I know some of these questions are around the internet on google and in other threads, but try as i might ive never been able to find difinitive answers so i'm wondering if someone can help me out
a little background:
I have previously flashed xsballs ics rom (pretty much the first day it came out) and tried to root it. At this point things went horribly wrong and i soft bricked my phone. I then used the recovery guide to get back to gingerbread and all is well but...
Question 1:
I want to try cyanogen mod 7 but one question i cannot find a difinitive answer to is does the HDMI function in the currently available stable release? whenever i google this all i see is threads where people have tried the nightly and id didnt work.
Question 2:
When backing up with clockwork mod can i restore this backup and replace cyanogen if i dont like it or decide the 3d loss is too much of a hit? the reason im asking is i remember when i was stuck on froyo and every thread about getting to gingerbread involved convoluted methods of flashing kdz files. If this is the case im confused as to why there wasnt just agingerbread backup/rom i that could be restored from CWM
Question 3:
During my bricking/unbricking process i used lg flash tool as in the guide and put my phone into some kind of download/service mode which had a specific screen graphic (i think it was an exclamation mark or something). Since getting gingerbread back on ive never been able to get this screen back. When i try to put my phone back into this download mode the same key presses just give me a black screen. Is this normal?
Question 4:
Does Cyanogenmod 7 support USB OTG and pinless bluetooth pairing?
Thanks for your time
I don't have answers for question 1 and 4, but I can say a few things on 2 and 3:
_ question 2: from what I've seen, gingerbread and CM7 and CM10 uses the same baseband (the key thing to get mobile signal), and I even have 3 different nandroid backups for 3 versions. I can restore them, by CWM, over each other and still have a stable and functioning phone. And you can flash a GB/CM7/CM10 zip file over either GB/CM7/CM10 should you want to start fresh. You MAY notice minor bugs like the screen not being very responsive or alarm clock not working, that's when you would want to change the bootloader
_ question 3: I am able to get to the download mode (that's the mode you are refering to) from all 3: GB, CM7 and CM10. Just turn off the phone completely, then hold vol up, then press(and hold) power. Remove the battery if necessary, and if the phone automatically turns on right after you insert the battery, hold the vol up button BEFORE inserting the battery.
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OK, I have spent a lot of time reading up on the subject but I am still unclear on a few things about flashing ROMS.
I have rooted my phone (no problem) and have installed ROM manger and Clockwork Mod. I was able to do back ups no problem but ran into some serious problems when I tried to put on CM7. What I ended up with was the black screen of death and it took me almost 7 hrs to get my phone back up and running. (CM7 = cost me 7 Hrs!) I know there are some issues with clockwork mod running on this phone but I see people flashing like crazy so I know it must not be that big of a deal. Needless to say I am a little nervous to jump in again, I am reluctant to create a $500 paperweight.
Here are my questions, if anybody has any input I would love to hear it.
1) What are the steps to installing a ROM with CWM?
2) Can you flash a new ROM by putting it on your SD card and Entering HBoot without Clockwork Mod (it seems like this is what happened in the root process.)
3) Do you have to wipe the phone every time before you install a new rom, and if so is a factory reset what you are after?
4) What does it mean when you enter "Recovery". I have seen it in HBoot and ROM manager but don't really know what it means.
5) Where on earth can I find a dictionary on all of the terms and abbreviations used in the Android Rooting community? I am quick study but this is a steep learning curve to come up to speed on.
Thanks Everyone.
turn off your phone and then hold volume down then press the power button and hold volume down after you let off the power until it boots into recovery. then you will see wipe,flash from sd card and all the other menus. its simple once you get that figured out
Hi guys!
I'm a semi noob when it comes to all this, BUT I did thoroughly look over the forums for almost 8 hours now trying to figure all this out on my own, but now I think I may have taken a turn for the worse.
First of all I have a Samsung Galaxy S Vibrant 4g. I first rooted my phone successfully using the SuperOneClick, no problem. Then I wanted to use team whiskey's Bionix Frost rom (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1119986) which I LOVED on my other vibrant galaxy s (not 4g).
I then went to this thread to get CWM (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1099374) which was placed in all the right folders I believe, BUT here was when the problems started....
I did not run the update.zip file twice... I went in CWM mod (by pressing the volume buttons and power button) and then reinstalled packages and then selected the update.zip....THEN I thought I could go ahead and install the Bionix rom by selecting that zip file..
It unloaded and then went to reboot...but the screen never passed the GALAXY S 4g logo....
so back to the forums I went. I really couldn't find anything that would help except load the old firmware with odin, so I went to http://www.akaskriller.com/free/vibrantflashing1.php and followed his steps..but I think that was a bad move because these files aren't particularly for my 4g
so when I went to flash the original stock (which was 2.1) I think I really screwed it up because it said FAIL when I tried to run it through odin..
now here's the big probem:
I can't get into download mode any longer (by pressing JUST the volume buttons and then usb and then battery). I took the picture and attached it, so now what can I do?
the picture is a cellular mobile phone connected to a yellow triangle with an exclamation point connected by dots to a computer.
please please please help if you can and leave step by step instructions if possible. I would greatly appreciate it, and I know it's stressful reading these things, but I honestly have tried for 8 hours now trying to figure this out on my own, and now I'm asking the community. Thanks!
Ok pretty much a new guy here.
I was able to successfully root my phone back in December.
I used Odin3 v1.3.exe and the all_in_one_odin_ep4d.tar.md5 that I found on the website.
It was easy and pretty much flawless.
Now for the last month or so I am getting verizon system updates (i've just been ignoring them) and my phone performance has gone down.
I want to update my phone but still be rooted, or I want the messages to stop and my phone performance to improve.
I've done some browsing, but everytime I look more into it I just get more and more confused.
I like the packages that have the Blue theme options like TweakStock or Eclipse, but I have no idea what I have to do to run these, to get this rooted software on my phone. What is the difference between Stock-rooted, TweakStock or Eclpise?
It would be very helpful if some one could layout the specific links to files that I need (not the threads) and the order I need to flash them in. Or if there is a all-in-one thread somewhere for the new update or TweakStock or Eclipse that would be helpful too.
Thanks,
Paul
p.s. I attached a screen shot of my phone info, not sure if that is helpful.
I would recommend Tweaked. Check out this thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1592428 and follow the instructions
If you don't have CWM I recommend you get it. It makes most things much easier.
Not sure the best way to get back to stock and I am not sure it is really needed but look in the dev section and you will find the odin for that.
also, remember that if you have CWM installed, and you have problems you can pull the battery, put it back in, Press and hold volume up and the Home key and then hold power. Let go of the power button when the samsun logo appears. This should put you into CWM.
hold vol up, vol down and power to boot into download mode.
Ok I have CWM.
I didn't know that I did... I have version 4.0.1.4
never knew how to use it before.
thanks for the help!
Hey there, apologies in advance if I have submitted this thread in the wrong section. I really looked as hard as I could before posting.
Well I rooted my phone, got super user on there, then got clockworkmod red, and then attempted to put the ice cream sandwich mod on my phone, thats where everything went sour. Phone would not go past screen that says samsung. I tried a few times to get it to go past that point, and just nothing. I then attempted to use odin to have my phone put back, but now I cannot even get the phone to open up clockworkmod.
To put it very simply. The only thing I have access to now is the download option (holding both volume up and down while inserting the usb cable from the computer) I have searched the internet high and low for something to run through odin to put my phone back to the way it was. I keep coming up with dead links and long dead downloads. I was able to use the gtg ultimate unbrick, but all that managed to accomplish was to have my phone say at&t instead of rogers.
Im still at the screen that says samsung, with no access to a recovery menu at this point. I only have the download option.
Can anyone help me salvage my phone?
edit: I appear to have been able to reput clockworkmod back on the phone with odin. Thats all I have been able to do.
When flashing any ics Rom/port from.gingerbread/red recovery you will need to double flash...I'm seeing a lot of people.with bricks lately and I think the problem is they are not reading enough before flashing ics...
So you have cwm correct? Boot into cwm by holding volume up down and power button. If you have no roms hen go to mounts and storage and mount USB then plug it into the pc and copy over the Rom...if its gingerbread Rom.just one flash...if its ics then flash, you will get stuck on Samsung screen so boot back into cwm...you will either boot into a blue or some distorted rainbowy cwm...just reflash he Rom
If you can't do that...then idk what else to do as I don't know much about rogers phones and what is and isn't compatible with them...but u would suggest qksters heimdal one click back to stock uclb3...its always worked for me...but not sure if it will work with rogers...
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Mytheos said:
Hey there, apologies in advance if I have submitted this thread in the wrong section. I really looked as hard as I could before posting.
Well I rooted my phone, got super user on there, then got clockworkmod red, and then attempted to put the ice cream sandwich mod on my phone, thats where everything went sour. Phone would not go past screen that says samsung. I tried a few times to get it to go past that point, and just nothing. I then attempted to use odin to have my phone put back, but now I cannot even get the phone to open up clockworkmod.
To put it very simply. The only thing I have access to now is the download option (holding both volume up and down while inserting the usb cable from the computer) I have searched the internet high and low for something to run through odin to put my phone back to the way it was. I keep coming up with dead links and long dead downloads. I was able to use the gtg ultimate unbrick, but all that managed to accomplish was to have my phone say at&t instead of rogers.
Im still at the screen that says samsung, with no access to a recovery menu at this point. I only have the download option.
Can anyone help me salvage my phone?
edit: I appear to have been able to reput clockworkmod back on the phone with odin. Thats all I have been able to do.
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If u can get to dl ur fine
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1331381
Use this link/program from download mode to get to stock 2.3.6.
Wait, if you can get to download mode, you can reflash JScott's option C from here, then get into CWM red, flash the ICS of your choice, reboot into CWM blue (press and hold vol up/vol dn/power 5 seconds when stuck at sammy screen), wipe data/cache/dalvik, reboot and you should have ICS.
I understand that some people will never get "it", but reading the entire post for flashing/modding firmware is a MUST.
Hello everyone, I do believe I have officially broken my phone, however, something tells me I shouldn't give up quite yet.
My cool-story lookin ass decided "Gee, I have done a lot with my phone, and I really want to try and use Cyanogen Mod on it because I am cool!"
Well, I am definitely not that cool. It failed, and then after sadly being turned to my stock ROM, I decided to try Clockwork Mod, it seemed that some were doing it quite easily, so I attempted this myself.
Another failed attempt there, so I figured, well, the Clockwork Mod app had some cool stuff to it, maybe I will just satisfy myself by trying to change the bootup animation to Nyan Cat to make myself feel better about it.
The original purpose of me flashing a ROM over was to allow me to install apps to my SD card without having to go though a Myriad of things. Turns out, that was probably the better option.
Allow me to tell you the current symptoms, and let you know what methods I have tried.
Stuck on LG boot screen, does not load OS
Now no longer will power on or even try to without being connected to my PC (not sure how that came about)
Recovery (Power + Vol Down) does not work, freezes when telling me to wait (gave it a good 30 minutes)
Factory Reset does not work (freezes after second confirmation gave it about 30 minutes)
Methods I am trying but have so far had no success with:
LG Support Tool - (Tells me it stopped working at the beginning of the 3rd step in Upgrade Recovery) (I am letting it sit right now and is still there after about 20 minutes or so)
Unsoft Brick (OneClick Unbrick Java tool) - Flat out fails.
The Connect.img for VMWare fails ultimately
KS360 Util ENG (So far no luck. It crashes douring the upgrade.)
LGFlash Tool - I got it to say Ready and then boom, I unplug and replug in (as per instructions) and no dice, I get no "PASS" on it.
What I can do
Get it to the Download Mode screen.
So far I have tried these methods with and without both the SD Card and SIM card.
The phone IS out of service right now and I did soft-root it at one point using Ngyuen Root method King User, so I don't believe I will get any support, even if I do take it into Sprint (Got it through Boost Mobile).
What I am thinking I may be able to do (no research on this yet)
Is be able to run Linux Distro Ubuntu, force wipe it, and then force the stock ROM back into it to make it run again..
But so far, I have mostly broken down far and needed to post a thread about it here.
If any of you have any suggestions as to what I might do in order to get my phone back up and running (loss of data is irrelevant and already happened) again, that would be fantastic.
Much appreciated everyone.
(Thread posted by myself in Android Forums as well so as to prevent any confusion)
[[ SIDE NOTE: I wasn't sure where to post this, so when I searched for a thread regarding this device, it was posted here, and I scrolled and saw other device support threads. I hope this was the way to go! Sorry if I didn't get it right. ]]
Just a quick update on the goings on:
Yesterday I was able to get it to try and boot without it being plugged in but it did only attempt so ONCE. I do know that after all of the tinkering I have been doing the battery should be at least 90% if not 100%.
This was also a great excuse to bump the thread and let you know I am still watching and hopeful