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Is there an update.zip for the DK28 Modem or you have to use odin?

Hey guys I have a quick question. My buddy has the Samsung Epic 4g and was running from store stock DK18 build. He recently updated to DK28 using the leaked update.zip method. So far his phone is working fine with the exception of the gps not working. I dont own a samsung and after reading through all this info im super glad cause I see nothing but problems from what I am reading. Things are so much easier with my OG moto droid haahhahahah. He wants to root his phone and install a custom rom.
But most of the roms I look at say you need the dk28 modem installed first. Was the DK28 modem installed with the DK28 2.2 update zip? Or it wasnt included with that? How can I tell on his phone if he has the DK28 modem? Is the only way to get the DK28 modem on his phone by flashing it using odin? I find it hard to believe that there is no update.zip for it by now. If anyone can help me out with this or point me in the right direction I would appreciate it. Would much rather just find the update zip for the dk28 modem so I dont have to mess around with odin since I dont own a samsung.
There are way to many threads on here regarding this issue so its kinda hard to sort through them all. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.

Go to Settings=>About Phone. This will tell you you're baseband version. If it says DK28 at the end you're set...otherwise read on.
I just flashed Bonsai 2.0 and the modem was not included. I used the signed modem update afterwards from this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=861341
Without the DK28 modem you won't be able to get a signal through the cell radio. Wifi worked but the device was switching airplane mode on and off every half second. Flashed the modem AFTER the rom...I don't recommend this... and all is well.
I was also coming from DI18 and stock rom with a modified kernel.

zetterwing said:
Go to Settings=>About Phone. This will tell you you're baseband version. If it says DK28 at the end you're set...otherwise read on.
I just flashed Bonsai 2.0 and the modem was not included. I used the signed modem update afterwards from this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=861341
Without the DK28 modem you won't be able to get a signal through the cell radio. Wifi worked but the device was switching airplane mode on and off every half second. Flashed the modem AFTER the rom...I don't recommend this... and all is well.
I was also coming from DI18 and stock rom with a modified kernel.
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Ok ok awesome I was thinking that about the baseband version but wasnt sure so figured I would ask. So he does have the dk28 at the end. Thats good. One less step he has to take. How do you like Bonsai? I was actually looking at that one for him. That will probably be the first one he will try.
One more question. How did you root the phone? Did you use the z4root app and then download rom manager and flash clockwork that way? Or did you use one of these one click root programs that I see in this forum? What do you think the easiest way is for him to get root and clockwork recovery on his phone?
Thanks for all your help Zetter I appreciate it.

The best way to root is to use the one-click. It will give you root, recovery, and the recovery redirect.
Rom Manager will not flash clockwork without a custom kernel and z4 doesn't install recovery or the redirect.

DiGi760 said:
The best way to root is to use the one-click. It will give you root, recovery, and the recovery redirect.
Rom Manager will not flash clockwork without a custom kernel and z4 doesn't install recovery or the redirect.
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Ok awesome thanks for the info Digi. What is the redirect I am seeing that alot but dont really see a quick explanation of what it is/does?

skylordusa1 said:
Ok awesome thanks for the info Digi. What is the redirect I am seeing that alot but dont really see a quick explanation of what it is/does?
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For one, it allowed the use of multiple recoveries. For example, for a short period, many of us were running cwm 2.5.1.0 AND 2.5.1.2 since one only supports rfs and the other only supports ext4. Booting into recovery via the death-grip brought you to 2.5.1.0 and the redirect allowed you to reboot into 2.5.1.2.
I believe the redirect is also what allows programs like quickboot to reboot to recovery mode without using the death-grip.

DiGi760 said:
For one, it allowed the use of multiple recoveries. For example, for a short period, many of us were running cwm 2.5.1.0 AND 2.5.1.2 since one only supports rfs and the other only supports ext4. Booting into recovery via the death-grip brought you to 2.5.1.0 and the redirect allowed you to reboot into 2.5.1.2.
I believe the redirect is also what allows programs like quickboot to reboot to recovery mode without using the death-grip.
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Awesome thank you for the info Digi. We used the one click root method and now we have root and when holding the volume , camera and power button we go into clockwork recovery 2.5.1.0. Is there a special button or combo you need to hit for the redirector to work? Or it reboots you into the correct clockworkmod automatically depending on what filesystem RFS/EXT4 you are currently using? Sorry to be such a pain. This stuff is kinda new to me since I dont own a samsung. I really appreciate your help though.

Ok I after reading the bonsai rom thread I found the new oneclickroot with clockwork3. So I tried that one now and was able to reboot into clockwork 3.x.x.x
and install the bonzai rom. Had a problem after the install completed. The phone wouldnt boot up just got hung on the black samsung screen. I know in the Bonzai thread it said not to wipe but after the phone hung I booted into recovery and and did a wipe then installed the bonzai zip again and the phone booted up. GPS still doesnt work so that kinda sucks. But I guess its all trial an error. I will keep reading. Thanks for the help.
Is there a way to check on his phone if he has the ext4 filesystem or the rfs. I am guessing since he has cw3 and was able to boot into the new ext4 bonzai rom he converted to the ext4 FS but would like to know if there is a way to check.

skylordusa1 said:
Is there a way to check on his phone if he has the ext4 filesystem or the rfs. I am guessing since he has cw3 and was able to boot into the new ext4 bonzai rom he converted to the ext4 FS but would like to know if there is a way to check.
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Like you said, by installing CWM3 you have automatically converted to EXT4...BUT if you really want to check: from adb you can type 'adb shell mount' without the quotes. Or you can type 'su' (enter) then 'mount' from terminal emulator. You should see EXT4 as the fs type for /system, /data, and /cache.

leatherneck6017 said:
Like you said, by installing CWM3 you have automatically converted to EXT4...BUT if you really want to check: from adb you can type 'adb shell mount' without the quotes. Or you can type 'su' (enter) then 'mount' from terminal emulator. You should see EXT4 as the fs type for /system, /data, and /cache.
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Thanks alot leatherneck. I figured he had it but its always good to double check to make sure everything worked. I see the EXT4 in Term Em. Thanks again for the help. I appreciate it.

[Q] CWM3 Leaves phone stuck on samsung screen :(

so after doin maaad steps i finally got nebula rom. and it was all good until i turned it off and thurned it back on only to experience infinite fc's so i decided to go back to SPH-D700-DK28-8Gb-REL and jus one click root cwm3 it. well it didnt work. it flashed fine. but when i turned off and on to have cwm3 actually install, itd work fine but after the reboot recovery it wud get stuck on the samsung screen i even tried cwm2.5 >>> cwm3 but no dice.
plz help

You must not have installed the EXT4 kernel , odin to stock then retry but remember to flash the kernel

mogulpcs said:
so after doin maaad steps i finally got nebula rom. and it was all good until i turned it off and thurned it back on only to experience infinite fc's so i decided to go back to SPH-D700-DK28-8Gb-REL and jus one click root cwm3 it. well it didnt work. it flashed fine. but when i turned off and on to have cwm3 actually install, itd work fine but after the reboot recovery it wud get stuck on the samsung screen i even tried cwm2.5 >>> cwm3 but no dice.
plz help
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Follow my Idiot's guide to rooted DK28 with working gps in the epic Q&A section

063_XOBX said:
You must not have installed the EXT4 kernel , odin to stock then retry but remember to flash the kernel
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Thanks I forgot to add the choice of file system to my idiot's guide. Now fixed.

where is the ext4 kernal at?

mogulpcs said:
where is the ext4 kernal at?
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You have the option when you download the rom unless it is dual (will say something like DUAL RFS-EXT4 or RFS or EXT4 usually as part of file name)

Also if using EXT4 boot to CWM3 so it changes the file system.

[Q] Tried to install bonsai, now phone is bricked

I hope someone can help me. My Epic 4g was on EC05, RFS, and I tried to install Bonsai 4.0.0 exactly as written in the installation instructions. Now my phone is trapped in a boot loop, and it's booting into CWM 2.5.1.0 for some reason. I could have sworn I installed CWM 3.0 something.
Anyway, I installed Bonsai, and it seemed to go just fine, but then it froze on the samsung screen. Nothing would work, so I pulled the battery to reboot. And then I was trapped in the boot loop.
I did do a CWM backup before I installed bonsai, but even after restoring, I still get the boot loop.
CW keeps saying something about the sd-ext.img not found, skipping restore of sd-ext.img. and it can't find cache/log or something
I tried to odin back to the EC05 I had before, but even though it says successful, I'm still stuck in the boot loop. It just will not boot back into the main OS.
Is there anything I can do, or is my phone just hosed?
Please someone help me.

unseen wombat said:
I hope someone can help me. My Epic 4g was on EC05, RFS, and I tried to install Bonsai 4.0.0 exactly as written in the installation instructions. Now my phone is trapped in a boot loop, and it's booting into CWM 2.5.1.0 for some reason. I could have sworn I installed CWM 3.0 something.
Anyway, I installed Bonsai, and it seemed to go just fine, but then it froze on the samsung screen. Nothing would work, so I pulled the battery to reboot. And then I was trapped in the boot loop.
I did do a CWM backup before I installed bonsai, but even after restoring, I still get the boot loop.
CW keeps saying something about the sd-ext.img not found, skipping restore of sd-ext.img. and it can't find cache/log or something
I tried to odin back to the EC05 I had before, but even though it says successful, I'm still stuck in the boot loop. It just will not boot back into the main OS.
Is there anything I can do, or is my phone just hosed?
Please someone help me.
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Try to Odin to the EB13 version prerooted with CWM 3.0.0.6 found here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=853209
And then after the conversion to EXT4 then flash Bonsai.

Ihad this exact same issue. Had cwm 3.0 installed and somehow it got changed to 2.5. I had to odin back to stock.

sultan.of.swing said:
Ihad this exact same issue. Had cwm 3.0 installed and somehow it got changed to 2.5. I had to odin back to stock.
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I think this is an EXT4 conversion issue. When it encounters an error it reverts to 2.5.x with RFS. So best thing is odin and reflash.
BONSAI 4 and loving it!

Thank you so much. That worked like a charm. I guess I just needed to do a full wipe instead of the no wipe version I had been using. I haven't tried bonsai again yet. I'm kinda scared. I guess though now that I have EXT4, I shouldn't have this problem anymore, right? Woulda been nice if they would've said that RFS will crash your phone on the bonsai install instructions.

unseen wombat said:
Thank you so much. That worked like a charm. I guess I just needed to do a full wipe instead of the no wipe version I had been using. I haven't tried bonsai again yet. I'm kinda scared.
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No problem. You should have no problems with Bonsai if you have the fresh odin'd eb13 and have the clockwork mod 3.0.0.6 set up. Then follow instructions to odin ec05 modem after Bonsai install.
BONSAI 4 and loving it!

A phone is not bricked if it turns on. A bricked phone is nothing more than a paperweight. I see this word get used so much but 99% of the time the phones go into download mode and then Odin works
Sent From My Evo Killer!

musclehead84 said:
A phone is not bricked if it turns on. A bricked phone is nothing more than a paperweight. I see this word get used so much but 99% of the time the phones go into download mode and then Odin works
Sent From My Evo Killer!
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To the user asking the question it is a brick
Until someone helps them get it working again.

The term brick means the phone can not enter download mode. Bonsai doesn't support rfs that's what your problem was. There is only one custom rom that is rfs and I won't mention it. Also make sure you go into cwm or you haven't converted to ext4 yet.
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Yeah, I guess technically it wasn't a brick. I was flippin out though because I thought my phone was done for.
Anyway, I got brave and installed bonsai. It's working fine, but I'm not sure I like it. Like where did the clock on the statusbar go? Now I only have the date. And my accuweather clock is gone from the widgets. So is the task manager widget.
So if I wanted to go back to stock, I can just use kenny's first link to odin back? Or do I need to do something special now? Is there a way I can do it without wiping all my data again?

unseen wombat said:
Yeah, I guess technically it wasn't a brick. I was flippin out though because I thought my phone was done for.
Anyway, I got brave and installed bonsai. It's working fine, but I'm not sure I like it. Like where did the clock on the statusbar go? Now I only have the date. And my accuweather clock is gone from the widgets. So is the task manager widget.
So if I wanted to go back to stock, I can just use kenny's first link to odin back? Or do I need to do something special now? Is there a way I can do it without wiping all my data again?
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There is a mod in the bonsaigeek.com website to put the clock back. There is also links there to point you to reinstalling stock apps and widgets. One of the places I remember that has the stock stuff is Frankenstein ROM thread in Development section. If u have trouble finding any of this I can post the links when I get home this evening.
BONSAI 4 and loving it!

And yes, you can always go back to stock with the method I posted. There are EC05 stock links in the threads as well.
BONSAI 4 and loving it!

Thanks man. I just noticed my bluetooth won't connect either. This is getting to be more trouble than I want to go through with my phone. I think I'm just gonna go back to stock. Is there a way I can do it without wiping all my data? Not that I have much now anyway, just what I've put in since last night.

i got fix and this will take you back to the basic

unseen wombat said:
Thanks man. I just noticed my bluetooth won't connect either. This is getting to be more trouble than I want to go through with my phone. I think I'm just gonna go back to stock. Is there a way I can do it without wiping all my data? Not that I have much now anyway, just what I've put in since last night.
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Since you are rooted you can get titanium backup from the market and backup your apps and data. Then after you Odin back to stock you can download titanium again and restore it. Before you Odin back you might try a factory data reset after backing up and then check your bluetooth.
BONSAI 4 and loving it!

Try this to fix bluetooth before wiping. Might save you some time.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=12120496&postcount=1392

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Dear spamming user,
You are proving why there needs to be a post count requirement on the development forum. Please jump in a well and drown.
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k0nane said:
Dear spamming user,
You are proving why there needs to be a post limit on the development forum. Please jump in a well and drown.
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THANK YOU!
Makes me wish there was a way for the OP to ban someone from a thread!

Hmmmm, out of curiosity, is there any work around if the phone wont go into Download mode? scanning posts and i caught this. I have only heard of a few sincerely bricking the epic.... just curious (info for the arsenal..lol)... thx

Odin back to a previous stock and one click root to the right verision of cw mod. Cw3 for ext4 file sytem.
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[Q] kernel differences

I just traded my evo for an epc... its probably my 15th rooted android phone.. what's the difference in kernels and roms on this one? I see there's no pure clockworkmod recovery for this one, so I don't wanna mes anything up. I need a good solid fast rom and a fast kernel like 20mhz to 1.6ish. I like a rm that's clean and doesnthave whacky fonts ad colors. Thanks in advance.

There is definitely a clockworkmod recovery for the Epic.
The Epic is only overclockable to 1.45ghz.
Check out Syndicate Rom.
And please use search next time there are all too many threads like this.

Nickdroid86 said:
I just traded my evo for an epc... its probably my 15th rooted android phone.. what's the difference in kernels and roms on this one? I see there's no pure clockworkmod recovery for this one, so I don't wanna mes anything up. I need a good solid fast rom and a fast kernel like 20mhz to 1.6ish. I like a rm that's clean and doesnthave whacky fonts ad colors. Thanks in advance.
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Idk what you mean my pure cwm, but we only have 1.4 ghz. The best combo for u would be android creative syndicate rom frozen 1.1 and genocide kernel 1.0. First get the rom and kernal on thur sd. Then run the root and cwm3 script and then power the phine completely off, hold volume down, camera and power until you get to an orange menu, if the menu is blue, reboot and rerun the cwm3 script. If it is orange and starts to run a convert script, wait for the conversion to be done and then Just wipe data/factory reset 3 times, wipe cache 3 times, go into advanced and wipe dalvik 3 times and then flash the rom and then the kernal.
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063_XOBX said:
There is definitely a clockworkmod recovery for the Epic.
The Epic is only overclockable to 1.45ghz.
Check out Syndicate Rom.
And please use search next time there are all too many threads like this.
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Our cwm actually isnt 100% official (pure). And rom manager only works with cwm2.
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Not sure exactly what to do I rooted using one click root and it installed its own cwm and then I had to get the cwm app from the market and install it over that, but its not flashing anything. What do you mean run the root and cwm scrpt and do all that 3 times??

The Genocide kernel didn't play well with Syndicate on either of my phones. Vision kernel 1.1 is a good alternative to Genocide as well as the Twilight kernel that comes witht the rom.

marcusant said:
Idk what you mean my pure cwm, but we only have 1.4 ghz. The best combo for u would be android creative syndicate rom frozen 1.1 and genocide kernel 1.0. First get the rom and kernal on thur sd. Then run the root and cwm3 script and then power the phine completely off, hold volume down, camera and power until you get to an orange menu, if the menu is blue, reboot and rerun the cwm3 script. If it is orange and starts to run a convert script, wait for the conversion to be done and then Just wipe data/factory reset 3 times, wipe cache 3 times, go into advanced and wipe dalvik 3 times and then flash the rom and then the kernal.
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I did your instructions exactly and I'm stuck at the boot screen where it says samsungmobile.com

You either flashed an EXT4 Rom on CWM2 or an RFS Rom on CWM3, what color is the text in your CWM?

It's green.

See I've never had to worry about that before.
I'm also getting E: error can't open recover/log, something to that effect.

You aren't using CWM3, flash an rfs Rom then re root with CWM3.
Texted while driving

How do I flash an rfs rom at this point, I can't turn my phone on. If I figure that out, where do I go from there?

Power off, then hold volume down, camera button and power toget to CWM and flash it. Use an SD card reader to put the Rom on the card
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ahhh ok good, idea. Which rom should I use? I tried downloading a couple and for some reason the links take me to a weird website.

It's just a file hosting site, look for the download option on the site. It gas to be an rfs Rom so your options are limited.
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does it matter if it's rfs ext4?

Yes, like I said trying to flash the wrong filesystem on an incompatible CWM is the whole reason for your phone not booting.
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Can I use this one for it to be like stock? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1027904

That will not work. You are currently on rfs so it wouldn't change anything.
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I just want it to get my phone to boot up at this point lol

is it the phone?? flashing problems.

So lemme say first i can over from an HTC and love the way this baby works. i was very active in my HTC and flashed and did a lot of stuff to it, also doing a lot to my brother and sisters phones to. Evo and Captivate. my brothers evo like my HTC wasnt that bad at flashing could just download and go. I had so many problems with getting odin or one click to read my phone i was so upset cause i couldnt get to flashing. WELL now my comp is a champ and working like a charm, my phone on the other hand not so well. I once got SRF 1.0.1 to flash but it was real buggy on me, force closes, browser was screwy. Also Odin flashed SwissCheese but was slow. The reason i Odin flashed it is because no matter what rom i try and flash i get stuck on the samsung screen. even SFR 1.0.1 does it too. I have looked all over for the answer and nothing. I know what i am doing when it comes to these androids and am very good at figuring out the solution, but i am stuck. I am 100% sure i have done everything step by step per the devoloper.... just saying, anyone have a clue? think it could be my phone?

Odin back to stock. I have a video made, click the link in my signature.
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2 things, first coming from stock EC05 is screwy to begin with and it is best to do all the wipes. It would be much better to either Odin in an EC05 or EB13 prerooted. Then when you pick a ROM is it EXT4 or RFS? If you pick an EXT4 ROM make sure you have converted to EXT4 somehow first unless the ROM says it will convert it for you. If you try to flash an EXT4 ROM on an RFS system without converting, you will get stuck at the SAMSUNG screen.

Okay well here's a little update... I have tried using 3.0.2.5 many times in the past with the same results. Stuck at samsung screen!! I have made sure to use the flashable rfstoext4 before flashing a ext4 rom, even tho SRF converts for you. I feel like a baffled idiot on this because I have done this so many times on other phones and am very quick to figure out a solution if needed... BUT I AM LOOOOOST I did see a few good suggestions I am gonna try... I am gonna odin a prerooted rom and see.
For ****s and giggles I tried to flash the ONE rom that did work for me SRF 1.0.1 and it worked! But very buggy still. Even a fresh dwnload of he rom will not work as it didn't before. Just the one file I downloaded before as its been the only one that worked. Also I tried to flash SRF 1.2 on top of it and still stuck at the samsung screen.
I am confused as to what is going on. I have tried many different things and to no prevail. I even started to think maybe it is the stock rom I am odin'in to but even flashing over the SRF I had the same outcome....
You think it could possibly be a phone problem?!?!
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I flashed an EXT4 rom without converting. What can I do to fix this?

B4LLS4GN4 said:
I flashed an EXT4 rom without converting. What can I do to fix this?
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Did you try to restore a nand backup of your last working configuration? You can install an RFS ROM like RFSplus or one of the Gingerbread leaks. Pull your sd card out and put it into a computer to download and copy an RFS ROM onto it and put it back into the phone and flash.