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[Q] don't know what to do on putting 2.2 on epic

ok im about to get my samsung epic and i want to put 2.2 on it but i really don't know what to do. And i don't know how to put a rom or stock on it so can anyone tell me step to step directions on how to put 2.2 on the samsung epic when you just got the phone.
BTW im new to the fourm

Follow this link to the wiki. It has links to other posts that will answer all your questions.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/index.php?title=Samsung_Galaxy_S/SPH-D700

Step one search 1 click root and cwm (clock work mod) recovery. read the instructions to set your phone up and install. You'll be first clicking the soft menu button. That's bottom left under the screen. Click settings-applications-development. Make sure to choose usb debugging AND stay awake for the 1 click! Once you have both of them installed you need to find the dk28 thread. That's 2.2. Read those instructions put phone in dowmnload mode holding the number 1on your actual hardware keyboard.
All the right info is available in the respected threads. Search both of these in the development section. Once you are on xda website and click into the Epic 4g Development forum, use the tool on the top right that's says search this thread. Also pm me if you get stuck on any specific part.
Xtra advice, read and reread all instructions until you are comfortable with the steps. One more topic to search for is "how to return to stock" incase anything goes wrong. The only tricky part is the gps but there are also 3 threads I believe on how to make sure gps works properly. Read those as well. I know you want to click and have 2.2 but it does take a bit of research.
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Tylertag238 said:
ok im about to get my samsung epic and i want to put 2.2 on it but i really don't know what to do. And i don't know how to put a rom or stock on it so can anyone tell me step to step directions on how to put 2.2 on the samsung epic when you just got the phone.
BTW im new to the fourm
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Welcome to XDA. As jprocha101 said, the wiki is your friend. Here's a link to the guides and references section. The comprehensive guide is pretty good.
The steps you'll follow are:
1. Root and install ClockWorkMod recovery (CWM) with 1-click.
2. Flash DK28 (leaked froyo build)
3. Choose a ROM (I like Viper and Bonsai) and flash with CWM.
4. Enjoy your better Epic.
The guide goes into details. It will be very helpful. If that doesn't work, search the Epic forums.
Again, welcome!

SpamDel said:
Welcome to XDA. As jprocha101 said, the wiki is your friend. Here's a link to the guides and references section. The comprehensive guide is pretty good.
The steps you'll follow are:
1. Root and install ClockWorkMod recovery (CWM) with 1-click.
2. Flash DK28 (leaked froyo build)
3. Choose a ROM (I like Viper and Bonsai) and flash with CWM.
4. Enjoy your better Epic.
The guide goes into details. It will be very helpful. If that doesn't work, search the Epic forums.
Again, welcome!
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k thank you and the others who helped me out also i got 1 more question when you add a stock or rom(admin your phone) what things can you do to it.Like is their any features or any tips or tricks you guys know

Tylertag238 said:
k thank you and the others who helped me out also i got 1 more question when you add a stock or rom(admin your phone) what things can you do to it.Like is their any features or any tips or tricks you guys know
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As of right now the roms are mostly stock optimized as much as possible (if your using dk28 or Froyo 2.2, the proper name). If you are sticking with 2.1, or DI18, eclair, you can flash a rom to overclock/undervolt which lets your phone run at 1.6g instead of 1.0g processor speed. If your using 2.1 and you use tanims odex script found in the development section, you can theme the phone, re odex it, and add on MobileAP a tether app people tend to favor. Keep searching, you'll learn all the things you can do with your phone.
Getting root is the biggest deal, cause you can run apps on a root level and unlock more features for example, when you back up your phone with any of the backup programs available on the market, if you have root, you can back up more user data as well as just the apps themselves but be careful to only restore data on the same rom you backed it up on or you might run into trouble. Once again, welcome to XDA, glad to have you aboard.

dreamsforgotten said:
As of right now the roms are mostly stock optimized as much as possible (if your using dk28 or Froyo 2.2, the proper name). If you are sticking with 2.1, or DI18, eclair, you can flash a rom to overclock/undervolt which lets your phone run at 1.6g instead of 1.0g processor speed. If your using 2.1 and you use tanims odex script found in the development section, you can theme the phone, re odex it, and add on MobileAP a tether app people tend to favor. Keep searching, you'll learn all the things you can do with your phone.
Getting root is the biggest deal, cause you can run apps on a root level and unlock more features for example, when you back up your phone with any of the backup programs available on the market, if you have root, you can back up more user data as well as just the apps themselves but be careful to only restore data on the same rom you backed it up on or you might run into trouble. Once again, welcome to XDA, glad to have you aboard.
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well heres my problem all i want to do is put 2.2 on my device and ya and probably some other themes like the gingerbread but i don't want to put all of the roots and roms on my device cause i don't want to brick it and make it slower. See my point

Bricking your phone is nearly imposible with the Epic and Odin (you know, the Norse god who resurrects fallen warriors to fight another day, get it?!). To get to 2.2 you're going to have to root and install the DK28 rom anyway, and you'll need to root again on 2.2 to get cusom themes, too.
Once you've rooted and installed CWM you're good to go. Everything else can be done from clockworkmod (except going back to stock).
There's really very little danger. All the devs give their disclaimer about bricking phones as a CYA move.
Btw, one of the threads has videos as walkthroughs. Those are very helpful.
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Xerloq said:
Bricking your phone is nearly imposible with the Epic and Odin (you know, the Norse god who resurrects fallen warriors to fight another day, get it?!). To get to 2.2 you're going to have to root and install the DK28 rom anyway, and you'll need to root again on 2.2 to get cusom themes, too.
Once you've rooted and installed CWM you're good to go. Everything else can be done from clockworkmod (except going back to stock).
There's really very little danger. All the devs give their disclaimer about bricking phones as a CYA move.
Btw, one of the threads has videos as walkthroughs. Those are very helpful.
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k thanks and what thread is that do you know?

Sorry been away, root and recovery are easy click menu-settings-applications-development then check usb debugging, and stay awake. Plug in usb into your pic and run the script. Follow on screen instructions which is choose root hit enter let it do its thing
Phone will reboot, then do recovery same way, nothing to worry about trust me
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As far as 2.2 and roms only install what you're comfortable with. Get root and recovery and pm me. I'll walk you through froyo
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dreamsforgotten said:
As far as 2.2 and roms only install what you're comfortable with. Get root and recovery and pm me. I'll walk you through froyo
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k thank you and 1 more noob question say which way is eaiser the odin way or the way with the roms and stock. also are they both the samething to

Tylertag238 said:
k thank you and 1 more noob question say which way is eaiser the odin way or the way with the roms and stock. also are they both the samething to
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both DI18 2.1 and DK28 2.2 (froyo) have a tar file called that because they end in .tar.md5 If they end in .md5, rename the file, and delete the .md5 so it ends up being filename.tar. They also have a flashable update zip for each. Its personal opinion and I prefer the update zips. I like to keep my stock rom update zip on my usb card and if anything goes wrong I just flash it right over the problem. A tar file requires odin and I rather use it least as possible only for going back stock.
Download the dk28 update.zip file, the victory .pit file, and the dk28 modem (all available from the wiki); and download odin3 1.6 and I'll get you going with it. It is going to take 3 separate steps after you get past the root and recovery.

dreamsforgotten said:
both DI18 2.1 and DK28 2.2 (froyo) have a tar file called that because they end in .tar.md5 If they end in .md5, rename the file, and delete the .md5 so it ends up being filename.tar. They also have a flashable update zip for each. Its personal opinion and I prefer the update zips. I like to keep my stock rom update zip on my usb card and if anything goes wrong I just flash it right over the problem. A tar file requires odin and I rather use it least as possible only for going back stock.
Download the dk28 update.zip file, the victory .pit file, and the dk28 modem (all available from the wiki); and download odin3 1.6 and I'll get you going with it. It is going to take 3 separate steps after you get past the root and recovery.
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k thank you i download that sometime today or tommorow

np let me know

You can also just install the dk28.zip file without the need to root or anything else...but as long as your gonna run unofficial updates you may as well root and get all the benefits that come with it
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rocket321 said:
You can also just install the dk28.zip file without the need to root or anything else...but as long as your gonna run unofficial updates you may as well root and get all the benefits that come with it
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? ? Can you explain that a little better. The dk28 update zip is pre rooted. Also he needs to odin the modem. Needs clockwork to flash the update.zip.
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Help me flash CM7 and CW3!

hey guys, thanks for reading this post. I have just wanted to get this done for the longest time, but I simply cannot get the basics down. I was wondering you know of a video of a step by step, or if you could give me a play by play on how to flash both these items and get cm7 rollin. I've been virtuous sense since it was released but I want to try out the nightlies, and if possible do the attempt through terminal(mainly to flash cw3).
Just a question, do I need to be coming from an ASOP rom in order to get this to flash? And to confrim, I need to go back to the old clockwork to flash 2.2 roms, correct? Unless of course the 2.2 rom is supported by the nwest cwm. What's tthe easiet way for you to switch back and forth? Again, I thank you very much for possibly helping a brotha out.
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PatrickHuey said:
hey guys, thanks for reading this post. I have just wanted to get this done for the longest time, but I simply cannot get the basics down. I was wondering you know of a video of a step by step, or if you could give me a play by play on how to flash both these items and get cm7 rollin. I've been virtuous sense since it was released but I want to try out the nightlies, and if possible do the attempt through terminal(mainly to flash cw3).
Just a question, do I need to be coming from an ASOP rom in order to get this to flash? And to confrim, I need to go back to the old clockwork to flash 2.2 roms, correct? Unless of course the 2.2 rom is supported by the nwest cwm. What's tthe easiet way for you to switch back and forth? Again, I thank you very much for possibly helping a brotha out.
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The step-by-step is in the CM7 nightly OP.
As for your question; you can be coming from any ROM and yes, you need to revert back to v2 of CWM to flash a Froyo ROM. There's currently no easy means to switch back and forth as CWM v3 isn't really supported by ROM Manager. What I do is keep CWM v3 on my sdcard as recovery.img so that I can flash it when I want to try a new nightly, when I want to go back to my previous ROM I just use ROM Manager to download the latest v2 (v2 is the only version that shows up) and then restore my Nandroid backup
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[Q] Clockwork Mod Recovery

Ok so usually I just use rom manager to place clockworkmod onto all my phones that I go through (now on the epic flashed to cricket). looked around the dev section and couldn't find it (I'm sure it's there but couldn't find it for the life of me) I tried rom manager but it is having an error each time I try to download the custom recovery, could someone please link me to the guide on manual installation and supply me with the recov files for the epic PWETTY PWETTY PWETTY PLEASE!

Run the the one click
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cool cool thank ya

Do.what mystery said. Rom manager doesn't work flash.clockwork on our phones.
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[Q] How to install a ROM?

I think this will be my last real "noob" question. I've done some searching, but no real clear answer.
Just how exactly do I install a ROM? I'm thinking of trying both Virtuous and Cyanogen, just want to test them first. And do I still need to use / have the goldcard I initially made to downgrade the firmware, or can I turn that into a "regular" SD card again?
PS - With Virtuous, will using something like LauncherPro slow it down? Or will it not matter?
Thanks again in advance.
EDIT: I also kinda need to update the radio, I have no mobile data on the stock 1.34 radio...lol.

I bet you could of figured this out by googling "how to flash rom on g2/dz" faster than typing this question lol. Get rom manager, flash recovery with rom manager, download rom you want from rom manager, click okay...pretty easy stuff.
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However sometimes this does not work. A manual install of whatever comes down to downloading and dropping the .zip file of the ROM and whatever Google App pack into your root SD mount. Boot into recovery by Pwr+Vol Down, do a full wipe of both cache and the phone. Then Install Zip from SD card, flash the rom, then the gapps. Reboot.
Yes your back key will function in root.
Edit: When mounting your sd card onto the computer make sure USB debugging is on.

Thanks guys, I did end up figuring it out, now I'm just trying to flash my radio...there's 1 thread with goo dinstructions, but they're still not clear... eugh.
I feel more and more noob with this haha.

Well do a lot of reading before you go and install just any radio.... Make sure they are compatible. I don't want to see your next noob question be "I bricked my phone please help"
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you will learn by your mistake.
That's how i learn it.

No, I made sure to read everything I could. I just couldn't find any noob friendly radio instructions. I installed Virtuous, just trying to update to the recommended radio. lol

Rmk40 actually just released a program all about radios. Go check it out.
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SERIOUSLY, careful. No offense, but if you're not sure on the details of how to flash a ROM, chances are you don't have the knowledge to safely flash your radio.
I feel competent flashing roms, pushing files with adb, and radios still freak me out. If you mess up, there's not turning back =/

puravida82 said:
SERIOUSLY, careful. No offense, but if you're not sure on the details of how to flash a ROM, chances are you don't have the knowledge to safely flash your radio.
I feel competent flashing roms, pushing files with adb, and radios still freak me out. If you mess up, there's not turning back =/
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I have a ROM flashed now. Just haven't found any real concise instructions on how to flash a radio.
The problem I find with most of these guides is that they say "If you don't know this blah blah google it", rather than explaining the method and how to do it / why it is important.

Bloodlvst said:
I have a ROM flashed now. Just haven't found any real concise instructions on how to flash a radio.
The problem I find with most of these guides is that they say "If you don't know this blah blah google it", rather than explaining the method and how to do it / why it is important.
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I think you should get clockwork mod premium and check out the options on there, it will basically download the rom for you and complete all the necessary steps to have a working install. I've been flashing roms since the G1 in 2008 and I still have some small issues here and there when doing it manually but if you want a safe bet, go with the clockwork mod app :]

dietotherhythm said:
I think you should get clockwork mod premium and check out the options on there, it will basically download the rom for you and complete all the necessary steps to have a working install. I've been flashing roms since the G1 in 2008 and I still have some small issues here and there when doing it manually but if you want a safe bet, go with the clockwork mod app :]
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I used it already to isntall roms, but can you flash radios with it?
Radio flashed...still can't use browser though...bleh.

why flash your radio though? I'm using CM7 RC4 with Pershoot kernel en stock radio... reaching up to 30 hours of uptime (with average usage) and good connectivity.

Spastic909 said:
I bet you could of figured this out by googling "how to flash rom on g2/dz" faster than typing this question lol.
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Good advice. I usually search on youtube for walk throughs. Done that since my G1 days. I also go to theunlockr.com to view their tutorials.

SnowOokami said:
why flash your radio though? I'm using CM7 RC4 with Pershoot kernel en stock radio... reaching up to 30 hours of uptime (with average usage) and good connectivity.
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When I run Cyanogen internet is fine. But on Virtuous the Internet will not work. That is why lol.

[Q] Proper Steps for Rooting and s-off

Hi all, first.. I appreciate any help from this posting. Seriously!!
I've done rooting, s-off, roms, etc.. i'm pretty familiar with it all, just on another device (glacier)..
I'm a little lost when it comes to the epic and just need some direction so I can help my friend without bricking his phone..
What I want:
* root
* s-off
* clockwork
* custom rom
I found a rooting thread here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=770388. However I'm not sure if its the 'latest' method as I experienced the "phone not connected" problem. I plan on bypassing my usb hub tomorrow and try again.
Does this turn s-off? is s=on on this device? (i haven't looked yet).
Lastly, please recommend a rom! I'm running royalginger on my glacier and love it! (thanks faux!!)
This is a newly ordered device, appears to be running froyo? (2.2.1)
Once again, thanks for the shortcuts!
(yes, i did search.. still uncertain of appropriate steps)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wy2Et6qVGdo&feature=channel_video_title
Watch that. Teaches you about the Samsung Drivers you will need to install, how to root, and flash a SyndicateROM Frozen (great ROM)
Not sure about the s-off thing.
Hope this helps!

Bunch of other helpful videos and comments here too:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1009997

There is no need for S-off on epic, I believe he is referring to Nand Unlock which you find on a lot of the HTC and some other devices.

Awesome! This appears to be exactly what I needed! Very much appreciated.
glad I also now understand the epic (or samsung in general?) does not used nand, and no need for s-off.
Thanks again! Ill get this buttoned up for my buddy tomorrow.
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nicholasb said:
Awesome! This appears to be exactly what I needed! Very much appreciated.
glad I also now understand the epic (or samsung in general?) does not used nand, and no need for s-off.
Thanks again! Ill get this buttoned up for my buddy tomorrow.
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Are phone are not nandlocked line htc devices
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Success!
I managed to screw it up and resolve it.. Here is the process i followed and problems i encountered with solutions.
i 1-click rooted based on the forum post and video after downloading all the necessary files...
Copied the rom over to the sdcard, booted into recovery and flashed the rom.
boned.. now it only boots into recovery.
Downloaded ODIN and updated rom (sorry, can't find the post.. it listed a replacement step 5 found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/index.php?title=Samsung_Galaxy_S/SPH-D700#Odin_Stock_Flashing)
Attempted to flash ODIN, which resulted in several failures and an issue where I couldn't actually connect to the device. I HAD to swap USB ports, this time to the front of the machine.
After flashing ODIN, it would still boot directly into recovery. So i decided to flash the rom found within the thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/index.php?title=Samsung_Galaxy_S/SPH-D700#Odin_Stock_Flashing).
Success! Stock rom.. rooted, this time with clockworkmod 3 (this was a separate download, sorry.. lost the thread. file was cwm3.zip. Also contained the 1-click root process).
Booted into recovery, and successfully flashed the rom after wiping cache/davlik.
Once again, thanks everyone!

Glad those videos helped

Glad you for it man. Ues you need cwm3 for most of the roms now cause there are mostly ext4 rom/kernels and not rfs
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Samsung epic S-OFF?
I have a Sprint Samsung Epic 4g rooted. When I rename or delete stock apps they are instantly replaced. If the Epic doesn't need S-OFF (security off) as Onyoursix says, then how do I delete or rename stock apps and keep them off?

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I have a Sprint Samsung Epic 4g rooted. When I rename or delete stock apps they are instantly replaced. If the Epic doesn't need S-OFF (security off) as Onyoursix says, then how do I delete or rename stock apps and keep them off?
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You need sdx app removal tool or root explorer, or mount the system directory as writeable in terminal. System is read only as default. You just need to be rooted and root explorer is great.
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