I'm on Chimera and my sister is taking this phone tomorrow. I remember there being some threat of a hard brick if you formatted something. Basically I want to wipe pics, and all these random folders from the phone. I want it as clean as possible so she has a nice fresh phone. I just don't want to brick this thing before I give it to her! Usually I factory reset in twrp is there an option in there to clean things up?
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Just plug it into your PC and format from there. Safest and easier way.
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This works for me..Try this
Factory Reset *2767*3855#
Do NOT format your phone, period. It WILL brick it.
Just use Odin to flash the ROM of your choice. Once you Odin, all user data on the phone will be gone.
Frogacuda said:
Do NOT format your phone, period. It WILL brick it.
Just use Odin to flash the ROM of your choice. Once you Odin, all user data on the phone will be gone.
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the brick problem was for aokp and cm9 roms, a dev bricked his phone while in settings and doing a reset, since then they disabled that feature(pretty sure they did), it might b visable in the menu but it doesnt do anything.
if you are on stock rogers ics it should be fine (i cant see samsung releasing it as that is a major flaw, lots of returned phones), if u r on it try it, it should b safe, if it bricked it write post it here , and tell rogers what happen and u will get another one .
custom rogers ics should also b safe, im on skyics 4.2f based on rogers ics, but im not willing to chance it, dont need to since i can use cwm or my pc to accomplish the same thing.
i agree w/the post is that u can just odin back to stock
vincom said:
the brick problem was for aokp and cm9 roms, a dev bricked his phone while in settings and doing a reset, since then they disabled that feature(pretty sure they did), it might b visable in the menu but it doesnt do anything.
if you are on stock rogers ics it should be fine (i cant see samsung releasing it as that is a major flaw, lots of returned phones), if u r on it try it, it should b safe, if it bricked it write post it here , and tell rogers what happen and u will get another one .
custom rogers ics should also b safe, im on skyics 4.2f based on rogers ics, but im not willing to chance it, dont need to since i can use cwm or my pc to accomplish the same thing.
i agree w/the post is that u can just odin back to stock
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SKY ICS wont boot after a reset. Stuck at animation. Never reset an AOSP rom. cm9, chimera, aokp, etc....... but of course if your on stock, reset a housand times. it'll be fine. Not sure about other roms. Just seanz and aosp
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SKY ICS wont boot after a reset. Stuck at animation. Never reset an AOSP rom. cm9, chimera, aokp, etc....... but of course if your on stock, reset a housand times. it'll be fine. Not sure about other roms. Just seanz and aosp
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we were talking about getting bricked, thats not bricked, reflash and u would be good to go. i didnt state that it would reset as if it was on stock, it cant since these are custom roms and the reset wont work correctly
jerrygooch said:
I'm on Chimera and my sister is taking this phone tomorrow. I remember there being some threat of a hard brick if you formatted something. Basically I want to wipe pics, and all these random folders from the phone. I want it as clean as possible so she has a nice fresh phone. I just don't want to brick this thing before I give it to her! Usually I factory reset in twrp is there an option in there to clean things up?
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As clean as possible? That would be ODIN. It will be as the day you pulled it out of the box. It will completely restore the factory image and leave no trace of anything.
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I tried to flash cm10 rom and it never would get past starting apps. I used the new recovery that I beleive beans had reated to install cm9. Then when I tried to reboot i got the verizon non authorized software message. I went back and odin back to root66 and could not get network connection. i have tried factory reset and doing over and over again with now luck. does anyone know why its not letting me on network
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I tried to flash cm10 rom and it never would get past starting apps. I used the new recovery that I beleive beans had reated to install cm9. Then when I tried to reboot i got the verizon non authorized software message. I went back and odin back to root66 and could not get network connection. i have tried factory reset and doing over and over again with now luck. does anyone know why its not letting me on network
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where did you get cm10 for the vzw phone? I thought it was for all of the other phones but vzw? Try going back to stock non root. try flashing the modems in the thread about this one.
phillyphill39 said:
where did you get cm10 for the vzw phone? I thought it was for all of the other phones but vzw? Try going back to stock non root. try flashing the modems in the thread about this one.
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if you go to goo app its in his folders of roms i beleive. i have tried that. i switched to my wifes sim card and got same results, so must be something on the phone
pitmanr2003 said:
I tried to flash cm10 rom and it never would get past starting apps. I used the new recovery that I beleive beans had reated to install cm9. Then when I tried to reboot i got the verizon non authorized software message. I went back and odin back to root66 and could not get network connection. i have tried factory reset and doing over and over again with now luck. does anyone know why its not letting me on network
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Flash the stock tar.md5 from here: http://samsung-updates.com/device/?id=scH-i535
Whatever you flashed put a custom kernel on there, and that's why you get that message.
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I tried to flash cm10 rom and it never would get past starting apps. I used the new recovery that I beleive beans had reated to install cm9. Then when I tried to reboot i got the verizon non authorized software message. I went back and odin back to root66 and could not get network connection. i have tried factory reset and doing over and over again with now luck. does anyone know why its not letting me on network
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I don't mean to be rude, but development is not for questions
timothydonohue said:
I don't mean to be rude, but development is not for questions
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no offense taken, but with only one question and answer section and that for all cell services could make this question a little different
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no offense taken, but with only one question and answer section and that for all cell services could make this question a little different
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I have d2hackers cm10 up and running on my device...click link in sig!
i have tried new modem and fully stock rom. no luck. I was running dual boot before that if that could of caused issue. I am lost now.
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i have tried new modem and fully stock rom. no luck. I was running dual boot before that if that could of caused issue. I am lost now.
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I am lost. i have tried everything and i am now where a beginner when it comes to android. Im afraid that if i take it back they will see it has been rooted.
pitmanr2003 said:
I am lost. i have tried everything and i am now where a beginner when it comes to android. Im afraid that if i take it back they will see it has been rooted.
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wipe data then odin a factory stock image
droidstyle said:
wipe data then odin a factory stock image
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tried that still wants to roam.
pitmanr2003 said:
tried that still wants to roam.
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I have tried to odin stock and then wipe. still showing no data connection, and same thing when I put my wifes sim in. IM thinkiing it has something to do with the dual boot i had set up before. is there a way to repartion the internal sd card or emmc?
This seems to be happening to a lot of people flashing AOSP ROMs....this is why they warn you they are not responsible for what happens to your phone...especially with Betas.
There are many threads on this and several on how to get a workaround until someone figures out how to fix this.
Try doing a search on losing IMEI or roaming after flashing CM10...it is happening a lot...that is why I am just using rooted stock with VZW apps and TW frozen.
this problem I was having with no data or radio in CM10.
I used ODIN to go back to stock rooted (root 66).
When I did that I was boot looping in the puking rainbows 4GLTE boot animation.
I eventually figured out how to fix that by booting into recovery (press volume up, home button, and power button at the same time till phone boots). I then did a wipe data/factory reset.
My phone then booted fine into stock root.
I then proceeded to punch in *2767*3855# into my dialer immediately when I got stock root working. That did some sort of a factory reset / format. It all happened so quick I could barely read what it told me. The phone rebooted after a while.
I then downloaded EZ-Recovery for VZW Galaxy S3 app from the Play store.
I installed the custom recovery from Dhacker's CM10 post over on the droidhive forums using EZ recovery.
I also downloaded the CM10 file to flash and the Jelly Bean Google Apps file.
Rebooted into recovery, Wiped data/cache/dalvik.
Installed the CM10 file.
Installed the Jelly Bean apps.
Reboot.
Profit.
I now have a largely functional CM10 (as far as I can tell there are some camera issues). Data 3G/4G is working, so are calls and text and everything is dandy.
Did the *27 bla bla thing posted above and back to normal. Thanks everyone
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My maps gps lock got totally f*cked by synergy 1.7 so it was suggested to go back to stock and reroot since flashing new rom from clean wipe did not work.
A lot of links and methods are out of date, so I was wondering what the best way to get back to stock at this point.
I have the latest odin on my computer, I guess I'm looking for the most recent or most reliable stock image to flash.
Thanks
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I think a lot of people recommend the root66 stock..... But I'd try noSympathy's image
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I'm rooting immediately after so whatever is a proven version will make me happy
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They're both rooted so no need to do after. Both are tried and true, noSympathy's is based off the last OTA but some people like to start from scratch so that would be root66.
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I want to get back to unrooted stock.
I can't seem to locate the route66 stock image
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1762204
It's up to you but it's just more work to go unrooted then root yourself. Check the development threat there maybe an un rooted image there
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1755386
Thought there would be a newer one but here's unrooted...
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My main reason to flash stock was I was told that would be the only way to restore my faulty gps lock.
Do you think flashing a stock rooted image would do the same for me? Or should I flash unrooted image then start fresh? Time is not a concern, im patient
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FormeriPhoney said:
My main reason to flash stock was I was told that would be the only way to restore my faulty gps lock.
Do you think flashing a stock rooted image would do the same for me? Or should I flash unrooted image then start fresh? Time is not a concern, im patient
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Flash back to stock then root. Click link in sig.
i tried this......still having the same issue, switched from CM10 back to stock and had issues with my GPS being way off, like by 3300 meters off haha.....so flashed back to stock, still had the issue, so i used the rooted stock image and flashed that and i'm still off by about over 2k meters.....don't use my navigation or maps all that much but when i do need it i'll have a bit of an issue lol
I had issues with my gps for a few days. If was real flaky but got better with synergy 1.5. I have since move to 1.6 with a fresh install and am still okay. Check out a app called gps status. See if you can see any gps satellites. Maybe in that app clear your agps state in tools. Then if that doesn't work try to download gps assistance with the same app in the same settings. Make sure your out side for this stuff with your gps. It's probably not gonna hit ya sitting on the couch.
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FormeriPhoney said:
My maps gps lock got totally f*cked by synergy 1.7 so it was suggested to go back to stock and reroot since flashing new rom from clean wipe did not work.
A lot of links and methods are out of date, so I was wondering what the best way to get back to stock at this point.
I have the latest odin on my computer, I guess I'm looking for the most recent or most reliable stock image to flash.
Thanks
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I used the stock image from here:
http://samsung-updates.com/device/?id=SCH-I535
and used this method for rooting:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1792342
my gps doesnt work at all
After Odin back to stock, non rooted image my GPS is fixed.
Now on CM10, loving it. Not sure if I'll ever try synergy again bc of that nightmare situation.
I use my gps pretty much all day. I needz it
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New AOKP JB issue with radio
Well I am trying to get something fixed and I am going through a complete restore to do this.
But just so you are aware the new AOKP JB release will kill your data. I learned a hard lesson with this when trying to recover and nandroid back to my previous rom. It killed my data completely and would not allow me to do anything with data in any rom. I used the root66 stock rom in hopes it would work, and that didnt even solve the issue.
Right now I am restoring a factory image through kies and seeing if that will do what I need. If it does, I am sticking with stock roms for awhile until AOSP roms have more time to develope with less bugs.
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Well I am trying to get something fixed and I am going through a complete restore to do this.
But just so you are aware the new AOKP JB release will kill your data. I learned a hard lesson with this when trying to recover and nandroid back to my previous rom. It killed my data completely and would not allow me to do anything with data in any rom. I used the root66 stock rom in hopes it would work, and that didnt even solve the issue.
Right now I am restoring a factory image through kies and seeing if that will do what I need. If it does, I am sticking with stock roms for awhile until AOSP roms have more time to develope with less bugs.
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It sounds like you may have lost your IMEI or MEID. I hope you made a backup with QPST.
still had IMEI
toy028 said:
It sounds like you may have lost your IMEI or MEID. I hope you made a backup with QPST.
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Well it turns out I still had my imei present on my phone and even after a factory reset like I did wit kies it still didnt work. Initially I wasnt able to get past the activation screen on the root66 rom, but I was able to with the stock factory image from kies in which case this allowed me to follow the steps in this link.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1838791
Once I did that my phone rebooted and everything came back as it was never gone, well except for all of my data on the internal sd card, but that is to be expected.
After 2 hours of going through numerous steps I finally found a fix, mind you not the most simple of fixes, but a fix none the less.
I think I am just going to stay stock for awhile like I mentioned and wait for the OTA that comes out in 2014 lol, unless in review of AOSP roms the issues present now are gone after sometime.
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Nice. Tks
Gps works like a champ on beans!
Gps seems to work substantially better on cm10 than on stock....ran the GPS test and i locked onto 14/19 satellites.
Beamed via NFC through the local store to the internet from my SGS3.
Looking to gift my 7+ to my sister by doing a factory reset to return to unrooted stock. Flashed the European ICS a while back from HC via Mobile ODIN, Been reading about the Superbrick Bug on some Samsung devices has me a tad leery.
Probably know the answer but thought I'd ask regardless. Any instances of problems with reset given the above 7+ profile? Now that US ICS is out would quite probably update to US ICS afterwards.
Suggestions? Thoughts? Idle ramblings?
thanks
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Looking to gift my 7+ to my sister by doing a factory reset to return to unrooted stock. Flashed the European ICS a while back from HC via Mobile ODIN, Been reading about the Superbrick Bug on some Samsung devices has me a tad leery.
Probably know the answer but thought I'd ask regardless. Any instances of problems with reset given the above 7+ profile? Now that US ICS is out would quite probably update to US ICS afterwards.
Suggestions? Thoughts? Idle ramblings?
thanks
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As of right now be sure that you all are extemely cautious when trying to flash any type of ICS package (be it firmware, a ROM, or any type of system running it). Our tablet may have an issue with ICS as many other galaxy devices have. A bug currently exists that corrupts the mounting of the data partition on the device which *MAY* lead to a permanent hard bricking of your device.
This is currently a very RARE issue, however, those who are not well educated in Android development and that do not know how to 100% reset their tablet should refrain from flashing any type of ICS ROM or ODIN package.
If you have already flashed an ICS ODIN package or are running CM9 safely and have been for a good amount of time.
For those of you who insist on upgrading to ICS, backup your entire ROM and make sure that you have the stock HC ODIN package. Although it probably won't help having them if you are hard bricked.
My personal experience is positive, from honeycomb , i am past to CM9 , then with ODIN to flashing ICS , I do not have locked the device , there were problems with bootloop ,but solved by using a wipe data , factory reset from the recovery..
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Looking to gift my 7+ to my sister by doing a factory reset to return to unrooted stock. Flashed the European ICS a while back from HC via Mobile ODIN, Been reading about the Superbrick Bug on some Samsung devices has me a tad leery.
Probably know the answer but thought I'd ask regardless. Any instances of problems with reset given the above 7+ profile? Now that US ICS is out would quite probably update to US ICS afterwards.
Suggestions? Thoughts? Idle ramblings?
thanks
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If you need to reset it, DO NOT FACTORY RESET FROM ICS RECOVERY. Flash back to hc with Odin, then do a factory reset there, or install cwm recovery and reset it from there (probably the route I would take, as it is far easier)
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as per what i did, i have done factory reset from within the settings menu, which rebooted my device to stock recovery.
the initial reset was fine, but when i flashed the new asian ICS firmware, i did a reset from the stock recovery itself, which have bricked my tab.
so, be careful with factory reset, as it also uses the default recovery (correct me if i understand it wrong).
Ok, I flashed something that wasn't for my sgs2 skyrocket and when I did it nothing happened, then when I rebooted it it seemed ok untill it kept freezing, no sound even on full val. I cant call because I cant here the other person and that it freezes on every app I open it takes like 2mins to open or a force close comes up. Well I have flashed back to stock using odin but still the same problem. I dont know what to do? Any thoughts about fixing this?
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If you have flashed back to stock, and are still having the same issues it sounds like there may be a hardware problem. Did you do a full clean flash back to stock? (system wipe, clear the dalvik)
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Why would you flash something not for the Skyrocket?
Wipe the phone completely, as in all data, the system, caches, and repeat that wipe three times in recovery, then power down. Go into download mode and restore to GB stock (yes, all the way back), then use Kies to do the ICS update and stay stock for a few days to make sure everything works after that.
If it's still not working after that, your hardware is jacked. Restore the thing back to GB, pull the cord out during the ICS update on Kies and finish the job. Hope you're still in warranty; if not, I hear you can get a used Captivate for $60 or so while you learn not to flash stuff for the wrong phone.
in stock recovery wipe caches and do a reset, if still a no go, install cwm, wipe caches and reset x3, reflash stock firmware with odin again, perform a reset, if still a no go then hw malfunction
Well someone's lazy...
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No I just flashed it back. But ima try that right now. Hope it this will work.
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No I just flashed it back. But ima try that right now. Hope it this will work.
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You just flashed it back? You're not making any sense. Post a link to the ROM you flashed or we can't help you.
I flashed the stock rom.
I was running slim 4.2.1 for quite some time with no problems, i loved it. I flashed 4.2.2 and my phone got stuck in NV and my phone number would come up as 000-000-3370. On first boot everything seems to be fine except that i get an error when i try to open up the play store. On my next boot is when I would see these problems. I tried everything from dirty flashing from a working 4.2.1 rom to completely formatting everything, even my external sd, and the same thing happens. This happens with every 4.2.2 rom out there. When i reboot i get stuck on the activating screen and my phone will get stuck in NV and ruim/sim wont stick no matter what i do. i don't know what else to do. someone please help!
It isn't a rom issue it is an S 3 issue that randomly occurs when flashing ROMs. You will have to flash the stock rom and reprovision your phone. I know because it has happened to me twice and both times it was with a Touchwiz ROM. You should have backed up your IMEI just in case this happens.
my imei is backed up. but why is it only 4.2.2 roms that do this?
I was able to flash back to a 4.2.1 Rom, namely pure Google for now, with no problems. but when I flash any 4.2.2 Rom the same thing happens.
All 4.2 ROMs used to do this to me.
However.
Only also happened when I flashed miui.
Now I run liquid smooth and haven't had the problem since.
sent from that young galaxy.
God bless the American people!
do u guys think I should Odin back to stock, then root, unlock, and try to flash 4.2.2?
Actually, there is an easier way
I have had this happen numerous times and it lef me to mess with my phone a little bit. I originally thought that setting it to CDMA/SIM and then rebooting would fix the problem, but I found a simpler solution to that. The last time I encountered the problem I simply set the phone to RUIM/SIM under mobile networks and then Turned on airplane mode for a few seconds then turned it off and I found my number under phone settings and everything. Try that and let me know how it goes.
Edit: Sorry, the term is RUIM/SIM, not CDMA/SIM. My bad.
hmmm, I'll definitely give that a shot later on tonight.
well I tried it, it works. but only temporarily. once I reboot it reverts back to how it was. any other thoughts?
anyone?
Chitala383 said:
anyone?
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try this. i had the same problem. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=35600769&postcount=2
nope, none of that works either. no matter what I do ruim/sim will not stick on a reboot on any 4.2.2 Rom. I'm really getting frustrated with this.
no one has any other solutions for me?
Chitala383 said:
anyone?
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Does your phone display an IMEI number?
Settings->About->Status
Don't need the number, just to know if you have it there....
Also do you still have Root/Unlocked bootloader?
yes, i have an imei. i lost it once before so now its backed up, i'll never make that mistake again. it was a nightmare trying to get it back. and yes, i am rooted and unlocked.
Chitala383 said:
yes, i have an imei. i lost it once before so now its backed up, i'll never make that mistake again. it was a nightmare trying to get it back. and yes, i am rooted and unlocked.
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Have you done a complete factory restore through Odin? You would lose root and unlocked bootloader, but it may be faster to restore to stock, and reroot/mod than to try to find an "easy" fix. I was having some issues the other day in between a few ROM's, but I just factory restored, and restarted from "scratch". Now I am running perfect.
You may have already tried, but on page 1 you asked if you should, and I did not see a confirmation you did so.
Had the same problem... And yes, the phone must be reprovisioned. Although sometimes you can just adjust the network settings and change it from NV. That worked for me also.
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I flashed root 66 via Odin, bootloop. flashed the ma2 stock image, bootloop. then flashed the lk3 stock image with success. but still with the same results as before.
tomorrow I'll try flashing g1 and start from scratch there. what do u guys think?
well, I odin'd back to bone stock G1, rooted with rootdebugfs, flashed cwm with ez recovery, unlocked my bootloader with ez unlock, flashed liquidsmooth 4.2.2 rc2 and guess what. same ****!!!!!!!!!!!!! i'm really getting fed up with this. someone has to have a solution to this cuz this is really pissing me off.