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Using mobile odin

My pc crashed recently and i was wondering if anybody can shed some light on mobile odin. Is it reliable, does it work well....just wanted some info before spending 5 bucks on a app ......soo should i buy???????
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So far it seems reliable. Bought pro version after using the free for a bit to support. Haven't flashed a ROM through it but have flashed modems and kernals.
Try the free and then decide. Pro gives ability to inject su etc. Not needed for kernel or modem.

Anybody else
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I've also only used it to flash Kernels. Worked great for that. Just flash a kernel then boot into recovery if you're nervous about flashing a rom with mobile Odin. Although if you brick it will be because of the kernel, not the rom.

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Janker5050 said:
My pc crashed recently and i was wondering if anybody can shed some light on mobile odin. Is it reliable, does it work well....just wanted some info before spending 5 bucks on a app ......soo should i buy???????
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i bought it and i flash everything with i only CWM for nandroid backups but something will need more then just a flash ( you will know it migth get stuck in a boot loop and thats only with a couple ROMs that need to have data wiped) , if you flash it and it gets stuck in a boot loop then just go into CWM and wipe data fix everytime and thats the only problem ive had

Mobile odin
I USED MOBILE ODIN PRO TO FLASH THE OFFICIAL ICS UPDATE FOR MY SGSII i777.
FLAWLESS

Only thing mobile Odin can't do on the et4g is.flash modems, they flash but won't stick. Its well worth the $5 but if you'd like to try it first chainfire has a free version here on xda. If you try the free version when you download it make sure to scroll down a few posts in the thread and download the flash kernel for our device, its listed as the sph-d710 I think its post 5 or 6 where its located
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+1 for mobile odin amazingness
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mobile odin
Mobile Odin has always worked well for me,it is nice not having to have a computer around to get my flash on.
Although its not been working on jellybean,has a problem with finding the partition so you have to reboot into recovery
thru the ROM or by manually booting into recovery.I'm sure it won't be long before its fixed.

can i use mobile odin to flash a directboot kernel el29 on ics where i would then flash a rom?

Yes, it will work and I have used it before.
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I've only had a snafu once and that was a couple of days ago with trying to go from blue kuban (sp?) back to el29. Something happened before i even installed it. The rom was falling on its face and reporting things stopped running. I have no clue what caused that but i suspect that is what caused mobile odin pro to lock up before rebooting. It, mop, hasnt messed anything up on a system that was running and not fc'ing or other errors popping up left and right. If you want to flash one click odin files, you need to get zarchiver to unpack the compressed exe to its full size or mop wont be able to do anything with it. I used to mess with the additional wipe options but started leaving them alone lest i screw up something. I think it's pretty safe to use. Now i have to switch out of this damned samsung keyboard because it's driving me crazy!

I've noticed people leaving comments in the app's page in the play store. Their comments are that it soft bricked when using for an ics install. Today I experienced the same thing again. When trying to go from agats fh13 rom to sfhub's one click Odin of el29, using mop, what worked so many other times is now just installing recovery but the rest bombs out. I'm going back to run a md5 on my oc el29 to make sure it isn't corrupted. Use mobile Odin at your own risk. I thought it was reliable but I have to check a few things first.

oscarthegrouch said:
I've noticed people leaving comments in the app's page in the play store. Their comments are that it soft bricked when using for an ics install. Today I experienced the same thing again. When trying to go from agats fh13 rom to sfhub's one click Odin of el29, using mop, what worked so many other times is now just installing recovery but the rest bombs out. I'm going back to run a md5 on my oc el29 to make sure it isn't corrupted. Use mobile Odin at your own risk. I thought it was reliable but I have to check a few things first.
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I only use mobile Odin to install el26+cwm to flash from. If your oneclick has a modem that may be the issue, they flash from mOdin on our device but don't stick, so it may be what's causing the softbrick with the oneclick. Or you may be correct and have a corrupted file. I've never attempted to run a oneclick or flash a whole rom tar from mOdin just el26 and then flash what I need from there, never had an issue with it yet:thumbup: usually if I want to Odin a oneclick I use the PC, but I don't Odin a rom unless I bootlooped by forgetting to flash an ics kernel after a nandroid restore from el26 or when I rooted my device. I don't use TW roms tho I stick to aosp based roms so i don't really have a need to do alot of Odining roms unless its absolutely necessary because I borked something or need to do prl and profile updates and don't wanna mOdin el26, flash TW, mOdin el26, then flash a new aosp rom or restore a backup. Ill just oneclick to el29 and a cwm kernel then do my updates, boot to recovery and flash el26.zip and the reboot recovery to flash my rom
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The ability to mobile Odin el26 kernel to be super safe is worth way more than $5 to me, app was a bargain... $5 to a fantastic dev from xda beats the hell out of $100 to asureon for an insurance claim because I was careless
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cp320703 said:
The ability to mobile Odin el26 kernel to be super safe is worth way more than $5 to me, app was a bargain... $5 to a fantastic dev from xda beats the hell out of $100 to asureon for an insurance claim because I was careless
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I've gotten into the habit of using el26 everytime I use recovery, I don't even worry about if the kernel I'm using with my rom has recovery or what recovery it is. I've been using el26 for a little more than 5 months so its just become a habit for me to mOdin it before I go into recovery
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I md5'd the file on the phone I have and on the computer. They both match. I can run the computer one and it goes through without errors. Maybe I should try it again to see if I can determine what's causing the soft brick. I will report back.

oscarthegrouch said:
I md5'd the file on the phone I have and on the computer. They both match. I can run the computer one and it goes through without errors. Maybe I should try it again to see if I can determine what's causing the soft brick. I will report back.
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Give it a try without the modem and see if that's causing it too. I know they flash and don't stick but I'm curious if its flashed with the other files if it not sticking like it should causes an error during the flash process that corrupts something in the kernel preventing the boot
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I've flashed a few different ways and no problems. Perhaps it was a couple snafus earlier. All on clicks have a modem packed in them but mop won't flash the modem. You can flash a custom recovery then flash the modem zip if you wanted to. I thought of something I did different earlier but am not sure if I want to go through the hassle again. What I did just before was to flash the fh13 modded 1x zip to show what mode you were in. It definitely broke the looks of the 3/4g icons and the battery. After the flash I couldn't connect to 4g in known good areas. Well, I'm really lazy now but I suppose I won't know if that could be replicated yet. I hate intentionally screwing something up that works nice as it is.

oscarthegrouch said:
I've flashed a few different ways and no problems. Perhaps it was a couple snafus earlier. All on clicks have a modem packed in them but mop won't flash the modem. You can flash a custom recovery then flash the modem zip if you wanted to. I thought of something I did different earlier but am not sure if I want to go through the hassle again. What I did just before was to flash the fh13 modded 1x zip to show what mode you were in. It definitely broke the looks of the 3/4g icons and the battery. After the flash I couldn't connect to 4g in known good areas. Well, I'm really lazy now but I suppose I won't know if that could be replicated yet. I hate intentionally screwing something up that works nice as it is.
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My mobile Odin will flash the modem it just doesn't stay after it reboots. That's why I was wondering if flashing the modem in the oneclick was causing some sort of error from it not sticking. I know on other devices the modem will actually stick, I think the et4g is the only one it doesn't stick on, or maybe the cdma devices it doesn't stick on. I always flash my modems in el26 right before I flash TWiz to do a prl/profile update. I'm still rocking fd19 haven't changed modems since late may after I tried the last few modems from end of may and went back to fd19 cuz i have great 3g speeds on it.
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Mobile Odin Question

I'm currently running the AOKP ICS ROM, which suggests flashing the EL26 CWM kernel when you need to do anything with CWM. I was wondering how safe Mobile Odin is. I bought it, but never used it, not even on Gingerbread just because I was always by a computer and didn't need Odin all that much daily. Now however it would be really convinient to be able to use the app to flash the EL26 Kernel whenever I needed to do a backup or restore ... So how about it, see any horror stories out there about using it on GB or ICS?
Just an FYI, running FC18( both kernel and modem ) on AOKP right now, so I'd be using Mobile Odin when FC18 was already flashed and running, to be able to get me back to EL26 Kernel and Vice Versa.
Also, is it safe for the modem? Not as big of a deal, but would be a nice to have

I've used it at least 20 times since I bought it with zero issues..
It does not flash modems though..

I know Mobile Odin can't flash the modem.
But there are reports in this thread that it can do the job:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1529081
Personally if you can use ODIN One-Click it's probably safer. It can restore in cases that Mobile ODIN cannot. Or at least try Mobile ODIN where you can easily change to ODIN OC if it borks for any reason - at least then you're mitigating the risk until you are comfortable with it.

garwynn said:
I know Mobile Odin can't flash the modem.
But there are reports in this thread that it can do the job:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1529081
Personally if you can use ODIN One-Click it's probably safer. It can restore in cases that Mobile ODIN cannot. Or at least try Mobile ODIN where you can easily change to ODIN OC if it borks for any reason - at least then you're mitigating the risk until you are comfortable with it.
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How can you say it's safer I have seen many people brick using regular Odin from bad cables, cable getting pulled out during flashing etc so I haven't heard anyone brick using mobile Odin.there could be but there are more things that could go wrong with cables and things ... Seems it can go both ways . I use it all the time going from any Ics to another ROM . And flash the eg30 tar and el26 cwm .
But Odin has its place too ..when the phone won't boot.
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Awesome ... Thank you all for the input, looks like I'm safe using it( atleast for the kernel ) which will make life much easier

RubenRybnik said:
Awesome ... Thank you all for the input, looks like I'm safe using it( atleast for the kernel ) which will make life much easier
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Ok ... So I used Mobile Oden to flash EL26 CWM Kernel from FC18 kernel on AOKP. Thing scared the crap outta me, after it rebooted the Samsung label came on, then the screen shut off and just sat there for like 5 or more minutes, I know the phone didn't shut off but the screen was black. I finally bit the bullet and powered it off and booted into CWM, thank god it worked, lol. Looks like the kernel flashed but never rebooted itself or something?
What is the normal behaviour with Mobile Odin when you flash a ROM? Could this be because I flashed a GB kernel onto a ICS ROM? Maybe it was trying to boot up and it couldn't because of the kernel incompatibility?
EDIT: One more question ... How come Mobile Odin has a spot to flash the modem if it doesn't work for us? Am I missing something here?

It has a spot to flash the modem because it works on other phones apparently. Chainfire thinks it may be a CDMA phone issue. Go figure. CDMA, the red headed step child of the mobile phone world.
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Dchibro said:
It has a spot to flash the modem because it works on other phones apparently. Chainfire thinks it may be a CDMA phone issue. Go figure. CDMA, the red headed step child of the mobile phone world.
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lmao, have to agree with you there .... thanks for the heads up

RubenRybnik said:
Ok ... So I used Mobile Oden to flash EL26 CWM Kernel from FC18 kernel on AOKP. Thing scared the crap outta me, after it rebooted the Samsung label came on, then the screen shut off and just sat there for like 5 or more minutes, I know the phone didn't shut off but the screen was black. I finally bit the bullet and powered it off and booted into CWM, thank god it worked, lol. Looks like the kernel flashed but never rebooted itself or something?
What is the normal behaviour with Mobile Odin when you flash a ROM? Could this be because I flashed a GB kernel onto a ICS ROM? Maybe it was trying to boot up and it couldn't because of the kernel incompatibility?
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Exactly. What happens is that it reboots normally but since you can't boot an ICS ROM with a GB kernel, it hangs at the black screen
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on vacation with no computer, stuck in stock ics recovery

Do we have any ota/signed zips that can be flashed from stock ics asr that arent dependent on el29?
On vacation so no computer, hotel desktop is locked down so cant install samsung driver for a OC.
(on the wife's 4gt)

Unlocked ics recovery? I would say download agats re packed kernel/recovery and his latest rom.
Flash recovey.
Reboot recovery.
Flash rom.
Enjoy
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Why not try mobile Odin?
Edit: your stuck in stock recovery? Will it boot at all? What did you flash previously?
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All i have is stock recovery and no working android install.
El29toFf02 signed zip gives me the android laying down red ! error as there's no el29 to upgrade.
No way to flash tar/mobile odin.

I know when everyone thought we were gonna get OTA (like FF02 or something), there was a fully prepared OTA file that you could flash through stock recovery.
I dunno where it is now but I saw it in the ICS leaks thread.

I installed FF11-deodexed.zip from el29+cwm, but didnt take for some reason.

pbassjunk said:
All i have is stock recovery and no working android install.
El29toFf02 signed zip gives me the android laying down red ! error as there's no el29 to upgrade.
No way to flash tar/mobile odin.
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If your on a GB rom, you can mobile odin a EL26 kernel to be able to flash whatever rom you want. What rom are you on right now and what are you trying to fully do?

No rom, just sits on samsung logo. Odin mode and ics recovery both work tho.
There's a best buy I'll try tomorrow, see if theyll let me fix this thing.

Find a best buy and download an Odin room with Odin to one of their laptops and flash it. Act like your shopping. I got away with out once when i soft bricked my og epic lol. Good luck
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1703980

Must be sux to be you

you're on vacation with your wife and you're still on xda trying to flash a phone when you could be having sex. enjoy being single after vacation.

Dang, if i was going vacation, i would've flashed back to el29 before going just for stability reasons and want everything to be working. I rather not worry about my phone and rather enjoy everything else.
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pbassjunk said:
Do we have any ota/signed zips that can be flashed from stock ics asr that arent dependent on el29?
On vacation so no computer, hotel desktop is locked down so cant install samsung driver for a OC.
(on the wife's 4gt)
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I feel for ya! The same thing happened to me at work the other day. No admin permissions for me so I couldn't install drivers any drivers including the USB so I couldn't even transfer anything to the internal storage even if there was a ROM that would flash from stock recovery. Had to do a 12 hour shift without my phone and it drove me crazy!
I'm gonna keep an eye on this thread in case someone offers a solution to this!!

Ur on vacation do thar when u get home
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Do you have unsecure recovery? (Can flash anything)

I guess I've been lucky, but I've never had to flash back to el29 to flash a diffrent rom. I've ususally been able to flash from whatever custom recovery came with whatever kernel I was using. For example, I used a Rogue recovery to flash a newer agate repacked kernel and then flash a different rom in the same session. The key maybe to flash everything in the same session before reboot so you don't get stuck in a stock recovery...I do use Calkulin's format all before flashing my junk around though...lol
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sol_671 said:
Dang, if i was going vacation, i would've flashed back to el29 before going just for stability reasons and want everything to be working. I rather not worry about my phone and rather enjoy everything else.
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That's why I always make sure to keep the last (sometimes 2) stable backup on my sd card so I can flash back to it if I need to in an emergency.

Umm I would still want my phone because I dontvl even use my actual camera anymore I just use my phone camera. See if you can borrow someones laptop at a coffee shop, give them like $20 or something to dl Odin and drivers lol.
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Got it fixed.. thanks all!
(vacation, but with 2 kids.. so a big meh on all of the crazy monkey-style sex)

ICS to EL26?

Wanted to try another ICS Rom. Jumping from phone to phone. I guess I missed something. Lol. I got a little carried away.
So I was running the Calkulin's ICS with EL29 + CWM Rogue...
Reading the AOKP first page... said go to EL26.
So I proceeded to EL26 using this... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1342728
Tired to boot into recovery and start up the phone but it just sits on the SII screen. Did I do something?
So now I am back to here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1433101
Got it back up and running and restored my last back up. Wah wah.
Was the EL26 a ODIN process or something I was to flash in recovery? Was I to flash the whole phone to EL26 and not just the boot? Would it be safe to just flash AOKP from EL29+Rogue?

OP said go back to el26 cwm recovery because that is a know safe GB recovery safe to wipe and flash in. So odin the el26 cwm recovery in Odin and then flash AOKP ad Gapps from there.

slick_rick said:
OP said go back to el26 cwm recovery because that is a know safe GB recovery safe to wipe and flash in. So odin the el26 cwm recovery in Odin and then flash AOKP ad Gapps from there.
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Could someone link it?
I can only find the modem.

Dude dont mess with that unless you know what your doing or have TEP.
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I would hold off on playing the ICS shuffle game until the community and samsung has a good grasp on the bricking situation.

LeKtRiCzzz said:
Dude dont mess with that unless you know what your doing or have TEP.
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I've owned every smart phone on Sprint and owned multiple devices on T-Mobile.
I don't know it all, but I'm here to learn. I need to figure it out. Lol.
It bricked and I recovered. Just looking for direction on where to locate a file at this point since I couldn't find it.
I've been through this situation a couple times on other devices. Got a little ahead of myself again and just digging for answers.
TEP wouldn't cover any of this since it's all caused by the end user.
Thanks for the other above posts. I shall stick around on one rom and it's revisions until something happens.

chrischoi said:
I've owned every smart phone on Sprint and owned multiple devices on T-Mobile.
I don't know it all, but I'm here to learn. I need to figure it out. Lol.
It bricked and I recovered. Just looking for direction on where to locate a file at this point since I couldn't find it.
I've been through this situation a couple times on other devices. Got a little ahead of myself again and just digging for answers.
TEP wouldn't cover any of this since it's all caused by the end user.
Thanks for the other above posts. I shall stick around on one rom and it's revisions until something happens.
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U can flash to things safely, just have the right software. Keep el26 cmw kernel tar thats found on rwilco12's kernel repository on ur phone for mobile Odin and on ur PC for regular Odin and you'll be OK. Of course things will change as source rolls out but that's been the tried and true method til meow. Meow what I'm saying?
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Could someone link it?
I can only find the modem.
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http://chris41g.devphone.org/EpicTouch/Stock Repack/EL26/StockCWM-EL26.tar.md5 Flash in Odin and then flash AOKP and Gapps from that recovery.
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I would hold off on playing the ICS shuffle game until the community and samsung has a good grasp on the bricking situation.
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The community has a very good grasp on the bricking situation. Experienced devs like chris41g and dees_troy have made safe recoveries to wipe and flash in. You must have been gone for awhile lol.

I have been riding the stable ROM train for a little too long

Calkulin's Mod Questions

What are the changes from version 2.9 to v3 that some people arn't liking? I hear some people like v2.9 better.
In Calkulin's mods, are the bloatware apps and running services already removed, or is that up to each person to do?
Thanks.

Personally I don't see much of a difference in the 2.9.x to 3.0 releases. I run 3.0 and get great battery life using the El29 stock repack kernel and modem (although this week I'm going to be testing EL13 stock repack kernel and modem). And to answer the bloatware question, Calkulin has a script posted that de-bloats the ROM, as well as "bare" releases. Both options work well. Cheers!
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vadyr56 said:
Personally I don't see much of a difference in the 2.9.x to 3.0 releases. I run 3.0 and get great battery life using the El29 stock repack kernel and modem (although this week I'm going to be testing EL13 stock repack kernel and modem). And to answer the bloatware question, Calkulin has a script posted that de-bloats the ROM, as well as "bare" releases. Both options work well. Cheers!
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Yes, I'm seeing those scripts in this thread. They look helpful. After you run the Wipe script then flash the rom, do you do a first time boot, then go back into the system menu and run the de-bloat script? What is the order of running these? It's my impression that you can run his added scripts at anytime, right?
Thanks.

What I normally do when flashing is run the format all script twice (the second time just for my own peace of mind!), flash the ROM and then boot up for the first time. Just to make sure everything's looking good ill usually just fool around with the fresh install for a few minutes, then power down and run the debloat script. Reboot after that, and check everything out. From there on out when flashing scripts (like tdunhams tweaks or other mods) I always flash one script, boot up, and do some basic testing to make sure everything went smooth. I've heard horror stories of people flashing a bunch of scripts at once and then having issues and having to start from scratch anyway. Let us know how you make out.
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vadyr56 said:
What I normally do when flashing is run the format all script twice (the second time just for my own peace of mind!), flash the ROM and then boot up for the first time. Just to make sure everything's looking good ill usually just fool around with the fresh install for a few minutes, then power down and run the debloat script. Reboot after that, and check everything out. From there on out when flashing scripts (like tdunhams tweaks or other mods) I always flash one script, boot up, and do some basic testing to make sure everything went smooth. I've heard horror stories of people flashing a bunch of scripts at once and then having issues and having to start from scratch anyway. Let us know how you make out.
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Thanks, that is helpful. The last piece I am missing is how to do the wipes and rom loads. I've been into the Samsung system menu (where I flashed the official ICS load I got). Will the stock samsung system menu allow me to Wipe and Calkulin's rom flash, or do I need ClockWork?

Sorry I had assumed you were already using a custom recovery. So you are running stock ics pushed from Sammy right now? Basically in order to do all this fancy business you need to have a kernel with a touch recovery. If you're running stock ics right now, I think its safe to say you can Odin (from your PC) the EL26 stock kernel repacked with cwm and then flash Calukins rom zip from there. Not sure of you necessarily need to go to EL26 first but I just like to play it on the safe side when dealing with ics. I believe you could also use one of the one click flashes found in the dev forums and then flash Calukins rom from there (assuming its a rooted one click package). Hopefully this makes sense.
And just be careful if you do want to return to ics after a while, you should always flash the EL26 stock kernel when flashing to ics. I believe the bricking issue has been solved and its pretty safe to flash ics with other kernels but nothing wrong with playing on the safe side.
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vadyr56 said:
Sorry I had assumed you were already using a custom recovery. So you are running stock ics pushed from Sammy right now? Basically in order to do all this fancy business you need to have a kernel with a touch recovery. If you're running stock ics right now, I think its safe to say you can Odin (from your PC) the EL26 stock kernel repacked with cwm and then flash Calukins rom zip from there. Not sure of you necessarily need to go to EL26 first but I just like to play it on the safe side when dealing with ics. I believe you could also use one of the one click flashes found in the dev forums and then flash Calukins rom from there (assuming its a rooted one click package). Hopefully this makes sense.
And just be careful if you do want to return to ics after a while, you should always flash the EL26 stock kernel when flashing to ics. I believe the bricking issue has been solved and its pretty safe to flash ics with other kernels but nothing wrong with playing on the safe side.
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Yes, I have the stock ICS load from Sprint/Samsung now. Now I need to figure out the best way to get the on click EL26 w/ CWM. Then I can flash up to EL29 Calk v3.

Nismo` said:
Yes, I have the stock ICS load from Sprint/Samsung now. Now I need to figure out the best way to get the on click EL26 w/ CWM. Then I can flash up to EL29 Calk v3.
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This link should bring you to the One-click flasher for EL26 stock rooted (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1416477&highlight=one+click). After flashing that, you need to get a CWM kernel (http://kernelrepo.chris41g.org/default.asp?startFolder=\Recovery+Kernels\GB\Chris41g\Stock+CWM\TAR) so grab the EL26 .tar file and flash via Odin. Once that's done, you should have a CWM recovery with a rooted phone, allowing you to flash Calukin's rom zip via CWM. I would have linked earlier but I was on my phone not the PC and it's a pain to grab links on the run!
If you aren't too familiar with Odin, no worries it's very easy to do. I don't have time to hammer it all out right now but I'm sure wherever you find the download link for Odin, there will be a guide on how to use it right along side it.
With all of that said, you could probably follow the same steps to flash but while using any of the other One-click versions (EG30, EL29, etc etc) as long as you are dealing with GB roms and kernels ONLY. I know I said it before, but just to reiterate in case you are new to all this, use the EL26 as your starting point when flashing back to ics at any point. It's probably just me being super careful but I'd rather that then end up with a very expensive paperweight! Keep us posted, I'll try and check the thread later on.
Edit: I guess there are other ways to get CWM rocking on the GB platforms coming from a simply stock rooted system (via auto-root) but I just find it easier to flash the kernel right over top the old one, it keeps it simple. And not to belittle you or anything, but if you are new to flashing roms and the likes, I would REALLY recommend watching some videos on how to do everything. QBking has some GREAT tutorials on youtube to show you the basics (most importantly how to NOT brick your phone) as well as many other videos found on this forum and the ACS forums...check them out! Cheers, buddy!

vadyr56 said:
This link should bring you to the One-click flasher for EL26 stock rooted (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1416477&highlight=one+click). After flashing that, you need to get a CWM kernel (http://kernelrepo.chris41g.org/default.asp?startFolder=\Recovery+Kernels\GB\Chris41g\Stock+CWM\TAR) so grab the EL26 .tar file and flash via Odin. Once that's done, you should have a CWM recovery with a rooted phone, allowing you to flash Calukin's rom zip via CWM. I would have linked earlier but I was on my phone not the PC and it's a pain to grab links on the run!
If you aren't too familiar with Odin, no worries it's very easy to do. I don't have time to hammer it all out right now but I'm sure wherever you find the download link for Odin, there will be a guide on how to use it right along side it.
With all of that said, you could probably follow the same steps to flash but while using any of the other One-click versions (EG30, EL29, etc etc) as long as you are dealing with GB roms and kernels ONLY. I know I said it before, but just to reiterate in case you are new to all this, use the EL26 as your starting point when flashing back to ics at any point. It's probably just me being super careful but I'd rather that then end up with a very expensive paperweight! Keep us posted, I'll try and check the thread later on.
Edit: I guess there are other ways to get CWM rocking on the GB platforms coming from a simply stock rooted system (via auto-root) but I just find it easier to flash the kernel right over top the old one, it keeps it simple. And not to belittle you or anything, but if you are new to flashing roms and the likes, I would REALLY recommend watching some videos on how to do everything. QBking has some GREAT tutorials on youtube to show you the basics (most importantly how to NOT brick your phone) as well as many other videos found on this forum and the ACS forums...check them out! Cheers, buddy!
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Is there a reason you suggest going back to EL26?
Rolling back to GB from ICS, I was going to go this route:
Step 1: EL29
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1433101
Step 2: Then Apply CWM with option C (EL29) here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1342728
Step 3: Use Caulks format all script 2 times.
Step 4: Then apply the Caulk v3:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1332837&page=963
Did I miss anything?

No you should be in the clear. Only reason I suggested EL26 was because when ics dropped pre-source, to avoid bricking you'd always go back to EL26 and flash from that stock repack kernel. You should be OK with the route you're taking though.
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Just watch QBking77 videos on YouTube. The guy is very thorough and good at explaining things for any phone he is teaching us about
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