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Hi,
I have been rooting for a while with my evo 4g which is basically just recoveries & zip files.
Currently I have updated to Calk's ICS Beta 3 rom with modem FC05. I have read some stuff here & there that talk about having issues going from a ICS rom back to a GB nandroid.
I have installed Kies opened Odin, looked at the Wiki here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1274337
I just dont quite get in terms of flashing zips through odin. I keep reading people say to odin back to stock & then flash from there.
How do I do that? I looked at QB777's video on youtube, but it seems like PIT files arent used much at this point.
Any advice would be great.
Thanks,
Rich

Ok, basically when you Odin back to stock, it involves flashing a .tar ROM from the pda slot in desktop Odin and not zip file like you would in CWM. Once you restore back to stock, you can find a .tar recovery, I personally use rogue which will allow you to have cwm-based recovery for flashing zips. All the links should be in development. Let me know if you still need help
Edit-what Odin does is it allows you to flash Roms, kernels, moderns, etc even if you don't have a custom recovery, provided that they are in the correct format, like .tar extension
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so when i flash a tar, I go into download mode, open odin, point it to a stock rooted tar file that has CWR & I am back to stock ready to flash to something else?
Can you help me find those files? A stock rooted, CWR should do the trick.

RichTJ99 said:
so when i flash a tar, I go into download mode, open odin, point it to a stock rooted tar file that has CWR & I am back to stock ready to flash to something else?
Can you help me find those files? A stock rooted, CWR should do the trick.
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Ok, so you go into a download mode on your phone, open Odin, plug in your USB cord, ODIN should recognize your phone provided you installed the right drivers. You're good if you get the yellow box that says 0 com, something something. The only box that should be checked is Auto Reboot in Odin.
The easiest way that I've been going back and forth between GB and ICS is to install the rooted EL29 .tar version here
http://little-melon.com/sfhub/SPH-D710.EL29_CL852097_ROOTED-sfx.exe
You would need to extract the file until you get a folder with tar.md5 name. Example of the file I provided would be SPH-D710.EL29_CL852097_ROOTED_PDA.tar.md5 once you unzip it. This is the file you would put on the PDA slot of your desktop Odin.
Once you do this, Odin will start flashing and be done in like 1-2 minutes and auto reboot. Do not do anything to shut down, unplug, or mess with the device while Odin is flashing or you may end up bricking it. Once your phone reboots you will be rooted and stock based with EL 29 modem and kernel, which is the latest official Sprint OTA. If you want to get a recovery after this,you would need to go back into Odin and flash a kernel that has a recovery baked in. Like I said I use Rogue and the link would be here for Rogue Stock EL29-
http://goo-inside.me/kernels/TeamRo.../rogue_ET-recoveryonly-1.1.4-rc0-odin.tar.md5
Flashing this in Odin you will get CWM-based recovery and can start backing up, flashing different ROMS.
Hope this helps.

This is very helpful. I am stuck at the SGS2 boot screen after flashing MIJJs Goodness 1.8, can't boot in to recovery, only download mode. How do I fix this?

thefoss said:
This is very helpful. I am stuck at the SGS2 boot screen after flashing MIJJs Goodness 1.8, can't boot in to recovery, only download mode. How do I fix this?
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Flash a recovery in download mode that I linked. It's rogue recovery
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Just to confirm, using the files you had here, I open odin in download mode, choose PDA (check the check box) point it to the tar.md5 file, hit start & wait a few minutes until it auto reboots?
How do I flash the recovery? Is it also the PDA?
I have been flashing modems in CWR, not odin & I just want to make sure that recovery or rom itself, just PDA & nothing else checked (but PDA)?
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Ok, so you go into a download mode on your phone, open Odin, plug in your USB cord, ODIN should recognize your phone provided you installed the right drivers. You're good if you get the yellow box that says 0 com, something something. The only box that should be checked is Auto Reboot in Odin.
The easiest way that I've been going back and forth between GB and ICS is to install the rooted EL29 .tar version here
http://little-melon.com/sfhub/SPH-D710.EL29_CL852097_ROOTED-sfx.exe
You would need to extract the file until you get a folder with tar.md5 name. Example of the file I provided would be SPH-D710.EL29_CL852097_ROOTED_PDA.tar.md5 once you unzip it. This is the file you would put on the PDA slot of your desktop Odin.
Once you do this, Odin will start flashing and be done in like 1-2 minutes and auto reboot. Do not do anything to shut down, unplug, or mess with the device while Odin is flashing or you may end up bricking it. Once your phone reboots you will be rooted and stock based with EL 29 modem and kernel, which is the latest official Sprint OTA. If you want to get a recovery after this,you would need to go back into Odin and flash a kernel that has a recovery baked in. Like I said I use Rogue and the link would be here for Rogue Stock EL29-
http://goo-inside.me/kernels/TeamRo.../rogue_ET-recoveryonly-1.1.4-rc0-odin.tar.md5
Flashing this in Odin you will get CWM-based recovery and can start backing up, flashing different ROMS.
Hope this helps.
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Reverting back to GB ROM
I recently switched back from ICS to GB and did not have any problems with the change back. I simply went into my SD card manually took everything off except my chaulkins format all and my wifi tether hack. I then went into recovery mode and did a wipe all. Then went to zip files, ran the format all, then did an install of the new ROM and it works great!

Stuck on the Splash screen help

So I came from ICS FC07, and was trying to update my rom to FC15, went into recovery, wiped all, flashed the rom, then the moden, and now I am stuck at the Galaxy S II screen.... I backed everything up in CMW before flashing though so how can I restore it? When I got into recovery ( stock ) I see all my back ups

Is DL mode available? Then only solution would be installing the recovery kernel thru odin.
At this time, EL29 is known as safe to use. So, download the tar file from
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1540158
Rogue Stock EL29 (Odin Tar)
-Open Odin and make sure only auto reboot is selected in the option list
-Click PDA and select the Rogue tar, then select start
Odin the tar file (be sure put the file to the right place) and during the reboot, press vol up + power. If the recovery mode comes, then restart the whole process again but don't do the modem again at the same session. If modem cause the problem, then try odin the modem after the reboot.
*important* Be sure that you use the usb cable that had no issues before. Bad usb cable is causing your odin process stopped and your phone bricked....

If you had FC07 with CWM repack did you try any wipe operations before flashing by ODIN OC?
If you should have problems flashing by ODIN after similar cases - in particular, data.img - please mention so as it *may* indicate a brick. But being optimistic and hoping that isn't the case here...

garwynn said:
If you had FC07 with CWM repack did you try any wipe operations before flashing by ODIN OC?
If you should have problems flashing by ODIN after similar cases - in particular, data.img - please mention so as it *may* indicate a brick. But being optimistic and hoping that isn't the case here...
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no its not bricked, i went ahead and restored it with the post above. thanks though.

Jess813 said:
no its not bricked, i went ahead and restored it with the post above. thanks though.
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A happy ending We need more of those around here!

kobridge said:
Is DL mode available? Then only solution would be installing the recovery kernel thru odin.
At this time, EL29 is known as safe to use. So, download the tar file from
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1540158
Rogue Stock EL29 (Odin Tar)
-Open Odin and make sure only auto reboot is selected in the option list
-Click PDA and select the Rogue tar, then select start
Odin the tar file (be sure put the file to the right place) and during the reboot, press vol up + power. If the recovery mode comes, then restart the whole process again but don't do the modem again at the same session. If modem cause the problem, then try odin the modem after the reboot.
*important* Be sure that you use the usb cable that had no issues before. Bad usb cable is causing your odin process stopped and your phone bricked....
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Thats what I keep doing and odin works all the way through but then it gets stuck at the boot screen after odin does its thing. I can still boot into team recovery and downloading mode.

armandosal said:
Thats what I keep doing and odin works all the way through but then it gets stuck at the boot screen after odin does its thing. I can still boot into team recovery and downloading mode.
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seems like we have to choose the long-ride path.
From the same download page, there are separate rom(+root)/kernel/modems files are available. Starting from the first (format all), can you try odin one by one? (reboot after each installation)
The sequence would be -
1. from the recovery, wipe everything, execute Calk's format all
2. odin Rom
3. reboot and check if system starts
4. odin kernel (repacked recovery)
5. reboot
6. odin modem
7. reboot.
8. go settings > about phone > system update > update profile & PRL

Check this out - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1557317

Well here is what I did, went into download mode, and installed the EG30 Tar, and everything is up and running. My only problem is that now I have EG30 with FC15 modem LoL, although I am considering leaving it as is because my phone seems to be working super fast, if I wanted to change the modem I would need to do this through Odin correct?

Jess813 said:
Well here is what I did, went into download mode, and installed the EG30 Tar, and everything is up and running. My only problem is that now I have EG30 with FC15 modem LoL, although I am considering leaving it as is because my phone seems to be working super fast, if I wanted to change the modem I would need to do this through Odin correct?
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because you've already figured out lots of things already, why don't you move to FC18 rom. There would be lots of benefits on it.
Currently Calk's tweaked FC18 rom is available along with Rogue FC18 recovery kernel.

kobridge said:
because you've already figured out lots of things already, why don't you move to FC18 rom. There would be lots of benefits on it.
Currently Calk's tweaked FC18 rom is available along with Rogue FC18 recovery kernel.
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Not to go out of subject but I decided to go back to stock due to all the little bugs with the new ICS leaks, ex: notification sound, GPS, Camera takes a looong time to boot up ( sometimes) so I said "eh Im going back to stock "
Has these things been worked out in FC18?

I did not notice any issues on FC18. It seems like lots of people are now satisfied with this rom. Again, up to you.

clarification on clean install of AOKP build 31

I have read and read and it has brought me to the point where I need to ask something before I go further.
I am on aokp build 28. I want to upgade to build 30. I know in the instructions it says to flash Stock CWM EL26 kernel, then before phone boots, boot into recovery and wipe then flash ROM then GAPPS.
I have only used odin when i first rooted and to fully restore back to stock root, EL29 I think I used.
I do not know how to just flash a kernel via PDA in odin. I think that means that I go into download mode, connect to Odin, then check the PDA box and browse to the kernel file and click start?
the kernel file has .md5 at the end, I saw another thread where someone said, "remove the .md5 at the end and try again", so I need to do that?
one last Q for the moment, the installation instructions say after you flash kernel, before it boots up, boot into recovery. My question is this, what is I missed that and the phone booted into GB, could you then go into recovery and flash ROM and GAPPS, because that is what happened when I flashed build 28 and I am good, just wondering if I dodged a bullet there??
TIA
Basically what I am asking is how do I use ODIN if I am not using one of sfhubs one click install procedues?
Or can I do the odin-OC EL26, and boot into recovery when the phone starts and flash from there?
I am going to use this one-click to get me back to EL26, then flash from there, sounds good, alright, thanks!!!

well, I am just scarred to move forward.
I was going to do the sfhubs EL26 odin-oc root-restore, but I was watching qbking's video for a quick refresh and made me think...
since I am on aokp build 28, and it says in my phone that I have kernel FC15, is it still going to work for me?

mobile odin pro

k so i just bought pro odin it did the file dl... i got el26 tar..... i want the new hydra table 4.04 k this is where im lost so i put it in on mobile odin just the kernel el26 let odin do its thing once it reboots i hold power and up? for cwm recovery then from w in there flash my new rom??? so lost lol. plz help thx all.

madscienist2 said:
k so i just bought pro odin it did the file dl... i got el26 tar..... i want the new hydra table 4.04 k this is where im lost so i put it in on mobile odin just the kernel el26 let odin do its thing once it reboots i hold power and up? for cwm recovery then from w in there flash my new rom??? so lost lol. plz help thx all.
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Put it in kernel scroll down and flash. The phone will not boot using this kernel unless your on Gingerbread, but you dont need it to boot. If you get stuck at any point just pull the battery and proceed to the next step after its back in.
But the moment the capacitive lights turn off or from a full off hold the power + vol up until you see recovery.
Scroll down a couple until you get Install zip from sd (off the top of my head) in that menu the first option is the sd card and the bottom of the list also has the internal sd. go to the rom and any other files you want to flash, upon reboot, and a long reboot it will be you will have the rom you flashed.
Be sure to follow any additional instructions from that roms thread.

buildru woods,
what if im on mijj 7.1 4.0.3 os ics fd02 kernel w fd26 base as of now beforeim trying mobile odin... im just experimenting i use odin on my computer not this mobile stuff im just trying to learn more about it.

madscienist2 said:
what if im on mijj 7.1 4.0.3 os ics fd02 kernel w fd26 base as of now beforeim trying mobile odin... im just experimenting i use odin on my computer not this mobile stuff im just trying to learn more about it.
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You have 2 choices, flash the kernel with mobile odin and profit. Flash it with ODIN get a yellow triangle and profit. There is a third option that involves potentially perma bricking the phone.
One the Kernel is flashed boot to recovery, install zip from sd card, pick which one, find the file.

[Q] CM9 alpha 4 upgrade issue

I downloaded the .zip file for the upgrade from alpha3 to alpha4 off CM's website, put it on my SDCARD, booted into recovery - looks like stock recovery, (following the steps on CM website) then applied the zip -> it looks like its doing something for about 20 seconds then the little android guy dies and has a red triangle with an exclamation point coming out his stomach. What am I doing wrong?
baseband version: FE10
Kernel Version: 3.0.15-SPH-D710.FD10-CL377892

You need to be using a clockwork mod recovery to flash, stock recovery will not work.
First make sure you are rooted.
Next use either Odin 1.85 or Mobile Odin to flash the EL26 kernel.
Upon reboot, go into recovery mode using volume up+power. If you miss your chance to do so, just pull the battery and try to get into recovery again.
Using CWM, flash per the install instructions.

so do i just odin the kernel back to el26 w/ CWM? the reason i dont want to do a clean install is because i wodnt want to wipe my data. If i odin to EL26 w/ CWM do i need to go back to gingerbread?? Or is there a way i can sat on ICS and upgrade?
what if i used this kernel? [NEW][KERNEL] FE16 Repack with ACS recovery

mazostyle said:
so do i just odin the kernel back to el26 w/ CWM? the reason i dont want to do a clean install is because i wodnt want to wipe my data. If i odin to EL26 w/ CWM do i need to go back to gingerbread?? Or is there a way i can sat on ICS and upgrade?
what if i used this kernel? [NEW][KERNEL] FE16 Repack with ACS recovery
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If someone tells you how to do it safely, and you choose to do it your way done come crying when you brick, because it still says don't use recovery with ics kernels...
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dante32278 said:
You need to be using a clockwork mod recovery to flash, stock recovery will not work.
First make sure you are rooted.
Next use either Odin 1.85 or Mobile Odin to flash the EL26 kernel.
Upon reboot, go into recovery mode using volume up+power. If you miss your chance to do so, just pull the battery and try to get into recovery again.
Using CWM, flash per the install instructions.
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Do exactly what he said here... You're not going back to GB or wiping data. You're just re-flashing a CWM recovery. When you originally installed CM9 alpha 3, you used a CWM recovery. But the CM9 ROM re-flashes a stock recovery (which you can not use to upgrade from alpha3 to alpha4).
So all you do is Odin the EL26 kernel/CWM recovery image (phone in Download mode), and then you reboot and hold vol+ and power to get the phone into the CWM Recovery Mode. From there, you just install the CM9 alpha4, you don't wipe data or lose anything.

thanks man, it worked.

I am new to the forums and didn't want to make a new thread. I am having issues with the GPS (Maps App.) The app loads up i enter the destination i want to go to but it wont find my location where i am at. It just keeps searching for my location...
So i went ahead and downloaded another GPS app ( tele nav.) same issue. I was wondering is there a way to fix GPS issues on this rom? I would like to fix that issue..

anyone have a solution to fixing the GPS issue on this rom???