My wife was trying to change her font with the Rom Toolbox and it froze then boot looped. Has this happened to anyone else? Its a stock froyo with overstock and cwr. I would not go into recovery and odin would not recognize it. I finally got into recovery while trying to get into download mode for odin. In the excitement I re-flashed cm7 because it was still on her sd card. Her phone works now but I will try to get odin to work on it tomorrow. She really needs the GPS to work and cm7 just doesn't do it for her. Plus the whole thing about 911 being iffy. It's 1am here and I'm tired.
Hey man just flash a 2.2 rom like project v or bionix 1.3.1 or something.
Vibrant + ICS
It wont let me go from cm7 to bionix. i tried it.
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Flash the JFD using odin.
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Craven. Once you get it back to non-CM7, use this method to change your fonts. Much easier and you have total control, unlike Fontchanger which kicks me into a bootloop every single time I used it.
Trying Odin again. It doesnt seem to be working.
Odin can not see the phone. I'm downloading a different version now.
If you are not getting into download mode, try this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1133987
i finally found a combination of cord and plug in that works. Everthing is good now and my wife is happily running deranged 9. Thanks everyone for the support. I hope you found my siries of unfortunate events as funny as i did.
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ODIN does not work period, end of story, on my hardware locked Vibrant. I want to flash back to stock so I can try Bionix. I'm a n00b at flashing the Vibrant but I flashed a few roms on my old G1. Would I be able to flash Bionix using Clockwork (or flash Stock using it as well)?
I can't can't can't softbrick this phone because ODIN will not work. I tried it and my other Android crazy root/rom friend tried as well.
There's a fix for hardware locked phones in the dev forum. I just used it a few days ago and it works great.
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That would involve me using ODIN though. Would I be able to just use Quickboot to boot into recovery so I can flash the file?
I've recently installed Master Rom 1.1.4 JAC however I think I've made the mistake of flashing Vibrant_ AOSPish 1.2 & JAC & KING KERN the result is that I can not get past the launcher section of my phone or select anything because the UI is not responding. I've tried the 3 button thing to get to recovery and it's just not working for me after a million tries I gave up. At my wits end I came across one click root, (excellent to get to recovery mode)! now I'm stuck it won't let me get to SD section where my Rom are stored... I need Help? BTW I have a mac I know not good for this situation but what am I going to do.
Have you tried restoring to stock rom using odin?
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No I have no Idea on how to use Odin what I've seen is that it can only be use if you have a PC, I have a mac with VM fusion but that does not work. I'm really close to just throwing the phone out the window -_-
You can't use someones computer? Don't throw the phone away, you can send it to me! Lol
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I want to preface this by saying I have spent 4 hours trying to recover my phone and I have tried all the things suggested in the treads, including what worked for me last time.
I installed a kernal for using the buttons backlighting for notifications which apparently works on the Fascinate. My phone never rebooted from that. I tried to install Clockwork and install an update.zip or an old restore file and it would not read off my SD properly/was not effective. I then tried using Odin to flash over the system, kernal, and recovery. Still no dice. I formatted my sd and tried to install clockwork again and everytime I try to access it through installing update.zip it says that signature verification failed and the installation is aborted and does not even reach clockwork.
I hope someone can help me. I have tried everything I can think of and have had zero luck.
PS: Currently my phone will show SAMSUNG but keep looping
Did you have voodoo on your phone before you flashed the kernel?
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Did you have voodoo on your phone before you flashed the kernel?
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No, I was running a deoxed .4 rom
Are you installing clockwork through Odin? I have had problems with getting clockwork to work if I installed it any other way. It should work through Odin tho - also was the kernel you flashed with the backlight notification the voodoo one or non-voodoo?
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Also did you try wiping data? Even if you can't get into clockwork you can do it from the Samsung recovery. I would try that and then do all the Odin recovery stuff again and see if that helps - but if you flashed the voodoo kernel you will have to go thru the post on completely removing voodoo.
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Are you installing clockwork through Odin? I have had problems with getting clockwork to work if I installed it any other way. It should work through Odin tho - also was the kernel you flashed with the backlight notification the voodoo one or non-voodoo?
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I am installing through Odin. I don't know any other way to do it. I installed the non-voodoo one.
I installed this one since I heard it worked on our phone as well...
forumDOTxda-developersDOTcom/showthreadDOTphp?t=772672
"i9000_BacklightNotification_v1.6.zip"
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Also did you try wiping data? Even if you can't get into clockwork you can do it from the Samsung recovery. I would try that and then do all the Odin recovery stuff again and see if that helps - but if you flashed the voodoo kernel you will have to go thru the post on completely removing voodoo.
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I have wiped every data thing you can think of several times. And do you think it would hurt for me to try to remove voodoo even if I don't think I flashed that kernal
I'm hoping someone more experienced than me will take this one - I'm not sure if that backlight notification you flashed is compatible with the fascinate. That could be your problem. Can anybody else jump in here?
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You flashed a i9000 kernel onto your Fascinate. Ay caramba.
DON'T FLASH NON-FASCINATE ROMS ONTO YOUR FASCINATE
Anyway, I can't think of anything except trying to flash the Fascinate CWM kernel back onto your phone again with Odin.
edit -- FYI, the only BLN kernels any Fascinate owner should be flashing are the ones from jt1134, available only via ROM Manager
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You flashed a i9000 kernel onto your Fascinate. Ay caramba.
DON'T FLASH NON-FASCINATE ROMS ONTO YOUR FASCINATE
Anyway, I can't think of anything except trying to flash the Fascinate CWM kernel back onto your phone again with Odin.
edit -- FYI, the only BLN kernels any Fascinate owner should be flashing are the ones from jt1134, available only via ROM Manager
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Figured as much... I read it worked and that is why I installed. Hopefully I can get a fix. Maybe I should do adb?
I updated to EI22, stock w/OTA update. I then rooted and things were working great. Then about 1 week ago, I did a CWM backup and when I restarted the phone just kept automatically rebooting approx. every 3 -4 minutes. I could not stop it no matter what I did. Then I restored the backup and it worked fine. A few days later, I turned the power off to put in a my extra battery, and when I turned it on, the same thing happened. I had to restore twice fir it to stop this time. Then this morning, I did a reboot to see what would happen, and again it happened. Mind you it was working flawless before I restarted it. I have tried everything from removing programs, turning off the wifi, leaving the battery out for a half hour, but nothing. Sometimes after it reboots, I leave it alone for 15 minutes and then when I hit the power button, it just restarts.
Any ideas before I put back froyo??
Sounds like a bad flash. I would Odin all the way to Stock EC05 then root then flash a Gingerbread ROM. Your error is either in the kernel or recovery to happen immediately after boot. It could even be a flaky partition table.
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OK. Funny, I flashed backed to a stock EC05 and did the OTA update so as to possible avoid any problems like this.
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OK. Funny, I flashed backed to a stock EC05 and did the OTA update so as to possible avoid any problems like this.
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I figured that but the problem may lie in the rooting which required you to flash a kernel or in your recovery module.
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Any ideas before I put back froyo??
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Your not alone on this issue. I am also considering going back to froyo
ADW was nice enough to bring up a crash report that I emailed myself. In the stack trace I see that android Package manager has died as a cause of the exception. I am not a java programmer so am at a loss here to what's happening.
See also this related post
So I flashed to the ACS ICS rom and so far no problems. What a great ROM!! Many thanks to Marcusant and ACS.
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don't use the OTA.
just root ec05, flash CWM 5, flash modem update ec05 to EI22, flash a rom of your choosing. it's that simple. i don't see why people go the OTA route. it just causes problems with the recovery.
EDIT: also if you want Rom manager, check the kernel(or rom) for compatibility.
Why use ROM MANAGER at all? All the same tasks can be done from Clockwork Mod directly?
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Why use ROM MANAGER at all? All the same tasks can be done from Clockwork Mod directly?
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I'm lazy sometimes and like to use a GUI...
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Why use ROM MANAGER at all? All the same tasks can be done from Clockwork Mod directly?
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It was not supported for the Epic before but with the new CWM5 it is. It is much faster to boot into recovery from ROM Manager rather than powering down and 3 fingering into it. Plus ROM Manager supports renaming your backups when you are doing them. Also ROM Manager will continuously update your CWM if new versions come out. There is also OTA updates available if the developer supports it on their ROM.
I've reverted to stock countless times with Odin but this time I'm having weird issue....
I'm reverting from Trigger rom with Overstock kernel (I think), Odin says its successful but after rebooting I still see the overstock logo and I heard the "voodoo" sound saying "convert system partition" and then shortly "system not available"
Its stuck at overstock screen afterwards, tried to re-flash again with odin and same issue.
Can anyone help??
What files using
512.pit
T959uvjvd or Vji16
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s1_odin_20100512
T959UVJFD
Odin 1.3
Been using those files for ages w/o problem before
I haven;t been in the scenes for a while and was going to go to stock to try ICS
What I want you to do is take the bat out put it back in power and rocker. Go in CWM.. the red one and wipe data, cache, andvanced and wipe delk and reflash trigger or the kernel.. I would reflash trigger
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cant go to recovery, I think my phone is fully bricked now...
I tried odin 1.7 instead of 1.3 and now after odin finished flashing and rebooting phone just goes off and I cant turn it on at all. The only mode that works is download mode
well false alarm. used AIO Vibrant toolbox and was able to revert back to stock, boy I've never been so happy to hear T-mobile's ultra annoying chime
Lol
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Glad you got it. Was about to suggest aio *thumbs up*
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