is it possible to flash android and kernels with activesync like the windows mobile roms
sry for asking such a nooby question but I have only used win mobile on my phone.
KainXSS said:
is it possible to flash android and kernels with activesync like the windows mobile roms
sry for asking such a nooby question but I have only used win mobile on my phone.
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In theory yes. Just put your phone into Boot Loader mode, and rename the KAISIMG.NBH to RUU_signed.nbh, and use the flashing tool that you use to flash WinMobile ROMs.
Now to install builds, a SD card is required, but for flashing the kernel only, you can flash it like you would with Windows Mobile ROMs
Take a look at this thread, there's a tutorial on how to install Android over your Windows Mobile ROM.
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I have an AT&T Siemens SX56. I'm having trouble since I upgraded to the xda-developers ROM. Is there a way to restore the AT&T ROM?
Thanks in advance.
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yes
if you have a backup (which is a must to take up you flash imho)
you just enter the bootloader and restore from your sdcard
otherwise you have to look at their site for a rom you can use
an .nbf file
or .exe if they use the usb direct flash way
On my N900 to flash a new copy of the OS all you had to do was connect to pc and run maemo flasher. And some stuff of how to flash different android versions is a bit confusing(The defy is my first android device).
I deduced that Roms are custom android versions right?
What do nandroid, bootloaders, sbf files?, rsdlite and custom recovery do?
What else should I know?
Thanks,
confusedfella said:
On my N900 to flash a new copy of the OS all you had to do was connect to pc and run maemo flasher. And some stuff of how to flash different android versions is a bit confusing(The defy is my first android device).
I deduced that Roms are custom android versions right?
What do nandroid, bootloaders, sbf files?, rsdlite and custom recovery do?
What else should I know?
Thanks,
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There are loads of explanations in the forum for that. Just look at the Defy Android Developement Section.
Basically it is not that difficult to flash a new ROM but be aware that u might lose the ability to downgrade back to 2.1 and thus u might lose waranty.
The Bootloader is locked in our Defys therefore we cant modify that. SBF-Files are official signed ROMS from Motorola which contains the whole system. These sbf files can be flashed with the RSD-Lite Tool under Windows. There are 2.2 SBF Roms from Motorola from China, Finnland, Uk ... but i think if u flash one of them then u cant go back to the original 2.1
Custom Recovery is a kind of Application which can be executed between the bootloader and the start of the main system. It looks like a second bootloader where u can make a complete Backup of your System with all the Data and Apps. These Backups are called Nandroids...
Hope that helps a little.
Greetz
If you are not installing a custom rom and have no plan going back to the stock android 2.1, you can flash defy the same way you flashed N900. Just choose a leaked official 2.2 rom (sbf) and flash it using rsdlite.
Thanks for the help. Would you guys recommend a rom that's zippy(right now it stutters a lot and worsens the experience) and isn't exactly barebone?
Hi all
Since I'm not able to use odin on my Win XP, i was wondering if it's possible to flash stock roms for our Galaxy W on linux, Ubuntu in my case. But searching on web i only find Heimdall, a tool for flashing roms of Galaxy S series, and it's not easy like odin...
Is there a tool we can use on linux to flash firmwares for our phone?
And also, is it possible to use adb for flash stock roms? How?
It can be usefull...
Thanks for any advise
Bagux if you have found an answer can you please share it with us?
i also heard and tried to use Heimdall, too. But i couldn't find a place to use ops files. i need to flash my radio to a newer one. as i remember from my GT-i7500 experience there was a fastboot experience which we were using through adb.
Ekril said:
Bagux if you have found an answer can you please share it with us?
i also heard and tried to use Heimdall, too. But i couldn't find a place to use ops files. i need to flash my radio to a newer one. as i remember from my GT-i7500 experience there was a fastboot experience which we were using through adb.
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Unfortunately no, I haven't an answer...after that i solved my problem with odin, and now i can use it on win xp, sorry
I'm asking because I specifically flashed another boot.img for Cyanogenmod 10.
Now, what are the exact steps I need to take to go back to stock ICS?
Do I need to flash a stock boot.img first, with fastboot or something, and then flash a stock ICS zip from ClockWorkMod?
I'm not really experienced with any of this, I've flashed only about 3 times but none of which required me to install a different boot.img (isn't that the kernel file?).
Any help would be amazing!
Hermantje said:
I'm asking because I specifically flashed another boot.img for Cyanogenmod 10.
Now, what are the exact steps I need to take to go back to stock ICS?
Do I need to flash a stock boot.img first, with fastboot or something, and then flash a stock ICS zip from ClockWorkMod?
I'm not really experienced with any of this, I've flashed only about 3 times but none of which required me to install a different boot.img (isn't that the kernel file?).
Any help would be amazing!
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I always follow 2 steps in CWM
1.Flash advanced stock kernel and reboot.
2.Flash stock zip Rom.
lilude56214 said:
I always follow 2 steps in CWM
1.Flash advanced stock kernel and reboot.
2.Flash stock zip Rom.
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Can this advanced stock kernel be flashed from within CWM as well as the ROM? I used something I believe was called fastboot for it.
And the kernel is indeed the boot.img then?
Hermantje said:
Can this advanced stock kernel be flashed from within CWM as well as the ROM? I used something I believe was called fastboot for it.
And the kernel is indeed the boot.img then?
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If you want to go back to stock, dont flash anything..
Now reverting back to stock is much easier as sony has released an official flashtool, just download the tool and latest firmware and flash it using the tool..
Once again dont flash any kernel or any rom if you want to completely go back to
stock.
Sent from my iPhone 6 using Android 5.0
ap030993 said:
Sent from my iPhone 6 using Android 5.0
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Lol
Sent from my Jellybean Xperia S
Hermantje said:
Can this advanced stock kernel be flashed from within CWM as well as the ROM? I used something I believe was called fastboot for it.
And the kernel is indeed the boot.img then?
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Yep sure There are 2 versions of advanced stock kernel. One is flashed via fastboot and another one is flashed via CWM.
Then, on CM, Pac, Para which Rom are not based on stock one, boot.img is exactly the kernel
ap030993 said:
If you want to go back to stock, dont flash anything..
Now reverting back to stock is much easier as sony has released an official flashtool, just download the tool and latest firmware and flash it using the tool..
Once again dont flash any kernel or any rom if you want to completely go back to
stock.
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I tried this, but I couldn't get the official flash tool from Sony to work.
I apparently had to have a company when making an account to log in. Very odd.
I assumed this other flashtool made by probably xda developers did the same thing, but that one always gives me an error that I need to install the drivers first. Yet I've used this program before and back then I already went through all the hassle to install the correct drivers.
And now I don't know which drivers to install anymore.
Hermantje said:
I tried this, but I couldn't get the official flash tool from Sony to work.
I apparently had to have a company when making an account to log in. Very odd.
I assumed this other flashtool made by probably xda developers did the same thing, but that one always gives me an error that I need to install the drivers first. Yet I've used this program before and back then I already went through all the hassle to install the correct drivers.
And now I don't know which drivers to install anymore.
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You need to follow the instructions in sony's developer website for installing the flash tool..
Did you install the drivers using the drivers folder in flashtool??
And does your phone get recognized by the flashtool, I mean does it show your android version etc etc..??
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ap030993 said:
You need to follow the instructions in sony's developer website for installing the flash tool..
Did you install the drivers using the drivers folder in flashtool??
And does your phone get recognized by the flashtool, I mean does it show your android version etc etc..??
Sent from my iPhone 6 using Android 5.0
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Thanks A LOT!
Sony's beta flashtool, Emma, works like a CHARM!
I initially forgot to copy the customisation file from the zip to the installation folder. Thanks for reminding me to check the instructions
The unofficial flashtool couldn't recognise my phone, but Sony's one could.
Thanks so much for answering my questions, I'm starting to learn how it all works! If I could, I'd give you 10 thanks. But I think that's against the rules c:
Hermantje said:
Thanks A LOT!
Sony's beta flashtool, Emma, works like a CHARM!
I initially forgot to copy the customisation file from the zip to the installation folder. Thanks for reminding me to check the instructions
The unofficial flashtool couldn't recognise my phone, but Sony's one could.
Thanks so much for answering my questions, I'm starting to learn how it all works! If I could, I'd give you 10 thanks. But I think that's against the rules c:
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Thats what i advise to everyone, READ THE INSTRUCTIONS PROPERLY!!
Yes you can give me 10 thanks in 10 posts!!
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Will flashing through EMMA relock the BL?
gafi said:
Will flashing through EMMA relock the BL?
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It won't.
My bootloader is still unlocked, though my root is gone and everything else is back to normal.
Try this post for relocking afterwards:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=23188292#post23188292
Hi guys. I want to put a custom ROM on my Epic Touch 4G, and while I've read a lot of forum posts, I have a few questions which will hopefully be easy to answer. I don't think I'm a total newbie -- more of an informed layperson (I've put a custom ROM on my wife's LGL-35, for example).
My phone is an Epic Touch 4G (obviously!) running 4.0.4 (IMM761.FL.24) which has been successfully rooted.
My first question is: should I use CWM Recovery (as I would like to do)? I've seen several posts which say "no," but the Cyanogenmod page on the 4G (can't post a link because I'm new) suggest a specific version for the process. Would you consider it safe to use?
My second question is: what's the best way to get the recovery on the phone? The consensus seems to be Odin, but I can't use that owing to the fact that my computer runs Linux (I have a Mac for work, but Cyanogenmod's suggestion of Heimdall doesn't work for it owing to library version conflicts.) So I'd like to use Mobile Odin (which seems to support the phone now).
My last question relates to Firmware. I believe that it is IMM761.FL.24 (as above), but that number looks different from what I've seen in the forum. Perhaps this would be stated as ICS24? From my reading it seems that firmware version is important, and I don't want to brick my phone! Is the methodology I'm proposing here relevant for that firmware version?
My reading of things suggest that this should be pretty easy:
1) Download Mobile Odin and the appropriate flash kernel to the phone.
2) Install Mobile Odin and use it to flash the kernel
3) Use Mobile Odin to flash the recovery tar.md5 file referenced above.
4) Backup my apps and data with TiBU and create an update.zip
5) Perform a nandroid backup of the current ROM.
6) Place the appropriate ROM and Gapps on the SD card
7) From CWM flash the ROM, Gapps, and update.zip
Am I missing anything?
Thanks in advance!
MCW77 said:
Hi guys. I want to put a custom ROM on my Epic Touch 4G, and while I've read a lot of forum posts, I have a few questions which will hopefully be easy to answer. I don't think I'm a total newbie -- more of an informed layperson (I've put a custom ROM on my wife's LGL-35, for example).
My phone is an Epic Touch 4G (obviously!) running 4.0.4 (IMM761.FL.24) which has been successfully rooted.
My first question is: should I use CWM Recovery (as I would like to do)? I've seen several posts which say "no," but the Cyanogenmod page on the 4G (can't post a link because I'm new) suggest a specific version for the process. Would you consider it safe to use?
My second question is: what's the best way to get the recovery on the phone? The consensus seems to be Odin, but I can't use that owing to the fact that my computer runs Linux (I have a Mac for work, but Cyanogenmod's suggestion of Heimdall doesn't work for it owing to library version conflicts.) So I'd like to use Mobile Odin (which seems to support the phone now).
My last question relates to Firmware. I believe that it is IMM761.FL.24 (as above), but that number looks different from what I've seen in the forum. Perhaps this would be stated as ICS24? From my reading it seems that firmware version is important, and I don't want to brick my phone! Is the methodology I'm proposing here relevant for that firmware version?
My reading of things suggest that this should be pretty easy:
1) Download Mobile Odin and the appropriate flash kernel to the phone.
2) Install Mobile Odin and use it to flash the kernel
3) Use Mobile Odin to flash the recovery tar.md5 file referenced above.
4) Backup my apps and data with TiBU and create an update.zip
5) Perform a nandroid backup of the current ROM.
6) Place the appropriate ROM and Gapps on the SD card
7) From CWM flash the ROM, Gapps, and update.zip
Am I missing anything?
Thanks in advance!
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CMW will only work for AOSP ROMs. If you are not rooted, you need to do that first. Start off by deciding what ROM you want first. Some require you to be on FL24 and some require you to be on GB27. Since you are in FL24, just download the ROM of choice with the Gapps.
I would suggest you go to @rwilco12's repository and download the one-click for both GB27 and FL24. You will also need to download EL29 kernel and AGATs recovery kernel from the same website. Once you have them on your computer, look up E4GT ROMs on YouTube. @qbking77s videos are spot on for what you need to do. If you get stuck, let me know. I would suggest you download the files on your PC and view the video after. Your steps will brick you. Do not do any if them until you views the videos. CMW is for AOSP ROM/FL24 and AGAT is for TW/GB27.
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The recovery is installed in the ROM. Don't worry about getting it to the phone.
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Thanks for your reply -- it was very informative. I've looked at some of the resources you linked to, and they're chocked full of good information.
I'm still at a loss as to how to install the recovery, as all of the links assume that you're running Windows (and I'm running Linux on my PC). I assume that I'll just have to get access to a windows PC to perform the recovery install?
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Thanks for your reply -- it was very informative. I've looked at some of the resources you linked to, and they're chocked full of good information.
I'm still at a loss as to how to install the recovery, as all of the links assume that you're running Windows (and I'm running Linux on my PC). I assume that I'll just have to get access to a windows PC to perform the recovery install?
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That part I don't know about. I have pc.
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