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[SOLVED] Can't Access Download Mode... :(

I'm trying to access the Download Mode for my Epic 4g but can't seem to do so. I've flashed my phone back to stock several times in the past so I know I'm following the correct procedure.
The problem started after flashing my phone to Eclair DI18 using Odin and using the one click root & recovery 2.55. I was constantly receiving 2.2 OTA update notices so I clicked install thinking that I could restore back to stock if something went wrong. I received an error message during the update but the phone was able to start into Eclair so I didn't think anything of it.
Well, I tried flashing my phone back to stock today for the purpose of updating the phone, but I couldn't get download mode to start. Thinking that I could restore the download mode using one of my old back up files from CW3, I tried the restore option but it was a no go.
Is there any way to restore my phone without using Odin? I'm still able to boot into recovery mode. If that's not possible, is there anyway to remove clockworkmod recovery so I can bring the phone into a Sprint store?
Thank you in advance!

jpark623 said:
I'm trying to access the Download Mode for my Epic 4g but can't seem to do so. I've flashed my phone back to stock several times in the past so I know I'm following the correct procedure.
The problem started after flashing my phone to Eclair DK28 using Odin and using the one click root & recovery 2.55. I was constantly receiving 2.2 OTA update notices so I clicked install thinking that I could restore back to stock if something went wrong. I received an error message during the update but the phone was able to start into Eclair so I didn't think anything of it.
Well, I tried flashing my phone back to stock today for the purpose of updating the phone, but I couldn't get download mode to start. Thinking that I could restore the download mode using one of my old back up files from CW3, I tried the restore option but it was a no go.
Is there any way to restore my phone without using Odin? I'm still able to boot into recovery mode. If that's not possible, is there anyway to remove clockworkmod recovery so I can bring the phone into a Sprint store?
Thank you in advance!
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Download mode is built into the phone. ROMs shouldn't kill it. Pull out the battery, plug the phone into the computer. Now hold the 1 key and then press and hold the power button. If it goes into download mode then you can put the battery back in.

Just tried it but I get stuck in a boot loop. It boots into samsung screen, reboots, samsung screen, reboots...
With the battery in and usb out, i'm able to boot into CW recovery...

If you are holding the 1 button first then holding power you shouldnt go to the Samsung boot screen.
If you are I dont know of any other way to get into download mode. Sorry.

Neckberg said:
If you are holding the 1 button first then holding power you shouldnt go to the Samsung boot screen.
If you are I dont know of any other way to get into download mode. Sorry.
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Darn... that sucks... Thanks for the reply guys.

Try flashing a rom it might get you out of the boot loop
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I found this old thread, which looks promising, but the link to the stock DI18 file is dead...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=861259
Trying to search for the file on google but no luck so far.

Maybe your 1 key is broken.
Do you BONSAI?

if the 1 and power= no download mode then maybe keeny is right and ur 1 key is broken, maybe use the samsung update tool with eb13 in it?
Does that make it go in download mode automatically?

Look in the dev section for the re-rfs rom and install that.
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Or lookup the usb jig that will put you in download mode...
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kennyglass123 said:
Maybe your 1 key is broken.
Do you BONSAI?
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Tested key in CWM and it works fine.

davidrules7778 said:
if the 1 and power= no download mode then maybe keeny is right and ur 1 key is broken, maybe use the samsung update tool with eb13 in it?
Does that make it go in download mode automatically?
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Tried it but it did not. I had to manually activate download mode.

deano0714 said:
Look in the dev section for the re-rfs rom and install that.
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This is the first rom that actually flashed! Once the rom is flashed, I reboot the phone and it goes back into CWM recovery... Gawwwd, this is so frustrating!

R u flashing right type of rom
Rfs roms go with green recovery
Ext4 roms go with orange recovery
Blue recovery means your screwed
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gtuansdiamm said:
R u flashing right type of rom
Rfs roms go with green recovery
Ext4 roms go with orange recovery
Blue recovery means your screwed
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Ya, I think so. From what I can tell, re-rfs should have worked on either green or orange recovery.

deano0714 said:
Look in the dev section for the re-rfs rom and install that.
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I took out the battery for awhile, plugged in my usb, and tried accessing download mode and it WORKED! Awesome! Thanks, man! re-rfs was the way to go

SOLVED! Thanks everyone for all of your replies

I am also having similar problem.
On pressing power on botton or Volume Down+Cam+ power button.. NOTHING HAPPENS.
However I can boot into Download Mode (on battery only).
1) Computer do not recognize USB Drive. (tried uninstalling drivers > rebooting > reinstalling > rebotting ) still USB device not recognized. Even tried with different USB cable. And different ports.
2) However I managed it on my other computer. Where only 1 out of 4 USB port recognize my device.
3) Tried Odin to flash EC05 Stock... It hangs at some place or the other, and screen goes off or some times green (very rare).
4) Phone do not restart in Download mode without battery.
I tried to boot download mode without battery (plugged into computer).. but it wont.
Battery+USB = phone wont boot in download mode.
Phone boots to download mode only on Battery.
After that If i plug in the phone and remove the battery.. screen still stays on.

Bricked HELP

so my phone will boot cwm but will not boot up. it goes to the SAMSUNG screen and just holds. please help.... any ideas would help

Ur not bricked try to get into download mode pull ur battery out slide ur keyboard out press and hold the # 1 key and the power at the same time if ur able to boot into download mode ur ok just use odin to restore back to stock
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usarmy321 said:
so my phone will boot cwm but will not boot up. it goes to the SAMSUNG screen and just holds. please help.... any ideas would help
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If you're able to boot into cwm, then you're fine.
I'm assuming you were flashing a ROM, so just wipe everything x3, and reflash the ROM or a different one.

What he said ^^^^^ or follow this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ2g6J1JgjU&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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Here you go. Read, read, READ! And if you get lost/stuck, come back here for help.
- How To Fix A Brick -
If this helped, hit "Thanks"...

Sounds like you may still have stock kernel on a custom rom.

nikon120 said:
Sounds like you may still have stock kernel on a custom rom.
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That's what I was thinking. Try flashing a kernel.
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i cant get into download mode need another option, ill try loading an other kernal, but i tried the update but no luck

i cant get into download mode need another option, ill try loading an other kernal, but i tried the update but no luck

usarmy321 said:
i cant get into download mode need another option, ill try loading an other kernal, but i tried the update but no luck
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Now that doesn't make sense. You can safely get into CWM, but not into download mode?
I have to ask to make sure. With the phone off, you're holding the 1 key on the keyboard and then holding the power button?
Well if that's the case, get to a PC and insert your SD card into a reader. Download a kernel, like Genocide v2 or etc to the card, and boot into CWM to flash the new kernel off the card. See if that helps.

yes i hold down 1 and the power button, and i tried the genocide2.0 and it still does the same just the samsung screen has a different logo

Sounds like my hardware locked vibrant try flashing cm7 or miui then see if you can make it back to dl mode
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Are u rfs or ext4? Cuz sounds like ur trying to flash a incompatible rom
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usarmy321 said:
yes i hold down 1 and the power button, and i tried the genocide2.0 and it still does the same just the samsung screen has a different logo
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What ROM are you trying to flash? If you are getting the Sammy screen, you aren't far away from success
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Update: I have tried all new kernals and new roms, now my phone will not boot to root anymore, nor download mode, it will only freeze on SAMSUNG screen only. I Think its time to take a trip to sprint

usarmy321 said:
Update: I have tried all new kernals and new roms, now my phone will not boot to root anymore, nor download mode, it will only freeze on SAMSUNG screen only. I Think its time to take a trip to sprint
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If your phone has life you should be able to get into download mode. Take your battery out, press the power button for 10 seconds. With the battery still out connect with cable to computer and press and hold the 1 key on the keyboard and then add pressing and holding the power button. Download mode will appear. Connect to Odin now.
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phone over heated and i got a yellow triangle

so my phone keeps over heating while i get online now it just game some crap about a custom os can brike your phone or something like that with a yellow triangle. what do i do i want to take it back but i need to unroot i looked at some threads but im unsure can i please get some advise from anybody who had this issue before thanks in advance

odin to a stock version.
just follow this guide
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1433101

does this put the phone to his original state so i can take it to the repair store at sprint?

Yes it does.

ubuntunerd said:
does this put the phone to his original state so i can take it to the repair store at sprint?
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Use the EK02 ODIN OneClick.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1409634
All the ones after that are pre-rooted. EK02 is completely stock because the zergrush root exploit still worked on it. If you use the pre-rooted EL29 ODIN OneClick, you can still get 100% stock in a few seconds by running Option B (Unroot) in the Auto Root package.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1383678
Most of the time the Sprint techs won't care that you are rooted, I'm just letting you know in case you get one of the annoying ones.

Chances are your problem was resolved since it's been ~5 hours, but anywho...
Number one: please use full stops as it makes your post SO much easier to read and understand.
Number two: that triangle + "custom OS can brick your phone" is ODIN/download mode. Just restart the phone (volume down button OR hold power button OR battery pull).

my concern is that it over heated while running miui is this something i have to worry about ?

NJ
ubuntunerd said:
my concern is that it over heated while running miui is this something i have to worry about ?
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What were you doing ? These phones can overheat when charging and playing games etc ....anything that's CPU and gpu intensive .... But if it was doing nothing and just overheated yes take it in to sprint ....
My phone would get really hot when playing order and chaos ....
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Epix4G said:
NJ
What were you doing ? These phones can overheat when charging and playing games etc ....anything that's CPU and gpu intensive .... But if it was doing nothing and just overheated yes take it in to sprint ....
My phone would get really hot when playing order and chaos ....
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i was on facebook and xda for about 20 to 30 minutes then it froze thats when i shot down by holding the power button then i got the yellow triangle, to be honest im not sure what to think im gonna do the same thing tonight and see what happens

What rom/kernel are u using?
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dante32278 said:
What rom/kernel are u using?
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im actually back in stock (a recovery i made) but i just try to boot into recovery and i press volume up and got stock on odin mode( download do not turn target off) im a little new to odin so im not really sure how to get back to cmw to flash anything else
do i need to flash cwm again with odin or can i get back to it by holding volume up/down plus power?

ubuntunerd said:
im actually back in stock (a recovery i made) but i just try to boot into recovery and i press volume up and got stock on odin mode( download do not turn target off) im a little new to odin so im not really sure how to get back to cmw to flash anything else
do i need to flash cwm again with odin or can i get back to it by holding volume up/down plus power?
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Volume down and power is download mode ie Odin
Volume up and power is cwm
If you try up and power and get regular recovery u will need to Odin a cwm kernel again ....
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Epix4G said:
Volume down and power is download mode ie Odin
Volume up and power is cwm
If you try up and power and get regular recovery u will need to Odin a cwm kernel again ....
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dam i feel dumb lol im gonna have to study up on odin all good now thanks in rogue recovery right now
one question: why did i get into odin mode in the first place i didnt have it before? and i flash a few roms

ubuntunerd said:
dam i feel dumb lol im gonna have to study up on odin all good now thanks in rogue recovery right now
one question: why did i get into odin mode in the first place i didnt have it before? and i flash a few roms
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Download mode is always there....so if needed its not like recovery that can be replaced
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Am I bricked?

I was recovering my backed up stock rom( came from cm9) and I received an error saying "format rfs device failed on system" or something to that effect while trying to restore it. Once that happened, the back was off, and the battery came out so I tried to boot back into recovery....I get the SAMSUNG logo, soft key lights come on, phone goes black, then back to the samsung logo.
I cannot boot into recovery, do a normal boot, all I can do is download mode. Where should I go from here?

You went from bml to mtd... you CANNOT RESTORE BML NANDROIDS ON MTD. Please read bout things before flashing things.
On a helpful note.. you will need to unbrick your device by odining back to stock. Give me a second and ill link you the how to. If you feel incompetent then I offer unbricking services if you would like via teamviewer7.
Also you don't post questions in general... there is a q&a forum for questions.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTQ6Rn0FBSk&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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Will this do?
http://downloadcenter.samsung.com/c...bile_Driver_V1.3.800_For_SPH-d700_Epic_4G.zip
http://devphone.org/files/epic4g/Odin3_v1.61epic.pit.zip
http://devphone.org/files/epic4g/SPH-D700-EC05-8gb-REL.tar
download all of those files
# Install Samsung drivers (if you haven't already)
# Extract and open up Odin
# Place the pit file in the PIT slot and the .tar file in the PDA slot
# MAKE SURE ONLY "AUTO REBOOT" IS CHECKED
# Boot phone into download mode (Turn the phone off and hold '1' key and power button)
# Connect USB cable
# Click start now sit back and wait for it to finish
after you do that you should be on stock EC05 and then you can do the one click root again

qccoles said:
Will this do?
http://downloadcenter.samsung.com/c...bile_Driver_V1.3.800_For_SPH-d700_Epic_4G.zip
http://devphone.org/files/epic4g/Odin3_v1.61epic.pit.zip
http://devphone.org/files/epic4g/SPH-D700-EC05-8gb-REL.tar
download all of those files
# Install Samsung drivers (if you haven't already)
# Extract and open up Odin
# Place the pit file in the PIT slot and the .tar file in the PDA slot
# MAKE SURE ONLY "AUTO REBOOT" IS CHECKED
# Boot phone into download mode (Turn the phone off and hold '1' key and power button)
# Connect USB cable
# Click start now sit back and wait for it to finish
after you do that you should be on stock EC05 and then you can do the one click root again
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That'll do it, but I would recommend a newer tar as EC05 is an old Froyo ROM
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thomasskull666 said:
That'll do it, but I would recommend a newer tar as EC05 is an old Froyo ROM
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Think you could help me find a newer one?

qccoles said:
Think you could help me find a newer one?
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Sure, forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1599752
It's a leak but it'll work just fine. If you're gonna be flashing over to an MTD ROM it won't matter anyway.
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thomasskull666 said:
Sure, forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1599752
It's a leak but it'll work just fine. If you're gonna be flashing over to an MTD ROM it won't matter anyway.
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After doing this, what kind of root method will I have to use?

qccoles said:
After doing this, what kind of root method will I have to use?
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Hmm I'm not really sure but I'm almost positive all of the current ROMs contain a kernel with root. You could flash CWM through Odin and then flash a ROM or a BML kernel if you plan on staying stock and you'll be rooted. I'll get you a link to a CWM tar here in a sec.
EDIT: flash this in Odin after you get back to stock:
forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1357655
You'll find the link further down in the post for the .tar file. If you want to go to CM9/AOKP/other MTD TW ROM, most of them will automatically flash the MTD compatible CWM. This one that I linked is for BML ROMs only.
Hope this helps!
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thomasskull666 said:
That'll do it, but I would recommend a newer tar as EC05 is an old Froyo ROM
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He's on MTD. He needs auto reboot and repartition checked.
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Zeinzu said:
He's on MTD. He needs auto reboot and repartition checked.
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Ah good catch, yes definitely!
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once you odin back to stock and root, just flash a zip version a bml deodexed rom. there is stock fc09 deodexed that is bml. make sure you have repartition checked and don't forget to include the pit file in odin before you start the process. also make sure you do not use the stock cable that came with the phone. use a blackberry data cable if you have one available. others wise something similar.

I believe re partition auto checks when you put the pit file in. But either way make sure its checked. I forgot it once and it wasn't pretty
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Thank you all, I got it up and running.

I have a fully bricked EPIC 4G.
Have try every possibility that do not include opening my phone.
I even try to use the USB unbrick JIG solution and nothing
My batter is at 4.045V and I am not able to get anything, my screen is completely BLACK
Is there something I might try or some way to get this cell-phone into DOWNLOAD MODE so I can save it?
If not, I will have to take it to SPRINT and see if they can do something or replace it

ajmacria said:
I have a fully bricked EPIC 4G.
Have try every possibility that do not include opening my phone.
I even try to use the USB unbrick JIG solution and nothing
My batter is at 4.045V and I am not able to get anything, my screen is completely BLACK
Is there something I might try or some way to get this cell-phone into DOWNLOAD MODE so I can save it?
If not, I will have to take it to SPRINT and see if they can do something or replace it
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Battery cpr? Holding the 1 and the power button and popping in and out the battery..? Otherwise no.. take it to sprint.
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ajmacria said:
Thanks for the suggestion but I have already try that.
Actually I have been reading every possible solution during the past 2 and today I build my own USB JIG that has a 300kohm resistor between pin 4-5 and still not able to get into download mode.
Have left the battery out of the cell-phone for a complete day.
Have try keep push button 1 and power and sliding the battery in, wait for a couple of seconds, slide it out and repeat the process for a while.
Done the same using the USB
Running out of ideas
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Bring it into sprint and say your phone rebooted during an update and now won't work. Play dumb
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marcusant said:
Bring it into sprint and say your phone rebooted during an update and now won't work. Play dumb
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Thanks for the suggestion.
Will have to do this and see how long it takes them to fix it or give me a replacement

rooting epic 4g

iv been reading all the post i can find about the epic 4g on here and i cant seem to get it right. would anyone like to help me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9eaCtiS0Bo&feature=youtube_gdata_player
If this doesn't help I offer remote rooting services. Purely donational so no obligation for payment.
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The video Uber pointed to has all the links to the files you need. To summarize you will have Odin on your computer with Samsung drivers installed. You will also have the clockworkmod tar on the computer and download the ROM to your phone's sd card.
1. You will turn off your phone, hold the 1 key on the keyboard then add pressing and holding the power button until the yellow triangle saying download mode pops up.
2. With Odin up on your computer and auto reboot box unchecked, connect the usb cable (recommend a Blackberry cable). It should show a comxx in the box. Put the clockworkmod tar in the PDA box of odin by browsing to the file on your computer from odin.
3. Hit start. It go pretty fast and tell you when it is complete and passed.
4.Now with the yellow triangle still on your phone, disconnect the cable. Pop the battery out and in. Press and hold in this order, volume down, camera and power buttons making sure the power is the last you add. Hold those for about 5 full seconds. Clockworkmod 5 should come up.
5. Choose install file from sd card by scrolling with the volume down button and selecting with the camera button. Go to the place on your sd card that the FC09 ROM downloaded to, perhaps a directory called download. Choose the file and flash it.
6. Hit reboot system and you should have a rooted deodexed stock ROM on your phone. You are ready to do any rooted stuff and even flash themes on this ROM.

ok im runing gingerbread.el30 i used the qbking77 vidoe and got the superuser to work but know what do i go to flash it and such? sorry for being such a noob.

hellsing73 said:
ok im runing gingerbread.el30 i used the qbking77 vidoe and got the superuser to work but know what do i go to flash it and such? sorry for being such a noob.
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If superuser is working then you should be rooted. As for flashing.... read read read before you flash anything and make sure it won't effe up your phone.
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hellsing73 said:
ok im runing gingerbread.el30 i used the qbking77 vidoe and got the superuser to work but know what do i go to flash it and such? sorry for being such a noob.
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Why don't you keep using qbking77's videos? He has how to videos for a bunch of rom's, plus he reviews rom's too.
Give some of the reviews a viewing, see if you like what is in the rom, and then follow his directions.
What others have said is correct, you can screw up your phone if you're not careful, but his directions are very good and very complete. If you do exactly as he says, you should not have issues.
If you do have issues, others have written instructions on what to do to recover from that too.
Have fun. Take your time. You'll learn as you experiment.

Since you already got the hang of odin it is almost impossible to brick this phone...sponge it yeah but tough to brick. Have fun.
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thanks for the help guys

have very little idea of what I'm doing but know what I want. Want a simple way to use my phone to get I guess you call it tethering for my Acer Iconia 500W tablet. Who can help a brand newbee who know very little of what to do?

westoexpresso said:
have very little idea of what I'm doing but know what I want. Want a simple way to use my phone to get I guess you call it tethering for my Acer Iconia 500W tablet. Who can help a brand newbee who know very little of what to do?
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Either pay for the tethering plan.
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Or follow the rooting instructions found within these forums or youtube qbking77 epic videos. And download a 3rd party tethering app or flash a custom rom that has tethering baked in.
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But be advised the root method violates TOS agreement and if sprint finds out and decides to they can terminate your service no questions asked. I've only heard of it happening if someone uses a extremely large amount of data while tethering. But there is a first for everything.
Sent from My Epic Ice Cream Sandwich With Sprinkles!!!

kennyglass123 said:
The video Uber pointed to has all the links to the files you need. To summarize you will have Odin on your computer with Samsung drivers installed. You will also have the clockworkmod tar on the computer and download the ROM to your phone's sd card.
1. You will turn off your phone, hold the 1 key on the keyboard then add pressing and holding the power button until the yellow triangle saying download mode pops up.
2. With Odin up on your computer and auto reboot box unchecked, connect the usb cable (recommend a Blackberry cable). It should show a comxx in the box. Put the clockworkmod tar in the PDA box of odin by browsing to the file on your computer from odin.
3. Hit start. It go pretty fast and tell you when it is complete and passed.
4.Now with the yellow triangle still on your phone, disconnect the cable. Pop the battery out and in. Press and hold in this order, volume down, camera and power buttons making sure the power is the last you add. Hold those for about 5 full seconds. Clockworkmod 5 should come up.
5. Choose install file from sd card by scrolling with the volume down button and selecting with the camera button. Go to the place on your sd card that the FC09 ROM downloaded to, perhaps a directory called download. Choose the file and flash it.
6. Hit reboot system and you should have a rooted deodexed stock ROM on your phone. You are ready to do any rooted stuff and even flash themes on this ROM.
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Hey Guys,
Here's my situation. my power button doesn't work and to my understanding, that's part of the motherboard so I'm kind of fked on that end (water damage so sprint won't replace it).
My phone's stock right now, but I have rooted in the past with QBKING77's method (mentioned above by kennyglass and QBKING77's youtube how-to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9eaCtiS0Bo&feature=youtube_gdata_player).
I'm trying to root the phone so that I can install CM9 on it (used beta 2 in the past). I'm able to adb into the phone and get it into download mode. I'm scared that if I flashed the CWM Tar file, there won't be anything to get into CWM with since I can't do the button combination anymore.
Any suggestions? Also any recommendations on the power button problem would be much appreciated as well (I currently slide to open it and bought a cheapo non-data charger and it boots it up).
Thanks guys for all your help

esuuuu09 said:
Any suggestions?
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Get another Epic off of Ebay.

It works fine now. I just slide to get it on and installed a power off app so that's a workaround for now. Upgrade's coming up soon so just going to stick this out for now.
I'm not familiar with ODIN enough but I would assume there's a way to just flash the ROM and CWM at once to obtain root and CWM together....

esuuuu09 said:
It works fine now. I just slide to get it on and installed a power off app so that's a workaround for now. Upgrade's coming up soon so just going to stick this out for now.
I'm not familiar with ODIN enough but I would assume there's a way to just flash the ROM and CWM at once to obtain root and CWM together....
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As a test y don't you turn off your phone... hold down volume down and the camera button and use your "power button" trick... should put you straight into the stock recovery... then you'll know whether or not you can get into cwm
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flastnoles11 said:
As a test y don't you turn off your phone... hold down volume down and the camera button and use your "power button" trick... should put you straight into the stock recovery... then you'll know whether or not you can get into cwm
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Sorry, forgot to mention that it doesn't work
The cable just powers the device on without performing the actions of the power button so button combinations don't work
I know I can boot to recovery with a rooted rom, but I need to be able to install that first. And I need my phone to be on with a working ROM in order to ADB into it for any ADB commands.

Can you get into download mode with the cable and holding the "1" key? If so there are odinable prerooted ROMs.
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kennyglass123 said:
Can you get into download mode with the cable and holding the "1" key? If so there are odinable prerooted ROMs.
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@kennyglass123
I can't get into download mode with the cable and holding the "1" key, BUT
I can get into download mode by turning on debugging and adb into it with "adb reboot download"
What would the steps be then? Would I obtain a odinable pre-rooted rom (any suggestions?), Odin, re-boot, installed cwm recovery through the app, reboot, boot into cwm, and then wipe + flash cm9?

esuuuu09 said:
@kennyglass123
I can't get into download mode with the cable and holding the "1" key, BUT
I can get into download mode by turning on debugging and adb into it with "adb reboot download"
What would the steps be then? Would I obtain a odinable pre-rooted rom (any suggestions?), Odin, re-boot, installed cwm recovery through the app, reboot, boot into cwm, and then wipe + flash cm9?
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Here is an EC05 favorite: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/32800014/EC05_DXC.tar.rar
When you say app, do you mean ROM Manager? You will have to see if that EC05 prerooted will accept ROM Manager. If that is what you meant, then yes. Just like that.

kennyglass123 said:
Here is an EC05 favorite: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/32800014/EC05_DXC.tar.rar
When you say app, do you mean ROM Manager? You will have to see if that EC05 prerooted will accept ROM Manager. If that is what you meant, then yes. Just like that.
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Ok a few things just to make sure:
I'm on FC09 Stock right now, so by flashing this ROM, I would then be able to install clockworkmod recovery through ROM Manager (giving me the latest clockwork mod recovery I believe) and then get to clockworkmod recovery through ROM Manager.
Eventually I would like to end up on CM9 which is MTD. Could I just flash a CM9 ROM over the EC05 Rooted ROM?
Would I still be on FC09 and/or would it be better to flash another FC09 Rooted ROM (i'm referring to the one in QBKING77's youtube link) to upgrade to FC09 and then flash the CM9 ROM.
In ODIN, I would place the EC05 file in the "PDA" location in Odin?
Would I check re-partition and autoboot? I'm assuming I don't check f. reset time.
Thanks for all your help

If you Odin the tar I posted you will be back on EC05 modem. You can always flash a newer modem with Odin. If ROM manager does work on that odined ROM then you can go right to cm9 after clockworkmod 5.
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