I am trying to revert from an ics rom to a gingerbread rom via cwm. Is there anything special I have to do?
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Assuming your cwm is up to date just wipe cache and system then flash. But ALWAYS remember to make a backup first.
On a side note, ever use twrp?
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Ummm, its a little more complicated than Flashing.Lol
You are reverting system files and such. Grab you a STOCK image from Sammobile than flash in Odin following the steps outlined in konanes thread in the dev section. Don't ever flash backwards between versions of android in cwm, you'll soft brick your phone. Bad advice ^^^^dude
jbats said:
Ummm, its a little more complicated than Flashing.Lol
You are reverting system files and such. Grab you a STOCK image from Sammobile than flash in Odin following the steps outlined in konanes thread in the dev section. Don't ever flash backwards between versions of android in cwm, you'll soft brick your phone. Bad advice ^^^^dude
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Really? Good thing it didn't soft brick my mom's phone. Went from P.A to Blaz3r...
im_awesome_right? said:
Really? Good thing it didn't soft brick my mom's phone. Went from P.A to Blaz3r...
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I'm talking about going from firmware versions not ROMs. Going GB to ICS is fine. ICS to GB takes odin
Bml /mtd The partitions are changed from GB to ICS .
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Hmm, guess I learned something today.
I've never had a problem going from jb to ics. But I've never flashed back to gb
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Hey everybody, so I might be posting in the wrong section but since its a question I figured I'd post in the Q&A. So my question is since I still have froyo BL and on CM9 can I still flash another rom even though my recovery has the rainbow effect? In recovery the top 1/3 is rainbow but the rest I can read good. I want to flash revolution rom. And I would Odin or heimdall back to stock and go from there but I have no PC. So yeah would it be safe to wipe all and flash revolution even though I'm on a froyo BL, blue CWM and on CM9?
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Nobody can give me an answer?!?!
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popi09 said:
Nobody can give me an answer?!?!
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Yeah, you have had to wait a really long time for an answer. I figured folks were just waiting for you to check out the other threads with the exact same question.
Just messing with you, and you'd really be fine to flash the rom that you want to flash. Your best bet would be to get set up right, though. To get rid of the rainbows, it's not too hard to get Gingerbread bootloaders. Follow the instructions in this post to a "t", including the part in the FAQ about how to get red CWM, and you'll have everything you need for a rainbow free rom flashing experience. It will get you set up on stock Gingerbread with custom recovery. Then you can flash any of the other available roms.:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1613523
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Nobody can give me an answer?!?!
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Huh thought process like that will get up you no support....
sorry i'm a newb
how do i install 4.1.2 stock with odin without wiping my phone?
I can't use kies because for some reason it won't recognize my phone
Read the stickies in the development section on how to flash roms. There are a number of steps you have to take and if you don't educate yourself first your going to be sorry.
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Read the stickies in the development section on how to flash roms. There are a number of steps you have to take and if you don't educate yourself first your going to be sorry.
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flashing a rom is the same as flashing the stock 4.1.2?
Yes. Have you tried to upgrade your phone with kies? Where did you get the 4.1.2 file from, what file format is it?
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jd1639 said:
Yes. Have you tried to upgrade your phone with kies? Where did you get the 4.1.2 file from, what file format is it?
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I can't upgrade via kies because it won't even recognize my phone, tried on 2 diff computers.
got it from this http://samsung-updates.com/
ANigerian said:
flashing a rom is the same as flashing the stock 4.1.2?
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Please read the stickies in the development section like you were advised.
ANigerian said:
I can't upgrade via kies because it won't even recognize my phone, tried on 2 diff computers.
got it from this http://samsung-updates.com/
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Do you have an i727 skyrocket?
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Read all the stickies you can before doing anything. Vincom has posted a few, read them all, read them till you feel confident you can do this. Once you understand what you are doing, the skyrocket is a really easy phone to work with. I would start with this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1773659
livefree79 said:
Read all the stickies you can before doing anything. Vincom has posted a few, read them all, read them till you feel confident you can do this. Once you understand what you are doing, the skyrocket is a really easy phone to work with. I would start with this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1773659
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This. All of this.
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jd1639 said:
Do you have an i727 skyrocket?
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yeah the one from rogers
ANigerian said:
yeah the one from rogers
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Do you know of Odin recognizes your device?
God promised men that he'd put beautiful women in all corners of the world. Then he laughed and laughed and made the world round
ANigerian said:
yeah the one from rogers
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1 Download the Jellybean Rogers rom from here https://mega.co.nz/#!kNpxDS4Q!J1tf-jp6ppfevvxNMqxsDQAGI48p9Zz0jnfokgeCeXo
2 Wipe DATA/SYSTEM/DALVIK in CWM.
3 Flash tar as PDA in Odin 3, download Odin here http://file.jayceooi.com/2012/05/Odin3-v3.04.zip.
4 Flash old recovery tar as PDA in Odin 3. Link http://d-h.st/Z97 .
5 Flash new recovery zip in old recovery. Link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1777970 .
6 Done.
0 (you will have to root this yourself, read the stickies or this whole thread!!!).
For prerooted and improved Rogers JB (get CWM here http://d-h.st/Z97 ) .
1 Download rom here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2158262.
2 Download radio of your choice, or don't (radio for above rom https://mega.co.nz/#!FchjUArZ!QPtwwGvt0KPNE9LFkj9lhTObUSZ1MtI-vKeQxdiefU8 ) Flash radio in CWM.
3 Wipe DATA/SYSTEM/DALVIK in CWM.
4 Flash rom then radio from old recovery / new recovery (<--link).
5 Done.
PS. If you use google backup (in settings/accounts) all your phone numbers and most other settings will remain. There are other ways but i don't care about them. ds.
Finally i would like to join the crowd and say READ THE STICKIES. They exist so that you won't have to waste your own time making threads like this.
Good luck :good:
OP, I think you should stay on ics until you can get kies to work. Your going to end up losing everything on your phone at best and bricking it at worst.
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I know there are answers to how to fix this, but my question is about using ODIN to go back to ICS. What steps do I need to follow to to go from unrooted stock 4.1.2 back to ICS? is it as easy as just loading it up in ODIN? Are the partitions different?
Yes it's pretty much as simple as finding the ics image and flashing it in odin. Not real sure what you are concerned about as far as partitions go.
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I think in the Dev section you can find the all the Odin files. I usually go back to vrblk3 and go from there. Or try googleing it,just be extra careful that the files are good (make sure there are for our phones and from xda).
I never had a good experience with 4.2.2 Roms. Guess they just don't like my phone for some reason.
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I think in the Dev section you can find the all the Odin files. I usually go back to vrblk3 and go from there. Or try googleing it,just be extra careful that the files are good (make sure there are for our phones and from xda).
I never had a good experience with 4.2.2 Roms. Guess they just don't like my phone for some reason.
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I have ODIN'd back to vrblk3 and it is still stuck roaming. The solution is supposed to be ODIN back to ICS and reprovision the phone. Hope it works.
Just trying to be helpful here, here is a faster way to get from stock one-click to JB goodness.....
After you flash to stock with antonx kernel reboot into recovery and flash bhundvens blastoff kernel, reboot recovery, now you should be in blue 5.0.2.8....flash the newest cm9, it will reboot automatically into recovery for you to flash a second time, but don't, instead flash a JB Rom, (I flashed chaos from dao) once it rebooted into recovery...jellybean recovery, I flashed the Rom plus gapps. Rom booted just fine.
So.....save a little time from completely flashing the whole rom, waiting for it to boot and rebooting into recovery just to do it again till you get where you want.....cheers
hopefully it saves you some time
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just one-click back and start over hee hee!!!!
If you're saying flashing a kernel with CWM 5.x and then flashing a JB ROM is faster, we all know that already.
You are not flashing the kernel first technically. What you are doing is converting the file system.
However I thought all the JB roms had the mtd conversion script included. If they dont I would ask the person that ported them to update it with that script. There should never be a reason to flash to ics then jb.
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If you're saying flashing a kernel with CWM 5.x and then flashing a JB ROM is faster, we all know that already.
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Not everyone knows that... If they did there wouldn't be people asking how to flash or how to get back to stock or to root....
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ArmyofTracy said:
Not everyone knows that... If they did there wouldn't be people asking how to flash or how to get back to stock or to root....
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Getting back to stock and rooting are totally different subjects and shouldn't be asked in ROM threads anyways. Flashing the ROM are always in the OP.
I understand..... Thanks. You sure learned a lot since these posts....
What does aries mean? June 18
Where is the fast charge option June 2......
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limeaide said:
You are not flashing the kernel first technically. What you are doing is converting the file system.
However I thought all the JB roms had the mtd conversion script included. If they dont I would ask the person that ported them to update it with that script. There should never be a reason to flash to ics then jb.
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If you go back to our early JB ROMs
It was said to flash cm 9 or be on
a ICS ROM first if coming from GB.
Its said to be different now...
I still don't trust it..out of habit and
because it has always worked..
If I one-click back to stock I always
flash cm9 first then flash JB.
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I understand..... Thanks. You sure learned a lot since these posts....
What does aries mean? June 18
Where is the fast charge option June 2......
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So now you're saying I can't make threads with questions I have? Okay... Can we get a mod to clean this thread up please?
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So now you're saying I can't make threads with questions I have? Okay... Can we get a mod to clean this thread up please?
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Why do we need a mod
to clean up this thread...
Because you made a Remark
and he called you out.
He said thank you...
Relax its all good...
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It's a useless arguement no one needs to see.
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\m/
Hi. I thank you in advance for pointers and direction. I have searched around, but want to make sure I am doing the right thing.
I have an Infuse and it is unlocked. It is running with a T-Mobile SIM card.
I downloaded Odin 3 v1.7. I successfully flashed from 2.2.1 (Froyo) to 2.3.6 Gingerbread by using this ROM/Root that I found on another thread here:
************ OPTION C *************
I997UCLB3-CWM-root-deodex-extras.rar
Features in this version
- Entropy's Daily Driver kernel
- Red CWM recovery
- Rooted
- Deodexed
- Zipaligned
- Busybox
- AT&T and other bloatware removed
- Scrolling wallpaper fix
- CRT off animation
- 8 lock screens
- Extended power menu
- Accurate battery mod
The phone is working properly on the new firmware.
I would like to jump up one more firmware to Ice Cream Sandwich or Jelly Bean. Every method I can find seems to include root, and I am already rooted. That happened when I ran "option C" from above.
What is my next step? Can I simply flash a Gingerbread ROM through Odin (after, of course, putting the Infuse in "download" mode)?
You need to flash a (ics) rom from the CWM RECOVERY of the phone not using odin and then you can flash a jellybean 4.xx rom.
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Cool. Thank you! I am not sure how to do either of those things. At least now I have some research to do.
alexischino said:
You need to flash a (ics) rom from the CWM RECOVERY of the phone not using odin and then you can flash a jellybean 4.xx rom.
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The cm10.2 Dev section has really good instructions start after the sgs kernal flasher step. And remember to enter cwm recovery hold down vol up and down while powering on.
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Thanks guys! I will play more tonight. Gingerbread is a huge step up from what it was on, but I might as well keep going!
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The cm10.2 Dev section has really good instructions start after the sgs kernal flasher step. And remember to enter cwm recovery hold down vol up and down while powering on.
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My wife finally allowed me to upgrade her phone.. So I've recently just tried out these steps it's amazing to me that jelly bean 4.2.2 cm10.1 runs better than stock gingerbread. Only down side is no mhl.
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Ok, I did a little research and I am more clear on the process - (download rom, put it on sd card, flash it using Clockword Mod while in recovery mode). I do have a question. Does it matter what version of CWM that is on my phone?
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You need to flash a (ics) rom from the CWM RECOVERY of the phone not using odin and then you can flash a jellybean 4.xx rom.
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When I flashed cwm it was red recovery, which is what you stated you had in the first post by choosing option c
You'll have to flash ICS before flashing jelly Bean when you flash ICS it'll change the cwm to a more current one.
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That makes sense. Thank you!
mrkhigh said:
When I flashed cwm it was red recovery, which is what you stated you had in the first post by choosing option c
You'll have to flash ICS before flashing jelly Bean when you flash ICS it'll change the cwm to a more current one.
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one last check ...
Let me check one last time before I do something stupid:
I have a rooted and unlocked (T-mobile service) Infuse. I had stock Froyo 2.2.1. I used Option C from a thread here that rooted it and gave me RED recovery. I used Odin and flashed the "extras" package.
I currently have build #: Gingerbread.UCLB3, kernal version: 2.6.25.7-I997ruxkg3-cl366622, firmware 2.3.6.
I would like to experiment with flashing up to ICS, maybe Jelly Bean.
My understanding is that I can simply drop a ICS rom onto my SD card and flash it from red recovery. Then I do do the same process to move to Jelly Bean.
Am I correct? Am I missing anything? Thank you ALL soooo much for guidance. I am learning and will pass it on!
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Let me check one last time before I do something stupid:
I have a rooted and unlocked (T-mobile service) Infuse. I had stock Froyo 2.2.1. I used Option C from a thread here that rooted it and gave me RED recovery. I used Odin and flashed the "extras" package.
I currently have build #: Gingerbread.UCLB3, kernal version: 2.6.25.7-I997ruxkg3-cl366622, firmware 2.3.6.
I would like to experiment with flashing up to ICS, maybe Jelly Bean.
My understanding is that I can simply drop a ICS rom onto my SD card and flash it from red recovery. Then I do do the same process to move to Jelly Bean.
Am I correct? Am I missing anything? Thank you ALL soooo much for guidance. I am learning and will pass it on!
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Yes that is how you should do it, here is a video to help you in the process https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndC39t1AE-k&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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Thanks! I think I am clear enough to not screw it all up now. I will try this tonight and report back!
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Yes that is how you should do it, here is a video to help you in the process https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndC39t1AE-k&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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Its really hard to screw things with this phone specialy.....
Yeah.....its typed on Note 3.
Ok, I followed the directions provided and flashed Infinitum ICS. All works well with the rom. Recovery is distorted. I see directions which include Heimdall to correct the recovery.
Does that process just correct the recovery or does it revert me back to something other than Infinitum Rom? if so, can I repeat the process to get the rom back?
My next step will them be to move to jelly bean and be happily ever after.
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Yes that is how you should do it, here is a video to help you in the process https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndC39t1AE-k&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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beezerhale said:
Ok, I followed the directions provided and flashed Infinitum ICS. All works well with the rom. Recovery is distorted. I see directions which include Heimdall to correct the recovery.
Does that process just correct the recovery or does it revert me back to something other than Infinitum Rom? if so, can I repeat the process to get the rom back?
My next step will them be to move to jelly bean and be happily ever after.
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When you update your phone you don't flash the gingerbread bootloaders right, you only need to flash the gingerbread bootloaders and that will fix the problem.
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Ok, I blew it. Flashed back to Gingerbread.UCLB3, firmware 2.3.6 with Heimdall. Recovery is still totally distorted/unreadable.
Next move? I assume I should flash a Gingerbread bootloader. Where would I find the right one? I don't want to screw this up. Then I can move to ICS and then JB with no issues, right?
I 100% appreciate your help and I SWEAR I will pass along what I am learning to a newbie as soon as I get a chance!
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When you update your phone you don't flash the gingerbread bootloaders right, you only need to flash the gingerbread bootloaders and that will fix the problem.
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beezerhale said:
Ok, I blew it. Flashed back to Gingerbread.UCLB3, firmware 2.3.6 with Heimdall. Recovery is still totally distorted/unreadable.
Next move? I assume I should flash a Gingerbread bootloader. Where would I find the right one? I don't want to screw this up. Then I can move to ICS and then JB with no issues, right?
I 100% appreciate your help and I SWEAR I will pass along what I am learning to a newbie as soon as I get a chance!
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Here you will find the gingerbread bootloaders http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1613523 this is for (odin) scroll down until you see this
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Hey! It looks like I corrected the issue before you messaged back. I ran Heimdall again. Thought I had blown it. Screen went all speckled red yellow and blue on me. It was kinda pretty. I booted in download mode and it was speckled, too. I followed the steps to download mode even thought I could not see the screen. I flashed through Heimdall again, it ran properly, and then booted into download mode and ran with "bootloaders" checked. It seems all is well. Recovery mode is working (no distortion) and is blue (Android system recovery 3e).
Can I follow the steps I took to go to ICS and then JB (if I decide to go to JB) now with no other issues?
Dude, I really appreciate your guidance.
alexischino said:
Here you will find the gingerbread bootloaders http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1613523 this is for (odin) scroll down until you see this
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beezerhale said:
Hey! It looks like I corrected the issue before you messaged back. I ran Heimdall again. Thought I had blown it. Screen went all speckled red yellow and blue on me. It was kinda pretty. I booted in download mode and it was speckled, too. I followed the steps to download mode even thought I could not see the screen. I flashed through Heimdall again, it ran properly, and then booted into download mode and ran with "bootloaders" checked. It seems all is well. Recovery mode is working (no distortion) and is blue (Android system recovery 3e).
Can I follow the steps I took to go to ICS and then JB (if I decide to go to JB) now with no other issues?
Dude, I really appreciate your guidance.
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Ok but remember if you now have the (android system recovery 3e) you need to obtain the (CWM recovery) again to be able to flash custom roms on your device, flash the UCLB3 gingerbread 2.3.6 rooted with CWM.
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Will do. I'll report back. I have a feeling I barely escaped making my phone a really cool looking paperweight.
alexischino said:
Ok but remember if you now have the (android system recovery 3e) you need to obtain the (CWM recovery) again to be able to flash custom roms on your device, flash the UCLB3 gingerbread 2.3.6 rooted with CWM.
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