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odin galaxy s 4g

Hey guys have you tried to odin this phone to stock vibrant. I was thinking to install the stock odin vibrant on this phone and than rooted so it will be easier to install any rom. what you think?

cal4877 said:
Hey guys have you tried to odin this phone to stock vibrant. I was thinking to install the stock odin vibrant on this phone and than rooted so it will be easier to install any rom. what you think?
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Don't EVEN THINK ABOUT IT.
Vibrant Roms are known to brick the GS4G. No matter what vibrant rom, unless it's specifically mentioned as SAFE in this forum, all Vibrant roms are a no-go.

Dumb move on my part
well..... What if this one noob (me) didnt do his research beforehand? Now im trying to flash back to a stock rom but ODIN wont get past the cache step without failing me. Ive tried KD1 KC1 and KB5 and all have failed

[Q] Unroot method

Been searching for a way to unroot my samsung galaxy s 4g. Tried the superclick method and the universal galaxy s tool wit no luck. Can anyone help, or guide me towards the right direction please?

you can odin a rom that is prerooted. or you can odin bali and flash from there. i would suggest odining ravers KC1 first and then bali and you should be good to go. let me know if you cant find it in the bible or through search and i'll help you out

He's trying to unroot. Are you unrooting on Froyo or GB? Froyo should really be as easy as SuperOneClick > unroot. GB would probably require a new flash of GB.
I'm curious though, why unroot?

thanks jagger, but bkoon is right... I bought this phone for my girl as a gift. It was already rooted by unknown source and was loaded with froyo 2.2.1. Tried hookn her up with GB through odin but got a lil confused, roms werent being flashed and was stuck with bootloops. So than i tried flashing thru CWM, with the vodoo lagfix, and once i got them to flash phone was pretty unstable. so I tried reverting back to froyo using odin. Got it flashed back but now her phone goes thru some serious glitches. I figured if i can unroot, i can start all over from scratch. Im no professional but have experience on other phones, but this phone has been a serious beeeeotch from day 1. Any ideas bro?

my bad. misread that. it sounds to me like you messed up the bootloaders. search for ravers kc1 and flash all 4 or so files in odin and that should give you a fresh start. once there, format the sd card on the phone and reboot. then reinstall your drivers (uninstall, reboot computer, reinstall) and then try superoneclickroot and try unrooting again.

fatal27 said:
thanks jagger, but bkoon is right... I bought this phone for my girl as a gift. It was already rooted by unknown source and was loaded with froyo 2.2.1. Tried hookn her up with GB through odin but got a lil confused, roms werent being flashed and was stuck with bootloops. So than i tried flashing thru CWM, with the vodoo lagfix, and once i got them to flash phone was pretty unstable. so I tried reverting back to froyo using odin. Got it flashed back but now her phone goes thru some serious glitches. I figured if i can unroot, i can start all over from scratch. Im no professional but have experience on other phones, but this phone has been a serious beeeeotch from day 1. Any ideas bro?
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I hope that phone was purchased from a credible source and it wasn't stolen. That would suck if someone reported it and her phone got blacklisted.
Unrooting the phone won't help make much of a difference though. Odin'ing RaverX3X's KC1 will already remove your root and give you the cleanest slate you can possibly get on this forum. From there, you can work on getting GB on the phone. I hope you have experience flashing with this device though. Reading is VERY important for this phone. Unfortunately, it's not as easy as other phones out there.
Follow what jager555 said. He's got his stuff down, lol.

lol. Thanks!
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flash kc1 itll do the trick

Thanks jagger and bkoon, going to work on it tonight. Hopefully all goes well.

[Q] Can't Apply T-Mobile Update to Rooted SGS24G

Hi-
I rooted my phone a month ago. I have had no problems except that when I try to download T-Mobile's software update, I get stuck in Clockwork recovery. I don't know what to do next.
Please help!
Thx!
(I rooted my phone based on Melvin's [HOWTO] ROOT T-Mobile SGSII via ODIN -- Updated Recovery on 10/20/2011 and the recovery by Bubbly in the Developer's Forum.)

Only speaking for myself.
I have never with any ROM I originally or later thereof been able to get any update pushed.
Kies and their newer Windows proggie has not once worked despite drivers etc.
Gotta tell you, the ROM's here at XDA are better any way's.

Can you recommend a ROM that would be compatible?
thx!

chicamama said:
Hi-
I rooted my phone a month ago. I have had no problems except that when I try to download T-Mobile's software update, I get stuck in Clockwork recovery. I don't know what to do next.
Please help!
Thx!
(I rooted my phone based on Melvin's [HOWTO] ROOT T-Mobile SGSII via ODIN -- Updated Recovery on 10/20/2011 and the recovery by Bubbly in the Developer's Forum.)
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Hi, I went with this ROM and also their Power Menu....http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1305145
Hope this helps.

wrong thread
wrong thread...this is GS4G you are looking for the S II thread ?
different phone.

No he wants the SGS 24 G thread.

Rogers infuse root

OK so a while ago I rooted my friends rogers infuse with super one click. We then tried to flash a custom kernel on it but at the time I was a huge noob and bricked it and couldn't get it back to a working state. He only had the phone for a week so we suckered rogers into giving him a new one. Since then I've learned alot and managed to install custom roms on my i9000 sucsessfully. But now when I go to root his infuse with super one click it won't work. When he got his new phone after i bricked the the other one they hooked the phone up to there computer and did something. Is it possible that they blocked root somehow? That said would it be safe to flash infused kernel onto the phone through Odin?
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Search threads.
One-click shouldn't be used for rooting the Rogers Infuse as it is running Gingerbread. There is a specific way of rooting the Rogers version (involves Odin). From what I know, one-click is just for the AT&T (2.2 Froyo) version.
Good luck!
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Ya that's what I read everywhere but I actually got it to root through super one click. I haven't been able to do it again. Needless to say I still fixed my problem. I would plug the phone in and Odin would recognize it and then it would say it disconnected. Then it would say the device malfunctioned. What fixed it for me is I flashed my friends girlfriends infuse first cause it was having no issues(still her first one never been tampered with by rogers like the other one was). And then his worked just fine. Flashed kernel got cwm and installed zeus. Of course after I hard bricked it by flashing froyo based kernel then tried to fix it with a gb kernel and encountered a problem while updating firmware. Got to love back to stock guides!
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[Q] Looking to get to cwm recovery installed to obtain gingerbread

I've looked, I've tried. I apologize in advance if I am bothering anyone with my question.
My phone (Galaxy s 4g- T-mobile) has been rooted via oneclick. twice. The first time, I was running stock ota gingerbread 2.3.6 as soon as I rooted, CWM recovery was installed no problems. After switching roms a couple days after root... something went wrong! I fixed my brick using odin and got back to stock 2.2.1 which is where I am now, rooted.
I've attempted to use Kies (before root) No go.
I've attempted to use Odin to upgrade, No go.
I've attempted to use Hemidall. No go.
I've also attempted to do everything manually. -Download new kernel (to obtain cwm) and flashing from within the stock recovery, no go...
I've read, I've searched... I just can not seem to figure it out.
ANY help is appreciated...
Also! I've read something about getting a generic imei number through rooting/flashing/recovery and when I check for my imei under settings, I don't see one. But, I can use my phone no problems. and when I check via dial pad, It pops up.. I DID back up my esf when I first rooted, but no imei seems to be in it... idk
Thank you in advance. :fingers-crossed:

Read through the first and second link in my signature. Then use the second link to flash GB.

Thank you!! I am on GB finally! Now getting back to root... lol :laugh: