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I completely new to the whole flashing and custom rom thing. I've never tried anything like it and don't know much about it. The closest I've come to hacking or rooting my Vibrant phone is with the OCLF app. Now, I too have been patiently waiting for Froyo to come out and for some reason when it did come out I was hesitant to get it. I wanted to see what people were saying about it before I downloaded and installed it. So far from what I'm seeing, its not all its cracked up to be and it seems like Froyo for the Vibrant is "meh" for most. This is a bummer to me but I kept hearing about using a custom and its advantages. Thankfully I bumped into a very useful thread posted by xriderx66 on his reviews on some of the roms out now. Based on what he said, I'm looking to flashing my phone to the Bionix-V Rom by Team Whiskey. Problem is I have no idea how to get started. What do I need to do to flash my phone? Any program I need to download first? How do I backup my files? I'm such a noob at this its funny but I'm willing to take the risk and experience this phone the way it should be experienced. If someone can post a link showing a step by step on how to do the whole thing I'd really appreciate it. Thanks in advance
Go to the development thread and browse through the stickies. Reading and more reading should be the first two things you do. Pay attention to anything relating to odin.
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TheAggression said:
I completely new to the whole flashing and custom rom thing. I've never tried anything like it and don't know much about it. The closest I've come to hacking or rooting my Vibrant phone is with the OCLF app. Now, I too have been patiently waiting for Froyo to come out and for some reason when it did come out I was hesitant to get it. I wanted to see what people were saying about it before I downloaded and installed it. So far from what I'm seeing, its not all its cracked up to be and it seems like Froyo for the Vibrant is "meh" for most. This is a bummer to me but I kept hearing about using a custom and its advantages. Thankfully I bumped into a very useful thread posted by xriderx66 on his reviews on some of the roms out now. Based on what he said, I'm looking to flashing my phone to the Bionix-V Rom by Team Whiskey. Problem is I have no idea how to get started. What do I need to do to flash my phone? Any program I need to download first? How do I backup my files? I'm such a noob at this its funny but I'm willing to take the risk and experience this phone the way it should be experienced. If someone can post a link showing a step by step on how to do the whole thing I'd really appreciate it. Thanks in advance
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Read the below thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=849028
Thanks a million bro!
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Your welcome. Let me know if you run into any issues.
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That thread he posted for you is the best information I have been able to find for someone that is just getting started. I too am just kinda dancing around flashing bionix v. I have rooted and downloaded rom manager and clockwork though...just about ready to flash as soon as I gather up the courage. But everything I have done up to this point was learned in the Noob Guide he linked. Its like vibrant flashing for dummies.
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Will do jbat! Once again thanks. @ goodvibrant, I hear you. Tomorrow when I have the time I will flash this phone to the Bionix thanks to this noob guide. I took a look at the guide and it seems pretty easy to follow. I look forward to it!
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Sure thing man. No problem. Ive received help and try to give it when I can. I figure if I can help with the easier questions then the guys that know a hell of a lot more than I do, can focus on the advanced questions. Everyone is here to learn.
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Starting off, I'm probably posting in the wrong section. Excuse my forum etiquette, but I need help with this because I'm insanely frustrated and in pain (Decided to learn how to exploit the android OS while recovering from my surgery).
So, if you've read past that first part and are still willing to help, thank you.
Moderators: If you absolutely need to move this post, please move it to a section where it will actually get attention and I can get an answer. Thanks.
Anyway, the breakdown of my problem is this;
I wanted to root my new day old Sprint CMDA Nexus S, I've never rooted anything android, and if anything the most I've done with a droid OS is installed it on my old iphone 2g.
So I did some googling and first thing to come up was this guide:
nexusshacks(dotcom)/nexus-s-hacks/how-to-root-nexus-s/
Now, usually I would do a bit more research, but because of the lack of blood in my body I'm doing dumb things, making bad decisions, whatever.
So obviously this guide doesn't work, even a quick skim of the comments shows that, I try to follow this guide-
I followed step "fastboot flash boot rootboot.img" then tried to reboot. It freezes at the google boot logo. This is where I start getting a bit nervous because I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing.
So I think "Well, if I jump over to someone elses tutorial and do that it should overwrite any "root"ing data I've tried to put into the device.
So I jump over to this:
androidadvices(dotcom)/root-sprint-nexus-gingerbread-235-update/3/
It has me install PDANet and it's frozen since on the installing PDAnet to your phone.
I just want to get my Nexus S back to original factory default so I can start fresh from there without a terrible guide.
Can someone please help me get there?
Thanks.
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Bad guide soft bricked my phone and I want to restore it to factory defaults
agnl said:
Starting off, I'm probably posting in the wrong section. Excuse my forum etiquette, but I need help with this because I'm insanely frustrated and in pain (Decided to learn how to exploit the android OS while recovering from my surgery).
So, if you've read past that first part and are still willing to help, thank you.
Moderators: If you absolutely need to move this post, please move it to a section where it will actually get attention and I can get an answer. Thanks.
Anyway, the breakdown of my problem is this;
I wanted to root my new day old Sprint CMDA Nexus S, I've never rooted anything android, and if anything the most I've done with a droid OS is installed it on my old iphone 2g.
So I did some googling and first thing to come up was this guide:
nexusshacks(dotcom)/nexus-s-hacks/how-to-root-nexus-s/
Now, usually I would do a bit more research, but because of the lack of blood in my body I'm doing dumb things, making bad decisions, whatever.
So obviously this guide doesn't work, even a quick skim of the comments shows that, I try to follow this guide-
I followed step "fastboot flash boot rootboot.img" then tried to reboot. It freezes at the google boot logo. This is where I start getting a bit nervous because I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing.
So I think "Well, if I jump over to someone elses tutorial and do that it should overwrite any "root"ing data I've tried to put into the device.
So I jump over to this:
androidadvices(dotcom)/root-sprint-nexus-gingerbread-235-update/3/
It has me install PDANet and it's frozen since on the installing PDAnet to your phone.
I just want to get my Nexus S back to original factory default so I can start fresh from there without a terrible guide.
Can someone please help me get there?
Thanks.
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Bad guide soft bricked my phone and I want to restore it to factory defaults
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Ok I can see you need help but I am inclined to warn you instead. Stop. If you cannot figure out how to root the easiest phone to root then you shouldn't be messing around with your phone. You will end up screwing something up, won't know how to fix it, and come crying here for help. Do yourself some research before you go and ruin your phone.
Yes you posted in the wrong place.
There is a thread in this forum on how to root the nexus s 4g. Rooting is model specific. The T-Mobile Nexus s is different from the sprint, att, Rodgers, o2 etc.
Please please do some more research!
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Thanks for a reply, and I understand I dug a hole.
Now I need to get out of said hole, so if you had any directions of how to dig myself out, that'd be great.
if you can get into fastboot then you are still cool, if not you're gonna have to odin it. I dont actually know where the tar files are, Micheal posted it up but i think they deleted the thread. You should have came to xda first,we have one clicks.
actually rooting is the same across the board. same steps same everything... in fact the one click root version 1 would work on any and all of them, version 2 branches out a bit further due to that it installs cwm.
anyways boot into fastboot, download stock fastboot images from petes thread found here http://wonderly.com/bb/CRESPO4G/OEM/GRJ22IMAGES.zip and flash them all in fastboot.
youll be back on stock grj22 but youll at least be booting.. from there follow a guide for rooting this phone that has you flash cwm (not a prerooted kernel). or be lazy and use my one click root
You sir are a class act. We need a ton more guys like you here at XDA
shabbypenguin said:
actually rooting is the same across the board. same steps same everything... in fact the one click root version 1 would work on any and all of them, version 2 branches out a bit further due to that it installs cwm.
anyways boot into fastboot, download stock fastboot images from petes thread found here http://wonderly.com/bb/CRESPO4G/OEM/GRJ22IMAGES.zip and flash them all in fastboot.
youll be back on stock grj22 but youll at least be booting.. from there follow a guide for rooting this phone that has you flash cwm (not a prerooted kernel). or be lazy and use my one click root
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mikeyinid said:
You sir are a class act. We need a ton more guys like you here at XDA
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+1
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mikeyinid said:
You sir are a class act. We need a ton more guys like you here at XDA
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lol you give me way too much credit mikey but thanks for teh vote of confidence
Samsung epic.. When i boot into cwm and try to restart it just stays on the samsung start screen and never moves from there. How the heck can i fix this i need my phone..please help with detailed directions...
Odin back to stock and start over.
What have you recently flashed or done?
Have you tried to wipe cache and dalvik cache?
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Is that the only way using odin.? If so can some please post the links i need. Im fairly new to this.. I used odin before but had it set up on another computer not this one....
I can boot into clockwork,,,, just when i reboot from there it gets stuck, why would this be happening. Maybe i didnt have the correct rom on it.?
You might have to start over but not with odin if you have a rom on your sdcard or if you download one to it. what rom are you on and kernel? And have you flashed something that migt have caused it?
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Go to the Development section at the top in the stickies is a thread called How to fix a semi-bricked Epic. That has all the info and links you need.
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This happened to me too, I was only able to get to the boot screen and it would freeze, and it would only let me get into clock work mod, make sure you have a rom in the root of your SD and flash the rom in clock work mod, the new rom should boot up.
jimmyjames72 said:
Samsung epic.. When i boot into cwm and try to restart it just stays on the samsung start screen and never moves from there. How the heck can i fix this i need my phone..please help with detailed directions...
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if you have a fairly recent cmw backup and you are on cmw 3.1.0.1 (purple if I got the ver. # wrong) try advanced restore, and just restore the one at the top of the list. Worked for me when I flashed a bad kernel. Good luck!
It'd be nice if you were more specific on what you did before you screwed your phone up so we wouldn't have 10 plus people figuring out basic crap smh. -_-
Quit being such a noon. If you had the smarts to flash a rom....then figure it out. I've made the same mistakes. Better make sure the rom is actually for your phone......noob.
Make sure you have the right kernel for your rom. Most of the times when you get stuck at the samsung logo is because you don't have the right kernel.
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b16flybye said:
Quit being such a noon. If you had the smarts to flash a rom....then figure it out. I've made the same mistakes. Better make sure the rom is actually for your phone......noob.
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Wow. ****. The guy had an issue - we were all "noons" at one point,and we came to the forums for help from those of us that aren't so "noon". Ease up and try to help the guy instead of bashing him.
b16flybye said:
Quit being such a noon. If you had the smarts to flash a rom....then figure it out. I've made the same mistakes. Better make sure the rom is actually for your phone......noob.
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this is how you spend your first post on this website? bashing someone? please leave, or learn to respect other members.
If all else fails, do a hardware reset
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1042746
Double check your ROM. Make sure that it includes a kernel, made for your phone, and isn't some highly experimental thing ROM that may or may not work.
I'm a newbie and picked up a SCH-I500. I'm looking to make it a better phone. It's bone stock and clean.
I have read droidstyles guide, but i have no idea where to start. There are so many, but it's overwhelming on which one to choose
Please advise
thanks
follow his guide to flash teamhacksung ics build 2, then from there flash aokp build 40.
search is your friend for these things, I am not giving you links mainly because one thing we can't stand is people asking questions that can e answered by search or just reading, that's just a heads up. we will be glad to help you with stuff you might have trouble with and can't figure out for yourself.
also I'm too lazy to find links
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mvp805 said:
I'm a newbie and picked up a SCH-I500. I'm looking to make it a better phone. It's bone stock and clean.
I have read droidstyles guide, but i have no idea where to start. There are so many, but it's overwhelming on which one to choose
Please advise
thanks
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what do you mean you dont no where to start? I believe you start at step 1 and follow all the instructions :silly:
If you want the latest and greatest, follow section 4 and go with aokp b40 as Sage suggested...
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follow his guide to flash teamhacksung ics build 2, then from there flash aokp build 40.
search is your friend for these things, I am not giving you links mainly because one thing we can't stand is people asking questions that can e answered by search or just reading, that's just a heads up. we will be glad to help you with stuff you might have trouble with and can't figure out for yourself.
also I'm too lazy to find links
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Not really sure why everyone keeps saying you need THS build 2! I just added this to the recovery thread I posted! Hope it helps...
06/27/12
How to use these to upgrade from stock/rooted stock to ICS Rom of choice!
If pure stock you obviously need a CWM recovery installed so odin/heimdall cwm all or cwm4 fix!
Reboot recovery
wipe data
flash cwm4fix-no_assert
reboot
wait until samsung logo blinks, then pull battery
three finger into recovery
wipe again to be safe
install ICS Rom of choice
It will reboot twice, once to update recovery and proceed installing and once more when it's done!
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Stuck on step 12 of section 4
open Odin, click PDA and select cwm4 fixed for cm7 you downloaded in step 1, hit start, should only take 10 sec, then say pass. Click reset.
When i do this, i get
Can't open the specified file (line 1455) succeeded 0, failed 1
I tried again, and it now says
succeeded 0, failed 0
I tried extracting the file to see it's a bin. file
What do i need to do now?
I'm stuck
Thanks
*** It now says removed, and phone shut off
It might be a bad download. Try downloading it again. Make sure your in download mode, and have the Samsung drivers installed.
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Yeah, has to be a corrupt file. Try another
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I just rooted my samsung galaxy s4 att and can some please tell me how to get roms and kernels and what they are. And also ho to customize my phone. Thanks
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brandonsbailey.101392 said:
I just rooted my samsung galaxy s4 att and can some please tell me how to get roms and kernels and what they are. And also ho to customize my phone. Thanks
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Somebody has a lot of reading to do?
Yep, sure does..there are 2 threads right in this forum that you can start with.
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TheAxman said:
Yep, sure does..there are 2 threads right in this forum that you can start with.
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If I can root my device, and flash custom ROMs ANYONE can. Trust me dude, its not hard. Its actually very easy to do.
Glad you chose the S4 but wow dude you really need to out some effort in here. Use the website to find out how...
I'm sorry but come on man :/
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It may even be too much for the stupid question thread, but give it a shot.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2320430
Please just read a lot. Nobody wants you to brick your phone, but you've gotta do SOME research before you ask a question.
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How do you gwt the roms and kernels tho? Do you download thwm on a computer then to your phone or just download them straight from your phone. Can some please give me all the steps and everything to download pla. I have my phone rooted and I have titanium back and goomanager.
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Dude serious, you need to start here.....this will give you and idea of whats going on.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2301762
brandonsbailey.101392 said:
How do you gwt the roms and kernels tho? Do you download thwm on a computer then to your phone or just download them straight from your phone. Can some please give me all the steps and everything to download pla. I have my phone rooted and I have titanium back and goomanager.
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Download ROMs and kernels straight to your phone. You're going to need to install a recovery first. Open up GooManager and click the menu button then click Install OpenRecovery Script. That should install TWRP. Then, turn off the phone and then hold volume up and power until you feel a little vibration, when you feel a vibration let go of the power button but keep holding volume up until it says RECOVERY BOOTING.... in the top left. Once that boots up, you're gonna wanna make a backup then wipe /data, /system, /cache, and dalvik cache then install the ROM you downloaded followed by gapps if you're on an AOSP ROM and after i recommend install Ktoonsez kernel. once you've installed everything wipe cache and dalvik cache again and also fix permissions then reboot
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Download ROMs and kernels straight to your phone. You're going to need to install a recovery first. Open up GooManager and click the menu button then click Install OpenRecovery Script. That should install TWRP. Then, turn off the phone and then hold volume up and power until you feel a little vibration, when you feel a vibration let go of the power button but keep holding volume up until it says RECOVERY BOOTING.... in the top left. Once that boots up, you're gonna wanna make a backup then wipe /data, /system, /cache, and dalvik cache then install the ROM you downloaded followed by gapps if you're on an AOSP ROM and after i recommend install Ktoonsez kernel. once you've installed everything wipe cache and dalvik cache again and also fix permissions then reboot
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um, the OP needs to do a lot more reading before he dives into your post here with no knowledge of what he/she is actually doing.
OP, follow the link @TheAxman posted above. your questions will be answered.
I agree, and the message has him jumping right into kernels, this is not good, oh well, I have watched this thread since yesterday, this person DOES NOT want anything but a step by step hand held solution.
I am just try to figure out how to do it. Thats all man. I have read about it but all that stuff doesnt make since to me. I have jailbroke a iphone before and everything but this rom stuff is difficult.
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brandonsbailey.101392 said:
I am just try to figure out how to do it. Thats all man. I have read about it but all that stuff doesnt make since to me. I have jailbroke a iphone before and everything but this rom stuff is difficult.
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check out the i337 link in my signature. step 1 includes the reading material you say you have gone over. read over it again just because i think it will help you better understand the remaining steps in my thread.
brandonsbailey.101392 said:
I am just try to figure out how to do it. Thats all man. I have read about it but all that stuff doesnt make since to me. I have jailbroke a iphone before and everything but this rom stuff is difficult.
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It's actually super simple. Nobody wants you to hurt your shiny new GS4.
The only way it will be simple is if you educate yourself a little though. It's cool you've modded phones before. You know the risks..
Just read up in the provided threads, and if you still don't get it its cool. Ask a question in the stupid question thread. It's not there to be demeaning, it's there to reduce the amount of posts like this.
Read and ask questions in the appropriate areas, and profit. Good luck homie.
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