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On a custom kernal. Not sure what to do

Hi on the James bond kernal. Wanna know how tto get 2.3.4 on my phone .. iv downloaded the file. And the file for root after. ... atm I can't get any sort of recovery. It just hangs on Google ..
Anyideas
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Holy down the key for decreasing the volume when powering on your phone. This gets you to fastboot, pick recovery using the volume buttons and hit the power button.
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Download http://android.clients.google.com/p...2cf141e6a.signed-soju-ota-102588.f182cf14.zip
Full Wipe your Phone and flash the GRI40 Stock package. Set up the Phone and download GRJ22 OTA update provided in the 2.3.4 Link Thread.
Flash the new OTA on top.

How do you full wipe then flash?
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CWM? Just flash it like any other ROM/Kernel/whatsoever:
download the full ROM GRI40(see link above), put it on your SD, reboot recovery, NANDroid Backup, full wipe/factory reset, flash the GRI40 update from your sd, reboot phone.
edit: this works on ever Nexus S. GRI40 runs on AMOLED and SLCD so you can even use this way to downgrade

please some one tell me as to how to down grade to GRI40 (KB1) from GRI54 (KB3) without full swipe (deleting / formatting) of the phone? I need this procedure so as to update my phone to 2.3.4.
I use an I9023, GRI54 on KB3. Please help!

[Q] new to the forums

hey guys, Im new to the forums. I have an HTC Desire HD on Telus, joined to ask some genreal questions about rooting, Cyanogen Mod 7, etc.
Anyway, I recently got Cyanogenmod on my phone, and installed the Telus kernel thing at the end (following this guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=954997). Anyway, the guide wasnt perfect here:
"2- Copy Telus Kernel.zip to your SD card from the "Step 2 - Telus Kernel" folder.
3- Run Kernel Update Utility (in the "Step 3 - Kernel Update Utility" folder) and click "Select a cwm zip", then click next, then click Go to fastboot, wait for the white bootloader screen on your phone, then click Flash. Once it's done, it'll reboot back into Android."
I wasn't sure what to select as a cwm.zip...so I chose the telus kernel zip in the "Step 2 - Telus Kernel" Folder. everything went fine until boot up. It just hung at the HTC turn on screen...and I couldnt even get into reboot recovery. Sent it in and now I have a new one...Still want CyanogenMod. Just dont wanna screw it up a second time. Thanks for any help
~Stu

What you should of done is hold vol- and power button and that would of took you to recovery.
Anyways, from personal experience i've flashed different kernel to try out a number of times, my advice is to copy the kernel into your sd card and boot into recovery and flash the kernel as you would flash a rom..
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hey, ya I tried the down volume plus power, it did nothing. anyway, maybe Ill try it that way. boot into recovery and flash it from there. The Telus kernel is so that I can hear out of the earspeaker correct?

That's right.. Boot into recovery and flash the kernel. The utility is just an automation of that process as far as I understand.
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So why did my phone brick then? And can you tell me the process once in reboot recovery? Like what I should do before actually installing it? Such as wipe the cache, etc.
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BiggPoppa22 said:
So why did my phone brick then? And can you tell me the process once in reboot recovery? Like what I should do before actually installing it? Such as wipe the cache, etc.
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Technically if you phone booted into the boot screen , it wasn't bricked. whatever that was flashed caused a boot loop.
1. Hold Vol- and power button, wait for it to boot and release the keys.
2. select the option install zip from sdcard
3. Find the kernal and select it.
4. Once flashed select reboot system now.
All done

So that is for the ear speaker then?
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BiggPoppa22 said:
So that is for the ear speaker then?
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Absolutely not

What's it for then? Why would I have to put it on after I get cyanogen mod? When I had it on my last phone (before it got fixed) just the phone feature didn't work...texting worked though...i don't understand what it is meant for...i know it's a total noob question, but I have to ask lol
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BiggPoppa22 said:
So why did my phone brick then? And can you tell me the process once in reboot recovery? Like what I should do before actually installing it? Such as wipe the cache, etc.
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From your initial post
I wasn't sure what to select as a cwm.zip...so I chose the telus kernel zip
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you flashed a kernel to your recovery partition, which will have at least stopped it rebooting into recovery, what you should have done is returned to fastboot and flashed clockwork recovery and all would have been working.

Oh...so I should just do the whole thing from sd on the card in reboot recovery?
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[Q]Booting into recovery with broken powerbutton?

Hi there, I got my Transformer about a week ago and the Powerbutton was somehow not ok, it took some power to lock/unlock screen etc yet i didnt really care. now it wont function at all (to turn it of i had to push it against a damn wall).
So i understand its a problem with the button and not the software and I want to go and replace it, problem is that two days ago i flashed modaco's rom. is there any way to return to STOCK WITH the broken powerbutton? how can i go to recovery in that case anyways?
also, maybe i can remap the button to "both volume buttons pressed" or something of the sort?
thanks in advance!

Connect to pc/mac with the android sdk install. Send these commands to it.
Adb reboot recovery
Or
Adb reboot.... It will reboot hold down volume button and it should go into recovery.
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I see, now remains the problem of how to flash it to stock firmware.

I think you can put the stock update zip on the root of your sd card and flash it in recovery.
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But the problem is when choosing what to do in recovery mode. The choice is made by pressing the power button.

When you reboot into honeycomb with the update on the root of the card you should get a notification of a system update. Try that.
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david279 said:
When you reboot into honeycomb with the update on the root of the card you should get a notification of a system update. Try that.
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Are you sure it safe to just apply an update on a custom ROM? I don't wont it completely bricked.

Oh your rooted. Didn't know that. Kinda don't know now.
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Flash the attachment, reboot your device. This will give you stock recovery
Next you need to download one of the FOTA update (any version will do) from ASUS's site and rename it EP101_SDUPDATE.zip and put it in the root of your MicroSD. Now you need to boot into recovery and press volume up within 5 seconds so it'll flash the recovery ROM.

Google Books!

I downloaded Google Books today just to play around with it and now I cannot uninstall it. I don't want to root my phone just to get rid of it. Will a hard reset help?
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Not sure bout a hard reset. When i got my phone, this was already preinstalled. Your phone might think its a system app and not clear after a hard reset.
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Hmm.. that sucks.
By the way, is there any difference between a factory reset done via the settings menu and the hard reset done by booting into the special menu?
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athani said:
I downloaded Google Books today just to play around with it and now I cannot uninstall it. I don't want to root my phone just to get rid of it. Will a hard reset help?
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All Nexus Ss come with Google Books preinstalled after the 2.3.1 or 2.3.2 ota. So nothing can remove it unless you root. Why so annoyed by it? you never noticed it being installed on the phone before and it doesn't take any resources if you disable books syncing from Accounts and Sync under the system settings.
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My phone did not have google books preinstalled. I installed it yesterday just to see what it was and now I'm stuck with it.
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Pretty sure it's still the same as it use to be
Soft reset is like rebooting
Hard reset is like unplugging something while its on( removing battery without turning phone off first).
Factory rest wipes it to stock, or original rom that you may have flashed. All setting revert to default.
Don't quote me though
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Hmm.. that sucks.
By the way, is there any difference between a factory reset done via the settings menu and the hard reset done by booting into the special menu?
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pierre1321 said:
Pretty sure it's still the same as it use to be
Soft reset is like rebooting
Hard reset is like unplugging something while its on( removing battery without turning phone off first).
Factory rest wipes it to stock, or original rom that you may have flashed. All setting revert to default.
Don't quote me though
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Actually, I wanted to know if there is any difference between the two methods of performing a factory reset -
1. Settings> Privacy> Factory Data Reset
2. Power off phone. Power on while pressing the volume up button. And then reset.
Does the latter method perform a "deeper" reset?
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Its a preference thing.
If I'm on stock, prolly do it through settings.
Or through bootloader if i can't get it to boot.
If rooted and unlocked and custom rom, i do it through recovery. Cause i can flash and clear stuff in 1 shot.
athani said:
Actually, I wanted to know if there is any difference between the two methods of performing a factory reset -
1. Settings> Privacy> Factory Data Reset
2. Power off phone. Power on while pressing the volume up button. And then reset.
Does the latter method perform a "deeper" reset?
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I want to "root" my phone only for the purpose of getting rid of some pre-installed stuff. I do not want to have a custon ROM, at least not now.
I've seen this thread which explains rooting the Nexus S, giving 4 steps in which to do it.
At what step can I stop if I want just a simple root as stated above? Or will I have to go through the whole process?
Will the procedure erase anything from my phone? If yes, how do I backup?

I believe both reset methods do the same thing, which is format the /data partition (and maybe a bit more?).

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I believe both reset methods do the same thing, which is format the /data partition (and maybe a bit more?).
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Thanks for the reply but I'm just as clueless as before.
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athani said:
I want to "root" my phone only for the purpose of getting rid of some pre-installed stuff. I do not want to have a custon ROM, at least not now.
I've seen this thread which explains rooting the Nexus S, giving 4 steps in which to do it.
At what step can I stop if I want just a simple root as stated above? Or will I have to go through the whole process?
Will the procedure erase anything from my phone? If yes, how do I backup?
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The process will wipe your data, and you need to do the whole thing.
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I just checked, it only takes up 4M, which is nothing. I wouldn't worry about it so much.
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[Q] please help a noob I screwed up my continuum!

I originally tried to root my phone then flashed away with odin ( all this after reading through several threads of course ) now it's worse all I get on my screen is a little phone and a little computer with a triangled exclamation point. Grrr.... please help did I brick my phone? thanks for any help

I had that once. Flash test4. Zip with update. Zip to do a restore point. If u have one. (U should!)
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Thanks I'll give it a try
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jds3118 said:
please help did I brick my phone? thanks for any help
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Did you make sure that "Re-Partition" in Odin is NOT checked (!!!) before clicking the start button?
Regardless, This thread may help.

The re-partition box was not checked but thanks for the info
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Do I flash the test4.zip through the pda box or one of the others?
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Do I flash the test4.zip through the pda box or one of the others?
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yes. PDA uncheck auto reboot., then start
It shouldn't take more than a few seconds

Gonna try it now thanks
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Yes my prob now is I downloaded test4.zip but when I click the pda box in odin the files not there???? I feel like such a noob. lol
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not there? As in not on your computer? Come into IRC.
webchat.freenode.net
#samsung-continuum is the channel name

The zip file is in the comp download file but when I click the pda box in odin the files not there
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The zip file is in the comp download file but when I click the pda box in odin the files not there
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You probably need to unzip it and the file will be inside. It should gab a.tar extension
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Ok I flashed cwm_recovery_test4_adryn and was able to get recovery menu and clicked update.zip and now I have a green android dude with a white triangle with an exclamation point inside ????
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Ok I flashed cwm_recovery_test4_adryn and was able to get recovery menu and clicked update.zip and now I have a green android dude with a white triangle with an exclamation point inside ????
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OK... that's actually, a good thing.
Now, I assume that you have cwm2.5 on your sd card, and one of the roms, correct? If not, put them on there, making sure that they are not in any folder.
Once you've done this, boot into recovery, and scroll down to the second option (apply sdcard:update.zp) and tap the "menu" key firmly.
Next go to "install zip from sd card" and use the power button to select.
after that, scroll to "choose zip from sd card" and select it with the power button
Then, find the rom, and select it with power button. Then "Yes"
After it installs, use the back key to back up to the main cwm menu and go to wipe cache and select it.
Then, go to advanced, select it, then wipe dalvik cache, and select ye on it.
After you have done all this, back up to the main cwm menu again and select 'reboot system now".
Get something to drink. It'll take a while on first boot. DO NOT PULL YOUR BATTERY!!

Ok went back into recovery and did wipe cache worked fine then tried wipe data/factory reset and got E:can't mount/dev/block/mmcblk0p3 (no file or directory ) E:install_application _for_customer :can't mount H IODENSDCARD then it says your storage not prepared yet, please use Ui menu for format and reboot actions
So how do I do that ???
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jds3118 said:
Ok went back into recovery and did wipe cache worked fine then tried wipe data/factory reset and got E:can't mount/dev/block/mmcblk0p3 (no file or directory ) E:install_application _for_customer :can't mount H IODENSDCARD then it says your storage not prepared yet, please use Ui menu for format and reboot actions
So how do I do that ???
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did you do this before or after you installed the rom? If it was before, I'd imagine it's because there was no rom on there to reset. Flash the rom, then reboot normally. Once it boots, then go back into recovery and try wiping.

Ok trying it now thanks for all the help
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let me know if it works. Staying up so I can make sure you are good to go.

Will the ec07 nuckin rom work?
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