trying to flash rom - Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Ive tried flashing the sydincate frozen rom i wipe the data 3x,wiped cach partion 3x and the devick cache 3x and ran the rom installed everything said to run update zip did that and rebooted and it stays on the samsung screen im using cwm 3.0. ive tried looking around could find anything on more on flashing. i have froyo eco5

Don't install an update .zip, in fact go into your SD card and make sure that nothing on it says "update", then reflash SFR and you should be good to go.

kk ill try that thank you

great got pissed last night and unistalled odin 3 epic and now i can find a download for it lol

did everything the same just with out the udate stuff still got stuck on the samsung. I must be missing something bad thing is this rom sound would like to try it

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Woot got it to work because of your video thank you. didnt realize you had to convert to ext4 worked fine after that

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Can't change roms?

Some reason I tried flashing another rom but it won"t let me and keeps going back to the original rom. I had frankenstein and wanted to check out viper. I dled the viper rom and dropped it into my sd and wiped and did the usual through cwm but everytime i boot back up iot goes to frankenstein.. Any ideas? I even deleted the frank rom just to make sure but that shouldnt make a difference should it?
What version of clockwork? You will need version 3.
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yeah that"s the one I got. It says Viper opened and completed but after reboot it reverts back to franken
oh crap you know what. I have v2.5.1. That's the one I got with that 1 click root process. Is there an updated clockwork for the epic?
same thing too
That happend to me to but from mystic mountain to frankenstein. What i ended up doing was odening to stock rerooting and then flashing. You don't even have to wipe because odining it technically wiped it lol.
seems like a lot of work just to change roms. What doesnt make sense is that randyshear from youtube that does a lot of the rom reviews and installs just changes them one after another with his epic. Is there a 3.0 cwm for epic?
There is a new clockwork version for the epic. I am on my phone so don't have the link but it is a post in the development section.
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I just checked their is a link to cw 3 in the first post of viper rom.
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Ive got a complete package on my ROM thread,it contains CWM3.0.0.5,and everything else you would need.
Thanks fellas!

[Q] Rooted wont boot unrooted works fine....

Ok here is a strange thing I can't wrap my head around. I have been rooting and flashing for quite awhile, but have a problem I cant solve....I have a EVO hardware 2 about a year old that has been rooted and running MIUI fine for several months. I recently have been playing with kernels and undervolting. I noticed some random reboots and tried resetting voltages back to normal and flashing diffrent kernels back, but still it locks on bootup or reboots. So I RUU flashed back to stock and everything worked fine, boots good no reboots and temp around 34 deg. nice and stable. Figured all was good re-rooted and boom back to not booting again. I have tried old nand backups that were stable but they do the same thing. Is there some trick to doing a full wipe that I an missing? Also just to mention I recently had problems with the GPS locking on and add the new driver to try and fix it...
Thanks for any ideas....
PS new info...I put a blank card with just the new miui flash on it and reflashed.....it seems to fix the problem...there must be some settings on the card that conrols the cpu settings....will test further and report...may help someone else...
What recovery are ya running?...sounds like its not wiping corectly.....if yur using CWM I would recommend AMON....ALSO.....SUPERWIPE is the way to go....wipes system,data, and boot twice when u flash it....I'm lying in bed and my PC is shut down....u can just google SUPERWIPE ....and for AMON just head over to his thread for his PC36IMG.....BUT IT SOUNDS LIKE YUR RECOVERY ISNT WIPING PROPERLY......would hurt to try em
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If you have Amon Ra, you really don't need those "super wipe" things.
Just wipe all twice and then do cache and dalvik again, separately, and you'll be fine.
Even that's over kill....
HipKat said:
If you have Amon Ra, you really don't need those "super wipe" things.
Just wipe all twice and then do cache and dalvik again, separately, and you'll be fine.
Even that's over kill....
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Dood I've always wiped ALL and dalv twice....up until a couple of months ago.....ran into a lot of bootloops....BIG TIME....but I figured it wild be a little reassuring for him......also I'm not sure what the other responses he got else where.....al personal preference I guess......have a good one guys
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I cant flash nothing but stock rom

Ok well I rooted and I flashed some roms here and there everything was fine until last night... I was going to flash calklin's 2.5.1 rom... I was in the recovery that uses the "pre wipe for theme" & another option was "pre wipe for rom" it was something like that... So I selected pre wipe for rom then I flashed calklin's 2.5.1... Everything went well until I rebooted.... It stayed at the Samsung galaxy s II screen so I left it for 10min nd nothing happen... So I tryed to nand myself back to life and I couldnt even get to my recovery... So I odin el13 stock rooted then flashed cwm n still the same results... So I odin eg30 stock and the same results, stuck at the samsung galaxy s II screen.... Can some one please help me this is bugging me alot I HATE TOUCH WIZ!!! Im willing to try out any method someone could suggest
Thanks I appreciate the help xda community!!!
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So you're stuck at the Samsung Galaxy SII loading screen? Is that right?
If that's so, use this to get back to stock and proceed from there (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1394332)
Yes thats correct, thanks, but I can revert to ANY STOCK ROM!!eg31, eg30, ect... But wen I try to flash another rom weather its calukin.s rom, starburst rom or midnight rom I get stuck at the galaxy s II screen... So I can flash a stock rom!!
I just cant flash A CUSTOM ROM!! Im rooted and everthing on stock I keep trying n nothing happens!
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Are you sure that you're rooted? Perhaps you should try again. What method did you use to root the device originally?
Thanks again for your reply... I used the auto root method posted by sfhub... I used his method to root as soon as I got my phone! I hate stock.... Ok so if this helps im on eg30 modem, kernal, rom all is stock!! With root
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krazy_smokezalot said:
Yes thats correct, thanks, but I can revert to ANY STOCK ROM!!eg31, eg30, ect... But wen I try to flash another rom weather its calukin.s rom, starburst rom or midnight rom I get stuck at the galaxy s II screen... So I can flash a stock rom!!
I just cant flash A CUSTOM ROM!! Im rooted and everthing on stock I keep trying n nothing happens!
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It sounds like the conflict is somewhere in your /data partition. Have you tried resetting your /data
sfhub said:
It sounds like the conflict is somewhere in your /data partition. Have you tried resetting your /data
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To make it easier, I suggest using the Calkulin format script found here (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1332837)
Yeah i did this (format all.zip) i google and used the search key before i posted this im giving this an all day shot... Question do u know any roms other than stock in .tar format so I can flash in odin??? I think that might work, worth a shot
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Resting my data, im a noob using samsung phone, coming from htc evo, sensation mytouch 4g, ect,resting my data? You mean format data, cache and all that good stuff? Yes I did that also n still no go, ill keep trying as of now if you guys have more tips id appreciate it, thanks you guys for the help, this is ruing my sgs 2 experience I already dont like samsung because of the menu n home button switch around U
sfhub said:
It sounds like the conflict is somewhere in your /data partition. Have you tried resetting your /data
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thank you guys for the all your help, it seems that i had to keep formatting system cache, data ect... i did this about 6time then i flashed Calkulin's format all.zip 1x time flashed Calkulin's 2.5.1 rom then rebooted and BAMM i saw the bootanimation witch i never got to on my previous trys thanks again guys...
Glad you got it working.

[Q] New ICS official Update Can't Get Past Reboot in CWM

I was running stock rooted G.B. 2.3.6 and just to see what would happen (I kinda knew already) I did the official upgrade to the ICS 4.0.3. Of course it went from UVKL1 to UVLE1 and I had backed everything up with Titanium Backup and also with Rom Manager. I lost root, because I did a factory reset because it wouldn't install the first 2 times. Oh, I was doing it through Kies. I wanted to do it by the book sort of.So after the install I tried to get root again but when I got into CWM recovery I had no functions working except reboot. No update.zip from sd, or anything else. I could scroll up and down and stop on the different options but when I pushed the button to make the choice it jumped back to reboot and that is all I can get. I rebooted and retried 4 or 5 times and same thing. So, now what ? I like the 4.0.3 but hate the massive amount of bloat and the ads and f**ked up notification popup/ads. I want my root back. I would be willing to start fresh again with a good, fast, everything works, custom ICS but don't know which to choose. that is one of the reasons why I tried this "official" upgrade. Again, as always, Thanks in advance for everyone who helps anyone here on XDA. K.K.-Out
Have you tried reflashing cwm?
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khkaiser13 said:
I was running stock rooted G.B. 2.3.6 and just to see what would happen (I kinda knew already) I did the official upgrade to the ICS 4.0.3. Of course it went from UVKL1 to UVLE1 and I had backed everything up with Titanium Backup and also with Rom Manager. I lost root, because I did a factory reset because it wouldn't install the first 2 times. Oh, I was doing it through Kies. I wanted to do it by the book sort of.So after the install I tried to get root again but when I got into CWM recovery I had no functions working except reboot. No update.zip from sd, or anything else. I could scroll up and down and stop on the different options but when I pushed the button to make the choice it jumped back to reboot and that is all I can get. I rebooted and retried 4 or 5 times and same thing. So, now what ? I like the 4.0.3 but hate the massive amount of bloat and the ads and f**ked up notification popup/ads. I want my root back. I would be willing to start fresh again with a good, fast, everything works, custom ICS but don't know which to choose. that is one of the reasons why I tried this "official" upgrade. Again, as always, Thanks in advance for everyone who helps anyone here on XDA. K.K.-Out[/QUOT
Try this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=3649
Vibrant- Kankwich CM9
Galaxy S2 Hercules- An amazing machine on any rom. Believe me!!
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blackangst said:
Have you tried reflashing cwm?
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I haven't tried anything yet. I haven't had time. I will try as you suggest. it was on my list of things to try. Thanks, Blackangst.
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I haven't tried anything yet. I haven't had time. I will try as you suggest. it was on my list of things to try. Thanks, Blackangst.
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I hope it works for you. Check the md5 to make sure you don't have a corrupt download too (of cwm)
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Thanks ToledoG28, I tried that link and it wasn't a good page. I appreciate the effort. Maybe you could double check it and let me know.
OP: Here's CWM 5.0.2.6. After flashing and once youre back into your phone, you can install ROM manager and upgrade to whatever you want. Push this via Odin.
This happened to me. I had just had to wipe the cache in recovery and it booted. I would try that first
You have to use darkside wipe and darkside cache wipe. The regular recovery wipe isn't working properly.
You just need to Odin ics.
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Guys he can't get into recovery. How can he flash super wipe etc if he can't? And how will odining ics fix that? He needs to odin the recovery i posted.
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I got it solved you guys. Thanks to all of you. I did another factory reset, and then found the actual T989 Hercules .tar file (the one I used was from a post for ICS from November or December and was actually an Infuse tar file.) and reinstalled it. I was able to after I got cwm recovery old style not touch. Touch was what was giving me problems. So I Odin the new Hercules.tar and then rereinstalled Superuser zip and everything went smooth. The only thing I am seeing as a problem is the phone won't sleep. If I have the phone plugged in, I can't shut it off. It wants to immediately turn itself back on. I like to have it shut down and charge at night sometimes. But it won't let me. Any ideas? Thanks again everybody.

[Q] Need Help Restoring Phone

Hello,
My friend has a galaxy s2 and recently his son somehow managed to get a virus on it. I have a lot of experience with rooting, flashing, and all that fun stuff. Especially with the t mobile galaxy s2 since I have one as well. He asked me If I can restore his phone back to a new rom since it was acting weird. For example, if he saves a new contact or installs or uninstalls an app, if he reboots all those changes are gone. It is as if the phone keeps rebooting to a certain time. I am guessing a virus is causing this.
So the first I thought of was to download a rom (Jedi Knight 6) and did the typical wipe data/factory reset and wipe cache/dalvik, then flashed the rom with success. When I rebooted the phone, it was still the same, as if I did nothing in the recovery. I thought it may have been because I was CWM, so I installed goo manager and flashed the TWRP recovery through there. It gave me success but when I boot to recovery, it is still CWM. At this point I decided to use ODIN to restore it to the original stock rom. I followed the instructions here (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1858435. First time I got a fail on ODIN, removed the battery and tried again and it gave me pass and the phone rebooted. When it did guess what? It was as if I did nothing.
I ran out of ideas. I did everything I can think of. I used the custom recovery to try to wipe everything and flash a new fresh rom but that failed. I even tried ODIN to restore it to stock but that failed as well. Is there anything else I can try? I did a lot of research but couldn't find anything, maybe someone can give me some tips?? Thank You in Advance!!
Can someone please help me?
This sounds very strange. You said even after you Odin back to stock it reverted back to what he had before you reinstall the stock ROM ? Was the phone rooted before you tried to help him?
Did you try an aosp ROM?
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grannyrogers said:
This sounds very strange. You said even after you Odin back to stock it reverted back to what he had before you reinstall the stock ROM ? Was the phone rooted before you tried to help him?
Did you try an aosp ROM?
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Yea I know its strange, and its not like I have no experience with these things. I was very suprised when that happened. Yes it was and is still rooted, Im sure because super su is on it. He is currently running JediMindTrick (ROM by ptmr3). I still dont know what to do. I will try an aosp rom, but if odin didnt do it I doubt another rom would lol.
http://donandroid.com/t989uvli4-t-mobile-galaxy-s2-t989-jelly-bean-uvli4-official-update-739:D
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There has to be someone out there who can help me. No matter what I try I cannot restore it to a fresh flash or to stock. There has to be a method out there somewhere can help me with my dilemma. Thanks
sadakli2010 said:
There has to be someone out there who can help me. No matter what I try I cannot restore it to a fresh flash or to stock. There has to be a method out there somewhere can help me with my dilemma. Thanks
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Try wiping cache and dalvik. Then format system, data, cache using cwm. Factory reset then flash new rom using cwm or odin.
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