OK this phone used to be great coming from a HTC hero but now I'm really starting to regret the purchase.
I'm fully stock with a EK02 Rom. You have to excuse my ignorance as I don't know what the different radios do. Anyway I'm sick of the phantom LOS and needing to reboot my phone only to find I missed texts. In addition the sound bug when trying to play games on rare occasions is just as annoying.
Are there any roms / radios that fix these issues? What about CM?
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Flash either the EL26 or the EL29 radios and see if that fixes your issues, it did mine.
Is this just to fix the Los issue? Do I need to be rooted for this?
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Check out the how to videos by QBKing77. He does a good job of explaining the how to process for almost everything.
http://www.youtube.com/user/qbking77#grid/user/6B97247164921053
This particular video shows how to install the EL26 Modem via Odin. I am pretty sure you don't need root to use Odin.
http://youtu.be/0uGAamjtNwk
Yes, you need root to flash modems, kernels, ROMS, etc.. Shouldn't be difficult to do that, takes a few minutes.
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definitely flash a new radio man. el26 gave me bad battery life. I am now on stock rooted el29 rom radio and rogue el29 kernel and no problems here!
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Yes, you need root to flash modems, kernels, ROMS, etc.. Shouldn't be difficult to do that, takes a few minutes.
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Not really with Odin you don't need root to flash
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I think if I'm going to go through the process of flashing a new modem I might as well root my phone as well. As far as I recall the only issue people speculated was root caused then LOS but if I already have that issue what does it matter
That said when I rooted my old hero I never used oden before. The little I have read suggests that oden will increase a flash counter that may or may not be looked at if your phone has an issue. I also thought I read there is a new rooting method that doesn't use oden and will allow me to keep everything stock? I'm not sure what the difference is? One installed a different kernal or something like that? And different kernals give different behaviors.
One thing I did before was a nand backup right after root so I could completely restore my phone. I guess I have some reading to do.
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So I'm still pretty new on the E4GT forums, having recently come over from a Nexus one, which was quite a bit easier to mess with as far as ROM's are concerned, and much less easy to brick. About the only thing that could brick an N1 was flashing a radio, and new radio's didn't come out that often, so no big deal.
I'm currently running Calkulins EL29 mod with an FC14 modem on my E4GT, but I'm really wanting to mess with the testing builds of CM9, I really miss CM. All the steps seems to spread out across multiple threads, so I want to make sure I do it correctly so as not to brick.
1. nandroid backup, backup, backup
2. boot to download mode
3. load stock cwm el26 through odin
4. flash cm9 zip
5. mess around with it.
Where I'm a little confused is how to get back to where I was should I decide to wait some more. How do I get back to the EL29 CWM so that I can then restore the nandroid backup? Also, will I need to flash different modems again, or can I stick with the fc14 modem through all of this?
Please understand that I'm not a total n00b at all of this, been flashing all kinds of ROM's on my old Nexus one for two years, just don't have much experience with Sammy devices.
You just want too flash roms and themes?
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I would also like to know the answer to this.. I'm terrified to flash or odin any ics-based roms because I don't want to brick my phone like a lot of others have
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You just want too flash roms and themes?
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Themes, not really, but ROM's yes. It's just a bit confusing cause I see things like, you need this CWM for this, you need to flash this, or you need to Odin that, you need this specific CWM for this, or you need to get back to stock before you fan flash or Odin this or that.
But what I'm really wanting help with at this moments, is the testing build of CM9, and then how to get back if I don't like it at this time.
Ok....I download roms straight from xda app and then I go to recovery......do a full wipe....wipe data/wipe dalvic/wipe cache/wipe battery stats.........then I install .zip (rom) then reboot.....that's all I do,its pretty simple
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Ok....I download roms straight from xda app and then I go to recovery......do a full wipe....wipe data/wipe dalvic/wipe cache/wipe battery stats.........then I install .zip (rom) then reboot.....that's all I do,its pretty simple
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The problem is that CM9 is an ICS ROM, you can't just flash willy nilly as there are a lot of reports of people bricking their phones cause they didn't use the right recovery. How to flash CM9 on is not my problem, it's how to get back to EL29 if I don't like the current testing build of CM9.
Ohh yeah....I don't mess with that stuff lol,can't take a chance.......but everyone says don't.
And I love cm7 can't wait for cm9 to be stable
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Check out QBKing77 on YouTube. He has very simple videos about how to get back to stock after flashing ROMs, his guidance taught me everything. But don't let my noob-ness detour you, they are great videos.
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Check out QBKing77 on YouTube. He has very simple videos about how to get back to stock after flashing ROMs, his guidance taught me everything. But don't let my noob-ness detour you, they are great videos.
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People, please read my OP, I'm already rooted and running a custom gingerbread rom and recovery. I'm wanting to run CM9, but it may not be stable enough for me, so I'm wanting to know what the steps are to get back to my custom gingerbread rom should I decide to go back.
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People, please read my OP, I'm already rooted and running a custom gingerbread rom and recovery. I'm wanting to run CM9, but it may not be stable enough for me, so I'm wanting to know what the steps are to get back to my custom gingerbread rom should I decide to go back.
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The guy you just quoted... just told you where to find that information. :what:
This has been discussed ad nauseum all over the forums, and if you do a bit of research you will find the exact procedure. Since I'm on my phone, kinda a pain to type it all out. But he's right, the point is to get back to stock GB rom before restoring any GB nandroids. (specifically before wiping any partitions, but that's yet another long explanation.) This issue And procedure is the same for ICS leaks, for cm9, for AOKP.
Look for a sticky thread in general titled "how not to brick your phone" or something.
Or, god forbid, actually read one of the ICS/cm9/AOKP/leak threads. I swear, every third page you will see someone ask this and the process described.
And QBKING77s videos have a step by step explanation for this as well. Really the best way.
And yes, you can keep the modem, no matter what rom/kernel you run. Same thing as a "radio".
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The guy you just quoted... just told you where to find that information. :what:
This has been discussed ad nauseum all over the forums, and if you do a bit of research you will find the exact procedure. Since I'm on my phone, kinda a pain to type it all out. But he's right, the point is to get back to stock GB rom before restoring any GB nandroids. (specifically before wiping any partitions, but that's yet another long explanation.) This issue And procedure is the same for ICS leaks, for cm9, for AOKP.
Look for a sticky thread in general titled "how not to brick your phone" or something.
Or, god forbid, actually read one of the ICS/cm9/AOKP/leak threads. I swear, every third page you will see someone ask this and the process described.
And QBKING77s videos have a step by step explanation for this as well. Really the best way.
And yes, you can keep the modem, no matter what rom/kernel you run. Same thing as a "radio".
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I did some searching, and everything I found says to get back to stock, I didn't see where it said that you have to get back to stock first before you can then restore a nandroid.
This is not how it was done on the Nexus One, so it's new to me.
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I did some searching, and everything I found says to get back to stock, I didn't see where it said that you have to get back to stock first before you can then restore a nandroid.
This is not how it was done on the Nexus One, so it's new to me.
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Ics kennels with cwm have been bricking phones ....some just by wiping data ...they corrupt your data partition making it impossible to write to ..jtag doesn't even work on it...so we have been Odin back to stock GB and go from there
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You may want to read this if you haven't already:
How Not To Brick Your E4GT
Now that it has been stickied the OP went through and updated the first post to cover most of I believe you are trying to find out. Hope this helps!
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Ics kennels with cwm have been bricking phones ....some just by wiping data ...they corrupt your data partition making it impossible to write to ..jtag doesn't even work on it...so we have been Odin back to stock GB and go from there
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That's what I've been seeing, which is why I want to make sure I do it right. I don't even know what jtag is, had to look it up. Some kind of debugging tool from I found.
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You may want to read this if you haven't already:
How Not To Brick Your E4GT
Now that it has been stickied the OP went through and updated the first post to cover most of I believe you are trying to find out. Hope this helps!
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I'll definitely give it good read. Thanks.
I've read through most of these threads an I'm pretty sure there is no CWM for ICS for the Epic 4G Touch. Is this correct?
I have the s2 for tmobile and it is practically unbrickable compared to this phone. My friend has the Epic and I installed ICS AOKP. It is way more difficult on his phone. I don't understand why it is so different. Given, we have different hardware, but neither one of us have the source for ICS or kernel. But I do have the same CWM no matter what rom I'm on.
1. Is it possible to have CWM on the Epic 4G Touch?
2. His ext_sdcard is not showing up. How to I make it work? I tried DirectoryBind to no avail. Maybe I'm doing something wrong.
3. Can i flash zips in ICS recovery? Ive never seen the recovery it put me in before.
4. Am I missing something?
I was under time costraints when helping him out and honestly I'm just happy i got AOKP running on his phone without any issues.
I appreciate all the work everyone has done so please don't take anything I said the wrong way.
Thanks in advance an i look firward to hearing from anyone...
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We need ICS kernel source before we can have a proper CWM kernel for ICS.
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We had CWM on ICS for a little bit, but it was causinga ton of bricks because the partitions are handled differently in ICS. I wouldn't attempt to flash anything in ICS recovery because you risk bricking the device. We likely won't have CWM for it until kernel source drops.
If you need to flash something, the best way to do it is to Odin back to EL26, install CWM, and flash everything (ROM, kernel, modem etc.) in one recovery session. Most of the threads for AOSP ICS roms have specific flashing instructions in the first post.
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We had CWM on ICS for a little bit, but it was causinga ton of bricks because the partitions are handled differently in ICS. I wouldn't attempt to flash anything in ICS recovery because you risk bricking the device. We likely won't have CWM for it until kernel source drops.
If you need to flash something, the best way to do it is to Odin back to EL26, install CWM, and flash everything (ROM, kernel, modem etc.) in one recovery session. Most of the threads for AOSP ICS roms have specific flashing instructions in the first post.
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Thanks for the info. I guess I'm spoiled on my T989! We dont have source either. We didnt even have a proper leak til yesterday, but ICS runs great because our devs are ridiculous.
I have him running FD26 so I will flash back el26 for the mods. I left his baseband alone and it seems to be running fine.
Thanks again. I appreciate the help
Edit: One more thing. I need to reset the flash counter and remove the yellow triangle every time i go back to cwm right?
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You don't need to remove it, it's really just personal preference and if it makes you happy you can, lol.
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You don't need to remove it, it's really just personal preference and if it makes you happy you can, lol.
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Lol! Its just so ugly. I wish there was a kernel for the Epic that had a cool bootanimation. My friend saw my. Darkside kernel boot and wants it now. He doesn't understand because he thinks our phones are identical.
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Look here guys http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=25659129#post25659129
I noticed the repacked kernel might not work with AOSP though. I think that I will flash him back to GB until source is released. I don't want want him to accidentally brick.
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xyros7 said:
I noticed the repacked kernel might not work with AOSP though. I think that I will flash him back to GB until source is released. I don't want want him to accidentally brick.
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I've been mostly staying on gb roms just for stability and battery life. As long as you read the instructions and don't try to be insanely flash happy you'll be fine.
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What's the problem? Question was deleted
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could of helped ya. repost
I just wanted to know if it was safe to flash from aosp to a touchwiz ROM. I did it and it worked but ive had some minor issues with the ROM . Not sure if its the ROM itself bugging out or if its because of the circumstances i flashed it in
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As long as you do the Odin back to el26 then wipe all and flash it's not the you flashed. Most of the aosp Roms still have some problems. My biggest one was the aokp and and cm9 roms deleted apps I installed after restart if any part of them is required to be on the the sdcard. They are still working on the bugs since they just got source kernel yesterday I'd give it a couple weeks before we see something with less problems from aosp roms
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Chew DZ said:
I just wanted to know if it was safe to flash from aosp to a touchwiz ROM. I did it and it worked but ive had some minor issues with the ROM . Not sure if its the ROM itself bugging out or if its because of the circumstances i flashed it in
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Its not that anyone may not of wanted to help you but your question could of easily of been answered with a little research. That may have been the reason your responses did not come as fast as you may of hoped but I am glad to see you got it working. What rom are you trying to run that is giving your issues. If you are having major issues just do some wiping but make sure its on of the new from "source" kernel that has been put out by agat in development. Or flash a el26 kernel and wipe away then reflash rom. The choice is yours
Good luck and if you need anything else just pm me
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Its not that anyone may not of wanted to help you but your question could of easily of been answered with a little research. That may have been the reason your responses did not come as fast as you may of hoped but I am glad to see you got it working. What rom are you trying to run that is giving your issues. If you are having major issues just do some wiping but make sure its on of the new from "source" kernel that has been put out by agat in development. Or flash a el26 kernel and wipe away then reflash rom. The choice is yours
Good luck and if you need anything else just pm me
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I always do research before i post. Couldnt find a ROM with someone asking that question. But Ok I see what i did wrong. I didnt flash the el26 kernel. Ive been havin force close issues with Mijjahz goodness ROM. I will flash the el26 kernel n reflash and see what happens. Thanks !
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Hey guys, im coming from a Galaxy Nexus, so all this is pretty weird to me. Usually the kernel is included with the ROM, but it seems like you have to worry about your kernel here. Then you have to worry about if your recovery partition has been wiped.
And the dreaded EMMC bug.
So im running FF18, and i need to root and install a custom ROM.
I dont have Kies installed on my computer, but my device registered in Odin.
Can someone give me a run through on what exactly i need to flash?
If you guys have a TWRP recovery port instead of CWM5.x.x, id love to have that.
Or a CWM touch recovery
I regularly change ROMs, so of this FF18 bug is going to brick my phone sooner or later id like to know now
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TWRP is usually a no-no with E4GT, if you want a kernel/recovery use Chris41g for AOSP and agat or rujelus for TouchWiz based ROMs.
Whichever comes in a Odin flashable format with root.
alternate to that you can use sfhub's autoroot package to root your stock FF18.
And you need to read more as all/most of the ROMs come with Kernel.
If you use sfhub's Autoroot to add Agat's safer kernel you should be clear of the brick bug. Agat, Chris41G and sfhub along with the other developers have gone a long way to stopping the bricking from 'factory resets' and wipes. However many users who don't take the time to read the stickies, how tos and the OPs of the ROM developers still get caught by doing something that has been explicity known to brick the device.
As rovar said make sure you read the ROM developers recommended install method and follow it precisely using the kernel they recommend.
With some earnest reading (through entire posts) you will have loads of fun and enjoyment. The developers in this section are really good and pretty cool. Just do some searching and you will surely find what you're looking for.
Good luck and welcome to the E4GT.
Ive just given it a quick glance, and it looked a little similar to the EVO 4G days where you had to find a kernel to go woth your rom, so rhats why i jumped to conclusions. My bad lol
Ill take a look again for an odin-flashable stock kernel
Sad theres no TWRP. Oh well
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Ive just given it a quick glance, and it looked a little similar to the EVO 4G days where you had to find a kernel to go woth your rom, so rhats why i jumped to conclusions. My bad lol
Ill take a look again for an odin-flashable stock kernel
Sad theres no TWRP. Oh well
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Sfhub has the Odin 'One-Clicks' available (by far the safest for people new to this phone) and rwilco12 has a repository of virtually all the kernels and modems flashable via Odin or CWM. Check them both out.
A lot of it has bee covered but this should help...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=28507701
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Hey guys i'm pretty much out of of options. I have tried Many Many Many different versions of "stock" tmobile S3 roms, but i either get to the modem flash and it fails, or i get various lengths into system flash and it fails. ive gone thru the stock Tmobile rom thread Here and cannot seem to figure out which file i need to download, but ive read all the way thru the threads and download majority of the T999UVALEM tar files to no avail....
Any ideas?
using Oden 3.07.
Try downloading the updated stock UVALH2 build and flash with Odin.
http://hotfile.com/dl/167751637/360216d/SGH-T999_TMB_T999UVALH2_T999TMBALH2_Original.zip.html
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Try downloading the updated stock UVALH2 build and flash with Odin.
http://hotfile.com/dl/167751637/360216d/SGH-T999_TMB_T999UVALH2_T999TMBALH2_Original.zip.html
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thanks for the reply. I tried flashing the same file that was failing with another pc and it worked without any issues... i'm not sure what was going, but it had me slightly worried..
ive owned many htc devices, but this is my first samsung one.. slight different approach to recovering everything
Yeah, it takes getting used to, but honestly I like it more than htc now that I've got the hang of things.
You may have had a corrupted download, or could've had something to do with the drivers too. If you want to use your pc again uninstall everything (phone related of course) and start over from scratch
Glad you got it figured out!
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