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Hi community,
just switched from Symbian to Android, so I've got to learn a lot.
I am a German living in China. This brought up some problems with my brand new Gal S2/9100. When I try to update it (kies) tells me it is not possible for this firmware. I also can even not register an account at Samsung with the telefon. It seems that this Shop sold me a "branded, modified or cracked " Phone. However, I learnt here I can flash my phone.
As I am in China, most "up load" servers are blocked, I cannot access them.
So I need urgently the help of you guys. Here my DATA:
PDA I9100XWKE7 : CSC I9100 XEU KD1
Build: Gingerbread XWKE7
But but but: I wonder if I could get an European CSC Package with the latest KF2?
thats the data;
I kindly ask the community to give me a chance to download all that stuff through a one time FTP connection from someone's PC. Just use Filezilla FTP server.
I could do it in the night in order not to disturb you. We have 6 hours time shift. So, my morning is your night.
Or any other server to download all the stuff (firmware pack,including ODIN)?
Hope you don't let me down, I hope i can return this effort to the community one day.thanks in advance
Robbie
Would the following Suffice?
XXKF2
This package has: PDA:XXKF2| PHONE: XXKF2| CSC:XEUKD1.
MultiCSC OXXKE2:
Contains the following CSC: AUT, COS, CYO, DBT, DCM, DNF, EUR, FWB, KOR, LUX, NEE, OMN, ORG, ORS, PAN, PLS, SEB, SUN, SWC, TMS, TPH, VDH, VIA, VOM, XEE, XEH, XEO, XEZ, XSK.
Which servers can you access in China? I think you can get Hotfile / Megaupload.
Go thru this thread for more information.
We all get this message when we are up to date like you are. It is also normal that you cannot register a samsung account since samsung hub is not for the UK (you are running. UK firmware)
thanks for the quick answers
since some weeks almost all servers including (hotfile and upload) are blocked.
that's the problem.
So, I learnt I do have a UK firmware, that's ok to me. However, the shop put a lot of Chinese stuff as system apps on to the phone. I cannot uninstall it.
I also can not install any emails except GMAIL ( which by the way works great on the S2) so I have to use K-9 Mail as client the build in widget is buggy and crashing all the time. Also my phone gets quite hot on the backside close to the cam, when I switch it off and on it gets cool quite quickly again. I couldn't figure out what application is causing this.
I talked to a SAMSUNG guy here, he said this bug is fixed in the latest firmware.
Samsung was aware of the "getting hot issue" but does not tell what the reason was.
Summary: I think now, the Chinese screwed up the phone by mixing various stuff from different countries on a UK phone. They told me it was imported, what ever that means in China.
The only solution to me is to put my phone back to the original status quo.
I tried to /su and found out the phone is not routed.
May be they rooted it and put on top of the UK firmware all that Chinese stuff, then unrooted it again. (if this is possible).
Would really be nice, if I could download may be the original firmware package from someone. By the way, I also can only access the Chinese apps android market. This is really horrible. I do speak Chinese and read the basics but I prefer English/German or Spanish software.
Hope this gives you a picture of my situation.
Greetings from SiChuan
rr
If you tell me the files you need, I can host them on a server that's not blocked by the GFOC
If you can see www.villainrom.co.uk, then you can get to the files
yes I can see this page. Seems to be ok.
I will try to find the files in the next 20 minutes and let you know.
If you could do this for me I owe you something........
thx
rr
RbbCHan said:
yes I can see this page. Seems to be ok.
I will try to find the files in the next 20 minutes and let you know.
If you could do this for me I owe you something........
thx
rr
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OK if you show me the files you want, or even describe what you are after, you can download them in a few mins. It's 100Mb/s anyway so it will be fast for me to get them.
firmware pck
so here we are:
as Mr. sileshn above already said: the XXKF2 package with the multi CSC should be ok. I also need the flash software ODIN to flash the phone.
However, if you could find the original package would be nice.
again my data: PDA:I9100 XWKE7 CSC I9100 XEUKD1
at the moment I think KF2 is the latest firmware, isn't it? I understood that the KF4 is a beta and unstable and not officially released.
So any KF2 firmware with CSC for UK or Germany is fine for me.
thanks
rr
PS:
I feel quite nervous as I used to be an experienced Symbian user, but new to Android. I also have no Idea about LINUX so all the technical terms and actions are new to me.
RbbCHan said:
so here we are:
as Mr. sileshn above already said: the XXKF2 package with the multi CSC should be ok. I also need the flash software ODIN to flash the phone.
However, if you could find the original package would be nice.
again my data: PDA:I9100 XWKE7 CSC I9100 XEUKD1
at the moment I think KF2 is the latest firmware, isn't it? I understood that the KF4 is a beta and unstable and not officially released.
So any KF2 firmware with CSC for UK or Germany is fine for me.
thanks
rr
PS:
I feel quite nervous as I used to be an experienced Symbian user, but new to Android. I also have no Idea about LINUX so all the technical terms and actions are new to me.
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www.villainrom.co.uk/SGS2/GFOC/GT-I9100_XEO_I9100XXKF2_I9100OXAKF2_I9100XXKF2.exe
www.villainrom.co.uk/SGS2/GFOC/Odin3-v1.85.zip
www.villainrom.co.uk/SGS2/GFOC/MultiCSC_I9100OXXKE2.exe
thanks so much
I am downloading
got it, download finished
will try tomorrow as it is already midnight our time.
cu and again thank you
rr
pulser_g2 said:
www.villainrom.co.uk/SGS2/GFOC/GT-I9100_XEO_I9100XXKF2_I9100OXAKF2_I9100XXKF2.exe
www.villainrom.co.uk/SGS2/GFOC/Odin3-v1.85.zip
www.villainrom.co.uk/SGS2/GFOC/MultiCSC_I9100OXXKE2.exe
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Hi, just for your info: Download worked great, thanks again.
The bad news is that my phone got screwed up.
I couldn't identify why. I followed exactly the rules on how to flash this phone.
After uploading the files to the phone ODIN gave back the message: FAILED, write operation failed.
My phone hung up ( a little picture appears with a phone and a PC when I restart), it can not start/boot any longer. Of course after the "failed" message I waited long long time in order not to interupt any process. However one time I had to stop it. All efforts to flash it again did not work.
I am quite nervous now, hope the shop where I bought it can fix it.
They told me they will try. Hope to report better news tomorrow.
rr
short report
thanks again for the help.
The download worked really great.
The bad news is, that i screwed up my phone.
I followed exactly the routine for flashing with ODIN.
It is not that difficult to understand.
But ODIN uploaded the files to my phone and then stopped during the writing process.
"FAILED" was the message I got.
I waited long long time in order to make sure I do not interrupt any processes.
Then I had to disconnect my phone. After restart it was hanging with a little picture that shows a phone and a pc screen. I tried all I know to get the phone back to life but nothing happened.
So I brought the phone today to the shop where i bought it in China.
I hope they can fix it.
it would be good to figure out what was going wrong. Firstly to learn, secondly to help others to avoid this problem.
I believe that it may have something to do with the fact that they sold me "modified" phone, I mean it was a UK PDA and CSC number but a lot of Chinese stuff in the system. Not installed as normal apps but as system apps.
So they may have changed the partition and modified the firmware.
But I checked before, the phone was not rooted.
That's for your info only.
I thank you again for the prompt help you gave me.
If you have an idea what was wrong pls let me know
RR
RbbCHan said:
thanks again for the help.
The download worked really great.
The bad news is, that i screwed up my phone.
I followed exactly the routine for flashing with ODIN.
It is not that difficult to understand.
But ODIN uploaded the files to my phone and then stopped during the writing process.
"FAILED" was the message I got.
I waited long long time in order to make sure I do not interrupt any processes.
Then I had to disconnect my phone. After restart it was hanging with a little picture that shows a phone and a pc screen. I tried all I know to get the phone back to life but nothing happened.
So I brought the phone today to the shop where i bought it in China.
I hope they can fix it.
it would be good to figure out what was going wrong. Firstly to learn, secondly to help others to avoid this problem.
I believe that it may have something to do with the fact that they sold me "modified" phone, I mean it was a UK PDA and CSC number but a lot of Chinese stuff in the system. Not installed as normal apps but as system apps.
So they may have changed the partition and modified the firmware.
But I checked before, the phone was not rooted.
That's for your info only.
I thank you again for the prompt help you gave me.
If you have an idea what was wrong pls let me know
RR
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That's only a soft brick.
You can fix that by reflashing. You could try flashing via Heimdall, but it's not something irreparable You can get to download mode as usual
I've tried to reflash. no success, same error. However, I hope they fix it for me and If they put on a standard firmware with standard CSC, I should be able to flash in the future.
I did this with my N8 and my N900 many times and never something strange happened.
So, I guess it is an experience for me.
As I have to learn I wonder, if there is a hacker bible or flashing bible for android out there?
Did you learn all by doing or did you have some literature?
More tomorrow when I got back my phone.
rr
Hello,
I want to dev-unlock my device, but since it's possible only if phone's OS is 7004 or 7008 i need to downgrade.So i have a few questions :
1.My phone's info right now is:
PDA: i8700 XX KB3
Phone: i8700 XX KB2
CSC: i8700 VVT KB3
Does it make any difference which rom i flash? Can somebody, please, tell me which one is the right for me?
(i wanna end with the same ( original ) rom if possible, since i havent got any problems with it)
2.If i flash different rom, and update my phone afterwards, will i end up with the same pda, phone, csc or?
3.Do i void my warrenty doing this?
Thanks in advance, generally i need help choosing the right rom for me..please guys, help, i am sick of being the only one with locked device in these forums
I flashed my device back to 7004 a couple of days ago.
I got the ROMS from here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1131891
I think the one you want is the one which corresponds to the VVT CSC.
Thanks for the answer, but as far as i managed to understand, these are a bit old roms - mine's KB..which means 2011 feb, this is the thing i wanted to ask - if i flash old rom and get updatesh through zune will i end with the same firmware like now - KB3
Yes that's what happened to me. I checked before flashing. I think they were all KB3s. I might be wrong. I flashed with the old rom, unlocked then updated via Zune. Once updated to Nodo, the it was Kb3, kb2 and kb3 just like you have above.
thanks for the info again, mate! very helpful! Last question - do you have any problems since you flashed? like 3g or network connection?
I had the ebook crash on me when resuming from lock screen. But that was the first boot after update. After restarting the phone once more, I haven't noticed anything wrong. 3g and wireless seem to work fine. phone and sms goes through. apps work like normal.
Hey guys, my phone comes with the folleong firmware - LG-E900AT-00-V10b-505-02-OCT-07-2010
I live in a country not described in the following thread ( Fiji, yep, i live in fii, but i bought the phone from australia, but will use it in fiji)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=935578
So any suggestions to which one i should flash it to?
ok, so no one has any feedback? :C what about this, anyone here flashed a phone bought from Australia or New Zealand and flashed it to Europe Open?
hey guys one more question, the roms on this page
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=935578
if i was to flash to one of those, will i get mango applied with it or is that a separate procedure i have to do? i am so confused
flash with the one you feel more comfortable with, go for an open rom, it will work with any operator in any country of this world.
hey thanks for geting back to me, just the second question still lingers, does this upgrade my phone to mango as well or is this just a 'bios' upgrade?
if i was to use the australian optus firmware, will the phone become locked to that carrier?
i know these are basic questions, but i thought i would check before i flash cos i dont want to brick anything
took the dive and flashed to australian optus. worked awesome, thanks
just incase anyoneis interested in knowing, i dont have any battery issue with this mango upgrade and it didnt lock my phone to any carrier
hey guys i'm desperately looking for a full dump file for the samsung galaxy s i9000m from bell canada since i am in tanzania i was unable to locate it anywhere from the internet...your help will be mostly appreciated.
What do you mean by dump?
Are you looking for the 3 file ROM to flash?
hey, thanks 4 replying...
well a dump file is a file the system file for your phone to restore it to its stock,its different from a ROM, i need it to restore my i9000m to stock, its currently bricked and i can only find dump files for i9000 only...any ideas?
the dump file is like a backup copy of your ram, so once you perform a jtag it is required.
Well, you can find the stock firmware files for Odin here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1102881&page=1
UGKG3 is the only Bell Canada Gingerbread one available.
Not sure if any of the download links work anymore though, since a lot of the download sites are not working now.
thank you so much 4 the link, but its not the dumpfile i am looking for, these are stock roms.
well i am sort of a newbie with this stuff i'm actually helping out the person who will repair my phone look for the file, so what he recommends is i get someone from canada to get it since i am from Tanzania. And i was just wondering if i could get your assistance if you would please ask around the original samsung dealers for the dump file, i am sure they must have them since they use them to perform the jtags
by the way do u have any idea where i can get the 818 pit file for use with odin?
cyberwiztariq said:
thank you so much 4 the link, but its not the dumpfile i am looking for, these are stock roms.
well i am sort of a newbie with this stuff i'm actually helping out the person who will repair my phone look for the file, so what he recommends is i get someone from canada to get it since i am from Tanzania. And i was just wondering if i could get your assistance if you would please ask around the original samsung dealers for the dump file, i am sure they must have them since they use them to perform the jtags
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There is a repair centre in Montreal that does the jtags.
Local Bell stores don't do repairs, they ship them out.
Have you tried CheckFusDownloader at http://fus.nanzen.se/ ? It's very nice to retrieve Carrier specific ROM.
i have a galaxy s which i flashed to remove t-moble branding, now not sure why but i can't get wifi working so want to go back to stock firmware. the problem is which is the correct version for me.
my phone is galaxy s gt-i9000 and was originally locked to to t-mobile UK. i'm looking on the stock firmware and odin guide but i haven't got a clue which one is suitable. i've also got a message in kies saying that 'your device does not support software upgrading via kies'.
please can someone advise me how to get the phone working correctly again? don't care if i have to go back to t-mobile branding as look as it works with wifi.
Hi Rincal...
first question.. did you have your galaxys unlocked to make it sim free by a shop or market seller.. if you havent.. this will cause problems, so make sure you get that done.. its about £15.
2nd) The latest stock firmware is 2.3.6.. the xda team have Eu stock ROM threads.. look in "development", but if you cant find it.. use this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1431596 - although i think there will be a newer version out now.. in the PIT folder, use PIT-512.
Here is a full abc flash guide
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1139050
Follow it to the letter, this is how I learned.. even though Ive had no problems, you flash your sgs rom at your own risk.. make sure you read it through first before you flash anything and always backup your data 1st.
Please note: This is not my work.. please thank and respect the xda teams named in the threads.
If anyone reading this thread can give better guides or links, please point the way
Good luck
Night
NightOrchid said:
Hi Rincal...
first question.. did you have your galaxys unlocked to make it sim free by a shop or market seller.. if you havent.. this will cause problems, so make sure you get that done.. its about £15.
Night
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hi NightOrchid
i used a market app called galaxy s unlock to unlock it myself. it was working find after that, the problems started after rooting and flashing.
i'll try your suggestions and let you know the outcome. i've already tried flashing with a few firmwares but always have the wifi problems. should say that apart from wifi and kies the rest of the phone seems to work ok with other firmwares.