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[Q] How to downgrade From ICS to Gingerbread?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[Q] i9000 will not root, only stock firmware boots

Hi there. I have read quite a few tutorials on rooting my phone. I did have it rooted at one point using odin and a package for cwm. It worked great. I wanted to try out one of the 4.* ICS roms, that worked fine.. sorted that out no problem but there was no gps so I wanted to go back to my rooted 2.3.6.
Went to put it back to standard with stock firmware, that also worked fine. The problem I have now is when I attempt to root using the same files, same settings and same utilities as before, It boots up to the samsung galaxy logo, then reboots and shows the logo again and again in an infinite loop.
I have cleared the user data and cache, and the root appears to work as the recovery program installs correctly, but it will not boot the OS.
When i flashed to stock I used odin.. the 512 pit file, the stock pda, phone and csc files. and that works perfectly but not when I root it!
Any ideas??
****UPDATE
I flashed with stock 2.3.5 firmware so that I could use samsung kies to flash my phone back to 2.3.6 so that it was 100% stock and kies now says that my device does not support firmware upgrades!!!

Seems as nobody can be arsed to answer my question I have researched and answered it myself...
If anybody has the same problem of Kies saying "Your device does not support firmware upgrades" all you have to do is go into the "About phone" section of the settings.. find the baseband version of your phone.. Mine was I9000XXJVT... find the lowest version of android on samfirmwares.com , mine was 2.3.4, install it..
then kies recognizes your phone again and will upgrade it to the latest version..
Oh by the way THANKS FOR YOUR HELP lol
This particular phone for record purposes upgraded to:
PDA:JW4 / PHONE:JW4 / CSC:JW5 (CPW) which im guessing is carphone warehouse..
I tried the samfirmware.com version of the latest CPW firmware they have and kies still said it would not update the firmware
and before all you geeks get on your high horse and say why didnt u do this and why didnt you do that..
I couldn't root my firmware after installing the CPW firmware as mentioned above from samfirmwares.com.. i was in an infinite reboot loop. I could load standard firmware from samfirmwares.com and it would boot fine, but I couldn't root it from that.
My aim was to get it back to standard and go from there.
One question.. pretty obvious really... I have searched high and low and still am yet unable to find a sofrware for BACKING UP my original firmware... this would be a pretty sensible idea??? yes???

Can anyone please help, I soft bricked my Samsung galaxy tab 7.7 p6800

Can anyone please help, I soft bricked my Samsung galaxy tab 7.7 p6800. I tried to install, cm10 custom rom, while i soft bricked my p6800 tab 7.7.
Now, i can enter download mode, and i can go recovery mode. When i switch off and switch on it automatically gets into recovery mode.
I could not do factory reset, through odin, i could flash, recover image, kernel, but not the rom, When i try flash any rom, it will try NAND rewrite, and try to factoryfs.mg and will get struck, nothing will happen, or i will get message failed.
I tried formating data folder, no use.
Is there anyway, can you please help me.
thanks a ton, in anticipation.
regards
daya

Sound like you got the SUPERBRICK. Had the same problem myself. This seems to have helped some people.. LOT to READ though. And NO guarantees as usually. Hope it will help you. READ carefully.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1667886

hi
you have to flash HC official firmware with odin pc .......

micger21 said:
hi
you have to flash HC official firmware with odin pc .......
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i think this may be A solution. here's the strange thing:
i thought i superbricked my tab--for 2 weeks now i've been trying to get it going again. i'd had some success with various roms, but then my cache partition corrupted. after trying to repartition data and system for a week, having to look for ever smaller partitions for both, i finally gave up, flashed the original pit file, and flashed the sammobile ICS ato firmware. i'm still stuck at the boot animation, BUT, MY CACHE SYSTEM AND DATA partitions are all checking clean with e2fsck, and some other contiguity checker i found in the gNote forums.
what they've suggested when all else fails if you're getting clean partitions, then flash back to GB (original firmware for the note) so i'm downloading stock HC firmware now and gonna give it a try... KEEPING MY FINGERS CROSSED!!!!

N8010 4.4.2 Rom on N8013

Anybody tried to flash the 4.4.2 update that just came out for n8010 on n8013. I was wondering what would be the consequences on flashing it on Odin over waiting for an appropriate one for the n8013, which could take months (sighh Samsung). Any one took the risk?
For the ones who don't know, n8010 is an international Wi-Fi only variant, while n8013 has the exact same hardware and is Wi-Fi only as well, but for some strange reason is USA specific.

jimmygzzmtz said:
Anybody tried to flash the 4.4.2 update that just came out for n8010 on n8013. I was wondering what would be the consequences on flashing it on Odin over waiting for an appropriate one for the n8013, which could take months (sighh Samsung). Any one took the risk?
For the ones who don't know, n8010 is an international Wi-Fi only variant, while n8013 has the exact same hardware and is Wi-Fi only as well, but for some strange reason is USA specific.
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Yes, i did flash my N8013 yesterday. I could not do this through ODIN on a PC because it was giving me an error, so i had to do it with Mobile ODIN and it worked. But the big problem now is that the WiFi does not want to turn ON for some reason. Also tried to Reset the device from the OS and still no WiFi. I'll try later to clean the cache and do proper factory reset to see if this will help and will let you know. If anyone know how to fix this please let me know.

what rom did you flash from .
leppermesiah said:
Yes, i did flash my N8013 yesterday. I could not do this through ODIN on a PC because it was giving me an error, so i had to do it with Mobile ODIN and it worked. But the big problem now is that the WiFi does not want to turn ON for some reason. Also tried to Reset the device from the OS and still no WiFi. I'll try later to clean the cache and do proper factory reset to see if this will help and will let you know. If anyone know how to fix this please let me know.
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were you on the n8000 leak or stock firmware. Or did you flash that at anytime?
Do you know if you have the Knox boot loader . Check download mode and see what it says your device is . n8000 n8010 n80xx ..
Or were you on Stock 8013 rom and boot loader .?

My device is N8013 and was with the stock N8013 4.1.2 firmware. I've tried before to flash it with the first leak of N8000 4.4.2 but i got the same issues with the WiFi. I'm not sure about the bootloader. How can i see if its a new version or old one? I suspect something messed up the PIT file during the flash with leaked N8000 but im not sure. I tried to find official N8010 pit file to fix the partition if its bad, but couldnt find any.
And the interesting thing is that since i flashed with N8000 now i cant use PC Odin. It giving me error no matter what firmware i use.

I've found a solution with the WiFi problem in this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=53090185
And it's working just fine following this guide :victory:

Odin flash fails everytime at hidden?

Hi I was going to stock 5.1.1 from XtreStoLite Deo-Mod Edition 1.5 and I downloaded the stock firmware for my phone (g920F) and everything runs fine until the flashing procedure reaches hidden.. then it fails! I'v tried 3 different firmware and I get the same problem every time, does anyone have any ideas? I'm at a loss here..

Try a different USB cable or plugging it at another usb port on your pc.

REiced said:
Hi I was going to stock 5.1.1 from XtreStoLite Deo-Mod Edition 1.5 and I downloaded the stock firmware for my phone (g920F) and everything runs fine until the flashing procedure reaches hidden.. then it fails! I'v tried 3 different firmware and I get the same problem every time, does anyone have any ideas? I'm at a loss here..
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i have the same error, this happens when you flash a lower version BOOTLOADER AND MODEM, you have to download another 5.1.1 firmware.