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Whats the best stock rom for the Epic?

I just bought my wife an Epic and it's already rooted running the Simply AOSP v3.1.1 rom. But my wife wants the phone stock rooted.
So can someone please tell me whats the best stock rooted rom out here for the Epic?

Here you go http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1061912

theduce102 said:
Here you go http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1061912
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Cool thanks...I noticed that these are TAR files, so I flash them via Odin then..correct?

plmiller0905 said:
I flash them via Odin then..correct?
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That would be correct

tazfanatic said:
That would be correct
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Thanks...I tried it and Odin said Fail. So I just Odined back to stock, re-rooted, updated clockwork and made made a backup of the stock rom.
I wanted to download and try out the Frankinstein Rom, but i can't find the links...oh well.
Thanks for all the help though

Here you go lol http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1095971

Can't Find Sprint Stock Flash Program -again
A while back I had to flash my phone back to stock. Sprint had a program that was NOT odin. I am on holiday and the new gingerbread has seriously screwed up my phone. It does not work correctly and the battery drain is tremendous.
I have the program on my desktop pc, but not my laptop. can ANYBODY please direct me to the Non-odin way to flash the Samsung Epic back to stock? I am able to update the phone over 3g/4g after that for updates.
Thanks

trailblazer153 said:
A while back I had to flash my phone back to stock. Sprint had a program that was NOT odin. I am on holiday and the new gingerbread has seriously screwed up my phone. It does not work correctly and the battery drain is tremendous.
I have the program on my desktop pc, but not my laptop. can ANYBODY please direct me to the Non-odin way to flash the Samsung Epic back to stock? I am able to update the phone over 3g/4g after that for updates.
Thanks
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Ok, you are going to want to flash the ReRFS ROM. It will bring you back to stock EC05. I am trying to find a link for you...EDIT..here's the link. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1027904
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1027904
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Stock Rom?

Is there a stock rom image or something? I see a stock kernel, but is there a way to go full stock when it first came from sprint?

Not yet, so if you root with CWM make sure to back it up before you start changing things.

So I did make a backup... do I just restore that backup and all iis set along with flashing stock kernel? Or should the backup do all that for me?

The backup will bring you back to the state you where at at the time of the backup. If that was stock other than the kernel then you just have to flash the stock kernel and you will be back to stock.
Sent from my Samsung Epic Touch 4G

Can't someone just pull the ROM from the phone?

gmap516 said:
Can't someone just pull the ROM from the phone?
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I have no clue about that.
Sent from my Samsung Epic Touch 4G

i thikn theres a thread for this on the dev section

expertzero1 said:
i thikn theres a thread for this on the dev section
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yea... isnt there a stock image of a rom?

See this thread (just posted today):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1282420

[Q] Test drive ICS on samsung epic without losing stock?

I want to try and flash ICS onto my phone, it is rooted on stock, but is there a way i can back up everything on the phone now to the sd card, try ics, then restore the phone to its previous state?

richyrocket said:
I want to try and flash ICS onto my phone, it is rooted on stock, but is there a way i can back up everything on the phone now to the sd card, try ics, then restore the phone to its previous state?
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Make a nandroid backup in clock work mod. If you dont have clock work, you will have to install that first. Search the dev thread for the CWM recovery threads

Okay, i have cwm and i have it backed up. so if i download ics and flash it i will be able to restore my old data?

richyrocket said:
Okay, i have cwm and i have it backed up. so if i download ics and flash it i will be able to restore my old data?
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you are correct!

WAIT HE'S NOT ON MTD No no no.
You can't do that your on stock rooted bml...and flashing cm9 will put you on mtd restoring bml nandroids will bootloop it/ soft brick it and will need to be re odined to get back to stock.
Sent From My SPH-D700 Running Android 4.0

Big Goron said:
WAIT HE'S NOT ON MTD No no no.
You can't do that your on stock rooted bml...and flashing cm9 will put you on mtd restoring bml nandroids will bootloop it/ soft brick it and will need to be re odined to get back to stock.
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WOW WOW WOW!! Thank you! You still can make the nandroid and not worry about anything. You will however, have to odin back to stock and use the victory pit file, to restore said backup!! Sorry, and thanks again Big Goron!
edit: also make sure repartition and auto reboot are checked in Odin!

Its okay sorry my shift key got stuck for a minute there tried to make it look as urgent as possible.
Sent From My SPH-D700 Running Android 4.0

Big Goron said:
Its okay sorry my shift key got stuck for a minute there tried to make it look as urgent as possible.
Sent From My SPH-D700 Running Android 4.0
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LOL, I mean the WOW for me being so quick to respond and not even thinking of the file system! I would have felt terrible! But really, he would have just pooped himself a little lol, and no harm would have been done! Again, thanks for saving my dumbness today!

Coycaine said:
LOL, I mean the WOW for me being so quick to respond and not even thinking of the file system! I would have felt terrible! But really, he would have just pooped himself a little lol, and no harm would have been done! Again, thanks for saving my dumbness today!
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One more bml/mtd aren't filesystems they're Partitions just saying..etx4 and yaffs2 are FS's . No problem I tend to forget BML even exists anymore.
Sent From My SPH-D700 Running Android 4.0

Big Goron said:
One more bml/mtd aren't filesystems they're Partitions just saying..etx4 and yaffs2 are FS's . No problem I tend to forget BML even exists anymore.
Sent From My SPH-D700 Running Android 4.0
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If you keep correcting me...lol I'll learn more! What really gets me, is going back and forth between the Epic and Nexus. Both on the phones, and forums! They are sooo damn similar, yet sooooooo different lol! I sent the OP a PM just to clear my conscience a little! And what Im hoping for the OP is he will love CM9, and never want to go back to the BML "PARTITION"! lol look Im getting it already!

THANK GOODNESS! glad I checked back here before i started.

richyrocket said:
THANK GOODNESS! glad I checked back here before i started.
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So did you get all that? lol...Do you have Odin installed on your computer?
everything you will need... http://forums.acsyndicate.net/showt...ot-unbrick-the-Samsung-Epic-4G-on-BML-and-MTD

yes i have odin, flashback from when i bricked my palm pre so what all would i need to do to restore back to GB? (if i wanted to)

oops. just saw your links.

richyrocket said:
yes i have odin, flashback from when i bricked my palm pre so what all would i need to do to restore back to GB? (if i wanted to)
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1. Odin
2. Victory.pit file
3. A stock tar
The only reason for this is,it is the way to get back to the BML partition. Once you are back on stock, your back up will work as it should!
edit: If you use a non rooted stock .tar you will have to install CWM again. I am looking for the rooted ec05 tar for you right now.
this is a stock rooted ec05 tar from noobnl. http://www.mediafire.com/?opnq0n0pau8cu01

You all make me so proud!
To the OP you can follow this thread exactly to return to EL30 stock:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1052813
Then Qbking's video to root it again:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwFRzzIqouE

Help a stranger out!

I'm not new to flashing ROMs on my Evo, however your forums here are a little more cryptic. My son rooted his phone and flashed CWM and a Cyan Rom. He would like to return to rooted stock. Can someone point me in the direction of the latest OTA Stock Rooted Rom for the Samsung Galaxy S Epic II 4G? He apparantlly followed some video tutorial yada yad yada. I realize ROMs are probably flashed thru the recovery console, is flashing similar to flashing on an Evo from that point? (Boot to recovery -> work your way to Flash from Zip ...)
Thanks in advance.

thebbbrain said:
I'm not new to flashing ROMs on my Evo, however your forums here are a little more cryptic. My son rooted his phone and flashed CWM and a Cyan Rom. He would like to return to rooted stock. Can someone point me in the direction of the latest OTA Stock Rooted Rom for the Samsung Galaxy S Epic II 4G? He apparantlly followed some video tutorial yada yad yada. I realize ROMs are probably flashed thru the recovery console, is flashing similar to flashing on an Evo from that point? (Boot to recovery -> work your way to Flash from Zip ...)
Thanks in advance.
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Here you go
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1433101
Instructions are on that page, just make sure you use the full restore, and not the preserve data or you can brick. At the current point we don't have a kernel built from source yet, because of this, you must flash back to stock rooted EL29 via ODIN OC or you will brick. I highly suggest you read my thread in my signature because flashing anything ICS for this phone can be extremely dangerous and will brick your phone if you aren't sure what your doing.

Just to be sure you are looking at the right thread, please go to settings>about phone. Make sure model number is SPH-D710. I only say this cause I haven't heard of a Cyan ROM, and (not trying to be a jerk), most people refer to this phone as the epic 4g touch. You got something weird up there, and there are at least 20 different versions of this phone (galaxy s2).
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Could he have meant Cyanogen?

MeWarning said:
Could he have meant Cyanogen?
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Yes, that is what I meant by Cyan.
Thanks for the links and tips guys, I will check it out tonight.
Short version is this is the Galaxy 2 from Sprint, the one with the long bastardized name. Took forever to find this forum cause I was looking for something closer in name.

Yes it is the bastardized sprint Samsung galaxy s2. Word to the wise stay on this forum. Any other galaxy s2 forum especially international will have a huge possibility of turning the phone into a nice little paper weight. I have to say thanks for taking the time to find out. We have had a bunch of people come through here with paper weights wondering what happened because they didn't bother to read
Sent from my BAD A$$ EPIC TOUCH 4G

Is there a flashable zip or whatever you guys use on the Epic somewhere that I can just copy to the sd card vs going thru ADB etc as in the link from above? The phone is already rooted, I don't want to lose root, just load a stock rooted rom on the phone.
Thanks.

thebbbrain said:
Is there a flashable zip or whatever you guys use on the Epic somewhere that I can just copy to the sd card vs going thru ADB etc as in the link from above? The phone is already rooted, I don't want to lose root, just load a stock rooted rom on the phone.
Thanks.
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You need this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1433101
Just read the entire OP twice. It's really simple. It will return you back to stock rooted gingerbread EL29
Edit: just realized its the same link. This is not adb. It's an odin one click package. Basically download the file and press a button and you're done
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tkemack said:
You need this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1433101
Just read the entire OP twice. It's really simple. It will return you back to stock rooted gingerbread EL29
Edit: just realized its the same link. This is not adb. It's an odin one click package. Basically download the file and press a button and you're done
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+1
I would follow the posted thread as.. a.) It is the safest way since lots of people have been bricking their phone via flashes b.) This will return the phone to the stock ROM, but it will remain rooted.

Thanks guys(gals?) I'll be trying this tomorrow!

thebbbrain said:
Thanks guys(gals?) I'll be trying this tomorrow!
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Watch the qbking77 video and you'll be golden. It should be linked in the post. Really easy once you figure it out.
Sent from my SPH-D710 using xda premium

Ok, reporting back.
First we tried the 'don't overwrite data' option, everything appeared to be ok until the phone rebooted. It sat on the 4G splash screen in a continual restarting state for about ten minutes. We tried flashing that twice. After that we tried flashing the factory restore with root option, that worked just fine.
Thanks again for the input.
Now he'll have to restore all of his desired apps, but that's his problem, since I told him not to root in the first place. LOL.
Cheers.

[Q] IMEI at zero/need some help

I'm helping to get some help from the community on this one. I've already received extensive help from a senior member on here but haven't had any luck yet. I have a T-mo SG3 currently running the fantastic Darthstalker rom. I flashed the latest modem and the next thing you know I don't seem to have a data connection (first at E then G). I tried a few things that didn't work, then I check the imei # and it's at zero. I then tried this method http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1852255 but when I flashed the zip file the message that came up said "efs backup starting waiting to see if unlocked" then " backup skipped not unlocked". I thought that was weird because I thought it was unlocked already or should be. Anyway I don't know if that method would have worked because I could not get past that step. I then started reading here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1308546 but haven't actually tried it yet because I don't know a lot about it. Phone has been running great and still is prior to this. I did not have a backup of the efs/imei prior to this happening but when looking in root explorer there is an efs file in there, which also contains an imei file. My hope is that I am able to restore my imei number and get my data connection back. Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

That Synergy zip is for Verizon phones. And it won't help you now because your IMEI is already lost.
You need make use of the IMEI restore thread. It's around these forums somewhere.

Aerowinder said:
That Synergy zip is for Verizon phones. And it won't help you now because your IMEI is already lost.
You need make use of the IMEI restore thread. It's around these forums somewhere.
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Thank you I'll search for that. It is possible to get it back right? I'm not totally screwed am I ? Thanks again.

Go back to TouchWiz.
Then:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1801997
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Don_Perrignon said:
Go back to TouchWiz.
Then:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1801997
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Thank you and I'll take a look at that. When you said go back to TW, did you mean stock rom? I won't be able to do this from my current custom rom even though it's a TW rom? Thanks in advance.

Citadel69 said:
Thank you and I'll take a look at that. When you said go back to TW, did you mean stock rom? I won't be able to do this from my current custom rom even though it's a TW rom? Thanks in advance.
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Any TouchWiz ROM from this phone. Whether that's a modified version of it or not (I don't call TouchWiz stock). It just makes one step of that whole process easier when you're on TouchWiz since you're dealing with star codes.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda premium

To avoid confusing and bricking your phone, just ODIN back to stock. Go here --> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1771687
And go to the Back Up and Restore thread mentioned above.
Citadel69 said:
Thank you and I'll take a look at that. When you said go back to TW, did you mean stock rom? I won't be able to do this from my current custom rom even though it's a TW rom? Thanks in advance.
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Update
fo.Hey there. I managed to inject the imei back into the phone but am still having trouble with the data connection. It's still showing EDGE. I followed the steps to backup/restore and then get the $G back but it didn't work. I used the method by PeoplesArmy. Are there any other ways to get the 4G back? I'm still on my custom rom, should I go back to stock and see what happens. Thanks in advance for any help/info