for the Nexus S is definitely NOT the same as the SGS2, or even the SGS. Although it may be possible to use Odin or Heimdall, it is not recommended. We already have enough freedom to do as we please.

I thought all android / samsung phones would follow the same procedure for flashing new roms or unbricking via Odin?
Kies is useless for updating as we all know.
So what other methods beside Odin or Heimdall can be used on the samsung nexus?
Cheers for clarifying though, I was only tying to be helpful

galaxy 2 ics to gingerbread
dear all
i am much upset that i upgrade my galaxy s2 to ics 4.0.3 , it is much laggy i want to downgrade it to gb 2.3.5 or 2.3.6 , can anybody help me to do this , with the all the steps and downloading links of the exact files , i tried alot many times and when it is done on odin with pass message , cell restarts and with error screen .
thanks in anitcipitation
Regards
Shoaib Hassan

i've just downgraded to 2.3.2 i used the rom wiper from bm and then simply flashed the oxygen rom over it

the only way and easily is odin.just go to downloading.make sure to download the correct modem ,baseband and needed files by cheking your nexus s version.ex.i9020t,i9023 .there are not the same version,and will use different modem,baseband ...

I also want to downgrade from ics to gingerbread too, by pure luck i managed to upgrade to ics (i'm completely new to this) but having had this on my phone for awhile, I want to return to gingerbread...
I'm currently grabbing kernel_I9100xwkj3 (couldnt find xwkj1 anywhere)
and
gt-i9100_o2i_i9100xwkj1_i9100o2ik11_i9100xxk14
to use with odin?
question is... is this all i need and is there anything i need to be aware of?

You need to make use of fastboot and flash the stock GB rom from factory images provided by google, then you can flash cwm and then flash any rom you want
it is because cwm can flash roms with android version up but not down means that you can flash 4.1 if u have 4.0.4 but if you are on 4.0.4 then you cannot flash 2.3.x
Hope it helps

[Q] Lost and need help please

I recently rooted and started applying roms to my nexus s. Everything was going fine until my network data stopped working.
Have tried to unroot and return to stock but cant seem to get it right. whenever I try to use clockwork recovery any update zip i apply fails. Im currently on:
version - 2.3.1
baseband - 19020AUCKF1
kernal - 2.6.35.7-g7f1638a [email protected](hash sybol that isent on my mac keyboard)1
build - GRH7
I am based in the UK and think nthat my radio could be wrong?
When I factory reset in 2.3.1 i get the official update to 4.4 which dowloads, verifies then on installation stops and wont complete.
I am confussed with all the terminoligy and find the info on here overwelming to follow correctly.
on another forum i got the response that if i dont understand the process then I shouldent be doing this. Fact is I thought I did know what I was doing until it went wrong.
Could somebody be good enough to help me through this so I can restore my nexus s to working order please?

Read this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1116884
Check your phone model, behind the battery. You probably have a gt-i9020 since you are in the UK.
Probably you need to flash the correct radio. What's a good choice? If you do have 9020, anything in the list with kb3 in it.
Kb3 has no limit to how fast it can upload data, which can be a benefit depending on how you use your phone. Most people would choose kl1 which is the most recent.
Download and flash in cwm recovery. Reboot.
Let me know if that works for you.

pnut1982ad said:
I recently rooted and started applying roms to my nexus s. Everything was going fine until my network data stopped working.
Have tried to unroot and return to stock but cant seem to get it right. whenever I try to use clockwork recovery any update zip i apply fails. Im currently on:
version - 2.3.1
baseband - 19020AUCKF1
kernal - 2.6.35.7-g7f1638a [email protected](hash sybol that isent on my mac keyboard)1
build - GRH7
I am based in the UK and think nthat my radio could be wrong?
When I factory reset in 2.3.1 i get the official update to 4.4 which dowloads, verifies then on installation stops and wont complete.
I am confussed with all the terminoligy and find the info on here overwelming to follow correctly.
on another forum i got the response that if i dont understand the process then I shouldent be doing this. Fact is I thought I did know what I was doing until it went wrong.
Could somebody be good enough to help me through this so I can restore my nexus s to working order please?
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can you make calls? if you can, check your apn settings, settings>Data and networks>More>APN and delete everything, and retype the correct values for your carrier. if calls doesn't work, follow the post above. ^

[Q] Samsung AT&T Infuse Problems

I have been trying to fix a this phone for a friend at work. When I got it was stuck in a boot loop, fix that problem by flashing stock rom. I got the rom with root and CWM recovery here: [ODIN][UCLB3] AT&T 2.3.6 Gingerbread with root and CWM recovery option - Infuse 4g using option C. The phone works but the navigation keys don't. So if you go into an app or anything you can't leave. I have been trying to flash a custom rom that has the option in it to put navigation "keys" on the screen but, in CWM when I go into the ex-sd card it says there are no flies. I have tried to download CWM from Rom Manger also with luck. I cant find TWRP for this phone and I cant flash it from Goo without the navigation keys so, my question is; is a custom out there that can be flash with Odin or a way to make the custom rom files work with Odin or a CWM recovery for this phone that works? Please help I have been messing with this problem for a while now and don't know what else to do. Thanks for any input.

Jerky1226 said:
I have been trying to fix a this phone for a friend at work. When I got it was stuck in a boot loop, fix that problem by flashing stock rom. I got the rom with root and CWM recovery here: [ODIN][UCLB3] AT&T 2.3.6 Gingerbread with root and CWM recovery option - Infuse 4g using option C. The phone works but the navigation keys don't. So if you go into an app or anything you can't leave. I have been trying to flash a custom rom that has the option in it to put navigation "keys" on the screen but, in CWM when I go into the ex-sd card it says there are no flies. I have tried to download CWM from Rom Manger also with luck. I cant find TWRP for this phone and I cant flash it from Goo without the navigation keys so, my question is; is a custom out there that can be flash with Odin or a way to make the custom rom files work with Odin or a CWM recovery for this phone that works? Please help I have been messing with this problem for a while now and don't know what else to do. Thanks for any input.
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you may have a hardware issue with the nav buttons
the only way i can think of to test it is to use one of the "unbrick" package with a complete reparttition
after that, try the buttons with the stock rom - if your buttons dont work with stock rom after a complete factory reset, you need to open the phone and check the hardware

qkster said:
you may have a hardware issue with the nav buttons
the only way i can think of to test it is to use one of the "unbrick" package with a complete reparttition
after that, try the buttons with the stock rom - if your buttons dont work with stock rom after a complete factory reset, you need to open the phone and check the hardware
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They still don't work... Is there not a way to flash a custom rom with odin? Like a stock android based rom where you can put the nav keys on the screen.

Jerky1226 said:
They still don't work... Is there not a way to flash a custom rom with odin? Like a stock android based rom where you can put the nav keys on the screen.
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the only rom avail via Odin are the stock 2.3.6 or stock with root that jscott30 put together.
if your nav keys don't work on stock, i'm thinking that it may be hardware related. idk if firmware will fix it.
here are jscott30's thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/search.php?searchid=227247390

qkster said:
the only rom avail via Odin are the stock 2.3.6 or stock with root that jscott30 put together.
if your nav keys don't work on stock, i'm thinking that it may be hardware related. idk if firmware will fix it.
here are jscott30's thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/search.php?searchid=227247390
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Right, I'm not trying to fix the nav keys with firmware. What I was trying to say was "soft keys." I was wanting a rom with soft keys but I just learned that there are apps on the market with them. LOL Wow I was trying to make this harder than it needed to be. Well I do thank you for your help though and sorry I wasnt more clear. Thank you!

I had similar problems, I would suggest getting all 3 buttons fixed, both volume and the power button, my Infuse had the power button damaged, it was like $15 the repair, they can re-use your current buttons they may be stuck.
Then after you get them fixed, get an odin or heimdall stock with root rom and flash it, then you can go up to 4.3.3 with one of the many roms out there, like Beanstalk or CM10.2 which is the one I'm currently running.

[Q] I can't load CWM on my SGS 4G (T-Mobile)

Hello all,
Okay, I admit that I am gonna get a lot of "use the search tool first" replies, but please hear me out. I have done my fair share of searching. Its not that I haven't found anything, its just the things I found are useless for this SGS 4G. I really wanted to install Cyanogen Mo on the SGS (its not actually mine, a friend asked me to do it since he saw my old SGS GT-I9000 running CM).
I am gonna try and give a detailed report . The phone was originally from T-Mobile and now unlocked permanently. Its running firmware version 2.3.3 that I installed just recently. I found out that I can't install CWM on the stock kernel or bootloader or whatever and I needed a new of the thing. So I went on searching and searching....found a handful of help but none work. Every method breaks at some point and I go to the "firmware update failed" thing on the phone, which I then install 2.3.3 again using ODIN and try another method. I have tried a lot of things. Hemidall, ODIN, SuperOneClick, and a lot of gibbrish-sounding methods. None work. I am now running 2.3.3. Here are some infos:
ABOUT PHONE:
Model Number: SGH-T959V
Firmware Version: 2.3.3
Baseband Version: T959VUVKF1
Kernel Version: 2.6.35.7-T959VUVKF1-CL270364
Build Number: GINGERBREAD.VUVKF1
The files I used to flash to 2.3.3 using ODIN v1.85:
PIT: Hawk_Sidekick_VibrantPlus_831.pit
PDA: CODE_T959VUVKF1_CL270364_REV00_user_low_noship.tar.md5
PHONE: T959VUVKF1-Phone-CL1020302.tar.md5
CSC: SGH-T959V-CSC-TMB-VIBRANTP.tar.md5
I hope the above infos are enough. So, can anyone help me and point me to the right direction on how to install CWM and then install CM10 or 9 on my friends SGS 4G?
Thanks,
Tamrat

Hmmm, an interesting set of binaries, ones that don't ring a bell with me. I'm used to seeing T959VUVKJ6.
Where did you find those? Half curiosity, half trying to understand the problem, half since much of the "old" images for the phones got lost when Multiupload and what have you were shut down.
For the SGS4G, the kernel, root file system, and recovery file system are all in "boot.img" -- flash one, you flash them all. They can be flashed through Odin (assuming you really like Windows), heimdall (multi-platform), through recovery, or from a root command line (for the adventurous only).
I would say the most robust way to get where you need to be would be to use Lumin's guide to make sure you've got a viable Gingerbread set-up going, then flash something reliable to get you to MTD, like TeamAcid's CM9.
From there, you should know that some of the KK ROMs use slightly different MTD partitioning and aren't a "just flash this ROM and keep your data" kind of thing.

jeffsf said:
Hmmm, an interesting set of binaries, ones that don't ring a bell with me. I'm used to seeing T959VUVKJ6.
Where did you find those? Half curiosity, half trying to understand the problem, half since much of the "old" images for the phones got lost when Multiupload and what have you were shut down.
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A long day Googling... and then a site turned up. One thing I forgot to mention was, before I installed this firmware, I had to use the "remove battery->plug usb->press the button combos->insert the battery" to enter download mode, but now I juts have to press vol down and power button.
Thanks for the reply,

Failure again
UPDATE:::
I tried to update to 2.3.6 as the guide suggests and I also wanted a clean stock OS in case the old one was not. But once again updating to 2.3.6 has been a pain. Kies Mini recognizes the phone but it doesn't recognize the firmware running on the phone. And also, firmware update is impossible since the button is greyed out.
I googled again and found the official 2.3.6 firmware for the phone (file name: T959VUVKJ6-REV00-home-low-CL694130.tar.md5) and tried flashing it using ODIN; absolutely no luck. It fails at the stage which says Slb.bin. Restarting the phone after that gives a "firmware upgrade failure" display. Only way to wake up the phone is to flash the previous OS back.
I am really confused here.
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Some how, after like 10 retires and fiddling with ODIN, it finally flashed 2.3.6 to the SGS 4G. Still, fingers crossed.
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Finally, its all working fine now. Thank you @jeffsf, thank you very much.

F*****************K
forgot an important step and now my IEMI number is gone........
do i throw the phone now, or is there any other way???

Don't throw your phone away! How do you know that you have "no IMEI" on your phone? We'll go from there.

Hopefully, you've backed up your data before starting to play around with ROMS. If so just load your backed up efs folder onto your storage & use Root Explorer to drop it over your existing one , it will overwrite your imei file & you will be good as new.
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I'm also in need of help, I have been running SlimSaber since last weekend, was wanting to try out Beanstalk. First full wipe, install & reboot wipe again, reinstall etc as per Dao's OP, but after the first install, it won't boot past the kernel splash. Tried again with same result. Decided to click it back to stock & start over, using Gremlin Remover (odin). Then saw that others were having similar issue so I tried to load in build from April1st.
But now it only boots back into recovery, won't boot to the OS ( everything indicated install was complete & no errors.)
1 clicked back again & just tried to put SlimSaber back on again, but have the same problem, will only boot into recovery.
I had to first load CM9 to get CWM 6.xx so I could install kk using TWRP
What am I not doing correctly? Thanks for any suggestions.

Flash kernel
Reboot recovery
Wipe all partitions
(Reboot recovery for good measure and wipe again if paranoid)
Install
Boot
If that doesn't do it, it is likely ROM or hardware.
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Since this is running GB VUVKG4, could you recommend a kernel that would work & get me to TWRP (or CWM 5.xx+)?

Either the Team Acid CM9 or Hefe Kernel should work.
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