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Sorry for the stupid questions but please bear with me...
First of all i have my epic with an deoxeded eb13/ rfs/ with genocide kernel and i want to put SyndicateROM Frozen 1.0 on my epic.
However i have a few questions:
1) right now i have an epic with clockwork 2.5.1 i think and rooted it with
oneclick 2.5.5, so i dont have ext4... so i was wondering if i could still flash
this rom without much problems
2) i heard that there is a nasty bug that wont let you charge your phone while
it is off with some phones with clockwork 3.0.0.6 (or something like that) and
ext4... and i was wondering if that was the case with this rom?
On a side note... does the can't charge while off bug affect all phones with clockwork 3.0.0.6 and ext4?
Thanks in advance!
You have.to use the one.click root with cwm6 and boot onto it so it can convert you filesystem to ext4. Then you can.flash the syndicate rom. That rom seems to be.the.only one that has the.problem with the phone.locking up when turned off on charge. I'm on bonsai rom and it doesn't do that.
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wait so bonsai with ext4 and the new clockwork on eb13 works fine and doesnt have this problem with the battery charging? -thats the only reason why i havent converted to ext4
for_ever said:
Sorry for the stupid questions but please bear with me...
First of all i have my epic with an deoxeded eb13/ rfs/ with genocide kernel and i want to put SyndicateROM Frozen 1.0 on my epic.
However i have a few questions:
1) right now i have an epic with clockwork 2.5.1 i think and rooted it with
oneclick 2.5.5, so i dont have ext4... so i was wondering if i could still flash
this rom without much problems
2) i heard that there is a nasty bug that wont let you charge your phone while
it is off with some phones with clockwork 3.0.0.6 (or something like that) and
ext4... and i was wondering if that was the case with this rom?
On a side note... does the can't charge while off bug affect all phones with clockwork 3.0.0.6 and ext4?
Thanks in advance!
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1. You need to odin to eb13 using the eb13+ext4 odin
2. Yes. You cant charge while the phone is off (you can while it is on or locked)
3. It does effect all roms
Steps for eb13 syndicaterom
1. Download odin and ext4+eb13 and follow those instructions
2. Before booting into clockworkmod (vol down, power and camera), load syndicaterom onto the sd card
3. Boot into cwm, it should do alot of gibberish. When it is done, make sure the text is orange
4. Wipe data/factory reset. Do this three times
5. Wipe cache once
6. Go to advanced and wipe dalvik once
7. Go back and go to install zip from sd, go to choose zip from sd and choose syndicate, choose yes and wait for ot to finish
8. Reboot and have fun!
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Okay but I'm still worried about not being able to charge my phone while its off...
Will I still have this problem if I just convert it using the new oneclickroot and continue using stock eb13 deoxded and genocide kernel and I just want to double check... if I use the new bonsai 3.0 with clockwork 3.x and ext4, I won't have the same problem?
Sory for all of the stupid q's, I soft-bricked my phone and don't want to do it again...
Thanks!
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for_ever said:
Okay but I'm still worried about not being able to charge my phone while its off...
Will I still have this problem if I just convert it using the new oneclickroot and continue using stock eb13 deoxded and genocide kernel and I just want to double check... if I use the new bonsai 3.0 with clockwork 3.x and ext4, I won't have the same problem?
Sory for all of the stupid q's, I soft-bricked my phone and don't want to do it again...
Thanks!
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Just use bonsai 3.0.0 (maybe it is twilight kernal that causes the charging issues) if you want to charge while it is off.
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Thanks I'll try bonzai once I get done with my hw and report back in on my (hopefully) sucess!
In worse case sinenario, I made a nandroid backup so I can revert me back to rfs right?
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for_ever said:
Thanks I'll try bonzai once I get done with my hw and report back in on my (hopefully) sucess!
In worse case sinenario, I made a nandroid backup so I can revert me back to rfs right?
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Nandroid doesnt bring you back. Odin does and maybe if you use the 2.5.5 root it will fix your batter not charging if it doesnt.
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Well in that case I'll stay away from the twilight kernel to avoid using odin again... thanks for the heads up!
So, that means that the twilight kernel doesn't agree with ext4 and the new cwm, causing the battery bug...
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I would say get one of those chargers off of ebay with two extra batteries for $10, it has worked great for me. No charging in the phone anymore.
I always worried about how hot the phone gets when the battery is charging.
i believe, from what i've read in the Frozen thread, the battery does charge, even tho it doesn't look like it. unless i'm wrong...
yogi2010 said:
i believe, from what i've read in the Frozen thread, the battery does charge, even tho it doesn't look like it. unless i'm wrong...
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Correct. It is a graphical glitch.
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Hey thanks for the tip... Im gonna try to orderone today... Thanks!
Ps. Anything that you guys may find useful, dont hesitate to tell me
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So far the only issue I'm having with this ROM is a force close of the stock email app, which I prefer over the gmail app. Does anyone know of a fix for this?
Otherwise I am quite happy with this ROM...it's the first ROM that I flashed (second overall) that I could figure out!
So I can still charge my phone on syndicate but I wont be able to tell if it fully charged?
(I can already forsee overheating issues and me messing up my battery due to leaving it charging over night)
Thanks for clarifying the battery problem...
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I just noticed another issue with this ROM. Words With Friends doesn't load when you open an ongoing game. The ad tries to load and then you get this:
http://twitpic.com/47c2c4
Yeah you can. But you could also just leave your phone on and charge overnight if that worries you. Place the phone somewhere where it won't heat up easily, like a table or something that won't absorb heat. Only bugs with this ROM noted is the stock email app FCs when opening an unread email or marking an unread email to being "read," some people noted a few issues using dolphin browser and it loading pages, and the battery thing (but that is a CWM 3 issue). Concerning the Words with Friends bug, there was a fixed posted in the ROM thread, just do a search.
Animas1020 said:
Yeah you can. But you could also just leave your phone on and charge overnight if that worries you. Place the phone somewhere where it won't heat up easily, like a table or something that won't absorb heat. Only bugs with this ROM noted is the stock email app FCs when opening an unread email or marking an unread email to being "read," some people noted a few issues using dolphin browser and it loading pages, and the battery thing (but that is a CWM 3 issue). Concerning the Words with Friends bug, there was a fixed posted in the ROM thread, just do a search.
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Thank you! I found these instructions but I am very, very new to this and would need a step by step explanation as to how to do this.
We do block ads by default - though that shouldn't show up when ads are blocked. If you'd like to test, just rename /etc/hosts to /etc/hosts.bak and reboot.
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droid newb said:
Thank you! I found these instructions but I am very, very new to this and would need a step by step explanation as to how to do this.
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You're welcome! You would need Root Explorer (or some other similar app) to rename the file. Just navigate to the root of the directory, find the folder called "etc," go there and find "hosts" and rename it to "hosts.bak." To be honest, I haven't done it myself, but I would assume that's all you would have to do lol. I've also heard that if you installed the AdFree app and then uninstall it, that would fix it too. Again, I haven't tried it before.
To be safe, make a nandroid backup in case anything goes wrong. Better safe than sorry
Animas1020 said:
You're welcome! You would need Root Explorer (or some other similar app) to rename the file. Just navigate to the root of the directory, find the folder called "etc," go there and find "hosts" and rename it to "hosts.bak." To be honest, I haven't done it myself, but I would assume that's all you would have to do lol. I've also heard that if you installed the AdFree app and then uninstall it, that would fix it too. Again, I haven't tried it before.
To be safe, make a nandroid backup in case anything goes wrong. Better safe than sorry
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Thank you! I will give that a try tomorrow!
This is for anyone who's bricked their phone (stuck on boot loop):
I know some of you are testing our new ROMs out right now and some testers are bricking their phones, if this happens, just flash a kernel with CWM, then you need to unzip the zip file then copy the folder into clockworkmod/backup folder in your internal storage then restore in ClockworkMod Recovery and you should be at least back on Zedomax V2 kernel + stock ROM.
THIS IS NOT A ROM zip file, just a CWM backup you can restore. (don't try to install from sdcard, it won't work!!!)
Download zip file here:
http://downloadandroidrom.com/file/Epic4GTouch/development/ZedomaxBackup.zip
After restoring to this stock ROM plus rooted kernel, you can do this to get it completely stock:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1281287
Video tutorial:
Please hurry. bootloops suck That's what I get for not doing a nandroid.
If it's anything like cwm on the evo, you want to avoid restoring someone elses nandroid since it will overwrite your wimax keys...unless the wimax file is excluded.
Samsung stores their wimax keys differently.
Thanks for doing this bro
are the wimax keys included in this or not? id like to keep my 4g
Did it work
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You don't have keys on samsung.you can't lose them you never had them....samsung uses different authentication
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Epix4G said:
You don't have keys on samsung.you can't lose them you never had them....samsung uses different authentication
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This ^^^. There is no WiMax.img or anything like it that requires a discrete backup and restore.
Any confirm
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It worked! Appreciate it much!
Can someone zip up the contents of the stock, internal /sdcard memory, and upload it. I formatted mine and lost Nova HD. I dont kow what else was lost...
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coldblooded79 said:
It worked! Appreciate it much!
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Worked for me as well.
Can you upload the stock /SDCARD contents?? I formatted mine and lost Nova HD and who knows what else....
coldblooded79 said:
It worked! Appreciate it much!
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NICE guys!
Help???
Ok so I need help unbricking....Here is what I did...
Ran odin to root, no problem.
Flashed zedomax kernel, no problem..
Played with apps and settings, quadrant crashed so I went into clockwork and master resert, clear cache, and davlik, to start all over.
now my phone won't boot past bootup logo. I downloaded this recovery backup and no luck. any suggestions?
I am attempting this recovery process now. The following are the results:
ClolkworkMod Recovery v4.0.1.5
Checking MD5 sums...
Erasing boot before restore...
Restoring boot image...
Restoring system...
Restoring data...
.android_secure.img not found. Skipping restore of /sdcard/.android_secure.
Restoring cache...
Restore complete!
Then, I reboot but I am still stuck in the bootloop. Any thoughts?
While the restore works, I'm having the data connectivity issue that I wasn't before. Google talk verification failed. I'm gonna pull bubbys kernel and flash it over. I'm still wondering if clockwork isn't wiping properly and that's the reason people are having bootloops.
sent from my Epic Touch 4g
lsvtec4dr said:
Ok so I need help unbricking....Here is what I did...
Ran odin to root, no problem.
Flashed zedomax kernel, no problem..
Played with apps and settings, quadrant crashed so I went into clockwork and master resert, clear cache, and davlik, to start all over.
now my phone won't boot past bootup logo. I downloaded this recovery backup and no luck. any suggestions?
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If you havea back up restore it. It will fix it. The factory reset is what did it.
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coldblooded79 said:
While the restore works, I'm having the data connectivity issue that I wasn't before. Google talk verification failed. I'm gonna pull bubbys kernel and flash it over. I'm still wondering if clockwork isn't wiping properly and that's the reason people are having bootloops.
sent from my Epic Touch 4g
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I'm having the same verification problem with Google Talk. I was having connectivity issues initially but after performing a ##72786# reprovision it seems to be working (at least for now, will update if that proves wrong).
Initially I was able to connect to the web and browse the market but downloading any apps would loop infinitely. The reprovision fixed that as well.
Hopefully we'll see a flashable ROM soon that works as intended but for now this is certainly a good standby. Thank you!
EDIT: Reprovisioning was a panacea. It looked good but I can't maintain a 3G/4G connection for more than a few minutes. Apps will install only after queuing them in the Market then restarting. WiFi connects but I can't download anything over that either. Considering hard-bricking and playing dumb with Sprint so I can exchange it then giving up on the custom stuff until development has progressed.
I was actually thinking of the doing the same thing...if you do hard brick it and take it back, lemme know how it went for you pls,
Funkquito said:
I was actually thinking of the doing the same thing...if you do hard brick it and take it back, lemme know how it went for you pls,
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+1 Sprints gonna have a lot of paperweights
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I've tried enabling the bluetooth both thru the pull down button and through the settings menu. It acts like it's starting to turn on, and then after a few seconds, just goes dark again.
Tried reboot. No luck.
Used ACS Recovery to do a pre-ROM wipe before flashing the new ROM.
Can't post in developers forum yet, so hopefully someone here can help. I read every page and every entry in the applicable forum for the ROM I flashed, but no one reported this problem or solutions.
Any ideas? I'd rather not have to flashback to stock or whatever. I've seen plenty of helpful posts for other bugs in the ROM. Just nothing for this. HELP!
Thanks,
Epic 4g
Gingerbread 2.3.5
ROM Revival MTD v2
JrWicked said:
I've tried enabling the bluetooth both thru the pull down button and through the settings menu. It acts like it's starting to turn on, and then after a few seconds, just goes dark again.
Tried reboot. No luck.
Used ACS Recovery to do a pre-ROM wipe before flashing the new ROM.
Can't post in developers forum yet, so hopefully someone here can help. I read every page and every entry in the applicable forum for the ROM I flashed, but no one reported this problem or solutions.
Any ideas? I'd rather not have to flashback to stock or whatever. I've seen plenty of helpful posts for other bugs in the ROM. Just nothing for this. HELP!
Thanks,
Epic 4g
Gingerbread 2.3.5
ROM Revival MTD v2
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Backup that rom... flash a different rom... if bluetooth works then its that rom... btw I would strongly suggest not using acs recovery... use cwm 5.0.2.7... it is the officially supported recovery for our epics! Also acs does not play well with mtd roms so that may be your problem!
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Get rid of ACS Recovery. It is not supposed to be used for MTD ROMs.
kennyglass123 said:
Get rid of ACS Recovery. It is not supposed to be used for MTD ROMs.
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Bah humbug acs not play well with mtd blah!
I used it to convert to mtd when cyanogen first came and it worked just fine...... acs not the problem because even if he was on bml cwm5 before flashing he would have the same results.
Please stop blaming that recovery ^^
http://i1202.photobucket.com/albums/bb374/TexasEpic/Biggoron3.png
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However once on mtd he shouldn't be using it
http://i1202.photobucket.com/albums/bb374/TexasEpic/Biggoron3.png
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Biggoron said:
Bah humbug acs not play well with mtd blah!
I used it to convert to mtd when cyanogen first came and it worked just fine...... acs not the problem because even if he was on bml cwm5 before flashing he would have the same results.
Please stop blaming that recovery ^^
http://i1202.photobucket.com/albums/bb374/TexasEpic/Biggoron3.png
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Maybe it worked for YOU but it is highly recommended to use CWM 5.027 to convert and note that if you want to convert and restore nandroid data it must come from 5.027.
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kennyglass123 said:
Maybe it worked for YOU but it is highly recommended to use CWM 5.027 to convert and note that if you want to convert and restore nandroid data it must come from 5.027.
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I'm pretty sire recoveries don't differ from phones... software is software its not a hardware difference just saying. How is your day going kenny?
http://i1202.photobucket.com/albums/bb374/TexasEpic/Biggoron3.png
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Biggoron said:
I'm pretty sire recoveries don't differ from phones... software is software its not a hardware difference just saying. How is your day going kenny?
http://i1202.photobucket.com/albums/bb374/TexasEpic/Biggoron3.png
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Ah always better after you brighten my day Biggie...lol.
BTW you know software is what drives the hardware. So any flash can go wrong at some point whether Odin, CWM, ACS, or Bonsai Recovery. Just sayin'...LOL. How you been?
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kennyglass123 said:
Ah always better after you brighten my day Biggie...lol.
BTW you know software is what drives the hardware. So any flash can go wrong at some point whether Odin, CWM, ACS, or Bonsai Recovery. Just sayin'...LOL. How you been?
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GRRRR.... oh me I'm good I see what your saying but how would be able to flat out blame that software for all you know it was the rom .... okay end of argument no reason to keep up this fiasco anyways I'm not saying to not use the official cwm I'm just saying you can't blame the issue on the recovery... I've had tons of bluetooth issues concerning kernels never the recovery
http://i1202.photobucket.com/albums/bb374/TexasEpic/Biggoron3.png
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I agree...just trying to narrow down the possibilities. Probably just needed to delete some bluetooth data files. I forget which ones force the bluetooth database to rebuild.
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BRICKED
Thank u all for the replies. I DID use ACS to do the pre-rom wipe, but I thought CWM got changed afterwards, somewhere in the process of flashing the new ROM, etc. Funny that several of you mentioned the possibility of that being the issue. I went to boot into recovery to check, and my phone bricked. #*(#@$%&. So, I had to odin back to stock and then root again, then use Titaniun just to get to my pre-ROM settings. I'm just gonna go without the custom ROM for now.
JrWicked said:
Thank u all for the replies. I DID use ACS to do the pre-rom wipe, but I thought CWM got changed afterwards, somewhere in the process of flashing the new ROM, etc. Funny that several of you mentioned the possibility of that being the issue. I went to boot into recovery to check, and my phone bricked. #*(#@$%&. So, I had to odin back to stock and then root again, then use Titaniun just to get to my pre-ROM settings. I'm just gonna go without the custom ROM for now.
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You mean sponged, not bricked. As long as there is life you are not bricked. Just grab the official CWM 5.027 and flash that. When doing conversions like that don't use ROM Manager and all should be well. When in doubt, wipe wipe wipe.
I made a noob mistake... I had a rooted Samsung Galaxy S3 SPH-L710 with the auto brightess being to dim for me. I jumped the gun and installed the "auto brightness" fix for the i9300 without thoroughly researching and finding that it wasn't for my model - DUH! :crying:
My phone will not boot now. I can get into CWM but cannot restore to a backup because apparently it didn't complete correctly and I get a MD5 mismatch error. No backup, no boot, no joy. <more tears>
My plan of action is to download and install the stock ROM using Odin 3.07, then re-root, and reinstall my apps with Titanium Backup. (Then take a new backup that I'll TEST before making any further changes!! )
Does this sound like the appropriate course of action?
Does anyone have a link to download the stock firmware fast? The samsung-updates-com stock ROM for the SPH-L710 is so slow it timed out on me already.
Thanks.
And yes I know I'm an idiot...
ninjadave007 said:
I made a noob mistake... I had a rooted Samsung Galaxy S3 SPH-L710 with the auto brightess being to dim for me. I jumped the gun and installed the "auto brightness" fix for the i9300 without thoroughly researching and finding that it wasn't for my model - DUH! :crying:
My phone will not boot now. I can get into CWM but cannot restore to a backup because apparently it didn't complete correctly and I get a MD5 mismatch error. No backup, no boot, no joy. <more tears>
My plan of action is to download and install the stock ROM using Odin 3.07, then re-root, and reinstall my apps with Titanium Backup. (Then take a new backup that I'll TEST before making any further changes!! )
Does this sound like the appropriate course of action?
Does anyone have a link to download the stock firmware fast? The samsung-updates-com stock ROM for the SPH-L710 is so slow it timed out on me already.
Thanks.
And yes I know I'm an idiot...
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Best course of action back to stock :::: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1904099
I assume you know how to use Odin so here's the file as posted by Skunk Ape1. All credit goes to him.
http://d-h.st/GVs
Thank you!
Also, you can connect your sdcard to your computer through recovery...then just put any rom on there (doesnt have to be stock) and flash it (full wipe), because it seems as though you've corrupted the /system partition in some way since the the phone starts up at all
No need to go back to stock necessarily
Also, I would suggest that you make a backup of your phone as is now...that way when it get it functioning again you can manually restore your apps and data and any tweaks you mightve had in your build.prop or init.d
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Why don't you just put into the recovery and wipe your system and just reinstall the rom. All your data will remain.
Anthraxed MA4
CNexus said:
Also, you can connect your sdcard to your computer through recovery...then just put any rom on there (doesnt have to be stock) and flash it (full wipe), because it seems as though you've corrupted the /system partition in some way since the the phone starts up at all
No need to go back to stock necessarily
Also, I would suggest that you make a backup of your phone as is now...that way when it get it functioning again you can manually restore your apps and data and any tweaks you mightve had in your build.prop or init.d
Sent from my PG06100
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As you see:
My plan of action is to download and install the stock ROM using Odin 3.07, then re-root, and reinstall my apps with Titanium Backup. (Then take a new backup that I'll TEST before making any further changes!!
So I suggested the closest thing to what he/she was looking for...problem solved long ago, again theres this troll rambling off more gibberish
No need for your input necessarily
take a hike, dont worry bout me/my/my posts and buy a real phone...
SGSIIIJB said:
So I suggested the closest thing to what he/she was looking for...problem solved long ago, again theres this troll rambling off more gibberish
No need for your input necessarily
take a hike, dont worry bout me/my/my posts and buy a real phone...
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That was a little unnecessary, there's no need to be a jerk when someone else suggests something.
metalfan78 said:
That was a little unnecessary, there's no need to be a jerk when someone else suggests something.
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no all help is great! from everyone!!! except that person (lil history there)
SGSIIIJB said:
no all help is great! from everyone!!! except that person (lil history there)
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Which one?
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SGSIIIJB said:
no all help is great! from everyone!!! except that person (lil history there)
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History? Really now, you would think that people would be more mature when others offer alternative advice, even if it may differ from your own
Note that I never said your answer was wrong, I was simply offering another solution and I believe its up to the OP to decide which is better, not you or me.
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I'm glad I did a search because I would have hated starting a new forum for nothing. I'm having the exact same issues with my GS3. I flashed a 4.4 kit kat rom and after that now I can't restore my stock 4.1.2 ROM, or flashed any others. I get the same MD5 mismatch when trying to restore the old rom. I went back into to ODIN and tried bringing back to stock but and it does is reinstall the stock recovery and give me a whole list of "FAILED" messages. I like the 4.4 ROM but I want out and I can't figure out how. Do you guys have any idea what I can do?
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CNexus said:
Also, you can connect your sdcard to your computer through recovery...then just put any rom on there (doesnt have to be stock) and flash it (full wipe), because it seems as though you've corrupted the /system partition in some way since the the phone starts up at all
No need to go back to stock necessarily
Also, I would suggest that you make a backup of your phone as is now...that way when it get it functioning again you can manually restore your apps and data and any tweaks you mightve had in your build.prop or init.d
Sent from my PG06100
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@CNexus, I tried this as well. I actually tried installing your stock rooted 4.3 rom and it just get's stuck on the splash screen. Any advice?
Try again but perform a full wipe (data, internal storage [if nothing important is there], cache, dalvik cache, and system)
No go. I'm going nuts over here. I know I'm a noob this is probably annoying but I want to thank you for your help. So I tried restoring after doing a full wipe and still get the "md5 mismatch". Then I wiped again and trued installing 4.3 and it stayed on the splash screen for over 20 minutes. Aside from flashing a stock tar file on odin, is there another method to fully restoring the phone to stock?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=48637859&postcount=1223
FYI:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...php?p=48620997
Latest CWM won't let you flash anything other that KitKat (4.4.x) ROMs per this post...
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Got this tip from pitcherj, it solved everything. I'M BACK BABY!!!!:laugh::good:
I was playing with Rom Toolbox Pro and was changing the status bar icons. I did agree to the backup requests. In the middle of one of the icon changes, the program glitched. I tried to give it time, but it would glitch again. I finally removed the battery and now it won't go past "Samsung". Since I am on Ting an MVNO of Sprint, I don't have Sprint's boot animation, pure Samsung.
I did hold the volume / power / home buttons and tried every choice but factory reset. Though there is a high probability being new and stupid, that I di them wrong.
So . . . HELP!!!
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Lord Sekhmet said:
I was playing with Rom Toolbox Pro and was changing the status bar icons. I did agree to the backup requests. In the middle of one of the icon changes, the program glitched. I tried to give it time, but it would glitch again. I finally removed the battery and now it won't go past "Samsung". Since I am on Ting an MVNO of Sprint, I don't have Sprint's boot animation, pure Samsung.
I did hold the volume / power / home buttons and tried every choice but factory reset. Though there is a high probability being new and stupid, that I di them wrong.
So . . . HELP!!!
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When you get to to recovery restore a backup if you made one. Which you should always make a backup before making changes on ur rom. Or you may have to reflash the rom. If you can get into recovery your phone is not bricked.
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I can get into recovery, so the term is soft-bricked I believe. I didn't think I was doing a ROM change, but again I am new and stupid.
I did not do a backup, but Rom Toolbox Pro did for the files that changed. I cannot find those backup files in the in recovery. I went through every folder in "Apply Update From External Storage"
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Lord Sekhmet said:
I can get into recovery, so the term is soft-bricked I believe. I didn't think I was doing a ROM change, but again I am new and stupid.
I did not do a backup, but Rom Toolbox Pro did for the files that changed. I cannot find those backup files in the in recovery. I went through every folder in "Apply Update From External Storage"
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If you can find it i guess your only option left is to wipe everything and flash the rom again so you can get your phone to boot.
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The only reason I haven't done that yet is because I don't want to lose all my contacts AGAIN. Though, it might teach me a well deserved lesson.
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Lord Sekhmet said:
The only reason I haven't done that yet is because I don't want to lose all my contacts AGAIN. Though, it might teach me a well deserved lesson.
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Contacts should be all synced to gmail. Just reflash and wait a minute for them to come back all by themselves after you log in.
I don't remember if the latest twrp has a file manager function (can't check while using the same phone to write thisn post) but if it does you might be able to replace the files that way. Otherwise, one theoretical option is you could extract the files from a stock rom and make a flashable zip that just puts those exact files back, copy the zip to a microsd card using a card reader & a pc (i don't think you can do much via usb while in recovery). Pop sd card back in phone and flash with twrp.
Possibly less work to restore contacts by hand again. This time let it sync to gmail so you won't be so screwed again. Better yet use titanium backup or rerware mybackup so you get txts, call logs, bookmarks, wifi keys, bluetooth pairings, contacts and apps.
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Lord Sekhmet said:
The only reason I haven't done that yet is because I don't want to lose all my contacts AGAIN. Though, it might teach me a well deserved lesson.
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You won't lose your contacts if you synced them with Google
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Lord Sekhmet said:
The only reason I haven't done that yet is because I don't want to lose all my contacts AGAIN. Though, it might teach me a well deserved lesson.
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You don't have your contacts saved to your Google? If not you should've.. They come back on their own once you set up your Gmail.
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I try to avoid google spyware as much as possible. (I know, I know, I chose Android)
I did install Titanium Backup Pro, but never did a backup. :crying:
I was already and waiting for the download to finish of the Sprint ROM to put it on my MicroSD. Didn't think about just replacing the bad files and was just going to flash it again. I don't know if I am knowledgeable enough to pull off just replacing a few files. I may end up learning the hard way.
NOOO!!!! I did the factory reset and lost all my data (I assume) but it still won't boot. No change in symptoms.
I really need help. The one thing I didn't want to do, that I thought would work, didn't work.
Help, please help!
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Lord Sekhmet said:
NOOO!!!! I did the factory reset and lost all my data (I assume) but it still won't boot. No change in symptoms.
I really need help. The one thing I didn't want to do, that I thought would work, didn't work.
Help, please help!
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Nothing left to do but reflash your rom. Sorry about your data. Next time back up everything with a nandroid backup or titanium backup.
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Lord Sekhmet said:
NOOO!!!! I did the factory reset and lost all my data (I assume) but it still won't boot. No change in symptoms.
I really need help. The one thing I didn't want to do, that I thought would work, didn't work.
Help, please help!
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Unfortunatetly the "factory reset" option in TWRP is not the most descriptive wording.
All factory reset does is delete the data partition. It doesn't restore the OS userspace programs or the kernel or the modem/firmware or the bootloader.
Now that you've done that, there is no more chance to recover anything, which means there is no more reason to agonize over reflashing a new rom. Go ahead and flash away.
Simplest way, since you have a working custom recovery, is use a pc to download one of the recovery-flashable rom zips and put it on a microsd card. Put the sdcard back in the phone, boot into recovery and flash that zip.
It's simpler and safer than trying to use odin.
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Unfortunatetly the "factory reset" option in TWRP is not the most descriptive wording.
All factory reset does is delete the data partition. It doesn't restore the OS userspace programs or the kernel or the modem/firmware or the bootloader.
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Thanks, I wish I knew this before though. Hard lesson #1.
I've done a search and can't find any unmodified "recovery-flashable rom zip" Then I wouldn't know what to do with it. Desperate - how much to fix this? I am in Westchester NY.
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NOOO!!!! I did the factory reset and lost all my data (I assume) but it still won't boot. No change in symptoms.
I really need help. The one thing I didn't want to do, that I thought would work, didn't work.
Help, please help!
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Did you only factory reset and reboot?
You should just factory reset, wipe cache, wipe dalvik cache and reflash your old rom, then reboot.
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Since we don't have a nice all-in-one rooted for the latest MA7 stock rom yet, I suggest use this one for MA5. (It's what I'm running since it came out.)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=37348257
Just do like the instructions in the first posts says.
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Read the thread. He said he never made a backup.
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I hope the experience doesn't scare you off flashing forever. You're actually not in bad shape right now. Your recovery is doing it's exact job it's named for. Your phone is booting into recovery, and twrp in particular is a powerful flexible one. It's a whole mini OS really.
And even if your recovery was screwed too, you could still use " download mode" and odin to flash everything back, it's just les convenient and less well documented but the standard recipe of steps is up there on galaxynote2root.com and elsewhere.
There's also a one click back to stock here on xda too. That runs from a pc and attempts to do everything to go all the way back to factory, including firmwares, bootloader, even resetting the flash counter back to 0.
Really your problem is that there are so many options it's confusing to figure out how to choose which one!
Hang in there. Try flahing the zips I pointed too and if there's a problem don't worry just post back here what happened.
For intance, when I flashed those, I had to an extra reboot that the instructions didn't say. After I flashed the firmware zip, the rom zip wouldn't flash. It just said failed in red letters. Scary. But I rbooted back into twrp and it flashed fine then. That happened a few different times on different roms after doing manual wipes in twrp also not just after flashing firmwares.
So don't worry.
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I followed to the letter the MA5 installation from Stock_Rooted_Deodexed _Ma5_Rom and LJC-MA5 firmwarezip Links UP!
It didn't work, even after rebooting twice via recovery. So I wiped cache and user data again and rebooted. My baby is till stuck at "Samsung" in the boot animation. :crying:
KEYofR - This is so depressing and I really do appreciate your encouraging words right now. I wish there was a Super Thanks button.
Sorry didn't read ahead. If you are on TWRP recovery just grab any rom and flash it and you should be booting. Make sure after you flash not to wipe anything (especially system).
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First question and if you can't answer this then you need to read up on ODIN and reflash back to stock. What recovery do you have installed? How did you perform your wipe that isn't allowing you to boot? You mentioned you wiped everything else so if you wiped system/etc then yes your phone will not boot.
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I agree, I need to read more. I am learning every day. There is just no handbook that I can start on page one and start reading. So my limited knowledge is scattered. If flashing back to stock will fix it, then so be it. If you have any suggestions on what to do next or what to read, please tell me.
Oh, all the wipes I did was from the recovery menu. I don't think system was one of the choices. But it didn't boot before I did that either.
EDIT: Looking at the recovery menu, the only choices are
*Wipe data/Factory reset
*Wipe cache partition
So no system wipe choice there.
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You may have to use ODIN to flash back to stock. First thing I would do is see if the phone will get into download mode. It's volume up or down with power button and home button.
If you can get into download mode you will have to use ODIN on your PC to get back to a stock rom. Thats my advice at least.
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After flashing ma5 and rebooting, did you let it sit on the samsung screen a while? I forget what the circumstances are but sometimes it can take a minute or so on the first boot.
You could try this one.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=36388145
Blasts you back to factory.
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