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soft bricked i727

Hi guys.
So im working on an i727 that was flashed with a att gs2 kernel. I was hoping someone rootedcould hook me up with a stock kernel or something. I am unable to find a working kernel to reflash this device.

I used a kernel on http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1325168 before. It allowed me to boot up the phone but the menu buttons didn't work.

damn, once again it's the button.. it's always the damn buttons.
We need the source of the kernel from the SkyRocket before we can start modding kernels
T-Mobile released the source for their TSGS2 about 9-10 days after the phone was launch. We'll see what happens from here on out... but we need the source code

This is a great example of why this phone needs its own forum. It is different from the i777 in so many ways. The only thing from the i777 that will work on the i727 would probably be themes ... but that's about it. Kernals, ROMs, etc will not work.
Sent from my Galaxy S II (i777)

I found one. Use the T989 insecured kernel. Itll give you what seems like full functionality except the acceleromator is backwards.

Switched to this kernel here at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1337311. Works fine now with the buttons.

How did you flash this Kernel with a soft brick?

crispy1805 said:
How did you flash this Kernel with a soft brick?
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A USB jig still works, I tested mine right after I got the phone.

I can get into download mode or the "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue mode" with the phone--!--computer graphic. Did you use Odin?

crispy1805 said:
I can get into download mode or the "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue mode" with the phone--!--computer graphic. Did you use Odin?
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I'm not the guy with the soft-brick, I just thought someone might want to know that the USB Jig still works. I've had that error though on another phone and could still flash it via Odin.

Lol of course. Yea, I used my jig too.

Hope these skyrocket threads can be moved to their correct destinations...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1383
Sent From My KickAss ATT SGS2 SPORTING CM7

Help
I also need this stock Kernel...

Anyone get the Jig to reset the flash counter? Like the noob that I am after rooting the phone, I wanted to try returning it to stock with the one posted in the thread, but something happened and my phone bricked. I was able to get it back up and did a restore, but now the phone shows current binary: custom and flash counter reads yes (2 counts) I know with the OGSGII you had to do something with the secondary bootloader if you had tried running Gingerbread 2.3.5 at some point and time. Just wondering if anyone has developed a workaround for this phone

Samsung S2 Bricked - Any software solution update?
Hi all,
I've read too many threads or blogs about this.
Tested Odin and Heimdall... but nothing seems to be working.
The only thing that gives me some hope it's the Zadig Utility that cames with Heimdall... that seems to be able to install a device driver properly, in spite that is a not a WCDI (Windows compatible ID)
My Samsung Galaxy S2 i727 is bricked (No download mode, no logo, nothing... it's like a brick)
So my question is: What is the magical solution for this?
Software?
Hardware?
Thank you guys. Xda rocks!

You can not fix it yourself. Mobile tech videos offers a jtag service. So u have to ship the device to them for it to be fixed

two words : silver knows

shoobiedoobiiwhompwop said:
two words : silver knows
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lol true the above is correct... If you get nothing at all jtag is the only way our use a warranty
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I727 using xda premium

[Q] Just another root question - 2.3.6

There's so much out there I have to ask it directly. I know it's got to be in the forum somewhere but I've read probably half dozen ways to do this and it's confusing.
I have a TMob Galaxy S 4g T959VUVKJ6 running T959VUVKJ6-CL694130 kernel (hope that means something to someone!) with 2.3.6 firmware that came with the phone.
How can I get rid of bloatware?
If I have to root first is there an ez way to do that, like SOC that works on my phone?
I rooted a previous phone but with an older firmware and used SOC. Looking for the same process if I can. Thanks in advance.

SOC V2.3.3 will work on GB. If you just want to root and keep the stock ROM that's your best bet.

rogerperk said:
How can I get rid of bloatware?
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Check my signature for FB's debloater. You do need to be rooted & have CWM installed to use it.
rogerperk said:
If I have to root first is there an ez way to do that, like SOC that works on my phone?
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SOC is one way, but given that you need to have CWM installed I would suggest using the third link in bhndven's [Heimdall][One-Click][UVKJ6] The KJ6 Heimdall One-Click Collection [12/11/2011].
After that, install [KERNEL]Subtly Modified Stock with CWM5 + Voodoo Lagfix [02/24] to get on the latest beta kernel. It has the latest CWM which resolves an issue with CWM 3 not being able to mount /system on Gingerbread.
rogerperk said:
I rooted a previous phone but with an older firmware and used SOC. Looking for the same process if I can. Thanks in advance.
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SOC will work, just make sure you have the latest version. However, to debloat you need CWM so I would forgo SOC & install the stuff above.

Nope. I downloaded SOC 2.3.3, checked USB debugging, plugged in my phone, it didn't ask my anything about my card, turned on SOC, clicked Root, it went through Killing ADB Server, daemon not running, daemon started successfully, and sat there at Starting ADB Server. Tried several times but no joy. Is it me?

It said Not Responding.

I haven't used it to root in a really long time personally. I know others have gotten it to work recently. Maybe try a different usb port. Here's a guide with some info on it. Read down a little bit and you'll see it. Sounds like your doing it right. Do you want to stay on stock and just have root? Or will you be playing with custom ROMs?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1470716

hechoen said:
I haven't used it to root in a really long time personally. I know others have gotten it to work recently. Maybe try a different usb port. Here's a guide with some info on it. Read down a little bit and you'll see it. Sounds like your doing it right. Do you want to stay on stock and just have root? Or will you be playing with custom ROMs?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1470716
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Same result. It stops responding. I'm probably going to keep it stock. I may do a custom ROM later but right now I can't get it to root. Can't figure it out.

You need to try a USB that you haven't used on your phone before. Follow the first link in my signature and go to the part about rooting. If fresh USB port doesn't work after following the guide it will probably be your USB cable.

lumin30 said:
You need to try a USB that you haven't used on your phone before. Follow the first link in my signature and go to the part about rooting. If fresh USB port doesn't work after following the guide it will probably be your USB cable.
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Still no joy. I think this is just too hard to do, which brings me back to my original question. I'm sure some wizard will come up with a way to do this soon - just not now I guess. Thanks for the help though! I appreciate it. I guess I'll stay stock for awhile yet.

How could you have done what I said in that short of time? I think you aren't reading thoroughly and are waiting for a specific answer you want to hear.

Just follow the second link in my signature. You will be on rooted stock with CWM and the guide is DUMMY proof.

I think your right lumin....outside of the vibrant....this is the easiest phone to root.
Sent from my SGH-T959V,SGH-T959 using xda premium.

Another simple way to get rid of bloatware is to use titanium backup or root explorer.

Because I am sitting at my computer working on this so it wasn't that hard to do. I had SOC open, had already downloaded file manager, etc. I never got a USB port to work but I'm going to try it again. Once I get a moment to take a deep breath. I really do appreciate the help but I don't want to do alot to do that. I got spoiled with SOC.

lumin30 said:
Just follow the second link in my signature. You will be on rooted stock with CWM and the guide is DUMMY proof.
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OK, I think it worked this time. The trick was to use IE and not Chrome apparently. It didn't go like the directions said but I ended up with a rebooted phone, lost all my apps and stuff, but with superuser on it so I assume I'm rooted and this won't start launching nuclear missiles or something. Thanks, Lumin! I appreciate your patience with me.

Hi. I have posted in another thread regarding problems with my Wind Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4G (SGH-T959W), which seems to be similar to rogerperk's issues, although the phone is a different model. lumin30 responded to the post saying that my phone is not supported by XDA. Being a noob, I don't understand why my phone is not supported. It is still a Galaxy S 4G, is it not; albeit with different baseband.
My original post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=24678919#post24678919
Is there anyone out there that may be able to help? stephen_w, lumin30, FBis251? My main goal is to root it so I can use Titanium Backup and fix the random shut-down problems.
thanks,
Billy

billyckot said:
Being a noob, I don't understand why my phone is not supported. It is still a Galaxy S 4G, is it not; albeit with different baseband.
My original post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=24678919#post24678919
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Billy even tho your phone is a SGS4G it is different from the T-Mobile phone. So our methods wont work. We dont know anything about your phone or even how to root it. You are probably stuck with a locked up phone.

Super One Click is not specific to our model phone. I will post a link to the website for you to read up on and determine if you want to try using it to root. I haven't read anybody messing their phone up with SOC - however, keep in mind you will not have a way to fix your phone if you do mess it up.

lumin30 said:
Super One Click is not specific to our model phone. I will post a link to the website for you to read up on and determine if you want to try using it to root. I haven't read anybody messing their phone up with SOC - however, keep in mind you will not have a way to fix your phone if you do mess it up.
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I started to link him but in his initial post he states it wouldnt work. Maybe the newest version will do the trick tho.

Here it is either way - http://shortfuse.org/?p=193

Windmobile 2.3.6 GS4G won't root

Superclick won't root. It goes through a bunch of stuff, does the sleep, sends the zerlings, sleeps, sends more, then the software freezes at the end with the window "not responding" and the phone isn't rooted. Trying a shell root first, it goes through the same stuff, sames something about blue flames, then goes back to letting me click buttons.
Is 2.3.6 not rootable?

Have you tried using ODIN to flash one of the rooted kernels?

I know there is that option or the option of the One-Click to install a new room, but since their is some debate if the bootloader of the Wind version is different than that of the T-Mobile that all the stock kernels are based on, I'm still searching and reading first to see.
Do I have to flash a bootloader to use the the One-Click to install stock rom so I can then have it rooted, install CWC, then flash a rom I want?

Let ask this what is your intentions with rooting?
If you want to install a custom rom Click on the purple link in my signature.
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES FLASH BOOT LOADERS
Then you can flash any of the current ICS flavors, CM7, or the current stock based roms.

eollie said:
Let ask this what is your intentions with rooting?
If you want to install a custom rom Click on the purple link in my signature.
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES FLASH BOOT LOADERS
Then you can flash any of the current ICS flavors, CM7, or the current stock based roms.
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Well was looking through some of the tut's and the one was how to do flash with no bootloaders via the phone, but needed root.
....So, If I use the 1 click in your link and run the jar file, that will flash me to a stock rom that is rooted with the clockwork recovery correct? I don't need to run the 1 click again and flash the bootloader for any reason to get the above?
Then from there, I can flash any cm7/cm9/acid/stripped down/whatever rom I want?
There is no way to backup my current system as is though, correct, because once I go through the 1 click, I'm flashing the stock bare bones rom to it?
I have no problem flashing and have done other phones and modded thousands of game consoles, but want to be sure this goes well. I've had the phone for a total of 30 hours and don't want to toast it.......but I like to tinker. lol.

eollie said:
Let ask this what is your intentions with rooting?
If you want to install a custom rom Click on the purple link in my signature.
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES FLASH BOOT LOADERS
Then you can flash any of the current ICS flavors, CM7, or the current stock based roms.
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But you will never be able to go back to stock.

bhundven said:
But you will never be able to go back to stock.
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Meh. Already bit the bullet and did it and booting your ICS as I type this. lol. The phone is 36 hours old, that's old enough to be modded isn't it?
Thanks for all the work.
Now I did the 1 click, went to recovery, did a backup of my system at that point, installed your ICS, gapps, fixxed permissions, etc, etc. Now If I want to go back to the 2.3.6, I can restore my backup right? that is going to be as close as I could get, which I would have to run the wireless fix to get wireless working since the 1 click installer's stock rom is very basic.

superoneclick
getochkn said:
Superclick won't root. It goes through a bunch of stuff, does the sleep, sends the zerlings, sleeps, sends more, then the software freezes at the end with the window "not responding" and the phone isn't rooted. Trying a shell root first, it goes through the same stuff, sames something about blue flames, then goes back to letting me click buttons.
Is 2.3.6 not rootable?
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i was in the same boat as you i try three different version of SOC and finaliy manage root it with superoneclickv2.3.1-shortfuse.the only thing i notice was when it was installing root it stalled in step 5-6 and then it did it i got root.also make sure u have OEM cable for your phone

getochkn said:
Meh. Already bit the bullet and did it and booting your ICS as I type this. lol. The phone is 36 hours old, that's old enough to be modded isn't it?
Thanks for all the work.
Now I did the 1 click, went to recovery, did a backup of my system at that point, installed your ICS, gapps, fixxed permissions, etc, etc. Now If I want to go back to the 2.3.6, I can restore my backup right? that is going to be as close as I could get, which I would have to run the wireless fix to get wireless working since the 1 click installer's stock rom is very basic.
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No you will have to flash the one click again. Just dont flash bootloaders. In your case make sure you always flash the roms for the sgh-t959v/w otherwise your liable to have a paperweight. Unless you can get a mini keis tarball for bhundven from wind mobile tech support.
If you like to tinker and think you might be able to get them to do this hop on irc before downloading the stuff. That way bhundven can walk you through getting it to him so he can perform surgery and compare the bootloaders.

eollie said:
No you will have to flash the one click again. Just dont flash bootloaders. In your case make sure you always flash the roms for the sgh-t959v/w otherwise your liable to have a paperweight. Unless you can get a mini keis tarball for bhundven from wind mobile tech support.
If you like to tinker and think you might be able to get them to do this hop on irc before downloading the stuff. That way bhundven can walk you through getting it to him so he can perform surgery and compare the bootloaders.
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thanks, and thanks for the 1 click!
Is there anyway to tell if a ROM has bootloaders or not? I've only been looking at "V" roms anyways from the list of SGS4G roms on the wiki, so think I'm safe there, just not sure about how to tell if they have a bootloader or not?
So far, the cyan/ICS/Team Acid one is working pretty good. Wifi was boinked and wouldn't authenticate any connections but a factory reset from within Android fixed that and been rock solid since.

As long as you are flashing the rom via cwm your safe. However flashing using heimdall or odin sometimes has bootloaders included. The one clicks include bootloaders but you have to check the option and then there is a secondary confirmation you have to click on. So again just flashing back to stock without touching the flash bootloaders option you are safe.

Ok, thanks. I only used odin a few times on some bricked phones customers brought me.
Wifi seems to be going wonky again with the ICS. Not connecting after a while. Better rom's to try or just a known issue or something I can try or do?

Best thing to do is get some logs for bhundven to look at. I use cm9 currently and wifi like 90% of the day. and I dont have problems with wifi.

eollie said:
Best thing to do is get some logs for bhundven to look at. I use cm9 currently and wifi like 90% of the day. and I dont have problems with wifi.
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Replaced my older router with a new one, was still having issues but reset all the ddrwrt settings to stock, re-setup the wireless step by step, testing on phone and laptop each step of the way and seems to be going good so far, full wifi bars, connected at 54mb. Now to move the N router from the basement so I can get N speeds. lol.

getochkn said:
Replaced my older router with a new one, was still having issues but reset all the ddrwrt settings to stock, re-setup the wireless step by step, testing on phone and laptop each step of the way and seems to be going good so far, full wifi bars, connected at 54mb. Now to move the N router from the basement so I can get N speeds. lol.
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The wifi on the phone only does 2.4GHz N-mode.
The only phone I've noticed 5GHz N-mode on is the galaxy note 2 (so far).

bhundven said:
The wifi on the phone only does 2.4GHz N-mode.
The only phone I've noticed 5GHz N-mode on is the galaxy note 2 (so far).
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Ok, I'll make sure to set the router for 2.4ghz mode when I set it up. Thanks for all the work on this and the help in the threads you've answered in. guess I just got freaked over the whole bootloader thing, but I have a good handle on hows it's working now somewhat anyways. Everything is going pretty good and I like being able to use Chrome now, with the desktop sync tabs and stuff. Can pickup in another room what I was doing on my PC and stuff. Pretty cool. I'll check out how the GPS works compared to the stock rom was today, but wifi seems to ok since I replaced that old crappy router. Good thing about running your own electronics repair stuff, always another router somewhere in a box. lol.

Odin Fail

I have been trying to flash the Ninphetamine kernel using Odin but I keep getting a fail. I have verified proper installation of drivers on two different computers. I put the phone in download mode, click on PDA and select the .tar file. I click start, the process gets going, then it fails.
I want to flash this so I can overclock.
I am on stock rooted.

ryano2121 said:
I have been trying to flash the Ninphetamine kernel using Odin but I keep getting a fail. I have verified proper installation of drivers on two different computers. I put the phone in download mode, click on PDA and select the .tar file. I click start, the process gets going, then it fails.
I want to flash this so I can overclock.
I am on stock rooted.
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At what stage does it fail?

Also, are you unlocked?
Sent from my SCH-I535 using xda app-developers app

I was not unlocked. I used EZ Unlocker and tried Ninphetamine again. It worked, but now when I turn the phone on, it shows Samsung quickly then powers off.

ryano2121 said:
I was not unlocked. I used EZ Unlocker and tried Ninphetamine again. It worked, but now when I turn the phone on, it shows Samsung quickly then powers off.
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Is that kernel for the Verizon S3?

Uh oh, good question. I went back to look at it looks like it is for the gsm. Can you direct me to the right way to do this?

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Uh oh, good question. I went back to look at it looks like it is for the gsm. Can you direct me to the right way to do this?
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If by GSM you mean the international S3, then you should definitely not try to flash it anymore. Sometimes you can use kernels for ATT or TMobile on the Verizon S3 (but it's not recommended). NEVER FLASH A NON VERIZON ROM ON YOUR PHONE
If that kernel is indeed for the international version, you should consider yourself lucky your phone still works. Stick to stuff made for the Verizon S3 (code named d2vzw) unless you want a brick. Seriously. Many people have just tried to flash stuff just because it's made for the S3 and it's bad news.
You should check out the KT747, Trinity Kernel, Cleankernel (here in Original Android Dev) or leankernel over at rootzwiki if you want to overclock.

[Q] Bricked T959V Need a Step Guide Please

Soft Bricked my phone yesterday by overlooking a most likely common mistake. I flashed CLM Recovery but accidently selected the wrong model UGHHH! Now I get the T Mobile Screen and I can get into download mode, thats it. I am aware of this Vibrant AIO ToolBox but Im not sure how it works and I am aware of ODIN which I have also never used. I downloaded ODIN and it does recognize my device. It looks pretty simple to use although I may be wrong. One of my major problems is I can not download any Stock OS Roms because the range at about 200mb and I am currently staying with a relative that has dial up. I dont know if I could get something faster through email. What I would like is step by step instructions on how to get my phone back to stock or somewhat functional. Any help would be greatly appreciated as we all know how hard it can be without your phone. Thanks, J
Samsung Galaxy S 4G ((ROOTED))
SGH-T959V
GingerBread 2.3.6 (Installed Stock)
T-Mobile USA
Capablities: Download Mode

jlwarner687 said:
Soft Bricked my phone yesterday by overlooking a most likely common mistake. I flashed CLM Recovery but accidently selected the wrong model UGHHH! Now I get the T Mobile Screen and I can get into download mode, thats it. I am aware of this Vibrant AIO ToolBox but Im not sure how it works and I am aware of ODIN which I have also never used. I downloaded ODIN and it does recognize my device. It looks pretty simple to use although I may be wrong. One of my major problems is I can not download any Stock OS Roms because the range at about 200mb and I am currently staying with a relative that has dial up. I dont know if I could get something faster through email. What I would like is step by step instructions on how to get my phone back to stock or somewhat functional. Any help would be greatly appreciated as we all know how hard it can be without your phone. Thanks, J
Samsung Galaxy S 4G ((ROOTED))
SGH-T959V
GingerBread 2.3.6 (Installed Stock)
T-Mobile USA
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all you rlly have to do is re-root is or do the steps you did to update it,just follow this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyKYUlnpYqI&feature=plcp

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all you rlly have to do is re-root is or do the steps you did to update it,just follow this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyKYUlnpYqI&feature=plcp
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People with bricked phones shouldn't give advice. I am supposed to help you on teamview and was going to message you when I was done eating and now I see you giving outdated advice to someone

OK, the bandwidth thing is going to be a challenge. I don't have all the answers, but one question is "Do you have a 'nandroid' backup from before you flashed?"
If so, you might be able to get away with just flashing a kernel with the same kind of recovery that made the backup (I'm guessing ClockworkMod recovery?), get into recovery, and restore your backup. Kernels are a lot "lighter" than ROMs, 5-8 MB typically. Still a long haul on a modem, but better than 150-200 MB!
I personally use Heimdall, not ODIN. I find the "one-click" collection good for getting a phone back into a usable state.
From that collection, AntonX-Basic_with_a_twist-v1.1.0-NO_OC_UV is 18.7 MB, and that includes what you need to install, assuming you have Java (~16 MB, I believe) and the Microsoft C++ executables (4.8 MB) already. You'll want to make sure I suggested the right kernel for the backup you have.
Another question is do you have a "good" ROM or kernel on your microSD? You might be able to unzip it on your PC and find boot.img and then install it with stand-alone Heimdall (9.6 MB, with the same caveats about Java and C++ libraries).
There's always the local coffee house with "FREE Wifi!" if you have laptop with a WiFi card.

stefelz said:
all you rlly have to do is re-root is or do the steps you did to update it,just follow this video
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getochkn said:
People with bricked phones shouldn't give advice. I am supposed to help you on teamview and was going to message you when I was done eating and now I see you giving outdated advice to someone
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ROTFL.
The best quote ever
getochkn said:
People with bricked phones shouldn't give advice.
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So what have we learned today???
getochkn said:
People with bricked phones shouldn't give advice.
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Again just in case you missed it
getochkn said:
People with bricked phones shouldn't give advice.
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And one final time
getochkn said:
People with bricked phones shouldn't give advice.
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First download KC1 clean up HERE This will contain the pit, csc, pda and everyting you need to get you phone opperational.
To get into download .... remove the battery and usb cable. Then, WHILE holding vol + and vol- put the battery in and plug in the cable. Afterwards you should get a screen asking you if you want to enter download mode. Press vol + for yes and then you get a screen saying------> Downloading Do not turn off target
Finally upgrade to KC6(i think) which is 2.3.6 ---->Get it Here<----- It is stock....with all the tmobile bloatware
This should get your phone to work..... oh yea obvously you need odin
Root using super one click
Done!
If you want custom roms go here, it will tell you how to install a custom kernel WITH Clockwork Mod recovery installed, CREATE A NANDROID BACKUP FIRST. Then download any rom you want here and put it on your sd card...Finally install it using CMR
If anything goes wrong use the nandroid you created

STOP you only have four posts and have stated you flashed all kinds of wrong stuff on your phone...you also are telling him the hardest longest way to get fixed. No need to flash all that.