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[Q] Froyo DK28 is a fake?! >=(

blogs.computerworld.com/17481/sprint_epic_4g_froyo
sorry i cant post it as a link correctly...im a newb
its not really a fake but it's not the finished version....i cant even get it to update...i get an error 7

Wow! Do some research and read.
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Boy... you weren't kidding about being a noob...
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063_XOBX said:
Boy... you weren't kidding about being a noob...
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LOL.........

okay...we already knew this was true, but i have a question.
When the real froyo comes out, will we have to flash back to the DI18 stock w/ Odin or will we be able to update the manual way like we did for this "test"? (I know it wouldn't show up in the system updates notification)

Since ur probably gonna root and load a custom rom anyway, pretty sure u can just wait for the rom packages to be updated and go straight from dk28
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Zeinzu said:
Since ur probably gonna root and load a custom rom anyway, pretty sure u can just wait for the rom packages to be updated and go straight from dk28
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Yea, but doing that will inevitably lead to problems. The best way to do it is to return to DI18 and let Android update you the normal way, then root, then install whatever rom you want. If DK28 has taught us anything, its that trying to take the shortcut leads to non functional GPS and other problems.

Which means we'll probably be getting the final build of froyo in a few months judging by the current rate of progress. SOOOOOOO tired of waiting.

I checked the Sprint forums.
One of the admin suggests that the official update will be released within 3 weeks at the least, unless there's problems. Which...there will be -_-

[Q] Noob ? about Rooted phone and OTA's

I one-clicked rooted my Epic and have DK28 installed. Since then I uninstalled some bloatware (amazon mp3, Nascar...) and installed Wifi Tether. So here comes the noobie question, what would happen if I just installed the OTA after the 26th (assuming this date is actually correct)?
PS. My GPS sucks right now, so, if the OTA is a horrible idea. Would using odin and going back to DI18 be possible with the root and uninstalled apps. From there I could flash back into DK28 and hope for some accurate GPSing.
Thanks for your Help
Cheers

tanmack said:
I one-clicked rooted my Epic and have DK28 installed. Since then I uninstalled some bloatware (amazon mp3, Nascar...) and installed Wifi Tether. So here comes the noobie question, what would happen if I just installed the OTA after the 26th (assuming this date is actually correct)?
PS. My GPS sucks right now, so, if the OTA is a horrible idea. Would using odin and going back to DI18 be possible with the root and uninstalled apps. From there I could flash back into DK28 and hope for some accurate GPSing.
Thanks for your Help
Cheers
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once you root, you CANNOT RECIVEVE OTA's. you will have to flash another rom that has that OTA as a base for it.

So then do you suggest using something like odin to flash back to DI18?
I am sorry for my insane noobdome, very new to this whole business.
Thanks for your response

tanmack said:
So then do you suggest using something like odin to flash back to DI18?
I am sorry for my insane noobdome, very new to this whole business.
Thanks for your response
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Yeah if you wanted to grab the new OTA on the 26ish (lol) you would have to odin back to DI18 then grab the update.

oshizzle1991 said:
once you root, you CANNOT RECIVEVE OTA's. you will have to flash another rom that has that OTA as a base for it.
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You can ota on rooted dl18
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You get OTA's while rooted.. but if you've modified anything else you won't get the update.
So in order to get the OTA you will need to odin back to di18
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You wont be able to get the OTA, but I would recommend just waiting a couple hours after the first OTAs get pushed and there will be few a pre-rooted, CW-redirected basically stock builds pushed out by the developers. Then you can just flash those, and they will be basically stock but have the root goodness and you wont have to go backwards just to go forwards. When the "official unofficial DK28" dropped, it was only a couple hours before devs had them out the door.

Dont worry about the ota ,wait until its rooted and cooked up for us it will be very quickly after it is released. Besides the ota inst coming Sunday anyway. we may see it sooner who knows.

Holy **** im sick of this same ****ing question 3 times a ****ing day. Hell search on "noob" and you'll get 60 ****in results for the same stupid question
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Kcarpenter said:
Holy **** im sick of this same ****ing question 3 times a ****ing day. Hell search on "noob" and you'll get 60 ****in results for the same stupid question
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+ 1,000,000

oshizzle1991 said:
once you root, you CANNOT RECIVEVE OTA's. you will have to flash another rom that has that OTA as a base for it.
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That's not true. You can as long as you don't remove any sprint apps or flash a custom rom. Rooting does nothing but given what is essentially administrator (aka superuser) privelges. You will lose root once the ota hits, but I won't do anything to harm your device. However, it will with stck apps removed.
To answer the ops question though:
Download titanium backup from the market and backup your apps and data. Odin back to di18 and then use the same oneclickroot (assuming you got it from the sticky in development) to get root and reinstall titanium (it requires root). Run a Batch reinstall of all missing apps and data. Bingo. You'll have everything back to normal on di18.
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Kcarpenter said:
Holy **** im sick of this same ****ing question 3 times a ****ing day. Hell search on "noob" and you'll get 60 ****in results for the same stupid question
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Wow man, angry much? Should he have searched, yes. But it took me 3 minutes to type an explanation of what he'd have to do and all you did was flame and cuss? Wha happened to xda being a place o be helpful. Get off your high horse o just don't post at all.
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[q] i want my epic back to normal!

ok so i rooted my epic....
all is well, but i have the cyanogyn(idk how to spell it) mod, and my gps does not want to find my location and my phone always forcecloses, i think "sgs Tools" did this...
anyways!, i want my phone back to the factory settings, touchwiz and all its samsung widgets... but i want to keep the root but not the rom
just wanna go back to original.
step by step help PLEASE! i cant stand the forceclosing!!!
thanks!

jkmbraves said:
ok so i rooted my epic....
all is well, but i have the cyanogyn(idk how to spell it) mod, and my gps does not want to find my location and my phone always forcecloses, i think "sgs Tools" did this...
anyways!, i want my phone back to the factory settings, touchwiz and all its samsung widgets... but i want to keep the root but not the rom
just wanna go back to original.
step by step help PLEASE! i cant stand the forceclosing!!!
thanks!
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just odin to stock ec05, youll lose root then just use the one click root and that's it.

im gonna sound stupid, but what is ec05? and how do i do this? and damn last time i rooted the phone there wasnt even a one click root, where do i get that?

Did you do a nandroid backup before flashing Cyanogen? If so, just restore back to stock...or like the other guy said...odin back to EC05.
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rickyq12 said:
Did you do a nandroid backup before flashing Cyanogen? If so, just restore back to stock...or like the other guy said...odin back to EC05.
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no, i didnt do the nandroid backup...

jkmbraves said:
im gonna sound stupid, but what is ec05? and how do i do this? and damn last time i rooted the phone there wasnt even a one click root, where do i get that?
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EC05 is our build number for Android 2.2.1 froyo.
Here's a video of odin.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ2g6J1JgjU&feature=youtube_gdata_player
This is how to one click root. Trust me, you'll want to use this one if you want to stick to the stock file system. I havent tried any of the ones that support both rfs and ext4.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTw7l0DugQ8&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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jkmbraves said:
im gonna sound stupid, but what is ec05? and how do i do this? and damn last time i rooted the phone there wasnt even a one click root, where do i get that?
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here is the one click root... i dont have a link to odin... just search for it
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1076967

zanderman112 said:
EC05 is our build number for Android 2.2.1 froyo.
Here's a video of odin.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ2g6J1JgjU&feature=youtube_gdata_player
This is how to one click root. Trust me, you'll want to use this one if you want to stick to the stock file system. I havent tried any of the ones that support both rfs and ext4.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTw7l0DugQ8&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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thanks alot, im gonna try this, and once I do the odin, and re root the phone, how how do i get my titanium backup back for all my apps?
sorry man, i messed around alot with the phone when i got it, then did noting to it for the longest time now i feel like a retard askin all this stuff.. lol

Just reinstall titanium backup from the market, your backups are on the sd card and ill be left alone. (Though sometimes there's problems restoring from different kinds of roms)
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jkmbraves said:
thanks alot, im gonna try this, and once I do the odin, and re root the phone, how how do i get my titanium backup back for all my apps?
sorry man, i messed around alot with the phone when i got it, then did noting to it for the longest time now i feel like a retard askin all this stuff.. lol
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Hey, don't feel bad, happens to all of us at some point. Like the guy above me said, just re-install titanium backup and restore.
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How to root Gingerbread for the Epic 4G

I'm posting this for anyone who wants to root their device personally.
I apologize to anyone who feels like it shouldn't be posted.
All credit goes to qbking77, chris41g, mkasick, drockstar and all those who were involved.
Step 1...........How to Root and Clockworkmod the Samsung Epic 4G on EI22 EL30 Gingerbread
Step 2...........How to root the Samsung Epic 4G on Froyo and Gingerbread
You can use this recovery in place of the acs recovery if you prefer...........cwm-5.0.2.7-epic4g.tar.md5 tar flash for odin

Can the Sprint Samsung Epic 4g on gingerbread 2.3.6 be rooted?
Hello to anyone who knows about rooting. I work in medicne so I can figure out anything with the human body but not with rooting my Samsung epic on gingerbread 2.3.6. I have tried different developers, different sites, and read till I went crazy. The lingo gets old. It would be like me talking to the common public about the interpetation of hemodynamic readings and congestive heart failure. Anyhow, I rooted my epic 4g before it automatically upgraded to gingerbread...then it froze...I researched and unbricked it with a program everyone said did not work...but it worked to unbrick my phone even though it was supposed to root my phone...it just reset it to where it was usable again. When I try to go to certain websites for rooting files to download...they seem to be missing...hmmmm. So again, can the samsung epic 4g on gingerbread 2.3.6 be rooted? If it can, please direct me to some site...so far...I have tried about 5 different sites...no luck. It is also very hard to find anything specific on gingerbread 2.3.6 on rooting...alot of info. on the other versions.

imuscle said:
Hello to anyone who knows about rooting. I work in medicne so I can figure out anything with the human body but not with rooting my Samsung epic on gingerbread 2.3.6. I have tried different developers, different sites, and read till I went crazy. The lingo gets old. It would be like me talking to the common public about the interpetation of hemodynamic readings and congestive heart failure. Anyhow, I rooted my epic 4g before it automatically upgraded to gingerbread...then it froze...I researched and unbricked it with a program everyone said did not work...but it worked to unbrick my phone even though it was supposed to root my phone...it just reset it to where it was usable again. When I try to go to certain websites for rooting files to download...they seem to be missing...hmmmm. So again, can the samsung epic 4g on gingerbread 2.3.6 be rooted? If it can, please direct me to some site...so far...I have tried about 5 different sites...no luck. It is also very hard to find anything specific on gingerbread 2.3.6 on rooting...alot of info. on the other versions.
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Yes it can...that's why this how too is right above you if you would like me to do it for you remotely through team viewer I would gladly
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imuscle said:
Hello to anyone who knows about rooting. I work in medicne so I can figure out anything with the human body but not with rooting my Samsung epic on gingerbread 2.3.6. I have tried different developers, different sites, and read till I went crazy. The lingo gets old. It would be like me talking to the common public about the interpetation of hemodynamic readings and congestive heart failure. Anyhow, I rooted my epic 4g before it automatically upgraded to gingerbread...then it froze...I researched and unbricked it with a program everyone said did not work...but it worked to unbrick my phone even though it was supposed to root my phone...it just reset it to where it was usable again. When I try to go to certain websites for rooting files to download...they seem to be missing...hmmmm. So again, can the samsung epic 4g on gingerbread 2.3.6 be rooted? If it can, please direct me to some site...so far...I have tried about 5 different sites...no luck. It is also very hard to find anything specific on gingerbread 2.3.6 on rooting...alot of info. on the other versions.
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there is a thread that tells you a 3 step method. if you wanna flash another rom then here is what I did. Download the rom you want and put on the sd card. download odin if you do not already have it. download cwm-5.0.2.7-epic4g.tar.md5. open odin uncheck every thing even reboot. then click pda put the cwm.tar into the pda. make sure your phone is in download mode. by holding the #1 button on the keyboard and the power button. plug the phone in to the usb. a yellow com box should pop up. hit start it shouldn't take long but it will complete and the phone will still be on. unplug your phone and take the battery out. put the battery back and turn on using the 3 finger method. ( vol. down, camera and power button) then wipe data, wipe cache, go into advance and wipe dalvik. press the back button click then click install zip from sdcard. click choose zip from sd card and then choose your rom and install that should be all. if you want to stay stock and just be rooted you need to download superuser.zip the link is found in the first video. you do the first part the same but instead of wiping every thing you go start into install zip and then choose the super user zip. reboot your system. then you have to go into the root explorer and delete a file but I cant remember the file name. but then you turn your phone off and then you have to odin cwm again. then you will be rooted. i will edit this when i can remember the file name unless some one beats me to the punch. i hope this helps if not pm me and i will try to help i am going to be flashing back to stock and re rooting to day so..

Thanks...I will try it again.

imuscle said:
Thanks...I will try it again.
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I could not find that file that you are suppose to delete but if you odin cwm. Then flash super user in cwm. Boot up. Go into your root explorer go ino system/etc/ it should say install.recovery.sh. I believe
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Links to all files needed are in the descriptions under the videos.....and the videos show which ones you need.
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Root epic 4g
to big goron, would u b willing to do the same for me? I have teamviewer.

debage39 said:
to big goron, would u b willing to do the same for me? I have teamviewer.
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You should pm him
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debage39 said:
to big goron, would u b willing to do the same for me? I have teamviewer.
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No problem pm me the id and password and ill root ya in no time
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I wanted to give thanx to big Goron aka uber for all his time and effort helping me with my epic. Problems and upgrades. Thanx for all ur help.
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Yes! A big thanks to Uber (Big Goron) for helping out everywhere!
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notsosmrtgeek said:
I could not find that file that you are suppose to delete but if you odin cwm. Then flash super user in cwm. Boot up. Go into your root explorer go ino system/etc/ it should say install.recovery.sh. I believe
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i havent rooted stock gb. so forgive me. but is system/etc the correct path for the file that needs to be deleted? also better to necro rather than make a new thread for this.

I never deleted that file. I just odin'd cwm5 with reboot unchecked, then unplugged cable, poppef battery out and in and flashed a ROM. That file install-recovery.sh is still on my phone and in the directory you specified.
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jbadboy2007 said:
i havent rooted stock gb. so forgive me. but is system/etc the correct path for the file that needs to be deleted? also better to necro rather than make a new thread for this.
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You don't need to unless you plan on staying stock. Otherwise just flash clockwork mod boot into it and flash a custom rom.
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ÜBER™ said:
You don't need to unless you plan on staying stock. Otherwise just flash clockwork mod boot into it and flash a custom rom.
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The phone will remain stock or I would just flash fc09 deoxed. It's for my wife I might in the future upgrade her but this is her first android so I'm trying to go slow with it and not barrage her with too many changes.

jbadboy2007 said:
The phone will remain stock or I would just flash fc09 deoxed. It's for my wife I might in the future upgrade her but this is her first android so I'm trying to go slow with it and not barrage her with too many changes.
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Qbking77 video on youtube I believe hasa link to a kernel (mostly stock, only the key skip fix added i believe) that you can odin to make recovery stick on stock...

flastnoles11 said:
Qbking77 video on youtube I believe hasa link to a kernel (mostly stock, only the key skip fix added i believe) that you can odin to make recovery stick on stock...
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Isnt that a ei22 kernel though from my memory there is not a fc09 kernel of that sort.

i used this kernel on my friends epic, who wanted to stay stock fc09
ShadowKernel-FC09-v1.0.1

[Q] Newbie help

I know I am to do som e research so I looked through some videos and I get the understanding of root and rom. Ow my question is I looked through and I didn't see anything about the Samsung epic 4G Gingerbread EL30 which I have . What I would like to know is can I rom my phone and if I can where can I find how to do it cause I swear I looked and couldn't find it. I appreciate your patience with me.

Are you familiar with a program called "Odin"?
To root gingerbread (EL30), you will have to use odin and flash CWM.tar (clockwork mod is a recovery program for your phone) and after you do that, you can flash SU.zip and voila! Insta root! Proceed to flash whatever you want
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No I'm not. I don't have the slightest clue what odin is. I saw that in the videos ad I didn't understand. So you are saying I need us Odin. Where can I find that at? Ok I think I found one from ramad. Now I'm afraid I'm going to mess up my phone lol

Here is the video and the links for programs are right after it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwFRzzIqouE
Odin can be found here if you like:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1052813
If you are too apprehensive about it perhaps it's best to not do it or get someone techincally apt to help you.

eekaboo:
Ahem: I can root your phone remotely through teamviewer if you feel its too much. Pm if your interested
Also fox you forgot odining the kernel or cwm will not stick
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kennyglass123 said:
Here is the video and the links for programs are right after it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwFRzzIqouE
Odin can be found here if you like:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1052813
If you are too apprehensive about it perhaps it's best to not do it or get someone techincally apt to help you.
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Chill stop telling people not to do it themselves...how the fluff do you expect them to learn? We all learned through trial and error lol I was pretty hesitant when I lost my flash virginity back on the hero, but since then its just gotten easier and easier lol
S/he can't brick it unless they flash a rom from a different phone.
But yeah follow these links and they'll help you immensely you could also check out the epic 4g wiki which includes instructions on how to root..
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She just sounded way too nervous about it. And disconnecting or using a bad cable while Odining will hard brick a phone. I gave her the guides and didn't tell her not to do it, just recommended maybe it is not a good idea interpretting the level of apprehension. It was way easier with one click roots. Odin scared the hell out of me too and I have been a computer tech, an aerospace tech and associate Engineer. I thought she might want a more technical person to work with her and teach her.
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i didn't have to flash a new kernel after I used odin to flash el30 I just flash cwm

Sometimes hard bricking a phone is the best way to learn a very valuable lesson.
Besides, sprint insurance covers it if there is no physical damage.
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I suggest going and finding the video's you need from QBKing77 http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC919C97579204B07&feature=plcp
That's his channel specifically epic 4g section on youtube. When I first got into rooting and flashing thats where I learned what I needed to and of course reading a lot on here.
1st tip I can give you: Don't use the USB cord that came with the Epic. Go out and get a nice Blackberry cord or I've had great luck with my wife's HTC Evo Shift cord.